Welcome to This week in Game Engines! This is a recurrent blog post on gamedev news, articles, and related tech development content from the week before.
This format of weekly news was greatly inspired by This week in Rust. Most of the content is automatically added to the post via official RSS feeds from Game Engines websites, and miscellaneous gamedev content is hand-picked from suggestions and news aggregators such as hackernews, lobste.rs and gamedev.city.
This week we have a big batch of Unity games and Phaser updates, the start of "Epic Games State of Unreal 2025" event, a Pokémon battle engine made with Zig, and more interesting articles!
Unity published their "May 2025 in review" post, with a compilation of games made with Unity Engine, including Monster Train 2, sequel of one of my favorite rogue-likes, and Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, sequel of one of my favorite Duck-base detective adventure game.
Phaser also has a nice post on the latest developments, including Phaser 4 RC 4 (possibly the last Release Candidate), the last version of Phaser 3, and an update on the new no-code platform Phaser team is launching called Phaser Beam. In particular, I specially liked the newly released Phaser template for Tauri, an Electron alternative built on Rust. Tauri has seen quite a few developments in the Rust world, and using it with Phaser seems like an interesting experiment to test on a Game Jam.
I thought long and hard about a coherent theme for the links this week, but I couldn't find any. So I'm just dumping them all here, which I guess it works fine too.
Some may notice today is in fact NOT monday. I'm still figuring out the best time to publish this weekly news - the main reason is, well, I actually read all the links I post here (and many more I don't post), and this takes quite a while! Good portion of the curation work happens on the weekends and leaks into monday, so I'm giving myself one extra day. For now, I'll be publishing This Week in Game Engines every tuesday!
Also, I just created a new bluesky account! I'm terrible with Social Media but I'll be trying to ping gamedevs there and on my Mastodon account on every This Week in Game Engines issue. If you have any suggestions, please ping me there! I'd love to hear more about the people reading this blog posts :)