Game Engines Database

This Week in Game Engines is now available in Substack! Follow us at https://substack.com/@enginesdatabase

Welcome to This week in Game Engines! This is a recurrent digest on gamedev tech news and articles from the week before.

Game Engine News:

Git Activity:

Must Reads this Week

Bevy 0.17 update is here!

If you haven't been following Rust gamedev ecosystem, Bevy is its poster child: an ergonomic ECS game engine been built on pure Rust, with all the efficiencies (and problems) this might bring. It has a big and growing community, and if you never read any of its updates, I highly recommend checking the news tab on Bevy's website. All Bevy updates are great source of news and Game Engine tidbits, and 0.17 version is no exception.

And on the topic of 0.17, some of the highlights:

Bevy Solari, an experimental Raytracing rendering crate.
A refactor on Bevy's event system.
Bevy Feathers, a new widget system designed for tooling.
Realtime-Filtered environment maps.
Light textures.
Experimental Hot patching systems in a running app.

The entire update looks a bit experimental but very foundational to the planned Bevy Editor, and overall many exciting features to look for (and to check in a nice format on the blog post).

On other news:

Unity Platform Protection: Developer Remediation Guide. Biggest news of the week is a security vulnerability found on Unity versions 2017.1 and above that allows Remote Code Execution. Some Unity games were already removed from stores until they get patched, so it is advised to update in-production Unity projects ASAP.
- A good follow-up post is CVE-2025-59489: Arbitrary Code Execution in Unity Runtime, written by the security engineer that found the issue and explaining how it works.
Highlights on the Unreal Fest Stockholm and GodotCon US 2025.
Godot is launching its 4.5.1 Release Candidate and the first development build for the future 4.6 (still a long way ahead).
Castle Engine September engine progress blog post.

Fresh Batch of Links

Sonic Robo Blast 2. Not sure why this made the rounds on the top of my RSS feeds now (and why I never heard about this before), but this is an amazing 3D open-source Sonic fangame built on top of the Doom Legacy port of Doom.
VALORANT's 128-Tick Servers. 5 years old article but it was also making the rounds on link aggregators last week, so it's a good excuse to post about it here. Really good tech insight on Valorant's engine optimization that touches a lot of topics (and also a good excuse to post about articles on https://technology.riotgames.com/ in general!).
A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset. By the same guy that made his own streaming video codec, this is an interesting takeaway and tutorial on GPU programming starting out from a debugging perspective, rather than a 1000 lines "Hello Triangle" project.
Procedural Generation with Wave Function Collapse. Another old article making the rounds on link aggregators, and on the same topic of Wave Function procedural generation from last week. This one is a bit more low level but the pixel-art results look nicer!
- And out of curiosity, I clicked on the next blog post by the same author: NES Emulator Debugging, a great article about the debugging conundrum that is to fix a problem when there is no bug in the software but rather, in the emulated "hardware" of your own emulator. Also a great deep-dive on NES retro programming.
CryEngine 5.7 Community Edition Released. Reported by GameFromSratch.com, CryEngine developers launched a Community Edition version of CryEngine, with a patch to be applied on top of CryEngine 5.7 with the improvements.

Missed something?

If you have any suggestions, send me feedback at my Mastodon or Bluesky account, or send me an email at henriquelalves@enginesdatabase.com! And if you want to add a new game engine to the website, consider suggesting a new Game Engine.

This Week in Game Engines #23

Game Engine News:

Git Activity:

Must Reads this Week

Fresh Batch of Links

Missed something?

Comments (0)