Games blogs

The Startup was a Medium publication with articles from many authors on programming, startups, and technology.

Top post: Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot

Fabien Sanglard writes detailed code reviews of classic game engines such as Doom and Quake, and has published books on them.

Top post: The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

Penny Arcade is a long-running gaming webcomic by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, with news posts and commentary.

Top post: Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

Simon Tatham, a programmer and author of PuTTY, publishes software, a puzzle collection, and essays on C programming and bug reports.

Top post: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

Jimmy Maher writes long histories of computing and video games, covering the IBM PC, Windows, SimCity and text adventures.

Top post: Sitemap

Neal Agarwal makes playful interactive web projects, such as Infinite Craft, The Password Game, Size of Space, and The Deep Sea.

Top post: Perfect Circle

Inigo Quilez, a computer graphics researcher and Shadertoy creator, writes on shaders, distance functions, fractals, and demoscene techniques.

Top post: Distance Functions in 3D Space

Fabian Giesen, a game and demoscene programmer at RAD, writes on graphics pipelines, low-level optimization, compression and data structures.

Top post: A trip through the graphics pipeline (2011)

Amit Patel's site of interactive visual explanations of algorithms and math for game development, such as pathfinding, hex grids and noise.

Top post: Hexagonal grids for games

Unity's official blog, where the game engine's developers write about scripting, performance, garbage collection, and platform features.

Top post: Data-Oriented Tech Stack C++ & C#

The Dolphin emulator team writes progress reports and technical breakdowns on emulating the GameCube and Wii, including graphics and shader work.

Top post: Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem

Group blog where game development veterans post daily on engine programming, C++, graphics, math, and industry practice.

Top post: Functional Programming in C++

Glenn Fiedler writes about game networking, physics integration, fixed timesteps, and floating point determinism for game programmers.

Top post: Fix Your Timestep

Sony's official PlayStation blog, announcing hardware, price changes, VR, store closures, and other platform news.

Top post: PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita closing in 2026-2027

Valve's company blog hosted posts by staff such as Michael Abrash and economist Yanis Varoufakis on AR/VR, game economies, and company culture.

Top post: We Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon (2012)

Dominic Szablewski's site on browser games and graphics projects, including the JS Wipeout port, 13k Quake, and ImpactJS.

Top post: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

Jonathan Blow, the game developer behind Braid, hosts programming notes on game code, graphics and math, plus a John Carmack essay on inlined code.

Top post: John Carmack on Inlined Code

Casey Muratori is a game programmer and creator of Handmade Hero who writes about API design, performance, and code structure.

Top post: Semantic Compression

Xbox Wire is Microsoft's official Xbox news site, covering console launches, studio acquisitions, store closures, game services and strategy announcements.

Top post: Resetting Xbox

Mr.doob, the author of the three.js library, shows HTML5, canvas, WebGL and CSS experiments and demos.

Top post: Creative demo of HTML5 canvas

Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of Minecraft, blogs about the game's origins, development, patents, piracy, and personal matters.

Top post: Virtual Reality is going to change the world

Al Sweigart writes free books and tutorials teaching Python through games, ciphers, and practical projects for beginners.

Top post: Learn Python by writing games (free book)

Rodrigo Copetti writes detailed architecture breakdowns of video game consoles, covering CPUs, graphics hardware, and how games ran on them.

Top post: Architecture of the Playstation

Andy Gavin, co-creator of Crash Bandicoot at Naughty Dog, writes about how the game was made, including its Lisp-based GOOL language.

Top post: Making Crash Bandicoot

Lost Garden is Daniel Cook's blog on game design, game markets, platform strategy and team productivity.

Top post: Homepage

Raph Koster, game designer on Ultima Online, writes about game design, MMOs, game history and the theory behind games.

Top post: Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)

Patrick Wyatt, a Blizzard and ArenaNet veteran, writes about making Warcraft, StarCraft, and Guild Wars, including bugs and netcode.

Top post: Tough times on the road to Starcraft

Sean Barrett, game programmer and author of the single-file stb C libraries, writes on graphics, algorithms, and parsing.

Top post: A Performance Comparison of Judy to Hash Tables (2003)

Matthew Ball, a venture investor and media analyst, writes long essays on games, the metaverse, Epic Games, and platform power.

Top post: The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find It, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite

Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar write about online communities, virtual worlds, software design, and the Habitat project.

Top post: You can't tell people anything (2004)

Riot Games engineers write about the technology behind League of Legends and Valorant, including netcode, anti-cheat, servers, and testing.

Top post: Demolishing Wallhacks with Valorant's Fog of War

The Wolfire Games team, makers of Overgrowth and the Humble Bundle, write about game development, math, and the games business.

Top post: Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009)

David Sirlin is a game designer who writes about competitive play, game balance, and the mindset of winning.

Top post: Playing to Win

Oculus's official developer blog covers VR engineering topics such as rendering, hand tracking, Oculus Link, and device unlocking.

Top post: Unlocking Oculus Go

Microsoft's DirectX team announces graphics and storage API news such as DirectStorage, HLSL standardization, SPIR-V adoption, and work graphs.

Top post: DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Molly Rocket is the studio of game developer Casey Muratori, with posts on The Witness, API design, hashing and immediate-mode GUIs.

Top post: Working on the Witness – Semantic Compression

Shamus Young was a writer and programmer who covered video games, procedural generation and fiction, including the System Shock-based novel Free Radical.

Top post: Procedural City Generation - Developer's Log

Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia and Karateka, shares his game development journals, books, and graphic novels.

Top post: The Making of Prince of Persia (& Karateka)

Ron Gilbert, creator of Monkey Island and Thimbleweed Park, writes about game design, adventure games, and development history.

Top post: Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

IT Hare is a blog by a game-development veteran on low-level performance, networking, memory allocators and multiplayer game architecture.

Top post: Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles

Coders Notes is a programmer's personal blog on game development, low-level code, compression, operating systems and computing history.

Top post: A Constructive Look at TempleOS

Aras Pranckevičius, a graphics programmer, writes about C++, SIMD, hashing, Gaussian splatting, texture compression, and performance work.

Top post: “Modern” C++ Lamentations

Site tied to the book Real-Time Rendering, with graphics resources, book lists, ray tracing references, and a blog.

Top post: Ray Tracing Gems – The Book

byuu is the developer behind the bsnes and higan SNES emulators, writing about emulation accuracy and game preservation.

Top post: Fast coroutines in C from BSNES

Daniel Holden writes about game animation, machine learning, and programming, including parser combinators, springs, and Markov chains.

Top post: You could have invented Parser Combinators

Fortress of Doors is a blog by game designer Soren Johnson-style essayist covering game platforms, piracy economics, and AI's effect on online content.

Top post: Four Magic Words

nee.lv is a personal blog whose best-known post details how the author cut GTA Online loading times by 70%.

Top post: How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

p01 is a demoscene-style developer who builds tiny JavaScript and HTML demos and games, including playable ones inside a favicon.

Top post: Defender of the Favicon (2008)

Riot Games' engineering team writes about building and running League of Legends, covering testing, networking, graphics, client architecture and messaging.

Top post: Automated Testing for League of Legends

Jeff Vogel, who runs the indie studio Spiderweb Software, writes about making a living selling old-school RPGs and the economics of indie games.

Top post: I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

Andrew Plotkin (Zarf) writes about interactive fiction, Infocom history, rule-based programming and tools such as the Quixe interpreter.

Top post: The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog

Vole.wtf is a personal site of quirky web projects, including puzzle games, a self-censoring font, and a public-domain film list.

Top post: The Kilobyte’s Gambit

Aftermath is a worker-owned site covering games, internet culture and media, written by former Kotaku staff.

Top post: The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party

Gabriel Gambetta, a game developer, writes about multiplayer game networking, computer graphics and classic game remakes.

Top post: Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture

Adrian Courrèges writes detailed graphics studies of how games such as GTA V and Doom 2016 render a frame.

Top post: GTA V – Graphics Study

eieio writes about quirky programming projects, including a million checkboxes site, searching every UUID, a chess MMO, and SSH-rendered games.

Top post: Writing down (and searching through) every UUID

Phil Hagelberg, a Lisp programmer behind Fennel tooling, writes about Lisp, game jams, the Atreus keyboard, and programming language ideas.

Top post: A game written in 4 Lisp dialects

Chris Crawford, a veteran game designer, writes about interactive storytelling, game design essays, and the source code of his old games.

Top post: Seventy

Don Hopkins, a veteran programmer who worked on The Sims, SimCity and NeWS, posts design documents, code and essays.

Top post: History of Pizzatool

Ryan Gordon (icculus) is a Linux game porter and developer who hosts open source game projects, patches, and tools like FatELF and PhysFS.

Top post: FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)