NewsindustrySeptember 2026
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9bn
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the hub most open AI models and datasets are downloaded from, for $12.9 billion.
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NewsindustrySeptember 2026
Apple faces a £2bn UK claim over App Tracking Transparency
A £2 billion UK class action accuses Apple of applying its App Tracking Transparency rules to every developer but itself — and UK studios that ran iOS ad campaigns are in the class automatically.
Read article →Newsgame-enginesSeptember 2026
DLSS 5 ships on RTX 50 cards with one supported game
Nvidia's DLSS 5 arrived on 3 September in NBA 2K27 alone, running as a neural pass after the engine has finished the frame — with masking controls that exist mainly to keep it off your characters.
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Xbox caps cloud gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers
From November, Game Pass Ultimate includes 15 hours of cloud streaming a month, Premium 10 and Essential 5, with extra hours sold through the Xbox Store.
Read article →Newsgame-enginesSeptember 2026
ArmorPaint reaches 1.0 after eight years in early access
ArmorPaint, the open-source PBR texture painter, has tagged 1.0 after a rewrite in C, adding sculpting, a UV editor, timeline playback and AI-driven material nodes.
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ArtStation turns on AI-training protection by default
ArtStation has made its NoAI tag the default and applied it retroactively to every existing upload.
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Shape Cage crushes Unreal static meshes in the vertex shader
A new Fab plugin bends and crushes Unreal static meshes at runtime using nothing but the material's World Position Offset.
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Tim Sweeney says RAM and storage prices are quadrupling as AI outbids games
Epic's chief executive told Edge magazine that AI data-centre buildout is outbidding the games industry for memory and storage, and expects the supply crisis to last three years.
Read article →Newsgame-enginesSeptember 2026
FluidNinja Live 2 ships for Unreal Engine, Windows only for now
Andras Ketzer has rewritten his Unreal Engine fluid system from scratch, moving simulation into Niagara Simulation Stages — but Live 2 deploys to Windows only, where Live 1 covered consoles and mobile.
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Steam passes 700 releases in a single week for the first time
720 games launched on Steam in the last week of August — the first 700-plus week ever recorded — and 74% of them have fewer than ten reviews.
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Unity 6.6 ships with domain reload off by default
Unity 6.6 landed on 1 September with domain reload disabled by default in Play mode, Animation Rigging and Timeline promoted to core packages, and Content Directories replacing AssetBundles.
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Epic publishes its walkthrough for Unreal MCP in UEFN
Epic has published the full replay of its Creating in Fortnite livestream on Unreal MCP, two weeks after the UE 5.8 plugin that lets agentic coding tools drive the editor reached UEFN.
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Epic MegaGrants close for submissions on Thursday
Epic's second 2026 MegaGrants cycle closes on 4 September — grants of $5,000 to $150,000 for small Unreal teams, with no equity taken and IP staying yours.
Read article →Changelogv2.0.29September 2026
Version 2.0.29
Generated characters animate correctly on UE 5.4 and 5.5, the crash-on-exit is closed off, and update prompts can be quieted for good.
View entry →Changelogv2.0.28September 2026
Version 2.0.28
A fast follow-up: generated characters stop running away from their capsule, and the retarget driver is picked deterministically.
View entry →Changelogv2.0.27September 2026
Version 2.0.27
In-editor bug reporting, a much smaller download, instant part thumbnails — and update notifications work again.
View entry →NewsannouncementAugust 2026
We Got Version 2 Badly Wrong. Here Is What Happened.
The Version 2 migration meant rebuilding Character Creator from the foundations up, and it broke a great deal along the way. An honest account of what went wrong, what we fixed, and what we are changing.
Read article →NewsannouncementMarch 2026
Something Big Is Coming to GameDevBuddy
We've been working on something special behind the scenes, and we can't wait to share it with you. Stay tuned for a major announcement.
Read article →NewsannouncementDecember 2025
Roadmap Update: What's Coming in 2026
A look at what's next for GameDevBuddy in the new year - from Forge to Oracle and beyond.
Read article →NewsreleaseJanuary 2025
Character Creator Now Available
Our first GameDevBuddy tool is here! Import and customize modular character packs directly in Unreal Engine 5.
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Welcome to GameDevBuddy
Introducing the all-in-one game development ecosystem designed exclusively for Unreal Engine developers.
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