How to get a job as a game developer in 2025 – Part 2: Insider advice from a studio game director

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June 25, 2025

Where to next? A quick update about Visual Assist's future from our GM

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June 24, 2025

C++ Pattern Matching: Should C++ Embrace Functional Programming Constructs?

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June 18, 2025
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AI Coding Assistants for Large C++ Codebases: What Works, What Breaks, and How to Split the Work

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July 13, 2026
AI Coding Assistants for Large C++ Codebases: What Works, What Breaks, and How to Split the Work AI tools are everywhere. They’re in your phone, your car, your office, and it even made its way into software development. It’s being pushed as a do-it-all solution for coding, and in many cases it does solve, or the very least,  speeds up the busywork. The benefit is real and it’s…
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Visual Assist 2026.4 release post

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June 30, 2026
The first thing you do with Visual Assist is install it. The first thing you do with it on a project is wait for it to parse. VA 2026.4 makes both smoother. Download it now. This is a smaller build between larger ones — a few bigger efforts are running in parallel, shaped…
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C++26 is here. Your tooling shouldn't be the bottleneck.

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June 17, 2026
To all C++ devs: If you haven’t heard C++26 is official. WG21 signed it off in March, and the pieces are already showing up in compiler trunk: static reflection, contracts, a new async model, a real push on memory safety. The language didn’t just pick up a few features. Its surface area grew, and the code your team writes against it will grow right along with it. Here’s the part…
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Finding your way through a large Unreal Engine codebase: a practical guide

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May 11, 2026
The moment the project opens Welcome gamer! You’re excited to start coding games so you set up your Unreal Engine and  finally got the source linked to your project… Once it opens you’re greeted with a sample project. It’s huge. And why are there red error squiggles under everything? You open Solution Explorer and there are 800 folders. You explore. Hit F12 on BeginPlay…
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Visual Assist 2026.3 release post

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April 3, 2026
Visual Assist 2026.3: Expanding AI Workflows & Improving Performance AI in IDEs is evolving quickly, but for many the hype might feel artificial. For most C++ developers, the question isn’t “can AI write code?” — it’s: “how can I fit this into the way I already work?” With Visual Assist 2026.3, we’re continuing to explore that question by introducing…
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