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Studio Insights is a game-development news platform: major updates get their own post, smaller news rolls into weekly recaps, and Pro unlocks interviews, audio, reading levels, and no ads.
Welcome to the Unreal Engine section
The Unreal Engine section is live: major updates as they land, smaller news in weekly recaps, every figure linked to Epic's own announcements and docs.
Welcome to the Unity section
The Unity section is live: major updates as they land, smaller news in weekly recaps, every figure linked to Unity's own announcements and docs.
September 2026
Roblox now tells you when a refund takes a player's Robux back
A new Open Cloud webhook fires when a Robux purchase in your game is refunded or charged back, so your code can revoke the benefit. Here is what it covers, what the payload carries, and the one case Roblox still handles for you.
Unreal Engine 5.8 is the last planned UE5 release: what that means for your roadmap
UE 5.8 shipped in June as the final planned major UE5 release before Unreal Engine 6. The production-ready list is the part to plan around; the experimental list is the part to keep off your shipping branch.
Unity 6.6 arrives: the light baker to know about, and two deprecations to plan for
Unity 6.6 shipped on 1 September as the final supported release before the 6.7 LTS. The Compute Light Baker is the headline for graphics teams; the Built-In Render Pipeline and dynamic batching deprecations are the headline for everyone else.
Welcome to Studio Insights
Studio Insights is a game-development news platform: major updates get their own post, smaller news rolls into weekly recaps, and Pro unlocks interviews, audio, reading levels, and no ads.
Welcome to the Unreal Engine section
The Unreal Engine section is live: major updates as they land, smaller news in weekly recaps, every figure linked to Epic's own announcements and docs.
Welcome to the Unity section
The Unity section is live: major updates as they land, smaller news in weekly recaps, every figure linked to Unity's own announcements and docs.
Roblox Studio weekly recap: September 14–20, 2026
Player Support entered early access, Studio got tunable collision geometry, and EditableMesh batching, persistent leaderboards, and the in-game Shop all hit full release. Plus two dates to put in your calendar.
Creator Roadmap 2026: Fall Update
Roblox added 72 new roadmap items from RDC, covering Studio workflows, engine and rendering, avatars, discovery, monetization, and safety. Here is what changed and what to watch.