---
title: "Phaser Dev Log March 2023"
subtitle: "Read about the latest developments with Phaser 3.60 including the new FX, ESM Support and more."
date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
category: news
url: https://phaser.io/news/2023/03/phaser-dev-log-march-2023
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Phaser Dev Log March 2023

*Read about the latest developments with Phaser 3.60 including the new FX, ESM Support and more.*

![image](phaser-dev-log-march-2023.jpg)

Greetings, Phaser devs! I'm pleased to say that Phaser 3.60 Beta 21 was just published to GitHub and npm.

You can grab pre-built files from:

https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/releases/tag/v3.60.0-beta.21

Or the beta package from npm:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/phaser/v/3.60.0-beta.21 

It has been a few months since my last post here, even though we've published 3 new releases in that time! I'll cover some of the recent updates, but first, I wanted to talk about the release plans for Phaser 3.60.

## April 12th 2023

This is the date we will publish v3.60. It also marks the 10-year anniversary of when we first published Phaser to GitHub. I had been working on Phaser for a couple of months but decided to make it open source on April 12th, 2013, with the version 0.5 release. And the rest, as they say, is history 🙂

So it seemed only fitting that the 3.60 release should exactly match a decade since the very first release. We've certainly come a long way since then!

Read the rest of the March Dev Log for details about the new Special FX, ESM Support and much more!

[Read More](https://www.patreon.com/posts/phaser-march-dev-80486375)

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