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Inside Open-World Game Development: How the Game Design Process Creates Immersive Maps and NPC Systems

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive. Horizon Forbidden West - Steam ...
PC Gamer

Skyrim's lead designer thinks Bethesda should stick to its in-house engine: 'The benefits that you get from switching to Unreal Engine are probably not going to materialise ...

RPG 'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment' RPG Todd ...
24/7 Wall St

Is Genie 3 a Game Engine Killer? Why Unity’s 24% Plunge Could Be a Massive Opportunity

Unity (U) stock plunged 24% to $29.10 after Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 3 AI that generates interactive worlds from text. Unity CEO calls world model AI a powerful accelerator. Unity powers 70% of ...
Reuters

Videogame stocks slide on Google's AI model that turns prompts into playable worlds

Jan 30 (Reuters) - Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on Friday after Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab rolled out its artificial intelligence model capable of ...
Kotaku

A Bunch Of Big Video Game Company Stocks Just Tanked For A Very Dumb Reason

Yesterday, Google revealed its Project Genie AI-generation tool, allowing people to make “interactive environments” in seconds using just prompts. Today, in response to this, a bunch of investors seem ...
Polygon

Sony patented AI-generated video game tutorials this year, and it sounds like a nightmare

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...
PCGamesN

Ex Bethesda devs' ambitious Elder Scrolls Daggerfall successor ditches UE5 for its own engine to make "a far better game"

Some games carry a certain Unreal Engine 5 look, just like some games looked like UE3 games (Gears, Arkham Asylum - I'm looking at you). The dramatic Lumen lighting, water that sparkles, dirt that ...
The Verge

Fortnite is getting Unity games

Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, ...
InfoWorld

Java Stream API tutorial: How to create and use Java streams

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Unity dominates web games but performance-optimised engines have key advantages according to a new study

A new study into the engines powering the most successful web games has revealed the overwhelming dominance of Unity, but highlights a critical trade-off between its powerful ecosystem and the ...
GamesRadar+

"We set out to push the Unreal Engine 4 codebase to its absolute limits" with 60 FPS on midrange PCs "without the need for fake frames," says dev delaying its "incredibly ...

Strategy Games 2026 is going to be the year of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, whether or not the strategy game launches in full FPS Games Clockwork Revolution: Everything we know so far ...
Game Rant

Unreal Engine 5 Games That Look Amazing

Julián F.L. is a video game & anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He has enjoyed video games, anime, ...