Epic Games announced at Unreal Fest that it is integrating generative AI into Unreal Engine, releasing an experimental Model Context Protocol plugin for UE5.8 that connects to AI models like Claude an…
Epic Games open-sourced Lore, a version control system built for large binary files, at State of Unreal 2026 alongside Unreal Engine 5.8. The MIT-licensed, Rust-based tool uses content-defined chunkin…
Epic Games released Unreal Engine 5.8 on June 17, introducing an experimental plugin that enables large language models to control the editor via the Model Context Protocol, allowing AI assistants to …
Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 6, merging Unreal Engine 5 and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite into a unified product, introducing the Verse programming language and Scene Graph gameplay framework. …
Epic Games announced plans for Unreal Engine 6, emphasizing tighter integration with Fortnite and generative AI features, as detailed in a new explainer.…
Epic Games posted a job listing for a Senior Game Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities, signaling potential improvements for Steam Deck and SteamOS users. The role requires deep…
Toronto startup Databiomes launched Ctrlvox, an AI model that moderates toxic voice and chat content in video games on consumer CPUs without GPUs or cloud inference. The customizable plugin for Epic G…
In Unreal Engine development, "AI" refers to two distinct systems: logic-based NPC behavior and large language model-driven conversational agents. The logic stack—Behavior Trees, Blackboard, State Tre…
Meta's metaverse division head Gabriel Aul quietly left the company four months ago after just a few months in the role, according to a memo obtained by Business Insider. Aul was replaced by former Ep…
In summer 2025, an Epic Games layoff terminated a terminally ill father, costing his family his life insurance along with his job, sparking a Reddit thread with 36,687 upvotes that revealed a widespre…
LiteRT, a cross-platform framework for on-device AI, enables developers to leverage Neural Processing Units (NPUs) for faster and more efficient AI features like real-time video effects and speech rec…
The article notes that a comment reading "Look for indications that widgets are being created for a dead and dying world" was found in the Unreal Engine 5.1 source code file UserWidget.cpp at line 203…