Wolf Haus Games, founded by Hollywood veterans Joe Dietsch, Louie Gibson, Michael Abbott, and Dooma Wendschuh, is developing Join Us, a large-scale open-world cult simulator, with a team of just 12 pe…
Turnitin flags AI-generated text that ZeroGPT rates as 0% AI because the two detectors use fundamentally different training data and calibration: Turnitin is trained on millions of actual student subm…
A developer compared Kimi K3, Claude Opus 5, and Qwen3.8-Max-Preview for Unreal Engine 5 game development, finding that Claude Opus 5 has the strongest public evidence for reliable agentic engineering…
Tyler Perry is partnering with Synapse Virtual Production to convert an existing Tyler Perry Studios stage into a virtual production soundstage in Atlanta, using LED volume walls, advanced camera trac…
JetBrains released Rider 2026.2, which opens the IDE's intelligence to AI coding agents through a new set of agent skills covering testing, profiling, refactoring, and Microsoft .NET workflows, and ad…
JetBrains released the Rider 2026.2 Release Candidate, opening the IDE's intelligence to AI coding agents and natively integrating GitHub Copilot. The update delivers performance gains including ~2.8s…
JetBrains has opened its call for speakers for GameDev Days 2026, a free online event on September 28, 2026, seeking talks on practical game development topics including AI-assisted workflows, engine …
Researchers introduced SPEAR, a Python library that programmatically controls Unreal Engine applications for photorealistic embodied AI research. It offers over 14,000 programmable functions, renders …
Arm-based innovations in June 2026 include Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 VMs for cloud-native AI, a generative AI solution for low-light image enhancement, Unreal Engine MegaLights and Nanite optimizatio…
A developer built a free calculator that converts between horizontal and vertical field of view (FOV) settings in FPS games, adjusting for aspect ratio. The tool addresses common confusion caused by d…
Disneyland reopened the Pirates of the Caribbean ride with a new animatronic pirate that transforms from a living buccaneer into a ghostly skeleton using next-generation Hybrid Front Projection techno…
A developer built awesome-gamedev-agent-skills, an open-source collection of 66 focused skills for AI coding agents that target specific game engine versions. The project includes a router that select…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Steam's AI disclosure requirement as a 'Scarlet Letter' harming developers, but data from a December 2025 Game Oracle study shows the label reduces reviews by 52.…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called Valve's mandatory generative AI disclosure for Steam games 'irresponsible,' arguing it stigmatizes developers and harms their chances of success. In a PC Gamer interv…
Epic Games' State of Unreal 2026 keynote announced a controversial shift toward generative AI, deprecation of Blueprint, and promotion of Verse, sparking backlash from developers who see it as a threa…
Epic Games shipped Unreal Engine 5.8 with an experimental MCP server built into the editor, enabling AI agents like Claude Code and Gemini to spawn actors, configure lighting, and run automation tests…
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…
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…
A developer argues that AI agents extend beyond coding to operate general computer tools like ffmpeg, ImageMagick, and Blender's Python interface, enabling users to automate fiddly tasks such as batch…
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…