{"slug": "three-epic-veterans-are-building-an-ai-powered-game-engine-to-break-the-industry", "title": "Three Epic veterans are building an AI-powered game engine to break the industry's doom cycle", "summary": "Three former Epic Games veterans are building an AI-powered game engine to challenge Unity and Unreal, which together powered roughly 70% of games released on Steam in 2025. The new engine aims to break the industry's 'doom cycle' by leveraging AI to streamline development.", "body_md": "Unity and Unreal have dominated the development scene for a long time now, and were used to make [roughly 70% of the games released on Steam in 2025](https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/hows-pc-game-engine-usage-changing). Godot has seen some [significant growth in the past few years](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/two-years-after-the-unity-controversy-how-are-things-going-with-godot), and many big companies still favour proprietary engines – like Capcom with its RE Engine – but otherwise, Unity and Unreal have got the game engine market sewn up.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/three-epic-veterans-are-building-an-ai-powered-game-engine-to-break-the-industry", "canonical_source": "https://www.gamesindustry.biz/three-epic-veterans-are-building-an-ai-powered-game-engine-to-break-the-industrys-doom-cycle", "published_at": "2026-08-18 13:32:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 13:42:34.493293+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Epic Games", "Unity", "Unreal", "Steam", "Godot", "Capcom", "RE Engine"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/three-epic-veterans-are-building-an-ai-powered-game-engine-to-break-the-industry", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/three-epic-veterans-are-building-an-ai-powered-game-engine-to-break-the-industry.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/three-epic-veterans-are-building-an-ai-powered-game-engine-to-break-the-industry.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/three-epic-veterans-are-building-an-ai-powered-game-engine-to-break-the-industry.jsonld"}}