Engines, tooling, modding, and AI in game development.
8 storiesLatest: Oct 15, 2026
Bloomberg reports Epic Games will let AI write the code and guide the art for a delayed Marvel and Star Wars shooter, raising labour and quality questions.
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Google launched Playground on October 7, 2026, a browser-based platform where prompts build playable games, with Unity Spark set to follow later this year.
Capcom's REX project would integrate AI and machine learning into the RE Engine. Capcom calls the result an AI game engine, and that phrasing is disputed.
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta unveiled Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, two tools that turn text prompts into complete 2D or 3D mobile games and push them straight into Facebook and Instagram feeds.
A volunteer team has rebuilt Super Smash Bros. Melee's GameCube executable byte for byte in C, opening the door to deeper mods and early native ports.
Unity's official Claude Code plugin installs 29 engine skills, a CLI and an MCP server for live Editor control, making AI agents first-class in game development.
Google DeepMind and Fenris Creations detailed a research partnership that uses an offline EVE Online sandbox to study long-horizon planning, memory and continual learning.
Online games hide latency with client prediction, deterministic simulation, rollback and lag compensation. A technical explainer on the tradeoffs behind it all.
