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Bethesda confirms Fallout 5, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, and new Obsidian Fallout game (techspot.com)

2026-07-18 | by Daniel Sims | tags: fallout 5, obsidian entertainment, bethesda game studios

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We’ve been blaming screens for anxious kids. A new study points to a completely different culprit (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: arguably, arguably unrealistic, better

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‘Sentenced to Be a Hero’ Team Gets Real About the Pain Behind 2026’s Must-Watch Dark Fantasy Anime (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: animation, animation life, bringing

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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: box3d, box2d, unreal engine

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Announcing Box3D :: Box2D (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: box3d, box2d, unreal engine

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Epic boss Tim Sweeney blasts Steam for putting AI tags on games — says move is ‘irresponsible of Valve’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-25 | by Jowi Morales | get Steam AI Tagging Guide → | tags: unreal engine 6, tim sweeney, valve

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The Halo remake launches July 28 with new missions, four-player co-op, and Unreal Engine 5 visuals (techspot.com)

2026-06-25 | get Halo Infinite Standard Edition → | tags: halo, unreal engine 5, microsoft

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Epic is working on a 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher that will be 5x faster (engadget.com)

2026-06-20 | by Jackson Chen | get Epic Games Launcher Upgrade → | tags: epic games, unreal fest, epic games store

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Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-19 | by Hassam Nasir | get Epic Games Launcher → | tags: epic games, launcher v2, unreal fest

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Epic Games details how it's embracing generative AI in Unreal Engine (engadget.com)

2026-06-17 | by Kris Holt | get Unreal Engine Generative AI Toolkit → | tags: unreal engine, epic games, unreal engine 6

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Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games (theverge.com)

2026-06-17 | by Jay Peters | get Fortnite Skin Transfer Kit → | tags: epic games, unreal engine 6, fortnite skins

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Epic Games reveals a first look at Unreal Engine 6 with a Rocket League makeover (engadget.com)

2026-05-25 | by Jackson Chen | get Unreal Engine 6 Art Kit → | tags: unreal engine 6, epic games, rocket league

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Unreal Engine 6 is coming in 2028, aims to streamline live-service game development (techspot.com)

2026-05-25 | get Unreal Engine 6 Software → | tags: unreal engine 6, psynix, rocket league

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Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' dev sees opportunity for AI agents to 'do the work of ten or fifteen people' (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-10 | by Mark Tyson | get Game Development AI Toolkit → | tags: unreal engine, unity, guerrilla games

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Former Epic director and Guerrilla Games co-founder is building a European game engine to rival Unreal and Unity (techspot.com)

2026-05-10 | get Godot Engine Software → | tags: epic games, unreal engine, guerrilla games

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Europe May Soon Get a Non-U.S. Alternative to Unreal Engine (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-09 | get Unity Software Development Kit → | tags: unreal engine, europe, non-u.s.

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Colored Shadow Penumbra (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Colorful Shadow Art Kit → | tags: unreal engine, lumen, substrate

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Game engines were built for video games, but Japan is finding more interesting things to do with them (techspot.com)

2026-05-06 | get Unity Game Development Kit → | tags: unity, unreal engine, nikkei asia

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Modern Rendering Culling Techniques (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-19 | get GPU Culling and Optimization Tools → | tags: unreal engine 5, saints row, gaussian splat

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Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get Playdate Handheld Console → | tags: playdate, panic, unreal engine

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A Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get Game Design Handheld Kit → | tags: playdate, panic, unreal engine

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Disney's gaming push could one day include buying Epic Games (techspot.com)

2026-03-31 | get Epic Games Store Gift Card → | tags: disney, epic games, fortnite

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AMD's Ryzen 9950X3D2 chip features an incredible 208MB of on-chip cache (engadget.com)

2026-03-26 | get AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Processor → | tags: amd, ryzen 9950x3d2, 3d v-cache

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Epic Games Laying Off 1,000+ Employees, Swears AI Is Not to Blame (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-24 | get Epic Games T-shirt → | tags: epic games, fortnite, unreal engine

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Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-22 | by Analog Dream Dev | tags: retro game engine, unreal, unity

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Epic and Disney now let Fortnite creators make Star Wars games (theverge.com)

2026-03-19 | by Jay Peters | get Star Wars: Jedi Challenges → | tags: epic games, disney, fortnite

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Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of ‘metaverse’ apps (theverge.com)

2026-03-04 | by Jay Peters | get Metaaverse → | tags: metaverse, epic games, google

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Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-27 | get Game Engine → | tags: unity, unreal, assembly

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Unreal Engine 5.7 brings significant improvements over the notoriously demanding 5.4 version, tester claims — benchmark shows up to 25% GPU performance increase, 35% CPU boost (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Hassam Nasir | get Game Engine → | tags: engine, hardware, mxbenchmarkpc

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After a Witcher-free decade, CDPR still promises three sequels in six years (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-01 | get Cyberpunk 2077 → | tags: cdpr, development, games