From Pong to path tracing: The leaps that built modern game graphics

Graphics in games don’t improve in a steady, gentle slope. They jump. Someone ships a look that feels like it arrived from ...
GameInformer

Creating Characters With Unreal Engine 4

Epic has put up another video showing off how Unreal Engine 4 will benefit developers. This dev diary uses the Infiltrator demo to show how different material layers can be assigned to character ...
PCGamesN

Best gacha games 2026: hey big spender

A spiritual successor to coin-operated gachapon machines, the best gacha games take the joy of capsule toys and translate them into a live-service videogame format where players wish on banners to ...
IEEE

Unreal Engine 5 Shaders and Effects Cookbook: Over 50 recipes to help you create materials and utilize advanced shading techniques

Unreal Engine is here to stay! Since the launch of the first edition of this book, based on the Unreal Engine 5 technology, real-time rendering has only grown in popularity. The demand for expertise ...
GitHub

AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles

Microsoft and IAMAI collaborated to advance high-fidelity autonomy simulations through Project AirSim—the evolution of AirSim— released under the MIT license as part of a DARPA-supported initiative.