Matt Karoglou is a freelance writer and musician who has been playing video games for 36 years and writing about them for almost as long. When he's not editorializing about the intricacies and ...

Chris is a writer currently based in the Philadelphia area. They are currently writing for film website Flixist, podcasting for Marvel News Desk, and were an editorial intern for Paste Magazine's ...

How Spelunky Made Procedural Generation Fun Spelunky used procedural generation to improve replayability and compete with big budget games. Now Spelunky 2 will try to do it better. Let's look back on ...

This is a story about serendipity and probability. “There in the bathroom line, I met Arnaud,” He told Engadget. “We started chatting, and we were sort of mutual fans of each other's work, and we ...

Owing perhaps to the difficulty and extreme cost of building virtual worlds that can be seen, heard, explored, and interacted with in multitudes of other ways, video games have long made use of ...

Todd Howard confirmed in an interview at Brighton Digital on November 2 that The Elder Scrolls 6’s map will be designed using procedural generation. The announcement has left some fans confused, with ...

While searching for information about GTA 6, Grand Theft Auto fans found the LinkedIn profile of Rockstar’s chief programmer, which sheds light on the studio’s work on the game. The profile, a ...

New consoles (so sweet!), 40,000 polygons (many emotions!), really textured rocks (wow!). Have you ever seen concrete pipes so... beautiful? We've done it, we've made graphics look "real," let's go ...

Why it matters: Managing graphics memory has become one of the most pressing challenges facing the realm of real-time 3D rendering. As visuals become more detailed, the amount of VRAM required for ...