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Why big studios are giving up their own game engines
Why are studios switching to Unreal Engine 5? Halo, Tomb Raider, The Witcher and eFootball left their own engines, and EA changed course on Frostbite. In their words.
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Page 2How studios built their engines, why they moved off them, and where genre names came from.
StoriesThe Unity runtime fee: what happened, and who left
The Unity runtime fee explained: the per-install charge of September 2023, the developer revolt, the CEO's exit, the move to Godot, and the cancellation a year later.
StoriesWhy PC games stutter and consoles mostly don't
Why do PC games stutter more than consoles? Shader compilation, explained through Elden Ring, Jedi: Survivor and Unreal Engine 5, and the fixes that are finally arriving.
StoriesWhy roguelikes are called roguelikes
Why is it called a roguelike? Rogue's Santa Cruz origins, the 1993 Usenet vote nobody loved, the Berlin Interpretation of 2008 and how rogue-lite arrived.