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 ...

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 ...

Does Starfield use procedural generation? It's a good question considering the sheer scale of the galactic game with over 1000 planets and 100 star systems, it makes sense that procedural generation ...

Procedural content generation (PCG) represents an innovative approach to the creation of video game elements through algorithmic processes. This methodology has evolved from early rule‐based systems ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 developer Monolith Soft has revealed that it used significant procedural generation to cope with the vast increase in assets required to build the world of the ...

While speaking about the massive overhaul that’s been made to the game’s engine, Bethesda’s Todd Howard made a note about procedural generation, or more specifically how these engine changes will ...

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 ...

Our style guide has a whole section devoted to Star Citizen. For the past year every article we've written has needed to start in the same way "Star Citizen's now has more money than [insert large, ...