Neuralink gamer 🎮, UE Mobile Playbook 📱, Nintendo patent ⚖️
Unreal Engine Tools 🚀
TeraLand: High-Fidelity, Fast UE5 Landscapes Without Engine Mods
UE5 landscape layers often force painful trade-offs between detail and performance. TeraLand breaks that pattern by combining native Unreal systems with a smart material calculation order to remove layer limits and enable high-quality displacement—without engine mods or plugins. Artists can iterate freely as the system auto-optimizes data transfers and materials. Already proven in production, it slots into existing pipelines and supports any art style.
Unreal Engine’s Mobile Playbook: Battle-Tested Tools, Faster Iteration
Epic’s Thomas Convard explains why mobile is core to Unreal Engine—and how Fortnite and UEFN battle-test features before they ship to everyone. UE’s scalability system and device profiles tame device fragmentation, while Mobile Previewer and faster deployment shrink iteration time. Expect a more integrated editor toolset, cross-platform optimizations for both high- and low-end devices, and ecosystem support via Epic Online Services and the mobile Epic Games Store.
Tech & Research Frontiers đź§
Neuralink’s UK Patient Aims to Play Dawn of War With His Mind
Brain-computer interfaces are edging closer to mainstream play: Neuralink says its first UK patient quickly achieved mind-driven cursor control. The team is targeting RTS gameplay in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, following another patient who played Counter-Strike post-op. Beyond the headline feats, the work hints at transformative accessibility options and future BCI-friendly game designs.
Hybrid Bubble Dynamics: From Micro-Particles to Aerated Volumes
This work unveils a unified method for underwater bubble simulation that spans micro to macro scales. Bubbles start as Lagrangian particles coupled to an Eulerian water grid, then seamlessly aggregate into volumetric air regions as density increases. A continuous surface tension model based on volume fraction gradients keeps behavior stable across transitions. It delivers realistic two-phase flow effects without juggling multiple solvers.
Industry Moves & Legal Watch ⚖️
Apple Joins The Game Awards Board as 2025 Jury Questions Loom
Apple has joined The Game Awards 2025 Advisory Board alongside Epic, Rockstar, Valve, Sony, and top industry figures. TGA says the board won’t influence nominees or winners, but Apple’s move aligns with its 2025 gaming push, including the RAC7 acquisition and Apple Games app. Last year’s controversy over the 90% jury/10% public vote still hangs over the event, and this year’s jury list remains unpublished.
JPO Rejects Key Nintendo Patent; ARK, Monster Hunter Undercut Novelty
A Japanese patent examiner has non‑finally rejected a core Nintendo “monster capture” application for lack of inventive step, citing prior art from ARK, Monster Hunter 4, Craftopia, Kantai Collection, and Pokémon GO. The filing is closely tied to two patents asserted against Palworld, signaling potential family‑wide weakness. While not binding on the Tokyo court, the Office Action could be persuasive. Nintendo can amend or appeal, and the article urges devs to proactively submit real‑world game prior art during examination.