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5 iconic software legends turning 30 in 2026

From Java and ActiveX to Flash, Houdini, and Direct3D, these 1996 releases shaped how we build apps, sites, and games today.

Hytale shows that Minecraft needs to stop being complacent

Mojang should see this release (and its subsequent success) as a major kick in the butt.
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Google’s Project Genie 3 generates playable game worlds, raising questions for future of game development

Google released Project Genie 3, a new AI tool capable of generating video game like worlds, and it may implicate the future ...
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01C launches Amara to generate full 3D worlds from simple prompts

Amara uses conversational AI and native 3D generation to collapse weeks of asset work into instant iteration.

id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one ...

The video featured Romero's own recollections, as well as those of id vets Tom Hall, John Carmack, and Adrian Carmack⁠—no relation on those last two, by the way. I only found that out embarrassingly ...