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Unreal Engine game development for horror: How studios build fear that lasts
Unreal Engine game development for horror: How studios build fear that lasts

In Switchback VR, the game watches your eyes. Blink or look away, and enemies use that split second to move closer. Nobody sees the code behind that rule, yet it makes the scare work. Unreal Engine game development gives studios the tools for moments like this, but the engine does not produce fear by itself. Design, art, and engineering [...]
1. Art Production
2. Game Development
3. Unreal Engine
Published: 07.10.2026
N-iX Games event digest: 2026, Q1–Q3
N-iX Games event digest: 2026, Q1–Q3

Three quarters into 2026, and it's been a year of shipped art, a DLC launch, a game inching toward release, and a few new stamps in the passport. Here's what N-iX Games has been building and where we've been showing up between January and September. This time we're splitting the recap into two parts: the projects we shipped or moved forward [...]
Published: 25.09.2026
Game development outsourcing: A step-by-step guide for indie and mid-size studios
Game development outsourcing: A step-by-step guide for indie and mid-size studios

Handing your game over to a team you've never worked with is an uncomfortable ask, and most studios come to game development outsourcing with the same worries already in mind: will the quality match what's in your head, will you lose control of the direction, will a "final" quote turn into a much bigger invoice, and will your IP still be yours [...]
1. Game Development
2. Outsourcing
Published: 17.09.2026
How much does Unreal game development cost in 2026 – 2027?
How much does Unreal game development cost in 2026 – 2027?

Every producer eventually asks the same question before greenlighting an Unreal project: What will this actually cost? It rarely has one answer. Unreal game development cost swings from tens of thousands of dollars for a lean prototype to multi-million-dollar budgets for a cross-platform, live-service title, and the engine itself has [...]
1. Outsourcing
2. Unreal Engine
Published: 03.09.2026
UE5 Lumen explained: Dynamic lighting for modern games
UE5 Lumen explained: Dynamic lighting for modern games

Environments that used to sit still now shift constantly. Weather rolls in, doors get kicked open, a wall comes down mid-fight, and every one of those changes used to mean a lighting rebuild. Baked lighting worked fine when levels were static, but it turns into a bottleneck the moment a team wants a world that reacts. Unreal Engine’s [...]
1. Unreal Engine
Published: 20.08.2026
AWS game backend design for MMORPGs: What you need to know
AWS game backend design for MMORPGs: What you need to know

An MMORPG backend has to do a lot at once. It absorbs sudden spikes in concurrent players, keeps world state and player progress in sync in real time, runs matchmaking, and stays available across regions without players noticing a hiccup. AWS gives teams a flexible foundation for that kind of scale, from dedicated game server hosting to serverless [...]
1. Game Development
Published: 30.07.2026

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Unreal Engine game development for horror: How studios build fear that lasts

Unreal Engine game development for horror: How studios build fear that lasts

N-iX Games event digest: 2026, Q1–Q3

N-iX Games event digest: 2026, Q1–Q3

Game development outsourcing: A step-by-step guide for indie and mid-size studios

Game development outsourcing: A step-by-step guide for indie and mid-size studios

How much does Unreal game development cost in 2026 – 2027?

How much does Unreal game development cost in 2026 – 2027?

UE5 Lumen explained: Dynamic lighting for modern games

UE5 Lumen explained: Dynamic lighting for modern games

AWS game backend design for MMORPGs: What you need to know

AWS game backend design for MMORPGs: What you need to know

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