Owing perhaps to the difficulty and extreme cost of building virtual worlds that can be seen, heard, explored, and interacted with in multitudes of other ways, video games have long made use of ...

The new release No Man’s Sky, created by the small team at U.K. indie studio Hello Games, presents players with a mind-bogglingly vast galaxy to explore. There are 18 quintillion planets in the game, ...

Procedural generation in games like Hylics and Shadow of War adds unpredictability to narratives and characters. Games like Wildermyth and Spelunky leverage procedural storytelling to offer unique ...