The gap between prompting a world in Minecraft and building one that works

Generative Design in Minecraft is a long-running academic competition to generate a working Minecraft settlement on an unknown map.

Smarter agents and catastrophic forgetting. Deconstructing the DeepMind-EVE Online deal

What do Google DeepMind and Fenris Creations hope to get out of their ambitious partnership?

Sony is aggressively deploying AI, not genAI

Sony has announced its company-wide approach to leveraging all forms of AI.

Why gamers hate AI

Do gamers want better games or purer games?

Will the next AI UGC platforms be NSFW?

One of the most consequential effects of generative AI is not simply that it makes existing entertainment cheaper to produce. It's that it expands who gets to make interactive entertainment. And when that happens, it often creates new forms of entertainment rather than just more efficient versions of

Strauss Zelnick doesn't want to talk about AI

With GTA VI anticipation at an all-time-high, Take-Two's CEO is avoiding loose lips.

What DeepMind learns from EVE Online

Google DeepMind has partnered with EVE Online to build training environments for the next generation of AI agents.

Unity’s AI opportunity is the harness, not the model

After several false starts, it looks like Unity is finally riding the AI wave.

Why Xbox's Copilot cut is not an Xbox AI retreat

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is killing Copilot, not AI.

Randy Pitchford's bait-and-switch

Randy Pitchford is a professional magician. He deceives for fun.

Two gaming stocks for the AI era

Roblox because it's embracing AI. Nintendo because it's not.

Why AI voice audio is gaming's double-edged sword

Of all the ways generative AI could reshape game development, voice audio may be the most immediately useful, and the most explosive. In-game speech sits in a strange middle ground. It is both a hardcore production process and a live performance. A battle bark, shopkeeper greeting, quest reminder or tutorial