What does Epic's UE6 announcement say about AI?

Epic Games says AI will be an integral part of Unreal Engine 6.

Tomb Raider and the most important AI story in games

The revealing part of Crystal Dynamics’ comments about generative AI is not that the studio is using it; it's how carefully it's talking about using it.

Anti-AI Warhammer pleads human slop in 6-finger Space Marine shocker

Six-fingered characters aren't only generated by AI, it seems.

Roblox completes AI acqui-hire hat trick with Morpheus AI deal

Roblox continues its ambitious path to build AI games running at 4K and 60 fps with its third acqui-hire in recent months.

The dividing line in games AI adoption is who can say no

Every games company is having to negotiate how it uses AI, but not every company has the same counterparties.

MiHoYo’s $15 billion bet to become the first AI-native gameco

While western game companies equivocate about use of AI, Chinese devs are investing heavily into the vision.

Uthana is solving animation's last bottleneck, for now

Uthana's AI platform for human motion is a specialized solution for character animation. But does it have a moat?

Roblox's World-Model AI experiment shows why games still need engines

Roblox's world-model research is interesting because it shows why games remain such a hard medium for generative AI.

Capcom's AI balancing act

How is Capcom handling the pressures of production costs and gamers' purity demands.

An AI-Agent MMORPG born from a Jagex cease and desist

HyperForge started life as a RuneScape-inspired AI-first MMORPG. After a Jagex C&D it's now an AI-first game engine, and a AI-first MMORPG.

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?