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Why AI gaming will reward social networks, not engines
2026 has seen engine companies rebuilding for AI. But engines are becoming irrelevant.
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2026 has seen engine companies rebuilding for AI. But engines are becoming irrelevant.
Project Genie knocked 24% off Unity stock, but things have changed dramatically since then.
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Pantaloon's monthly subscription Playbill program bans generative AI games.
Four Gemini 4 agents beat the Ender Dragon in 27 hours with no game-specific tooling, by turning Minecraft into a coding task.
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Garry Newman says a menu of 60 games doesn't work and never will — three weeks after Meta, Google and Xbox all bet on the model.
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Tim Sweeney says Epic's aim is to “survive the AI revolution”.
Google and Unity have partnered for new text prompt gamemaking platform Playground
How games are being remade in the AI era
Capcom is modifying its RE ENGINE to make it easier for AI agents to use.
Splats can't be edited, meshes break when described, and voxels cost you frames.
Meta has an AI game creation strategy and distribution at scale.
CESA's 2026 preview shows Japanese generative AI use jumping from 51% to 86% in a year.
Fenris Creations CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson argues EVE Online should host AI safety research.
Unity's official Claude Code plugin ships 29 first-party skills, the Unity CLI and live Editor control.
GPT-6 Astra has already been used to rebuild Mario Kart in a browser, edit SNES cartridges live, and help finish a six-year decompilation.
The world's largest games company used Gamescom to launch an AI middleware business.
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs says its new Atlas model beats specialist reconstruction systems and outputs explicit 3D rather than video.
Godot's poll didn't ask about AI in 2025. In 2026 it had to.
Tencent Hunyuan's agentic 3D open-world generator turns text into game-ready terrain and assets.
Game Science's Yang Qigang says the studio isn't using AI on Zhong Kui.