Epic
Your bedroom is not the room Tim Sweeney's reading
Tim Sweeney says Epic's aim is to “survive the AI revolution”.
Jon Jordan
Google partners with Unity for text prompt platform Playground
Google and Unity have partnered for new text prompt gamemaking platform Playground
Capcom is open-sourcing its engine so AI can learn it
Capcom is modifying its RE ENGINE to make it easier for AI agents to use.
Why Atomontage uses the 3D format an AI can actually edit
Splats can't be edited, meshes break when described, and voxels cost you frames.
AI
Meta's AI gaming push
Meta has an AI game creation strategy and distribution at scale.
Japan
Japan's developers hit 86% AI adoption
CESA's 2026 preview shows Japanese generative AI use jumping from 51% to 86% in a year.
EVE Online
Can EVE become a proving ground for AI societies?
Fenris Creations CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson argues EVE Online should host AI safety research.
Unity
Unity's latest customer is Claude
Unity's official Claude Code plugin ships 29 first-party skills, the Unity CLI and live Editor control.
Astra's clone curve
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.
Tencent
Tencent shipped AI in League of Legends while Gamescom awarded itself points for abstinence
The world's largest games company used Gamescom to launch an AI middleware business.
Can game engines handle World Labs' Atlas?
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs says its new Atlas model beats specialist reconstruction systems and outputs explicit 3D rather than video.
Godot
Even 40% of Godot's anti-AI indies are using AI
Godot's poll didn't ask about AI in 2025. In 2026 it had to.