Unreal Engine
What does Epic's UE6 announcement say about AI?
Epic Games says AI will be an integral part of Unreal Engine 6.
Jon Jordan
Crystal Dynamics
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.
Slop
Anti-AI Warhammer pleads human slop in 6-finger Space Marine shocker
Six-fingered characters aren't only generated by AI, it seems.
Roblox
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
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.
Animation
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
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
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.
Minecraft
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.
EVE Online
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?