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?
Jon Jordan
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?
Sony
Sony is aggressively deploying AI, not genAI
Sony has announced its company-wide approach to leveraging all forms of AI.
Backlash
Why gamers hate AI
Do gamers want better games or purer games?
NSFW
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
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.
Roblox
Can Roblox Reality really deliver structured logic and photo realism?
Roblox has announced Roblox Reality, which hopes to leverage Video World Models and edge data centers to deliver narrative-driven, photorealistic masterpieces.
EVE Online
What DeepMind learns from EVE Online
Google DeepMind has partnered with EVE Online to build training environments for the next generation of AI agents.