Panic's new Playdate policy on generative AI is striking not because it solves the industry's AI dilemma, but because it refuses to pretend the dilemma can be solved cleanly. The Portland studio behind the Playdate handheld has updated its Catalog rules to ban generative AI in
The games industry has spent the past two years having a theatrical argument about AI. Studio heads hedge. Artists post denunciations. Unions draw moral red lines. Steam users review bomb, while there's blood all over in the Subreddits. The whole debate keeps getting dragged back to the same
Among Roblox's top 1,000 creators, 44% are already using AI to build games. This is either through Roblox's own Assistant or third-party tools connected via the MCP open standard. And now Roblox is betting that agentic workflows , which is when AI plans, executes, and
GDC's 2026 State of the Game Industry report contains plenty of data. It surveyed more than 2,300 professionals and tried to broaden its reach beyond developers to include marketers, executives, investors and educators. But the most revealing thing about the report, especially when it comes to its
The games industry has not warmed to generative AI. In GDC’s 2026 State of the Game Industry report, 52% of respondents said generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry, up from 30% in 2025 and 18% in 2024. Recent headlines have reinforced that mood: Phantom Blade
There is a strange asymmetry in games right now. The part of the industry that has the most to gain from AI-driven productivity in terms of its large teams, long schedules, bloated content pipelines, endless live-service iteration, is also the part under the most cultural pressure not to
While the West debates whether AI textures constitute an ethical violation, a legacy Korean MMO is using artificial intelligence for something less dramatic: running a better server. Online Samgukji 2, a long-running MMORPG from Cosmos Entertainment, recently launched its Cheongeum server — a dedicated environment built around an AI-based