One-shot AI game-making renamed the Gauntlet Loop
Matt Shumer has named his technique and published a How To guide.
Latest
Day 2 of Claude Opus 5 "one-shotting" games
How is Anthropic's latest model impacting game-making?
Can you really "one-shot" Call of Duty?
What we know and don't know about Matt Shumer's Claude of Duty.
Notch's flip-flop week
Minecraft creator Notch demonstrates the heart-head dilemma of AI.
How AI is shaking up the Turkish game startup scene
Turkish game startups are drying up, while solo and duo AI-led teams are growing.
Japanese online game companies are all-in on AI
JOGA's 2026 industry survey puts gen-AI use among Japanese online game companies at 100%.
How InnoGames used AI; not for growth but long-tail profitability
InnoGames' Sunrise Village is in long-term decline, but it's now profitable thanks to the use of AI.
Roblox targets first-time creators with new AI Build app
Roblox's new mobile Build tool turns text prompts into playable games.
PixVerse R1 shows why world models are exciting but not yet game engines
PixVerse's R1 world model is another example of the current limitations of the AI-to-game-engine thesis.
LingBot-World 2.0: a live world you can play, but not a game
Robbyant's LingBot-World 2.0 claims an hour of stable, interactive generation from a single image.
What the C&C Zero Hour iOS port actually tells us about AI coding
A Google designer used Claude Fable 5 to bring Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour to iPhone in 40 minutes.
AI gaming's 8% problem
A new GameDiscoverCo survey of 3,800 core Steam fans finds only 8% would refuse to buy an AI-disclosed game.
Rocket League
Rocket League is now playable via AI-generated stream
MIRA is a neural network that's been trained on Rocket League and supports a four player gameplay via generative AI.
Meta
Meta's demo-ing the TikTok of AI gaming
Pocket looks like a new app, but it's actually an old one with Meta's feed bolted on.
Steam
Steam's AI dilemma manifests in How To Grow a Black Hole
A viral “AI slop” accusation against a solo dev’s breakout indie hit highlights that Steam has no way to verify AI-use.
Godot
Updated: Unreal and Unity are integrating AI. Godot is just trying to manage its externalities
For open source game Godot, AI is currently more of a cost than an opportunity.
Unreal Engine
Tim Sweeney's bet is AI supercharges the Fortnite ecosystem
Epic's strategic bet is AI embedded into UE6 boosts the Fortnite ecosystem.
Ecosystems
AI slop will kill games, but grow ecosystems
AI will kill off many game companies but it will allow many game communities to flourish.
Unreal Engine
What does Epic's UE6 announcement say about AI?
Epic Games says AI will be an integral part of Unreal Engine 6.
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.