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 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'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'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.

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.

Tim Sweeney's bet is AI supercharges the Fortnite ecosystem

Epic's strategic bet is AI embedded into UE6 boosts the Fortnite ecosystem.

AI slop will kill games, but grow ecosystems

AI will kill off many game companies but it will allow many game communities to flourish.

What does Epic's UE6 announcement say about AI?

Epic Games says AI will be an integral part of Unreal Engine 6.

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?

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?