What does Epic's UE6 announcement say about AI?
Epic Games says AI will be an integral part of Unreal Engine 6.
Latest
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.
Anti-AI Warhammer pleads human slop in 6-finger Space Marine shocker
Six-fingered characters aren't only generated by AI, it seems.
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’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.
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'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'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.
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.
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.
Unity
Unity’s AI opportunity is the harness, not the model
After several false starts, it looks like Unity is finally riding the AI wave.
Xbox
Why Xbox's Copilot cut is not an Xbox AI retreat
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is killing Copilot, not AI.
Randy Pitchford
Randy Pitchford's bait-and-switch
Randy Pitchford is a professional magician. He deceives for fun.
Investing
Two gaming stocks for the AI era
Roblox because it's embracing AI. Nintendo because it's not.
Why AI voice audio is gaming's double-edged sword
Of all the ways generative AI could reshape game development, voice audio may be the most immediately useful, and the most explosive. In-game speech sits in a strange middle ground. It is both a hardcore production process and a live performance. A battle bark, shopkeeper greeting, quest reminder or
Opinion
Gaming's stupid argument about limitless smarts
Ironically, given this is all about intelligence, the games industry's argument about generative AI has become oddly stupid. On one side are the evangelists, who treat every new model demo as proof that production costs are about to collapse and creativity is about to explode. On the other