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.

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.