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 is aggressively deploying AI, not genAI

Sony has announced its company-wide approach to leveraging all forms of AI.

Why gamers hate AI

Do gamers want better games or purer games?

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 doesn't want to talk about AI

With GTA VI anticipation at an all-time-high, Take-Two's CEO is avoiding loose lips.

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.

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’s AI opportunity is the harness, not the model

After several false starts, it looks like Unity is finally riding the AI wave.