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EA exec says AI has helped drive 'a real rise of creativity' at its studios
By Andy Chalk published
news Laura Miele says removing the "tedious tasks" of game development has resulted in "shorter, faster conversations around creativity and coming to alignment."

Genshin Impact creator miHoYo has released an AI companion on Steam, an eternal student cursed to never obtain her piano degree
By Rory Norris published
News The studio is doubling down on its investment in AI.

Data analyst finds 'AI stigma' on Steam can reduce the number of reviews a game gets by around 53%—and the reviews it does get are more negative
By Justin Wagner published
News "For high-potential games, the 'AI stigma' is real and severely punishes developers who otherwise would have succeeded."

Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
By Justin Wagner published
News Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it?

Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'
By Rick Lane published
"I have this tendency to dial up things to 11 when I really think I need to make a point."

Sony deletes mention of PC from annual strategy report in favour of a gushing about AI
By Joshua Wolens published
News Seems like a downgrade.

Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign
By Jacob Fox published
News Slides out of Unreal Fest promise "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)" as Epic works on making its store suck less.

Palworld studio says 'gamers don't want' AI in their games: 'It feels like everyone who is super gung-ho about it isn't from the industry'
By Justin Wagner published
News It's not the first time Pocketpair's John Buckley has spoken out against the tech.

'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
By Nick Evanson published
News When two become one.

Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
By Nick Evanson published
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.
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