Studio Atelico has opened Early Access to its Atelico AI Engine, a tool that lets developers add AI-powered gameplay to games without relying on cloud services. The engine supports language models, image generation, speech systems, semantic search and AI-driven character…
In a post on X, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney casually states that the EULA for using Epic's engine will allow for training AI on the output, though developers can still choose to restrict it for individual games. Epic's EULA will…
Simon Willison says October 2026 is when AI models learned to make fun games. Here is a step by step way to test that claim yourself. A note on how this was written: an AI writing assistant drafted it from the…
I’ve written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents—the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we’ve reached…
Among the biggest gains Wassmer cited, Claude Code and Codex nearly wiped out cooking bugs of the non-deterministic variety, a problem engineers had battled for roughly 10 years. Cooking, in Unreal terms, refers to processing a game’s assets so a specific…
As usual, hype has a tendency to exaggerate things to create, well, more hype. So let's separate reality from fiction and explore what’s actually happening behind these demos. The good news is that there is plenty on the reality side…
As Artificial intelligence moves into every corner of modern life, we examine the ways AI enhances how we have fun and seek connection. When you think of AI, you probably think of ChatGPT. But it's also going to have a…
"We are more concerned about the risks of moving too slowly than we are about AI skepticism." To no one's surprise, Epic Games has now confirmed that it's tripling down on its gen-AI push and will use the controversial tech…
Molyneux acknowledged that a far from insignificant portion of the gaming community is vehemently opposed to AI usage in game development, and he also blamed the makers of some of the most popular models for contributing to the "AI slop…
Is originality as hard to come by as everybody says? Today, it seems as though originality is not as necessary, although increasingly more coveted. The film industry, the music industry, honestly — in every aspect of the arts — originality is sought…
Generative AI in game development and in games: AI voices and art in released games and the backlash, studio AI tools, AI characters and Steam's AI disclosures.
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