Electronic Arts executive Laura Miele, a 30-plus-year veteran at the American publisher, was recently featured on The Game Business Show and talked about various topics, including, of course, how the publisher is using AI in its development process. Back in late 2024, EA CEO Andrew Wilson was one of the very first major gaming executives to openly state that generative AI would soon be at the "very core of business", allowing greater efficiency, expansion, and transformation. Now that it's been over a year and a half since that statement, when asked whether AI tools can expedite the increasingly long game […]

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Hideo Kojima has given what appears to be his final word on Generative AI (GenAI) technology and whether it's something he's really interested in exploring as part of the artistic process and its capability for creating art. Speaking to The Washington Post (spotted by Kotaku), even after a GenAI version of Kojima appeared in a Prada commercial just last month, the Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid creator has said he's "not interested" in GenAI art. "Art is life. But in 50 years, 100 years, I don't know. Maybe AI could create art, but while I live, I don't think […]

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Last night during PlayStation's State of Play event for June 2026, Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog showcased more of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and also confirmed rumours that it had been delayed into next year with the announcement of a February 12, 2027, release date. After the dust settled, however, and the initial craze of all the announcements had passed, players spotted a key point on the game's Steam page: a disclosure that Generative AI (GenAI) tools were used in an "early exploration" phase of development. The statement on the game's Steam page reads, "AI-assisted tools were used […]

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As we all anxiously wait for Lies of P developer Round8 Studio to finish working on the upcoming sequel to its stellar 2023 action game now that the game's major DLC expansion is out, a job listing for Round8 has been spotted online that has fans concerned for the sequel. Round8 Studio is hiring for what it is calling an "AI Creator," a person whose job it'll be to "leverage generative AI technology to maximize the efficiency of the art production process and innovate the visual quality of games." Generative AI (GenAI) tech in game development is a sore spot […]

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Back in March 2026, Square Enix and Google revealed a new partnership to bring a Gemini AI-powered NPC to Dragon Quest X called Chatty Slimey. The NPC companion was described as a "conversational AI" companion who can aid the player with questions they have in the game, but as reported by Japanese outlet Toyo Keizai (spotted and translated by Automaton), Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Hori hopes that the AI NPC can be more that just a tool for players to utilize. Hori reportedly holds this hope not just for the upcoming Chatty Slimey companion, but for all future AI-powered […]

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance makers Warhorse Studios hosted a Reddit AMA yesterday, and while the positive side of the event included confirmation that it is working on "a huge immersive RPG," several of the questions instead focused on allegations that the studio fired one of its translators after his role was made "obsolete in favor of using AI for all translations going forward." At the time of the allegations, Warhorse's response was that it "has always been a talent-driven studio, and we deeply value the people who shape our work. Out of respect for the privacy and dignity of both current […]

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After telling the video game industry that they should "embrace AI like Iron Man's suit" in one interview, in another, this time with MobileGamer.Biz, the head of Google Cloud's games division, Jack Buser is claiming that the industry has actually already embraced AI-powered tools. Buser claims that "roughly nine out of ten game developers" told Google "yeah, we're using it," in a survey Google conducted during Gamescom 2026, asking developers if they are using AI-powered tools. Buser even went as far as to claim that players just don't realize that the games they are enjoying and love to play "right […]

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The most controversial topic in the video game industry now and for the last few years has been Generative AI and its place (or lack thereof) in video game development. The most recent hot-button layer to that has been NVIDIA's introduction of DLSS 5. While the tech likely won't be impacting games coming later this year, projects further off than that, like Fragmentary Order, the new extraction shooter from Nikita Buyanov, the creator of Escape From Tarkov, are likely going to be able to implement the tech if they choose to. As for Buyanov and his new team at Rant […]

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NVIDIA CEO has said that the AI era will lead to the creation of more jobs, highlighting AI as the new job platform rather than a replacement for mankind. AI Will End Up Creating More Jobs At The End of the AI Revolution than at its beginning, according to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Talking at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, once again referred to the rise of AI as the Industrial Revolution of the modern world. There have been many talks regarding AI and its benefits, but in parallel, a long discussion has been ongoing on […]

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Glen Schofield, the Dead Space creator and more recently the founder of Striking Distance Studios, the team behind the Dead Space spiritual successor, The Callisto Protocol, is the kind of industry veteran who is almost always up for sharing his thoughts on what he believes the path forward for the industry is. Last year, while also admitting that the commercial failure that was The Callisto Protocol might have been the last game he gets to direct in his long career, he also talked about the current state of the video game industry and why it's so difficult for anyone looking […]

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Return of the Obra Dinn and Paper, Please are two incredibly iconic indie games, both critically acclaimed, and both of them come from the same creator, Lucas Pope. He's worked on several other titles since, either in small ways, resulting in a 'Special Thanks' on titles like Twelve Minutes, or his recent work as a designer on a Playdate game, Mars After Midnight. He is currently working on something, but it's doubtful he'll share what it is before it's ready to release because he fears it will "get slurped up by AI" in our new Generative AI (GenAI) world. This […]

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Stormgate, the Warcraft-inspired real-time strategy game from Frost Giant Studios that started with incredible potential after an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign has just hit a major bump in a road that's been littered with bumps since it launched back in August 2025. The game will be losing its online multiplayer modes, simply because it is losing its server orchestration partner, Hathora, after Hathora was acquired by an AI-focused company, Fireworks AI. There are already examples of AI and, more specifically, Generative AI (GenAI) taking jobs from developers, but this is seemingly the first example of AI/GenAI taking games (or at […]

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Owlcat Games, the studio known for titles like Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is also the studio behind the upcoming sci-fi action RPG, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. The game was showcased today during the Xbox Partner Preview (and confirmed for a Spring 2027 launch window), and ahead of that, we got a look at the full cast of companions you'll meet in the game. A report from Eurogamer, however, has revealed another aspect of the game: its development process. When asked whether the studio uses any Generative AI (GenAI) tools, the studio confirmed that it does, but clarified that it […]

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Crimson Desert finally arrived yesterday after multiple delays and years of waiting, and its launch has been mixed, to say the least. On the one hand, the game has already sold 2 million copies. On the other, critic and user consensus is decidedly mixed, while some critics (like Wccftech's Francesco De Meo) have loved their time with it, many are on the very opposite end, resulting in a Metacritic score of 78, while its user reviews on Steam launched at 'Mixed' but have since become 'Mostly Positive.' While the game caught a fair amount of flak online for adding Denuvo […]

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Dead Meat is, for the moment, a very new kind of video game that could potentially be commonplace, depending on how Generative AI (GenAI) continues to be welcomed (or unwelcomed) into the video game industry. It rides that thin line because Dead Meat is a game where you speak to AI-powered NPCs as you investigate a murder mystery. It's developed by Meaning Machine, a studio that says "AI characters and quests have the potential to revolutionize interactive storytelling" on their website, adding that it can only work "if human authors retain creative control of those stories. Because without the human […]

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Right at the end of January 2026, the stock price of several major video game companies took a serious dive with the reveal of Project Genie, an experiment from Google that appeared capable of making video games entirely with GenAI. At least that's how investors understood Project Genie as they demonstrated their vast knowledge of video game development by causing the stock values of Unity, Take-Two Interactive, CD Projekt RED, and Roblox to all take a temporary nosedive the moment they laid eyes on it. Anyone with slightly more knowledge of video game development than those investors, however, like analyst […]

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With Generative AI (GenAI) remaining the most controversial topic in the video game industry, any mention of GenAI or AI in general is making the hair on players' arms stand up. The latest occurrence of this comes from Genshin Impact players looking a little more closely at Hoyoverse's recent updates to the popular free-to-play game's Privacy Policy, which appears to have indicated that unless players opt-out, Hoyoverse will collect players' in-game voice chat data to train an internal AI model. Initially spotted on a now-removed Reddit post, Bluesky user Cevian shared a change to Genshin Impact's privacy policy that was […]

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