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Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games. Non-generative AI ...

Devs failing to make games with AI keep flooding the Godot game engine with slop, and its project manager has had enough

More slop for the pile ...

AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

Last month, Google launched Project Genie, an “early research prototype” that lets users generate sandbox worlds using text or image prompts that they can explore for 60 seconds. Right now, the tool ...
TweakTown

Remedy isn't using generative AI to make Control Resonant, the studio confirms

The use of generative AI is still controversial in the gaming world, and Remedy has confirmed that the tech had no place in the development of Control 2.
CNET

AI Became a Bogeyman to Gamers in 2025, but Developers Are Mixed on Its Potential

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...
Polygon

BG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'

Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developer Larian Studios generated a ton of hype (and no shortage of revulsion) when it revealed its next big role-playing game, Divinity, at The Game Awards ...
The Verge

Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’

Indie devs are using anti-gen-AI statements to make their games stand out. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is a reporter who covers ...
Kotaku

Larian Studios Leaning Into Generative AI Despite Internal Pushback: ‘Everyone At The Company Is More Or Less OK With The Way We’re Using It’ [Update]

Larian Studios is apparently bullish on generative AI. Despite backlash against the technology from fans and even some of his own developers, studio head Swen Vincke says the Baldur’s Gate 3 maker has ...
Futurism

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

An indie game developer experienced a moment of profound moral clarity, and is now deleting his partially-AI-made game from the digital storefront Steam. The game, dubbed “Hardest,” is a free-to-play ...