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AI in gaming
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The columnist says Claude can turn a game's compiled code back into editable source code overnight, and that the author, a non-coder, got a rough playable browser game in four minutes.
Fans criticized Shift Up's AI-generated Stellar Blade: Blood Rain music video, with top YouTube comments mocking it as "AI slop" and the article citing poor lip-syncing and an uncanny look.
A Reddit analysis of Steam disclosures found 49.9% of new games disclosed AI use in October, up from 1.4% in January 2024, while Valve sets no limit and games with AI disclosures drew fewer positive reviews on average.
A former lead writer says her studio replaced her with ChatGPT midway through a game's development; the CEO denies replacing any writers with AI, but apologized for how he spoke about her.</br>
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A Reddit user known as Ploz analysed Steam's public AI disclosures and found that 49.9% of new games released in October disclosed AI use for player-facing content. The share was 1.4% when Valve introduced its disclosure policy in January 2024, 13.4% by the end of 2024 and 24% by the end of 2025.
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Shift Up, the developer of Stellar Blade, released a music video on its official YouTube channel for the song "Wanna be in Love," featuring Evie, the protagonist of the upcoming Stellar Blade: Blood…
A wave of strange game mashup clips, such as Skyrim inside Minecraft or Mario in Halo, has appeared across social media. The columnist traces them largely to Anthropic's Claude, which in recent weeks has become very good…
On Sept. 26, 2026, Meta introduced AI tools that let creators turn prompts into playable games inside Facebook and Instagram feeds.
Series Entertainment has launched RUN, a beta platform that lets users create games with AI prompts or code and publish them to mobile and web. Support for TVs and Steam is coming soon.
Saber CEO Matthew Karch has apologized to Stella Sacco, a former lead writer on the recently announced Rideshare Stimulator.
A games lawyer, Haley MacClean, says publishing contracts increasingly include clauses that forbid developers from using generative AI.
On 2026-08-10 The Guardian reported on Sunset Visitor's upcoming title Prove You're Human, a psychological horror game in which players as a digital clone of a character named Santana must reason with…
On July 24, 2026, Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto 6, intensified efforts to remove fake videos about the game that were generated by artificial intelligence and posted to online…
On July 28, 2026, Scientific Reports published a framework for adaptive level modification that continuously infers player skill and restructures game content in real time.
By 1 April 2026, the Guardian reported that gaming hardware had become markedly more expensive, with the PlayStation 5 rising from a3449 at launch to a3569.99 in the UK after a fresh a390 increase.
What happened: the co-creator and lead writer of Zombies, Run! bought back the studio behind the game, transferring funds via phone to a Singapore company, motivated by a belief that human…
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