The intersection of AI and gaming, including LLM integration, game assistant patents, and controversies regarding AI-generated content.
Take-Two Interactive—the publisher behind Rockstar Games and 2K, and the parent company that also owns Zynga—has quietly but significantly reduced the team it built to research and deploy artificial intelligence across its business. The most notable cut: Luke Dicken, Take-Two’s Head of Artificial…
A former Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator and editor says he was abruptly let go by Warhorse Studios and told his role would become “obsolete” because the studio plans to use “AI for all translations going forward.” The claim, posted publicly on Reddit by Max Hejtmánek (also identified as…
Owlcat Games has confirmed it’s using generative AI during development of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, but insists none of it will survive into the shipped product. The studio says the tech is being used strictly for prototyping and technical iteration—not for final art assets, writing, or voice…
Capcom has drawn a bright line in the sand on one of gaming’s most combustible issues: the company says it will not implement AI-generated assets into its game content. At the same time, it’s making it crystal clear it still intends to actively use generative AI to “enhance efficiency and boost…
Crimson Desert has stumbled into a fresh post-launch firestorm: players have flagged what appear to be AI-generated art assets in the shipped game, and developer Pearl Abyss has now admitted some AI-made 2D props made it into the final release “unintentionally.” The studio says those assets were…
Pearl Abyss has confirmed that Crimson Desert shipped with some AI-generated 2D visual props that were meant to be temporary placeholders, and the studio is now apologising for both the oversight and a lack of clear disclosure. After players circulated screenshots of suspicious-looking in-game…
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 reveal was always going to be controversial, but now the company has effectively confirmed the core fear driving the backlash: DLSS 5 is re-drawing the final 2D frame using AI, guided by motion vectors, rather than leveraging deeper game-engine data like geometry in the way its…
Nvidia is in full damage-control mode after DLSS 5’s reveal ignited a firestorm over “AI slop” visuals and character faces that looked outright reinterpreted. Now CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back hard, calling critics “completely wrong” and arguing the tech doesn’t change artistic control because…
If you’ve ever scanned a PokéStop or recorded AR footage in Pokémon GO, you may have helped train the navigation “brains” of real-world delivery robots. Niantic Spatial — the geospatial AI offshoot formed after Niantic sold Pokémon GO to Scopely — is now working with Coco Robotics to use…
A Delaware Chancery Court judge has ordered Krafton to reinstate Unknown Worlds Entertainment CEO Ted Gill after ruling the publisher breached its acquisition agreement by firing key studio leaders “without valid cause” and seizing operational control of Subnautica 2. The decision doesn’t just put…
