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I let my 5-year-old make a game with AI. He picked up coding skills — but needed clear guardrails.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lena Hall, a senior director of developer and AI strategy at Akamai Technologies and cofounder of an AI startup. It's been edited for length and ...

AI is Ruining Game Sales, Numbers Show

A recent research by Game Oracle examines nearly 10,000 Steam releases to discover exactly how AI-assisted titles suffer ...
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Generative AI in Gaming Is Here, but Facing Pushback From Gamers — and Developers

At GDC 2026, Google trumpeted Gemini-powered games, but the industry still hasn't found must-have uses to win over players and developers. David Lumb is a managing editor for the mobile team, covering ...
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This mobile game has been made using AI for a year now – and no one noticed

This article is part of AI Week. For about a year now, all of the content for the mobile game Sunrise Village has been generated by AI. But far from generating a backlash from players, it seems that ...
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Facepunch Studios issues response to AI slop in its new game S&box

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days and it’s spreading its tendrils into gaming. The latest game to be put on notice regarding the use of generative AI is S&box, a new game by Facepunch ...
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What place will AI have in game development?

This article is part of AI Week. The question of what place AI could and should hold in the games industry is one of the hottest and most divisive topics at the moment. And judging by the posts we ...
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Epic boss Tim Sweeney blasts Steam for putting AI tags on games

He argues that AI tools are just tools, and that developers that use them shouldn't be penalized.
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Steam Indie Games Are Quickly Becoming AI's Latest Victim

Over the course of the last few years, Steam has become a much tougher proving ground, and indie developers have worn the bruises for it. It has always been intended to be a democratizing storefront, ...
The Next Web

Roblox gives its AI assistant the ability to plan, build, and test games on its own

In short: Roblox is upgrading its built-in AI assistant with agentic capabilities including a planning mode that analyses game code before proposing action plans, procedural 3D model generation, mesh ...
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Verifiable AI startup Axiom raises $200M to prove AI-generated code is safe to use

Axiom Quant Inc. said today it’s ready to step up to the plate and make sure that the tsunami of artificial intelligence-generated code is safe, secure and accurate after raising $200 million in early ...
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I let my 5-year-old make a game with AI. He picked up coding skills — but needed clear guardrails.

Lena Hall let his 5-year-old use a voice-based coding tool to build a game.Lena Hall This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lena Hall, a senior director of developer and AI strategy at ...