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Snap Inc. Generative AI Lead Grigorii Sotnikov on Why Game Developers Are Ignoring Their Most Powerful Creative Tool

The engineer behind AI lenses reaching 400 million Snapchat users explains how diffusion models, on-device inference, and GenAI-driven NPCs can transform indie game development.
GameSpot

The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Use An Upgraded Version Of Starfield And Skyrim's Game Engine

The Elder Scrolls 6 will be the first Bethesda game to use Creation Engine 3. Bethesda's Todd Howard has reaffirmed that The ...

Indie Game Engine Manager Says Getting Bombarded With AI Slop Is ‘Increasingly Draining And Demoralizing’

As spotted by Game Developer, Verschelde’s comment on Bluesky was made in response to a post by Adriaan de Jongh, the developer and publisher of the 2017 indie puzzle hit Hidden Folks, which stated ...

The first two Baldur's Gate games just got an update after five years, and it should make adding new languages a lot easier

The Infinity Engine 2.7 upgrade to Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 also hopes to make cross-platform play a breeze in these classic ...

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Unity is preparing to roll out a new AI tool that can generate playable casual games from simple text prompts. The post Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts appeared ...
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Take-Two President Karl Slatoff Explains Genie 3 Cannot Make GTA Because It’s Not A Game Engine

Take-Two president Karl Slatoff explained to their investors that Genie 3 cannot make video games like GTA because it's not a game engine.
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Is Genie 3 a Game Engine Killer? Why Unity’s 24% Plunge Could Be a Massive Opportunity

Unity (U) stock plunged 24% to $29.10 after Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 3 AI that generates interactive worlds from text. Unity CEO calls world model AI a powerful accelerator. Unity powers 70% of ...
PCMag

Play These 24 Indie Video Games From Developers of Color Now

Indie games bring innovation and artistry to the video game industry, and people of color bring diversity and perspective to indie games. These PoC-developed indie titles should be on your radar.
Polygon

The Dead Cells creators are making a new Castlevania game, because sometimes the world is just

Konami announced a new Castlevania game during the February 2026 State of Play, and it's a 2D side-scroller made in partnership Evil Empire and Motion Twin, the makers of Dead Cells. It's called ...

A recent rise in "AI slop" code submissions is "draining and demoralizing" the team behind open-source game engine Godot

Godot dev Rémi Verschelde says the team in charge of maintaining the open-source engine is overwhelmed by AI-generated code submissions.
Kotaku

A Bunch Of Big Video Game Company Stocks Just Tanked For A Very Dumb Reason

Yesterday, Google revealed its Project Genie AI-generation tool, allowing people to make “interactive environments” in seconds using just prompts. Today, in response to this, a bunch of investors seem ...
PC Gamer

Skyrim's lead designer thinks Bethesda should stick to its in-house engine: 'The benefits that you get from switching to Unreal Engine are probably not going to materialise ...

RPG 'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment' RPG Todd ...