The BBC has spoken to PlayStation co-CEO Hermen Hulst about AI's future in the video game industry in an exclusive interview. When asked on how much an impact AI will have on the industry, Hulst stated that a balance must be struck between human-made games and AI-generated products.
]]>Every once in a while, a neat-looking little movie comes along and gets tons of flak for very stupid reasons. Now, it's A24's turn to face AI-related criticisms only because Isaiah Saxon's The Legend of Ochi looks adorably clean.
]]>EA CEO Andrew Wilson spoke on-stage at this year's investment summit, and stated that Generative AI is at the "very core of our business". This bold stance coincidentally comes nearly three years since he spoke about the importance of NFTs to the future of the video game industry. Truly, a pioneer of brave and exciting technologies.
]]>Usually, when you go to see one of the big hardware powerhouses, the presentations are primarily focused around… well, you know - hardware. That’s been shifting over the years, however, as specialized software becomes an increasingly vital part of the computer hardware battleground.
]]>Foamstars - the upcoming team shooter from Square Enix - was made with the assistance of AI. In particular, generative AI image generator Midjourney was used to create a selection of in-game icons for in-game album covers.
]]>A deal was announced to the world between American actors union SAG-AFTRA and AI voice actor company Replica Studios late last night at CES. This deal would allow willing voice actors to sign AI voice agreements for future video game projects. This announcement has gone down poorly among those firmly against AI voice over work of any kind.
]]>2024 is feeling like 2022 (or 2023) all over again as Futureverse is teaming up with novelist Ernest Cline and Warner Bros. Discovery to potentially burn billions of dollars by attempting to create a Ready Player One-inspired, AI-powered metaverse that will probably only achieve a fraction of the power Fortnite already has.
]]>In a New Year's letter released to the public, president of Square Enix Takashi Kiryu has pledged that the company will be "aggressive in applying AI and other cutting-edge technologies to both our content development and our publishing functions".
]]>The CEO of Genvid Holdings, Jacob Navrok, has released a statement following speculation that Silent Hill: Ascension - the much-criticised live service gaming collaboration between Genvid and Konami - was made with help from AI software. Navrok rejects these claims wholesale.
]]>Are you s**t at video games? Maybe AI could be your key to finally getting good, either that or it could put you out of a job. As a fighting game player, that last fear is something you're likely used to - so you may be happy to hear about one concept AI program that could analyse your Street Fighter matches.
]]>Ubisoft caused quite a stir this week when it announced a new AI scriptwriting tool it said would assist game writers with creating dialogue for NPCs.
]]>"It's at full speed everywhere" stated Danny Lange, senior vice president of AI and machine learning at Unity. He did so at the front of a packed room of games developers during a roundtable on "The Future of AI" at GDC earlier today.
]]>Ubisoft and Riot are collaborating on an anti-toxicity research project, which will focus on collecting in-game chat logs as training data for AI algorithms. Both companies are set to release their findings from this data next Summer, at which point future steps will be decided.
]]>NBA 2K23 is nearly with us, releasing September 9 this year. In the build up to launch, we’ve learnt a lot about the gameplay changes coming to the hugely popular basketball game. This includes improvements to shooting, dribbling, and blocking with new gesture combos, AI improvements, accessibility features and more.
]]>A new Take-Two patent has been discovered that appears based on improving the intelligence and navigation capabilities of AI.
]]>It might be rudimentary, but AI can recreate a game just from watching a game now. Skynet can't be far off, right?
]]>It appears that a Russian laboratory specializing in AI is working on making Geralt of Rivia... alive.
]]>The crowd NPCs in Final Fantasy 15 are dumb. They sit and talk, they share food together, and they find any perch in the environment to rest, but they are brainless. Literally.
]]>Google has brought us one step closer to our inevitable slaughter or enslavement by machine overlords.
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]]>Well, someone's finally done it. Phys reports researchers at the University of Texas have created AI capable of passing a Turing test - fooling a human into believing they are interacting with another human. The computer scientists built a couple of Unreal Tournament 3 bots so lifelike that judges tagged both as human players 52% of the time - while actual human players usually manage about 42%. You know what that means, right? The singularity is coming. May our new machine overlords enjoy our feeble monkey efforts at fragging.
]]>Developer Creative Assembly has received plenty of kudos for its Total War series. It's also received its fair share of flak in recent games for bugs and the quality - or lack thereof - of the game's AI.
No longer, apparently.
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