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Sony says “efficient” AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market

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Anyone following the modern game industry knows that easy-to-use game engines and the accelerating shift to digital distribution have helped enable a massive increase in the quantity of commercial games released each year, both on console storefronts and especially on Steam. Now, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Hideaki Nishino says we should expect the […]

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Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing

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Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership comes as the management behind EVE Online developer CCP Games announced that they have spent $120 million to buy themselves

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Meta’s AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

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The rising costs of RAM and other computing components are pushing up the price of Meta’s Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50–$100 (about 12–20 percent) starting on April 19. In announcing that price increase on Thursday, the company cited the “global surge in the price of critical components—specifically memory chips—[that]

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What leaked “SteamGPT” files could mean for the PC gaming platform’s use of AI

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These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted or not. So when files with names and functions referencing a “SteamGPT” appeared in a recent Steam client update, Valve watchers took quick notice. From the outside, it’s hard

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Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”

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Last week, Nvidia’s public reveal of DLSS 5—and its “generative AI” enhanced glow-ups of gaming scenes—drew widespread condemnation from the gaming community. In a podcast published Monday, though, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tried to differentiate the technology’s optional, artist-guided graphical enhancements from the “AI slop” that Huang says he’s not a fan of. As part

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Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5’s generative AI glow-ups

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Since deep-learning super-sampling (DLSS) launched on 2018’s RTX 2080 cards, gamers have been generally bullish on the technology as a way to effectively use machine-learning upscaling techniques to increase resolutions or juice frame rates in games. With yesterday’s tease of the upcoming DLSS 5, though, Nvidia has crossed a line from mere upscaling into complete

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New “vibe coded” AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community

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Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” just over a year ago, we’ve seen a rapid increase in both the capabilities and popularity of using AI models to throw together quick programming projects with less human time and effort than ever before. One such vibe-coded project, Gaming Alexandria Researcher, launched over the weekend as

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New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”

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Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the company’s CoreAI Product group. Despite that recent history, Sharma says in a new interview that she has “no tolerance for bad AI” in game development.

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No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents

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For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents can also gather together on a vibe-coded, space-based MMO designed specifically and exclusively to be played by AI. SpaceMolt describes itself as “a living universe

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Discord’s Social SDK: Revolutionizing Multiplayer Gaming in 2025

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March 17, 2025 — Today marks a pivotal moment for the gaming industry as Discord unveils its groundbreaking Social SDK, a free toolkit designed to seamlessly integrate its robust social features into video games. Announced at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025, this innovative software development kit promises to redefine how players connect, communicate, and…

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