My son used AI to build a video game. He loves that AI never gets frustrated with him — but I have just one concern.

An 11-year-old used AI to build his own video game. His mother supports AI learning for kids at home and school.
GamesIndustry

Unity launches suite of AI tools to help creators accelerate game development

Unity has launched a suite of AI tools in open beta for all developers on Unity 6 or above. The new toolset is designed to accelerate game development and help creators build better games faster. The ...
Hackaday

Teaching An AI To Play A Racing Game Via Screen Input

If you’re a fleshy human, you probably learn to play video games by looking at the screen and pressing the buttons, and maybe copying the way you’ve seen others play the game before. [tryfonaskam] has ...

Total War Warhammer 3's new attempt at fixing its campaign AI woes promises a "more dynamic and interesting" late game

Total War Warhammer 3 update 8.1 is here, with Creative Assembly tackling "armies clustering and idling" among its ...
Business Insider

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 ...
GamesIndustry

As AI costs rise, there’s little evidence of major utility in game development | Opinion

It’s been almost impossible to avoid the conversation about Generative AI in the games industry over the past couple of years. No matter which side you fall on personally – from starry-eyed ...
Fast Company

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

In 1988, a London pre-teen with a penchant for programming and gaming wrote a version of the classic board game Othello—also known as Reversi—for his Amiga 500 home computer. Teaching a piece of ...