As tech giants pour hundreds of billions into AI data centers, cloud gaming services face strict usage caps and cuts due to scarce GPU resources.

Announcer John Buccigross revealed EA Sports uses AI trained on his voice for NHL 27 commentary, sharing how he actively corrects output errors while getting paid the same.

The instinct in most AI-and-gaming-jobs coverage is to reach for a big scary number, total industry layoffs, and pin it on AI. The actual data doesn't support that framing, and a recent piece from VGT...

Godot maintainers are struggling with AI-generated pull requests that look professional but lack real developer understanding. Here is how the project is responding.

A few weeks ago, Star announced it was removing its free tier. This week, the team announced it was coming back. We sat down with the person who actually made both calls to get the real story behind t...

Worth flagging upfront: this story sits at the intersection of AI game distribution and blockchain infrastructure, similar to the Azuki and Verse8 story we covered a while back, in fact, it's literall...

Free itch.io horror demo Mermade is earning praise for its atmosphere, but players in the comments are split over the developer's use of AI-assisted code.

Ubisoft's Teammates research prototype lets players talk to AI squadmates using Google Gemini, but AI lead Xavier Manzanares warns unchecked AI risks generic game design.

Godot has been the "one to watch" open-source engine for a few years now, but the actual numbers behind its growth just crossed a real threshold. According to Game Makers Toolkit's own game jam data, ...

We covered chief product officer Mike Minton's blunt admission a couple weeks ago, that Twitch's AI training setting is opt-out rather than opt-in because, […]

Vapor World: Over the Mind had every reason to expect a good launch week. The Korean studio behind it, Alive Inc, a team of […]

Search for "best AI game development platform 2026" and you'll find dozens of ranked lists. Nearly every one of them is published by one […]

We wrote about the AI-driven memory chip shortage a while back, RAM prices up five to six times in a year, consoles and PCs […]

Somewhere over the past decade, GTA 6 stopped being a video game people were looking forward to and became something closer to a canvas […]

Nine days before Rockstar's official Netflix reveal, GTA 6 footage genuinely leaked online. That part is real, confirmed real, in fact, by Rockstar's own […]

We covered the original blowup a few days ago: Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch turned a straightforward AI disclosure dispute into a full-blown scandal […]

The AI Animation Tools Actually Worth an Indie Dev's Time in 2026 Animation is one of the biggest budget killers for a solo or […]

Amazon-owned Twitch announced a new setting this month letting streamers opt out of having their channel content used to train generative AI models across […]

PS1-era aesthetics have been creeping back into indie gaming for a few years now, warped textures, chunky low-poly models, that distinctive vertex wobble the […]

Quick date note upfront: the survey data here spans February to March 2026, and one of the sharpest quotes below is from a November […]

Some AI controversies happen because a studio stays quiet. This one happened because the CEO wouldn't stop talking, and the story is worth walking […]

Ahead of this year's Gamescom Dev conference, running August 23 to 25 in Cologne, organizers surveyed 100 of the event's own speakers, studio heads, […]

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma visited Bethesda's Rockville, Maryland offices this week to preview The Elder Scrolls VI. She left with a giant inflatable rat […]

Unity just had, in CEO Matt Bromberg's own words, arguably the best quarter in the company's history as a public company. That's a notable […]

A quick date note upfront since we're pulling together a few threads here: some of this material is a few months old, some closer […]

Fenris Creations, the studio formerly known as CCP Games, has always treated EVE Online's economy as something closer to a real financial system than […]

Sean Murray has been here before, or something close to it. Speaking to Kotaku around No Man's Sky's tenth anniversary, the Hello Games managing […]

Roughly 30 AI-related bills are sitting in California's Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees, having cleared their public comment hearings, with the actual suspense votes […]

Modding has always been the wild west corner of gaming, built on trust, credit, and a community that mostly polices itself. Generative AI is […]

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick used the company's latest investor call to make a pretty direct claim about AI, one that cuts against a […]

This started as a straightforward comparison. Two AI game engines, Star and BitMagic, both running on Claude Opus 5, both given the exact same […]

Most AI-in-gaming coverage focuses on what players actually see, art, dialogue, NPCs. This one's about something players never see at all: the testing infrastructure […]

Worth clearing something up before getting into this one: when people talk about AI in game development right now, they usually mean generative AI, […]

Worth being upfront about what this story actually is before getting into it: this sits at the intersection of AI game creation and NFT […]

While most of the AI-in-gaming conversation focuses on Steam, mobile app stores, or big engines like Unreal and Unity, there's a quieter pipeline forming […]

Quick date note upfront: this happened back in January 2026, not this week, it resurfaced in a news roundup and it's a genuinely interesting […]

A new study from Google Cloud and The Harris Poll puts a number on something most of this beat has been circling for months: […]

There's a particular kind of irony in a startup dying because the technology it was built on got too good, and that's exactly what […]

We touched on this briefly when we audited an IGN piece a while back, the RAM crisis is real, and it's getting worse. A […]

Back in October 2025, Elon Musk posted two words on X, "Grok gaming," alongside a video, and followed up with a bigger claim: xAI's […]