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Valve Is "Irresponsible" To Force AI Disclosures on Steam, Epic CEO Says, While Unreal Engine 6 Doubles Down on AI
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Valve Is "Irresponsible" To Force AI Disclosures on Steam, Epic CEO Says, While Unreal Engine 6 Doubles Down on AI

Tim Sweeney's stunning rebuke of Valve's new AI disclosure rules exposes a widening philosophical fault line in the gaming industry, where one of tech's most powerful executives is arguing that transparency about artificial intelligence actually harms developers rather than protects consumers. While Valve has begun requiring creators to disclose AI-generated content on Steam, Epic is racing in the opposite direction, embedding generative tools directly into Unreal Engine 6 and positioning itself as the developer's champion against what Sweeney frames as burdensome regulation. The clash suggests that the coming years will pit the platforms themselves against each other in a high-stakes battle over who gets to define the rules of AI in gaming.

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Edmonton-based Artificial Agency to bring AI to video games with first title next year
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Edmonton-based Artificial Agency to bring AI to video games with first title next year

Company partners with Google-owned Owlchemy to build custom model to determine actions of non-player characters in Dimensional Double Shift ...

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SoonLab Integrates GPT-6 Astra Into SoonLab 2.0, Bringing Advanced AI Reasoning to Playable Game Creation
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SoonLab Integrates GPT-6 Astra Into SoonLab 2.0, Bringing Advanced AI Reasoning to Playable Game Creation

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Aura 1.0 Launches Today, Pushing the Frontier of Agentic AI in Game Development

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Roblox Spring Games Lineup Headlined by AI-Built Dream Racers

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This is what AI is doing to video games

This game has very realistic graphics already, but DLSS 5 lightning takes to the next level of realism. I've never seen anything like it. The game is Assetto Corsa Rally with 1 mod to hide the...

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MMO Business Roundup: Savvy Games’ CEO, Nvidia’s AI filter, and PlayStation 5’s monetization

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AI-native game studio Arcustin Games raises $500K from Webrazzi GSYF

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Russian hackers used Claude AI to attack Ukrainian government agencies and military – Anthropic report

Anthropic says Russian hackers linked to Midnight Blizzard used Claude AI in a cyber-espionage campaign targeting Ukrainian government, military and diplomatic organisations ...

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Ramen launches Aura 1.0 to push agentic AI in game development | interview

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Distribution Depth Is Not Evidence Depth
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Distribution Depth Is Not Evidence Depth

by NPCsignals (NPCS) — How viral AI-performance claims move from Crypto X into amplification, tokenization and creator fees

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Com2uS chairman Song Byung-joon: "Whether feature phones or AI, the question remains the same: What fun will it deliver?"
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Com2uS chairman Song Byung-joon: "Whether feature phones or AI, the question remains the same: What fun will it deliver?"

OpenAI and Com2uS hosted 'OpenAI Game Builders Seoul' last August at 'Graphic by Daeshin' in Seoul. Marking OpenAI's first game development hackathon powered by its AI coding agent 'Codex', the event...

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Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
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Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower

Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week, following a divisive announcement in March where we likened the AI upscaling tech to a "real-time generative AI filter for video games" and "motion...

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BlizzCon 2026: Entertainment Icon Khleo Thomas Discusses Video Game Nostalgia, AI, and more.

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Electronic Arts admits to using AI voices in NHL 27: 'This process allows us to bring more variety to the game'

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EA Used AI To Clone John Buccigross’ Voice In NHL 27
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EA Used AI To Clone John Buccigross’ Voice In NHL 27

Electronic Arts utilizes generative AI systems in its suite of development tools, and now another example has come to light. John Buccigross, the ESPN personality who joined the in-game broadcast ...

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The Brass Pots and the Butter-Maker: Inside Microsoft’s $175 Billion AI Quarantine

How Satya Nadella tore down three decades of corporate history to isolate the economics of Artificial Intelligence — and why your Xbox is… Continue reading on Medium »

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Learn to make video games plus AI and money skills

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Nvidia’s “slop tracing” feature that uses AI to yassify video games leaked, and the results are even more horrifying than anyone thought possible
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Nvidia’s “slop tracing” feature that uses AI to yassify video games leaked, and the results are even more horrifying than anyone thought possible

Embarrassing. The post Nvidia’s “Slop Tracing” Feature That Uses AI to Yassify Video Games Leaked, and the Results Are Even More Horrifying Than Anyone Thought Possible appeared first on Futurism.

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Where AI meets video games — generative game design, AI-driven NPCs, procedural worlds, AI in game studios and esports, and how developers, artists and players grapple with machine-made play.

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