Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Steam, owned by US video game company Valve, is the largest digital storefront for PC games. It’s also the closest thing to a ...
Reuters

From 'Slapped On' to 'Grown In': Hitem3D 2.0 Bets Integrated Texture Generation Can Make AI 3D Assets Actually Printable

HONG KONG, December 31, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- For years, 3D pipelines have lived with an awkward compromise: geometry defines the shape, and textures are something you slap on afterward. It’s ...
Kotaku

Zoopunk Says The Game Is All Human-Made, But Lets Players Use Gen AI To Make Stuff

Update, 4:15 p.m. EST: In a statement to Kotaku, TiGames says that the full Zoopunk game is all human-made, but players will have generative AI tools to make user-generated content. The full statement ...
Wired

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...
PCGamesN

Activision confirms Black Ops 7 uses gen-AI tools for assets, says they help "empower" its teams to "create the best gaming experiences possible"

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 is the latest high-profile game to confirm that it uses generative AI for some of its in-game assets, according to a disclosure on its Steam page. After similar disclosures ...
Tech.eu

01C launches Amara to generate full 3D worlds from simple prompts

Amara uses conversational AI and native 3D generation to collapse weeks of asset work into instant iteration.