Researchers from General Intuition, Kyutai, and Epic Games released MIRA, a 5-billion-parameter latent diffusion world model that generates real-time 2v2 Rocket League matches at 20 FPS on a single GP…
General Intuition and Kyutai released MIRA on July 6th, a playable multiplayer world model that simulates a four-player Rocket League-style match in real time using a 5B-parameter diffusion transforme…
Disneyland reopened the Pirates of the Caribbean ride with a new animatronic pirate that transforms from a living buccaneer into a ghostly skeleton using next-generation Hybrid Front Projection techno…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve over Steam's AI disclosure policies, prompting Valve to make AI disclosures more prominent and hide AI-aided games from search results.…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Steam's AI disclosure requirement as a 'Scarlet Letter' harming developers, but data from a December 2025 Game Oracle study shows the label reduces reviews by 52.…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's decision to require AI disclosure labels on Steam games, calling it "really irresponsible" and arguing it harms developers by stigmatizing productivity to…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called Valve's mandatory generative AI disclosure for Steam games 'irresponsible,' arguing it stigmatizes developers and harms their chances of success. In a PC Gamer interv…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's AI disclosure policies on Steam, calling them "really irresponsible" and claiming they make it harder for game developers to succeed. The remarks highligh…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's mandatory AI disclosure tags for the Steam storefront, calling the requirement "irresponsible" and arguing it harms game developers. Valve updated its pol…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney advocates for interconnected game economies and transferable in-game items to help new games succeed, citing upcoming Unreal Engine 6 features. He argues that major develope…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discussed the future of gaming and AI, stating that no single company will achieve an absolute monopoly in the industry. He also addressed the possibility of collaboration w…
Techdirt contributor Timothy Geigner published a June 23, 2026 opinion piece accusing Kotaku of dogmatic AI coverage, citing articles by Zack Zwiezen and Rebekah Valentine that pre-judge AI use in gam…
Kotaku's coverage of AI in gaming has become dogmatic and pre-judges all uses of the technology, according to a Techdirt analysis. The outlet's writers express negativity toward AI tools in game devel…
Epic Games open-sourced Lore, a version control system built for large codebases with binary assets, at its State of Unreal 2026 keynote on June 17, 2026. Lore uses fragment-level deduplication and a …
Epic Games' State of Unreal 2026 keynote announced a controversial shift toward generative AI, deprecation of Blueprint, and promotion of Verse, sparking backlash from developers who see it as a threa…
Epic Games announced a ground-up rebuild of its Epic Games Launcher, promising a 5x faster cold start time and a 6.5x faster system tray restore, addressing long-standing user complaints about sluggis…
Apple has opened Brazil's App Store to competition after a three-year antitrust fight with CADE, allowing alternative marketplaces and third-party payment options. Developers must agree to new terms b…
Epic Games shipped Unreal Engine 5.8 with an experimental MCP server built into the editor, enabling AI agents like Claude Code and Gemini to spawn actors, configure lighting, and run automation tests…
Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 6 will integrate generative AI models like Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini to automate game development tasks, but over half of developers surveyed view gener…
Hours after announcing a collaboration with Fortnite, the developer of Vampire Survivors suggested it may back out over Epic Games' touting of generative AI, citing concerns about the technology's use…