The EU Commission published a draft of the proposed EU KIDS Act (Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy) on September 17, which would ban under-13s from social networks and video …
Saber Interactive chief creative officer Tim Willits said the company has never replaced any employee with AI and does not use generative AI in its production pipelines for code, environments, or text…
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers have ratified their first union contract with parent company Microsoft, adding protections on generative AI use, crediting, remote work, and layoffs. The co…
Arm Ltd. unveiled its AI-native compute platform CSS for Mobile 2 and the Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU at the Arm Everywhere China event in Shanghai, claiming the chip's on-device AI reconstruction techno…
Tencent Games VP Yong-yi Zhu said the company's 'holy grail' is live service, citing Honor of Kings, League of Legends, and Valorant as examples of games that build communities and provide stability, …
Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Shams Jorjani said the games industry is in a transitional phase, noting that strategies from 2010 to 2020 no longer work and that the bottom has fallen out of business case…
Side, formerly PTW, has signed a six-month memorandum of understanding with Danish AI firm Modl.ai to develop an AI-enabled quality assurance system for games. The system, which requires no access to …
Xbox boss Asha Sharma said the company will prioritize "efficiency and affordability alongside performance" for its next-generation console, codenamed Project Helix, amid rising hardware costs and AI …
Nvidia announced at Gamescom 2026 that DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction is now available for all GeForce RTX GPUs, supporting 30 titles at launch, and that its RTX Mega Geometry tech, debuting in Gears of …
Frederik Hammes, managing director of Gamescom Dev, said smaller studios represent the biggest opportunity in the games market, citing the democratization of game development enabled by technology. He…
Roblox has open-sourced three of its AI safety models—the PII Classifier, Roblox Sentinel, and its latest voice safety classifier—via the Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) Model Community, which…
The GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit, returning to the Royal Institution on October 1, will feature a new People and Workplace focus with sessions on AI use, trade unions, and leadership. Keynote speaker S…
Three former Epic Games veterans are building an AI-powered game engine to challenge Unity and Unreal, which together powered roughly 70% of games released on Steam in 2025. The new engine aims to bre…
Wolf Haus Games, founded by Hollywood veterans Joe Dietsch, Louie Gibson, Michael Abbott, and Dooma Wendschuh, is developing Join Us, a large-scale open-world cult simulator, with a team of just 12 pe…
Saber Interactive added an AI disclaimer to Rideshare Simulator's Steam page after former lead writer Stella Sacco alleged she was replaced by ChatGPT; CEO Matt Karch apologized for his earlier commen…
Saber Interactive has denied replacing a writer with ChatGPT on its upcoming driving game Rideshare Stimulator, following allegations from former lead writer Stella Sacco that she was removed from the…
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has opened entries for the 2027 BAFTA Games Awards, updating its rulebook to clarify that awards recognize outstanding human achievement regardl…
Gamescom Dev's annual speaker survey of 100 industry professionals found that 83% expect AI to impact team structure or productivity, with nearly half identifying AI-assisted development as the most s…
S&P Global Market Intelligence reports that AI-focused M&A deals are weakening the games investment landscape, with Q2 2024 seeing 23 transactions totaling $1.15 billion, down 85% from Q1. Analyst Nei…
Fenris Creations has appointed former Icelandic minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir as senior director for AI partnerships to lead a new research initiative for Eve Frontier, collaborating with AI …