In a San Francisco convention hall that used to be packed with big booths from brands like Sony PlayStation and Epic Games, the 2025 Game Developers Conference had a decidedly different vibe: rows and ...

It sounds like a thought experiment conjured by René Descartes for the 21st century. The citizens of a simulated city inside a video game based on "The Matrix" franchise were being awakened to a grim ...

Top AI programs skipped modern simulation giants to crown a legendary 24-year-old console classic as the ultimate winner.

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be doing everything these days. Making images, making videos, and replacing most of us real human writers if you believe the hype. Maybe it’s all over! And yet, ...

For Magy Seif El-Nasr, playing games is serious business. As a professor of computational media and the director of the Game User Interaction and Intelligence Lab at UC Santa Cruz, she studies how ...

Since the beginning of 2024, Steam has required publishers to report if their games include content created by AI. This rule aims to provide maximum transparency to consumers. A year and a half after ...