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Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
By Justin Wagner published
News Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it?

Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'
By Rick Lane published
"I have this tendency to dial up things to 11 when I really think I need to make a point."

Sony deletes mention of PC from annual strategy report in favour of a gushing about AI
By Joshua Wolens published
News Seems like a downgrade.

Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign
By Jacob Fox published
News Slides out of Unreal Fest promise "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)" as Epic works on making its store suck less.

Palworld studio says 'gamers don't want' AI in their games: 'It feels like everyone who is super gung-ho about it isn't from the industry'
By Justin Wagner published
News It's not the first time Pocketpair's John Buckley has spoken out against the tech.

'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
By Nick Evanson published
News When two become one.

Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
By Nick Evanson published
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.

Windows 11 Search will soon see through your typos and actually find what you're looking for
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Dotting the 'i's, crossing the 't's.
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