Here you a go, a nice meaty newsletter catching up on the news. Including: - Capcom setting the record straight on their AI philosophy. - HoYoverse's $14.6 billion AI investment. Plus reviews of indie games Outhold, Rainbow Legends, and Lunar Abyss! www.aiandgames.com/p/capcom-lay...

Just cause I'm on vacation doesn't mean @aiandgames.com is taking a break! We revisit the Generative Design in #Minecraft Competition - an event where contestants design PCG systems for Minecraft villages - to see how things have changed since we last look ed at the project in 2019.

No @aiandgames.com newsletter this week as I'm on vacation. However our Artifacts piece on the 2026 Generative Design in Minecraft Competition (@gendesignmc.bsky.social) - where people write PCG systems that design Minecraft villages- is now live. www.aiandgames.com/p/generative...

With the 9th edition of the event live now, @tommy.aiandgames.com catches up with the @gendesignmc.bsky.social - an annual event to design PCG systems for creating settlements in Minecraft! Expect fun musings, chill vistas, and some cool looking Minecraft villages. youtu.be/QbxO2ZyynSg

After Microsoft said they're rethinking their AI efforts, Sony's doubled-down and explained what their plans are for 'empowering' game development. Does it actually make sense? Is it a bunch of old guff? We take a look... www.aiandgames.com/p/does-plays...

For this week's newsletter, @tommy.aiandgames.com reviews 'Next Level' - the new book on procedural content generation by @mtrc.bsky.social - and how it provides a great introduction for newcomers to a subject matter with no clear throughline. www.aiandgames.com/p/next-level...

For this week's edition of AI and Games, @tommy.aiandgames.com reports on the news, including Intel's CPU warnings, Blender getting in bed with Anthropic, and why the big Xbox reset is all smoke and no fire. www.aiandgames.com/p/ai-being-r...

Happy #AlienDay everyone! Rather than cover Alien: Isolation *again*, we figured why not make a video about a different Alien game for a change? @tommy.aiandgames.com explores how xenomorphs are built to pathfind along walls and ceilings in the VR title Alien - Rogue Incursion youtu.be/IQxpRqFxBj0

Happy #AlienDay to all who celebrate! As always, the numbers on my Alien: Isolation videos seem to be getting a little bump! So if you haven't watched it already, what better time to check out the feature-length retrospective from last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeIk...

For this week's newsletter @tommy.aiandgames.com tackles a reader-voted topic: a deep-dive but accessible overview as to WHY and HOW AI is causing everything from PC RAM to GPUs, games consoles, VR headsets and more to increase in price. www.aiandgames.com/p/the-ai-dri...

Finally got around to watch the latest video from AI and Games. Very good stuff! Can’t wait for the next parts (I know the articles are already out there)

For this week's edition, @tommy.aiandgames.com talks about the importance of meaningful governance and policy on AI for games studios - and how we work to make that happen! Plus, the first talks from 2025 @conference.aiandgames.com are live on YouTube! www.aiandgames.com/p/the-need-f...

This week's edition of our newsletter is largely a behind-the-scenes update for premium subscribers. But before that, @tommy.aiandgames.com has a right good rant about the last week's story about Take-Two that none of the games press reported on accurately. www.aiandgames.com/p/the-take-t...

For this week's newsletter, @tommy.aiandgames.com (finally) shares his thoughts on the whole DLSS5 snafu. The unspoken agreement in using AI rendering has been broken, and this will prove to be a much bigger issue in the long run for GPU and console manufacturers. www.aiandgames.com/p/that-dlss5...

📽️ New on YouTube: 📽️ Having spent over a decade sharing good practice on Game AI, @tommy.aiandgames.com fears for its survival. But in order to combat the issue, it needs to be brought into the light. Let's talk about Game AI's Existential Crisis. youtu.be/mixkOgBs32s

Oh wow, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code and it’s been cloned and made public github.com/instructkr/c...

Heartbreaking: The Worst Group of People You Know Just Made a Great Point

This week's @aiandgames.com newsletter is the final chapter of my essay on Game AI's Existential Crisis. I talk about the need to preserve our community as toxic audiences, hiring practices, GDC, global politics, and more threatens this niche of game development. www.aiandgames.com/p/game-ais-e...

This week's newsletter already feels out of date. 😅 @tommy.aiandgames.com summarises the sentiment surrounding AI at GDC this year from the outside looking in. It's increasingly clear GDC is not the place for serious AI discourse. As hype avoids reality. www.aiandgames.com/p/generative...

It's good that we have people like Tommy and @aiandgames.com who are willing to take the conversation beyond purely grandstanding while also being massively empathetic towards the very real concerns of devs

With GDC 2026 proving once again the significant disparity between the hype and reality of generative AI, it's time we regained control of the narrative. A big thank you to the folks at @gibiz.bsky.social for inviting me to write this op/ed for their AI week.

Is AI supporting and elevating your designer vision? @tommy.aiandgames.com from @aiandgames.com shared the positives and negatives of AI and games Full story gamerepublic.net/features/ai-... #ai #gamedev

Last week the House of Lords published their 4th report on “AI, Copyright and the Creative Industries”. @tommy.aiandgames.com spent the weekend reading through the full 80+ page report to get their take, and what it means for the games industry. www.aiandgames.com/p/uk-governm...

Last week we let @tommy.aiandgames.com go outside and attend the @gamescomdev.bsky.social leadership summit as a keynote speaker. He gives a summary of his time there, plus we catch up on all how @videogamercom.bsky.social is now a slop review factory. www.aiandgames.com/p/ai-slop-in...

COTA is a CS-inspired demo built in Unreal Engine. Dual-layer AI, macro strategy, real-time decisions in under 100ms. No human player data. @tommy.aiandgames.com breaks it all down. We went hands-on. Honest take incoming. 🎮 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXl... #GameAI #LLMS #GameBot #COTA #FPS #Bots

For this week's newsletter, we chat with the team behind Supercell's AI Innovation Lab. With the deadline to apply closing this week, this 9-week programme will support gamedevs building new AI-driven games at their studios in Helsinki, San Francisco and Tokyo. www.aiandgames.com/p/supercells...

I give it 6 months before games start having splash screens like this

We made a game! I think it's a pretty good game! You can buy it now, for less than a Hamilton! Or wishlist it for later! Both of those things help! And after you've played it, would you be a dear and leave a review? store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

Well we do have plans for the 2026 retrospective but hey, we're open to doing more (y'know Tommy's the boss so...) What do you say @ioi.dk? Fancy chatting about 10 years of Hitman AI?

Also fun fact, I found out a couple weeks back that @aiandgames.com is referenced in the Wikipedia article on AI slop (parenthesis positive). I don't think anything else I've done has ever made it into Wikipedia - no I've never written a page about myself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop...

In this weeks edition: @tommy.aiandgames.com writes about: - Roblox’s new AI blatantly ripping off Expedition 33 - Chinese studios are heavily investing in AI start-ups - Chappell Roan's Fortnite collab rallies against AI slop? All that plus our BTS update! www.aiandgames.com/p/chappell-r...

📽️ NEW VIDEO! 📽️ AI and Games is back for 2026 with a deep-dive into Snowca: an AI-powered profiling plugin for @ubisoft.com's Snowdrop engine that predicts GPU performance for consoles without having to run the game on a devkit. It's a crazy idea but it really works! Link: youtu.be/3WvHdKY1ZB0

We are also running a follow-up event on 12 March, entirely online, with a more specialist approach to institutional archives - registration and CFP for lighting talks available here: www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

📽️ NEW VIDEO! 📽️ AI and Games is back for 2026 with a deep-dive into Snowca: an AI-powered profiling plugin for @ubisoft.com's Snowdrop engine that predicts GPU performance for consoles without having to run the game on a devkit. It's a crazy idea but it really works! Link: youtu.be/3WvHdKY1ZB0

This week on @aiandgames.com we let @tommy.aiandgames.com rant about the news. Including Nintendo holding off on price increases, Bitmagic’s AI-driven game engine (and Civilisation clone), Sony's AI podcasts, and the ridiculously overblown response to Genie 3. www.aiandgames.com/p/genie-3-sp...

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Today @studioatelico.bsky.social announced 'Bobium Brawlers': an iOS card battler where you design deck of monsters using genAI. @tommy.aiandgames.com chats with CEO Piero Molino about their mission to prove you can deploy Generative AI ethically in a video game. www.aiandgames.com/p/bobium-bra...

Kicking off my 2026 video output with something chill. I wanted to talk about how remarkably accessible Ragebound is given Ninja Gaiden is a notoriously challenging and difficult series to play. It's doing some small but simple things that help you define your own difficulty curve. It's neat!

On the train(s) to Manchester for @gamerepublic.bsky.social's '2026 Trends and Opportunities' event in Manchester. I'm hosting an AMA on the @aiandgames.com YouTube community tab while I'm traveling. Send in a question! youtube.com/post/Ugkx9cv...

Design Dive returns as @tommy.aiandgames.com chats about Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound - one of his favourite games from 2025 - and how it provides a range of difficulty and accessibility options to help people face off against wave after wave of brutal enemies. Watch: youtu.be/EgJmvtCyplo

As voted for by our readers, we get @tommy.aiandgames.com to dig into surveys being released on AI adoption in the games industry, and how narratives are often constructed from data that doesn't support them. www.aiandgames.com/p/separating...

We're kicking 2026 into high gear with a newsletter issue on predictions for AI in the games industry this year. It covers the big issues we expect to see in the next 12 months. Including a prediction of 7000 AI-tagged games on Steam - which is not great. www.aiandgames.com/p/10-predict...

The AI and Games Newsletter is back for 2026. We kick things off with a quick round-up of the news in recent weeks. Including... - Larian’s Generative AI PR fumble - Nvidia Announces DLSS 4.5 - The Return of the RTX 3060 - Sony’s AI assistant patent www.aiandgames.com/p/holiday-he...

If you're sitting up waiting on Santa, what better time to catch up with part I of our GOTY lists. @tommy.aiandgames.com and @shraddhagupta.bsky.social run through #10-#6 of their favourites, with the final five next week! www.aiandgames.com/p/ai-and-gam...

Our final big meaty issue of the year is out! Game AI's Existential Crisis (Part II) is now live. In this chapter @tommy.aiandgames.com explores how Game AI education is a fractured knowledge space propped up by a handful of individuals. www.aiandgames.com/p/game-ais-e...

It's the @aiandgames.com end of year livestream this Friday at 4pm GMT. @tommy.aiandgames.com and @shraddhagupta.bsky.social will discuss our work in 2024, plus our conference, Goal State and more. All this plus an audience QnA as well. We'll see you there! www.youtube.com/live/MiLKzb7...

Perfectly timed after our recent episode on it, Amnesia: The Bunker is the price of a cup of coffee. Check it out. Really interesting horror game. store.steampowered.com/app/1944430/...

In this week’s issue, @tommy.aiandgames.com chats with Andreas Rodman, the CEO of Lingotion. We dig into their challenges and how they hope to offer up their AI voice model product as a legally and ethically viable solution. www.aiandgames.com/p/finding-th...

AI and Games #82 is now live! @tommy.aiandgames.com chats with the team at @frictionalgames.bsky.social about the design of the monstrous antagonist AI in 2023 horror title 'Amnesia: The Bunker'. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqVK... Read: www.aiandgames.com/p/how-the-be...