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...

Well it's my birthday this week and I'm actually taking some time off. In the meantime we've kicked off 50% off annual subs to @aiandgames.com meaning you can support us for like less £3/$4 a month. Help us combat the nonsense AI hype and highlight the good work people do in the sector!

In this week's newsletter @tommy.aiandgames.com chats with the indie studio Meaning Machine who are building their own LLM based games. Surprising nobody, the hype doesn't align with reality, and you really need structure and logic to make it work at scale. www.aiandgames.com/p/finding-me...

That said… if you have indie game and you want to talk about the GameAI in it. We would love to interview you. Get in touch with me please! #IndieGame #GameAI

Last week we sent @tommy.aiandgames.com to visit @ubisoft.com's Paris studio to check out their 'Teammates' AI demo. In this issue we give a breakdown of the tech, their plans for the future, ethical issues, interesting accessibility opportunities and more. www.aiandgames.com/p/ubisofts-t...

So I was in Paris this week as Ubisoft invited me to check out their new generative AI tech demo. Chris gives a really good breakdown of the experience, and I'll be talking about it in next weeks @aiandgames.com newsletter as well.

The release of Arc Raiders has raised significant concerns about the ethics of utilising generative AI in a AAA game. It’s important we understand that for whatever gains AI delivers, who is losing out, and what impact does that have on the industry? Read on! www.aiandgames.com/p/arc-raider...

These generous flourishing statements are in vogue especially in Japan, where the governments 'AI Action Plan' published last summer expects businesses to show they're embracing the technology. As I wrote this week, this is why Square Enix is waffling about AI in QA. bsky.app/profile/aian...

What did we learn at last week's @aiandgames.com conference? Find out over on Video Games Industry Memo (and thanks to Testronic for sponsoring our fine work) www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/four-thing...

We're still getting back to our regular rhythm at AI and Games HQ, so for this week's edition @tommy.aiandgames.com catches up with the headlines, and gives a quick recap of the AI and Games Conference - plus some official photos from the event! www.aiandgames.com/p/post-confe...

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With the 2025 @conference.aiandgames.com just around the corner, @tommy.aiandgames.com had something to get off his chest, or at least part of it. Game AI is facing an existential crisis, and we need to start talking about it. www.aiandgames.com/p/game-ais-e...

With our event just days away, it's time to announce a special surprise! We made an @aiandgames.com plushie! Grab yours at the AI and Games Conference next week, or sign up to the waitlist (plushie.aiandgames.com) to be the first to know when we release a batch for sale online in early 2026.

📽️ NEW VIDEO 📽️ Artifacts is back as @tommy.aiandgames.com chats with the #indiedev team behind co-op #survival #horror 'Blood Typers'! From its origins as a @gamemakerstoolkit.com #gamejam entry in 2020 to the perils of squeezing a level generator into an online game. Link: youtu.be/KCBX1pM5fAM

In this week’s newsletter, @tommy.aiandgames.com dives into the persistent myth that generative AI will slash development costs. And, why the faster and cheaper output won’t fix the real issue: there isn’t enough audience to sustain it. www.aiandgames.com/p/a-future-w... #GameDev #IndieDev #GenAI

I've got a whole bunch of notes written up for a presentation I'd like to do sometime about the AI in this game. (Enemy AI, not generative AI, sad that I always have to disclaim this now.) If you'd be interested in that or if you'd have questions about how it works, please let me know! DMs are open.

In this week's edition of @aiandgames.com, I reflected on how conversations really shift depending on where you are in the world. Presenting at events in both Dublin and Helsinki within a week on current challenges with AI in games led to very different conversations afterwards!

Happy birthday to FEAR which turned 20 years old on October 18th. Good lord I remember playing that game in grad school. We've covered the game three times on @aiandgames.com, with my retrospective interview with @jefforkin.bsky.social back in 2024 being my favourite. youtu.be/3Of2NtTYcvU?...

It’s newsletter day! Sponsored by Lingotion, this week @tommy.aiandgames.com reflects on presenting at NEXUS Dublin & @pgconnects.bsky.social Helsinki. Two events with two different takes on (generative) AI in games. Plus some fresh announcements & news. Dive in! www.aiandgames.com/p/two-events...

The demo of our folk horror card strategy game The Killing Stone is live! We gots creepy characters and furry friends and so many animated figurines with sweet VFX. Also the enemy AI is pretty diabolical, that's on me. Please check it out and leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...

New Video is Out!!! In the episode @tommy.aiandgames.com explores David Durst’s Stanford research on using transformer neural networks (the kind behind LLMs) to train bots that play Counter-Strike like pros and outperform traditional game AI. youtu.be/sOgfvb8y9j8 #MLMove #GameAI #GameDev

If you're heading to the AI & Games Conference next month, don't miss Bram's talk! Thanks to @aiandgames.com and the other organisers for having us there 🙏🏻

📽️ NEW VIDEO on @aiandgames.com! What if you used generative AI in games to do something players might actually find interesting? In this video we check out MLMove: a Counter-Strike bot that uses genAI to learn choke points, sightlines, and cover just like real human players. youtu.be/sOgfvb8y9j8

Here’s a sneak peek at why you need to be at the AI and Games Conference 2025 this November in London by @tommy.aiandgames.com. For all the detailed updates check out @conference.aiandgames.com. #AIandGames #Conference2025 #GameAI #GameDev #IndieGames

Today I'll be at te Nexus conference here in Dublin - and who would be better to kick it off than @tommy.aiandgames.com #nexus #nexusconference

In this week’s newsletter @tommy.aiandgames.com rounds up the news we missed last week. And shares a special editorial on the shaky financing behind the EA buyout along with the naïve optimism around generative AI’s ability to recoup those costs. www.aiandgames.com/p/a-generati...

Don't miss our session @conference.aiandgames.com in November. Richard will take you through how Havok uses Cross-Platform determinism to save time, reduce frustration and simplify debugging.

In the newsletters this week @tommy.aiandgames.com is summarising his recent trip to the IEEE Conference, the largest academic conference on games. And also recap all the announcements for @conference.aiandgames.com. www.aiandgames.com/p/takeaways-... #GameAI #gameDev #IEEE

In the last week’s newsletter we covered the investor point of view on the rise of GenAI and its impact on funding. Check out the full interview here. #GameDev #IndieGames #IndieDevelopers #GameInvestment #GenAI www.aiandgames.com/p/investor-p...

This week we launched our subscriber drive for 2025, with 20% off annual memberships on @aiandgames.com. We ask for your help as we work to be a trusted resource on #AI for #gamedev, #indiev and #research. 🧵So let's thread on why we need your help, and what we want to bring to you in future.

I had a great week at Gamescom, but critically I was seeing and hearing more meaningful discussion of where AI sits in the industry beyond hype and outright rejection. Scribbled down some thoughts on this in this week's newsletter.

Design Dive returns to @aiandgames.com for this short but fun analysis of narrative design in Donkey Kong Bananza. Pauline's emotional journey is the real heart of the game's story. With the narrative team relying on a game AI bark systems that react to player progress. youtu.be/DyGYxtJL_GM?...

Our latest Design Dive episode is out! Watch @tommy.aiandgames.com talk about #DonkeyKongBananza using the cutest and simplest trick of the bark system to communicate the relationship between the titular gorilla and his companion, Pauline. #GameDev #NarrativeDesign www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGY...

Newsletter update - Catch up on all that is happening in the games industry and AI. This week's special is a closer look at Devcom and Gamescom which @tommy.aiandgames.com attended last week. www.aiandgames.com/p/reflection... #gamescom #devcom #gamedev #indiegames #AIandGames

Don’t miss out the talk by @tommy.aiandgames.com today at #Devcom. #GameDev #AIandGames

We have new goals this year and we need your support to make them happen. You’ve helped us build something special. And now we set bigger goals to provide you with more content and more voices. As a thank you, we are offering 20% off on all annual plans until Oct 1. 🙏 #AIandGames #GameDev #IndieDev