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Generative models entering studio pipelines, and the player reaction when the output is visible in trailers and shipped games.
Epic Games told developers on its delayed Disney shooter to build with AI first, Bloomberg reported, a game tied to Disney's $1.5 billion stake in Epic. Epic has not set a new release date.
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Epic Games is reassigning developers to retool around AI, with Tim Sweeney saying on X the aim is more output from the same staff. At the 3x efficiency he forecasts within a year, today's output would need a third of the staff, so Epic's headcount then is the test.
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Capcom plans to rebuild RE Engine through a project called REX so AI can cut development time, programmer Satoshi Ishida told a company conference. For studios writing their own AI rules, the useful part is Capcom's split between AI in the tools and AI in the shipped game.
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Akihiro Hino says the experimental AI in Level-5's presentation was there to make the event look more impressive, and that the games are made by people. Buyers still judge the build from the only asset they can see.
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Jack Buser has to sell Genie, Veo and Gemini to studios whose own players have already caught three games shipping AI art, and his framing of games as live platforms quietly moves the sell off the surface anyone can inspect.
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