Ragebound is a banger. Had a great time with it. Even wrote up a Design Dive episode about how it does a great job in letting you customise the difficulty to your own needs. And yes the chuds got angry in the comments. youtu.be/EgJmvtCyplo?...

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound's Self-Serve Difficulty is Great | Design Dive

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The Game Kitchen@thegamekitchen.com · 5d ago

It's been one year since this moment... Today, we celebrate the first anniversary of NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound! 🥷🎉

It's been a long week, and a hot minute since we covered the headlines. This week we talk about: - China's latest AI maneuvers - Xbox repeatedly stepping on rakes - You can talk to Peely in Fornite now - EA achieved their elusive 'AI adoption targets' & more www.aiandgames.com/p/uk-and-chi...

UK and China's Shifting AI Mandates | 29/07/26

Plus SK Hynix suffer(?) their own success, Xbox is on fire, and you can chat with Peely now!

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Looks like Grace Ashcroft as a muppet.

Chris Scullion@scully1888.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just got my Resi Requiem amiibo. Nvidia DLSS 5 really does make a difference

When I'm invited to try some new Speech-To-Text game demo, I always do at least one playthrough in my real Scottish accent and with Glaswegian cadence and dialect to see just how far it'll get. I think I'd be chilling with this lad for a while...

Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · last wk.

I‘m so glad that after having attended @tommy.aiandgames.com’s masterclass at our @saftladen.bsky.social I come across more and more reasonable voices in the genAI sphere.

Luke Dicken@luked.bsky.social · last wk.

"Studios that realize the real goal shouldn't be to squeeze the human workforce but instead to harness technology to amplify that workforce's creative reach... those are going to be the ones that define the next decade of play." Read the whole article @ 80.lv - 80.lv/articles/gam...

"Studios that realize the real goal shouldn't be to squeeze the human workforce but instead to harness technology to amplify that workforce's creative reach... those are going to be the ones that define the next decade of play." Read the whole article @ 80.lv - 80.lv/articles/gam...

Game AI Expert on Where AI Actually Belongs in Game Development

Luke Dicken has been researching AI technology for gaming for decades, and he joined us to share his perspective on the history of AI in games, modern generative AI, game development, production pipel...

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Can I interest you in some cool objects? 🏁 One More Win, a Ridge Racer Type 4 fanzine 🔈 Capricorn Sun, an album of electronic music inspired by cult synth movie soundtracks 📖 Perfect Organism, my book about horror masterpiece Alien: Isolation Available now! 🔗 www.ultrabrilliant.xyz

I got to guest on Tommy's new podcast! It was really great to chat about the book in such detail, he asked really interesting questions and we got into a lot of the good stuff behind why I wrote it and why I care about it. And also how we're both stupid. Order Next Level here: linktr.ee/next_level

AI and Games@aiandgames.com · 2w ago

The second episode of the podcast is out now! Our first guest on the podcast is @mtrc.bsky.social, procedural generation researcher and author of the new book 'Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves'. YouTube: youtu.be/KJNoLluJCss #GameAI #PCG #GameAIPodcast #Podcast #GameDev

I'm thrilled to say our very first guest on the AI and Games Podcast is none other than the wonderful @mtrc.bsky.social. With his new book Next Level hitting bookshelves I wanted to chat with him about the process of making a book about generative design in an age where the term is rather loaded.

AI and Games@aiandgames.com · 2w ago

The second episode of the podcast is out now! Our first guest on the podcast is @mtrc.bsky.social, procedural generation researcher and author of the new book 'Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves'. YouTube: youtu.be/KJNoLluJCss #GameAI #PCG #GameAIPodcast #Podcast #GameDev

last call for this! would love to speak to as many folks as possible!

Luke Plunkett@lukeplunkett.com · last mo.

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

yes! as someone who’s been working in procedural text before LLMs were a thing, I really wish people had a sense of the varieties of procgen writing that *aren’t* genAI output. there’s a ton of stuff we can do (including pre-LLM, ML style AI) that’s nothing like chatbot output directly in a game.

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thank you! Very illuminating. We’re so fixated on genAI right now, it’s useful to be reminded of the varieties of synthetic and procedural text flowing through different kinds of experiences.

Months of work, a lifetime of learning, but the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Courses program launches right now. Eight €40 courses launching 10 days apart, I aim to make the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars. courses.ramiismail.com

As well as my ramblings below, I wrote up some thoughts on the general state of games discourse at Develop and AI's intersection with it in last week's @aiandgames.com newsletter. www.aiandgames.com/p/post-devel...

Post-Develop:Brighton Musings | 17/07/26

People are tired of waiting for the problems to be fixed, and taking the initiative

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Tommy Thompson@tommy.aiandgames.com · 3w ago

Had a great week at Develop. Lovely to see so many and sadly miss chatting with others. Going to these events is good for the soul as you meet people who value the work we're doing. My favourite was one lad patting me on the shoulder saying "keep it up mate, get after those c*nts". Classic.

Had a great week at Develop. Lovely to see so many and sadly miss chatting with others. Going to these events is good for the soul as you meet people who value the work we're doing. My favourite was one lad patting me on the shoulder saying "keep it up mate, get after those c*nts". Classic.

Aye so does Scotland get a bank holiday now? Asking for a friend.

I'm busy trying to burn alive at Develop, but wanted to point out this is a nothingburger of a headline. Studios that make online games have been using Machine Learning for preference analysis and user prediction for decades. The only change is now they use LLMs. www.eurogamer.net/generative-a...

According to a poll, Generative AI is being used at a whopping 100% Japanese online game developers, as copyright infringement concerns climb

The JOGA Online Game Market Research Report 2026 has revealed a stunning statistic from developers, while also highlighting key concerns from players.

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Epic. Spaceflight. Action. Roguelike. This is Rogue Eclipse, launching NEXT MONTH ON AUGUST 7th! 🕹 Arcade Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Story that unfolds over roguelike campaign Wishlist Here! bit.ly/4bRLumD #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

We launched the first episode of the @aiandgames.com podcast yesterday! I figured for the 1st episode we should set the scene: 40mins on how AI is actually used in the games industry, and why GenAI hasn't taken root as seamlessly as people (naively) predicted. www.aiandgames.com/p/001-a-prim...

#001: A Primer on AI in the 2026 Games Industry

From Game AI to Generative AI, we break it all down for you.

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We launched the first episode of the @aiandgames.com podcast yesterday! I figured for the 1st episode we should set the scene: 40mins on how AI is actually used in the games industry, and why GenAI hasn't taken root as seamlessly as people (naively) predicted. www.aiandgames.com/p/001-a-prim...

#001: A Primer on AI in the 2026 Games Industry

From Game AI to Generative AI, we break it all down for you.

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I couldn't stomach writing anything about Xbox this week. Besides, I doubt the headlines are over just yet. For now let's talk about Godot, and why AI-generated code has become a big issue for them this past year. Resulting in bans on GitHub pull requests suspected of using Generative AI tools.

AI and Games@aiandgames.com · 4w ago

This week's edition has @tommy.aiandgames.com discuss the recent ban by @godotengine.org on AI-tools being used in submissions to the engine's code repository. As coding agents are on the rise, it's important we maintain responsibility for the code that we ship! www.aiandgames.com/p/godot-make...

Getting a lot of eyeballs at the moment, so, if you’ve also announced an indie game recently, reply here and show off your wares with a trailer. If you’re reading this later, go checkout these games and get them wishlisted (you know, just like you’ve already wishlisted Vampirium: 1997)

Generally keeping off socials because I'm too pissed off about the recent round of Xbox layoffs. That said... It's one thing to propose shutting down a studio as they announce a game, but it's some proper bullshit to lay off half the studio as they launch the damn thing.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Latest Xbox layoffs hit id Software as Doom: The Dark Ages' DLC launches, around half of the staff potentially cut www.eurogamer.net/xbox-layoffs...

This developer can put thousands of NPCs following player and avoiding each other in one scene in Defold at around 60 FPS! 💪😎 Check out the great progress on the crowd control and collision native extension for #Defold by @selimanac.bsky.social , shown here with beautiful assets by @kenney.nl

I've spent an inordinate amount of time these past two years trying to find funding so that we can build @conference.aiandgames.com into something people want to attend. Trying to find cost effective means to execute on basic things is a huge time sink. While ensuring sponsorship doesn't poison it

George E. Osborn@georgeosborn.bsky.social · last mo.

This is actually a prime place for government or local authority cash to fill the gap. Cut or cover the cost of the basics of an event - venue hire, AV hire etc - and you can really focus on delivering a great event that people will go to.

Today is the last day to submit full papers for AIIDE 2026! Submit in Easychair by midnight tonight (AOE). Missed the paper deadline but want to show a demo? Submit to the case studies track by next Thursday to showcase and playtest it at the conference! sites.google.com/view/aiide20...

AIIDE 2026

The 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2026) is the next in an annual series of conferences showcasing interdisciplinary research on modeling,...

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Don't you love how Sony have just fucked their audience so badly this generation? The only reason they get away with it is because Xbox have been so bad that they simply do not present any meaningful competition.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.

Sony Ending All Physical PlayStation Game Discs Starting In 2028 https://kotaku.com/sony-ending-discs-for-all-playstation-games-starting-2028-2000711927

If you're sending more than one person from your studio, now's the time to get your tickets. The industry passes are £250 during early bird, rising to £350 after July 31. For group booking, email us at contact@aiandgamesconference.com. www.tickettailor.com/events/gamea...

🎥 NEW VIDEO 🎥 AI and Games #85 is all about Forza Horizon 6! We dig into the changes to the Drivatar AI system in recent entries and I speculate how 'Bowie Knife99' - an AI driver that's been causing chaos in FH6- is a reflection of this new process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpY...

How Forza's New Drivatar System Created 'Bowie Knife 99' | AI and Games #85

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It's been really cool to see how one AI bot in Forza has become something of a meme. So I figured I'd dig into why this is happening. Plus I address how the system changed after my video on Forza's AI in 2021. While we don't know how 100%, it's clear the old system has since been scrapped.

AI and Games@aiandgames.com · last mo.

🎥 NEW VIDEO 🎥 AI and Games #85 is all about Forza Horizon 6! We dig into the changes to the Drivatar AI system in recent entries and I speculate how 'Bowie Knife99' - an AI driver that's been causing chaos in FH6- is a reflection of this new process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpY...

It's been really cool to see how one AI bot in Forza has become something of a meme. So I figured I'd dig into why this is happening. Plus I address how the system changed after my video on Forza's AI in 2021. While we don't know how 100%, it's clear the old system has since been scrapped.

AI and Games@aiandgames.com · last mo.

🎥 NEW VIDEO 🎥 AI and Games #85 is all about Forza Horizon 6! We dig into the changes to the Drivatar AI system in recent entries and I speculate how 'Bowie Knife99' - an AI driver that's been causing chaos in FH6- is a reflection of this new process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpY...