A new open-source project called 'LAST FRAME' transforms real-time AI video generation into a playable branching game, where every choice triggers a live-rendered video clip and an AI Adjudicator analyzes each final frame to determine health changes, item pickups, and survival outcomes.
Meta launches Pocket nationwide, an AI-powered app that lets U.S. users generate and share interactive mobile games using simple prompts, built on the technology of acquired vibe-coding platform Gizmo.
A new open-source SDK called RS-SDK is now available on GitHub, enabling AI agents like Claude and Gemini to autonomously build and run bots inside a modified Runescape-style MMO environment, complete with a live demo server and leaderboard tracking bot performance.
Open-source AI companion platform Project AIRI surges to 43,800 GitHub stars, empowering users to run their own self-hosted virtual AI character with real-time voice chat and game-playing capabilities across Minecraft and Factorio, supported by 190 contributors and compatible with major platforms including Windows, macOS, and mobile devices.
Roblox launches 'Build,' a mobile-first AI tab that lets anyone create fully functional games from simple text prompts, with a public alpha rolling out July 28 in New Zealand.
Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs — about 2.1% of its global workforce — hitting gaming and commercial divisions hardest, as the tech giant reshapes operations amid an AI-driven transformation that is fundamentally changing how work gets done.
General Intuition secures $320M at a $2.3B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, to train a groundbreaking AI model on millions of hours of gamer footage — powering video games, simulations, and real-world robots, while giving gamers a way to earn income through its new Nerve platform.
AI startup General Intuition is raising $300M at a $2B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, leveraging 2 billion gaming videos annually to train embodied AI agents with unique spatial-temporal reasoning capabilities.
Roblox launches Cube, an open-source AI model family that generates 3D game assets, objects, and scenes directly from text prompts, with model weights publicly available on Hugging Face and trained on 2.8 million synthetic 3D assets.
Google DeepMind takes a minority stake in EVE Online developer CCP Games, now rebranded as Fenris Creations, using the iconic space MMO as a testing ground for advanced AI models focused on long-horizon planning and memory, as the newly independent studio completes a $120 million buyout and reports profitability in …