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Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms. Now, though, AI coding tools are making that cloning process so efficient that many developers are getting extremely cautious about sharing their early work…

There’s currently some tension between the video game industry and the proliferation of AI tools.

Epic Games is rushing headfirst into generative AI-based game development for an upcoming Disney shooter that uses characters from Marvel and Star Wars. Developers on the project were reportedly told to implement AI in their workflows, including for producing the game’s art.

While Gears of War: E-Day is a beautiful game, it’s incredibly demanding, whether you’re playing it on the Xbox Series Xor on PC. But, The Coalition was able to work some magic on the Xbox Series S by tapping into the SSD to increase performance.

Back in July, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a total of 3,200 job cuts across Microsoft’s gaming arm, with roughly half of those cuts being made alongside that announcement. The impact was vast. Various developers at Xbox studios, including Activision, Bethesda, Id Software, Blizzard, Mojang, and King suffered layoffs. Double Fine and Compulsion were…

Developers of October 6’s Gears of War: E-Dayhave told Eurogamer they fear for their jobs as soon as the game is released. Microsoft-owned studio The Coalition has so far emerged pretty unscathed from this year’s brutal rounds of Microsoft gaming layoffs, but following the loss of the game’s story director, Juan Vaca, two weeks ago, and the…

Sony Interactive Entertainment is reportedly surveying developers to find out their thoughts on the decision to end disc support for its PlayStation console.

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According to leaker MLID, Sony has surveyed game developers on its disc-killing plan, suggesting they may consider a shocking reversal.

Auckland will host the New Zealand Game Developers Conference for the first time in nearly a decade, as New Zealand’s game development sector reaches NZD $1 billion in revenue.