AI – Gaming

Sep252025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

The First preview of Unreal Engine 5.7 Released: Featuring Improved Procedural Generation

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Credit: Epic Games Epic Games has released a preview version of Unreal Engine 5.7. This pre-release build offers game developers and other Epic Games partners the opportunity to test the engine's new features. The main change will be the readiness of the Procedural Content Generation Framework (PCG) for use in real projects. PCG enables procedural content creation; it was previously available in test mode. The PCG framework adds GPU overrides, improved scaling, and expanded cross-platform support, including FastGeo. A new PCG editor mode enables spline drawing and volumetric texture creation, and PCG graphs can now run standalone. Unreal Engine 5.7 introduces a new Procedural Vegetation Editor as an experimental plugin. It allows for the direct creation and customization of Nan...

May192025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Fortnite Gets AI Version of Darth Vader Voiced by James Earl Jones

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Epic Games' free-to-play battle royale Fortnite is ramping up its Star Wars-inspired Galactic Assault season, with a new update adding Darth Vader. Vader appears in the video game as a boss on the map. If he is defeated, the character will become available as a partner and will become a member of the squad. After that, you can communicate with him via voice chat. The iconic character is voiced by actor James Earl Jones from the original trilogy. Before his death in 2024, he signed a deal with Disney to use the digital copy in Disney and Star Wars projects. According to his family, the actor considered him an integral part of the franchise and wanted to give it to fans of all ages. To recreate the voice, the developers of the largest battle royale used ElevenLabs technology and Goo...

Apr62025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Microsoft Releases Quake II Playable Demo Generated by Real-Time AI

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Microsoft has unveiled a research project that generates and runs Quake II entirely within an artificial intelligence model, creating a playable version of the game in real time. One of the heads of the Xbox department, Haiyan Zhan, published a demo of this technology - Quake II was launched in a browser using AI. "AI-generated gameplay - movement, shooting, exploration - and each frame is created on the fly by an AI model of the world, reacting to the player's actions in real time. <..> The original Quake II level remains a powerful expression of the developers' vision. This AI opens up new ways to interact with the process and perhaps shows how future tools can empower development teams," the top manager explained. Anyone can try the technology by visiting the project page. ...

Mar122025 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Internal PlayStation Video Showing AI Version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West Leaked Online

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According to a fresh leak, which was kindly shared by The Verge, Sony is developing a prototype of at least one AI-powered PlayStation game character. In the demo, the AI version of Aloy (without leaving the character's image) answers the user's questions, takes him to Horizon Forbidden West, and, following the gameplay session, recounts everything that happened in it in a condensed form. According to Sharwin Raghoebardajal, an employee of PlayStation Studios Advanced Technology Group, the AI version of Aloy is based on several technologies: Whisper speech recognition system from OpenAI; large language models GPT-4 (OpenAI) and Llama 3 (Meta) — responsible for conversation and decision-making; Sony's own system, Emotional Voice Synthesis, is used for voice synthesis; ...