Does the Hogwarts update mark the end of the DLSS 5 AI beauty filter? https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/hogwarts-legacys-dlss-5-update-shows-devs-have-been-listening-to-pc-gamers-about-keeping-it-the-hell-away-from-game-characters/
Xbox games chief Asha Sharma has announced Xbox Labs, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists led by CTO Scott Van Vliet, tasked with turning emerging ideas into things players and developers can experience. Microsoft clarified to GI.biz that AI usage won't be mandatory, though Sharma's statement offered no specific action plans. Sharma noted games are being rapidly decompiled and rebuilt for hardware they were never designed for, including Windows PC builds translated to Apple Silicon or run in browsers via WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support.
Epic announced it is rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux as EAC Linux v2, with a pilot planned in Fortnite first. Once EAC v2's effectiveness is validated, Epic says it will make it available to more game developers so they can bring their multiplayer games to Linux players too.
Stardock founder and CEO Brad Wardell discussed Clairvoyance, an app that began as an internal tool and is now free, running a team of AI agents locally on Windows, macOS and Linux on top of tools like Claude Code and Codex. He said much of game-making time goes to grunt work such as build errors, importers and hunting for assets, so AI's best use is freeing artists and designers to create rather than replacing them. He argued digital distribution, not AI, is breaking AAA economics, with around 30,000 games expected on Steam this year making attention the scarce resource.
Google and Unity unveil gen-AI game-making platforms, and demonstrate one of them with depressingly rubbish "dream game" Space Corridor https://bit.ly/4hw0vQs
On October 7, Google and Unity announced a strategic partnership to launch an AI game development platform for next-generation interactive entertainment. Google's experimental Playground went live the same day, letting users generate, customize and share playable games from natural-language prompts without writing code, limited to US users aged 18 and over, with weekly tokens and a model lineup of Gemini, Nano Banana and Lyria. Unity will plug Unity Spark into Playground later this year; the web platform runs on the Unity engine with professional-grade mechanics and high-fidelity 3D, and during testing projects cannot be downloaded, exported to desktop Unity or sold.
A recurring concern over generative AI is its high energy consumption
Google and Unity announced generative-AI game-making platforms yesterday, with Google's Playground available for testing in the US and Unity's Unity Spark listed as coming soon. Google said Playground lets users create, play and share custom games from a few prompts without coding experience, and will integrate with Unity Spark when creators want more professional mechanics and high-fidelity 3D. Unity said Spark is not about one-shotting game development, and a demo showed two people co-creating the sci-fi shooter Space Corridor while pulling assets from the Unity Store; Google did not say where Playground's assets come from.
Google and Unity unveiled their own generative AI game-making platforms. One of them was demonstrated with a demo titled Space Corridor, which Eurogamer described as poor in quality.
AMD has confirmed plans to bring FSR 4 upscaling to the Radeon APUs used in handheld PCs, via both new APUs with native FSR 4 support and a lightweight version for older integrated graphics, both targeted for the end of 2026. RDNA 3-based handheld chips were already intended to get FSR 4 this year, but AMD has previously said RDNA 2-based Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED support will take until 2027. FSR 4 offers sharper visuals than FSR 3.1 at the cost of a smaller performance boost.
AMD's Jack Huynh: FSR 4 Is Coming to Handhelds via a New Lightweight Model https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/10/amds-jack-huynh-fsr-4-is-coming-to-handhelds-via-a-new-lightweight-model
NEW: Unity's new Spark program is meant to let the public use AI agents to help make games in Unity
Capcom has clarified that it will not use generative AI to create content for its games, after its RE Engine plans drew fan concern. The company said AI will only be used to speed up development, including improving tools, testing game code and analyzing data, as part of its REX (RE Next Engine) effort to improve the RE Engine.
Unity has announced Spark, an AI vibe-coding tool that it says lets people make and share games in their browser with no prior Unity or game development experience, and it is listed as "coming soon" with a waitlist. Its promotional trailer shows a game called Space Corridor being made by typing six words, and that demo game can be played in a browser now, running about five minutes and priced at $7.99.
Google announced Playground, a browser-based platform where users generate simple AI games from text prompts, test them offline or share them via a link; it launches in an experimental phase. A more advanced version built with Unity, Unity Spark, arrives later this year and will generate 3D games from text prompts using assets from the Unity store. Unity CEO Matt Bromberg said the technology is not about having AI regurgitate an already invented game.
At Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026, programmer Satoshi Ishida presented "The Outlook and Future of the 'REX' Project," discussing plans to integrate AI into the next-generation RE engine to ease development tasks. The comments were misrepresented by much of the gaming press and social media as Capcom turning the engine into a system built for generative AI games. REX, short for "RE neXt Engine," has been in development since at least 2023.
Capcom to evolve in-house RE Engine for "the AI generation", to help with development, testing, and checking for bugs https://www.eurogamer.net/capcom-re-engine-ai-generation-game-engine-rex-project
Google has rolled out Playground, a browser-based AI platform that lets users create, play, and share custom games, labeled as an experiment and supported by Unity Spark. Google says it lowers the barriers to creation with no coding experience required, but the initial rollout feels underwhelming, with cover art often misleading compared to actual gameplay. The option to make your own game for Playground is reportedly rolling out to people "soon."
Google announced Google Playground, an experimental platform for making, sharing, and playing games built with generative AI tools. Google says users need no coding experience and can direct games through a conversational interface, with browser-based play on phones and laptops. Unity separately announced Unity Spark, a tool built to work with Playground.
Unity announced a strategic partnership with Google to launch Unity Spark, a prompt-based development tool for Google's AI platform Playground, letting developers start from a text prompt and skip coding while connecting to the Unity Asset Store and Google's leaderboard, matchmaking, and community features. Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg said the goal is not one-shot generation but helping people with creative ideas build experiences worth polishing and sharing. Developers can try Playground today, and the piece notes ongoing industry concern about generative AI and Steam's disclosure requirement for AI tools or content.
Unity unveils a web-based AI game creation platform https://bit.ly/3WbfyXm
Unity announced Unity Spark, a browser-based generative AI game creation tool running on the Unity engine, set to enter beta later this year, letting users design and iterate on 3D games through text prompts without downloads. It is tied to Google's new Playground platform, where projects can be published, and is limited to users aged 18 and over. At launch, projects cannot be downloaded or exported to the desktop Unity engine, nor sold, and payment will use a credit system tied to AI tokens with details not yet finalised.
The Coalition has found a way to work around the Xbox Series S's limited 10GB GDDR6 RAM by offloading data to the console's NVMe SSD, trading about 2GB of storage for roughly 1GB of usable system memory. The tech, co-developed by Xbox's Advanced Technology Group, uses advanced heuristics to keep frequently used data in RAM and move idle data to the SSD. Whether other Xbox games could adopt similar technology remains an open question.
Capcom wants to transform its in-house RE Engine into what it's calling an "AI-generation game engine". https://bit.ly/4dmahCh
Hideo Kojima said on his KOJI10 podcast that he has mixed feelings about NVIDIA's DLSS 5, which he noted can make CG characters near the uncanny valley look like real people. He argued AI cannot understand creators' intentions, warning that 4K film remasters and audio remasters of classic albums could overwrite the original artists' creative intent. Official DLSS 5 support for Death Stranding 2 has not been announced.
At an October 2 open conference for engineers and the games industry, Capcom outlined where it wants to use AI in the RE Engine and where it wants to avoid it. The engine's evolution is part of the REX Initiative (RE neXt engine) first discussed in 2023, and Capcom has released the RE:Dox and RE:Log tools as open-source on Github so AI programs can learn how they work and help with internal playtests, bug detection and fixes. Capcom insists AI is meant to cut repetitive work so human developers can focus on the creative side, saying "AI is not a replacement for humans."
Capcom Plans to Use AI Technology with RE Engine to Make Games More Efficiently https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/capcom-plans-to-use-ai-technology-with-re-engine-to-make-games-more-efficiently
Capcom has detailed its "REX" initiative, which will incorporate AI technology into its in-house RE Engine to streamline development. The effort targets areas including performance, tools, development efficiency, and QA, rather than generating art assets. Capcom says its goal is to "create games together with AI," and it has previously stated it has no intention of shipping titles with AI-created assets.
Capcom announced a multi-phase project to turn its proprietary RE Engine into an "AI-generation engine" to streamline development and optimise performance. Programmer Satoshi Ishida presented the REX project at the company's annual tech conference, covering new systems such as RE:Dox, RE:UI, and RE:Log plus updates to RE:Flows, RE:Runtime, and RE:C++. AI would assist development, generate and interpret code, automate playtesting for debugging, and optimise performance, with some improvements open-sourced to support AI training.
Capcom announced a multi-phase project to adapt its proprietary RE Engine into an AI-generation engine, aiming to streamline development and optimise performance. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the effort also targets efficiency in QA, debugging and data processing.
Capcom programmer Satoshi Ishida detailed upcoming RE Engine improvements at Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026, where the company's "REX" initiative aims to tackle lengthy development challenges in tools, QA and efficiency. Capcom wants to evolve the RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine," using the most common programming language to improve readability for AI so it can automatically create programs or run play tests to identify bugs. Capcom has also open-sourced technologies such as RE:Dox and RE:Log, primarily to train its AI.
Capcom plans to transform its in-house RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine" as part of an overhaul called the REX Project, programmer Satoshi Ishida said at Capcom Open Conference RE:2026. The project bundles new systems including RE:Dox, RE:UI, RE:Log, RE:Flows, RE:Runtime and RE:C++, aiming for an engine where AI can understand and generate code, run automated test plays to catch bugs, and support development directly. RE Engine has been in development since 2014, debuted in Resident Evil 7 in 2017, and is now used by over 2,000 developers.
Capcom announced plans to transform its RE Engine into an AI-generation game engine, framed around a future of creating games together with AI. The news comes from a Reddit r/Games post whose body text was not available, so further details remain unclear.
At its Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 on October 2, Capcom announced the REX project, a multi-step effort to improve the RE Engine with the long-term goal of turning it into an AI-generation game engine. Programmer Satoshi Ishida cited three development problems, including the time cost of large games, the need for an engine that is easy for a growing staff to use, and integrating AI into development workflows. REX unifies the RE Engine under a common programming language, with some improvements open-sourced for AI training; Capcom said at a March 2026 shareholders meeting that it will not put AI-generated assets into its games but will use AI to improve development efficiency.