In a San Francisco convention hall that used to be packed with big booths from brands like Sony PlayStation and Epic Games, the 2025 Game Developers Conference had a decidedly different vibe: rows and ...

The 1951 game Nim is one such example of the earlier use of AI. Although at that time, artificial intelligence was not as advanced as it is now, it was still a game that was way ahead of its time.

It sounds like a thought experiment conjured by René Descartes for the 21st century. The citizens of a simulated city inside a video game based on "The Matrix" franchise were being awakened to a grim ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be doing everything these days. Making images, making videos, and replacing most of us real human writers if you believe the hype. Maybe it’s all over! And yet, ...

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...

Since the beginning of 2024, Steam has required publishers to report if their games include content created by AI. This rule aims to provide maximum transparency to consumers. A year and a half after ...

For Magy Seif El-Nasr, playing games is serious business. As a professor of computational media and the director of the Game User Interaction and Intelligence Lab at UC Santa Cruz, she studies how ...