The third-party Steam AI Gaming Festival aims to explain how developers use AI, but its 12 categories blur very different tools, games, and software. Bad Rats appearing in every section raises questions about how the lineup was checked.
AI is already in phones, cameras, writing tools, design apps, music software, game engines, store pages, and probably half the tools people use without even thinking about it. So maybe the real question is not whether AI touched the work, but whether the final work is honest.
The Alters patched out known AI-related content after launch, but the bigger question remains: why was player-facing AI material not clearly disclosed before buyers purchased the game?
A reset year for the industry — and better signs ahead 2025 felt like the industry’s reality check. After the surge years, a lot of publishers tightened scope, cancelled riskier bets, and reorganized teams. It wasn’t painless—many studios shrank—but it also forced clearer priorities and a sharper focus on projects that can actually ship and…
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Lynwood Montgomery discusses traditional art training, AI in game production, Magic Online, creative direction, human-built games, and why strong creative judgment still matters in the games industry.
A 1999 relationship sim where AI, rumours, and real performances collide Reviewed on PC.Score: 7/10 Every now and then, a game arrives that feels completely out of step with what everyone else is doing – in a good way. Millennium Whisper is one of those projects and has been chosen as the Game of the…
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Millennium Whisper, ethical AI, and acting for algorithms Set at the tail end of 1999, Millennium Whisper is an Early Access relationship sim where all the AI runs locally on your own hardware, and every character model is trained on in-house performances rather than scraped data. It’s a strange, ambitious mix of late-90s college life,…
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