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Helping teams building #games at @ubisoft. #entrepreneur. Sharing news on #games, #AI, #VR, #AR #startups & #edtech

Paris, France
Joined May 2014
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🎮 Google DeepMind just unveiled Genie 4. AI generated worlds you can explore, reshape in real time and interact with through characters that talk back. The ambition goes beyond graphics: combining world generation, reasoning, physics and interaction. A reality check: this is based on Google's own promotional announcement. Genie 4 remains experimental, with limitations in consistency, object permanence and physics. Still, the implications for game prototyping could be enormous. The question is no longer just how AI generates worlds, but whether it can make them truly playable. #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming deepmind.google/blog/genie-4…
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Don't think i've mentioned it in my streak of AI posts, but it's been months now that i have the privilege of helping the talented teams working on Rayman Legends Retold, to ship December 3rd. Don't skip this game, much love has been put into it :) #GameIndustry #Gaming #Ubisoft #Rayman youtube.com/watch?v=w3JsAX5c…
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🎮 In 1983, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii wrote, coded, and drew art for an entire game alone. Last week he generated one in 30 minutes with AI and posted it online. He has been one of Japan's most celebrated game designers for 40 years. The contrast between those two games is uncomfortable. gamesradar.com/games/dragon-… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #GameDevAI #AI
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🎮 An indie game with 500,000 Steam wishlists canceled its public demo because the devs fear AI will clone it before launch. They replaced it with a closed Discord playtest. Demos have always been safe to release. That sentence no longer applies to original indie games. rockpapershotgun.com/we-have… #AIForGaming #IndieGameDev #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Razer's CEO says AI will take gaming from hundreds of billions to a trillion dollars. He also built an AI companion avatar named Sumi who has a scripted backstory and critiques your outfit. He is the same person who said everyone would become a gamer 20 years before it was true. fortune.com/2026/10/14/razer… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #AI
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🎮 A jailbroken PS5 can now run a 27B AI model locally at 20 tokens per second. Llama 3.2 3B runs at 124. It serves as a local AI chat server to other devices on your network. A community built this in two weeks. The PS5 was not designed for this. tomshardware.com/video-games… #AIForGaming #GameDevAI #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Epic vibe-coded its new Games Store launcher with AI. Players called it "vibeslopped" within hours. Same week Epic mandated AI-first on a Disney game and Tim Sweeney argued Steam should not require AI disclosure labels. His own users noticed before any disclosure happened. fr.ign.com/fortnite/93121/ou… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #EpicGames
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🎮 Epic Games told its Marvel and Star Wars game team: no more hand-written code, all art generated with AI. The game is now delayed indefinitely. Developers responded with confusion and shock. This is reportedly the first time a major publisher has mandated a fully AI-first pipeline mid-development. kotaku.com/epic-games-forces… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #GameDevAI #AI
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🎮 Microsoft launched a team for AI-powered game decompilation this week. The largest human-led decompilation community shut down the same day because AI made their work obsolete. Both groups are describing the same technology. Different conclusions. 404media.co/video-game-rever… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Sony brought AI upscaling to the base PS5. It's called QSSR, a lighter version of the PS5 Pro's PSSR. First two games: Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei. Available to all PlayStation developers. 95+ million base PS5 consoles just got AI upscaling. blog.playstation.com/2026/10… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Minecraft in Elden Ring: 308,000 likes. Mario 64 in Elden Ring: 2.9M views, then Nintendo copyright takedown. Claude Opus 5.5 is what made it possible in a weekend. Nexus Mods restricted AI content within days. The IP question hasn't changed. The speed has. forbes.com/sites/danidiplaci… #AIForGaming #IndieGameDev #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Microsoft patented an AI system that generates new quests and story content in real time based on how you play. A cave you linger in too long becomes a new essential dungeon. This is a patent application, not a confirmed game. No release date. No Xbox title announced. Filed February 2026. cnet.com/tech/new-microsoft-… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Capcom wants to turn its RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine." In March they said no AI-generated assets in their games. Both are still true. The gap between "AI in development workflow" and "AI-generation engine" is real, and Capcom's next releases will define which one this actually is. theverge.com/games/1004418/c… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #GameDevAI #AI
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🎮 Japan's game industry body CESA surveyed developers at Tokyo Game Show. 85.8% now use gen AI. Last year it was 51%. 63% use it daily. The same week Level-5 apologized for AI in their showcase. Adoption is accelerating. Trust is not catching up. automaton-media.com/en/news/… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #GameDevAI #AI
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🎮 Saber Interactive's Tim Willits: "We've never replaced anybody with AI." Also: no development left in North America, 15 studios across 7 countries, Space Marine 2 cost one-third of a major NA game and outsold it. All said during the week of the Rideshare Stimulator writer dispute. gamesindustry.biz/saber-inte… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #GameDevAI #AI
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🎮 Level-5, the studio behind Ni No Kuni and Professor Layton, used gen AI in a comeback showcase. Fans spotted it within hours. The CEO apologized. That's at least six major studios in 2026 who've had to apologize for AI in marketing. The pattern is fully calcified. videogameschronicle.com/news… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Google launched an AI game creation platform. Unity announced a same-day partnership. A journalist made two games in minutes and said neither was something he'd want to play. That tension is the whole story. Now Unity Spark and Meta Pocket, Roblox Build, and RUN are all in this race. techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/go… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box using GPT-6 Astra. Most worked on the first take. 50% fewer manual fixes than the previous model. Source: OpenAI case study, so treat with appropriate skepticism. The underlying workflow of AI operating inside Unity is worth watching. openai.com/index/playco-game… #AIForGaming #GameDevAI #IndieGameDev #AI
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🎮 Rockstar confirmed GTA 6 has no generative AI and no in-game purchases at launch. 600,000 hand-crafted animations vs. 55,000 in GTA 5. In a year when 1 in 4 Gamescom games used AI, that's a production statement. Releases November 19. techpowerup.com/352152/gta-6… #AIForGaming #GameIndustry #Gaming #AI
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🎮 Studio Atelico built 10+ game prototypes before shipping. Their hardest lesson: giving AI more creative control made the game worse. Too much steering removed all the surprise. Their solution is the most honest AI game design philosophy I've seen from a team actually shipping. 80.lv/articles/interview-new… #AIForGaming #IndieGameDev #GameDevAI #AI
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