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 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 ...

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence and Games 2026 brings together developers, researchers, designers, and innovators shaping the future of interactive entertainment. This year’s event dives deep into the rapidly ...

Game developers are using AI to make games more realistic, more complex, and more challenging. However, it’s not all fun and games: AI also brings a few downsides, including impacts on the ...