Game Development
The latest Game Development coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Total War: Warhammer 40K Revealed: Warcore Engine & PC/Console Launch
The grim darkness of the far future has finally arrived for strategy gamers. At The Game Awards 2025, Creative Assembly and Sega unveiled Total War: Warhammer 40,000, marking the franchise's first...
Obsidian Entertainment Rejects Generative AI in RPG Development
Obsidian Entertainment's unequivocal stance against using generative AI in game development represents a significant counter-cultural movement in an industry increasingly embracing artificial...
October 2025 GDK Revolution: Cross-Platform Xbox & Windows Game Development
Microsoft's October 2025 Game Development Kit (GDK) release represents a strategic evolution in game development, bringing unprecedented cross-platform capabilities that bridge Xbox and Windows...
Square Enix Targets 70% QA Automation by 2027 Amid Major Restructuring
Square Enix, the legendary Japanese gaming company behind iconic franchises like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts, has initiated a sweeping transformation of its global operations that...
Dean Hall on AI in Gaming: Beyond the Panic to Practical Tools
Dean Hall — the visionary designer behind DayZ and the survival epic ICARUS — sees the current frenzy over generative AI in gaming as just another chapter in the industry's long history of...
xAI's AI-Generated Games & Films: Technical Feasibility vs. Creative Risks
Elon Musk's xAI has set an ambitious timeline that could reshape entertainment: creating "a great AI-generated game before the end of next year" and an "at least watchable" AI-made film. This...
Nintendo Wants Mods Banned From Patent Evidence—And the Fallout Could Be Huge
Nintendo has asked a Tokyo court to exclude community-created mods from the pool of evidence that can challenge its patents, a move legal experts are calling an unprecedented threat to a foundational...
Sony Deploys Enterprise LLM to 50,000 Staff While Reining In Generative AI in Games
Sony has quietly opened the taps on one of the most ambitious internal AI rollouts in the entertainment industry, with more than 50,000 employees across 210 teams now actively using a centrally...
King Slashes 200 Jobs—Laid-Off Staff Say They Trained the AI Now Replacing Them
Roughly 200 employees at Candy Crush studio King were told their jobs are at risk in early July, and multiple internal sources claim the very AI tools they helped build are now being positioned to...
Macrohard: Elon Musk's AI Swarm Set to Disrupt Microsoft's Windows Development Stack
Elon Musk wants to build Microsoft. Not buy it—build it, piece by piece, with AI. On August 1, his xAI filed a trademark application for "Macrohard," a tongue-in-cheek name for a deadly serious...
Epic's ARM Easy Anti-Cheat Officially Lands, Unlocking Fortnite on Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs and Linux
Epic Games has shipped a native ARM version of its Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) client, removing the single biggest technical barrier that has kept competitive multiplayer titles—starting with...
Fortnite's Easy Anti-Cheat Arrives on Snapdragon X PCs, Solving Windows on Arm’s Biggest Gaming Problem
Epic Games and Qualcomm have jointly announced native support for Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) on Windows 11 Arm devices powered by Snapdragon X processors, a move that directly enables Fortnite and...