Xbox has put a price on cloud playtime: $3.99 for 10 hours
Cloud playtime packs arrive on Game Pass in November. Monthly limits land at 5, 10 and 15 hours depending on tier.
READ →The blog — where games meet AI.
Advancements in gaming through AI, and the headlines that matter. Written for people who actually play games, not for press releases. Every story links to the reporting it came from.
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Fortnite is back on iOS in Australia — a court found Apple broke competition law
The Federal Court of Australia ruled Apple must open iOS to third-party app stores. Apple says it will seek a stay and appeal.
READ →Where studios actually use AI — and where they don't
97% of studio leaders have used AI in some form during development. The interesting finding is which stages they use it in, and how badly they rate the integration.
READ →BioWare is closing after 30 years, and the next Mass Effect is going with it
EA is folding the studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Knights of the Old Republic, cutting roughly 400 jobs across the company.
READ →Epic told developers to go "AI first" — and delayed its Disney shooter
A director's internal message reportedly read "No more hand-written code," with the game's art to be generated by "full AI workflows."
READ →Sony put AI upscaling on the base PS5 — and it isn't DLSS
Quick Spectral Super Resolution brings neural upscaling to every PS5, built with AMD. PS5 Pro keeps the version Sony calls the gold standard.
READ →Capcom is rebuilding the RE Engine as an "AI-generation engine"
More than 2,000 developers use the engine behind Resident Evil. The REX project wants it to interpret code, automate playtesting and tune performance.
READ →"Quite often it's given me more to do" — the case that AI is adding work, not removing it
At the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit, the people handling AI fallout described build reverts, six-fingered outsourced art, and AI-written grievance letters running nine pages.
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