41 per cent of all code written globally is now AI-generated. Tools like Cursor AI and Replit Agent let people with no programming experience describe what they want in plain English and get a working application back. The promise is extraordinary. The risk is that you end up with an application nobody can maintain, that…
It sounds as though Blizzard is open to exploring generative AI during the development of its games. Answering a question I asked during an Overwatch press conference at Blizzard campus last week, Blizzard president Johanna Faries said: “I like when we are dev-led in our approach. We want our dev teams to be able to…
In the US software industry, almost 30 percent of Python code is now written by AI. This is the conclusion of an analysis by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna in collaboration with Utrecht University. It covers the period from early 2019 to the end of 2024. Europe follows in second place for usage….
While I’m not exactly a gacha game person, I know far too much about Cygames. I blame ‘Pseychie,’ perhaps the most thorough gacha-focused YouTuber out there, whose videos soundtrack my noisy lunchtime ramen eating. Pseychie has mentioned many a developer on his channel, but Cygames is one of the ones that’s stuck in my mind….
Having officially established ‘Cygames AI Studio’ just last week, Granblue Fantasy developer Cygames has now published an apology on social media. As you can imagine, the initial announcement went down incredibly poorly, given the heavy cynicism that currently surrounds generative AI use in video games. Without going into too much detail, the company stated that…
