Aura AI Assistant for Unreal Engine Launches: VR Studio Ships Game in Half the Time with New Agent Capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ramen VR today announced that Aura, the AI assistant and agent for Epic's Unreal Engine, is launching on January 2, 2026. Access is invite-only as the team ...
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Dev uses Claude AI to write a 'functional NES emulator' — you can test it now, playing Donkey Kong in your browser

Delduca’s Carimbo 2D game engine powers the Lua scripts to create the working NES emulator. Lua is a “powerful, efficient, ...

From Game Programming Into The AI Age: And Essential Concepts Of AI

And, as we changed this means of interaction rather quickly, one way we did it has to do with games. Game engines are now AI ...
Kotaku

Larian Studios Leaning Into Generative AI Despite Internal Pushback: ‘Everyone At The Company Is More Or Less OK With The Way We’re Using It’ [Update]

Larian Studios is apparently bullish on generative AI. Despite backlash against the technology from fans and even some of his own developers, studio head Swen Vincke says the Baldur’s Gate 3 maker has ...
IGN

Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'

This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes for things like concept ...
Gizmochina

World’s first fully AI-created game hits Steam with a free demo

Most studios either quietly use generative AI or avoid the topic altogether, but one small team has decided to do the exact opposite. The developers behind Codex Mortis say their new bullet hell game ...
TechCrunch

Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI’s ‘after-code’ gap

AI DevOps tool Harness, founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, is on track to exceed $250 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, Bansal tells TechCrunch. The startup just raised a ...
ZDNet

Linus Torvalds is 'a huge believer' in using AI to maintain code - just don't call it a revolution

Torvalds says AI is now genuinely useful for Linux maintainers. Linux 6.18 was the kind of release he likes: boring and stable. Torvalds is calmer now, but some things still make him testy. At Open ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Platforms Buys AI Device Maker Limitless

Meta Platforms META0.39%increase; green up pointing triangle said it bought Limitless, a maker of wearable artificial-intelligence devices, a deal coming as Meta has shown increased interest in AI ...
Wired

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

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 ...
Forbes

The Messy Cost Of AI Code

AI-driven coding promised speed, but its code often fractures under pressure, leaving teams to carry the weight of failures that slow products and raise real costs. Buoyed by the rise of AI, many ...
TechCrunch

Amazon previews 3 AI agents, including ‘Kiro’ that can code on its own for days

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced three new AI agents it calls “frontier agents,” including one designed to learn how you like to work and then operate on its own for days. Each of these agents ...