Half of New Games on Steam Are Now Made With AI. How Does This Reflect the Gaming Industry? - CNET
Steam, the digital marketplace for PC games from game studio Valve, has hit a major milestone, sparking pushback from parts of the gaming community: Approximately 50% of new Steam games in October were made with the help of AI.
This underscores a growing trend in gaming, where more games are made with some form of AI assistance — specifically, generative AI, which developers have used to generate code, art assets, voice lines and more. Developers are adopting the technology in increasing numbers.
The numbers come from a Reddit user who goes by Ploz, and who used Steam’s publicly available data to see how many newly released games relied on AI in some capacity. This was possible because of Valve’s AI disclosure policy for newly released games, which requires developers to state whether they used AI in making their game. The disclosure is part of the storefront’s publicly...
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