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EA exec says AI has helped drive ‘a real rise of creativity’ at its studios

Electronic Arts’ president of enterprise development Laura Miele says the rise of artificial intelligence in game development can bring about “a real rise in creativity” by removing tedious grunt work and enabling faster development processes overall. Miele expressed her thoughts on the matter earlier this month during a Game Business Live showcase at Summer Game…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025

Two years on and it’s still Baldur’s Gate 3’s world we’re living in. Every new RPG is measured against it, and Larian’s next game, Divinity, is still hotly anticipated even amid criticism of the studio’s admission of experimenting with generative AI. Until Larian unveiled Divinity, we didn’t know what it was doing next—only that it…

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Palworld has now sold a staggering 19 million copies, an unstoppable rise that means it’s got a bigger population than the Netherlands

It’s official: Palworld has a bigger population than 127 literal countries, including Senegal, Somalia, the Netherlands, and Chad. That’s according to Pocketpair’s sales statistics and this Wikipedia list of countries by population, anyway, with the news that Palworld has now sold a soul-boggling 19 million copies around the world. That’s 12 million on Steam and…

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