{"id":276174,"date":"2025-11-07T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:10:15","slug":"square-enix-reveals-plans-to-use-ai-to-qa-test-their-games-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276174\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix reveals plans to use AI to QA test their games by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">It seems <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/gaming\/square-enix-teaming-up-with-ninja-warrior-creators-for-new-game-3195437\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Square Enix<\/a> is betting big on <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/tag\/ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> in the coming years after revealing they\u2019re intending on getting AI to run 70% of its quality assurance and debugging by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Few aspects are more important in the development of a video game than quality assurance and debugging. Nothing is more frustrating than diving into a great game only to glitch through the floor or get stuck in a wall. Well, that\u2019s what the QA and debugging are there for: fixing bugs before and after the game\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Now, as seen in the Square Enix financial report, that job is mostly being handed over to AI, with a major shift happening towards automating quality assurance and debugging.<\/p>\n<p>Square Enix to use AI for quality control and debugging by 2027<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Following its latest financial results, Square Enix has announced a new partnership with the Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, which is focused on using AI to overhaul how games are tested and refined.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">The collaboration, titled Joint Development of Game QA Automation Technology Using Generative AI, aims to \u201cimprove the efficiency of game development processes through AI technologies,\u201d and it\u2019s seemingly aiming to hand most of its project to AI for debugging and QA testing.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/square-enix-tournaments-cancelled-death-threats-1024x576.jpg\"\/>Square Enix<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">As highlighted in their <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hd.square-enix.com\/eng\/news\/pdf\/20251106_01_en.pdf?\">progress report<\/a>, Square Enix described the initiative as a way \u201cto improve the efficiency of QA operations and establish a competitive advantage in game development\u201d and plans to apply generative AI to identify bugs, automate testing workflows, and simulate real-world player behavior to find and fix issues faster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">While this likely won\u2019t have a direct impact on players, it does highlight a major shift for Square Enix. Whether they utilize the workforce not needed for QA on other aspects of the game\u2019s development or otherwise remains to be seen, but it\u2019s certainly clear that the company is extremely focused on harnessing AI in the workplace. <\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems Square Enix is betting big on AI in the coming years after revealing they\u2019re intending on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-276174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}