{"id":880656,"date":"2026-10-13T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:08:12","slug":"epic-games-reportedly-pivoting-to-ai-first-game-development-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880656\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Epic Games is shifting to an \u201cAI first\u201d development strategy for its collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, letting AI models write all the code and guide all the artwork for an upcoming shooter. That\u2019s according to a <\/a>Bloomberg<\/a> report<\/a>, which cites unnamed people familiar with the project who commented on the significant pivot in internal development at the Unreal Engine maker.<\/p>\n

Human developers will be tasked with managing and guiding code and art assets generated by models such as Anthropic\u2019s Claude, according to internal Epic employee messages viewed by Bloomberg. That means \u201cno more hand-written code\u201d and art assets \u201cgenerated with full AI workflows,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n

The $1.5 billion collaboration between Epic and Disney, announced in early 2024<\/a>, was slated to release a Marvel- and Star Wars-themed shooter in March 2027. That project has now been delayed indefinitely amid the AI-related shakeup and understaffed, slower-than-expected development thus far, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re embracing AI-accelerated development, led by Epic developers who are the visionaries and creative drivers for everything we do,\u201d an Epic spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration,\u201d Epic CEO Tim Sweeney wrote on social media<\/a> shortly after the Bloomberg story was posted. \u201cThe aim isn\u2019t to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Epic Games is shifting to an \u201cAI first\u201d development strategy for its collaboration with the Walt Disney Company,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-880656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880656","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=880656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}