AI revolution in video games has industry players treading warily

Visitors play the Tekken 8 game at the Bandai Namco Entertainment booth at the Gamescom video game fair in Cologne, western Germany on Aug 24, 2023. — AFP

COLOGNE, Germany: From generating story lines to coding entire games to turning ideas into animation, artificial intelligence is front and centre at Gamescom, one of the video game industry’s biggest fairs.

But even the ultra-connected industry is eyeing the innovation warily, with fears growing that jobs could be made redundant and artistic creations usurped.