AI and Games Podcast

Apologies for the sound quality: we’re still figuring out the new lapel mics, plus we recorded this outside and my voice is absolutely shot after the first three days of Gamescom week. By this point I had been on a panel, gave a talk, hosted a roundtable, had a bunch of meetings and also chatted away with loads of people into the wee hours of the morning down the Alter Markt in downtown Cologne. S...

With Gamescom (Dev) now in the rear-view mirror, we have Tommy, Shraddha Gupta ( AI and Games bizdev manager), Andrew Roper ( Goal State programmer), and Duygu Çakmak (co-founder AI and Games Conference ) sit down to talk about their week in Cologne. We talk about the mood and sentiment around AI at the Gamescom Dev developer conference, how Tommy and Duygu’s talks went at the event, the rising in...

We’re joined on the AI and Games podcast by Andy Kelly, a former games journalist and now PR manager at Devolver Digital, who is largely famous for being that guy who bangs on about Alien: Isolation on social media more than we do! You might remember Andy as a voice in our Alien: Isolation retrospective on the AI and Games YouTube channel in 2025. Andy sits down with Tommy to talk about ‘Perfect O...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.aiandgames.com Welcome to the first edition of Below the Line on the AI and Games Podcast where Tommy jumps into the comment section of the AI and Games YouTube channel, and bring up some of the interesting conversations happening over there. Be sure to check out our YouTube channel and leave your comments at:http://www.youtube.com/...

Since the AI and Games Podcast launched Tommy’s been out and about and busy attending games industry events. So we’re circling back to some of the big stories that have happened recently, including EA’s Generative AI adoption targets, Xbox continuing to burn brightly, EU AI Act, Stellar Blade’s K-Pop/K-Slop music video, and more. Timestamps [00:00] Preshow Stinger [01:16] Welcome! [06:42] Support...

We welcome our first guest to the AI and Games podcast: Dr Michael Cook is a senior lecturer at King’s College London and has over a decade’s experiences as a researcher in procedural content generation and generative design for video games. Earlier this year he published ‘Next Level’, a book designed to be an introductory text for people new to PCG in games, and provides a fun and accessible entr...

For the opening episode of our shiny new AI and Games Podcast - presented in association with AWS for Games - I wanted to give an overview on how and where AI exists within the video games industry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.aiandgames.com/subscribe

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the new AI and Games podcast! Building on our existing output of newsletter and YouTube videos, we’re launching a new biweekly/fortnightly programme where we’ll be expanding on all of the content people have come to know and love us for, but in a new nice and digestible podcast format. We’ll be digging into the headlines, providing explainers on the big talk...