AI and Games Podcast

For this episode of the AI and Games Podcast we welcome Dr Wesley Kerr , the director of tech research at Riot Games. Recorded at Riot's LA offices, we chat about how his team de-risks AI so it can be used to support gameplay in Riot's titles. The value and importance of running an R&D team within a large games company, how we first met at GDC back in 2023, and how he tries to communicate innovati...

This week we took a bit of a detour as Tommy sits down with Roper and friend of the show Matthew Syrett to discuss their recent trip to the see the Street Fighter movie in cinemas. How does it compare to the other adaptations of the series? Does Jason Mamoa really need another film franchise? What’s going on with Bison’s foot fetish? All that and more. Plus, be sure to check out Hunter’s Moon whic...

This week Tommy’s back at home, loaded up on throat lozenges and paracetamol to overcome a cold. So what better time to sit down and smash through some news stories. In this edition we talk a little about about what to expect at this year’s AI and Games Conference, revisit some highlights from this week’s newsletter and dig deeper into the concerns of Japanese studios with GenAI and the Google Pla...

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...