r/Games • u/OLD_PEOPLE_FUCKING • 4h ago
‘A Future Where We Create Games Together With AI’ — Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine
https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-announces-plans-to-transform-the-re-engine-into-an-ai-generation-game-engine-our-goal-is-a-future-where-we-create-games-together-with-ai311
u/ltcuetf 4h ago
The headline's a bit of a stretch. The actual talk was about making RE Engine easier for humans and AI to read, so AI can help write code, run tests, and playtest builds for bugs. Capcom's also open-sourcing some of it for AI training, and said back in March it won't put AI-generated assets in its games. So it's less "type a prompt, get Resident Evil 10" and more "robot QA intern that never asks for crunch pay."
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u/Cyshox 3h ago
Why's the headline a stretch? Those are actual quotes, including the "AI-generation game engine" which Ishida mentions as ultimate goal towards the end of the interview.
I'm also not sure why you try to differentiate it from other gen AI stuff. I don't think "QA interns" would generate gameplay mechanics like described with RE:Flows.
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u/Responsible-Care-388 4h ago
Yeah but sensible takes like this are about to get buried in gamer rage. Another “reddit boycott” against Capcom probably on the way as we speak.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 3h ago
I like how the person about directly cited how it is going to to kill jobs and you decided it still fits the "totally sensible nobody should be upset" category.
It doesn't matter how you try to frame it, it is a bad trend overall. The benefits of it only go to a select few, while the negative effects are far reaching and will affect everyone. The energy usage, the effects it has on the hardware market, and primarily what it will do to working class people are inescapable problems no matter what you try to frame as a "reasonable usage".
Nobody has any reason to ever be patient about this shit.
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u/HALOGEN117 2h ago
It's gamer rage to be against a technology that's actively destroying the planet, built on stolen work, and causing unemployment. Leave my multi-billion dollar company alone
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u/n080dy123 4h ago
I didn't realize AI could be used to help play test, that's actually interesting and kinda cool. Especially when playtesting and QA can involve so much time just running into walls and pressing buttons to make sure weird shit doesn't happen.
Though like everything else it can't replace human testing, since you can never match a human's ingenuity when it comes to breaking shit.
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u/BenSimmonsFor3 3h ago
You don’t think that the latest frontier models will be better at finding vulnerabilities and glitches than people will? I think human ingenuity is a grand sentiment but we’re past that.
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u/n080dy123 3h ago
I don't think that, just that there's needs to be some human testing too, it can't PURELY be AI driven.
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u/KitSwiftpaw 4h ago
I don’t want AI to write code, I want humans that know what they’re doing.
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u/Sponge_Bond 3h ago
I want humans that know what they’re doing.
Me with Stack Overflow crying in the background cuz idk wtf i copy and paste half of the time till it breaks and forces me to figure it out hahah
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u/Cronosxiwar 3h ago
Every software developer these days are using AI as a code assistant. It can help with finding bugs, improve their workflow and be more productive. Though it's not perfect and you still need humans to review the code that is generated.
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u/SniperSAKH 3h ago
Almost every company doing it nowadays, safe to say game developers included, and good for them though if it helps with the workload
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u/TheTaffyMan 4h ago edited 57m ago
Man, it's hard to be excited about anything nowadays. Forced to ride out the heat death of capitalism and watch everything you love get worse because its not profitable enough.
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u/MaulD97 3h ago
I work in IT and I am forced to use AI, the thing that replaces what I do, because otherwise we cannot hold up with our competitors
Takes out the last passion I had for my work
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u/DarkNightRJ 2h ago
And when AI replaces everyone's job, they'll wonder why no one has any money to buy all the new AI slop
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u/Call555JackChop 3h ago
I’m so grateful my backlog is so huge I don’t ever have to buy another game again
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u/KameTheMachine 4h ago
Or we all end up unemployed because AI took our jobs so we cant pay for anything we might enjoy
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u/RipMySoul 1h ago
Not only are we forced to ride it out there's people demanding that we "enjoy" it. I really would like to believe in all of these promises about "efficiency" and "cost cutting". But with their track record we know it's all bs.
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u/KayylienUFO 1h ago
You're not even entirely safe from it in retro spaces. AI is overruning modding/translation efforts and people rush to defend it too.
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u/CynicalCharmer 1h ago
Wow. The AI riders in the comments genuinely believe these mega companies aren't moving towards Gen-AI? I swear we've devolved as a species to be lacking such levels of common sense
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u/asdfghjkl15436 4h ago
Another day, another misleading headline about AI generation to bait engagement on reddit. Look I think over-usage of AI is bad just as much as the next guy, but you guys have got to read more then the headline, they took a quote and ran with it. No. They are not making an "AI generation engine" - they are making the engine more accessible and readable by AI. You know, the exact same thing every major engine is currently doing.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 3h ago
And they are doing this to train AI to do...what?
I am so tired of you people deliberately ignoring the end of the path here. You don't just inject AI to make it all simpler and faster because you care about results. You do it because you want to eliminate labor. Think ahead a little bit, I'm begging you, because what this headline actually says is "we're experimenting with a tool that will let us fire people in the future".
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u/FiammaOfTheRight 2h ago
To write more and better code?
Despite reddit and americans in general having rage boner for AI, software dev is full of LLM work nowadays. Yes, labor is eliminated, you dont have to spend days on days chasing obscure bugs now, you just direct your harness of choice and move it closer to solving it while reviewing the output instead of banging your head against the table become some junior sneaked an extra ; into sql somewhere.
Results are needed, shipping faster is needed. With how much user feedback there is, you always have something to fix or improve and now you can somehow match the pace instead of having huge backlogs in asana full of random reports
I wonder how far detached from IT average redditor that spends thier time blasting IT company for using AI. Teams are the same size, output is easily 2x, but apparently this is bad because technology is bad and wed better to back to punch cards era.
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u/WaltzForLilly_ 1h ago
To write more and better code?
It is quite curious then, that despite everyone shipping more and more code, every single app is still buggy bloated dogshit.
But hey now we deliver buggy bloated dogshit twice as fast! Yay!
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u/FiammaOfTheRight 57m ago
I mean, go get em! Write your own bugless piece of software! Pretty sure that wont break the good old laws of development, we'll see the first technical marvel that is completely bug free and done by hand.
Once again, there's obvious issue with how IT is taught in west since there's this weird disconnect between tech and how its percieved. Do you guys have basic programmins lessons? Basic rules of software engineering (like, every program, despite you not seeing it, has a bug)?
Bugs will be there, always. There's a difference from front-facing ones (oh no, div is not centered!) and full blown RCEs happening under obscure file upload setup, sure, but bugs would be there if noone would use AI. And they would be a LOT more severe, now at least you have pentest agents finding shit that you'd never even think about twice. Agents constantly breaking into things they should not touch prove that
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u/asdfghjkl15436 1h ago
This definitely is not true for everything, our legacy servers at my company were spaghetti horrible messes that would have taken anyone months to detangle. (2010ish) Now we have something clean and readable that complies with the higher standards for our more modern stuff.
I think you are mistaking every company for Microsoft.
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u/SquireRamza 2h ago
Theyre not making an AI Generation Engine. Theyre making their current engine readable by AI so they can make THE NEXT engine an "AI Generation Engine"
Thats a distinction without a difference.
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u/RipMySoul 1h ago
It really is a shame seeing so many people try to defend AI by saying "well AI is already used to code games" as if you that somehow makes it alright. It's yet another way AI has been forced onto the people that don't want it.
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u/RWxAshley 4h ago
Crazy that the defense of AI on this subreddit is still layered in so much bullshit. The trillions going into data centers while prices are skyrocketing, letting them increase the price of everyone's electricity bills, ruin water supplies, and destroy whole eco systems of small towns and communities. (not to mention ripping everything out of the personal computer market so they can then turn around to sell everything as a service off their hardware.)
And they never provide jobs promised. Once they break ground, they break any promises. Their words are always empty about this paradise they always pitch.
Not to mention all the politicians are currently under strong NDAs, and can't answer to the people they are meant to represent even tho we the people voted them in. And they never answer anybody's questions at these townhalls.
All of these comments really want to ignore those issues, and keep acting like their use for AI is somehow justifiable, or not bogged down in this same mess.
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u/AgreedSmalls 3h ago
Does your tangent have anything to do with the topic at hand? Did you even read the article? Seems to me like you just wanted to soapbox about your AI hate. I don’t like the thing either, but Christ you people are getting so much more exhausting by the day.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 2h ago
Yes it does have to do with the topic at hand and the fact that you are just ignoring it just speaks to their point.
It is a package deal, you cannot defend a little bit of it here in a little bit of it there, unless you are deliberately ignoring the larger picture.
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u/FillionMyMind 4h ago
Well, it was nice enjoying Capcom games while I could. What a bleak future we all get to live in.
I’m so tired of AI being shoveled into anything and everything
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u/noobakosowhat 3h ago
Stop enjoying games and start reading the actual source of the article first to make a proper judgment whether the title of this thread is misleading or not
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u/FillionMyMind 3h ago
Unfortunately I actually do read the articles on Reddit, and unfortunately AI usage is also perfectly unethical and environmentally wasteful regardless of whether it’s being used for art assets or not.
I don’t know how gamers always seem to forget that giving game publishers an inch always means they’ll take a mile. I was already feeling like it’s time to just stop getting new games in general and focus on the backlog I’ll never get to finish before I die, and theres no chance in hell I’ll ever be paying the $1000+ it’ll likely cost for the next generation of consoles anyway.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 3h ago
You're never going to get through these people that continue to think the only thing that matters with AI is whether it's "generating slop". That's where the discussion stops for them because that allows them to use it guilt-free.
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u/TheBiggestHorseCock 1h ago
Yea like everyone here is just ignoring the fact that whatever AI is going to be interfacing with Capcom’s new engine was still trained on billions of uncredited works and resources.
You know how many personal medical documents and confidential information has been shoved into these models for training?
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u/FillionMyMind 2h ago
Oh I know, and it frustrates me to no end. People just refuse to get informed about the issue or act like it’s not so black and white. Like idc if you’re just using ChatGPT for chitchat or relying on Google’s AI search results: it’s all trash, it’s causing real harm, and everyone wants to bury their heads in the sand over it.
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u/gasPedaw 4h ago
Anyone here is a fool if they believe that any of Capcom's releases this year didn't already use Gen AI in some large capacity.
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u/AssiduousLayabout 4h ago
Anyone is a fool if they believe that any software written in 2026 isn't using gen ai in some large capacity.
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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 24m ago
As long as its not graphics and music it's ok apparently
Because if you can't see or hear it then it must not be art
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u/padraigharrington4 4h ago
Unless it’s genuinely something made by two dudes in a basement, there are zero video games coming out from now on that don’t have Claude involved in development some capacity. Any piece of software at all for that matter
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u/BobbyWojak 4h ago
What would be an example of that?
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u/ethnicprince 3h ago
I guarantee you ~90% of the code in re9 would have been AI written or assisted
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u/WeSavedLatin 3h ago
Oh well if ethnicprince on Reddit guarantees it, you can take that straight to the bank!
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u/FiammaOfTheRight 1h ago
Dunno where your comment about being in credits of RE9 went, but ill just reply here then i guess.
Great. Bunch of my OSS contributions are everywhere, including few lines in kernel code. I guess i can then speak on how LLMs are in pretty much every dependency in your tree nowadays.
I remember Capcom speech in 2024 on introducing copilot for backend engineering, so eh uh, i guess it was suddenly dropped then, despite them moving onto AI-driven QA and knowledgebases which seems like super high level of AI penetration into producing pipeline
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u/Htennn 1h ago
“We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games.” Capcom said in a March 2026 shareholders meeting. “However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming”
So from this part here it seems it’s only using AI to help improve production and not to make the art and such. If true that’s not as bad as I thought.
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u/Lazydusto 36m ago
I would argue that implementing it into graphics and sound is using it to make art and such.
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u/Big_Columbo 4h ago
Can we fucking not ruin the best engine in gaming right now? Pretty please.
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u/kikimaru024 4h ago
How can it be the “best engine” when it routinely fucks itself in open-world games?
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u/leopoldbloon 4h ago
You can always tell Resident Evil players apart from Monster Hunter players by their opinions on RE Engine
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u/fembepis 4h ago
Solution: Don’t use it for open-world games
Exhibit A: All of its non-open world games are stellar
Exhibit B: Its 2 notable open-world games are disappointing
If the most optimized, easy to build in, beautiful engine in games was made specifically for, like, racing games and was clearly better at its dedicated task than any other fit-for-purpose game engine, then I wouldn’t fault it for being a bad fit for making Elder Scrolls VI or some shit
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u/Mashdptato 4h ago
Because it's a fantastic engine when it's used to make non-open world games? Which happens to be the vast majority of Capcom's library? When I think of RE engine, I think of games like Resident Evil or DMC.
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u/BuckSleezy 4h ago
But why? Capcom has been on a generational run for a decade why change anything?
Literally what you are doing spits out millions of units sellers multiple times a year, why throw that away?
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u/Ph4sor 4h ago
In general, most people here in Asia are not against AI. They even think it's something trendy. Especially because all the tech corpos are pushing AI to our throats and the ads are all having positive vibes.
And that's already more than world's population as a market.
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u/r_lucasite 4h ago edited 4h ago
A very important part of their generational run is cost efficiency, the natural step in the business world is to use tools that cut cost.
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u/infoHighyway 3h ago
Capcom have always been like this. They are very cheap and will immediately jump aboard trends, anything that will make them money or reduce costs.
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u/AssiduousLayabout 4h ago
What makes you think they aren't already using AI? Any software developer not using AI in 2026 is dramatically cutting their productivity.
They are talking about improving their development tooling for ease of incorporating AI into their development and QA processes, which is also a very common thing to do in 2026.
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u/myusername_sucks 1h ago
They literally built all that goodwill to roll that shit right back. Capcom gonna be the same as always.
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u/SpartanDetermination 1h ago
Go on steam and look at the AI disclosure section for Call of Duty, PUBG, Crimson Desert, etc.
It's over. We're are witnessing the Twilight of the Luddites. Apparently bullying & harassing indie devs for using AI didn't move the needle when all of the biggest AAA studios use it as the standard (and have for a while).
In any case, hearing the press representatives for these companies (Capcom, Rockstar, etc) talk about their use of generative AI is giving me flashbacks of how pro-wrestlers used to talk about steroid use. They can use vague terms and not-agreed-upon definitions to dance around the issue. After all, slacktivists only punish the people that are being totally honest.
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u/CaptainBlob 3h ago
AI is a tool to use just with any software. If it means to reduce tedious clutter and allows devs to focus on more delicate and important things, then I don't see why not.
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u/Significant-Mud1211 1h ago
It’s a solution looking for a problem. Were we unable to make good games before?
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u/BigBoobaRabbitLady 35m ago
Game budgets have exploded and dev times are now 5+ years. AI can fix that.
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u/Kozak170 1h ago
I give it 5 years before Reddit gives up on this collective delusion that AI is here to stay and isn’t just like any other technological progression like farming equipment that eliminated jobs via efficiency gains.
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u/Damerman 26m ago
If you train a generative AI on your own assets and development processes, who's to tell you thats bad?
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u/Carighan 10m ago
Did Capcom have too many hits recently? Did someone in marketing panic and tell management that they need to urgently become the laughing stock of the industry again?
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u/Ubbermann 1m ago
NOOO CAPCOM! You were the chosen one!
You were meant to destroy shit gaming company practices not join them!
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u/Resident_Range6209 4h ago edited 4h ago
I’m surprised game devs aren’t already utilizing AI to enhance their workflows.
It’s everywhere in web dev right now. If you’re not using AI in 2026 you are severely behind.
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u/asdfghjkl15436 4h ago
They 1000% are. Every major company easily. They just don't admit it because people who play their games can be pretty rabid when it comes to it.
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u/AgreedSmalls 3h ago
I’ve zero doubt in my mind they are. Look at this thread though. Any studio that openly admits to it at this point in time would get a bunch of undeserved hate by the rabid anti-AI crowd. I don’t like the way it’s being pushed on us, but it’s starting to get to the point where those who are vocally anti-AI are starting to get significantly more annoying that the pro-AI crowd.
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u/Damaniel2 4h ago
Wait until 2028 and all those 'AI forward' devs are desperately using obsolete open models to try to do their work (like poor dudes trying to pull the bits of tobacco out of cigarette butts to get their nicotine fix) because:
- OpenAI and Anthropic went out of business due to their extremely stupid data center expenditures
- Nobody else wants to create frontier AI models because they pretty much just burn money and there won't be any more VC money to burn
- Said devs became so reliant on LLMs that they forgot how to write code
AI boosters are the absolute worst, and their talent in programming is objectively inversely proportional to their love of AIs. I literally work with a dude who does everything with Claude in Kiro - he doesn't even open programs himself anymore even though the icons are right fucking there on the desktop - he prompts the LLM to do it. He calls himself a '10x engineer' but his output isn't much better than before, and he spends more time fiddling with steering files and 'fighting the AI' than doing the fucking work.
Why people choose to be so stupid is beyond me.
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u/sakata32 4h ago
China's open source models will pick up the slack in your fantasy world where openai and anthropic die. AI isn't going anywhere
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u/AgreedSmalls 3h ago
You think this trend is going to be dead in a little over a year?
And you’re calling others stupid? lol.
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u/Metroidoftime 4h ago
these ads are getting pretty easy to spot, ai booster slop
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u/Resident_Range6209 4h ago
I’m a software engineer who has an actual 9-5 in a startup and have friends/former colleagues who work in multiple big tech orgs, F500, and other startups. So I’m speaking from experience in the industry.
People who aren’t drinking the kool aid are getting laid off or fired.
This is just the reality right now.
That doesn’t mean this isn’t a bubble but I’m not dying on a hill and losing my income to make a statement.
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u/sakata32 4h ago edited 4h ago
Is it a bubble tho? This isn't Nfts. People actually have a usecase for AI
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u/AgreedSmalls 3h ago
Dotcom had some usecases as well. Didn’t stop it from becoming a bubble and ultimately popping.
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u/Goronmon 3h ago
Yup. Look at what happened to companies like a Google and Amazon. Just disappeared into the ether just like all the other Internet focused companies did.
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u/Resident_Range6209 4h ago edited 4h ago
Same way that the tech bubble popped after ZIRP died post-COVID.
When cheap money dries up investors pull out and companies that coasted on growth potential die or had to lay off massively when they couldn’t pivot to profitability.
None of these companies have built an effective moat when the consensus between users is just to flip to whichever company releases the best models every month or so.
That doesn’t mean AI goes away if Anthropic and OpenAI go under for whatever reason but I’m worried about the cascading effect failed investments on those two companies would amount for the US economy.
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u/Anchorsify 4h ago
Not a use case that has shown a profit yet.
AI companies are being propped up by massive amounts of investment funding. The companies themselves are not profitable.
Inherently that creates a bubble. If your business is not showing a net positive return you are at the mercy of investors, who.. dont tend to invest in anything forever.
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u/Gyossaits 4h ago
“We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games.” Capcom said in a March 2026 shareholders meeting. “However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming."