Are AI-generated video games really on the horizon?

Microsoft's new Muse AI tool generates gameplay videos to help designers visualize concepts before coding them, trained on 100,000 hours of gameplay from Ninja Theory's Bleeding Edge. While executives suggest broader applications like game preservation, Associate Professor Julian Togelius cautions about the technology's limitations: "Game engines are complicated, messy things and it takes a lot of time to simulate things — they're not built for that." He notes that simulations work well with massive training data but "if you move far beyond what's been recorded, simulations generally stop behaving well."