Gen Atlas acquired a brand new trailer at Summer season Recreation Fest 2026, reminding everybody that the director of Shadow of the Colossus is engaged on a wild new sci-fi journey for Epic Video games. Legendary developer Fumito Ueda isn’t promising when the brand new blockbuster will launch, however he’s promising his new studio making it isn’t leaning on generative AI. “The whole lot that’s thought-about recreation improvement” is “made by people,” he instructed PC Gamer in a latest interview. Presumably, meaning issues like prototyping, idea artwork, and probably even the code that Gen Atlas will run on. As a substitute, the designer behind classics like Ico and The Final Guardian stated his new studio genDESIGN, which is making the sport beneath a publishing settlement with Epic Video games, solely makes use of genAI for administrative help. That features “developing with schedules” and “summarizing assembly notes,” however not, for instance, creating placeholder property for the sport. That seemingly distinguishes Gen Atlas from video games like Loopy Taxi and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, each of which arrived on Steam with genAI disclosures on their retailer listings. “We used it as a reference,” sequence creator Kenji Kanno instructed Kotaku through a translator. “So our artists would pull up [and] generate a few of their concepts after which they might have a look at that, you recognize, generated picture after which they might draw the precise factor. So precise creators, all the things from programming to property, all the things is made by an precise human. It’s solely used as a reference for them to take a look at after which they might really create the precise factor that might go into the sport.” Loopy Taxi is one instance of a reboot whose flirtation with genAI has killed some followers’ hype for the sport, regardless of the builders clearly making an attempt to determine the boundary between what they assume is perhaps useful for manufacturing versus what gamers are prepared to tolerate. In Gen Atlas‘ case, it sounds just like the know-how is getting used to probably ship emails to workers however to not ideate about what the sport itself needs to be. We’ll see how lengthy it takes to search out out what the reply to that finally ends up being. Figuring out Ueda’s previous historical past, it could possibly be some time till Gen Atlas is prepared for prime time.
