The GDC will feature an AI Games Hackathon event.
The GDC will feature an AI Games Hackathon event.
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AI Games and AI Film Festival will highlight how generative AI is taking root

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Generative AI is exploding and leading to the first AI-generated games and AI-created movies. And to mark the moment, a group of companies is staging The Culture AI Games and Film Festival on May 9 in San Francisco.

Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable, is one of the founders behind the gathering, as is Philip Nastaly, CEO of the studio CHAPTR. On top of that, Fable and other companies are sponsoring the GDC AI Games Hackathon on March 23 with $10,000 in prizes for those who can demonstrate games featuring generative AI, Saatchi and Nastaly said in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.