Epic Games says its AI-written Store launcher preview halves startup time and reaches the store page 46% faster than Steam from a cold start. The figures are Epic's own, and the rebuild changed the architecture and tech stack along with the tooling, so they cannot isolate what AI contributed.
Perspective Coverage
6 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 34%
- Operator
- Operator 39%
- Investor
- Investor 27%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence65
Epic put a Linux Epic Games Launcher preview out on Oct. 14 and is rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat for Fortnite, with no date. The new version requires Secure Boot, TPM 2.0 and signed kernels, VideoCardz reported, so only some Linux machines will qualify.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence72
Epic Games told developers on its delayed Disney shooter to build with AI first, Bloomberg reported, a game tied to Disney's $1.5 billion stake in Epic. Epic has not set a new release date.
Perspective Coverage
13 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 32%
- Operator
- Operator 36%
- Investor
- Investor 32%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence66
Steal a Brainrot's owners are suing Mementum, saying it has no rights to Tung Tung Tung Sahur, an OpenAI-made meme with hundreds of millions of views. The case asks a federal court whether prompting an AI image tool can make someone the author of a character about to appear in Fortnite.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Asus ROG's first gaming soundbar handles the half of the job that is easy to demo. Capturing a voice in a room your own subwoofer is filling is the other half, and it is where every rival will be graded too.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives48
- Confidence54
Roblox now grades a game over 28 days and asks for updates every one or two weeks. That prices the team you keep after launch above the team that shipped it.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives68
- Confidence44
Nintendo has partnered with Elden Ring studio FromSoftware on The Duskbloods, a hardcore multiplayer vampire game. That is a different bet than the one that sold every Switch before it.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives62
- Confidence45