Game News Round-Up

Google officially reveals AI game-creation platform, Playground

• Playgroundwill allow users to generate their own simple AI games using text prompts, with a more complex version powered by Unity on the way
• ‘Unity Spark’ will also be browser-based and let users generate 3D games via text prompts, using assets from Unity’s store

Star Wars Zero Company staff ‘returning to work’ after being furloughed pre-release

• The staff returns announced today bring Bit Reactor’s pay-rolled headcount to more than half of what it was ahead of the furloughs, meaning many workers remain without pay

Xbox restates plans for next-gen Project Helix to be a "family of devices", stressing "many players will be on the go"

Dispatch officially eligible for The Game Awards for a second year

• This is despite the fact that all eight episodes of the game's first season were released by Nov. 12, 2025, which was before the Nov. 21 eligibility cutoff date for the 2025 awards

Paramount and Warner Bros. combine video game divisions after $110bn Skydance merger

• Paramount Games Studio boss Tony Driscoll, who previously worked at Epic Games and Warner Bros, will take over the merged games operation