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A new patent filed by Microsoft may give some insight into game development ideas the company is exploring.

Another example shows how the system could be implemented into a pre-existing sandbox game likeMinecraft.

Microsoft AI generative patent for gaming

Publisher Electronic Arts showed off a concept for game worlds that respond to player prompts in the form of a world of cardboard.

Remember Sony’s amusing diagram of someone excitedly yelling “McDonald’s?”

Still, it’s a snapshot into paths the company is looking into right now.

Electronic Arts user-generated box game demo

Publisher Electronic Arts showed off a concept for game worlds that respond to player prompts in the form of a world of cardboard.

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Phil Spencer, chief executive officer of gaming at Microsoft Corp., speaks during an interview

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Activision has come under fire for the use of AI-generated images in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

MatterGen researchers at Microsoft experiment with compound TaCr2O6.

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