Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: AI will bring a 'golden age of gaming'

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said AI coding has improved markedly over the past year and will let studios build large-scale games with fewer resources, ushering in a "golden age of gaming." He said Epic is reassigning developers for "maximum AI acceleration," and the company's new launcher was vibe-coded from prompts.

• Sweeney argues AI can write code as well as humans and would have saved time on Unreal Engine 1
• Epic is moving developers onto AI tools for "maximum AI acceleration"
• Epic's new launcher was built from prompts rather than hand-written code
• Some developers reportedly refuse Fortnite collabs with Epic over its AI use