Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Every Friday Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them. Every Thursday GTA 6 O'clock Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts. Every Friday Knowledge From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon. Every Thursday The Setup Every Wednesday Switch 2 Spotlight Every Saturday The Watchlist Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! The Roblox Corporation recently tried to show off its experimental generative AI tech, one the company hopes will let players fabricate entire game worlds soon, but the best the tech could come up with for now is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33... if you squint really hard and pretend that game really sucked, actually. Roblox lives and thrives off of user-made games, so perhaps it's unsurprising that the Roblox Corporation is also chasing the generative AI dragon. In a series of recent tweets, the company details what it calls 4D Generation, a feature launched yesterday allowing bloxers to generate "interactive 3D objects like cars, plans, and more" via prompts. The company then moved onto something it calls 'real-time dreaming,' a more experimental idea being worked on in its research lab, and this is where the nightmare fuel comes in. Roblox Corp says users will have the "ability to generate fully playable video worlds prompted from any text or image," and then convert it to "Roblox native as a way for many people to play simultaneously." In a dystopian knife twist, the company calls the idea "Dream Theater – where one user is dreaming, while others watch and prompt them." Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director admits Sandfall "tried" AI during the J'RPG's development, but "didn’t like it" "Don't be lazy f**ko's": Retro games legend reacts to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 AI controversy Most gamers aren't actually bothered by gen AI in games, says former Square Enix exec: "Many studios I know" are relying on it, and art or voices like Arc Raiders' are "the tip of the spear" Want to see what real-time dreaming is capable of right now? Well, it's capable of generating a game of the year winner. No, I mean literally – Roblox put out a video showing off the tech, and apparently a prompt as vague as 'woman in a glowing cave' excretes what to me looks obviously like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Maelle running around a blurry version of the acclaimed RPG's Flying Waters area. Check it out below. In our research lab, we are building “real-time dreaming” - the ability to generate fully playable video worlds prompted from any text or image.Our real-time, action conditioned world model (currently running internally at 16fps at 832x480p) is trained on a combination of data,… pic.twitter.com/R5CKJkFuh2February 5, 2026 In our research lab, we are building “real-time dreaming” - the ability to generate fully playable video worlds prompted from any text or image.Our real-time, action conditioned world model (currently running internally at 16fps at 832x480p) is trained on a combination of data,… pic.twitter.com/R5CKJkFuh2February 5, 2026 In our research lab, we are building “real-time dreaming” - the ability to generate fully playable video worlds prompted from any text or image.Our real-time, action conditioned world model (currently running internally at 16fps at 832x480p) is trained on a combination of data,… pic.twitter.com/R5CKJkFuh2February 5, 2026 "Why did it make Expedition 33?" one viral tweet reads. "Expedition 33 looks so bad in this, how did it win game of the year?" another says. Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki explains that the company "built this model with internal Roblox data, as well as open source video data." That internal data includes the 13 billion hours Roblox players spend in-game every month, which is now being "used to train world models, as well as AI-driven NPCs." Former Square Enix exec says viral Roblox hit Grow a Garden is "somewhat evil": "Do you wanna pay to grow this faster? Do you wanna pay to steal this from someone's garden?"