After Deepfaking YouTube, Google’s Veo 3 Might S...

Google’s new video generator is out in full power, and I don’t find out about you, however my feeds are full of examples of what it could actually (and typically can’t) do. I’ve already lined the way it’s deepfaking smooth-brain YouTube content, half-baked Michael Bay bulls**t, and absurd pharma ads, however there’s one other class I haven’t talked about but, and it’s probably much more impactful than the previous makes use of. Sorry, players, however Veo 3 (and sure different video mills) is perhaps on a collision course along with your AAA video games subsequent.

Veo 3 does video video games rather well. It is like you’ll be able to discover new worlds already.

Prompts are all variations of:

> a third-person open world online game strolling round…
> an fps online game in/on a… pic.twitter.com/bpDGaKNU55

— fofr (@fofrAI) May 22, 2025

One space that Veo 3 is surprisingly useful at is producing fake gameplay footage of nonexistent AAA video games, which—in the event you’ll enable me to show my mind off for a second—is fairly entertaining. Above are the outcomes of a immediate that asks Veo 3 to generate a third-person open-world recreation in numerous settings, together with some life like Grand Theft Auto-style generations, some sci-fi, some fantasy, and one that appears an terrible lot like The Final of Us. Copyright considerations apart, it’s fairly neat!

It is sensible, given the unending stream of gaming content material that Google might need at its disposal via YouTube, that Veo 3 would have the ability to spit out some type of facsimile of a AAA recreation. That’s not the half that basically intrigues me; it’s that individuals are already taking these generations and operating with them. Beneath is an instance from a 3D designer who goes by Lovis Odin on X demonstrating how Veo 3’s outputs could be built-in right into a workflow that takes the AI video generator’s text-to-video powers and makes them much more granular.

Google Veo3 creates lovely base movies, however what if that’s not sufficient?
I constructed a @ComfyUI workflow that takes it additional:
🏗 New construction with Flux (LoRA arch)
📦 Changed into 3D with Hunyuan3d 2
🔁 Built-in + relight through Flux, Controlnet, Denoise and Redux
🎞️ Finalized the… pic.twitter.com/pAfu2qVU34

— Lovis Odin (@OdinLovis) May 27, 2025

Utilizing a couple of different instruments in tandem with Veo 3, Odin takes an preliminary video immediate after which provides a construction that’s rendered into 3D and is then totally customizable. Positive, Veo 3 can add objects by itself, however as Odin notes, what separates this workflow out of your typical text-to-video immediate is the granularity. Pretty much as good as text-based prompts could be, they’re additionally type of an enormous ache within the ass in order for you one thing particular, which makes them much less supreme for actual, skilled workflows.

Odin’s workflow isn’t solely centered on video games, to be clear—that is the kind of factor that might be utilized to essentially any generative video—however it feels particularly sensible for recreation growth. Give it some thought: you have got an thought, you generate the look with Veo 3, customise it with different 3D instruments, after which (although this half isn’t included in Odin’s workflow) you convey it to life with AI-generated code. Clearly, this final half is the largest piece of the puzzle, and generative AI isn’t fairly on the degree of having the ability to correctly code AAA video games but, however that doesn’t imply we aren’t trending in that route.

Individuals are already properly alongside on their journey to “vibe coding” simple games, however one thing tells me that’s only the start. Google itself already broached the idea of generatively coded games again in 2023, stating in a weblog publish on generative AI and gaming that “creating content material is certainly one of—if not the most important—bills that video games can incur.” The weblog additionally stated, “In accordance with the UK’s CMA, blockbuster video games can have growth budgets properly over $100 million… AI permits builders to leverage this new know-how in a means which is respectful of mental property whereas defending one’s personal proprietary information.”

To summarize Google, if I could, recreation growth is dear and time-consuming, they usually see huge potential in lowering the labor prices of video games, copyright be damned. Is that shocking? No, in no way. AI, if we’re to imagine the hype, seems to be a labor-reducing power throughout the board in plenty of industries, video games included. What’s shocking, nevertheless, is that the progress in that route is perhaps coming quicker than we predict, and if it’s actually right here, that might be dangerous information for the actual, extraordinarily overworked folks of the video games business and probably dangerous information for video games themselves.

As huge because the potential for augmentative AI could also be, the potential for AI slop is simply as excessive, and sadly, there’s nothing particular concerning the video games business that might stop that very same slop-like ripple from taking impact. I’ve discovered to not sound the alarms too early—issues occur within the tech world, they usually occur quick. Possibly within the not-so-distant future, we’ll get up and understand this entire AI factor was only a passing fad, but when there’s one factor that’s for positive, it’s that we’ll probably discover that out the onerous means via a lot of Fortnite plagiarism.