Capcom announces REX upgrade plan: turning the RE engine into a game engine for the AI ​​era卡普空公布 REX 升级计划：将 RE 引擎打造成面向 AI 时代的游戏引擎

IT House reported on October 4 that the development costs of AAA games are becoming higher and higher, and the development cycle is also lengthening. Even well-established studios such as Capcom are feeling the knock-on impact. Now many studios are beginning to introduce artificial intelligence into game development and game engines to keep up with the pace of the industry. Capcom has now announced that it will transform the RE engine into a game engine suitable for the artificial intelligence era. In the future, this engine will receive iterative updates one after another to simplify game development work. This is also part of Capcom's new concept of "collaborating with artificial intelligence to create games". Capcom has opposed the use of AI-generated art assets in games in the past. Although this position may have changed, the integration of artificial intelligence into the RE engine will most likely only focus on simplifying the development process and optimizing those repetitive, boring and time-consuming work links. According to a report from the Japanese publication "Game Biz", Capcom executive and programmer Satoshi Ishida announced plans to integrate AI functions within the RE engine at the "Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026" held on October 2, 2026. Capcom does not intend to develop a new AI game engine from scratch, but is preparing to upgrade and improve the existing RE engine through a new project called REX. REX is a phased improvement plan. The plan is to complete the unified transformation of the engine based on "the world's most common programming language", which is not only convenient for developers to use, but also easy for artificial intelligence to interpret. It is said that this AI can subsequently understand and write new programs, conduct game trial tests, and troubleshoot program loopholes. IT House noticed that Ishida Satoshi also talked about several major problems currently facing Capcom. For example, today's AAA games are already very large, and even some simple processes take a long time; and larger development teams also need an engine that can be adapted to the use of all personnel. Therefore, integrating artificial intelligence into the development workflow is critical to streamlining the development process for next-generation AAA games. The REX plan will start from many aspects such as engine operating efficiency, performance, supporting tools, quality inspection, etc. to solve the above-mentioned problems.