# From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games

DevFeed: [From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-atari-to-eve-online-building-on-15-years-of-ai-research-in-games-6154.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://deepmind.google/blog/from-atari-to-eve-online-building-on-15-years-of-ai-research-in-games/>)

Author: Alexandre Moufarek; Adrian Bolton

Published: 2026-08-21T11:59:48Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Google DeepMind News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/google-deepmind-news.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Game Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/game-development.md>), [Reinforcement learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reinforcement-learning.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Neural Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/neural-network.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [game-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/game-development.md>), [gaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gaming.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [partnership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partnership.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [reinforcement-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reinforcement-learning.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>)

## AI overview

Google DeepMind describes 15 years of AI research driven by games, from Atari and Go to StarCraft II. The article highlights partnerships with game developers and milestones including DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, MuZero, and AlphaStar, showing how game environments have advanced AI research and influenced gameplay strategies.

## Source excerpt

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.