Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's hairbrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI
in newsletterEurogamer · 2026-04-12 · 14 min read · culture
Eurogamer's 25th anniversary retrospective on Lionhead's Black & White traces how its data-driven creature AI — built by Richard Evans, who later joined Google DeepMind — foreshadowed modern conversational AI systems.
Appeared in 2026-04-13.