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'I drank from the chalice of blood': indie dev scrubs his game of AI-generated voice lines, having previously described the technology as 'anti-human and anti-art'
Refund offered for players who "still feel betrayed" over AI use in Future? No Thanks!
Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed"
Open world ecosatire Future? No Thanks! has been updated to remove some AI-generated voices, after lead developer Paolo "Molleindustria" Pedercini belatedly disclosed his usage of the technology earlier this week. He's also offering to refund people over Paypal or Venmo if they "still feel...
"This was not a Creative Assembly developed game": Total War boss points the finger at external partner for Shogun 2 Complete Edition disaster
Last week, Creative Assembly and Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2's remastered Complete Edition from Steam, after an avalanche of complaints about technical problems and some AI-generated art. Now, Total War vice president Roger Collum has written a personal apology, while pinning some of the blame...
Mass Effect’s Stunning Leaked Trailer Shows What EA Canceled, as BioWare’s 50-Person Team Aimed for Unmatched Player Choice
Mere hours after the announcement that Electronic Arts is shutting down historic RPG developer BioWare for good, a Mass Effect trailer leaked on the Web. We didn't post it right away because initially there was genuine confusion about its origin. Was it real, or AI-generated? It's extremely hard to...
Machinarium Dev Has a Message for AI Slop Creators: “Love Letters Are Supposed to Be Handwritten”
Amanita Design, the Czech studio behind Machinarium, recently called out an AI-generated project made using assets from the game.
SonicFox Reminds Everyone They’re Based, Backing Out Of A Gaming Convention Over An AI-Generated Promo
Ninjutsu Entertainment posted a video asking SonicFox to reconsider their decision
SonicFox Cancels Contract With Gaming Convention After Event Uses Likeness in AI-Generated Poster
Prolific fighting game player SonicFox has terminated their contract with a tournament in Norman, Oklahoma after organizers fed artwork of their mascot character into AI to generate a promotional poster for the event.
Esports star SonicFox pulls out of gaming event over AI-generated art
The competitor was advertised as a special guest at Nexcon 2026, taking place November 14–15 in Norman, Oklahoma.
The Finals adds new solo mode, map updates, an infiltrator playstyle, and more AI-generated voice commentary
It’s an all-new season in the battle royale FPS The Finals, and as is often the case with this particular shooter, the new Prime Time season is pretty stacked with additions and features. And at least one that players don’t think is going to go well. Some of the primary highlights for this new...
PS Store Must Copy Steam If PC Players' Campaign Against AI Content Succeeds
Steam Next Fest is a disaster. There's currently a huge push for an all-encompassing Steam filter that would allow users to disqualify any game that uses AI-generated assets from their search results. The campaign, which is underway across all of the usual social media platforms like Reddit, X...
Oblivion Remastered gets an FPS performance boost from an AI-generated PC patch
An Oblivion Remastered fan has used Claude AI to create a performance patch that reportedly boosts average FPS by 37%, offering another example of how AI tools are being used by gaming communities.
Steam Next Fest Generative AI Usage Jumps To 36 Percent
In February, we reported that Steam users were frustrated by the growing use of AI-generated artwork at Steam Next Fest. A few months later, it was confirmed that almost 20 percent of games in June's Steam Next Fest used some form of generative AI in their creation.
Japanese acting union fights back against AI-generated voice use, proposing strict new guidelines, especially regarding the use of a deceased actor's voice
The Japan Actors Union has issued new rules, guidelines, and restrictions related to AI-generated voice use. This includes an outright ban on the replication of the voices of dead actors, unless the actor had authorised its use during their lifetime. Read more
Woman fined after fake AI bear photo prank triggers real search
A woman in Russia was fined after an AI-generated photo of a bear led to an actual real-life hunt for the animal.
Battlefield 6 Gets Slammed For More Slop Slipping Through: ‘Charging Players $$$ For AI-Generated Content Is Peak Disrespect’
Operators with five guns and misspelled patches have fans shaking their heads
Whoa, This Minecraft Mod Turns The Game Into A Deltarune-Style Turn-Based RPG
And it’s not one of those AI-generated mods that just slaps two games together and calls it a day
Dragon Ball Goku voice actor furious at “unforgivable” AI videos using her voice: “It has no heart”
Dragon Ball voice actress Masako Nozawa has slammed AI-generated videos using her voice without permission.
Epic's bulletproof plan to outdo Steam: "We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher"
Epic Games has retooled the Epic Games Store to feel less like molasses in an igloo, and the company says it's now "46% faster than Steam" thanks to the power of partially AI-generated code. "We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher to be faster than the other guy," Epic says in a recent Twitter post....
Dragon Quest Creator Has a New Game, but It's AI-Generated
Yuji Horii praises AI for significantly reducing game development time, allowing him to produce a new game within 30 minutes.
Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii releases new AI-generated game, and he says it took 30 minutes to make
Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii has just released a new game that he says was made (or, rather, prompted) in about half an hour thanks to gen-AI. Read more
"It's Truly Astonishing" - Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii Made An AI-Generated Game In 30 Minutes
"I can just give instructions to the AI". Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has released a brand new game, but with a twist: it's completely AI-generated. As covered by VGC, Horii-san posted a link on X to a game titled Interrogation Room Komiya in which you select a series of text prompts to push a...
NVIDIA’s Vera CPU Brings 2,000 Sandboxes Online Faster Than AMD’s EPYC “Zen 5” Can Boot Just 1,000 In Agentic AI
NVIDIA's Vera CPU continues to showcase its strong per-core performance in Agentic AI workloads as demoed by Daytona. NVIDIA Vera Tackles AMD EPYC In New Agentic AI Benchmarks As The Arm CPU Drives Performance By 8x Over x86 Daytona is a dedicated runtime for AI-generated code execution and agent...
AI-Generated Games Platform Already Has 10 Million Monthly Users
Astrocade is filled with AI slop, but millions of people don't seem to care
GTA 5 Made Playable in Browser as AI-Generated Game Chaos Continues
Grand Theft Auto 5 was made playable in a browser before it was pulled offline, amid an explosion of AI-fueled games across the internet. Footage of GTA 5 running in a browser spread via social media yesterday, though the game's website is now offline — with reports that hosting service Cloudflare...
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