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The most human game I've seen this year looks like it was made in MS Paint

Compared to the smooth hand-drawn animation that's popular in modern indie games, the low-res 2D visuals in Perfect Tides: Station to Station can conjure up derisive memes about MS Paint, or those ...

As the CEO of Arc Raiders publisher Nexon says AI is everywhere, game devs call 'BS'

AI use in game development is a conversation that's not going away anytime soon, despite many developers railing against its ...

"We would rather cut off our own arms": Indie devs react to Arc Raiders CEO saying people should assume everyone's using generative AI these days

"We don't use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a lot of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA." ...
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Game Developers Band Together To Rubbish Nexon’s Claims That Every Studio Is Using AI

The Oscar-winning actors are teaming up with audio research company ElevenLabs to produce AI replications of their voices, ...
GamesIndustry.biz

Nexon CEO says "it's important to assume every game company is using AI" following Arc Raiders debate

Junghun Lee says "AI has improved efficiency in both game production and live service operations" at publisher ...
GamesIndustry

Former MultiVersus devs "try something different" with indie studio, Airlock Games, moving away from "horrific" AAA space

Directors from Warner Bros.' defunct MultiVersus have launched a new independent studio, Airlock Games. The Warner Bros. platform fighting game, MultiVersus, shutdown on May 30, after Warner Bros.
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Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing ...

Survival Games Palworld dev's new publishing label isn't interested in AI slop: "If you're big on AI stuff ... we're not the right partner for that" Battlefield Battlefield 6 lead calls generative AI ...
Game Rant

Electronic Arts is Pushing Devs to Use AI, and They're Not Happy

Gabriel has been playing games since he was a kid. Loves most RPG games, platformers, and innovative indie games, and can talk for hours about how the first Fallout is the greatest game ever. He ...
GameSpot

Subnautica 2 Devs Claim There’s No GenAI In Game After Publisher’s “AI-First” Shift

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In the wake of Krafton Inc. becoming an "AI-first" company, developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment said that it won't adhere to its publisher's wishes ...
TweakTown

Report: EA's internal AI is causing issues with games development

TL;DR: Electronic Arts is aggressively integrating AI, including its generative chatbot ReefGPT, to automate game development and reduce costs. However, experimental AI tools cause coding errors and ...
PC Gamer

The best modern platformer I've played is getting a huge 10-year anniversary update, and the devs reckon there's 'no way anyone 100%s it'

N++ released as a PS4 exclusive in 2015 before hitting PC a year later. It's a platformer focused on fluid, momentum-based motion through stylish one-screen levels, and I can't recommend it enough: ...
Opinion

'We would rather cut off our own arms': Demonschool developers dispute Nexon CEO's claim that 'every game company is now using AI' in response to Arc Raiders backlash

Amid the news of an added duos mode and a new Helldivers 2-style community event, Arc Raiders has been dealing with some backlash. Embark Studios now has a track record of using generative AI for ...