Expedition 33 loses indie game awards
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Despite winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025, this indie title has been disqualified from receiving any awards at another event due to AI.
As a writing tool, generative AI is a legendary plagiarizer, remixing the mass of older books, articles, and other human-made works it's been fed and regurgitating them as pure, irredeemable slop, often sold for cheap on Amazon, where it preys on readers and gift-givers who don't have the internet literacy to recognize the mess they're buying.
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI (PC:XAIIQ), is entering the video game market. The company has started hiring for a new gaming studio focused on building games powered by real-time AI. According to job listings and public posts,
In a trend on Twitter pointing toward "The World’s first 100% AI Created Game," Peak gets targeted by an account. Co-publisher Aggro Crab quotes this post to dispel any rumors or beliefs to the contrary of how the project came to be.
Battlefield 6 users accuse EA of using generative AI for new content as players notice a few unusual details in one of the game's cosmetics.
Larian Studios is apparently bullish on generative AI. Despite backlash against the technology from fans and even some of his own developers, studio head Swen Vincke says the Baldur’s Gate 3 maker has embraced it for exploring ideas and for the early prototyping of new content.