with sloppy (but convincing enough) AI vibeclones on the rise, developers now face a future in which a steady stream of pre-release videos, demos, and playtests—the only reliable way to promote and build community—could be their game’s undoing

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It's been one week since launch and we've just hit overwhelmingly positive on Steam 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who's played and reviewed Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 so far! We're so happy to see the tremendous response from our community.

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it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

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This is an excellent, calm and precise discussion of what it means to draw lines for AI use in a creative community, and the problem of AI users feeling entitled to both have their cake and eat it.

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to me the existential threat posed by AI slop games is less "AI slop games will steal our sales" and more "the onslaught of AI slop and the exhaustion over having to second guess every new game will make people mentally check out from supporting new games at all and retreat to their backlogs"

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