Backlash
The dev behind 2025’s most popular horse game will not use AI “without prior notice,” as its gen-AI studio sparks backlash
While I’m not exactly a gacha game person, I know far too much about Cygames. I blame ‘Pseychie,’ perhaps the most thorough gacha-focused YouTuber out there, whose videos soundtrack my noisy lunchtime ramen eating. Pseychie has mentioned many a developer on his channel, but Cygames is one of the ones that’s stuck in my mind. […]
Battlefield 6 Faces Backlash Over Alleged AI Generated Cosmetic
Battlefield 6 players are calling out EA for what appears to be AI-generated art in the new Windchill cosmetics bundle. The controversy centres on the “Winter Warning” sticker, which depicts a soldier wielding an M4A1 rifle with glaring errors. Two barrels and a duplicated ejection port cover hallmarks of generative AI glitches. This definitely looks […]
Battlefield 6 Season 2 Delayed Following Player Backlash
In a new blog post, Battlefield Studios announced the delay of Battlefield 6‘s Season 2 due to community dissatisfaction and backlash regarding several aspects of the game, including monetization, maps, and insufficient post-launch content. As a result, Season 1, which was set to end on January 20, will be extended, and Season 2 will now […]
Granblue Fantasy Dev Cygames Apologises for AI Studio Announcement Following Backlash
Having officially established ‘Cygames AI Studio’ just last week, Granblue Fantasy developer Cygames has now published an apology on social media. As you can imagine, the initial announcement went down incredibly poorly, given the heavy cynicism that currently surrounds generative AI use in video games. Without going into too much detail, the company stated that […]
Larian says “there is not going to be any gen-AI art in Divinity,” and it’s even booted it out of the concept art stage after backlash
Larian Studios has emphasized that the upcoming Divinity will not use any art created by generative-AI tools, and that it will be refraining from using them in the concept art stage “to ensure there is no room for doubt.” The next RPG from the creators of the world-beating Baldur’s Gate 3 made its gruesome first […]
Arc Raiders has flourished despite AI backlash, but Embark says it won’t now “open the floodgates for all types of AI”
2025, particularly the tail end of it, seemed to be dominated by one topic when it came to videogame development discourse: the use of generative AI. Big names such as Activision, Krafton, and Larian were all pulled into the debate for their varying positions on using AI tech, and so too was Embark Studios, the […]
Backlash over Larian CEO’s AI comments is a leadership problem
Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity developer Larian Studios is in a bit of a pickle after comments from CEO Swen Vincke in an interview with Bloomberg lit up social media. In the interview, Vincke explained the studio is using generative AI (a controversial technology) on the freshly-announced Divinity sequel but that it isn’t using it to […]