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Disney also pulls out of $1 billion deal with OpenAI.

OpenAI discontinued Sora, their generative AI (genAI) video creation tool that launched in 2025. According to Variety, no reason was provided by the company for the decision to abruptly pull the plug on Sora.

The announcement of Sora being discontinued was brief and made only through Twitter.



Shortly after OpenAI took Sora out back, Disney ended their partnership with OpenAI. Disney had...

A "comprehensive audit" of assets is also underway.

Fans caught Pearl Abyss using generative AI (genAI) art assets in their newly released game, Crimson Desert. Not only were there obvious genAI created assets present in the game, but Pearl Abyss made no disclosure of using AI through the Crimson Desert Steam page. This is something that Valve allegedly requires, but are quite lax in actually enforcing. It took a bit after initial reporting was made, but Pearl Abyss did make a ...

And Valve is caught not enforcing their own policies.

Crimson Desert features generative AI (genAI) art assets in the final build of the game that released to everyone just yesterday. While I have yet to see the obvious genAI art assets myself, several examples have already been posted to social media and Reddit across a number of discussion threads.

According to some media outlets, there is "debate" about if the assets were made with generative AI or not....

EA's AI push is starting to bear fruit.

Battlefield 6 fans are calling out Electronic Arts and Battlefield Studios over what appears to be the use of generative AI for an in game store asset. Within the Windchill cosmetic pack for Battlefield 6 is a cosmetic sticker item that appears to depict an M4A1 with two barrels. The Windchill pack for Battlefield 6 costs 900 Battlefield Coins (roughly $9 USD) and includes six items. One of those items is the "Winter Warning" player card stick...

It's corporate speak excuse time.

Square Enix is laying off over 100 people this week from locations throughout the United States and United Kingdom. According to initial reporting from IGN, there are about 137 jobs that are "at risk" of being laid off by the end of the week in the UK alone. An "unknown number" of employees in the US will also be without a job by the end of the week.

A bulk of these layoffs will impact those working in marketing,...

The studio was found to use AI for an art asset and translations.

Over the past weekend word started circulating that The Alters includes some assets that were created using AI. This includes at least once use of an environmental art asset created using generative AI, in addition to using AI for foreign language localization translations. Fans not only took issue with the use of AI in the game but also the fact that the use of AI was not disclosed on Steam. The Steam page for The Alters...

The gaming industry is changing faster than ever, and artificial intelligence is driving a lot of that evolution. Whether it’s real-time world-building, smarter NPCs, or predictive balancing tools, AI is empowering both creators and players alike. As we previously reported, platforms like Muse are giving developers the tools to build more immersive, reactive experiences. This isn’t just happening in first-person shooters or open-world adventures. Online poker rooms are also tapping into...

AI slop from top to bottom.

Snail Games USA shared a new trailer for ARK: Aquatica, a new expansion coming to ARK: Survival Ascended. The new trailer is so bad that the main developer on the ARK franchise, Studio Wildcard, pre-emptively distanced itself from the project by informing fans on social media that this expansion is being made only by Snail Games.


The trailer released yesterday by Snail Games utilizes generative AI (gen-AI) for basically the entire duration....

To almost nobody's surprise.

Due to a new policy change with Steam, Activision has had to come clean and admit that, yes, they do use generative AI to create some of the assets used in Call of Duty. It's something that fans have long since suspected was the case for a couple of years now, at least since 2023's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Call of Duty players that possessed a set of working eyes noticed some visual oddities over the past couple of years with some...