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Still mad at Valve for Steam's AI disclosures, Epic Games boss criticizes "forcing developers to write a political statement to be used against them by the hate mob"
Independent sources: 3 · GamesRadar+, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun
Last week, Creative Assembly and Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2's remastered Complete Edition from Steam, after an avalanche of complaints about technical problems and some AI-generated art.
Independent sources: 2 · Rock Paper Shotgun, Joe.co.uk
He's also clarified Creative Assembly's stance on generative AI, conceding that the studio do use it to help with "analysis, debugging, or speedy prototyping", but that they're against using it to generate game assets and art.
Independent sources: 2 · Rock Paper Shotgun, Joe.co.uk
Again, Collum doesn't name the external developer in question, but Mataboo Games are listed as co-devs on the Steam page.
Independent sources: 2 · Rock Paper Shotgun, Joe.co.uk
Collum says that SEGA and a small team of senior developers are working with the external team on "next steps", with details to follow.
Independent sources: 2 · Rock Paper Shotgun, Joe.co.uk
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