Unannounced project delayed indefinitely

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The happy-go-lucky bigwigs at Epic Games have instructed the creators of an unannounced shooter that features Marvel and Star Wars characters to complete their project using an "AI first" production model, according to a report, with generated art and code. The Disney collaboration in question was allegedly due for release in March, but has now been delayed indefinitely. The game's makers are, we're told, being ordered to make heavier use of Anthropic's Claude and similar tools.

The report in question is from Bloomberg , who cite "people familiar with the project", together with an alleged internal message from the game's director. “No more hand-written code,” the director is said to have told the devs, with all art to be “generated with full AI workflows.”

Epic have, in general, bet big on generative AI. The tech is central to the next iteration of Unreal Engine , much to the displeasure of many game developers .…