Epic Games has reportedly delayed the release of an upcoming shooter game featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters from March to an unspecified date, according to Bloomberg . According to the publication's sources, Epic is delaying the release because it is shifting to an "AI-first" production model using tools like Anthropic's Claude.

"No more hand-written code" is something one of the shooter's directors told staff in an internal email reviewed by Bloomberg alongside instructions that all art for the game will be "generated with full AI workflows." Two days after Bloomberg published the article, Epic revealed that its new Epic Games Launcher is available for preview and that it was "vibe coded" because "programming is hard." Notably, Epic is the company behind arguably the world's biggest live-service game, Fortnite, and the world's largest game development toolkit, Unreal Engine.…