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Activision just revealed new Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty games via AI-generated adverts! Except they didn't really, because it's not just the artwork that's fake.

Activision just revealed new Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty games via AI-generated adverts! Except they didn't really, because it's not just the artwork that's fake.
Players aren't paying for Ubisoft's new DLC for a two-year-old game. Someone has to be... but Ubisoft aren't giving away any details.
A newly discovered exploit might affect every game made in Unity since 2017, and that means a lot of finished, abandoned games are now at risk.
Blizzard Ent saw a mass exodus of some of its best and brightest; the early 2020s funding boom incentivised more and more to take the leap. "Ex-Blizzard talent" seemed a surefire path to success. We're starting to see the first wave of resultant projects in the wild. Success? Not so much...
As Amazon and Netflix try to reach new audiences with their games, they think Generative AI is the future. It seems bleak.