This one’s a head-scratcher. Less than a day after shutting down both Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks—the latter of which created Hi-Fi Rush—Microsoft’s Matt Booty held a town hall wherein he proclaimed: “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards.”
That’s as per a report shared by The Verge. I won’t start rapid-firing quote tweets here because there are so damn many, but dipping into Twitter, you’ll see widespread bafflement to the tune of ‘wait, didn’t you just kill the studio that did that for you?’
More baffling still is (as per an internal email from the man himself at the time of said closures) these decisions were, quote: “Grounded in prioritising high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blockbuster games.” The mess…
Read moreAI art continues to be contentious. It’s been banned from Getty Images, used to win an art competition, and following a widespread protest anyone who posts to portfolio site ArtStation can opt out of having their art used as source material by algorithmic art generators.
Now an actual human artist has been caught in the crossfire. Minh Anh Nguyen Hoang, who creates art under the name Ben Moran, was banned from the subreddit r/Art after a moderator accused them of posting AI-generated art.
The piece in question, labeled A Muse in Warzone, was posted to r/Art two weeks ago and shortly after removed for breaching the subreddit’s rule against “memes, AI, filters, or other low quality work”. Moran was permanently banned from posting to the subreddit. When they politely aske…
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