Godot veteran laments 'AI slop,' Highguard's mystery investor, and a big doc for Big Hops - Patch Notes #41

This week's gaming news highlights concerns over generative AI's impact on hardware availability and the influx of low-quality submissions to open-source projects like Godot. Unity claims its AI can now generate full casual games from prompts, while a documentary explores the six-year development of the indie platformer Big Hops. Other news includes Hasbro shutting down its Atomic Arcade studio, Tencent's secret funding of Highguard, a banned Call of Duty ad, ByteDance potentially selling Moonton, and Valve warning of Steam Deck OLED stock issues due to RAM shortages.

• COMPANY Moonton
• COMPANY Activision
• COMPANY Valve
• COMPANY Luckshot Games
• COMPANY Tencent
• COMPANY Unity
• COMPANY Savvy Games Group
• COMPANY Hasbro
• GAME Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• PLATFORM Steam Deck OLED
• COMPANY ByteDance
• GAME Godot
• GAME Big Hops