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.
- Entities
- Company: Moonton
- Company: Activision
- Company: Valve
- Company: Luckshot Games
- Company: Tencent
- Topic: Business
- Company: Unity
- Company: Savvy Games Group
- Company: Hasbro
- Game: Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Platform: Steam Deck OLED
- Company: ByteDance
- Game: Godot
- Topic: Game Development
- Game: Big Hops
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