Oct 29

Arc Raiders doesn't AI-generate guns from Youtube videos, Embark clarifies: "that's a research project, and not something that we're using in the game now"

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Let's get the hot potato out of the way without preamble: Embark's extraction shooter Arc Raiders doesn't include any gun models generated from Youtube videos, executive producer Aleksander Grøndal has told RPS in an interview about the game's usage of generative AI and machine learning technologies.

This clarification follows the partial online publication of an Edge magazine interview in which Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund made various claims for the studio's in-house tech, including the suggestion that the developers "can take a video from YouTube, feed it through our tools and pipelines, and [produce] a 3D model of the weapon you had in that video." According to Grøndal, this particular technology is not actually used in Arc Raiders. "That's a research project, and that's not something that we're using in the game now," he told me over a video call this Monday, following a sprawling and generally enjoyable hands-on.

Oct 28

In Escape From Duckov, I roll great clutter Katamari of avian avarice and agony

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Quack.

My flesh-coloured form tightens up beneath my body armour. The sausage fingers of my massive human hands grip the trigger of the SMG with white-knuckle desperation. The tiny eyes halfway up the huge head which forms the majority of my unnaturally lanky form spot it. A flash of green. I open fire mercilessly. Blood and bullets fly for 30 seconds. I’m still standing. Shaken, panting, and staring at a perfectly cooked bird on a plate.