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.

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Life is Strange developers Don't Nod have revealed that they're working on a new narrative game based around a "major IP" in partnership with Netflix. The game'll be developed at Don't Nod's Montreal studio, with the chilling-based streaming service set to publish it.

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New World has seen its last content update, with Amazon Games confirming their development of the MMO is winding down. The game's servers will be staying online in the short term. This news follows mass layoffs at Amazon, with over 14,000 roles reportedly being affected across the company and the gaming division seeing "significant" cuts.

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The Outer Worlds 2 arrives in full today, October 29th. Ahead of the gates to Arcadia finally being flung open to those who didn't fancy paying extra for early access, Obsidian have taken a stab at fixing some key issues and pesky bugs which've reared their heads so far. Good news, unless your roleplaying was set to be contingent upon being swallowed up by the ground or having to try and beat up an angry cupboard at some point in the space adventure.

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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.

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Workers at soon to be under new ownership Electronic Arts are reportedly struggling with a push from management towards trying to use AI for "just about everything". That's according to a new report, which claims staff are concerned about the likes of code mistakes they'll then have to clean up and the tech being trained to replace them.

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