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Ex-Square Enix suit says you can whine all you like, but 'Gen Z loves AI slop' and everyone and their grandma is already using it
By Joshua Wolens published
News "The upcoming generation of gamers are Bane in Dark Knight Rises saying 'You merely adopted the slop, I was born in it.'"

FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has big plans for the MMO after Dawntrail's roughspots—hinting at A Realm Reborn-style overhaul
By Harvey Randall published
News If you throw another moon at me, I'm gonna lose it.

In defense of tab-targeting: MMO devs have been trying to put dodge rolls in their games for 10+ years to avoid WoW, and it's never worked
By Harvey Randall published
ON MY TAB Only difference is, we still need a new game to prove 'em wrong.

Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'
By Justin Wagner published
News AI's growing role in gamedev continues to polarize.

New World proved that the hunger for a modern MMO is clearly there—but the only studios with enough cash to make them are too shareholder-brained to try
By Harvey Randall published
MAD WORLD You can't become a titan if you never get time to grow.

Final Fantasy 14's voice actor for beloved catboy G'raha Tia gets crowned sexiest man alive, entirely vindicating my taste in fictional men
By Harvey Randall published
News We stay winning.

Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't
By Andy Chalk published
news Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Association has noticed that an awful lot of what comes out of Sora 2 "closely resembles Japanese content or images."

Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities
By Harvey Randall published
SAME DIFF Two households, both alike in genre, in fair AddOn-a, where we lay our scene.
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