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Sega's newly announced Crazy Taxi: World Tour game is among those made in part with generative AI, and now the franchise's original creator, Kenji Kanno, has defended his studio's use of the controversial technology. He told Kotaku, via a translator, that the game's artists would use generative AI to generate ideas, and then they would "draw the actual thing." "So actual creators, everything from programming to assets, everything is made by an actual human. It’s only used as a reference for them to look at and then they would actually create the actual thing that would go into the game," he sa

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spoke about the need for the industry to think about payment plans, partnerships, less powerful consoles, and smaller games

Sega has disclosed that Crazy Taxi: World Tour is using AI-generated content, according to the game's Steam page. The corporation states, "We use generative AI as a support tool for developers, aiming to provide better content to our users and enable developers to focus more on creative tasks." It goes on to clarify that AI has not been used in reference to the performers in the game. It is the first major game from Sega's upcoming slate confirmed to be using generative AI, since executives stated that it would "leverage" the technology where appropriate, during a Q&A session after the com

Veteran game developer Ken Levine stepped away from the BioShock series after 2013's BioShock Infinite, and while the series is going ahead with BioShock 4, it's doing so without him. Why did Levine step away to work on a different game, Judas, instead of sticking with the series he created?Speaking to IGN, Levine said BioShock remains "very important" to him and that he feels "incredibly fortunate" to have worked on a franchise that means so much to so many people. However, he opted to step away in part because he "didn't have a lot else to say in that world." He also reflected on how working