The past four weeks have been something of a wake-up call for the video game industry. You’ve read the headlines, so you know the deal by now: AI advancements spearheaded by Claude Opus 5.5 have turned the world of coding on its axis. Decompilations that used to take months, or even years, are now being pumped out on a daily basis, and publishers can’t keep up with the deluge of vibe-coded browser ports and “native” PC recompilations.

I’ve been covering and researching this over the past month, and there’s one recurring topic that keeps popping up in every comment section I read: karma. For many, this is the video game industry’s “you reap what you sow” moment, proof that the AI tools many publishers have brazenly admitted to using are a double-edged sword.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    So… this story actually gets funnier.

    Yes that’s right, Teeny Weeny Tim Sweeny showed up in the replies to personally immediately destroy any potential good will this story could possibly have generated for him and Epic.

    Keep swingin’ Tim.

    One of these days, we’ll be able to get rid of the tee ball stand… one of these days…

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      5 days ago

      finally found the status/2114913470017860071
      he is getting grilled by his hypocrisy

      • tomjank/status/2115200871701372971

      there were more, but he’s deleting his responses live

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        4 days ago

        There ya go!

        Yeah I don’t actually use Twitter, because ick, but there are youtubers who wander those blasted and accursed wastes, in search of high grade slop, and occasionally they do find gold.