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ARC Raiders bosses double down on using AI in game dev: ‘More time innovating; less time writing code’

They're saying "get used to it," basically.

110,000 mixed Steam reviews later, Nexon bluntly puts The First Descendant in the "did not work" category: "Strong launch, no staying power"

110,000 mixed Steam reviews later, Nexon bluntly puts The First Descendant in the "did not work" category: "Strong launch, no staying power"

"These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch"

$Arc Raiders boss promoted to Nexon chief backs AI push for "redesigning game development" after building a hit "at a fraction of the cost you'd expect for a AAA game"$

Arc Raiders boss promoted to Nexon chief backs AI push for "redesigning game development" after building a hit "at a fraction of the cost you'd expect for a AAA game"

"Without context, AI is a race to the arithmetic middle where everyone's games look the same," says Nexon CEO

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Arc Raiders devs spent 3 years fighting "on a daily basis" over whether it was "a battle royale," "a hero looter shooter," "a co-op Soul game," or "a co-op Shadow of the Colossus game"

"Internally, we thought the game was deeper, more fun, better than we actually had in our hands"

"A lot of games would be canceled": Arc Raiders lead recalls cutting all but 25 people in "desperation" when Nexon "gave us one more try" to salvage the flailing shooter

"We agreed that this game deserved another try"

Arc Raiders is such a huge hit, Nexon has put Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund in charge of everything else too

Söderlund has been named executive chairman of Nexon, heading up "long-term strategy, creative direction, and how Nexon develops games globally."

Spited FPS streamer Shroud vindicated as Arc Raiders finally gets its GOTY award, taking Online Game of the Year at the DICE Awards

Let's not mention what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won

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Arc Raiders "significantly exceeded expectations" with 14 million copies sold and almost 1 million concurrent players last month, and its publisher expects momentum to continue

Arc Raiders "significantly exceeded expectations" with 14 million copies sold and almost 1 million concurrent players last month, and its publisher expects momentum to continue

Nexon sees that number growing with future updates

A new StarCraft game is rumoured to be in the works by Nexon's Shooter Division — implying that the game could be a first or third-person shooter

A new StarCraft game is rumoured to be in the works by Nexon's Shooter Division — implying that the game could be a first or third-person shooter

Rumors have sprung up that Nexon, the developer behind The First Descendant, Dungeon & Fighter, and Blue Archive, is working on a new game with the StarCraft IP.

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A second StarCraft revival is reportedly in development at Arc Raiders publisher Nexon, but it's got nothing to do with Blizzard's long-rumored shooter

A second StarCraft revival is reportedly in development at Arc Raiders publisher Nexon, but it's got nothing to do with Blizzard's long-rumored shooter

Hell, it's about two times

The First Descendant finally repurposes old maps, alongside Thunder Cage rework, Enzo buffs, and more

The First Descendant finally repurposes old maps, alongside Thunder Cage rework, Enzo buffs, and more

New dungeon features White-night Gulch, Vespers, and Fortress fields.

'Every Game Company' is Doing it? 'Arc Raiders' AI Scandal Explodes, Big Name CEO Suggests Hidden Truth

'Every Game Company' is Doing it? 'Arc Raiders' AI Scandal Explodes, Big Name CEO Suggests Hidden Truth

One should assume "every game company" is using AI, Nexon Co. Ltd. CEO Junghun Lee says. He is asking how companies can survive when “everyone is working with the same or similar technologies," maintaining that “human creativity” distinguishes exceptional games from mediocre ones.

Former Nexon boss who took a risk on Arc Raiders says "the AAA industry is structurally at its end" and "it’s going to end in more disaster than it has already" without a "serious rewrite"

Former Nexon boss who took a risk on Arc Raiders says "the AAA industry is structurally at its end" and "it’s going to end in more disaster than it has already" without a "serious rewrite"

"How come it was so unobvious that Embark was a great deal for Nexon until about three weeks ago? What does it say about the industry?"

Former Battlefield devs had "something to prove" with Arc Raiders and The Finals, ex-Nexon boss says, and that's why they succeeded where other veteran-led studios failed

Former Battlefield devs had "something to prove" with Arc Raiders and The Finals, ex-Nexon boss says, and that's why they succeeded where other veteran-led studios failed

"All this stuff that really matters, where the value is created, is just completely forgotten"

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AI has an "unbelievable ability to create a lot of slop," says ex-Nexon boss who signed Arc Raiders, predicting the industry will "triple" in size in 7 years due to players "rejecting slop and bad product"

Owen Mahoney sees a creative edge to AI in games

Gaming CEOs Are Wrong Again. Every Video Game Is Not Using AI

After 'Arc Raiders' use of AI-generated voices put it in the spotlight, developers have been lining up to deny exaggerated claims of AI's prevalence.

"We would rather cut off our own arms": Indie devs react to Arc Raiders CEO saying people should assume everyone's using generative AI these days

"We don't use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a lot of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA."

'We would rather cut off our own arms': Demonschool developers dispute Nexon CEO's claim that 'every game company is now using AI' in response to Arc Raiders backlash

"Demonschool is 100% human-made."

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After Arc Raiders AI voice actor controversy, owner Nexon says people should just assume "every game company is now using AI"

That's probably true

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ARC Raiders is exploding right now, with more than 4 million sales and over 700,000 players hitting the servers at once

ARC Raiders is climbing so quickly it might end up challenging Battlefield and Call of Duty sooner than anyone expected.

Arc Raiders sells 4 million copies, making it 'the most successful global launch in Nexon's history'

Nexon says Arc Raiders has serious long-term potential.

'Every game company is now using AI': Nexon's CEO defends the use of generative AI in game development in the wake of Arc Raiders' controversy

If every game company jumped off a cliff, would you?

'No one truly knows what kind of game will succeed': Former PlayStation boss says that bigger companies should 'invest in smaller, experimental projects' to promote creativity

"Not even marketing teams can predict it."

The First Descendant changes trading system fee currency, saying ‘there were no intentions to generate revenue’

Always listening to feedback.

The First Descendant introduces long-awaited trading system, more Modules, and a new Descendant

The full seasonal package.

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