The use of AI in game development is becoming increasingly common with an apparent trajectory toward ubiquity, but that hasn't stopped a number of high-profile developers from outright rejecting the tech in favor of 100% human-made games, and you can now count former Mass Effect series head Casey Hudson among them.
Hudson left BioWare a second time in 2020 and founded the now-defunct studio Humanoid Origin the following year, and in 2025 opened Arcanaut Games, which announced a spiritual successor to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, titled Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, at last year's Game Awards. Hudson tells Bloomberg he's running a lean ship at Arcanaut Games as he aims "to avoid having hundreds and hundreds of people," but even so, he refuses to outsource anything to AI. Instead, he says the studio will contract out any work to co-developers that his internal team at Arcanaut doesn't have time for.
