Palworld publishing lead ramps up his crusade against AI games, says "you're huffing pure copium if you think this is going anywhere" and "games like Megabonk will continue to body this for the next 50 years"

Pal wields a massive turret in a screenshot from Palworld.

Despite Palworld itself having faced - and vehemently denied - allegations of AI, Palworld developer Pocketpair is taking a firm and sharp-worded stance against AI-generated games. Pocketpair Publishing boss John 'Bucky' Buckley recently waved the anti-AI flag to developers thinking of pitching him AI-generated games, and now he's reacting to a video going around of what appears to be a game created using AI. And wouldn't you know it, he's not a big fan.

"I never understood this discussion," Bucky said in response to the video on Twitter. "Who is the audience? If you've played even one game then you've a rudimentary understand of games mechanics, so you know this absolute horseshit.