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Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI

With credits ranging from Dispatch and Marvel Rivals to Uncharted and Dragon Age, over 30 devs share their thoughts on gen AI

GamesRadar

"What if the gameplay was fun? This blew our f***ing minds": Dispatch devs had a revelation after years of tired Telltale mechanics

"We're so used to, so conditioned to gameplay being the thing you had to do to check the box"

GamesRadar

Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle

Emergency call.

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BAFTA Games Awards: Clair Obscur leads the pack with 12 nominations

Clair Obscur, Dispatch and Ghost of Yotei are among the big hitters in this year’s upcoming awards ceremony

Evening Standard

The Dispatch leads had "a mix of arrogance and stupidity" as they faced down publishers telling them single-player narrative games were "niche, or worse, dead"

"Just because we can make an open-world action RPG, doesn't mean we should"

GamesRadar

Dispatch doesn't let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because 'less than 1%' of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games

Unfortunately, weaponized awkwardness still takes up development resources.

PC Gamer

Dispatch is lying to you about RNG for your own good, just like XCOM: "Those guys are pretty smart, so we thought we'd do the same"

Adhoc "landed on anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed"

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'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'

What came first? The dispatching minigame or the Z-Team?

PC Gamer

Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'

"We could kind of squint and start to see Dispatch for the first time."

PC Gamer

Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

"If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

PC Gamer

Making Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say

Developing Dispatch meant ignoring investors and publishers who insisted it was doomed.

PC Gamer

Dispatch: how a game about a superhero workplace comedy became 2026's first must-play sleeper hit

Aaron Paul, ominous cat mascots and a team of misfit superheroes all combine to make this a must-play

Evening Standard

Dispatch creative director says generative AI isn't a solution for creative problems — "Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative."

Dispatch developer AdHoc Studio has a dim view of generative AI, saying that maybe it's a creative solution "if you aren't creative."

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As Arc Raiders faces backlash for its AI voices, Dispatch leads call the tech "a production solution, not a creative one," saying it can only offer "something you've heard before"

He praises Dispatch's cast for "elevating the material in a way that you're just not going to get [with AI]"

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XDefiant was originally going to be a new Splinter Cell, according to former Ubisoft devs who went on to make Dispatch, but the publisher changed plans to chase those big Call of Duty bucks

"We thought we were going to be able to make something really great."

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Ubisoft turned a new Splinter Cell game into the failed live-service shooter xDefiant in an effort to chase live service hits and Call of Duty, former devs say

"You realize that all of the things you care about, they don't anymore"

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After selling 1 million copies in just 10 days, devs behind story-driven episodic superhero game Dispatch need to "think about" season 2: "That was a question mark 3 weeks ago"

Dispatch season 2 is suddenly looking likely

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