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Ex-Square Enix suit says you can whine all you like, but 'Gen Z loves AI slop' and everyone and their grandma is already using it

"The upcoming generation of gamers are Bane in Dark Knight Rises saying 'You merely adopted the slop, I was born in it.'"

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"Gen Z loves AI slop," says former Square Enix exec, which means that Arc Raiders' controversial AI usage is just "the tip of the spear"

"Activision isn't shying away from AI, neither is ARC Raiders," reckons Jacob Navok

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'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

Lot of that going around lately.

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Final Fantasy 14 lead Yoshi-P reportedly teases another "rebirth" for the MMO as Dawntrail continues to suffer "Mostly Negative" Steam reviews over 1 year on

A Realm Reborn 2.0, anyone?

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Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts fans' disappointment at Octopath Traveler 0's reveal as "Square Enix's beloved series" doesn't get the JRPG's producer down: "I'm not hurt"

"It doesn't mean my work isn't loved"

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Octopath Traveler 0 producer reacts to State of Play "beloved series" disappointment: "If you wonder why it's beloved, please give the demo a try"

The Octopath Traveler prequel is coming in December

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Octopath Traveler 0 gets new demo on all consoles and PC from Square Enix, "and yes – progress does carry over to the full game"

The full release is next month

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Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts fans in shambles after "an announcement for Square Enix's beloved series" at PlayStation's State of Play stream was Octopath Traveler 0

Next, an announcement for Konami's beloved series Death Jr.

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Playing Final Fantasy 7 "scared" Baldur's Gate 2's writing lead into adding romance to the RPG series: "These guys kicked our ass"

"This is how a game should be"

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"It's really fateful" – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director on charting a new course for the JRPG series with a return to Nintendo, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and outdoing AI

Interview | Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi answers all of our questions - then several more

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For the first time in over a decade, Square Enix is teasing a brand-new zone for its OG MMO Final Fantasy 11

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 11

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Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'

AI's growing role in gamedev continues to polarize.

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead slams Square Enix's push to automate 70% of debugging with AI: "The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid"

Larian's Michael Douse says QA workers "know what is good and what is bad before the audience does."

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JRPG grind is dead, the advanced Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake auto-battle system killed it – though devs say players may still "be in trouble if they get careless"

Watch out!

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Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix announces layoffs for US and UK teams — as AI creeps into game testing

Square Enix is laying off large chunks of its remaining U.S. and U.K. teams, while the company is also aiming for generative AI to play a huge part in future QA.

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Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it'd be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers

Square Enix is partnering with an AI research lab at the University of Tokyo to "improve the efficiency of game development processes."

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Mass layoffs hit Square Enix hours after it shares plans to have AI handle "70%" of its quality assurance and debugging soon

Square Enix also revealed plans to shift development to Japan

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Kingdom Hearts 4 hopium is in overdrive thanks to a single image of Sora's voice actor in the studio: "YALL IS IT TIME??? IS IT FINALLY TIME????"

Haley Joel Osment is recording... something

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Square Enix's multiplatform plan is already working, but it still wants to follow up a Dragon Quest roguelike and Dissidia Final Fantasy with more mobile games based on "major IPs" and "automate 70% of QA" with AI

The house of Final Fantasy wants to "establish a competitive advantage in game development" with AI tech

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As a Dragon Quest noob, Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake honestly feels like the perfect introduction

Now Playing | It only took me nearly 40 years

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From Studio Ghibli to Square Enix — Japan's major IP holders take a stand against OpenAI’s use of their content in Sora 2

CODA sent a letter to OpenAI, demanding that it cease using copyrighted Japanese content to train its AI models.

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Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't

Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Association has noticed that an awful lot of what comes out of Sora 2 "closely resembles Japanese content or images."

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Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities

Two households, both alike in genre, in fair AddOn-a, where we lay our scene.

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"

But only if Naoki Hamaguchi "completely ignored" his role at Square Enix

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Square Enix finally says the words Final Fantasy 14's MMO fashion devotees have waited years to hear: "From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job!"

That glass you heard break was Square Enix pressing the big red button

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