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We have reached a new threshold in genAI gloom, with a game dev cancelling a demo for fear of copycats ripping them off before release

Rock Paper Shotgun Oct 16, 2026, 7:50 PM (1 hour ago)

In what I suspect is the start of a trend, assuming it isn’t one already, the creators of Drunken Goddess Reflux have yanked a planned public demo partly because they’re concerned about people using generative AI to clone their game and release a copy before they even launch.

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We have reached a new threshold in genAI gloom, with a game dev cancelling a demo for fear of copycats ripping them off before release

GTA 6 Recaptures What Made GTA’s Best DLC So Great

Nonolith traps you in a living maze and challenges you to find hidden terrain magic using good old copy-paste

Street Fighter’s Best Live-Action Movie Yet Is Now Free on Streaming

Analogue is reviving its Mega SG and Super Nt consoles, and they’ll play all your old Sega and Nintendo cartridges with some modern enhancements

Analogue returns to the 16-bit era with the Mega Sg+ and Super Nt+

Laura Bailey’s Favorite Critical Role Romance Changed Campaign 3 Forever

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“We were wrong”: Wardogs devs end Season 2’s team-specific cash and XP bonus experiment after a single, tumultuous day

The Blood of Dawnwalker’s update 1.1 adds a “forgiving” difficulty setting, but I think I’ll find it hard to forgive its introduction of “directional animal petting”

The creator of last year’s cult hit RPG The Necromancer’s Tale is back with The Lich Wars, a storybook RPG that follows 30 years of undead botheration

Cyberpunk 2077 movie “won’t be a one-to-one translation of the game’s story”, CD Projekt Red boss confirms, and boy do I think that’s the right move

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