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Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’

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In response to AI’s hyperrealism, artists and creatives are gravitating toward the homespun and imperfectEarlier this year, a group of film-makers, commercial directors and AI industry influencers gathered in New York City for the Runway AI Summit – a daylong hype-fest, trumping up the potential of this new technology. During one talk, Rob Wrubel, co-founder […]

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Goals review – disruptor football game attempts to smash the competition

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Released just before the World Cup kicks off, this upstart football game is positioning itself as a credible alternative to EA Sports FCThis month something extremely unusual happened in the video game world: someone launched a new football game. It used to be that the market could support a vast array of contenders, from arcade

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Spyro the Dragon returns with a new game after almost two decades

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90s PlayStation fans, rejoice: California studio Toys for Bob is making Spyro: Realms Beyond, intended to ‘inspire love, joy and laughter’As the gaming mascots of millennial childhood have been resuscitated one by one for a nostalgic audience, one has remained notably absent: 1990s PlayStation hero Spyro. A new game starring the purple dragon was announced

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Mina the Hollower review – squeaky fresh fun full of vintage magic

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PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox; Yacht Club GamesThis brilliant adventure creates a whole world from one character with a unique abilityYou could mistake Mina the Hollower for something found on the liquid-crystal display of a Game Boy Color around the turn of the millennium. Like the pocketable Zelda and Pokémon games

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Martin Scorsese accused of ‘throwing artists under bus’ with AI storyboards

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The director defends investment in and use of AI-generated storyboards, saying the immediacy of communicating his vision to cast and crew is ‘creatively freeing’Martin Scorsese’s announcement that he has invested in an AI company and uses the technology to create storyboards has triggered a backlash from fellow members of the film industry.The New York Times

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From God of War to Until Dawn – seven reveals from last night’s PlayStation event

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The PS5 era has been in some ways disappointing for Sony – on Tuesday, the company revealed a slate of games they hope will change that• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up herePlayStation’s future has looked a little uncertain these past few years. Although the PS5 has sold well and been

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‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?

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It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the directorNext week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters in

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