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Valve rewrite Steam's GenAI disclosure rules to more explicitly allow AI-powered "efficiency" tools
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Valve rewrite Steam's GenAI disclosure rules to more explicitly allow AI-powered "efficiency" tools

Valve have reportedly rewritten Steam’s AI disclosure form, essentially a declaration of a game’s generative AI usage that developers and publishers must complete to sell on the platform. The new form, shared by consultant Simon Carless, now specifies that while the presence of in-game GenAI content must still be divulged, including on the game’s store page, the usage of AI-based production tools for "efficiency gains" does not require disclosure. "We are aware that many moder

This week in PC games: a new Inkle game, a Total War alternative, a Paper Mario-like RPG and some bladesongs
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This week in PC games: a new Inkle game, a Total War alternative, a Paper Mario-like RPG and some bladesongs

Happy new week of PC game releases, all! First, the customary paragraph of Maw musings. What we refer to as the Maw goes by many other names in different regions, as different cultures react to its cosmic incursions. Across the channel in Normandy, generations of monks have addressed the creature as La Bête des Trous. The Finnish know the Maw as Tuleva Syöjä. In the United States, meanwhile they call it Friday Night at Applebee’s. Read more