Blaze Entertainment has apologised after it was forced to acknowledge that artwork accompanying the announcement of a Duke Nukem collection – shown above – for Evercade was generated by AI.
In a brief statement, CEO Andrew Byatt insisted that the studio had commissioned an artist “to produce a lead image for the new Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered” game, but “because of “the artists’ use of AI in the process”, it had “fallen below the expectation and standards demanded by fans”.
Fans and professional artists were immediately suspicious when the artwork was first revealed, with some providing a breakdown of why the image – reportedly designed by “professional hybrid concept artist” Oskar Manuel – looked as though it had been machine-generated.
