Nintendo has been doing this since the Wii era.

New Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Super Mario Maker 2…

Technically all the Rhythm Heaven games also have this feature.

Core Keeper has been on my list for a long time!

They were disqualified for failing to disclose the AI usage, not just for using AI at all.

“China has reportedly built” Ok I’m gonna stop you right there. China reports it’s built a lot of stuff. It almost never actually builds anything.

As much as it’s great to shit on triple A games, this is quite bad for the industry as a whole. Devs cannot price their game above $15 without being held to an absurdly high standard, which makes budgeting for game development extremely difficult for smaller studios. If we want the AA scene to expand and give us more great games as we’ve seen in the past few years, that’ll need to change.