Ex-Firaxis Creative Director Closes Midsummer Studios Amid AI Debate
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Former Firaxis lead Jake Solomon closes Midsummer Studios after a brief run, sharing pre-alpha footage of the unreleased Burbank project; he notes AI-assisted character memory, reasoning and speech, while insisting art was fully created by human artists and the team had no intention of replacing developers, following a $6 million funding round from Transcend Fund and others.
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