Blaze Entertainment apologizes to fans for their artificial intelligence images.

Blaze Entertainment launches a promotion for Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered

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The Duke Nukem saga is one of the most successful and long-lived that has been part of the best shooter and action video games. Of course, if there is something that makes this title specialis its charismatic protagonist who has offered several major adventures on different platforms since his debut in 1991.

However, with the recent announcement from the game developers, the king of shooters also has bouts of disappointment. The reason why many fans have criticized the iconic game it is because of their promotional campaign that was launched recently, which shows images that They don’t seem to be entirely convincing. for the followers. In the following information we explain more about what has happened with Duke Nukem on social networks.

Duke Nukem uses artificial intelligence to create promotional images

Blaze Entertainment image created with AI for a campaign

Blaze Entertainment has carried out a campaign for the remastered version of Duke Nukem 1 and 2 for its Evercade handheld console, but the quality of the cover art did not convince some fans. According to Kotaku, many Twitter users noticed that the art of Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered that shared the official Blaze account was clearly created by artificial intelligence.

The image that you can see is the one that the company has shared to publish the ad. Followers mention that it is low-quality content and with suspicious details that have made them realize the deception, thus expressing their discontent and indignation on social networks against the developers of Duke Nukem.

In this way, Blaze Entertainment has made an official statement where it admits that the image in question has been made with AI and that has commissioned a new art to apologize to the players for the job he has done the artist Oskar Manuelwho has been criticized ever since the promotion was announced.

Over the past 24 hours, we’ve been humbled by the support and excitement around our new cartridge announcements and our partnership with Gearbox to bring the Duke Nukem franchise to Evercade. As part of this, an artist was commissioned to produce a main visual for the new game Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered being developed by Blaze Entertainment. It’s abundantly clear from the response on social media that the work on this commission has fallen short of expectations and fan-demanded standards due to the artists’ use of AI in the process. -Blaze Entertainment.

Following the controversy with the promo art of Duke Nukem 1 + 2 Remastered, the developers have decided delete all related tweets that they had published officially so that on a new occasion the art works that please the fans can be published.

We are immediately removing art where possible to do so and will announce a replacement commission in due course that best meets the high standard expected. We would like to apologize to all of you fans out there who have been passionate enough about this and rest assured that we are working to remedy this. We would also like to thank everyone who has worked on the project to date for their input. -Blaze Entertainment.

Finally, in the Blaze Entertainment publication they mention that despite everything, they give him the thanks to the artists who have worked on the project so far and ask fans to be patient while they try to fix the issue that has arisen. Blaze would not be the only one implementing AI in his projects, as Ubisoft plans to create its own Artificial Intelligence.

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