Guest Feature: 7th Legion

This column is a guest author feature, written by a friend of the site whose work I am thrilled to host at Retro XP. This entry is from Cind Swanson. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link.Epic Games is an unfortunately unavoidable part of the gaming scene. Fortnite is a global phenomenon that feasts on IP, a glut of corporate dystopia as every character you can imagine is assigned one of two body types and forced to wield Uzis for that Victory Royale. They’ve been one of the hardest pushers of generative AI, with CEO Tim Sweeney claiming Epic was “moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration” (around the same time as the studio laid off over 1,000 employees). Recent headlines have included delaying a Marvel/Star Wars crossover project for the Walt Disney Corporation that will, according to an internal memo, be “AI first” and using “no handwritten code”, as well as redoing their personal games launcher, introducing it by saying that…