On AI Disclosure Policies For Games

I subscribe to the RSS feed for Games Industry.biz in my feed reader. Thanks to that subscription, I became aware of an October 26, 2026 article titled Epic Games CEO calls Steam’s AI disclosure policies “a political act”. My first thought upon reading the headline is that the CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, is baiting both traditional and social media. Reading his comments did not disabuse me of that notion. I would normally ignore this sort of obvious bait, but I like a good challenge. I had an idea for a different approach than smashing my keyboard to point out the obvious – that Mr. Sweeney is full of it. Info-box for my original visual novel, Under the Alien Sky, on Itch.io. Itch provides an optional content field for developers to indicaate whether they used generative AI. As you can see, I accurately indicated that I did not. You can learn more about Under the Alien Sky in my article about its development and on its Itch page. For those not in the know, Epic Games is a game…

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