The developers don't have "a scrap of respect" for the series, according to Chris Sorrell. You'd be forgiven if you didn't recognize James Pond, the fish spy star of a series of platformers from the early 1990s. But there is a chance you've heard about the controversy surrounding the series' upcoming James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough, which collects versions of four James Pond games released across the Amiga, Genesis, Commodore 64 and SNES, and which fans have widely accused of being filled with AI-generated art. According to Time Extension, the collection has so enraged series creator Chris Sorrell that he's on the record as hoping its developers "choke on an AI-generated fishbone." "I'm sure it won't shock you to hear that I was in no way consulted or involved with this 'legacy' collection," Sorrell shared with Time Extension. "For that to have happened there would have to have been someone with at least a scrap of respect for James Pond involved, when clearly, as their every action demonstrates, that's very far from the case." Developer System 3 Software announced James Pond Legacy last week with a trailer that was immediately met with skepticism online, Kotaku writes. I
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PC gamers are testing out DLSS 5 on games like GTA: San Andreas and Skyrim Nvidia's controversial upscaling tech, DLSS 5, hasn't officially been released for its RTX 50-series computer chips. Files for the real-time neural rendering model…
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PC gamers are testing out DLSS 5 on games like GTA: San Andreas and Skyrim Nvidia's controversial upscaling tech, DLSS 5, hasn't officially been released for its RTX 50-series computer chips. Files for the real-time…
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