Controversy flared earlier this week when Larian Studios — developer of 2023’s Game of the Year-winning RPG data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/baldurs-gate-3″ target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/baldurs-gate-3″>Baldur’s Gate 3 — was data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/larian-studios-divinity-turn-based-rpg-generative-ai” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/larian-studios-divinity-turn-based-rpg-generative-ai”>revealed to be using generative AI for ideation while working on its new upcoming turn-based RPG data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/larian-studios-divinity-game-awards-2025″ target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/larian-studios-divinity-game-awards-2025″>Divinity.
The fiasco began when data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-16/-baldur-s-gate-3-maker-promises-divinity-will-be-next-level” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-16/-baldur-s-gate-3-maker-promises-divinity-will-be-next-level” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>a Bloomberg interview with Larian CEO Swen Vincke suggested “Larian has been pushing hard on generative data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI,” though both data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://x.com/laratlarian/status/2001011042642505833?s=46″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://x.com/laratlarian/status/2001011042642505833?s=46″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Vincke himself and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://x.com/cromwelp/status/2001006250251968767?s=46″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://x.com/cromwelp/status/2001006250251968767?s=46″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>publishing director Michael Douse clarified the studio isn’t “pushing hard” for data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI and is offering it as…
