Bethesda just erased a fan-made Fallout: New York from the internet within hours — and for once, nobody's rioting. The difference this time? The whole project was built with generative AI, and the community is cheering the takedown.
The shot that sold the dream: Fallout: New York promised the whole Big Apple, power armor and nukes included.
This low-poly ghoul is the tell — the uncanny assets that tipped off players in minutes. ZeniMax's lawyers needed even less.
Classic Fallout staging — exactly the kind of shot that made the project go viral and the takedown inevitable.
The same week, Activision swatted an AI-made Modern Warfare 2 project. Both publishers answer to Microsoft, and both just drew the same line: fan passion is welcome, AI slop isn't. When even PC Gamer — the outlet that usually defends fan games — sided with the lawyers, the argument was basically over.
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Source: Kotaku
