Palladium drops TMNT, Chaosium pulls AI titles, and Sword World secures $2m. Catch up on the week’s tabletop roleplaying game news and bundle deals.
Tyger and UMG bring adaptive human-made music to video games
Universal Music Group has licensed its human-made music catalogue to Tyger for an AI-curated adaptive gaming audio service.
UK Games Expo apologises after social media post breaches its own generative AI ban
UK Games Expo apologises after an official social media post contained AI-assisted artwork, testing its new ban on machine learning in trade halls.
Skynet’s CV rejected: Dragonmeet turns down AI receptionist over Terminator concerns
London RPG convention Dragonmeet has publicly rejected a job pitch from an AI receptionist, citing the Terminator franchise as a warning against hiring machines.
UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
Tabletop news portal EN World fights server slowdowns under 90,000 AI bots
Independent tabletop news site EN World faces severe slowdowns as 90,000 automated bots scrape its archives, highlighting the hosting toll on gaming media.
Pinterest’s doubling down on Generative AI threatens to alienate tabletop artists and publishers
Pinterest will train generative AI models on uploaded pins retrospectively, but an architectural flaw in re-pins renders the platform’s opt-out tool ineffective for artists.
Hoard and Destroy: How bulk AI scanning puts forgotten Tabletop RPGs at risk
Civil society groups want the FTC to probe AI book destruction. Here is how bulk data scraping puts forgotten, out-of-print TTRPG books at serious risk.
Artificial intelligence meets white-glove service: Mike McAlpine on The RemAIns of the Butler
Real-life trained butler and comedian Mike McAlpine discusses his Edinburgh Fringe show The RemAIns of the Butler, AI automation, and human observation.
Open-source game engine Godot blocks AI agents and vibe coding
The Godot Foundation has updated its contribution policy to ban AI-authored code and automated pull requests, protecting its volunteer maintainers.
