Epic orders "AI-first" development on its Disney shooter, Bloomberg reports

Bloomberg reported on October 12 that Epic Games has told the teams on its unannounced Marvel and Star Wars shooter, made with Disney, to adopt an "AI-first" approach: no handwritten code and, per an internal message attributed to a director, art "generated with full AI workflows". The project is also reportedly running behind schedule.

According to VGC, which relays the report, the announcement left some staff "stunned" on a video call, and they were told production would use tools such as Anthropic's Claude with humans guiding the work. An Epic spokesperson said the company is embracing AI-accelerated development led by its developers. Tim Sweeney wrote on X that a "huge pivot" is underway toward "maximum AI acceleration", and that the aim is to build more and better rather than do the same with fewer people.