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# Epic Games told the team making its Marvel and Star Wars shooter to go AI-first with Anthropic's Claude, Bloomberg reports.

## Retrieval answer

Kotaku reports, citing Bloomberg, that developers on Epic Games’ unannounced shooter featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters were told to adopt an “AI-first” production model using Anthropic’s Claude.

Kotaku reports, citing Bloomberg, that developers on Epic Games’ unannounced shooter featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters were told to adopt an “AI-first” production model using Anthropic’s Claude. The report says the team was told not to use handwritten code and that art should be produced through full AI workflows. Epic communications director Jake Jones said the company was embracing AI-accelerated development, led by Epic developers as the project’s creative drivers. Kotaku says the project’s guardrails for correcting AI mistakes and keeping unwanted output out of the final work were unclear. These details are reported claims; the supplied source does not independently establish the internal directive or its implementation.

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