The weird cat game announced at The Game Awards is not made with AI, developers say, and has ‘zero blockchain technology’ or NFTs [Video]

The developers of Catly, a game about cats, have denied using generative AI to create the announcement trailer that debuted last week at The Game Awards, and have also rejected suggestions that their game is built on blockchain technology or makes use of NFTs.

We missed Catly when it was announced during last week’s show, mainly because it came hot on the heels of big reveals of The Witcher 4, Elden Ring: Nightreign, and the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC release date—it was a pretty busy moment. Viewers who weren’t madly scrambling to cover the show saw it, though, and the video made quite a splash—for all the wrong reasons. Accusations about the use of generative AI in the creation of the video quickly began flying on Reddit and Steam, driven by the uncanny valley look of the trailer …