THE FUSE

Anno 117: Pax Romana takes the franchise’s city-building formula back to the ancient empire but used modern generative AI tools in the development process. Fans have already begun ripping into one particularly egregious-looking piece of AI-generated imagery that appears in the background during a loading screen. “Very big difference between this and the high quality background art and loading screens of Anno 1800,” one fan wrote. Ubisoft tells Kotaku it’ll be replacing the offending image in an upcoming patch.