Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players really aren't happy about its Indie Game Awards Game of the Year win being revoked for AI use, and think it's "unjust" and a "hit job".
As we all predicted when it launched to rave reviews and a huge fanbase earlier in the year, Clair Obscur has been sweeping wins across every gaming award show out there. That notably includes some big Game of the Year wins at The Game Awards, The Golden Joysticks, and even the Indie Game Awards. Well, that was the case until yesterday.
Six One Indie dropped a bombshell and announced that it had revoked Clair Obscur's Game of the Year title and passed it over to Blue Prince. The reasoning behind the award strip is because of the Indie Game Awards' stance on the use of generative AI, which Sandfall originally said wasn't used for Clair Obscur before later confirming that it had briefly used them to replace placeholder textures.
Even though the revocation is just playing by the Indie Game Awards' rules, the announcement came as quite a surprise considering how beloved and unarguably human Clair Obscur is. With that in mind, Clair Obscur fans are unsurprisingly annoyed about...
