{"id":372770,"date":"2026-01-16T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372770\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:22:16","slug":"not-a-single-pixel-of-the-new-ecco-game-will-be-generated-by-ai-insists-series-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372770\/","title":{"rendered":"“Not A Single Pixel” Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""Not<\/a> Image: Sega<\/p>\n

A new Ecco the Dolphin game is on the way<\/a>, and original creator Ed Annunziata is involved.<\/p>\n

Yesterday saw the reconfirmation of a new entry in the Ecco series, as well as “several” new Ecco products \u2013 but one thing fans have voiced concern over is Annunziata’s previous stance on topics such as NFTs and GenAI.<\/p>\n

The developer \u2013 whose credits also include Chakan: The Forever Man, Kolibri<\/a>, Mr. Bones and Three Dirty Dwarves \u2013 has previously been quite vocal about his support of tech such as Web3, AI and LLMs (Large Language Models) in video games.<\/p>\n

His LinkedIn<\/a> profile states that one of his “near-term” goals is to “create an AI system to generate ergodic<\/a> game content.” His current company, PLAYCHEMY<\/a>, lists “gamification of AI models, Stable Diffusion, LLM, and NeRF<\/a>” as some of its primary areas of interest.<\/p>\n

new Ecco games in the news again and it made me wonder if Ed Annunziata had updated his LinkedIn Page now that gamers are much more vocally against AI bullshit.<\/p>\n

Nope, his “near term goal” is still to “create a AI system to generated ergodic game content.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 SeeroftheNight (@seerofthenight.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-01-14T15:14:51.891Z<\/a><\/p>\n

He’s not alone \u2013 many developers are embracing tech like GenAI in their development pipelines<\/a> \u2013 but some Ecco fans have taken to social media to highlight Annunziata’s connections to these often-controversial emerging technologies.<\/p>\n

We reached out to Annunziata to inquire whether GenAI would be utilised in Ecco’s development. He replied that “not a single pixel” will be generated by AI, although he added that he intends to be “all in on DLSS<\/a> on Switch 2″.<\/p>\n

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Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension<\/a>, the network’s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming’s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Sega A new Ecco the Dolphin game is on the way, and original creator Ed Annunziata is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,142040,142041,21724,86,1178,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-372770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ecco","tag-ed-annunziata","tag-genai","tag-technology","tag-time-extension","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}