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Top devs share their placeholder art to prove you don’t need AI

Rob Beschizza
Mar 23, 2026
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Screenshot via Josh Sawyer

Crimson Desert, a new action-adventure role-playing game developed by Pearl Abyss, won praise for its vast and beautiful scenery but some criticism for its indistinct worldbuilding and bland storytelling. That there’d be various examples of AI-generated artwork in it (I like one exquisitely nasty example of early-version Midjou…

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