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Since the launch of Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 model, vibe-coders have been extremely busy with software personalization projects. I made a Windows utility for multi-monitor users, but others have been more ambitious. ArtCraft’s Brandon Thomas, for example, made a full-fledged clone of Adobe Photoshop. Meanwhile, other folks are using AI to clone games and inundate Steam…

Anthropic has updated its AI coding tool Claude Code so it stops building clones of existing video games.

Claude will no longer allow its users to make AI recreations of their favorite video games. As first discovered by an X user, Anthropic updated Claude with some new lines of code that read, “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Do not build a…

According to reporting from Tom’s Hardware, Anthropic’s Claude AI has quietly started restricting the kinds of work it will do, including modding, decompiling, or reverse-engineering video game code. And though there has as yet been no official announcement about why, the reason is still pretty obvious.  

It appearsAnthropicmay be (quietly) taking action to stem the flood of AI-driven game remakes that have hit the video game industry in the last few month, which saw users creating their own versions of classic and upcoming games, sometimes for fun, sometimes for financial gain.

Based onan industry-first analysisof over 4,200 AI-generated games and 1.1M launches, developers are showing a clear preference for Anthropic’s Claude Opus, which now accounts for 54% of new builds. Yet player behavior tells a different story: games built on OpenAI’s Astra and Sol earn up to 58% more likes per play.

Claude Opus 5.5 is absolutely wild. We planned a clean head-to-head benchmark between the two. Then Opus 5.5 showed up looking less like “another frontier model” and more like the thing that makes your benchmark designer surrender to the exponential.