Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition after a failed launch: upscaling looks like AI

Sega has pulled Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 game that launched on Tuesday and flopped. Players complained that the image upscaling looks like AI work, and bugs added to the backlash.

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October 16, 2026

Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition after a failed launch: upscaling looks like AI

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01Review has become the bottleneck: Claude Code writes about 90% of its own code02:46 AM
02People tinker with coding agents more than they use them for real tasks: @thdxr's observationOctober 17
03GPT-6 Pro: several agents run in parallel, 9% gain in testOctober 16
04Replit Agent defaults to OpenAI: Claude stays in the model listOctober 17
05Claude Code Review is generally available on Team and Enterprise: one review costs about $15–25October 16

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