Anthropic appears to have ordered AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games
Anthropic has updated its AI assistant Claude’s usage policies to restrict the creation of video game remakes. According to a policy update discovered on October 27, Claude’s guidelines now explicitly prohibit users from building recreations of existing games, even if they are renamed or presented as original works.
The new rule, listed under “tengu_heron_brook” in Claude’s internal policies, states: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Do not build a recreation of a specific existing [game].”
This policy change represents a response to a growing trend over recent months where users have leveraged AI tools to create remakes of classic and contemporary games—sometimes as personal projects, sometimes for commercial purposes. The widespread availability of generative AI has made it increasingly simple for individuals to recreate well-known titles without explicit permission from original developers or publishers.
The restriction appears to be quietly enforced rather than publicly announced. The policy was first publicly noted by an X user who spotted the update. The move suggests Anthropic is taking a measured approach to addressing potential intellectual property concerns while balancing creative use of its AI tool.