# Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/anthropic-clamps-down-on-claudes-ai-video-game-clones/
- Published: 2026-11-02T18:56:02+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T19:20:29+00:00
- Original publisher: The Verge
- Original article: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1024632/anthropic-claude-ai-video-game-clones
- Topics: AI, Entertainment, Gaming, Software, Technology

## Key points

- Claude Code is being steered away from cloning specific games.
- Original games and user-owned designs are still allowed.
- Anthropic says it will keep refining the restriction.

## Summary

Anthropic has updated Claude Code’s instructions to steer it away from recreating specific existing video games, citing its policy against using Claude to infringe intellectual property. The change comes as AI-made decompilations, recompilations and ports are spreading in retro gaming, while Anthropic says users can still make original games.

A screenshot shared on X appeared to show two new instructions, but Anthropic’s Addy Osmani did not confirm that exact wording. He said two sentences were added to Claude Code’s prompt on Opus 5.5, and that games based on genres, users’ own designs or their own assets should remain allowed. Anthropic says it will keep adjusting the balance and invited users to flag cases where Claude rejects a game that belongs to them.

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