Insomniac Games denied claims that AI-generated visual assets were used in Marvel’s Wolverine. The controversy began when a male figure with overlapping body parts and an anatomically distorted appearance, found on a restroom door in the game, was shared on social media. Some users compared it to errors made by generative AI. In a response dated September 18, 2026, community and marketing director James Stevenson said the issue was caused by a UV mapping error in the coordinates that place a two-dimensional texture onto a three-dimensional model, and that a fix was being prepared. Stevenson stated that the game contained no assets generated by AI; however, he did not provide details on whether AI-assisted tools had been used during the development process. The studio also conducted more than 600 scans across four different biomes during a research trip in Japan, took approximately 190 thousand photographs, and collected 5.6 TB of data.
Why it matters
The controversy shows that the technical source of a visual glitch in a game and the question of what purposes AI was used for in the production process need to be considered separately. While Insomniac Games’ statement provides a concrete framework for fixing the observed distortion, it leaves open the scope of any possible use of AI-assisted tools during the development stages. This distinction may lead players to focus not only on the result on screen but also on studios’ production methods and the limits of their statements. The extensive scanning and photography work in Japan reveals that physical references played an important role in creating the game’s visual world; however, the role of this data in preparing the disputed visual is not explained.
Background
Marvel is not a new name in the FikirPilot archive: we have published 2 news stories mentioning this name in the past 90 days; the latest is dated September 22, 2026.