Anthropic adds new Claude rule banning recreations of existing games

Anthropic has changed its Claude Code tool so that it won’t recreate specific existing video games, following growing concern from developers about their games being cloned. The change was spotted around October 27 by X user Chasm before Anthropic said anything publicly. The new rule tells Claude: “Do not build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.” Anthropic has since confirmed the change, with Addy Osmani, a member of technical staff, explaining in a post on X that the rule was added because using Claude to infringe on IP breaks the company’s…