IDV Artist Highlight: 唠兽 (Xia Yu)
This was one of the first essences I starkly remember being smitten by when I first started playing the game. I admittedly couldn’t wait to do another one of these artist highlights because I found out who did the artwork for one of my favorite…
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IDV Artist Highlight: 卷毛 (juanmao)
Season 43 Essence 3 Official PV featuring “Hertztier,” Composer, and Perfumer. It’s been way too long since I have highlighted an artist in the IDV community but I thought now was a good time after seeing so many people praise the…
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To Those Still Waiting on a Statement or Boycotting…
Back in April of this year, GenAI was found to be used in a handful of content produced by Identity V. The first being the egregious shot of Joseph in one of the COA IX promotional videos followed by the Ivory Tower posters and some anniversary images…
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To Love the Hand that Feeds you – An Identity V Fanzine
Credit: HumansTouchIDV Twitter Account. A not-for-profit unofficial Identity V fanzine, To Love the Hand that Feeds, is currently looking for contributors to create original works to showcase various IDV characters reimagined based on art movements from…
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IDV Voice Artist Series #1: Clarissa Jaye
Credit: IMDB and NetEase Games/Joker Studio With the recent AI situation causing a dark cloud to loom over the Identity V community for almost two months now, it’s been a rough time for players and fans of the game. Thankfully, there has been those…
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Identity V Community Event for Artists, Writers, and Creatives!
Credit: idvfdartcollab on Twitter. A community backed collaboration by the Twitter account, idvfdartcollab is organizing an event to showcase and support each other as creatives in a time when NetEase’s use of generative AI has caused backlash…
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IDV Artist Highlight: 叉立方 (CHA_CUBE)
Header Image: Season 42 Essence 2 Promotional artwork While I hope to learn more about the artists who provide us so much eye candy when it comes to the artwork we get in this game, it takes some time to find them (though thanks to idvlogic on Twitter,…
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A Chinese Court Rules that Workers Cannot Be Replaced by AI
(header image source: Wikipedia) Hangzhou, China In the midst of the ongoing AI boycott by the IDV community as they impatiently wait on a response by NetEase, a little over a week ago, a court in China ruled it was illegal to fire a worker who was being…
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Call of the Abyss Finals Are Coming: What to Expect for Upcoming Content
The COA IX Finals will be broadcasted live on IDV’s socials on May 5th. Both the third place and first place matches will be livestreamed that day, but just as importantly, new upcoming content will be shown as well. Here is what to expect based on…
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NetEase is Trying to Silence Content Creators as Some Leave Creator Program
Big NA/EU content creators like Zeez Vov Gee V and Zeus IDV are leaving Identity V’s Creator Program due to a contract that enforces positivity for the game in the midst of the current Gen AI Boycott. Revealed on Zeus IDV’s livestream on…
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