Although June himself apparently gave permission before his death Image credit: Red Hook / Rock Paper Shotgun Darkest Dungeon developers Red Hook will "never, ever" use generative AI to recreate the voice of recently deceased series narrator Wayne June, co-founder and creative director Chris Bourassa has told players during a discussion of the currently hypothetical Darkest Dungeon 3. That's despite June himself apparently giving the idea his blessing, shortly before he passed away in January last year. "In one of his last emails to me, Wayne gave us permission to train an AI on his voice, something he'd staunchly opposed prior to the end," Bourassa revealed over the weekend in a comment on a Reddit post about possible replacement actors for June (which doesn't itself propose the use of generative AI, though the idea is circulated in other responses). "We'd never asked to do it. I think he was trying to put the game/team/fans first - offer us a 'way forward'. I declined, and we donated to his family anyway.…