Claude Opus 5.5 Goes Viral With Dark Souls Game Demos Created From Prompts

Anthropic's newest flagship AI model launched September 22 and immediately went viral as developers created full Dark Souls-style action games using just text prompts. The API is priced at $4 per million input tokens, 20% cheaper than its predecessor.

Why it mattersCoding power this accessible is turning casual users into game developers overnight.