After teasing Australian gamers with the chance to win one of 50 highly customized DualSense controllers, it appears that McDonald's forgot to ask one major company for permission to do so: Sony.
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bbno$ has temporarily shut down his website after receiving a legal notice from Blizzard Entertainment related to Diablo-themed content.
When Google unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates explorable 3D worlds from simple text prompts, investors responded by dumping video game stocks en masse—wiping out billions in market value in mere hours. But in their rush to flee, Wall Street confused "playable environments" with actual video games, ignoring the technology's hard limits while threatening the human creativity that makes games worth playing. As the industry faces a future of automated mediocrity driven by shareholder demands, the panic reveals a deeper truth: investors aren't betting on better games, just cheaper ones.
same level of fear that gen ai will replace art ... it is a tool that will help to prototipize open world games, but to completelly substitute game engines ... we are still a long way from it
Humans have been developing things to simplify jobs since the beginning.
AI is going to remove the human factor from the job, but it can never replace all jobs that need a human factor.
I wish I could see the end of the story. What is the end, end goal, final piece, etc.
Is it a world run by machines, do humans live in a free world, does a dictator finally have an robot army, do humans finally free of working forever, does ChatGPT create an army to defeat Gemini., so many possibilities …
LMAO... Who designed that controller, they clearly have never played a video game in their life... LoL
Sony doesnt have to provide their blessing. This wasnt something they sponsored, this is a localized McD thing. They bought the controllers and had them customized.
Only way sony would be involved is if they were doing the promo for McD. But they arent. There are lots of outfits that take retail controllers and customize them for customers.
What McD did wrong was using sony name as clout to promote the giveaway. They cant do that. If they just said, win a custom dualsense 5.... they would have been fine.
Looks like Fisher-Price designed it but I wonder if it would be worth cash because of the limited run, being offered in a certain area, and being a prize. The right collector might pay a handsome price for that controller if its unopened and unused I wonder what it would fetch later on in the future. I wouldn't mind collecting this controller might be odd ball looking but it would be worth it I have the Burger King XB360 games.
So that looks atrocious.
If this were meant as consumerist satire, I'd be all for it. I don't generally rail against "consumerism", but this is just too perfect, lol.