Flytrap writes: "A few freakish individuals like Nelson Mandela aside, everybody enjoys a bit of conflict. Videogames absolutely thrive on the stuff, whether it be a marsupial's hatred for boxes or the Tetris pro's revulsion at the thought of empty space.
Ill will is the glue binding our treasured medium together, its raison d'etre, and this is something for which we are very, very thankful. Imagine how much nastiness there'd be in the world if we (or at least, Counterstrike players) couldn't vent our fundamental negative urges in the form of virtual bad blood?
With customary excellence of judgement, Flytrap has scooped the 10 stinkiest, longest lingering grudges from gaming's proverbial melting pot. Grind that axe and hit the cut."
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 …
Square Enix will announce a new title in the Life is Strange series on January 20 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:0 p.m. ET, the company teased.
Life is Strange: Reunion is the title that was recently leaked and it's supposed to have Max and Chloe back together. So they finally doing what should have been done nearly a decade ago.
Where be Guybrush Threepwood and Le Chuck?
How about IGN vs Gamespot LOL
No mention of Bowser or Eggman? come on