Lately, the term "achievements" has become a buzzword in gaming, primarily because of Xbox Live's "Achievements" feature on Xbox 360. This article is not specifically about the the XBL gimmick, though Microsoft's "Achievements" are a perfect example of the phenomenon I'm talking about.
It used to be that you played games because the virtual activities they involved; running, jumping, killing the badguys, seeing what was in the next level, were fun unto themselves. However, a different motivating force, pioneered by RPG's but recently found in almost every genre, has since risen; playing games to accomplish fictional "achievements".
Sure, there has always been a sense of satisfaction to accomplishing goals in a game; beating a tough level, end boss, or an entire game…finding all the secrets, etc. However, there is a line to be drawn when the means to accomplish the end goal; the core activity and gameplay of the game, ceases to be fun or challenging…and then the player is solely playing for the (false) sense of satisfaction felt when achieving the end goal.
Darryl Linington from Notebookheck writes: "Keebmon is a crowdfunded foldable workstation concept that combines a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 PC, a 13-inch ultrawide touchscreen, and a low-profile mechanical keyboard in a single aluminum device."
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 …
This article isn't getting as much attention as it deserves, maybe I should drum some up by talking trash about MS, Sony, and Nintendo?