People these days seem all too eager to discard emulation in favor of re-releases on handhelds or download services like Wii Virtual Console or X-box Live Arcade. Sure, the current trend towards "legit retro-gaming" seems convenient, but emulation is by no means obsolete.
To most people, emulation is old news. They dismissively recall their first days on the Internet, at first being being shocked and in disbelief at the new-found ability to download and play virtually any old console or arcade game on our computer for free, then obsessively downloading any and all games they could think of, building up a titanic library of ROMs which they would only ever play once for 2 minutes each and then move on to the next one. Eventually their emulators lay in disuse in the bowels of our dusty hard-drives when we got tired of playing on a keyboard, or just plain got tired of playing old, last-gen games.
So now that new-gen systems are introducing 100% legal ways to retro-game (XBLA, Wii VC) without carting an NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, etc every where you go, it sometimes looks like the last nail in emulation's coffin. However, emulation is still the most convenient way to play classic games.
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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 …
