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Casual Vs. Hardcore

Gamesplash writes,"There's an issue that always seems to arise but never gets the proper discussion it deserves. Without this people aren't able to actually comprehend it as well as they should be; The Casual Gamer debate. The word gamer is in and of itself a term that I personally am not entirely fond of either, but we'll avoid that discussion for the time being and focus solely on the 'Casual' portion. That said, what is a casual gamer? What is a hardcore gamer? More so, why the hell do so many people care what the status is on the opposite end of the spectrum?"

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INehalemEXI5473d ago

I'm recreational , unless I got no one around and lots of time to go hard.

darthv725473d ago

It wasnt a title designated to the type of games played. It was a title earned by being someone who played anything and everything.

Now a days people use it like a punch line. If you aint playing the hardcore game then you aint hardcore. Playing games was about fun not social status. You can be given the hardcore status by playing games good and bad, day and night.

Gamers today just dont know what it was like back then. Reading about it is just not the same as living it.

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Keebmon’s “keyboard PC” promises RTX eGPU gaming - backers want proof

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."

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Blizzard Sends Legal Notice to bbno$ Over Diablo-Themed Website

bbno$ has temporarily shut down his website after receiving a legal notice from Blizzard Entertainment related to Diablo-themed content.

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Mulletino12d ago

More and more it seems like these gaming companies are at war with their fans.

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Video Game Stocks Plunge on Fears Google's Genie 3 Will Replace Game Engines

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.

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peppeaccardo29d ago

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

z2g29d ago

Duplicate story. Or does Christopher just remove xbox stories that are similar?

Commentby29d ago

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 …