As one of the more dominant trends in contemporary study, “medium specificity” refers to the belief that a piece of art (whether a film, play, painting, sculpture, novel, whatever) has value if it articulates itself through devices specific to its chosen medium. That is to say that a “good” sculpture, for example, would have merit because it makes full use of the medium’s ability to penetrate and occupy a three-dimensional space. A “bad” sculpture would be one that merely realises an accurate representation of its subject matter in a way that could have been done on paper. (Needless to say this is a rather simplified definition of the term but I hope it gets the point across.)
Fraser looks at the ideas of Medium Specificity within gaming.
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 …
<1% of N4G visitors will bother to read this article. It's a slightly pretentious and misguided point of view in my eyes but it's written better than almost any N4G submission I have ever seen. A lot of thought has gone into this piece but I doubt it will generate more than a 100 degrees. Sorry Robotgeek, I hope I'm wrong.
It's alright, Thank you for the compliment.