If you've been unfortunate enough to see a Daily Express headline recently, you may have been exposed to something along the lines of: "Fatal Console Manhunt Of Skiving Blue-Tongued Immigrant Gamers Killed Our Princess." Besides political wrongheadedness, conspiracy theories about decade-old car crashes and Sudoku, there's nothing Britain's sensationalist tabloids enjoy more than drawing dubious links between gaming hijinx and every single crime committed in the entire country.
All rather overblown, of course. If games had ever possessed the level of influence hypothesised by certain contemporary columnists, the world around us would have been reduced to smoking wreckage many moons ago. Can't quite believe that 8-bit machines would teach such malevolence? Then please take a standard-issue white coat and follow the pulsing floor lights towards the scientific research area, as EG:R expose the deeply disturbing lessons taunt by the murky underbelly of 1980s software...
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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 …
"it turns out criminality can be accurately determined by how much a person enjoys playing the Grand Theft Auto franchise... "
Good one EG, bubbles for Eurogamer for that fun. Sad and true. Every where is like this. Whenever a maniac kills some people, media, polititians and others start determining how many hours the person has spent on GTA, Manhunt or Doom and for those idiots, it's like there is no other thing that could have led the killer into the killing spree... only games. Games bad... They think that if there were no games in this world, it would have been the perfect world without a single crime, no thief, no killer, no rapist. All of them are result of violent games, yeah ban and censor the games.
Not looking for the real influences and reasons behind those crimes and instead trying to blame something like games is the easy way but IMO, the media, polititians and people who blame games for everything are no better than the killers and rapists that they accuse of playing games...