In the days of shooters and platformers, when games on consoles fired and leapt solely within the confines of 2D, a group of workers at the powerful company of Konami wanted to do something different. Not different in terms of genre but in way of design and execution.
Masato Maegawa wanted to start his own development company, and so - together with other Konami employees who were tired of passing off rehashes as sequels – quit in April 1992 and a couple months later formed the company known as Treasure.
Their goals were to make excellent games and to avoid making sequels unless they could improve the original formula enough that it should be worthy of being labeled as such. Unlike many companies who share that very same mindset, Treasure actually manages to consistently pull it off, all the while generally overrun by odd, quirky ideas that have no guarantee to sell.
The previously arcade cabinet-only Ridge Racer title, Rave Racer, to be released on Switch and Switch 2 this month.
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 …
Run the maze, dodge the Ghosts, and chase high scores in this real-life Pac-Man experience.
