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Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' (www.pcgamer.com)

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Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

On the bright side there's about a 100% guarantee that any game he shits out is gonna be terrible. You can rig, bribe, and exploit your way through literally anything except creating good art. The industry's seen plenty of attempts already

And if it's good then ill just pirate it :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

We might get a new entry for the "Worst of all Time" award

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also it will be some kind of grift. I guess something something nft crypto, or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And will end up being banned from steam as a result.

I'm looking forward to it tbh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

thats fine, let him make his own storefront too. Or is that what X: The Everything App is supposed to be used for?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Just because it's bad don't mean that it won't make money hand over fist. Look at everything Disney produces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Making money from a slightly smaller pile of money is easy.

Making ever more money from increasingly smaller piles of money is hard, and that's what they all career headlong towards for no discernable reason whatsoever.