Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.
  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    10 months ago

    Creating a game studio, because you are a huge corporation with unlimited money doesn’t guarantee success. Just look at Amazon game studios for example.

    • wandermind@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      I bet he’s banking on marketing the games as “anti-woke” and getting the MAGA crowd to buy them to own the libs.

      • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        Its like every week a new episode of black mirror script is coming to life.

        I know games as propaganda exist in some shape and form already, but imagine what could a selfish man-child with all the money in the world do to the game industry to bring his “vision” to life.

        • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
          16·
          10 months ago

          Punching nazis is a game, more or less, but that’s about as political as a game should get imo.

          • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Art is inherently political.

            For example, do you think Gordon Freeman would be a Trump voter?

            Or the entire Bioshock franchise? That entire story is a big political message.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        EA actually got rich making decent games before their (very early!) foray into enshittification. Can you imagine they went 10 years without yearly EA Sports crap?

        Similarly, Ubisoft (then Ubi Soft) used to put out pretty good ones.

        Looks like money spoils people.

        • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          10 months ago

          Out of touch, money-focused execs ruin everything. Especially when you have to keep the investors and shareholders happy.

          • TheKracken@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Exactly. You have buyouts that replace creatives with business people and the good developers leave to start another company.

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I think you meant Phil Harrison. Spencer is the current head of Microsoft gaming division and Harrison is the turd who somehow keeps failing upwards.