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I think the xbox business strategist spoke the truth…
An Xbox Business Strategist took to social media with claims that game developers are only "pretending not to use AI," sparking a flood of responses that led to him disabling his account. bit.ly/3VKDJMp
ALT Xbox Business Strategist Claims Video Game Industry Is "Pretending to Not Use AI," Deletes Twitter Account After Backlash
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The first independent benchmark featuring Goose is out, making it 42% faster than the next fastest languages (C and Rust) across 50 real world inspired tasks: kostya.github.io/LangArena/#…
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Rock n roll
The Steam Next Fest Strat is to essentially build up hype for your demo way in advance
Probably Stolen’s demo had close to 2k reviews going into the festival
Reminds me of when @jack said “The most efficient means to spread an idea today is a corporate structure…”
forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/…
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PlayStation boss Hiroki Totoki says “creativity is for humans, not AI.”
Speaking with Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Totoki said AI can be a useful tool for developers but won’t replace people, as creativity remains a human strength.
“Of course, I encourage my people to use AI in a certain manner, but we try to protect the rights of rights holders, creators, and artists.”
Zelnick added that while AI may not replace developers directly, those who embrace it could replace those who don’t.
He also argued that AI relies on existing data, while truly unexpected ideas come from people making original creative choices.
Both companies use AI internally, but Take-Two says there is no AI in GTA 6.
Elbow Grease Games retweeted
Steve Jobs didn't believe gaming was a market worth pursuing because it didn't have a billion users, according to @bingfish.
"I spoke at WWDC in 2007 and I told Steve that games are big. They have like 400 million monthly players."
Steve's response: "Bing, 400 million? We don't start anything until we get to one billion."
"He disrespected games."
"I started thinking, 'Oh boy, he's arrogant.'"
"Then I thought, 'Oh boy, he's right.'"
Games are eating entertainment…
Steve Jobs didn't believe gaming was a market worth pursuing because it didn't have a billion users, according to @bingfish.
"I spoke at WWDC in 2007 and I told Steve that games are big. They have like 400 million monthly players."
Steve's response: "Bing, 400 million? We don't start anything until we get to one billion."
"He disrespected games."
"I started thinking, 'Oh boy, he's arrogant.'"
"Then I thought, 'Oh boy, he's right.'"
Elbow Grease Games retweeted
The "rewrite it in Goose" movement is already gaining steam, see here some early results of rewriting expertly written ninja/json/yaml/jq parsing in Goose and getting large speedups: github.com/calpeyser/goose-e…
Elbow Grease Games retweeted
I’m hosting "They’ll Mod It Anyway" at @DevGAMM Lisbon: a roundtable on mods and AI.
How much control should players have over their games? Where’s the line between a mod and a hack? And who gets paid when a mod takes off?
Come join the discussion if you're in town!
If you want a fast way to parse the next fest, check out @WeLoveIt_io’s site (for example can filter for “no AI disclosures”):
weloveit.io/next-festival/ca…
Wow, biggest sloptober next fest ever.
pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/…
Inspector Clouseau would be proud of the way you conducted this investigation @robotopiahq!
The EGG site needed to be updated. I asked @ChatGPT Astra to add a blog preview for my latest Substack about @MisfitsAttic getting funded by Stray Signal. I wrote to it like a human (I even had typos in my instructions) and it one-shotted the changes...
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A native PC port of the original LittleBigPlanet PS3 is being developed, and the early build is already playable.
>Native x86-64 PC code
>Native Vulkan graphics renderer
>Higher resolutions
>Higher FPS support is being developed
>Smoother rendering through frame interpolation
> Physics, cloth, skinning and audio rebuilt for PC
>Story levels already playable from start to finish
>DLC support planned
>Visual bugs and flickering are still being fixed
Planned GitHub release for people who own the game legally, No original game files will be distributed
The developer also says Claude Opus 5.5 was used to help with development.
It has dawned on me that the future may rhyme with the past. Namely: AI-native games may once again require you to insert tokens to play.
“Creativity” and “Relationships” feel like synonyms for “taste” and trust” which are absolutely becoming some of the most important qualities in the AI age. I agree.
Ben Horowitz on the two skills that will matter more than ever before in an AI world: creativity and relationships.
"I think those are things that are hard to get out of today's AI in a very good way. So if you don't have instincts around those things, I don't know if all the AI in the world could help you. Whereas the grind-them-out tasks, AI is already really good at."
"Do you have original ideas? Can you establish and maintain very high quality, high fidelity relationships with people off the rip? I think people don't think about that enough."
"One big advantage I think that we have is we really look for that. Many just ignore that whole thing, like it's not a thing... It's a thing."
@bhorowitz w/ @Tocelot
