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Google’s new AI ‘world model’ has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it’s hard to know what it will actually lead to

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Project Genie | Experimenting with infinite interactive worlds – YouTube Watch On Google launched a new AI product this week, and as Seeking Alpha points out, videogame-related stocks like Unity and Take-Two took a dip. If those share price fluctuations really were a reaction to Project Genie, which was first revealed last year and is said to generate interactive “worlds,” it’s awfully premature—this doesn’t do anything to GTA 6’s prospects, let’s be real.But The Verge gave it a go, and was able to produce what the site called “bad Nintendo knockoffs,” which is certainly interesting.Google calls its current Project Genie…

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Google’s Project Genie Seemingly Causes Some Investors to Lose Faith in Roblox, Unity and…GTA 6

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Just one day after the announcement of Genie, Google’s generative AI-powered virtual world creator, a number of major video game companies are seeing their stock prices tumble, seemingly because some investors think you can just generate an entire video game with AI now.Of course, that’s not what Genie is. Genie essentially lets you create a virtual “world” by offering prompts to describe the environment, a main character, and first or third-person view. Once it’s created, you can control the described character and wander around the world you’ve made.And that’s…kind of it? While you can walk around these virtual spaces with…

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Playstation

Highguard Review (PS5) | Push Square

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Have you ever played a game that has a nugget of something special in there, but just isn’t quite hitting the mark? That basically sums up our time with Wildlight Entertainment’s Highguard. This is a PvP raid shooter, which may sound like something new, but in reality, there’s a little something of most popular shooters stuffed into this one. There are base defensive reinforcements like Rainbow Six Siege. You have a tiered armour and weapons looting loop, somewhat akin to Fortnite (or most battle royales, for that matter). And there are even hero characters with unique passive, tactical and ultimate…

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Nintendo

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Direct Recap – News

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We did not have the first opponent of Bill Goldberg making a cameo in a Nintendo Direct on the bingo card.The Direct for the upcoming Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has just wrapped, with a lot of details given about the irreverent life sim. Living the Dream received an April 16 launch date as the final announcement of the show. Following the controversy with the 2014 3DS lacking same-sex relationship options, Living the Dream will allow for characters to select a nonbinary gender option and set dating preferences that include the Mii’s chosen gender option. The built-in Mii maker for…

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Phasmophobia’s roadmap includes evidence of a 1.0 launch in 2026: a player character overhaul, new event, and Horror 2.0

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Phasmophobia’s early access build celebrates its sixth anniversary as a viral ghost-hunting breakout on Steam later this year, but that’s assuming we make it to September before the 1.0 launch. If Kinetic Games’ latest roadmap stays on track, then we’ll be cutting it close, as Phasmophobia is planning for its 1.0 launch with a horror rework and lore update sometime this year.It’s a big year for Phas as the horror rework and lore updates coupled with 1.0’s debut are one of several major patches outlined. There’s also a Unity 6 and network update on the roadmap that I hope will…

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