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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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[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

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.xyz 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.ee -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

I bet it will work, too. 😬

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Google has failed at games over, and over, and over.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or at EA, or Ubisoft

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheKracken@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Stadia.

...Is he gonna hire Phil Spencer?

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks 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.