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Posted by speckx 1/30/2026

Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release(www.reuters.com)
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bnchrch 1/30/2026|
Related HN Discussion on Genie:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812933

dude250711 1/30/2026||
It will be a long way to productionize this.

I would say an impossibly long way.

Unless the idea is to have a new kind of media, distinct from classic games.

andybak 1/30/2026|
It's important to remember that "games" aren't a monolith. People want different things. There's a categorization I vaguely remember and I was an "explorer". Hated narrative, puzzles and any repetition. Never wanted multiplayer. Just give me a weird world to explore. Yeah, procgen has limits but Minecraft is still fascinating to me.
ChrisArchitect 1/30/2026||
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828013
keyle 1/31/2026||
This is so silly.

Games are a form of communication in arts between the designer and the player.

Ai generated content is at best the ikea flat pack replacement. Utilitarian and you feel nothing.

Anything meaningful and worthwhile spending time on must come from something that carries meaning.

shaky-carrousel 1/30/2026|
Meh, irrelevant. This... thing comes from Google, which has two guarantees: it'll be unbearably bland, and will be abandoned in one year tops.