Online games news Tedious Retro Gamer, 04-02-2026
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Google AI project Genie 3 shook the gaming world and... it is hard to tell why.
Gaming companies stock values have dropped (supposedly) around 10% because of the news that Google AI project called Genie 3 allows you to generate the whole interactive worlds and explore them. And... that is it. I have absolutely no clue how those two elements are linked together.
Or perhaps there is an angle that I just don’t get. Perhaps we should examine this a bit further. An AI tool allows you to generate an interactive world. Ok, that sounds impressive. And you can "explore them", which is a bit ambiguous. Explore like... walking around them? What is interactive about it then? Can I manipulate the world or is it just randomly generated further and further?
Anyway, there is that world, you can "explore" it, it is somehow "interactive" and... No, still don’t understand what this got to do with gaming. Will Genie 3 crash the walking simulator genre? Or the lo-fi games? Because those are the only examples I can think of that could be threatened by this "revelation".
Either I’m dumb or the "investors" are clueless what makes game a game, because what was described in this story is a tool generating background for your game or story, but... where is the story? What is interactive about this world? Will it keep the world "alive" between the sessions? Will it be consistent in the world building? What is the ultimate goal of this world?
Nope, I’m still as clueless as I was at the beginning of writing this. The stocks of the gaming companies have tanked over a panic of investors regarding a tool that is not clearly linked to gaming... Fine, that is the conclusion, I guess.
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