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JEMC said:

Welcome to the Monday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

GOG doesn’t have any new deals… but it has something even better: a new GIVEAWAY: Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3 is free to get during 70 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/alone_in_the_dark_the_trilogy_123

Nice, the game's been sitting on my wishlist since forever, now I won't have to pay for them anymore^^

haxxiy said:

Apparently Google's Genie 3 runs on four Nvidia H100s per instance. That is a lot of compute but nothing particularly outlandish. Using current cloud prices that's $0.26 per minute of content, which hows how fast the price of these things is dropping.

4 H100 and still can only output in 720p with 24fps? I know most of the power is needed to create the scenes from scratch, but still...

TallSilhouette said:

^ It's also apparently scaring a lot of investors away from the games industry, as if technically novel but utterly insubstantial AI walking simulators are going to put established studios out of business or something. Another reminder of just how little the suits know about the industries they're essentially in charge of.

Yeah, several publishers and game engines crashed hard on the stock market after it's announcement, especially Unity with dropped almost 30% in one day. Probably those "AI experts" (infestors and anal-lists) thinking that this will replace development for indie developers...