News Summary

• Konami Digital Entertainment president Hideki Hayakawa believes artificial intelligence will not fundamentally transform the video game industry.
• He argues that human creativity remains essential to producing innovative games.
• His comments do not mean Konami intends to reject artificial intelligence.
• Konami is consequently providing organizational support to help its developers understand emerging technologies, evaluate potential risks, and incorporate them into game development safely.
• It’s already affecting the industry for the worse, producing garbage code.
• meanwhile every other post in my twitter feed is a recomp project that decoded some random game that was stuck on consoles.
• I’m having this visualization (of fantasy, if you prefer) where all the Japanese C-suite corpos have one of their little social get togethers.
• They have a contest at each one of these where they whip out their… phones, and show off examples of their most outrageous PR lies.
• Then the oyabun chooses the most egregious one and the winner gets his choice of the tastiest bits of the puppy sashimi.