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💥Elon Musk Says He’ll Make An xAI Game Studio To ‘Make Games Great Again’💥

Elon Musk has recently inserted himself into gaming culture wars bemoaning what he and others believe are “woke” portions of the market. Now, Elon, a gamer himself, says that he’s starting his own AI-based game stuido with xAI to “make games great again,” in a quote tweet of a follower saying that developers and game journalists have been “ideologically captured.

This of course raises many questions about the viability of such a project, even with Musk’s vast resources. Despite his accomplishments, many of his predictions and ideas don’t exactly come to pass. His past claim that everyone would soon be using X as a banking app, for instance, comes to mind.

What exactly an “AI game studio” consists of is unclear, given that yes, AI has certainly taken off in many fields, but it has been rejected for widespread use inn gaming, and even hints of it in game art or storytelling have been roundly rejected by both players and the developers themselves. A central question would also be how many game developers would want to head over to an Elon-run AI-centric game studio.

The central premise here is odd, where he laments that too many game studios are owned by massive corporations. Musk himself is the richest man in the world. xAI raised $6 billion in Series B funding and may be valued at $40 billion. Electronic Arts’ market cap is $43 billion, for comparison’s sake. By definition an xAI game studio would be run by...a massive corporation.