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Yesterday, Google announced Project Genie, a new generative AI tool that can apparently create entire games from just prompts. It leverages the Genie 3 and Gemini models to generate a 60-second interactive world rather than a fully playable one. Despite this, many investors were scared out of their wits, imagining this as the future of game development, resulting in a massive stock sell-off that has sent the share prices of various video game companies plummeting.

The firms affected by this include Rockstar owner Take-Two Interactive, developer/distributors like CD Projekt Red and Nintendo, along with even Roblox — that one actually makes sense. Most of the games you find on the platform, including the infamous "Steal a Brainrot," are not too far from AI slop, so it's poetic that the product of a neural network is what hurt its stock.

Unity's share price fell the most at 20%, since it's a popular game engine. Generally speaking, that's how most games operate: they use a software framework, such as Unity or Unreal Engine, which provides basic functionality like physics, rendering, input, and sound. Studios then build their vision on top of these, and some developers even have their own custom in-house solutions, such as Rockstar's RAGE or Guerrilla's Decima.

According to Statcounter, Windows 11 held a 55.18% market share in October 2025. That share dropped to 53.7% in November and dropped again in December. Now, Windows 11 holds a 50.73% market share.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide

Many are rollback to Windows 10, but Linux is increasing as well.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

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From the changelog these are noted to now be playable:

    Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
    Changeling VR
    Summoners War: RUSH
    Quantum Threshold
    REACH
    Fellowship
    Metal Slug: Awakening
    The Obsessive Shadow
    Drop Dead: The Cabin
    Zero Caliber 2 Remastered
    Lost Memories 3 Side Stories
    Death by Scrolling
    Stellar Reach
    Girls' Frontline
    Modules
    Distant Worlds 2
    懒人修仙传2
    Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
    Chronology

Source: https://www.gog.com/en/work/senior-software-engineer-c-gog-galaxy

We already knew that GOG were going to be looking more seriously at Linux, as covered here previously on GamingOnLinux. However, they're going a step further as noted in their job listing on how "Linux is the next major frontier".