845 - 03/26/23 Bobby Blackwolf Show - Hurdle Cleared In MS-ATVI Merger, AI Coming For Entry Level Gamedev Jobs

We start off talking a lot about the Diablo IV beta and impressions from someone who hasn't played a lot of Diablo recently. The biggest hurdle has been cleared in the Microsoft-Activision merger, with the UK saying that it is not in Microsoft's best financial interests to make Call of Duty a console exclusive. At Game Developers Conference, the buzzword was how GPT AI will start taking over tasks that entry level game developers currently do, like writing out the "NPC barks" that constitute world building. But there's also interesting new tech like the Unreal Engine "Metahuman" real time facial animation that could be a game changer in democratizing game development. Then we talk to Rob about Diablo IV and if I just need to play it multiplayer to really enjoy it.