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SIXX AM Singer: "Success doesn't just attract praise, it attracts predators"
We've talked about creativity and theft in the music business before. Those actually in the business will tell you it can be a very predatory business for creative people. Lately, it's come up a lot when talking about…
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BALLMAN
There once was a young boy named Billy Bobbins. His parents took him to the pizza parlor where he loved playing in the ball pits. One day he jumped into a ball pit and came out with a hypodermic needle stuck to his arm.…
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What is Creativity and how is current "AI" impacting it?
We cover AI at PGM. We don't do this because we want to be popular, topical or relevant. We do it because it's new and creatively interesting . It's all about curiosity. The answer to why, is much more complex. In this…
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Jersey Jack Pinball using some AI art, allegedly, for Harry Potter is an unintentional red herring
If you haven't heard or read the flaming controversy over Jersey Jack Pinball allegedly using some AI gen in their newest game Harry Potter artwork, this will be my take, perhaps a much different one than you've read…
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Could Completely AI Gen Advertising Lead to Playable Ad games?
It's Sunday when I'm writing this piece, a couple months before this will be published on a free play game Sunday, so there will be a game before this is done to play. Was pondering what Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are up…
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Downloading and sharing copyrighted MP3 not purchased, is it piracy or promotion?
Was tempted to lead this article with a placeholder image AI generated, but that seemed like too much, so instead a picture of me with a gigantic pen at my desk, taken 20+ years ago instead. Ah yes, there is a point,…
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6-6-2025 today is release day for AI KILLS third album STILLBIRTH
Today's the magic electric day that the world at large can experience Stillbirth , AI KILLS third album release. For those reading that don't know, this is my AI band. It's an experiment that began in 2024, at least…
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It's NW Pinball Show Weekend + Worldwide Debut Listening Party for STILLBIRTH + Humpday Wednesday S2E8
There's a Blackfoot song called "Highway Song" that is playing in my head over the last week: "Another day, another dollar, after I've sang and hollered. Oh, it's my way of living, but I can't change a thing." I…
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Stern Pinball Arcade PS5 More Fun Playing Than Remembered, Despite the Mediocre Experience
Yesterday, on the (NO) Blue Monday stream I decided to check out the PS5+ Premium that I spent like $185 for the year and see how worth it -- or not -- it was. Scrolling through the long list of playable games, classics…
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Play Poker Draw Challenge (AI Generated)
Using https://caisual.com/ and the following text prompts, the following fully playable free game was AI generated called Poker Draw Challenge. These were the *5* prompts used: Next, the AI generated the following…
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How much should AI Generation become the future of gaming?
There's an 800 pound gorilla in the room, and it's not Stern Pinball newest game: King Kong: Myth of Terror Island, it's that two letter four letter word: AI. We cover AI here at PGM, both as a necessary evil and as a…
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AI KILLS Stillbirth Tracklist + Scientists seriously consider if AI could kill every human on earth, Terminator for real
We cover AI a fair amount at PGM, specifically how it might impact gaming. If we're all, or most of us, dead as in the movie Terminator , survival would trump gaming. The good news is scientists at the Rand corporation…
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AI Voice Scanning to Auto Ban Human Gamers is another dumb use of AI
PGM member and Twitch Vtuber streamer Sonic321Master ( https://www.twitch.tv/sonic321master ) chimed into the Discord with this: Curiously, I started reading Steam reviews for the game Among Us 3D (…
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How To Create Your Own Comic Book Online with AI using Dashtoon
Can't draw, but always wished you could create your own comic book? Dashtoon ( https://dashtoon.com/ ) is an AI generator that seeks to allow that sort of creation. Similar to Suno for music and a bunch of different…
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Play RPG Card Game - Endless Quest of the Fallen Hero (AI Generated Game Rules)
Will be traveling on the plane to Texas next week ( We will be at Texas Pinball Festival on Saturday March 22, 2025, Are you Attending? ) and taking my deck of cards on the plane to try learing and playing and helping…
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Is AI Generation Curation instead of Creation?
Maybe when it comes to AI generated content, we're looking at this wrong. In the context of using in various different places: gaming, being most relevant here, it's worth exploring more deeply. I've had this nagging…
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How To Create Card Games using standard 52 playing card deck with Yeschat.AI: Pac-Card, Race To The Finish
Ed: the games created in this article are AI-generated In 2024, at PGM we "created" several games using AI-generated tools and shared most here free to play. This is, in part, our quest to study AI-generated tools: what…
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AGI Remains the Ultimate AI Mirage
There is really only one major technology I'm interested in that crosses into gaming as much as other sectors and that's AI. We have a category dedicated to it and it's not because I'm somehow obsessed with it, like too…
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Harrison Ford on Troy Baker Voicing Him more soulful than AI
This should be one of those duh things when it comes to AI, that voice acting is still a form of creative expression that AI cannot replicate -- yet. A perfect example of this is last year's shining Indy moment: Indiana…
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161+ Free Games and Activities to play during the Super Bowl
It's Super Bowl LIX (#59) in New Orleans today starting at 3:30pm PST (Live on FOX, but you can stream for free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/ ) and besides the game itself between the returning champions Kansas City…
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9+ years ago Magic Pixel ran Indiegogo for Zaccaria Pinball development, now they're flirting with AI artwork
Recently, Zaccaria Pinball received an update. It's a bit controversial for some, because they are using AI generated art for some of the new and remakes of Zaccaria pins. Due to Steam rules for developers they had to…
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Skullbox686 Daily Zaccaria Score Chasing Recap #1 + Humpday Wednesday 2/5/2025
PGM Member Skullbox686 has been running a Zaccaria Pinball (Steam/PC https://store.steampowered.com/app/444930/Zaccaria_Pinball/ ) daily score challenge in our Discord that I decided to recap each week on Wednesday…
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Of course AI is being used by scammers, too
It's Martin Luther King Jr day today, 1/18/2025, and is celebrated every third Monday in January. We've been honoring this day since the 80s. King's famous "I have a dream...." speech (…
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Neuro Brain Games Work Like EEG and AI Measure Your Mental Focus
These headphones are pretty futuristic: they work like an electroencephalogram (EEG) and measure how mentally focused you are on a task. Think Fitbit-like sensors, only not measuring heartrate and pulse during cardio,…
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What games will actually need a 50-series GPU and still be fun to play? + Happy Humpday Wednesday 1/8/2025 + D&D play by others at CES
It's Humpday Wednesday 1/8/2025 and CES 2025 week underway and we're bound to see and hear plenty of what is coming out later this year and beyond -- including some early Stern Pinball Dungeons & Dragons Pinball. But…
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OPINION: We Don't Need No Stinking Xbox AI Chatbots
AI and humans, humans and AI, how do we get along? That's the real question that begins in 2024 and will bubble over into future years. It's an important question of which nobody seems to know exactly how this will work…
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Toys R Us Uses AI Video Commercial to Tell Its Story
Remember Toys R Us ( https://www.toysrus.com/ )? We bought several gaming consoles and videogames through Toys R Us stores when they were in the area. Sadly, their locations around us are mostly closed. They are still…
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Huge Studio Album Iron Maiden Playlist Music - 101 songs - to Listen to While Gaming + Halloween 2024
Sometimes the music that accompanies a game just doesn't cut it. Doesn't get you in that zone. In 2023, we covered an extensive song list for the band Judas Priest here: Judas Priest Playlist to Listen to While Gaming +…
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Are Creative People Ripped off more by Human Beings than AI?
Everywhere these days we keep hearing about A.I. Me? I'd rather be a happy Iron Maiden fan that enjoys making and sharing AI generated images with Maiden's mascot Eddie like the one above. Not to make money, not to…
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Rosebud.AI Is Better Than Expected for Creating Game Code using AI, But Still Requires Human Programming
Back in February I wrote a screed on how we don't need completely AI generated games: OPINION: Google’s AI Genie Creating Faux 2D Platformer Games Likely Another Idea They Give Up on Too Soon And, months later, after…
