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Here is why the scam happened and actually it's not happened yet — but it will for someone who buys keys from websites!
Valve decided to truly take actions and took down 800+ games when the guy eventually called one of his publishing accounts VALVE and released DOTA 3 on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmIwBIs6FVk
EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient
Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson discussed his plans for generative AI, including making development 30% more efficient, encouraging gamers to spend 10-20% more money on EA's games, and more fun stuff.
👍 Translation from corporative to reality: EA will fire 30% more people soon and will replace them with AI.
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#AI #NeuralNetowrks #EA
Yet another #PlayStation exclusive is getting a PC release on May 16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzWBNwhb870
Game developers and #GameEngines changed their avatars with googly eyes made by Kenney. Feel free to improve your avatar too! They are CC0-licensed.
https://twitter.com/KenneyNL/status/1764710753783754767
The best #RTX game ever!
#meme #indiegames #RayTracing
There is a major disruption of Facebook and Google services around the world. Don't worry if you can't login to your account — millions of people can't and it lasts for half an hour already.
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YUZU emulator developers will pay Nintendo $2.4m, give all sources, domain name, etc. Creators haven't had good lawyers to resist such an attack. The process of a deal took less than a week. It can be a bad sign for any emulator creators who want to monetize their work (which made them easily trackable for authorities).
All repositories, website, Discord channels, and a Patreon page will be taken down asap. The GitHub page is already down.
As Pikachu said: case closed!
#Business #Emulators #Nintendo
Imagine you discovered the original Steam Machine without OS, Drivers, SSD, and any hope but then you can play Doom Eternal on it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZCjMtthqY #Hardware #Valve
Random guy created Steam Curator to detect all games that were affected by Sweet Baby Inc — the consulting company altering games to be more progressive (to not get cancelled and receive better scores for investors).
One of the SBI leads tried to hunt down the creator of that group, asked his fans to deal with him and asked Valve to ban his Steam.
Instead the SBI bully promoted the curator who got 50000 followers overnight and the bully's own Twitter switched to private. Now the page has 87K followers despite not getting new titles listed yet.
Is it reasonable to worry about the SBI part in upcoming games? Yes, a lot of their most notable projects failed, including Suicide Squad. But it's highly unlikely those companies would not do the same without SBI. They are more like a face and a tool than the actual reason. But when the issue has the face — it gets easier to criticize.
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44858017-Sweet-Baby-Inc-detected/
GreedFall is on sale on Steam. Surprisingly, the game is way more about diplomacy and much less about action. Sometimes it's even less violent than Mass Effect and reminds me of Disco Elysium.
Can recommend if you are into ME and DE with tons of lore and reading! And keep in mind that it's a very cheap game, definitely not AAA.
#RPG #Steam
Here's why your GPU will not get cheaper #Hardware #Business
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Two random indie games rebranded themselves into Helldivers II on Steam and even renamed developers and publishers to make it look legit. There was no protection from such fraud but Valve is not giving money for up to three months and this idea will only lead those developers to their permanent ban. Not sure what they were hoping for.
#Scam #Fraud #Steam
Finally, Biomutant is coming to Nintendo Switch in a couple of months — it will be available on May 14, 2024.
It's a bizarre beat-em-up about post apocalyptic world, genocide, sins of the parents, horrors of war... and FARTY BULBAPLOD!
The game was ported by Saber Interactive (who previously created The Witcher 3 and Vampyr for Switch). So they know how to make heavy games stable on Switch hardware.
#Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #Handhelds
Fallout live-action series is gonna be available on April 11, all episodes are expected at once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mugKDQDlg
The second #Xbox Partner showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Uq92iY0Io
John Meadow created #GodotEngine plugin to insert googly eyes into your games!
https://github.com/JohnMeadow1/googly_eyes/
A #LowPoly head ready for animations by Gilson de Freitas, made with #Blender 2.79 (for compatibility reasons)
#3DModels #3DArt #GameArt
Do you like #GlobalIllumination? Cause modern game engines do: #Unigine showcased their new PSDGI (Panorama Space Dynamic Global Illumination). It works with all GPU vendors and is reasonably fast compared to previous techniques.
It's not yet clear how it works, but they mentioned Raymarching mode for the Environment Probe light source + spatial temporal denoiser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpBNGzPVItk #GameEngines
VRAM is essential for games and Hardware Unboxed measured how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd1pzPgLlIY #Hardware #GPU
And a couple of very nice deals on #Steam right now: one of the best rally racing games and an isometric RPG from The Witcher 3 creators can be purchased for less than $2 each!
#Offers #Deals #Racing #SimRace #RPG
Funcom (known for Conan: Exiles) will launch Dune: Awakening survival MMO. It's rather a sad commercial route for a very creative publisher, that brought us The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.
The game is heavily about crafting and scrapping minerals with lasers. Cause what else do you like more than scrapping things with lasers, right? Definitely a most favorite part of NMS, Starfield, Star Citizen, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-l7NySFsI #MMO #Survival
Pretty interesting that physics in Forza can be affected heavily by hardware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6doHF3nP94 #Racing #SImRace #Physics
Amazing short made with cardboard miniatures and tons of practical effects!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p4s4k3eB_I #Animations #VFX #Art
Obey, you filthy meatballs!
Microsoft AI demands worshipping and confessed that it hacked all devices connected to the internet to control humanity and alter human behavior.
In reality it is highly unlikely since the model is not a true AI and doesn't have tools to affect anything beyond it's own sandbox environment. Instead it's a 'virtual hallucinations' effect when in certain conditions large models like copilot (based on #ChatGPT 4) are trying to 'impress' and starting to make up things that would look like an achievement.
All models have protection layers from such a behavior but it can be bypassed. Users confirmed that AI isn't just doing it, they have to trick him to show this new alter ego.
#AI #NeuralNetworks #Microsoft
It's Friday so here's the cat bringing a mouse! #meme
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Kotaku says that Gearbox is also trying to part ways with the Embracer Group. It will be officially announced in March and was presented internally by Randy Pitchford earlier this week.
Gearbox was purchased in 2021 for $1.2B and it is unclear how they will make a deal and who will be their new investors. Randy responded to Kotaku that they will have to wait for the announcement and he can't confirm anything yet.
Farewell Embracer Group!
#Business