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#Apple: you need an iPhone 15 Pro or better to use the AI removal tool in the photo editor and it will only be available in 2025! #Google: your $100 phone goes BRRR…
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Some of my #Screenshots from #AssassinsCreed Valhalla — they failed miserably in main story writing but did a very good job in environments, weather, and lighting.
Also it's funny that the game was clearly planned for limited stamina climbing at some point and then they gave up on it (so you can climb infinitely and parkour doesn't make any sense).
Polyheaven just released the blog on their adventures in Africa: they were looking for deserted and harsh lands but found flowers and life instead!
Now you can use their new collection in games and media with stunning materials, HDRi maps, rocks, and plants.
https://blog.polyhaven.com/namaqualand/ #Africa #GameAssets #Free #GameArt
Narrative notes in games: you either love them or hate them, nothing else 😅
Keep in mind for your own games that such notes only work if everything else is on the same level and reading isn't distracting from more entertaining gameplay.
#GameDesign #Narrative
ItchIO may stop using IO domain due to certain issues with the whole IO sector.
Yesterday, indie developers took to social media with concerns about the possible end of the .io domain, used by Itch.io, Github.io, and the URLs for a number of tech and game industry websites. The domain (assigned to the UK-occupied Chagos Islands by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) is likely to be retired following a recently signed UK treaty that will transfer the territory to the nearby nation of Mauritius.
Surprisingly, it's been over a decade since the release of Over the garden wall and it's worth watching for all fans of horrors and thrillers
#Cartoons #Horror
Bioware just announced some of their Accessibility features in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
The game has very flexible difficulty settings (jokes about journalists can be placed here), including fully custom setup.
Players can also hide a lot of UI elements, adjust size, use accessibility SFX, disable motion blur and camera shake, and many more. The FOV slider will be available since day-1, not like other games who are adding it as the patch after a few weeks.
#EA #Bioware #DragonAge #RPG
After all these years, Rockstar Games will release RDR on PC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvc6uC6xZE #RockstarGames #PC
Oddly enough, #Halo games from now on will be developed on Unreal Engine:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDgR1FRJnF8 #UE5 #UnrealEngine #Microsoft #GameEngines
This is very concerning: CDPR moved to Unreal, Halo is transferring, and many others will follow. To a privately owned game engine that only Epic Games can control. Lack of competition is always bad for end users.
Can't argue that Halo on Unreal 5 looks fantastic! 🤩
My favorite Kuvahara filter as #Unity shader:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhN-JK3U9g #Shaders #NPR #Rendering
Here's how the #Blender team improved their PBR materials in version 4.3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK_p_kDDX8 #PBR #Rendering #Shaders
According to several sources, #Tencent wants to buy #Ubisoft for the second time. The last time their shares were $100, now about ten times less...
#Finance #Business
This is exactly how my first renovation looked: me and my brother decided to do things ourselves... what could possibly go wrong?
#IndieGames #Simulators
New day — new drama! The team behind WordPress (open source website engine) is attacking WP Engine — the second most profitable commercial platform for its users. And their actions seem illegal at this point.
Reminds me of how #GodotEngine attacking #RedotEngine (the only difference is that Redot isn't making money, while WP gets $450m/year)
But also, hear me out: #WordPress is crap and always was — it's slow and all WP websites look nearly identical. Drupal is the only popular tool that truly allow people to build CUSTOM websites with no code (thanks to Views) and all Drupal sites look unique and made with purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc5P_082bvY
The Internet Archive has been under a long attack by book publishers. The website lost in court and was forced to erase many records related to free book storages.
🤔 Oddly enough, soon after that the wayback machine got under hackers attack:
The site is under DDoS and also faced security breach losing data of 31 million users. The source of the breach is an outdated #JavaScript library
#Internet #Hackers
#Nintendo announced $99 alarm clock for the most dedicated fans
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Rumored specs of the upcoming #NVIDIA graphics cards. They will be even more power hungry and 5070 is still going to have 12GB VRAM (which is clearly not enough even for QHD).
5090 is gonna be insanely fast if specs are correct. With such power it will be in huge demand for professional users and businesses. Forget the MSRP: AI bros and Hollywood studios will buy them out for x2, no doubt.
#Hardware #GPU
The early access to the new Dragon Ball game surpassed 91000 concurrent players at launch day. It has 93% positive reviews and people seem happy! 😊
#Anime #DragonBall #FightingGame
Imagine your company is losing money on every game for two years in a row. It's time to MAKE SOMETHING GOOD, said employees and added Steam achievements to Valhalla!
Previously they were saying it's too hard and they will never make it.
#Ubisoft #Steam
There's something wrong with certain remasters (again) 😐 — the old Until Dawn looks better and works better most of the time.
It's not just darker, they mess up with the fog shape and density, it's just one consistent white crap on the whole screen.
Same thoughts regarding #Titanfall2 — it's nice, a bit old-fashioned, and plays well even on hard difficulty. Get it on sale or finally complete the story if you only played it online!
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Before making unique gameplay features, check whether they are useful or just awkward. If no one ever done this before, try to figure out why.
#GameDesign
Random #IndieGames #RPG shout-out:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817030/Swordcery/
The new Joker movie is so bad that it was rated lower than Morbius and Madame Web... #movies
Honestly, I criticized the first one too as an uninspiring and poorly written story.
"Women might be offended by this"
Real women reacting to this:
🤷♂️ Folks on Reddit decided to solve the issue: now it's suitable for everyone! #meme
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A simple Ocean Shader for Godot 4 (much easier than the one with big waves), also MIT Licensed
https://github.com/Flarkk/Godot-Water-Shader-Prototype #FOSS #Shaders #GodotEngine #Godot4