Acknowledging that your company’s practices could be seen as exploiting child labor is a bold move, even if you go on to say that you actually think you’re doing a good thing. It’s a gambit that Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza took in a recent GDC interview with Eurogamer about the company’s reputation for taking advantage of work that’s often produced by children.
Roblox is immensely …
Read moreNvidia has released an upgraded version of its Ultra Low Motion Blur technology, called ULMB 2. This tech is designed to reduce display-based motion blur by strobing the backlight when a pixel has fully transitioned to its correct value, with the aim of creating less a less blurry picture with greater clarity.
Nvidia goes into the details on its blog. It says, “When a new frame needs to b…
Read moreRisk of Rain 2 keeps on trucking. After last year’s Survivors of the Void expansion added two new survivors and a smattering of new items and stages, Gearbox is following it up with Seekers of the Storm, which will again include “new survivors, new levels, and monsters, and more.” The most notable bit of the “more” this time is almost certainly a new villain named The False Son, who is born out…
Read moreWe seriously dug 2022’s headbanging shooter Metal: Hellsinger, and that rhythm based FPS just got some love from its boomer shooter brethren by way of a free DLC featuring nine tracks from Andrew Hulshult’s excellent Dusk soundtrack.
A musical DLC is a much bigger deal than it might sound given Metal: Hellsinger’s rhythm-based gameplay. Similar to this year’s Hi-Fi Rush, your score and co…
Read moreFollowing a delay driven by the popularity of the hit HBO show, The Last of Us Part 1 is now set to arrive on PC on March 28. And with that big day now just a few weeks away, Sony has revealed the detailed system requirements and an up-close look at the game’s PC-specific features.
The PC version of The Last of US Part 1 will support 4K resolution, 21:9 and 32:9 aspect ratios, support for…
Read moreChill survival game Outpath released this past week and has picked up some buzz and a quite positive reception from early players. Describing itself as “an experimental clicker base building game,” Outpath’s release is a lot like a first-person version of Forager. Though it does feature more in-depth base building and less automation.
Outpath also has a pretty generous demo version out on…
Read moreFoot-fanciers rejoice, for I bring you the only software you’ll ever need to create, manipulate, and pose feet of all shapes and sizes. Salivate at the prospect of Haele 3D Feet Poser Pro, which has released on Steam as a full and lite version, both of which have demos, and the whole shebang can be seen in action below.
Haele’s description says it is “a versatile 3D feet pose…
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Truly all-timer videogames let you do three things: Toil under the yoke of an oppressive overlord, pioneer new frontiers, and eat enough cheese to feed Whitstable. With those facts in mind, consider me very curious to get my hands on Whiskerwood, the new city-builder/elaborate production chain sim from Minakata Dynamics, maker of Railgrade.
Revealed today, Whiskerwood is a sort o…
Read moreWhen game engine company Unity announced a change to its pricing plan last week, the response from developers was overwhelmingly negative. The change would mean developers would be charged an increasing fee as they crossed set thresholds every time their games were installed. It was called, among plenty of other things, “an astonishing scumbag move”.
In addition to criticism from game dev…
Read moreTreat yourself to a quick, stress-free, Wordle win with our help—just scroll or click your way to today’s answer. Or, if that’s all too much too soon, why not spend a little time reading a fresh clue for the February 7 (963) game instead, giving you a bit of help without giving the game away.
Finding three of today’s letters early on put me in a good mood—I just needed to work…
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