The ear is the most convincing part of Reddit user Ipyreable’s post that claims artwork posted by official Diablo Immortal social media accounts was created with generative AI. Human ears simply do not look like that, even in the fantasy universes of Warcraft and Diablo. The art, which depicts a Warcraft character playing Hearthstone against…
In a lengthy interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, Instagram), Valve co-founder Gabe Newell attributed his billions to “luck” and “being surrounded by great people.” Asked whether there’s a difference between enormously wealthy entrepreneurs and everyone else, Newell said that the only reason to think so comes from “unsound” analysis. (The topic comes up around…
“Walking. Sprinting. That’s all we need,” declared the prophet JoovYT, a YouTuber with a bone to pick with how we sprint in shooters these days. In the 21-second video captioned “My Battlefield 6 wishlist,” Joov makes a fierce case that Battlefield 6, and any other FPS for that matter, need not offer two different sprint…
Survival MMO Dune: Awakening got off to a strong start in June, but here at the tail end of July it’s gotten stuck in a bit of quicksand. Even making changes to the controversial chopper-heavy endgame hasn’t stopped recent Steam reviews from sliding to “Mixed,” and despite several patches to squash exploits and hackers, cheating…
Fans of action RPG Last Epoch are understandably worried about today’s news that the studio behind it has been acquired by the publisher that’s currently being sued by a group of recently-ousted Subnautica 2 developers. Judd Cobler, founder of Eleventh Hour Games, said there’s nothing to worry about in a series of posts on the…
“It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission,” modeler Ryan Yan said, recounting his team’s mantra going into GDC 2024. Yan and creative director Liam Cribbs were in San Francisco to pitch publishers on a school project they’d been plugging away at for nine months with a handful of friends at NYU. Mycopunk, which released…
Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has granted a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). The chat covers everything from Newell’s current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“) to his earliest days as a programmer: and how he ended up at Microsoft. One particularly interesting digression comes when Newell…
We all know the story of how Valve was founded. Gabe Newell, born beneath a rainbow on Mt Paektu, was visited by an archangel in his quarters and charged to build Half-Life. Then he was charged to build a Half-Life patch tool called Steam that remains inexplicably popular to this day. In return, he was…
Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“), and it turns out that the young Newell loved programming, but had no thoughts…
Not a pea shooter. A Plants vs. Zombies remaster is potentially on the horizon, and it might be releasing as early as October, a new rumour suggests. Reported by Dealabs and Billbil-Kun (via Push Square), the remaster is reportedly called Plants vs. Zombies Replanted — which could be related to the Brazilian age rating of…