A dev on Minecraft-like Hytale has already used its creative tools to make a homebrew side-scroller

Minecraft is as robust a platform for modding as it is anything else. Even Hytale, the long-awaited, standalone Minecraft-like due to release into early access Jan. 13, can have its origins traced back to one of the biggest custom Minecraft server networks around, Hypixel. Taking after its foremost inspiration, Hytale has ambitions to let players…

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‘Don’t toil away on the things that don’t really matter’: Peak creator says its rapid development cycle has ‘proved that there are definitely different, but maybe better ways to make games’

Red Dead Redemption 2 has some of the most precisely represented horses in the videogame industry. They have multiple distinct gaits, a realistic sense of weight, and miraculously, their little Arthur Morgans shrink in the cold. It’s an admirably attentive but kind of stupid detail touted as much by the game’s fans as its detractors,…

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just ‘gatekeepers’ attempting to ‘censor all of their political opponents’

As reported by Eurogamer, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney took to X (formerly Twitter) to criticize an attempt by US lawmakers to ban the social media app and its accompanying generative AI tool, Grok. The move came after users discovered that Elon Musk’s Grok has the ability to take photos of real people, including minors,…

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just ‘gatekeepers’ attempting to ‘censor all of their political opponents’

As reported by Eurogamer, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney took to X (formerly Twitter) to criticize an attempt by US lawmakers to ban the social media app and its accompanying generative AI tool, Grok. The move came after users discovered that Elon Musk’s Grok has the ability to take photos of real people, including minors,…

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Larian says Divinity’s character customisation will be ‘even better’ than Baldur’s Gate 3’s: ‘More colors, more options, more control’

It wouldn’t be a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired RPG unless it featured character creation, and Larian’s character creators have certainly improved over time. While Baldur’s Gate 3 is easily the studio’s best in terms of sheer fidelity, Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a bit more personality—cannibal elves, playable skeleton versions of each race, and so on….

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Larian says Divinity’s character customisation will be ‘even better’ than Baldur’s Gate 3’s: ‘More colors, more options, more control’

It wouldn’t be a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired RPG unless it featured character creation, and Larian’s character creators have certainly improved over time. While Baldur’s Gate 3 is easily the studio’s best in terms of sheer fidelity, Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a bit more personality—cannibal elves, playable skeleton versions of each race, and so on….

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