Nvidia’s DLSS has been a boon for those of us who hang on to old GPUs for longer than game developers want to support them, but a problem with AI upscaling is that its inferences subtly alter the look of games. With DLSS 5, Nvidia has dropped the subtlety and made overwriting the original graphics…
Eugene Jarvis hasn’t made a game in around a decade, and is enjoying a well-deserved retirement, but in the 1980s especially this guy made the most brilliant and brutally tough arcade games around. Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV—all very different, all excellent, and every single one will kick your ass and gobble quarters like…
Eugene Jarvis hasn’t made a game in around a decade, and is enjoying a well-deserved retirement, but in the 1980s especially this guy made the most brilliant and brutally tough arcade games around. Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV—all very different, all excellent, and every single one will kick your ass and gobble quarters like…
Last week, former Blizzard vice president and game designer Jeff Kaplan made his first public appearance since leaving the World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer in 2021, revealing his independent game studio, Kintsugiyama, and its upcoming frontier survival game, The Legend of California. Days later, Kaplan continued that momentum with a casual 10-hour stream of…
Last week, former Blizzard vice president and game designer Jeff Kaplan made his first public appearance since leaving the World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer in 2021, revealing his independent game studio, Kintsugiyama, and its upcoming frontier survival game, The Legend of California. Days later, Kaplan continued that momentum with a casual 10-hour stream of…
Sometimes I can’t bear the wait, and I’m ready to try out any new gadgets or gizmos as early as possible through the Schedule 1 beta branch. Fortunately for me (and the rest of you drug kingpin hopefuls), TVGS seems keen to share new Schedule 1 updates days before they go live for everyone through…
Sometimes I can’t bear the wait, and I’m ready to try out any new gadgets or gizmos as early as possible through the Schedule 1 beta branch. Fortunately for me (and the rest of you drug kingpin hopefuls), TVGS seems keen to share new Schedule 1 updates days before they go live for everyone through…
Voice acting: It can’t be that hard, right? You never have to worry about hitting your marks or where your eyes are. Like Ron Perlman said, you go in, you rip it, you get your 40 bucks and your ham sammie, and you’re outta there. Right? Well, no, of course not. Good voice acting is…
Voice acting: It can’t be that hard, right? You never have to worry about hitting your marks or where your eyes are. Like Ron Perlman said, you go in, you rip it, you get your 40 bucks and your ham sammie, and you’re outta there. Right? Well, no, of course not. Good voice acting is…
“Computer graphics comes to life… now what did we do?” Asks Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang after showing off just how kinda stunning/kinda AI-filter-y DLSS 5 could look in games. It’s honestly a weird, almost entirely contextless teaser. Though more context has come since, with Nvidia announcing it as a “real-time neural rendering model that infuses…