“There is no easy way to share this kind of news”. Spanish video game developer MercurySteam, best known for developing Metroid: Samus Returns on the 3DS and the critically-acclaimed Metroid Dread on Switch, is the latest studio to be hit with layoffs. “There is no easy way to share this kind of news”, the independent…
Just as you think you’ve made it through a tense episode of Directive 8020, you hit a puzzle that requires a key code to progress. Whether you’ve decided to send a distress signal or a warning to Earth in episode 7, you’ll still need to find the serial number for the probe. It’s not exactly…
In its latest earnings call, Sony included a corporate strategy for the future of the brand, and as you might be able to expect from any figurehead talking to investors, there’s a lot of talk about AI. As noted by GamesIndustry.biz, Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki believes “AI will make it easier to take on more…
DisplayPort 2.1 GPU connected to DisplayPort 2.1 monitor. Result? DisplayPort 2.1 connect. Right? Apparently not, according to Monitors Unboxed. At least, not always. Now, without getting bogged down in the details, the main attraction of DisplayPort 2.1 is bandwidth and lots of it. That means not only higher resolutions, refresh rates and colour depths, but…
All Will Rise is the only deck-builder I know of that can run on vibes alone. It has complex rules—so many that it can feel overwhelming—but during its three-hour demo I simply played whichever card felt right. I pointed out an Oil Spill then Spoke For The River, asserted my Right To Sue, argued that…
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He died over two years ago, but we’re only now getting permission to report it. On Friday, 12th January 2024, the head of Mitchell Corporation and industry veteran Roy Ozaki passed away. He was born in Kobe on 31st December 1950 and was 73 years old. This is the first public news of his death…
Open-source dev teams have been fighting a rising tide of AI slop contributions ever since LLM tech was loosed upon the Earth, as we documented earlier this year with news that free and open-source game engine Godot was buckling under the weight of AI-generated pull requests (or PRs—that is, code contributions asking to be ‘pulled’…
The puzzle game Wordle, onetime viral sensation and now a daily fixture of the New York Times, is becoming a gameshow that will be broadcast in both the UK and US. Broadcaster NBC is behind the TV adaptation, which will be filmed in Manchester, England, and hosted by Savannah Guthrie, who currently presents the network’s…
With AI sucking up much of the supply, memory hasn’t been in the best state as of late, in regard to both price and availability. This, unfortunately, makes it fertile ground for scammers, and we’re starting to see convincing DDR5 counterfeits. As noted by @taki_pc_1115 on X, “At first glance, they look like regular memory…