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…
The Golden Upgrade Path. Back in 2022, Tunic blew us away with its brutal battling, Zelda-inspired adventures, and deep secrets. Today, we’ve learnt that we’ll soon have the opportunity to do it all over again thanks to an upcoming Switch 2 update. The game celebrated its fourth anniversary today, and to mark the occasion, publisher…
The memory crisis seems to have put the squeeze on basically everyone, other than those creating the memory. Even well-known gaming brand MSI appears to be struggling and plans on increasing its prices to offset ongoing problems. According to the United Daily News (machine translated), MSI is reportedly planning to increase the prices of its…
Nine months after Krafton gutted the leadership of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, leading to an acrimonious legal dispute, a judge has ordered that former CEO Ted Gill be reinstated, and that control over the game’s early access release schedule be returned to him. The judge also extended the $250 million earnout period that was…
Remember Digg? You might if you’re of a particular online vintage. Launched in 2004, it was basically Hot or Not but for websites: Users would submit links to websites, and others would vote them up or down as they saw fit. It was a good way to find cool content stuff, and for a brief…
Picture it: a crumbling world in the wake of a great collapse, filled with pornographic inequality and quotidian violence. A world where the uttermost limit of respectable politics seems to be presiding over—sometimes slowing, sometimes hastening, never reversing—a process of inexorable decline. What am I talking about? Oh, you read the headline? That’s cheating. Yes,…
Okay, that’s some bombastic headlining right there, but when one of the people behind the success of Nvidia’s DLSS feature reckons a new AI innovation in gaming is “gonna blow your mind” I’m prepared to listen. The Nvidia GPU Technology Conference starts today, with Jen-Hsun Huang hitting the stage at 11am PDT (6pm GMT) for…
In news you may have seen coming, given it was originally announced 9 years ago, the Hitman TV series that was planned to air on Hulu is dead. So John Wick creator Derek Kolstad, who was down as executive producer and writer on the project, tells The Direct. “It’s a little bit of a dagger…