The creators of a popular Dark Souls 2 lighting mod are experimenting with path tracing and, oh boy, it no longer looks like an Xbox 360 game

Dark Souls 2 is the second-best Dark Souls game and that’s fairly uncontroversial. But it’s also famously the most ugly. Chief among the complaints people have about Dark Souls 2, is that the game’s original lighting engine—the one FromSoftware went to great lengths to show off back in 2013—was entirely absent in the final game….

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Despite having nearly its entire back catalog on Steam, Suda51’s studio doesn’t benefit much from sales of its old games: ‘It’s really nice for the other people who are making bank off that, though’

Despite a reputation for making cult games, Japanese director Suda51’s studio Grasshopper Manufacture has survived for 27 years—long enough to have now ported much of its back catalog of console games to PC. A look at the difference between Grasshopper’s developer listing page on Steam and its publisher listing page, though, reveals a too-common struggle…

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Subnautica 2 devs show off multiplayer while constantly reassuring solo players it’s totally optional

There’s been no shortage of drama surrounded Subnautica 2, from the leadership of Unknown Worlds being axed by publisher Krafton because they’d allegedly caused a delay, to those developers claiming it was Krafton who had caused that delay, actually, so it wouldn’t have to pay those devs a contractual multi-million dollar earnout, to the big…

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Fallout 76 devs were surprised the community turned out to be so friendly: ‘It’s post-apocalyptic, it’s Fallout, they’re going to all want to kill one another … it’s the complete opposite’

The funny thing about Arc Raiders is how friendly it is. Trios mode is fairly reliably violent, and you’ll occasionally get popped by people like Fraser, but in solos mode most players are, unexpectedly, quite cooperative. It’s a little weird, given the nature of videogames, and developer Embark Studios was perhaps a little surprised by…

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