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Dispatch’s character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation ‘as a last resort’, a temporary solution ‘to get us through the pitch phase’, before defining the entire game’s artstyle

As far as Telltale-likes go, Dispatch is one of the prettiest. Lovely animation, some great character designs, and a strong visual artstyle. It might surprise you to find out, then, that the main character and concept artist for Dispatch, Lap Pun Cheung, was picked up on ArtStation as a last resort to get developer AdHoc…

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Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony’s scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that’s why it’s pulling back from PC: ‘It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war’

Our six-year stint of feeling very smug about getting pretty much every game on PC (excluding Nintendo, which will forever be Nintendo about it) came to an end last week, when a report from Bloomberg said that Sony has decided to pull back from its strategy of releasing its console exclusives—after a suitable delay—on PC….

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Asus thinks ‘high-end brand value and high-end product mix’ will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI

The memory crisis appears to be hitting almost everyone, from PC gamers to PC suppliers, but Asus doesn’t seem too worried. Addressing concerns in its latest financial earnings report, Asus reckons it is uniquely positioned to survive it. Opening the topic, Asus CFO Nick Wu says, “I would like to briefly add that as investors…

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