Party Animals studio sparks fury with ‘AI video contest,’ apologizes, then makes things even worse by asking if it should hold the contest anyway

Party Animals developer Recreate Games has apologized for an “AI video contest” it announced earlier this week that encouraged players to submit short films created with generative AI tools. It’s not cancelling the contest, though—instead, it’s opened a poll asking followers what it should do. Recreate first announced the contest on May 13, telling followers…

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Garry Newman acknowledges Gmod successor S&box had a bumpy launch, but is baffled by the number of people complaining about NFTs, which aren’t in the game: ‘I have no idea what this s**t is about’

The newly launched content creation platform S&box has 7,693 Steam reviews and they are decidedly “Mixed,” though it definitely has its defenders. Facepunch co-founder and creator of Garry’s Mod Garry Newman has now directly addressed the situation on the studio’s blog, beginning by acknowledging that “our Steam reviews obviously aren’t great. They’re painful for us….

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The story trailer for Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy, an upcoming survival horror game, reveals more of the twisted location and odd inhabitants

Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy’s latest trailer reveals more of what players can expect from the third installment of the survival horror series. This is the story of one mother’s venture to find her lost daughter along with a group of other young girls, all of whom went missing in Sicily. The trailer picks up 14…

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The latest Nvidia drivers reportedly fix stutters when using frame generation and VSync, so you can generate to your heart’s content

There’s a chance that, if your games have been stuttering with DLSS frame generation enabled, it’s because you have VSync on and didn’t know the two don’t always play nicely. If you’re one of the unlucky few, you might want to try updating your Nvidia drivers. Game Ready Driver 596.49 has reportedly enhanced smoothness when…

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Subnautica 2 pulls over 370,000 concurrent players in its first 30 minutes on Steam as it cannonballs into early access

Considering the length of its tenure as Steam’s most-wishlisted game, it was safe to suspect that Subnautica 2 would draw a crowd. Now that its early access launch day is here, those suspicions have been thoroughly validated: Less than an hour after launch, its oceans are already packed with eager explorers. Within moments of Subnautica…

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