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Arc Raiders used to be a much faster game during development—quite literally, as Embark reduced the speed of everything by roughly 60% after it shifted the game towards a PvPvE extraction shooter. It’s something you can see pretty clearly in the game’s original reveal trailer, where players were leaping around every which way and running…
If you’ve recently made the switch to Linux with your Arm64-based processor, but miss Chrome, I’ve got some good news for you. At some point in the next few months (Q2 according to Google), you will finally be getting official Google Chrome support. As pointed out by Google, this follows Chrome support for Arm-based macOS…
At this year’s GDC event in San Francisco, Nvidia took to the stage to tell game developers something that they, and anyone for that matter, already knew: future games will only have film-level graphics by ‘fully leaning into AI to cross that chasm between what’s attainable [now] and what’s attainable in film rendering.’ Those were…
The Arc Raiders developers have said in the past that during development playtests that preceded launch, raiders were behaving much more violently toward one another than how we’ve seen in the community post-launch. It’s something that Embark production director Caio Braga mentioned to us multiple times when we spoke to him after his talk at…
Oh to be a little frog waking up from a long sleep over the cold dark winter. Climbing out of your burrow to be met with the fresh sun of Spring and vibrant scent of flowers popping up from the softening earth. It’s what dreams are made of, at least it’s what mine are made…
Valve is facing a new legal headache in the UK, and this one is definitely not like the others. The Performing Right Society, a rights management organization that collects royalties on behalf of musicians when their work is played publicly, has launched legal action against Valve over its use of PRS members’ music on Steam…
The 3DMark benchmark has been synonymous with PC gaming hardware for the longest time, almost ever since Remedy lent its MAX-FX engine to the very first iteration, 3DMark99, way back in 1998. But it was DirectX8 and the use of programmable shaders in its 2001 benchmark that enabled it to really showcase what PC graphics…
Microsoft has just shared an update to DirectX, labelling it “the biggest wave of new tooling features in DirectX’s history.” The company, alongside major “GPU hardware partners”, has shared its “dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows.” Microsoft reports, “AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm have worked closely with us throughout feature development, each…
The figure of the tycoon is tarnished these days. All the people who are killing the planet lay claim to the label—with their billions of dollars and Antarctic ice palaces and greasel armies. But it wasn’t always that way! Time was, the word tycoon brought to mind halcyon memories of afternoons at The Computer, connecting…
I don’t think anyone had it on their bingo cards that Arc Raiders‘ machine design and AI would be so good that people would fervently demand a PvE mode in an extraction shooter. If you did, then good for you, I guess. But it wasn’t always that way, not least because the team was flip-flopping…