FF14's new roguelike mode's leaderboards were accidentally encouraging players to min-max all the fun out of it, so it'll be 'postponing the start of Crucible Rankings'

FF14’s new roguelike mode’s leaderboards were accidentally encouraging players to min-max all the fun out of it, so it’ll be ‘postponing the start of Crucible Rankings’

I’ve had a very good time with Final Fantasy 14‘s new Beastmaster, and I’ve very much enjoyed the Crucible of the Unbroken—but that doesn’t mean there aren’t problems. While the first few boards are a great time, problems start to pop up when you try to be competitive. Those problems have grown so numerous, in…

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AMD presents new method of handing indirect lighting off to an image generation model: ‘frame-by-frame’ solution could be part of AMD’s answer to DLSS 5 someday

AMD promised neural rendering is coming to Radeon cards and consoles with FSR Diamond, and we’re starting to see signs of that new approach in the works from the red team. The company’s technical staff just published a paper on how it’s using image generation to replace global illumination in real-time. The paper outlines a…

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‘Reason & Rhyme’ Is An Upcoming 3D Puzzle Game For Steam “Heavily Inspired” By The DSi’s Flipnote Studio

Flippin’ brilliant! One of my favourite pieces of software for the Nintendo DSi was Flipnote Studio, a free creation tool that let anyone, regardless of experience or skill level, try their hand at short, flipbook-style animations. Admittedly, I was never any good at it, never producing anything that I was comfortable sharing with anyone but…

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