PlayStation Blogcast 237: Andromonauts

PlayStation Blogcast 237: Andromonauts

Subscribe via iTunes, Google or RSS, or download here Mass Effect Andromeda and Psychonauts in The Rhombus of Ruin for PS VR take center stage on this week’s show! Special guests include Bioware General Manager Aaryn Flynn and Double Fine’s Tim Schafer and Chad Dawson. We also discuss all the finest things in life: Darkest…

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‘Don’t toil away on the things that don’t really matter’: Peak creator says its rapid development cycle has ‘proved that there are definitely different, but maybe better ways to make games’

Red Dead Redemption 2 has some of the most precisely represented horses in the videogame industry. They have multiple distinct gaits, a realistic sense of weight, and miraculously, their little Arthur Morgans shrink in the cold. It’s an admirably attentive but kind of stupid detail touted as much by the game’s fans as its detractors,…

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AMD RTG Summit: GPUOpen and Software

Open Wide Last week we kicked off our coverage of AMD’s RTG Summit by reporting all the happenings in the display arena; today’s second part (spoiler: AMD is saving the best stuff for part three) is all about opening the doors to open source. This isn’t a new thing by any means, but AMD, and…

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Planet Coaster 2’s spring roadmap splashes down, with ’round-bottomed flumes’ coming in March and buildable restaurants arriving in April

Planet Coaster 2 may have endured some ups and downs when it launched back in October, but Frontier Developments’ post-release support for its theme-park building sequel has been as steady as a lazy river. January brought improved flume simulation to the sequel’s all-new waterslides, while February added video billboards players can create their own custom…

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Resistance to operating system age checks coming from *checks notes* open source calculator and an OS that may just exclude Californians altogether

California has adopted a bill that requires operating systems to ask for a user’s age or date of birth during setup. The bill, which will become enforced legislation from January 1, 2027, says an OS should use this to determine the availability of applications in a storefront and share this information with any developer that…

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