How Mycopunk's devs turned a school project with zero funding into a 'Very Positive' Steam launch: 'We wanted to make our own dream version of Deep Rock or Helldivers'

How Mycopunk’s devs turned a school project with zero funding into a ‘Very Positive’ Steam launch: ‘We wanted to make our own dream version of Deep Rock or Helldivers’

“It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission,” modeler Ryan Yan said, recounting his team’s mantra going into GDC 2024. Yan and creative director Liam Cribbs were in San Francisco to pitch publishers on a school project they’d been plugging away at for nine months with a handful of friends at NYU. Mycopunk, which released…

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EA has learned all the wrong lessons from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it’s going to be disastrous for the future of Mass Effect 5—if it even has a future

Nobody could accuse me of being a fan of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It was a serious misfire from a once-exceptional studio, and while I can understand why it resonated with some players—it was pretty, breezy and had fun, snappy combat—after Andromeda and Anthem, it was the third and final strike. Yet I still find…

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New production runs of Nvidia’s much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain’t right

Rumours of its resurrection rumbled away for months, but Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card has indeed been churned out from fresh runs of GPU production lines, with models hitting retailers’ shelves in Germany. However, if you were hoping to pick up a cheap, older-generation card with lots of VRAM, then you’re going…

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