Japan: Super Nintendo World’s opening has been delayed

Eric Barone clarifies he’s just ‘open to entertaining the idea’ of saving Hytale, but he’s not pursuing it himself because he’s completely focused on Haunted Chocolatier

There’s been a lot of talk about resurrecting Hytale since Riot cancelled development of the Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG last week. Most of it is originating from original Hypixel Studios founder Simon Collins-Laflamme, who recently committed to reaching out to Riot to see what can be done. But there’s an unexpected name in the conversation, too:…

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‘We want that the real-time images look indistinguishable from reality. We want them to look like a film.’ Nvidia has lofty goals for path-traced graphics, but its support for Microsoft’s shader stutter cure is a lot more interesting to me

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…

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Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game’s DLC clans, but it’s not very convincing: ‘We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land’

It didn’t go over super-well when Paradox revealed yesterday that two of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2‘s six playable clans will be available via some rather pricey DLC. Especially after the game’s infamously rough development, you might think that Paradox and developer The Chinese Room would want to engender goodwill among existing and potential…

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Sonic the Hedgehog is everywhere when it comes to merch, but finally some more underrated characters are getting airtime thanks to Steady Hands

Sonic Adventure 2 was one of the first games I remember watching my sibling play, mostly because they would often fight about who gets a turn next while I just sat there, not really knowing what was going on. But I really liked the characters, and that feeling stuck around long after I started playing…

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Brie Larson stars in latest Nintendo ad

As the holiday season approaches, Nintendo’s advertising efforts are ramping up trying to gain attention from consumers. Nintendo’s latest batch of adverts star none other than respected American actress, Brie Larson. Brie has made it no secret that she’s an avid Nintendo fan on Twitter by sharing her experience with playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons…

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