This Week on Xbox: Kickin’ It on the Pitch, Wrapping Up Tokyo Game Show, and D&D in Minecraft
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Cyberpunk 2077 director says studio’s switch from REDengine to Unreal Engine 5 ‘isn’t starting from scratch’
Cyberpunk 2077 marks the end for CD Projekt’s REDengine, the in-house technology that it’s been building on since 2011’s The Witcher 2. Last year, CD Projekt announced that its next Witcher game and other games going forward—including Cyberpunk’s sequel, codename Orion—will be developed with Unreal Engine 5. In a recent interview with Cyberpunk 2077 director…
Official PlayStation Podcast Episode 469: Wakes, Lakes, and Drakes
Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here Hey y’all! This week Remedy Entertainment Creative Director Sam Lake stops by to talk all things Alan Wake 2. Plus the team discusses their hands-on time with Alan Wake 2, as well as some indie horror games in preparation for…
Peter Molyneux is ready to disappoint us again with his latest game, a blockchain-based business sim
More than six years after it was first teased, Legacy, the ironically-titled new game from once-legendary designer Peter Molyneux, finally has a release date. The blockchain-based business simulator developed by Molyneux’s 22 Cans studio is set to go live on October 26. “Legacy will be seamlessly integrated with GalaChain, providing smooth and secure gameplay backed…
Xbox Insider Release Notes – Alpha (2310.230927-2200)
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Xbox Insider Release Notes – Alpha Skip-Ahead (2408.230927-2000)
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to…
Share of the Week: Moonlight
Last week, we asked you share moments basking in the moonlight of a game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Photoingame shares the silhouette of a cowboy rearing back on a horse directly underneath a moon in Red Dead Redemption 2 austin_movieguy shares the player character standing beneath a purple…
Soapbox: My Most-Played Game Of 2023 Isn’t On Switch, But It Must Be On The Cards
Ready to snap. Before I get started, the me get this out of the way: the Switch is definitely my most-played console of the year. Between The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Fire Emblem Engage and Pikmin 4 (the less said about Vampire Survivors, the better), the hundreds of hours that I have…
DeepMind’s Chinchilla AI toasts FLAC and PNG at lossless data compression despite essentially being just a large language model
If you think FLAC is the audiophile’s friend when it comes to lossless music files, a large language model (LLM) has news for you, as it’s now laying claim to compression as part of AI’s growing realm of influence, too. A study titled “Language Modeling Is Compression” (via ArsTechnica) discusses a finding about an LLM…
Van Gogh Museum’s event gets gatecrashed by Pokemon TCG scalpers in a prime example of ‘why we can’t have nice things’
As reported by VGC, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam was recently swarmed by scalpers, looking to make a quick buck off Pikachu and his cute grey hat during a limited-time event. “Go on a Pokémon Adventure along Van Gogh’s paintings,” the website for the museum describes in a description for an event celebrating the…