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Japan: SEGA 60th anniversary video

On June 3rd, 1960, Service Games, or SEGA for short, was founded by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart. Although the company is known for video games and its 90s rivalry with Nintendo, SEGA didn’t enter the video game business until the 80s, 20 years after it was founded. SEGA has been celebrating their anniversary on…

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Touch grass? Not when AMD has whittled down ray tracing memory usage by 98% for these hardware-sapping bushes and trees

As someone who spent a lot of their childhood talking to trees, I’m of the opinion that videogame forestry doesn’t need to look any better than Alan Wake 2‘s Pacific Northwest woodlands. That hasn’t stopped AMD from innovating though; by leveraging ‘tetrahedral cages’ to help render a vast scene of greenery, researchers at the company…

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Valve yoinked a new Counter-Strike 2 map out of the game after just 2 days, either for potential Disney copyright infringement, a ‘gamer word’ hidden in its data, or both

“Valve added a bunch of new community maps to Counter-Strike 2 on October 2nd,” SteamDB wrote in an October 4 BlueSky post, “and now one of the maps, Transit, has been removed due to potential copyright issues and one of the entity names having a gamer word.” Attached was a picture of a distinctively-shaped building…

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for June: Final Fantasy XVI, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and more

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for June: Final Fantasy XVI, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and more

This month, explore the once-prosperous dark fantasy world of Valisthea in the grip of a blight in Final Fantasy XVI, spin dash through the dark past of the one known as the ultimate lifeform in Sonic X Shadow Generations, work your way up from a humble blacksmith’s forge in medieval Bohemia in Kingdom Come: Deliverance,…

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The latest Chinese PC gaming hit is an indie game that spent the last 8 years growing into something you’ve never played before

Before Black Myth: Wukong or Phantom Blade: Zero, there was The Scroll of Taiwu, a Chinese indie game that attracted millions of players since it debuted in early access on Steam in 2018. Now, eight years later, it has hit 1.0, marking the end of a long journey that started before Chinese-developed games became all…

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