Backrooms director & Portal superfan Kane Parsons spotted visiting Valve for the second time this year

Backrooms director & Portal superfan Kane Parsons spotted visiting Valve for the second time this year

As reported by IGN and Gabe Follower on X, Backrooms director Kane Parsons shared an Instagram story from Valve’s Bellevue, Washington headquarters on September 16. The director has previously said that Portal was extremely influential on his work, inspiring hopes for a Parsons-led adaptation or some other collaboration with the studio. There’s more circumstantial evidence…

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Oblivion is a lot better now that I can read

The other day, I was frantically crouch walking around Skingrad in Oblivion Remastered, tailing the neighbors of a seriously paranoid guy named Glarthir, and thought: This is new, right? When did Oblivion get all these weird, engrossing sidequests? Didn’t I play this game a lot back in the day? Technically yes, I played Oblivion in…

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Don’t worry, the fan-favorite Baldur’s Gate 3 bug that turns character portraits into moody glamor shots wasn’t fixed in the final patch

Fret not, Baldur’s Gate 3 fans, because your favorite bug is still in the game even after Larian’s “final” big patch. That’s right: The thing where your character portraits can render misaligned, or with the wrong background, or shirtless, is still around and still really funny. Not long after the patch released one fan that…

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AMD reckons its next-gen GPUs will beat Nvidia at ‘any sort of AI workload’ and we’re praying that rubs off on the company’s gaming graphics cards

AMD’s GPUs scarcely seem to have the slightest impact on the gaming market of late. But the company has big plans for its next-gen AI GPU, known as MI450. AMD says it’s aiming for “leadership performance across the board.” Speaking at the recent Communicopia+ Technology Conference held by the penny-loafered bean counters at Goldman Sachs,…

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