Hogwarts Legacy is free (again) on Epic Store. For me the game is both a great theme park and a horrible Hogwarts experience:

- You're in school, but classes are very brief and limited. The whole experience of Persona series, Bully, etc. is ignored.

- Barely any friendship with just a few real characters. For 90% of the time you're alone or hang out with teachers.

- Nothing is even remotely believable (even by Harry Potter standards). It's literally a theme park.

You kill 5000+ humans and goblins proudly shifting the blame to another character. Even without unforgivable spells, the hero is a damn maniac.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/hogwarts-legacy
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I'm not even surprised...

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#FAIL@GameDEV
#Blender@GameDEV

It's been over a decade since McGee's sister Mercy Covington went missing.

On April 30th 2015, American was threatened on Facebook via several messages regarding Gamergate (the public outrage over links between media and publishers in the game industry, affecting review scores, etc. And it was the first stand against forced diversity in videogame industry).

The message not only stated the city where Mercy lived, but mentioned her by name. Whether or not this person was involved in Mercy’s disappearance is still unknown.

Later in November 10th of 2015 she disappeared. McGee and other relatives tried to find her, but there were zero clues.

The police failed to do anything meaningful, locate the Facebook message author, and only started to make public statements months after the disappearance.

Emergency clown nose for Andrew, please!

#Blender@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Valve recently imported a huge amount of "game consoles" to the United States. Half-Life 3: confirmed!

The search of the imported goods is private but you can look for the keyword "Valve" and get literally pipes + game controllers and game consoles.

#Valve@GameDEV

The more you know: Gabe wants to be effectively immortal (which was reported earlier and joked about in their own Aperture Science lab demo game for Deck). But he was also in touch with OpenAI and Musk to progress with his ideas faster...

#Valve@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Subnautica 2 is coming into early access in just a few days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZhCzFaQuw

Oh, they will

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#meme@GameDEV

GPD (the folks who made all the handhelds I've been using since 2017) are building the first MCIO device (sadly, a mini-PC) and a universal eGPU box for it.

No pricing yet, but I'm curious about G2. The advantage is near-zero loss compared to internal PCI connections (vs 10-40% on modern eGPU boxes via Thunderbolt, USB4, and Oculink).

#Hardware@GameDEV

Just tried RiME again and was surprised that the performance is abysmal. It isn't even reaching 100 FPS, consumes 100% of RTX 5070, and looks worse than modern mobile games.

It was supposed to be a cozy empty world with puzzles (which I like in some way), but it's just crappy kind of empty world + the performance is a joke. Can't recommend!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/493200/RiME/
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Literally 1984

#meme@GameDEV

Once I trusted Bleakmill Games and their first game Industria was a piece of shit. I followed their socials for ages, the 3D artist did a good job on certain models and environments.

But the game itself was 3 hours of shame. People told me that the sequel will definitely be better, they will learn from their mistakes. Hell no! 😅

Industria 2 is buggy, poorly optimized, barely playable, and right away boring asset mashing. And the best reviews are from 5090 owners, not even kidding.

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#Fail@GameDEV

If you're in our chat, you know this one and it's finally on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4674940/Armored_Mayhem
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“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.”
― Ludwig Von Mises

Holy cow (via)

A quick summary: the attacker has to be a local Linux user on your system and then he can escalate the privileges with a very simple script.

#Linux@GameDEV
#Security@GameDEV

Blender halted AI sponsorships from Anthropic and Meshy AI. The one from Anthropic was shifted into one-time donation that already occurred.

The company did not expect (how?) such a negative feedback, several contributors were ready to leave, and hundreds of strong individual donators were pulling the funds out.

The majority of the artists supported the stance and some already donated into the fund.

Andrew Price is already crying about it 😅 (I'm not even kidding)

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#AI@GameDEV

The business centre which hosts our local Creative Assembly's office. The folks are used to be Crytek Sofia and when Crytek started to shrink switched to SEGA. Now they are behind some of the best Total War updates and also one of the biggest QA hubs of SEGA Europe.

And don't forget to touch some grass this weekend, folks!