The new Total War remaster has tons of poorly AI upscaling and no AI disclosure on Steam. Reviews are bad which is both expected and justified.

SEGA used to have strict no AI policy last year, then allowed AI just a few months ago. Were they that desperate? Was the game updated in such a short term?

What's funny though is that a lot of people are mad not because it is AI, but because of how bad of AI it is: wrong number of fingers, mashed up joints, loss of details, and such. That's literally "Will Smith eating pasta" level of AI.

#SEGA@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Fans be like: it could be at least a good AI upscaling 😑

Funny enough, people rage-bating Valve over it, but the issue is purely legal: the new law in Japan forced them to do this.

#Valve@GameDEV
#Steam@GameDEV

Some more layoffs

#Ubisoft@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV

Hold up...

#meme@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

Gamepires is over
(shrinked down significantly)

If you missed the drama over SCUM game: a small team with passion for their project was unable to grow into a healthy mainstream. Years in early access, no clear goals, missed deadlines.

#LayOffs@GameDEV

Steam Playtest insights:

- About 1/3 forgot they signed up
- 20% shared their feedback but:
(Only because the form was short)
- 11% played on Steam Deck 🫪
- Some ran the game at 3000 FPS
- And finally: if you spent money or time on a feature, that doesn't mean you need to overuse it. Devs had to cut tons of voice lines to make them shorter...

https://steamcommunity.com/games/4018980/announcements/detail/678511862081392058

You would never believe that Bowie used to be among the first internet providers... but also he bundled it with extra services:

- email address
- personal website
- music advice services
- and so on

Holly feck, this Bowie:
(And the man who sold the world)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRMZ_5WYmCg

Fair

#Unity@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

Can we talk for a moment that 200 000 units is barely anything for a galactic warfare?

Hello, cringe department?

#EpicGames@GameDEV

They vibe coded it, what did you expect? It also consumes over 10GB of RAM easily.

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW???

[OFFish]

Absolutely cursed!

https://t.me/vdobrasil/118468

Have you seen a movie called Terminator? The reality is more like Mitchelles vs the Machines — malicious tiny but sophisticated apps in all of the smart devices.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai