"ベセスダ ブロス..." (Besesuda Burosu...)

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Microsoft is reportedly shuttering one of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) teams, according to an internal email sent by the team's leader to a significant number of Microsoft staff last week, in which the lead also accuses the company's executive leadership of "investigated and evidenced discrimination, harassment, and toxicity."

The email, first reported by Business Insider and corroborated by IGN, was sent by the former lead of one of Microsoft's key DEI teams. In it, they state that their "role and team were eliminated due to 'changing business needs' as of July 1st, 2024." IGN understands that the individual and a second person on their team were both laid off, but was not able to reach the sender for comment.

#Microsoft

No Man's Sky is ready for #PlayStation 5 Pro: the game received the update that has "Trinity" graphics preset (which is a codename of the new console).

Sony privately asked the developers to upgrade their games in spring and specifically focus on improved ray tracing capabilities. The official announcement is expected later this year.

Also, it's still impressive how Hello Games keeps making the game better after all these years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7-9Bf47yfs

♥️ Blender 4.2 LTS has been released!

Some highlights:

• New render engine: EEVEE got a complete rewrite, bringing global illumination, displacement, better SSS, volumetric lighting and shadows, viewport motion blur, and so much more.

• Cycles: Ray Portals, Thin Film Interference, better volume rendering, blue noise, and more.

• The Compositor: Can now utilize GPU acceleration for offline renders, it’s faster on CPU, and more nodes are supported in the 3D Viewport.

• Extensions: A new way to share, install, and update add-ons and themes online within Blender.

• Portable installation.

• Khronos PBR Neutral Tone Mapper.

• New sculpt tools.

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Many people are focused on EEVEE RTX (which is awesome), but bois, check our what Khronos PBR Tone Mapper do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3m0CfuSmg

The original Mafia #GameDesign from the perspective of a racing game fan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baw3jzW8t-8

No one:
Cheaters in Battlefield!

#meme

What time is it? It's #meme time!

Humble Games is reportedly shutting down, all 36 employees were laid off on July 23.

Indie publishing was known for over 50 games including A Hat in Time, Slay the Spire, Unpacking, Temtem, Midnight Fight Express, and Signalis.

Humble Bundle is a different entity and will not be affected.

#Business #Layoffs

Scratch-like scripting for #GodotEngine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7n7gJIkbk0 #Godot4 #NoCode #GameEngines

Recent CPUs from Intel are a ticking bomb: they have an exceptionally fast degrading cycle...

The issue isn't fixable: you literally need to replace a faulty generation as a whole, which they don't want to do. So to avoid losses, Intel is trying to hide oxidation issue behind updates for the Voltage pattern in Microcode and BIOS (those are the issue but not related to physical oxidation problem of all 13 and 14-gen CPUs).

Professionals admit that such issue hasn't happened for over 25 years in CPU history. And it may be impossible to replace those chips for Intel and partners since the question would be "with what?" It may take them up to a year to get a significant quantities of upgraded and fixed units to replace over two years of faulty products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs #Hardware #Intel

Ubisoft tried to explain their ties with fake scientist and called their overall intentions "inspiring rather than historically accurate".

A few days ago it turned out that Yasuke stories were mostly made up by Thomas Lockley, an associate professor in law university.

He fabricated articles on Wikipedia from fake accounts, wrote a fanfiction book for 400+ pages, kept insulting people (including Japanese) and yes, you guessed it right — he consulted Ubisoft.

He deleted all of his accounts and moved, but the raging online crowd is still asking the university to fire him and Ubisoft to cancel the game.

Best practices for in-game shops (by Balancy.co), free book:

https://balancy.co/wp-content/themes/balancy/Best_practices_for_in-game_shops.pdf

#Books #Free #Monetization

Meanwhile, Fallout London is #Free on GOG: go grab it while you still can!

https://www.gog.com/game/fallout_london

The most ridiculous optimization tutorial for #GodotEngine that starts as something fairly normal and ends up with very smart madness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG-H-IfXUqI #Godot4 #Shaders #Optimization #Tutorials

You know what else is #Free? FIST on Epic Store!

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fist-forged-in-shadow-torch #EGS #EpicGamesStore

Yeah, exactly! #meme

Gamers be like: sure, I'll pick it up! #GameDesign #meme