Breaking news #meme #offtopic

Render96, a team specializing in preserving textures from retro video games, has unearthed the source of the stone wall texture from Super Mario 64.

The recent discovery is credited to one of the team's most notable Texture Archaeologists, Roovahlees, who found out that the stone wall texture in Super Mario 64's Jolly Roger Bay course came from a cropped section of an image on the VisualDisk – Walls CD, released in 1994 in Japan.

#GameTextures #RetroGames #GameArt

2024 was a tough year for Don't Nod:

First, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Jusant sold poorly despite fairly good critics and players reception. And then Don't Nod delayed Lost Records: Bloom and Rage and tried to focus more on Life is Strange: Double Exposure.

Because of that their market cap fallen drastically (losing 70% of the value over the year). Now they requested Euronext to suspend shares trading fully until further notice. What is going to be in the upcoming press release is unclear, but it sounds off.

Their current market capitalization is at 19.55M Eur., which is lower than the budget of their typical game. Since 2018 they lost 93% of value, falling from 32 Eur. per share to just 1.5 and now fully suspended.

#Finance #Business #Europe

#ItTakesTwo HAS SOLD OVER 20 MILLION COPIES!

The game is exceptional: not repetitive, not too easy, the story is deep, stakes are high. So, get a friend or relative and finally play it, you lazy bastards! 😌

You only need one copy for two people!

Folks, we have imposters!

It's flattering, but admin will never write you from the account NAMED LIKE THIS or at all. We are talking about politics and finance only if the news is related to the game industry.

Please, report these people or make fun of them! 😅

I'm usually sharing free #GameTextures here, but hey, for $5 or $10 you can get over a 1000 texture sets from a solo artist Joao Paulo. They are CC0 and you get SBAR and 4K versions by paying (and can get 1K for free).

https://www.patreon.com/gendo #GameArt #PBR #GameAssets

We have yet another "Remaster" (Horizon Zero Dawn) upcoming and in many areas it somehow looks worse — hair color is now darker and more consistent with loss of artistic intent, the light no longer falls realistically around the head, etc. Just why?

#Remasters #PlayStation

Finally, #Unity 6 is officially released — new features are promising, let's hope for the best! 🙂

https://unity.com/blog/unity-6-features-announcement #Unity3D #GameEngines

Remedy announced their first #Multiplayer game in the universe of Control:

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

Highly recommended adorable movie for your weekend! ❤️ #Movies #3DArt

Pay attention to their color grading and use of overloaded elements to bring contrast between nature and artificial components.

Kind advice: never call your game Unknown unless, well... you want a double digits number in your concurrent players counter on release 😐

The majority of them, according to Steam reviews, are playing it for free as a gift for #AMD hardware purchases.

How did we get here from this? We need better industrial design, better software design, and better games too — not realistic, but artistic intent. Even for an indie game, don't accept mediocrity, embrace challenges, make it look better in UI, materials, shapes, lights, even movements.

#ArtDirection #Design

The best assassin so far: nearly wiped out the company of 21000 people! 😎

Yet another comparison between upscaling techniques: this time with PSSR by #PlayStation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKbuUXg9_4 #DLSS #FSR #XeSS #NVIDIA #AMD