Viktor Antonov (the art director on Half-Life 2 and Dishonored) has passed away. No specific details on how, he was only 53.
Confirmed by Marc Laidlaw (former lead writer at Valve on Half-Life).
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Confirmed by Marc Laidlaw (former lead writer at Valve on Half-Life).
This is definitely the news I hope will turn out to be false. Waiting for more details π
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Viktor Antonov (the art director on Half-Life 2 and Dishonored) has passed away. No specific details on how, he was only 53. Confirmed by Marc Laidlaw (former lead writer at Valve on Half-Life). This is definitely the news I hope will turn out to be false.β¦
Some of his works so you get the scope...
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Modders who were working on small fixes and upgrades for Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, got extra help from NVIDIA and Ubisoft.
The game will get co-op mode and extra content. And the RTX (but later on). The preview of Raytraced game already appeared on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOjf9muJ0k
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The game will get co-op mode and extra content. And the RTX (but later on). The preview of Raytraced game already appeared on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOjf9muJ0k
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Dark Messiah: Restoration Mod
The Restoration Mod has two objectives: repairing the game's bugs, and restoring content. The mod brings back content left at the cutting room floor, including Dark Messiah Elements maps, removed levels, and weapons, thanks to the help of Ubisoft. Utilizing...
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Driving maniacs, assemble! Deliver At All Costs DEMO has been released on Steam! It's very hard to believe but the tiny studio behind it was eventually financed by KONAMI.
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Another upcoming CES 2025 announcement is the insane Asus gaming tablet, capable of running all AAA games. It will be powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 Plus, a Zen 5 processor with Radeon 8060S graphics. This beast has a 40 Compute Units RDNA 3.5 GPU (2.5 timesβ¦
Exactly as I warned you: Ryzen AI MAX is probably the most important thing in PC gaming this year!
A single chip mixing a huge CPU and even bigger GPU that in most cases will beat the majority of discrete graphics cards in laptops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HUud7IvAo
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A single chip mixing a huge CPU and even bigger GPU that in most cases will beat the majority of discrete graphics cards in laptops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HUud7IvAo
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AMD CPU, Apple M4 Pro Performance - Ryzen AI MAX Review
The Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and Ryzen AI MAX 390 are supposed to be Apple M4 and Apple M4 Pro competitors that combine high efficiency with some pretty crazy performance numbers in gaming, AI and creator workloads. That's because this Strix Halo design combinesβ¦
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Another amazing news: RTX 50 cards are unable to run PhysX in older games, since some of these titles rely on 32-bit version while RTX 50 only works with 64-bit one.
The list of affected games includes Borderlands 2, Metro: Last Light, AC Black Flag, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare 2, Mirror's Edge, Mafia II, Batman: Arkham City, and more (full list).
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The list of affected games includes Borderlands 2, Metro: Last Light, AC Black Flag, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare 2, Mirror's Edge, Mafia II, Batman: Arkham City, and more (full list).
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Somehow, despite a very impressive launch, NetEase just fired a lot of Marvel Rivals developers.
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β A lovely platformer game, inspired by Ori and made with Godot!
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Valve somehow announced TF2 SDK for better mods + a lot of sources (for non-commercial use)!
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After the official release, Avowed was unable to reach 20 000 concurrent players on Steam. The results are devastating for such a big game with all the advertisements they have done during the last couple of months.
Yes, I'm sure, millions are playing via XBox subscription (no), but keep in mind that even The Veilguard managed to reach 5+ times more players.
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Yes, I'm sure, millions are playing via XBox subscription (no), but keep in mind that even The Veilguard managed to reach 5+ times more players.
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It seems that AI Windows laptops have failed miserably and Apple is falling right behind:
The majority of the AI tools are unable to use NPU acceleration, but utilize integrated graphics instead. Ones that do are providing insignificant advantages.
The tools themselves are barely usable and very often a niche, so they can be instead used from the browser on any device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y5FzHUxvS8
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The majority of the AI tools are unable to use NPU acceleration, but utilize integrated graphics instead. Ones that do are providing insignificant advantages.
The tools themselves are barely usable and very often a niche, so they can be instead used from the browser on any device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y5FzHUxvS8
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Valve somehow announced TF2 SDK for better mods + a lot of sources (for non-commercial use)! #VALVE@GameDEV #Modding@GameDEV
Enthusiasts discovered that the recent Valve updates are mentioning Godot Engine. Valve developers ported several features from Godot to Source Engine.
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Somehow, despite a very impressive launch, NetEase just fired a lot of Marvel Rivals developers. #LayOffs@GameDEV #WTF@GameDEV
NetEase representative confirmed that they fired the American team behind Marvel Rivals, it was "a hard decision", and it was financially motivated to hire cheap labour elsewhere.
They see it slightly differently though: the game now requires a bigger live-ops team that will not be sustainable as western studio where each worker costs 3-6 times more.
They see it slightly differently though: the game now requires a bigger live-ops team that will not be sustainable as western studio where each worker costs 3-6 times more.
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