Warhorse sold over 2 million copies of KCD II 💪

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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No one:

20 minute essay on Spider-Man web swinging:

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

Good morning, folks!

#meme@GameDEV

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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#AMD@GameDEV

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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#Physics@GameDEV

Are you sure, you know how to animate dogs?

#meme@GameDEV
#Animation@GameDEV
#Bugs@GameDEV

Somehow, despite a very impressive launch, NetEase just fired a lot of Marvel Rivals developers.

#LayOffs@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

⭐ A lovely platformer game, inspired by Ori and made with Godot!

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Valve somehow announced TF2 SDK for better mods + a lot of sources (for non-commercial use)!

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#Modding@GameDEV

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.

#RPG@GameDEV
#XBox@GameDEV

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

#AI@GameDEV
#Windows@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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#Valve@GameDEV
#GameEngines@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.

Amazon Prime Gaming ex-VP confessed that Steam is unbeatable...

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#Amazon@GameDEV

To place the release of Avowed into perspective, here are some other release numbers (some are outdated and even greater now).

15 600 players is nothing — lower than Pathfinder games, lower than Rogue Trader. Despite those games are kinda niche.

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#Steam@GameDEV

Remember that bad Bethesda technology everyone hates, Creation Engine? Somehow all of us are now fans of it!

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

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#Bethesda@GameDEV

Hey, my favorite off-topic time: imagine a 2007 movie that looks like it was filmed in 1960s! And it's so unpopular that you can watch it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4BYwu80EY

Oh, yeah, the 5070 Ti reviews came out and there is no sense to buy it at current prices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhtVic3Vm0Y

#Hardware@GameDEV
#NVIDIA@GameDEV