Mr. "Block Your Merger" was fired from #Sony: his duty will stop calling next spring. Even PlayStation fans are mostly celebrating due to his hostile statements and business practices in recent years.

https://sonyinteractive.com/en/jim-ryan-president-and-ceo-announces-retirement-after-30-years-with-sony-interactive-entertainment/

#Business #News

A meme game about Slavs fighting evil lizards with NUT SQEEZER got 98% positive reviews and sold exceptionally well on Steam.

Imagine all the folks who made serious games and spent years on development to be surpassed by this "cultural phenomenon".

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

#IndieGames #meme

I have so many questions!
#Steam

Tim Sweeney announced that Epic Games is trying to become profitable again and based on that they have to lay off 830 employees (16% of staff).

Previously purchased Bandcamp and SuperAwesome are gonna be separated from the main company.

Recent escape from Unity to "definitely safe Unreal Engine" may look a little less safe now.

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/layoffs-at-epic

#Business #EpicGames #UnrealEngine

Creative Assembly (SEGA) is also shutting down Hyenas multiplayer action and planning some layoffs...

What Went Wrong with Gaming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16heGLKlTA

And #AMD #Radeon team just released #FSR 3 with frame generation. Only Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum are supported (2 games have 69 players online COMBINED), but you can try it even in a free demo of Forspoken.

1. The quality is only worth it with FSR set to quality (+ Frame Gen), balanced is a mess, and "native AA" is laggy.
2. Then it has ~10% higher FPS than what DLSS has in Balanced (DLSS still looks better), and 30% higher in Balanced.
3. And with FSR frame generation the frame time gets completely inconsistent + overall generated frames are messy. Altogether it led to a LAGGY AF feel. Which makes NVIDIA 80 frames way more responsive, than FSR 110 frames.

At least on NVIDIA, it's unplayable. Maybe Radeon cards are more compatible, but first impressions of Radeon Frame Generation are negative – it's not even close to what NVIDIA has right now.

Have you ever guessed if The Witcher armor is really efficient?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3z94U5uKK8

Yeah, range weapons are a pain in the arse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOebGm_jMLY
#GameDesign #Weapons

(Legally) Free Impact Sound Effects (just apply code OCT100 in the basket, no card info needed):

https://gravitysound.studio/products/impact-sound-effects-3
#SoundDesign #Free #Files

Some more #Free #GameAssets (CC0)

➡ https://polyhaven.com/all/
#Files #Textures #3Dmodels

This is getting darker #UnrealEngine #EpicGames

Yet another tutorial, this time #GodotEngine #VFX #Shaders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xMwfrlTI8
#Godot4 #Tutorials

Let's kickstart this morning with some good music from the golden era of flash animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WPj3VxDsMk

Corridor Digital made everyone mad (again) by "FIXING" game characters with AI: and the results are cursed 😐

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7juJgPbQx8w
#AI #NeyralNetworks #StableDiffusion

Meanwhile, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty was primarily purchased on PC. Considering a new game? PC is your choice then 😉