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#IndieGames

Naughty Dog cancelled their multiplayer game "The Last of Us Online" due to complicated and expensive work that will be required to complete it.

Instead, the company will shift the focus back to story-driven action games. The choice was between this and making the whole studio working for post-launch support of one online game.

https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/an_update_on_the_last_of_us_online
#Business #Multiplayer

There's a crossover between Dune 2 and Call of Duty. That's the metaverse, kids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w64mu8IHIFo

Weekend #meme

Here's why SMGs are a huge mess in videogames!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8OksXSFmQ

#GameDesign #Weapons

It's getting interesting: recently AMD fixed their FSR 3 Frame Generation tech with the big update (and made it #OpenSource) so folks were able to combine DLSS for upscaling and FSR 3 for FG on RTX 3080, that can't support NVIDIA native frame gen: it works perfectly!

Path Tracing is now fully playable on NVIDIA RTX 3000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibGw5PuG4Xc
#Hardware #NVIDIA #AMD #DLSS

And here's the analytics of SONY games on Steam dated February 2023. Some games, like Spider-Man were released recently and will eventually catch up.

Surprisingly, Uncharted sales are very low, probably due to the fact that it was only the last game (and its DLC). And Days Gone is actually doing pretty good.

Same presentation shows that port of Ratchet Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart took $2.6m to produce in about 5 months, but the company expected to gain about $20m from Steam sales. It's curious though, that console release of the game was a financial flop — PlayStation lost $8m on it.

#Infographics #analytics #SONY #Steam #PlayStation

It's so bizarre that actually it can be inspiring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoftI08xNM4

#IndieGames

What are your top played games in #SteamYearInReview

Meanwhile, #Unigine released version 2.18 and set DX12 and Vulkan as default renderers, reduced RAM consumption, improved animation systems, and more.

The engine is known for its benchmarks (Heaven and Superposition) And the basic version of Unigine is available for free!

https://unigine.com/news/2023/unigine-2-18-sdk-release
#GameEngines

Imagine there's a YouTube channel that makes free short science fiction movies for ages and now they released Villain with Bella Ramsey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k75c0aSsHBk

PS. The best dragon themed short is still Sintel by Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ

⭐ Hey, folks!

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Every #IndieGame on Steam:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhYdb60fsgE

We need a Christmas version of this #meme

Very nice #Tutorial how to make #Procedural #Animations for your game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7BRv5wjeZg

Nothing personal, just #business 😕

Simple overview of how computer games graphics work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8YtdC8mxTU
#Tutorials #GPU

Ghostwire Tokyo is free on Epic Games Store (for one day only) — one of my most favorite games due to memorable side quests and worldbuilding.

#EGS #Free

And Starfield finally fell into mostly negative reviews – only 37% of recent players supported the game.

For me the issue isn't just about loading screens, it was a bland and heartless project in terms of writing, voices, quests in general and even usage of features that are in the game but somehow never used in missions.

Sadly, I'm not expecting changes in Bethesda management, they will just fire some low/medium tier workers for this failure.

And now The Outer Worlds is free on Epic Store! One of the last RPG where you can kill everyone (including characters who are fairly important to the story).

#EGS #Free #RPG