Now I finally got it!

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Fun fact: my first tablet was Notion Ink Adam — a unique device from Bangalore, made with a hybrid display, that combined TFT and E-Ink qualities. It was capable of reflecting the light and looked like a paper on a sunny day.

Which made it exceptional for books and manga reading. And it was perfect to work with Emails, Social Networks, etc.

It was based on a dual core NVIDIA Tegra platform and was fairly capable for its time. I still keep it in my collection just for fun.

Unfortunately, the startup behind the screen technology went bankrupt and modern screens can't reflect the light — they have to boost brightness. And a few years later Notion Ink was also closed. And after that all tablets became boring.

#Hardware@GameDEV

A custom PC build from Reddit stylized as retro radio

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#Retro@GameDEV

😲 What a twist:

Annapurna failed to save its gaming division, so they all left and got another indie label from another greedy corporation under their control?

#IndieGames@GameDEV
#Business@GameDEV

Here's the example of Indie Games Marketing: he emailed 400 influencers and got quite some wishlists from it.

Not the highest conversion rate ever and it can be way better if the game looks good, it works for streaming (fun/scary/etc), can be a meme, or if it is already getting attention in media.

His game is cool, but it's dark and not very suitable for steaming, memes, etc.

#Marketing@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Whoa, what a commitment 😅

#GitHub@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Can you imagine: there was an amazing 4090 prototype that was much cooler than the Founders Edition... and was rejected:

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

#Hardware@GameDEV
#NVIDIA@GameDEV

Unity swapped Apply and Revert buttons in their UI between 2022 and Unity 6 for no reason. The change makes users accidentally reverse changes.

#Unity@GameDEV
#UIUX@GameDEV

Ubisoft is in the middle of another scandal after one of 3rd party studios, who used to work on Assassin's Creed Shadows (and many other games from other companies) got permanently closed.

It turned out that the facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, created a nearly slavery condition with physical punishments and life threatening rules:

People were beaten, forced to beat themselves, overworked for no benefits, slept and lived in the offices, and so on. Oh, actually their overwork benefits were given to senior stuff instead.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9HQ2C6h_4

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#WTF@GameDEV

Ai will take all our jobs it so over 😔

Yay, someone finally turned it into this meme!

#meme@GameDEV
#Minecraft@GameDEV

Your favorite genre of fake frames meme

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#NVIDIA@GameDEV

Ubisoft officially started a review to restructure the company. The company is expected to face bankruptcy in a year or two, it had no other choice but to set a commission outside of its current board (otherwise stakeholders may face serious charges).

The commission will have to review the business and offer several plans of how the collapse can be avoided.

There are about 21000 workers currently involved in various Ubisoft structures. But after several waves of layoffs this number can be actually lower (about 19 thousand people).

Tencent is one of the interested parties and can acquire what will be left after the ongoing changes, but they hit own issues recently — the US added them to Chinese military companies list and limited certain activities.

#Ubisoft@GameDEV

According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

The explosive growth underscores a recoil against Meta’s decision to roll back protections against hateful speech and inflammatory political content.

Previously they shocked public with intentions to make AI driven accounts that will interact with real people to boost activity. And blamed users for it — real people no longer want to interact with others on Facebook.

#Facebook@GameDEV
#Meta@GameDEV
#SocialNetworks@GameDEV

Okay, the last one, I promise!

#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

This Battlefield Hardline map hits differently now 😮

Marvel Rivals managed to keep active audience much better than any other multiplayer game recently: they started the season with 480K concurrent players on Steam and ended it with 445.

Before that only Helldivers II managed to make something similar about a year ago.

The game earned over $130m in its first month and it keeps growing in revenue.

#Multiplayer@GameDEV

Indie Games be like

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