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This video contains the phrase Male Grooming and that's not what you may think about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhUiptupV7A
NINTENDO will run a special sale exclusively for the US customers from September 13 to September 26. And specifically to compensate unfair tariffs, refunded a few months ago.
The company initially said they will not directly refund any purchases nor partially compensate for the price change. But they still wanted some user friendly move... where you buy something and the best they can offer is 30% discount.
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Ubisoft client will be no longer needed on Steam.
I never thought i'd see the day. Evil is defeated.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
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No Man's Sky (Sean Murray):
Cosmos Deep Dive
📋Own A Space Station
🤝Alliances
🛰Orbital Bases
📡Space Hulks
🚀Anniversary Expedition
🗺Star Map
💎Deep-Space Looting
🪨Asteroid Belts
🦠Infested Outposts
☀️The Sun
🧙♀️Dev Commentary
🧲Tractor Beam
❄️Ice Fields
🪐Outposts
⛰Improved Terrain
🔫Shipbreaking
Breaking Benjamin concert has been interrupted... by the frontman, who said he has a new mod for Fallout 4 and haters from his competitor are drowning it. So he needs fans support to download the mod and rate it up!
The mod improves first person view and makes the game more immersive.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/108335?tab=description
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#Modding@GameDEV
And good morning
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😉 But not really...
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Average Grid Legends multiplayer experience (thankfully, offline mode is fine). The physics in this game was never meant to be a multiplayer...
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EVE is moving to Python 3 in one of the biggest code migrations ever... the game used to run on a custom Python 2.7 since 2010.
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Open AI fan cozyblazex used GPT-6 to complete the original Portal. The AI succeeded, but:
- It could take pauses
- It had acces to guides
- It took 23h+ to complete
- And wasted ~$600
And that's under a heavily subsidized pieces per token. I mean, yeah, it's definitely curious but the pricing is just insane (make x50 to get non-subsidized cost of that — $30K to complete portal).
This should be noted that specialized AI models can do it faster and cheaper but general purpose ones usually can't. The core idea of the experiment if the model can do "anything".
In reality though, it is mostly able to do things that are well documented. It will not pass a new random game.
#AI@GameDEV
Get State of Mind for free!
We have Detroit Become Human at home, from the creators of Deponia (and that Gollum videogame). Only here you can sabotage your career, steal from best friend, be the worst possible husband and father, practice alcoholism for better writing — and all that is only one of multiple playable characters.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/state_of_mind
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Since I wanted to have some fun during the weekend, I decided to use a better setup where local AI can have access to a bunch of tools in a very isolated environment.
It took me only 8 hours to make it at least run a reasonable CSS refactoring. By that time I'd probably refactor it myself already, but hey. No, I'm unironically not bad with CSS.
It required a 40 line workflow (in a system prompt) where it checks if it actually done something or just imagined it done something.
UPD: LOL, nope, it's still not any good
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And this is why modern open world games suck at it: their animation systems are never actually making the eyes properly pointed at anyone in dialogues.
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One of the worst-rated PS exclusives so far. Will it flop? (77 on MetaCritic)
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Perfect
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This is no joke: IKEA has released an official, free mod for Skyrim that adds their famous KALLAX shelf to the game.
The character is named Kallax Storageborn. He's a fully-fledged companion with enormous storage capacity. You can carry him around and summon him with a special "IKEA" shout.
In addition to him, the mod includes a separate questline and new dungeons, weapons in the form of the famous IKEA Allen wrench, a meatball helmet, and a bunch of other IKEA-themed jokes.
The shelf itself speaks with a Swedish accent. It was voiced by Matt Berry (Laszlo from "What We Do in the Shadows").
It's more readable and cheerful. I've noticed that the previous one had 100% saturated background and way too desaturated CatPad.
Which made it crush under compression and lose the details on a small scale. So instead I balanced it out to look good on dark and bright themes.
CatPad is fully visible now!
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
Flexin': can't believe it's been 22 years since the release!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkI4KejmSfY
#Music@GameDEV
Art Nouveau meets Nintendo
(John Van Der Wys)
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One fella said "Single player games are for losers" and caused the biggest rage bait on Twitter...
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That's a Cuban Crocodile, a rare example of modern croc who lives on land and therefore gallops and hops to move around. It's probably the only spices who can be faster on land than it the water (they are still amazing swimmers and can hunt in both habitats).
They are relatively small and agile, very social and rarely aggressive towards people. And it can be a perfect reference for your games!
A few months ago I warned that GFA Games, the studio behind Pioner (semi-online game) is probably faking their online due do 100% persistent chart. Every peak was exactly the same for weeks in a row which is absolutely impossible.
Look at the bottom graph: organic wobbly start, botted few months — consistent line, technical issues — huge downfall, another botted line, then they stopped paying for that in September.
They seemingly stopped doing so and the game is played by like 70-250 people, the servers are often down, and such. Their demo is also down and turned into 15KB placeholder.
Don't make live-service games on an indie+ budget, kids!
#Fail@GameDEV
If Don't Nod will not find funding (after Tencent abandoned them), they will become insolvent in January of 2027. Most likely only a shell will exist to operate previous games.
They already let people go recently which helped to get a few extra months (previously they estimated the end date as November of 2026).
Vampyr, Banishers, Jusant, Lost Records, and Aphelion failed commercially. Overall the first signs of the downfall appeared back in 2024 when they halted public trading via request to the EU financial commission.
Unlike Crytek above, DN always kept making games from small indie projects to huge worlds like Banishers. They also kept pushing industry forward with the first PBR game (Remember me) up to the unique lighting in Jusant.
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Crytek fired dozens more yet again (mostly among QA) and in this case I'm not surprised: they are independent and their last full release is Hunt Showdown (2018). Last collaboration Crysis Remastered (2020-21), but Saber Interactive took the big cut.
It's 2026, Crysis 4 is shelved and no games are officially in production. Their own engine has been only used for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
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Since I'm a reasonable adult person, I hid this kitten as my "document ready" console log
#Cats@GameDEV
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LOL (sadly, only iOS app has the toggle as of now, it will appear on other platforms later) — comments section is in the chat
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Good off topic: yesterday Kroshik the seal has been yet again released to the wild world after a whole decade in nerpa preservation centre in St. Petersburg.
First two times he got back to people and wasn't particularly impressed by the big world. They live up to 55 years and so it may take some time to mature and become brave.
The abandoned youngling was found as the tiniest pup the rescuers ever had, so they were not sure he'll ever make it. He grew strong, smart, but kinda spoiled and way too comfortable with people.
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#Aww@GameDEV