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'A classic fake reflection where it's just the same room under a glass floor': I no longer trust my senses after reading this gamedev thread breaking down cost-effective graphical sorcery
News Smoke and mirrors.
Train Sim World devs announce Thomas the Tank Engine game 'powered by Train Sim World' and the true train sickos are down: 'It will make 9 trainzillion dollars'
News Step aside, Grand Theft Auto 6.
Director Gore Verbinski said he 'loved' working on the BioShock movie and 'was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect': 'Every year I hear something about the project, but I’m not sure any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed'
News Verbinski was the first of three directors to have taken the helm on the shooter's long-awaited film adaptation.
Yoshi finally gives birth on-screen in new Super Mario Galaxy movie teaser
News The Mario Galaxy movie also kind of looks like the Mario Sunshine movie, the Mario Odyssey movie, the Yoshi's Island movie, and so on.
Rust devs surveil cheaters like they're 'playing an RTS game': 'Every gun shot, every message, every dropped item, every kind of interaction is logged'
News How many pylons do you need to construct for kernel-level anticheat?
'We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find': Helldivers 2's lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game's beloved intro cinematic
News "I never could have imagined the reaction to this friggin' game."
'What the f**k': Iron Lung creator puzzled as Markiplier's film adaptation quadruples its budget in one day, beating out Melania and Send Help at the box office
News So, when's the Chop Goblins movie?
21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge
News Guild Wars' soft remaster continues to get tweaks and new features.
The whole Fallout series is at a steep discount on Steam, so if you've been waiting 29 years to begin your journey in the wasteland, your time is now
News Hopefully you've managed to avoid spoilers in that time.
'Anyone mad is a cheater:' Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades
News Facepunch's COO said the studio expects to make the requirements mandatory at some point.
Skyrim's design lead says if you play Morrowind today, you will 'cringe': 'The reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time'
News Sure, whatever you say. Let's do a Daggerfall remake instead.
The company that made a Dark Souls tabletop RPG is doing the same for Elden Ring Nightreign, and honestly, that's harder to imagine
News Group SNE is best known for Record of Lodoss War and Sword World.
Highguard adds an experimental 5v5 mode with longer respawns during raids, though it's 'not meant to replace 3s'
News That's two more pals per raid.
Deadlock now lets you avoid certain heroes when queuing for a game, but you can't avoid the newest ones
News It's not quite a draft phase, but it's called "hero banning" nonetheless.
After playing Deadlock's new 'Oops, All Teamfights' mode, Highguard's kitchen-sink ruleset feels overwrought
Guarded Sometimes more is less.
The next Dead by Daylight chapter will feature character designs selected by the community, and voting is already open
News Players can select their favorite design from a batch of art concepts.
Former Marathon art director says 'what I could control, I feel really good about' in the face of pre-release animosity: 'You can't take that away from me'
News "All great art—commercial art anyways—it’s doubted and there’s a level of skepticism. Until there’s not."
Doom has been ported to a pair of earbuds, and you can play remotely on the programmer's own pair in your browser
News Play Doom with your buds.
Modders just shadow dropped a PC port of the original Banjo-Kazooie with ultrawide support, improved controls, and quality-of-life features
News There's a built-in mod menu with support for the Banjo scene's most celebrated mods, too.
UK judge rules that RuneScape gold is fair game when suing for theft, at least in this case where an ex-developer stole $700,000 worth of it
News It's easier to level the thieving skill with quests, anyway.
Deadlock's new Street Brawl mode is like a better version of the infamous MOBA 'All Random, All Mid,' but I think it could stand to be even more chaotic
News Reject strategy. Embrace endless teamfights.
Ubisoft shares plummet to lowest price in over 14 years amid its recently announced 'restructuring' centered on cancellations, layoffs, and generative AI
News The gaming giant's share price took a hefty 34% hit the day after the announcement.
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