Tencent might be forced to sell their shares

The US Government Might Compel Tencent to Divest from US Gaming Companies for National Security https://wccftech.com/us-government-tencent-divest-gaming-companies-national-security/

The upcoming Death Stranding 2 costs €80 in Europe for the basic edition. It's €10 more than any other AAA game and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS overestimate their fans loyalty. On a crowded market being the highest priced choice is not a selling point, it's a hiccup that will make people think twice and go to another game in most cases.

#PlayStation@GameDEV

If this spring I'd want to carry around a suspicious kid, I'll pick a better priced game 😄

NVIDIA just casually dropped RTX version of Godot Engine:

The community admired and hated it at the same time. The overall hype over RTX is rather annoying for indie devs. Bugs and overall low quality of the port added up to the negative reception. But for some fans it looks like hope that Godot can further extend to mainstream.

UPD: They vibe coded this shit 🫠

https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/godot

#RayTracing@GameDEV
#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

LMAO

#Hardware@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Mid-air and rope-swing shots (via)

#PixelArt@GameDEV
#Animations@GameDEV

Apparently, even Microslop is not able to push the slop to people. It will reduce AI bloat, will not make AI notifications and settings, and so on.

Official admin's commentary: ahahaha ahahahah ahahah...

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

You are worried about imperfections in your indie game animations. Meanwhile the hit that helped PlayStation to sell millions of units...

#Animations@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

The guy behind the biggest collection of VR-mods for games, who was forced to take down Cyberpunk 2077 mod (due to DMCA strike from CDPR), re-released his mods for free.

But he will keep the new ones exclusive for 3-6 months for paid subscribers. And Cyberpunk mod will not be released (thanks CDPR).

Funny enough, he was a huge fan and he offered them to make it an official mod. And during the review of this idea CDPR decided that selling mods for their games is illegal. They stopped the talks and attacked him legally a few months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWr_bmu6dE
#VR@GameDEV

Krafton lost the case against Subnautica 2 director and ex-CEO Ted Gill. The court orders the publisher to re-establish roles of the founders and give Ted full control over the Unknown Worlds studio and the game.

The case was rather confusing from both sides, but the judge sided with the CEO as his arguments were more consistent and reliable. The seizure of the company and termination of rights and roles of founders were done without legal grounds.

The case is not over though, they will have to settle next steps and compensations. But even now the judge extended the term for the game to earn the required sum for founders to get bonuses.

#Krafton@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

As a person who tried LADA, I'm pretty confident it can't reach 160MPH even in free fall...

#Battlefield@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Kind reminder that Battlefields are on a big sale and you can get all of them (except 6) for less than $10.

BF1 peaked at 20K due to such a price!

#Battlefield@GameDEV

Sony fixed their Piss-Upscaler PSSR: it's fairly good now and I will not call it piss ever again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2j7ij9ZPDk
#PlayStation@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

What the actual fuck, Jensen?
Slopium intensifies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJACkKbN-Eo
#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV