WUT?

#WTF@GameDEV

LOL

#AI@GameDEV

You can now use V-Ray for free on Blender: Chaos were supporting the foundation for some time and tried the commercial path before during the beta

Now it's the official release, re-written for Blender specifically, not a port from other engines (like it used to be).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEdpODNqcWw
#Blender@GameDEV
#Free@GameDEV

Folks, where are you from, what's going on, is it a scam (yes) 😎 A bunch of cheap ass bots hopped in.

UPD: There are 100+ of them today, literally, WTF.

The Mouse Detective game, announced a few years ago, is finally right behind the corner and the reviews are positive!

#IndieGames@GameDEV

Lovely
(by Old_Extension8852)

#PixelArt@GameDEV
#Cats@GameDEV

That's curious. There was a huge attack on Rockstar recently and they confirmed it is true but said that GTA VI isn't affected. But some data started to show up from hackers:

This is, for example, GTA Online weekly profits with per-platform breakdown. We can notice that PC is behind every other platform. Which explains why GTA VI is not coming to PC right away.

It's crazy that almost $4.5m is coming weekly from PS5 alone. This also explains why they gave 0 fucks about DLCs for the main game.

#GTA@GameDEV
#Rockstar@GameDEV
#Finance@GameDEV

Thank you, Todd

This crappy game is now 5% less crappy, about 95% more and it will be playable. This whole thing took you only three damn years to make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQdlpJergWs
#Bethesda@GameDEV

Two days before Pragmata

What was the most misleading statement from NVIDIA? I'll start...

#NVIDIA@GameDEV

Disney just fired 8% of Marvel and delisted dozens of games from online stores. One of them was supposed to be under GoG protection but was still delisted even there. In total 29 games were delisted this year (15 now + 14 in January)

Marvel case is also curious: the layoffs were reported as urgent and fairly random. But the expected shift is near elimination of VFX department that will be replaced by a few outsourcing managers.

Just a few first moves of the new top management 🫡

#Disney@GameDEV
#Marvel@GameDEV

Alinea Analytics suggests that Starfield sold only 140 000 copies on PS5 during the first week. Which is less than The Outer Worlds 2, for example.

This could explain the overall positive score on PlayStation store, if only some true fans bought it. But no: a lot of people noticed that it's nearly unplayable due to constant crashes. So it's just the legendary PS fans tolerance to issues.

#Bethesda@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

In the meantime, Road to Vostok apparently sold ~150 000 copies so far and the sales are not slowing down (compared to 100K copies on Friday). The official data will probably catch up in a couple of days, but it looks oddly solid by reviews alone.

#IndieGames@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

The hand holding a gun meme is from the cover of True Crime: Streets of LA

🔗 PlayStation Nostalgia

Current mood meme

I removed 556 bots from the channel, now we have exactly the same amount of them as before. Durov should be ashamed of himself.

#meme@GameDEV

LOL 😆

#Soulslike@GameDEV

There's two ways of having profit by making your game free to keep for a limited period

1) Make the game free on EGS so that people buys them on steam once they try it out

2) Make the game free on steam so that people will enjoy it and buys DLCs for it

Either way, it's stonks

Fine, since we're under a huge attack right now, let's talk about TG spam bots a little. I have a few curious facts.

Most of slut bots are Sophie for some reason, there are also Claire and some other names but variations of Sophia are the most common.

A lot of them are literally marked as "sold" and the script scammer uses forgets to rename them. Some are named "+ Some name" literally, so I assume AI vibe coders are involved.

A lot of fake accounts are using Tom (from Tom and Jerry) in a tuxedo. I have no fucking clue why do they think it will be trustworthy in any fucking way.

The sad part: it can be as cheap as $1, the whole attack that lasted for two days and brought 800+ bots here. And telegram ain't doing any fixes.

The reason? To steal your username (if you set the channel as private, you lose the name), to ban the channel (yes, telegram will ban you if spammers follow you). And even more often simply as a prank.