Oh, and the phone looks like this: very sharp titanium body, so everyone use them with cases. With the good case it's very easy to use despite the size.

Both volume controls and power button are on the right edge, I'm more used to when they are on the opposite sides. SIM cards slot is on the bottom, so are the USB and stylus. No 3.5 Jack, but BT and USB audio are both good.

They fixed the sharpness in S26, which is rounded again and much easier to hold without accessories.

>be Guerilla Games
>invite all Horizon youtubers to your playstest to gather feedback so it is not a Concord situation again
>many don't like it because it doesn't feel like a Horizon Game
>do a second playtest
>don't invite these people back again to maintain the echo chamber
>your face when they're willing to sacrifice the Horizon fandom to make the game a live service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J15gM_-xbHU

In the meantime, Russian government introduced white lists internet system (only IPs allowed by them will pass), slowed down all VPN traffic to speeds of 2003 and pretend it's not gonna cause any troubles.

Mirrors Edge IRL

The game industry and IT are effectively dead. They rely on global software and hardware with global drivers. It's not gonna work that easy now and fixing it will make the IT not efficient enough to be financially viable.

Crimson Desert optimization concerns me.... it seems that even DLSS performance can't make it work well enough. Yet another frame generation title!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlRpJ553RzE

1. Good news: Embark will make more voice lines with their actors. It's hard to know how many, but they are aiming to replace the AI.

2. Whoever wrote this for RPS is an idiot: Embark was always working with human actors. They were using special people to train a very custom model for each of them to cover thousands of objects and locations. Which otherwise would take years to voice. Now they kinda have these years.

Very odd intro, Oisin Kuhnke...

#AI@GameDEV
#Journalism@GameDEV

WB Games Montreal, the studio behind Gotham Knights and cancelled Wonder Woman game is laying off undisclosed number of people.

They were also a supportive studio in Kill the Justice League.

#WB@GameDEV
#DC@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV

2027 be like...

#AI@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Kind reminder: Dragon Age Inquisition, released in 2014 and highly limited by the requirement to support past gen consoles:

https://xn--r1a.website/GameDEV/6670

By the way, I shitpost on LinkedIn from time to time and it got 270 000+ views a year (that's roughtly 0 hires and 0 commercial value so far). Keeping you posted!

#LinkedIn@GameDEV

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