IGN and several other outlets who gave Crimson Desert the lowest score, called the game bosses way too hard and failed to upgrade their weapons.

Here's what you can actually do while maxing out and mixing weapons.

#Journalism@GameDEV

Welcome to 2026: the world is doing so good that trending apps are VPNs and Gas Prices maps...

It's a peace statement, I see 😁

Apparently, today's update for CS2 made most of the weapons to have times fewer bullets per life. Even without their loss during the reloading, the number of additional mags is very low.

People speculate that it will heavily benefit newbies, since experienced players will run out of bullets much faster instead of taking the whole enemy's team at 10:1. But pro players don't waste bullets either and know what to pick from the floor, so the median player now got the highest disadvantage.

#GameDesign@GameDEV
#Valve@GameDEV

Off topic: this scene is iconic and the actress is shocked for real, she wasn't informed they gonna do it without stunt team or whatever, he just drives like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_2N-pc3Nbw
#Movies@GameDEV

Gamers Nexus brought us more than just memes, but also some deeper controversies around modern NVIDIA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1a8YEOlpeY
#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

Apple is using this icon to represent Windows computers (and laptops) during data transfer... LMAO!

#Apple@GameDEV

SONY removed PSN and PlayStation Network from all their descriptions. Nothing changes but the naming itself. The brand was damaged when Hermen Hulst tried to enforce it on PC. Which made regional limitations and other issues to become synonymous to PSN.

#PCMR@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

Rockfish Games just got €8M from the government of Germany to make Everspace 3. The game will be done in about 6 years.

This is the highest ever governmental support. And the total budget is set at about €20M for just ~30 people in Hamburg.

#Europe@GameDEV

This is bigger than it looks.

A modder just turned a PS5 into a Linux gaming PC.

GTA 5 running at 1440p 60FPS with ray tracing.

But here’s the real shift:

Parts of this work are now entering Linux itself.

• PS5 GPU support showing up in Mesa
• Patches being added to AMDGPU drivers
• No longer just a one-off hack

This shows:

• Console hardware = basically PC hardware
• Limitations are software, not power
• Future consoles might just be locked PCs

We’re getting closer to full convergence

🔗 Techjunkie Aman

Steam Spring Sale advice

— This shit is so ass! — said Cities: Skylines 2 boss.

Jokes aside: the team believed that Unity's beta features will be improved and finalized in a reasonable time frame. Instead, many of them were discontinued or stayed unfinished. So they've had to make their own solutions (times longer than they planned).

The game with massive maps and tens of thousands of objects requires high-end solutions.

#Tycoon@GameDEV
#Unity@GameDEV

Spring Sale meme

#meme@GameDEV

Kojima and PlayStation kinda won: despite the increased price across the globe, Death Stranding 2 started at 50K CCU on Steam. And the third place among top sellers. That's less than DA Veilguard and AC Shadows, both were considered commercial failures.

Reviews are 93% positive so far but aren't detailed in most cases. There may be some issues on Radeon graphics cards causing crashes a few hours into the game ("Error Device Hung"). And Linux is not supported well.

Fun fact: the game supports Pico Upscale technology, which is a port of PSSR made for PC. We may see some reviews of this, but that's not the only extra upscaling on PC, for example, the Qualcomm SGSR one is also present in some games and Lossless Scaling App. But it's unexpected to see a SONY tech on PC.

By the way, Crimson Desert is on the first spot among top sellers and will definitely outperform the competitor.

#PlayStation@GameDEV

The spring sale is up, but I'm not going to tell you about best offers, here's the cat meme instead

#Cats@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Kingsglaive is very odd to me: I adore the animated version and never truly liked FF XV as the game. The stiff combat system, the narrative shifting between comical and dramatical notes.

But if you haven't watched the movie, I highly recommend you to try it out.

Fun fact: Gabriel Moszkowski, who managed the deal between CDPR and Keanu Reeves, used to be a casting manager of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9hb24-hC7w
#Movies@GameDEV
#SquareEnix@GameDEV