Scopely acquires majority stake in Pixel Flow! developer Loom Games
The deal values the Turkish mobile studio in excess of $1 billion.
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Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling beats AMD’s FSR and plain old native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers
German website ComputerBase.de has conducted a blind comparison test pitting AMD’s and Nvidia’s latest AI-based upscaling technologies against native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers. Across six different games, Nvidia DLSS came out on top as…
New research suggests folks are relying on ‘outdated visual cues’ to identify AI-generated faces—but I did get 14/20 on the test
I like to think I’m pretty good at spotting the tell-tale signs of AI-generated images: weirdly soft lighting, blurry background details, accessories or smaller details that simply disappear into nothing. Unfortunately, every ‘real or fake’ test I’ve taken thus far…
Rager brings the beat to PlayStation VR2 on March 5
Hello again, PlayStation VR2 players! We’re bringing Rager to PS VR2 on March 5, and we can’t wait for you to feel what rhythm-driven combat really means. Rager is a music-driven VR brawler where the rhythm is never background noise.…
“Reputational damage already done” – Highguard clings to life with a content patch as devs insist website going down a “low priority” problem
Floundering PvP shooter Highguard lives on, as developer Wildlight releases a new content update and assures worried fans that ominous signs like the game’s website going offline are “low priority” problems. Read more
‘It’s Insane’: Director Steven Soderbergh Says Disney Got ‘Two and a Half Years of Free Work’ Out of Him and Adam Driver on Scrapped Star Wars Movie The Hunt for Ben Solo
Director Steven Soderbergh has branded Disney’s decision to scrap plans for his Star Wars movie The Hunt for Ben Solo as “insane”, after more than two years of “free work” from himself and actor Adam Driver. The revelation that Lucasfilm…
Destiny 2’s next big update has been delayed so it can undergo “large revisions” so large and revisiony it’ll need a new name
The next big update to Destiny 2, Shadow and Order, has been delayed as it undergoes a substantial round of tweakage and expansion. Such a substantial round of tweakage and expansion, in fact, that it’ll no longer be called Shadow…
Former developers of one of 2024’s best Soulslikes are stuck in a purgatory of unpaid salaries
Former staff of Enotria: The Last Song developers Jyamma Games have revealed to RPS that they’re owed months of unpaid salary, following layoffs at the company last year. They’ve shared an inside look at a troubled independent studio dealing with…
WoW’s classes were pruned for Midnight because many were ‘built in a world’ where its devs assumed they’d be using addons
World of Warcraft recently embarked on the massive undertaking of redesigning all of its many specialisations to work without the assistance of UI mods (addons) for Midnight—mods which previously automated a ton of the complexity of its classes. As an…
Silent Hill: Townfall Will Skip Xbox Consoles At Launch
Silent Hill f had a simultaneous debut last year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. However, the next game in the franchise, Silent Hill: Townfall, appears to be skipping Xbox at launch. Konami’s official Silent Hill: Townfall site…