Month: October 2024

ASRock และ MSI ได้ออกมายืนยันแล้วว่าเมนบอร์ดของพวกเขาที่เป็นตระกูล Intel 700 และ AM5 จะรองรับความจุของแรมที่เพิ่มขึ้นกว่าเดิม โดยทางบริษัทอย่าง ASRock ได้เผยภาพของเมนบอร์ด X670E Taichi ที่มาพร้อมกับตัวเลขแรมกว่า 256GB เป็นการเสียบแรมขนาด 64GB ด้วยกันทั้งหมด 4 ตัว

ขณะเดียวกัน MSI เองได้ประกาศออกมาเช่นกันว่าเมนบอร์ดของพวกเขาจะรองรับการใช้งานแรม 256GB ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการใช้งานแบบ 4 ตัวหรือจะเป็นแบบ 2 ตัวที่ขนาด 128GB พร้อมเผยภาพตัวอย่างการทำงานจริงผ่านเมนบอร์ดPRO X6…

ก่อนหน้านี้ผู้ใช้ทวิตเตอร์ Dynasty1031 ได้ออกมาปล่อยวิดีโอแฟนเมดที่เผยให้เราได้เห็นคนดังต่าง ๆ ถูกนำมาดัดแปลงรูปลักษณ์ให้กลายเป็นนักสู้สังเวียนเลือดอย่าง Mortal Kombat ซึ่งวิดีโอมีผู้ชมมากกว่า 1 ล้านครั้งและได้รับความคิดเห็นหลายพันรายการ โดยล่าสุด Ed Boon ผู้กำกับ Mortal Kombat 1 ได้ออกมาพูดถึงวิดีโอดังกล่าวด้วยคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง!

Ed Boon ผู้กำกับ Mortal Kombat 1 ได้ตอบกลับวิดีโอ Celebrity Kombat ที่เป็นไวรัลซึ่งแสดงตัวละคร DLC ฝีมือ AI มากมาย…

เข้าไทยแล้ว คำพูดจาก เว็บเดิมพันออนไลน์!คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง!! Ujoy Games ประกาศเปิดให้บริการ Heroes of Crown: Legends เกมมือถือ idle adventure RPG ดำดิ่งสู่โลกแฟนตาซีที่น่าหลงใหลซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยกราฟิก 3 มิติ ดาวน์โหลดได้แล้วทั้งบนระบบ iOS และ Android ผ่าน App Store และ Google Play Store ไทย

Heroes of Crown: Legends เกมมือถือ idle adventure RPG พบกับมงกุฎโบราณทั้งเจ็ดที่สูญหายไป ฉากที่สดใส เอฟเฟกต์คุณภาพสูง ผจญภัยในดินแดนแฟนตาซีที่ผสานอารยธรร�…

เกมเมอร์ต่างแห่แชร์ภาพปกเกมสุดฮาจากฝีมือ AI โดยเป็นการนำตัวละคร และชื่อเกม Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name มาแปลงใหม่ กลายเป็นเกมชื่อ Like A Dragon – The Man Who Forgot His Name

ภาพปกเกมดังกล่าวถูกเผยแพร่โดยผู้ใช้เฟซบุ๊กที่ชื่อว่า AI Generated Videogames โดยเขาได้ใช้โปรแกรม AI วาดภาพปกเกม Like A Dragon ให้เป็นภาพชายชรานั่งวีลแชร์แทน โดยใบหน้าของตัวละครยังคงเหมือนเดิม แต่มีผมหงอกและริ้วรอยบนใบหน้าเพิ่มขึ้นอย่างมาก นอกจากนี้ข้อความบนปกเกมก็ถูกเปลี่ยนจาก The Man Who Erased His Name เป็น The Man Who Forgot His…

D.G.P: New World เกม NFT เลี้ยง V-Pet ภาพสไตล์ Pixel

D.G.Pals เกม NFT สไตล์ Play to Earn ได้ออกมาประกาศวันเปิดให้บริการกันอย่างเป็นทางการแล้ว โดย D.G.P: New World ซึ่งเป็นเกมแรกของจักรวาล D.G.Verse ได้เปิดบริการในวันที่ 23 พ.ค. ไปแล้ว ในขณะที่ D.G.P: Legends จะเปิดให้บริการในวันที่ 31 พ.ค. ที่จะถึงเช่นกัน!

ข้อมูลภาพรวมของ D.G.P: New World

เกมดังกล่าวผู้เล่นจะได้รับหน้าที่เลี้ยงดูเหล่ามอนสเตอร์ตัวน้อยน่ารักที่เรียกว่า D.G.Pals โดยเราจะสามารถฟักเหล่านี้ได้ด้วยเครื่องฟักไข่ที่ฟ�…

5minlab Corpคำพูดจาก คาสิโนออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุดในทวีปเอเชีย . ประกาศเปิดให้เล่น METRObyss เกมมือถือ Action RogueLite ดันเจี้ยนใต้ดินลึกลับ กำจัดเศษซากพืชพรรณ ดาวน์โหลดได้แล้วบนระบบ Android ผ่าน Google Play Store ไทย  

METRObyssเกมมือถือ Action RogueLite ดำดิ่งสู่ดันเจี้ยนใต้ดินลึกลับที่เต็มไปด้วยพืชพรรณปีศาจ เลือกอัปเกรดให้ตรงกับสไตล์การเล่นของคุณ เพิ่มเลเวลและรับอุปกรณ์ต่าง ๆ เพื่อรับมือกับความท้าทายที่ทวีความรุนแรงมากขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ �…

สิงคโปร์ – 16 เมษายน 2024 –  Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia ผู้พัฒนาและจัดจำหน่ายเกมระดับแนวหน้า ประกาศ ณ วันนี้ว่า ONE PIECE ODYSSEY Deluxe Edition จะออกเรือผจญภัยไปบน Nintendo Switch™ ในวันที่ 25 กรกฎาคม 2024 นี้

ONE PIECE ODYSSEY เกม JRPG สุดระทึกใจด้วยเนื้อหาออริจินอลที่มีรากฐานจากซีรีส์ ONE PIECE และเกมเพลย์ที่เปิดโอกาสให้ผู้เล่นได้ควบคุมตัวละครตัวโปรดจากกลุ่มหมวกฟาง เกมนี้วางจำหน่ายแล้วบนแพลตฟอร์ม PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S และ PC ผ่านทาง Steam® ดูรายละเอียดเพิ่ม�…

ย้อนกลับไปสักสิบกว่าปีก่อนต้องบอกเลยว่าวัยทำงานอย่างเราๆ หลายคนอาจจะมีโอกาสได้เคยเห็นเกมของค่าย nigoro จากญี่ปุ่นอย่าง Rose & Camellia ที่มาพร้อมเกมเพลย์ชวนฮาและเรื่องราวที่เสียดสี๊เสียดสีวงการละครกันมากๆ นั่นคือเราจะต้องเล่นเป็นหญิงแม่ม่ายที่แต่งงานเข้าสู่บ้านหลังใหญ่ที่เต็มไปด้วยสมาชิกครอบครัวขี้อิจฉา ฝ่าฟันไปสู่จุดสูงสุดด้วยศาสตร์แห่งการตบหน้าดังเพี้ยะ

ความนิยมจนกลายเป็นคัลต์เล็กๆ ได้ทำให้ nigoro เข็นผล�…

Untold Tales ผู้จัดจำหน่าย และ The Knights of Unity ผู้พัฒนาได้ประกาศเปิดตัว Tools Upคำพูดจาก 13รับ100 เว็บแท้ สล็อตเว็บตรง! Ultimate Edition สำหรับ PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch และ PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG) โดยจะวางจำหน่ายในวันที่ 5 มกราคม 2024 โดยเกมนี้จะรวมอัปเดต เนื้อหา และ DLC ทั้งหมดที่เคยปล่อยออกมาสำหรับ Tools Up! ฉบับดั้งเดิม รวมถึงโหมดผู้เล่นดวลกันแบบใหม่ให้ได้เล่นด้วย

ข้อมูลทั่วไป

Tools Upคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง! Ultimate Edition เป็นเกม Co-op …

SPARKGAME ค่ายเกมเจ้าหมาคอร์กี้ ประกาศเปิดให้ลงทะเบียนล่วงหน้า X Dogs: Get 999 Draws เกมมือถือ Turn-Based RPG สร้างกองทัพซุปเปอร์ด็อก ต่อสู้ 5v5 และ World Boss ลงทะเบียนได้แล้วทั้งบนระบบ iOS และ Android ผ่าน App Store และ Google Play Store ไทยคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

X Dogs: Get 999 Drawsเกมมือถือ Turn-Based RPG พาฮีโร่สุนัขเอาชนะบอสที่ชั่วร้าย สร้างกองทัพซุปเปอร์ด็อก 5v5 ต่อสู้แบบผลัดกันโจมตี มีฮีโร่ให้เลือกเล่นกว่า 50 ตัว สะสมจากการเปิดกาชา มีหลากหลายโหมดให้เล่นไม�…

มีข่าวที่น่าสนใจมาให้ได้ติดตามกันอีกครั้งกับเกม Final Fantasy VII Rebirth โดยล่าสุดทางผู้กำกับร่วมอย่างคุณ Motomu Toriyama ได้เปิดเผยผ่านงาน Taipei Game Show ว่าเกมนี้ถูกออกแบบมาให้เล่นซ้ำหลายรอบ

ต้องเท้าความก่อนว่าเกม Final Fantasy VII Remake ซึ่งเป็นเกมภาคก่อนหน้าของ Final Fantasy VII Rebirth จะมีระบบ “เลือกเล่นบทที่ต้องการซ้ำ” เพื่อทำการเก็บถ้วยรางวัลต่าง ๆ ภายในเกม ซึ่งแน่นอนว่าแฟนเกมเองก็แอบสงสัยมาตลอดว่าเกม Final Fantasy VII Rebirth จะยังคงมีระบบดังกล่าวมาให้ใช้งานกันหรือม่คำพูดจาก Continue Reading

Kuro Games ผู้พัฒนา Wuthering Waves ออกมาขอโทษผู้เล่นสำหรับปัญหาหลังเปิดตัวเกมที่ “น่าผิดหวัง” และมอบของขวัญชดเชยผู้เล่นที่ได้รับผลกระทบอย่างมาก โดยทางผู้พัฒนาได้ยืนยันว่าพวกเขากำลังเร่งแก้ไขปัญหาเหล่านี้อย่างเร่งด่วน และจะพยายามปรับปรุงประสบการณ์การเล่นเกมให้ดีขึ้นโดยเร็วที่สุด

คำแถลงการณ์ต่อปัญหาของเกม Wuthering Waves

“พวกเราต้องขอโทษสำหรับข้อบกพร่องและปัญหาต่าง ๆ ที่เกิดขึ้นใน Wuthering Waves ซึ่งเป็นเกมแรกที่ Kuro Games พัฒนาและ…

โดยปกติแล้ว เวลาที่เราได้เห็นการประชาสัมพันธ์ของทางราชการนั้นเราก็มักจะได้เห็นการโพสต์ด้วยข้อความและภาพที่แสนจะเป็นทางการ แต่ดูเหมือนว่าในตอนนี้สำนักงานเขตบางรักได้ขโมยหัวใจของเหล่าเกมเมอร์ชาวไทยไปเสียแล้วด้วยการโพสต์วันพืชมงคลในธีม Harvest Moon!

สำนักงานเขตบางรักโพสต์ภาพ Harvest Moon ขอแจ้งงดให้บริการเนื่องในวันหยุดพืชมงคล

ในโพสต์ดังกล่าวนั้นเราจะได้เห็นตัวละครชายจากเกม Harvest Moon กำลังยืนอยู่ในฟาร์มยกผลผลิตที�…

การสร้างภาพแฟนอาร์ตด้วย AI เป็นอีกหนึ่งกระแสนิยมที่มีมาให้เราได้เห็นกันเป็นประจำ และจะเป็นอย่างไรหากอยู่ดี ๆ เจ้าหมูเด้ง หรือเจ้าฮิปโปแคระชื่อดังในตอนนี้ถูกจับโยนเข้าไปผจญภัยในโลกของ Final Fantasy VII! ล่าสุดเพจสร้างภาพ AI ชาวไทยก็ได้ออกมาโชว์ภาพสุดแหวกนี้ให้เราได้ชมกัน พร้อมกับแจก Prompt ให้ไปเจนภาพกันเองได้ด้วย!คำพูดจาก สุดยอดเว็บเดิมพันออน

แฟนอาร์ต AI จับหมูเด้งออกผจญภัยใน Final Fantasy VII

ในภา�…

Intel has already said that it’s designed the most efficient x86 processor ever in its upcoming Lunar Lake mobile chips—which, in tandem with its performance claims, has made us rather excited about the prospect of battery-sipping mobile devices with some genuine gaming grunt. Now a report says that BOE’s new Winning Display 1Hz tech, combined with V2 of Intel’s Intelligent Display Technology, can reduce display power consumption by up to 65%.

There’s a combination of technological trickery said to be at play here to achieve such a drastic reduction in power usage (via Tom’s Hardware). According to Sina Technology, Intel’s IIDT 2.0 tech uses ALLR (Autonomous Low Refresh Rate), UBRR (User-Based Refresh Rate) and PixOptix to not only detect a users presence and reduce the refresh rate when it’s not needed, but also reduce backlight power consumption.

The report also claims that, using AI, the refresh rate can be dynamically adjusted on different parts of the panel, separately. So, you could be viewing a video on one side of the screen with a smooth refresh rate, while making notes on the other at a much lower speed, thereby significantly reducing battery drain.…

Cryptic Studios, the developer of the Star Trek Online and Neverwinter MMOs, has become the latest studio to lay off employees. The studio has confirmed that “difficult personnel changes” have made as a result of parent company Embracer Group’s ongoing restructuring.

Word of possible layoffs first came to light in October, when Twitter user bogorad222 (via MassivelyOP) noticed that multiple Cryptic employees had changed their LinkedIn profiles to indicate that they were looking for work. 

One of them was Star Trek Online community manager Mike Fatum, who said in a LinkedIn update that “things are weird in the world right now, and it seems like the right time to open this back up. I’m an experienced Senior Community Manager, Writer, Convention Host, and Personality and I’d like to hear from you.”

Oddly, Fatum said on Twitter shortly afterwards that layoffs had not actually occurred: “To further clarify, none of the teams at Cryptic have changed at this time.”

Whatever the situation was in October, it’s now confirmed that layoffs have occurred. “As part of the Embracer Group’s comprehensive restructuring program, Cryptic Studios will now operate …

Famed Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto once said, so the story goes, “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.” Did he really utter those words? Apparently not. But Valve founder Gabe Newell shares the sentiment: He said so, in very plain terms, in the new Half-Life 25th anniversary documentary that released today on YouTube.

The topic came up in a segment on Valve’s early struggles with Half-Life. The game had been slated to ship in November 1997, but a few months ahead of that the team realized it wasn’t coming together: There were interesting ideas and discrete segments, but the whole “wasn’t fun yet.”

“We were getting into three months before supposedly shipping in ’97, and it’s like, this isn’t gelling,” engineer Ken Birdwell says in the doc. “This is really not good. This is like a quick knockoff, cash-grab, stupid, and let’s not do that.

“There was a lot of disconnect between what all of the different groups were doing, what engineering was doing, and what level design was doing, and what animation was doing. We had a bunch of monsters that had no plans to get in the game because nobody else was assigned to work on them, and…

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game of grand adventure, a game of nuanced character choices, a game of creative problem solving, a game full of literally hundreds of spells. It’s also a game where you can have sex with a bear. Guess which of the above rocketed Baldur’s Gate 3 to viral mainstream attention just a few weeks before release? I expected Baldur’s Gate 3 to be big, but I did not expect a marketing campaign highlighting a sex scene with a bear (okay, to be clear, it’s a sex scene with a druid who can transform into a bear) to help Baldur’s Gate 3 pull in 800,000 concurrent players over the weekend.

“Yeah, me neither,” Larian founder Swen Vincke told me in an interview on Monday. But he did explain why the Baldur’s Gate 3 studio thought it was a good showcase for the game, which turned out to be the exact right instinct in the leadup to release.

“We wanted a scene people were going to talk about, but we wanted to show that this was a cinematic game, with characters that have depth to them. The bear’s obviously a druid, and he has a story. He’s been around for hundreds of years. He’s lived with bears for part of his life also, so that’s where the bear t…

Anyone with a more-than-casual interest in League of Legends almost surely knows about Porofessor and League of Graphs. The sites are indispensable tools for the passionate player, stats aggregators that show who’s winning what, when, where, and with which League champion. What those League-heads might not know was that the two sites, and their associated Legends of Runeterra and Teamfight Tactics versions, were made by one person as the company Wargraphs. That person has now sold the company for a pretty nice paycheck.

The deal was for €50 million, about US $54.6 million at today’s rate. It’s probably a steal for Wargraphs’ Porofessor and League of Graphs, which have some 10 million downloads and 1.25 million daily average users, while the websites have about 4.5 billion page views since their launch. It had a healthy income of about €12.3 million in the fiscal period ending November 30th, 2022.

Wargraphs, the single-employee company run by Jean-Nicolas Mastin out of Paris, now belongs to MOBA Network, a company based in Sweden that “acquires, develops and operates gaming communities for the global gaming market.”

“Together with the founder, who will…

Despite being a game full of chunky, blank-faced weirdos with awful hair that makes you swing at an enemy 20 times before you can land a single hit, Morrowind is an incredibly immersive game, sucking you into Vvardenfel and making you feel like part of its world. Modder abot over on the Morrowind Nexus has now, finally, torn down that last barrier between Morrowind and a perfect simulation of reality: with abot’s new mod, the Nerevarine leaves behind footprints as they walk.

Okay, maybe a little silly, but it’s such a great idea⁠—just one of those little details you forget about while running up your eighteenth snowdrift in Solstheim with a train of awful little max-level goblin men chasing you down. And really, obsessive detail like this absolutely fits in a game that actively drains your stamina while you slowly jog around its alien moonscapes.

I also love how abot got this mod to work. They utilize the Morrowind Script Extender to detect that whenever that distinctive clop clop clop sound effect of a Morrowind character’s footsteps plays, and spawns in the footprint texture accordingly. Abot also includes a helpful menu to adjust who leaves fo…

Dead Island 2, which has yet to apologise for making me write the words “Flesh system” over and over again, has changed its release date once more. After a parade of delays that saw the game slip from year to year and month to month, Dead Island 2’s final surprise is that it won’t be releasing on April 28. It’ll be releasing a week earlier, on April 21. It’s an Easter miracle, my friends.

You’ve got a little over two months until you can see a game that was first announced nearly ten years ago, in the Edenic world of 2014. I have to admit, I’m very curious to see how it’ll turn out. We’ve had two Dying Light games in the vast interim between Dead Island 2’s announcement and release date, and I liked them both quite a bit more than I did Dead Island. I’m hoping the second game manages to grab me more forcefully than its predecessor did.

We’ve heard quite a bit about Dead Island 2 in the last few weeks. Whether it’s the game’s procedural wounding and dismemberment system, known as the—here it comes again—”Flesh system,” or its card-based “skill deck” mechanic, we have a pretty good idea of what to expect come April. I’m cautiously optimistic: everything I’v…

CD Projekt Red has laid off “roughly 9%” of its staff, with around 100 people losing their jobs over the next seven months.

In a statement on CDPR’s website, CEO Adam Kiciński says the layoffs are part of “ongoing process of several deep transformations within the studio,” which he considers “key to making quality games, on time and without crunch.”

“To meet our own high expectations and ambitions to create the best role-playing games, we not only want to have the best people but also the right teams,” Kiciński says. “What we mean by that is having teams that are built around our projects’ needs; teams that are more agile and more effective. At this point in time, we’re certain that for CD Projekt Red to grow, we need to be consistent in implementing that approach.”

Kiciński continues: “There’s no easy way to say this, but today we are overstaffed. We have talented people on board who are finishing their tasks and—based on current and expected project needs—we already know we don’t have other opportunities for them in the next year.” 

He clarifies that not everyone’s layoff will be immediate, adding “some …

Fans of part-time battle royale and full-time brand chimaera Fortnite are in an uproar right now, following an update to the game’s Creative mode islands that’s left players unable to equip some of their paid cosmetics.

The update in question is Fortnite’s introduction of island age ratings. Released yesterday, the new patch has made it so that the game’s islands—spaces mostly created by players where they have full creative reign—can now be given their own age ratings. That means island makers can, if they so choose, set a rating lower than Fortnite’s own T for Teen ESRB rating on their created spaces.

All well and good, except Fortnite’s head-spinning array of cosmetic items also have their own age ratings now. Try to equip a cosmetic rated T for Teen on an island with a lower E10+ or E rating, and you’ll find that it’s been replaced by a dull and miserly default skin, no matter how much you paid for it.

A lot of players are outraged by the change. Sure, Fortnite’s main modes are still rated Teen—meaning you can equip whatever cosmetics you want in them without fuss—but there are still plenty of players who spend a bunch of ti…

Developers from Motion Twin, best known for incredibly popular roguelite Dead Cells, are in on the joke when they talk about the process of making their new game meaning they had to throw away tons of progress and start over. “We fail all the time. We’re like, OK, what we did is pure shit, let’s try again. It’s a roguelite production,” said designer Yannick Berthier, as he walked me through Motion Twin’s new action game Windblown.

The studio’s first new project since Dead Cells is also a roguelite—art truly imitates life, I guess—that plays substantially faster than their previous 2D action, with an incredibly zippy dash move key to staying alive in the now-3D combat environments. Also key to combat is the weapon system, which lets you swap between two weapons on the fly to combo attacks into unique finishers. “Every weapon has a hidden, super powerful attack that can only be triggered by playing with the other weapon equipped,” said Berthier. 

Motion Twin artist Thomas Vasseur, who was driving the demo, chimed in to elaborate. “The goal for us is to have a lot of synergies between weapons, so every time you unlock a weapon you’ll have to think about…

It took eight long years, but the Five Nights at Freddy’s film is finally just about here, and today we got our first proper look at the real stars of the show: Foxy, Bonnie, Chica, and of course, Freddy himself.

The trailer opens with a break-in at the infamous Freddy Fazbear’s pizza joint, a half-robbery, half-vandalism job that ends very badly for the four unlucky idiots who decided it would be a good idea. With that bit of setup out of the way, the video (and the whole film) moves to more closely follow the events of the first game in the series: A security guard takes a job watching over the decrepit eatery, only to discover that its beloved animatronic mascots are a little more active, and a little less friendly, than he was led to believe.

There’s actually no gore in the trailer, but there’s a clear implication that the full film will contain more than its fair share of sticky unpleasantries. A guy gets done in Alien-style by Mr Cupcake, for instance, and while there’s no blood visible in the clip I can’t imagine his face is going to come out of that looking very good; there’s also an implied encounter between the world’s most egregiously over-bladed meat grin…

In response to criticism of his decision to take a role in Hogwarts Legacy, voice actor Sebastian Croft has affirmed his support for trans rights in a statement posted on Twitter.

Croft was announced last week as the actor providing one of the player character voices in Hogwarts Legacy. As with all things related to Harry Potter, it’s a fairly high-profile role, but author JK Rowling’s increasingly strident transphobia has blanketed the game in controversy, and the actor faced criticism from a number of people on social media for taking part in the game.

“I was cast in this project over 3 years ago, back when all Harry Potter was to me, was the magical world I grew up with,” Croft tweeted in response to one callout. “This was long before I was aware of JK Rowling’s views. I believe wholeheartedly that trans women are women and trans men are men.

“I know far more now than I did 3 years ago, and hope to learn far more in the next 3. I’m really sorry to anyone hurt by this announcement. There is no LGB without the T.”

Croft’s role in Hogwarts Legacy is particularly galling to online critics because of his high-profile “allyship” with the LGBTQ+ c…

Linear perspective is the overarching method of representing 3D objects on a 2D plane, just like how games show up on your gaming monitor. It encompasses the one, two, and three point perspectives you probably learned about in school, and has been the major leading perspectival schema in art since it’s conception, way back in the fifteenth century. 

Now, Robert Pepperell of the Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales (via New Scientist) is making us question everything we understand about how perspective should be represented in videogames.

The current standard of linear perspective was developed by architect, poet, and humanist, Leon Battista Alberti. He’s widely considered the father of Early Renaissance in the art world, and popularised the linear perspective techniques which are still used by architects and artists alike today (game artists included) when trying to capture accuracy and realism in a scene. 

If you’re unfamiliar, it’s a technique that gives the illusion of depth and volume as you draw parallel lines back from each corner of a 2D object to merge at certain points (the vanishing points); there’s one vanishing point for one point pers…

Marty O’Donnell, the Halo composer fired by Bungie in 2014 and—the way things have been going—possible future potentate of the United States, announced his intention to run for Congress as a Republican in Nevada a few months ago. Now, in an interview with the controversial far-right newspaper The Epoch Times (via Kotaku), he’s explained why he thinks he can pull it off: “I’m a gamer, so I intend to win.”

“I’m not going to lose because somebody thinks they can spend more money than me, because they can’t,” said O’Donnell, who faces six other candidates in the upcoming June 11 Republican primary for Nevada’s third congressional district. O’Donnell faces quite the funding gap against both his Republican competitors and the district’s incumbent Democratic representative, Susie Lee, but reckons his gaming experience gives him an edge they lack.

In fact, O’Donnell reckons a lot of the lessons he learnt in game development can be brought into government. “What I see happening in Congress is like a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2,” the former composer told his interviewer, and promised to break up a stagnant and homogenous political sphere with his can…

The week before I traveled to Tokyo to play Shadow of the Erdtree for PC Gamer’s next cover story, I knew I needed to brush up on my Elden Ring skills. Instead of tackling the game solo again I decided to recruit a friend and try out the Seamless Co-op mod, which turned out to be a blast—I recommend it to anyone going back to Elden Ring after their first playthrough.

Co-op has always been my favorite way to experience FromSoftware’s games, and in some ways Elden Ring makes it easier than Dark Souls to summon friends to take on bosses and dungeons together. But it also has some frustrating limitations, like not being able to ride Torrent in the open world. So when I interviewed FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki for the cover story, I brought up how Seamless Co-op makes it possible to play the entire game in a single uninterrupted multiplayer session, and asked what he thinks about that way of experiencing the game.

“It’s definitely not something we actively oppose or want to downplay, wanting to go through the whole game together,” Miyazaki said. “In terms of where we were with Elden Ring, it was simply a case of wanting that more loose, casual style&mdas…

How many Google accounts have you created in your lifetime? And how often do you log into them? If your answer to those questions is “I don’t know,” then Google’s latest policy update is most likely aimed at you. 

Google is updating its policy on inactive accounts to protect users from “security threats, like spam, phishing scams, and account hijacking.” To do so, Google accounts that have not been used or signed into for at least two years will be deleted, starting later this year.

This means you kiss the entire Google Workspace suite (Drive, Gmail, Docs, etc.), Youtube account, and Google Photos goodbye. So if you have a folder of pictures from your college days or an old draft of that sci-fi novel you said you would finish, you should log in and keep that account active.  

According to Google, the rationale behind the policy change is a matter of security. It claims the chance of unused accounts becoming compromised are higher since they often use old passwords and are less likely to have two-factor authentication attached to the account. 

Even though the policy change is in effect now, Google will start deleting accounts in December 202…

The everlong battle between Microsoft and the European Commission gained a fresh page in its annals, as not only does the Commission believe the software giant has breached EU antitrust laws, but it also finds changes to how Microsoft distributes Teams to be “insufficient to address its concerns” and that “more changes to [its] conduct are necessary to restore competition.”

That’s according to a recent statement by the European Commission (EC), in which it reports its preliminary findings in an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and its cloud-based communication application, Teams. That all kicked off when Slack Technologies (now owned by Salesforce) lodged a complaint with the EC in 2020, in which it alleged that Microsoft had illegally tied Teams to its productivity software packages.

Three years later, the EC opened an investigation as to whether Microsoft was in breach of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, essentially a law that prohibits companies from abusing a dominant position in the EU market. Around the same time, Alphaview (a developer of video-conferencing software) also lodged a similar complaint, and the EC has decid…

PC hardware and gaming are like a perpetual arms race for the enthusiast’s money. Games continue to excel at technical levels with realistic graphics, audio, and physics engines that demand more and more out of our little machines. Even without jumps in computation, storage alone can be a constant battle forcing you to decide which 100GB game you’ll need to delete for your newest adventure. Or you could just buy some more storage with Samsung’s current sale.

Samsung is having a sale across a range of its SSDs over on Amazon and the official Samsung store. For PC gamers there’s big savings on M.2 format drives, and there’s plenty on offer for console gaming fans too.

You can grab a 1TB stick of Samsung’s 990 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD with a 41% discount down from $170 to $100 on both Amazon and the Samsung store. For Aussies, that brings the price to AU$155. The 990 Pro is a great choice for any PCIe 4.0 compatible build, basically maxing out the protocol in our review testing. One of our main concerns was the price, but with $70 off it’s a much more friendly offer at the moment.

If 1TB isn’t going to hold all of your games you can get the 2TB 990 Pro for 38% off. This o…

The galactic campaign against the Terminids isn’t close to over, but Super Earth has bigger problems on its hands.

As announced on social channels, Helldivers 2 is pressing pause on its bug war and pointing fleets of helldivers toward an emerging front. The Automatons, a faction of titanium death machines and Terminator wannabes, have launched “surprise invasions of multiple developed worlds” in the Xzar sector.

As a result, two playable planets have unlocked in the Xzar sector and a new major order has come in: “Complete at least eight Defend campaigns against the Automatons.”

The update came as a surprise to players. Up to this point, the community has cumulatively completed missions to “liberate” planets and gradually progress deeper into enemy territory, but today’s unannounced Automaton pivot suggests developer Arrowhead Game Studios isn’t above throwing a few curveballs at its cooperative war simulation. Considering Helldivers 2 has now been out a full week, this sort of developer intervention might become a regular occurrence.

It’s a good time to switch things up. As much as I’ve enjoyed racking up a buggy body count that’d put your local extermina…

Helldivers 2 may not have any official modding support, but you simply cannot stop players putting weird stuff in your game. A couple of weeks ago, YouTuber and modder ToastedShoes dropped Master Chief, Buzz Lightyear, the TARDIS, and more into the war for a truly chaotic take on managed democracy. Now he’s showing off an impressive collision with the Star Wars universe.

Not only are the Helldivers themselves reskinned as clone soldiers (including fan favourites Rex, Cody, and Hunter), the Automatons have been recast as Separatist droids. Though the weapons and stratagems are unchanged, it’s surprising how well it all fits together for a convincing recreation of a Clone Wars battle. Finally, you can experience what it would be like to scrabble in the mud against horrific odds while the Jedi are off somewhere else messing about with their lightsabers. 

You can’t try the full Helldivers 2 Star Wars mod for yourself just yet, but you don’t have long to wait—ToastedShoes promises it will drop later this week. In the meantime, you can at least try one of the skins, a trooper of the 501st in phase 2 armour. Do note though that modding Helldivers 2 is done at you…

Getty Images has begun legal proceedings against the creator of AI art tool Stable Diffusion. Filed this week in London’s High Court, Getty Images’ action claims that “Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright,” and used these images for its own commercial gain.

Getty Images and image library rights holders like it are set to be some of the most affected by AI image generation, and while some have embraced the technology, such as Shutterstock, others have largely rejected AI art. Getty Images falls into the latter category. Getty Images banned the upload and sale of AI images in September 2022, in a bid to keep itself safe from legal challenges.

Getty’s CEO, Craig Peters, had previously said that there are concerns for AI-created artwork, including “unaddressed rights issues.”

Little did we know at the time, the legal challenges would come directly from Getty itself.

“Getty Images believes artificial intelligence has the potential to stimulate creative endeavors,” a statement from Getty Images says. “Accordingly, Getty Images provided licenses to leading technology innovators for purposes related to training ar…