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"You're not doing parkour off a roof, but the principles were the same": How the makers of Firewatch pulled from Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, and Bioshock to tell a new kind of story in a walking simulator
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"You're not doing parkour off a roof, but the principles were the same": How the makers of Firewatch pulled from Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, and Bioshock to tell a new kind of story in a walking simulator

In May 2014, the small team at Campo Santo were still in the early days of making Firewatch, a first-person narrative exploration game – you can call it a walking simulator, they do, and with no disparagement. The developers assembled at their San Francisco offices, some came from nearby, others from as far away as Vancouver, Canada and Winchester in the UK. They loaded up cars with beer, board games, and tents, and drove the several hours to Yosemite National Park, where, as one of Campo

Helldivers 2 update is set to unleash new missions to combat Illuminate alien exostorms and battle some fresh squid enemies this week
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Helldivers 2 update is set to unleash new missions to combat Illuminate alien exostorms and battle some fresh squid enemies this week

Following the battle against the Automatons over Cyberstan, another of Helldivers 2's factions is getting some new additions later this week. The Illuminate - technologically advanced alien squids for the uninitiated - are set to have their ranks bolstered by fresh troops and will start to unleash exostorms you'll be tasked with containing via new missions. Read more

Nvidia DLSS 5’s AI filter turns all your favourite Resident Evil Requiem characters into yassified Instagram models
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Nvidia DLSS 5’s AI filter turns all your favourite Resident Evil Requiem characters into yassified Instagram models

Oh, it wasn’t a dream. Nvidia really did announce DLSS 5 last night, its central feature not being better upscaling or frame generation but a "real-time neural rendering model that infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and materials." In practice, the primary function of this model appears to be looksmaxxing, transforming Resident Evil Requiem’s traumatised wallflower Grace into a smouldering ScarJo lookalike and, erm, lightening the skin of Starfield’s PoC characters. DLSS 5

If you miss GPU-Z on Linux check out the new GPU-T
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If you miss GPU-Z on Linux check out the new GPU-T

GPU-Z is a popular Windows app to give you a simple readout of your graphics card, and a new Linux alternative GPU-T was announced recently.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

An experimental Marathon duos mode is set to rock up for just two weeks, with Bungie warning "some things will be a bit jank"
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An experimental Marathon duos mode is set to rock up for just two weeks, with Bungie warning "some things will be a bit jank"

Marathon's set to see how well it can cater to folks who only have one friend, with Bungie having announced plans to add an experimental duos mode to the extraction shooter. It'll stick around for two weeks or so, be "a bit jank", and hopefully give the studio a firm idea of whether they should put resources into developing a fully fleshed-out version of paired play going forwards. Read more

DLSS 5 - Auf diesen Grafikkarten wird es wohl laufen [Anzeige]
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DLSS 5 - Auf diesen Grafikkarten wird es wohl laufen [Anzeige]

NVIDIA hat jetzt DLSS 5 vorgestellt und damit alles gesprengt, was ich erwartet hĂ€tte. Die Fachpresse zeigt sich begeistert und verspricht den grĂ¶ĂŸten Grafiksprung seit Jahren. Ich zeige euch, auf welchen Grafikkarten DLSS 5 wohl laufen wird.