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Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts
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Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts

I, uh, completely took apart a Steam Machine by accident. What began as merely wanting a closer look at its RAM setup ended up as a more-or-less full teardown, the heavily layered, almost Russian Doll-like structure of Valve’s teeny-tiny PC demanding a component be removed for a component to be removed for a component to be removed. Before I’d even noticed my screwdrivin’ arm getting tired, the Machine’s guts lay strewn across my desk – not too gorily to put back t

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 3 Tagen
IO Interactive look set for layoffs as their external partner for Project Fantasy pulls out
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IO Interactive look set for layoffs as their external partner for Project Fantasy pulls out

Sigh. It's another one of those days, as layoffs are essentially imminent yet again, this time at 007 First Light and Hitman developer IO Interactive. The studio shared a post earlier today regarding their as-of-yet not formally revealed Project Fantasy, in which they shared that their "relationship with an external partner… has come to and end." Read more

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Guns of Eschaton is a wild west soulslike FPS and posthumous release from the art director of Half-Life 2
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Guns of Eschaton is a wild west soulslike FPS and posthumous release from the art director of Half-Life 2

Last year, the art director behind titans of visual design like Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, Viktor Antonov, died at the age of 53. Prior to his death, in 2022 he co-founded Eschatology Entertainment with Dmytro Kostiukevych, Fuad Kuliev and Boris Nikolaev, who were yet to announce their first game formally. But today it's been revealed and it's called Guns of Eschaton, the "world’s first soulslike FPS." Read more

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I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted
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I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted

The following sparkling insights about boss battle design are from Marcin Matuszczyk, principal gameplay designer on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and a former developer of Outriders and Horizon Forbidden West. He was speaking to an audience of budding Bowser-builders and Sephiroth-sculptors during a presentation at Digital Dragons this year. That said, gamedev panels can make dry reading for lowly laypeople, so for dramatic purposes, I would like you to pretend that the below is voiced by

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 3 Tagen
Nivalis has a new name and a release date that will make your autumn backlog even bigger
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Nivalis has a new name and a release date that will make your autumn backlog even bigger

It's looking like autumn will be a nice little season for the cyberpunk genre. There's the long awaited Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which got a lush looking trailer earlier this week. And now, Cloudpunk developer Ion Lands are here with a concrete release date for Nivalis, and a slightly new game for the futuristic restaurant managing life sim too. Read more

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Ground Branch, a first-person tactical shooter from an original Rainbow Six dev, is finally hitting v1.0 after eight years in early access
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Ground Branch, a first-person tactical shooter from an original Rainbow Six dev, is finally hitting v1.0 after eight years in early access

I don't want to call Adam Smith lazy, but since first writing about Ground Branch's Kickstarter campaign back in 2012, he's not given a single update on the tactical shooter's development. He'll say that he's not got a moment to spare, what with being the writing director over at Larian, but I say it's just a matter of optimising your time. Well, I guess I'll just fill in the blanks. Read more

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