Month: October 2024

มาถึงตอนนี้ผู้เล่นสายออนไลน์น่าจะมีโอกาสได้เห็นเกม Helldivers 2 ผ่านตาหรือได้สัมผัสความสนุกกันไปบ้างแล้ว ซึ่งเสน่ห์ของเกมนี้นอกจากจะเป็นการเล่นเกมแบบสาดกระสุนมันส์ๆ แล้ว ยังอาศัยบอกเล่า Lore ผ่านรูปแบบภารกิจด้วยโดยไม่ต้องมีการทำโหมดเนื้อเรื่อง แต่ในเมื่อเกมจะต้องได้รับอัปเดตใหม่กั�…

ปฏิเสธไม่ได้เลยว่ากระแสการดัดแปลงเกมเป็นภาพยนตร์หรือซีรีส์กำลังมาแรงสุด ๆ ในช่วงเวลานี้เพราะหลังจากความสำเร็จของภาพยนตร์อย่าง Super Mario Bros. และซีรีส์ Fallout ทำให้กระแสการดัดแปลงเกมเป็นสื่อบันเทิงรูปแบบอื่น ๆ ได้รับความสนใจมากขึ้น ซึ่งแน่นอนว่าเกม Elden Ring ที่ประสบความสำเร็จอย่างสูงในตอนน�…

โลกต่าง ๆ ใน Honkai: Star Rail คือสถานที่ที่ผู้เล่นจะได้ออกผจญภัย ทำภารกิจ สำรวจโลก แก้ไขปริศนา เปิดหีบสมบัติ และพบเจอกับศัตรูสุดแปลกตา ไม่ว่าจะเป็น Silvermane Gunners หรือ Lordly Trashcans แต่ละโลกจะมีพื้นที่ย่อย ๆ หลายแห่ง ซึ่งแต่ละพื้นที่ก็จะมีปริศนา หีบสมบัติ และจุดวาร์ปกระจายอยู่ทั่วไป

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เมื่อต้นสัปดาห์ที่ผ่านมา มีรายงานว่ามีคนกลุ่มหนึ่งอ้างว่าสามารถแฮ็ก Epic Games สำเร็จ พร้อมเอาข้อมูลไปได้ 189GB รวมถึงข้อมูลผู้ใช้แพลตฟอร์มดังกล่าวด้วย อย่างไรก็ตามในตอนนี้พวกเขากำลังปฏิเสธการอ้างสิทธิ์เหล่านี้ โดยบอกว่าพวกเขาปลอมแปลงทุกอย่างเพื่อหลอกลวงแฮกเกอร์จริง ๆ

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After years of gleefully saying “Rock and Stone!” to each other, Deep Rock Galactic fans can now finally sing it too. Italian metal band Wind Rose have collaborated with the DRG team to produce a song named for the iconic catchphrase, with a delightfully weird music video.

Dwarf-themed heavy metal is apparently Wind Rose’s bread and butter—past singles include Diggy Diggy Hole and Mine Mine Mine!, and their latest album (which you’ll find Rock and Stone on) is called Trollslayer (referencing a caste of dwarves from Warhammer Fantasy). Hey, I respect anyone who’s found their niche.

The video stars the band in impressive dwarven regalia, singing to an audience of Deep Rock Galactic miners, and going on their own adventure to dig on Hoxxes IV and fight swarms of …

Mike Berlyn, the designer, programmer and writer best-known for the creation of Bubsy the Bobcat, has died at the age of 73. Berlyn had a long career in the games industry, starting with 1981’s Oo-Topos, before going on to work at storied studios including Infocom and Accolade, as well as co-founding Blank, Berlin & Co (also known as Eidetic, and which would become Bend Studio). Berlyn’s other pursuits included writing novels, founding a book publisher, and starting a jazz band called Hot Mustard.

While Berlyn worked on many notable games over his time, and his credits list runs into the dozens, it was the creation of Bubsy the Bobcat that broke through during that mid-’90s period when the industry wanted mascots. Game Developer spoke with Berlyn in 2005 about the traje…

Less than a week after saying that sales of turn-based tactics game The Lamplighters League were “a big disappointment” and confirming major layoffs at developer Harebrained Schemes, Paradox Interactive has announced that it has “decided to part ways” with the studio. Paradox said the split was a mutual decision, “stemming from each party’s strategic and creative priorities,” and that HBS will officially be independent again on January 1, 2024.

“Paradox has refocused its strategy towards its core niches within strategy and management games with endless qualities,” Paradox COO Charlotta Nilsson said. “We and HBS’ leadership have been discussing what would happen after the release of The Lamplighters League, but a new project or sequel in the same genre was not in line w…

Relic Entertainment’s 2004 and 2009 real-time strategy magnum opuses, Dawn of War and Dawn of War 2, have been re-released as anniversary editions for their 15th and 20th years of real-time-strategerizing. The new anniversary editions, available on Steam, include all the DLC and extras released for the two games over the years. That’s especially nice for Dawn of War 2, which had a metric ton of DLC and skins and codes and wargear and exclusive bonuses by the end of its life cycle.

Both games are also on sale, at 80% off—or $7 and $10 respectively.

So far the two games have released on Steam in this new edition—no word on whether or not people who own them via other platforms like GOG will get an upgrade. Also I really doubt that Sega is going to honor an upgrad…

As part of Intel’s internal reshuffling, separating its chip-making facilities into Intel Foundry and everything else as Intel Products, the company filed a Form 8-K with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In this document, the full picture of how well the foundry service was performing became clear and with operating losses of $7 billion in 2023, more than $2B worse than the previous year, it’s clear that Intel has a lot of work to do to turn that around.

Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger went through the details of it all in an earnings call (transcript via SeekingAlpha), pointing out that one significant mistake that Intel made was taking far too long to switch to EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography, the method that all of the latest CPUs and GPUs are fabricated wi…

With the introduction of its 14th Gen processors just last month, Intel introduced a new feature called Application Optimizer, or APO for short. It’s a new scheduling technology to help boost frame rates in select games—very few select games, in fact, as there are just two that support APO today. But that’s not the only way this feature is limited: It’s a 14th Gen exclusive and Intel says it has no plans to roll it out to older chips.

APO is supported in Rainbow Six: Siege and Metro Exodus and Intel says you can expect up to a 16% increase in performance in the latter with APO enabled. That’s pretty much backed up by figures from Hardware Unboxed.

The channel also spoke to Intel about further support for older chips, seeing as 12th, 13th, and 14th Gen Intel processors …

Magic: The Gathering Arena first arrived on PC in 2017 as a beta that was downloadable from the Wizards of the Coast website. It left beta two years later, was added to the Epic Games Store in 2020, and got a mobile port in 2021, but only now have the Serra Angels descended in a shining chorus to announce that unto us is come a savior: a version of Arena on Steam.

The original collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering remains one of the best in the genre. (Though I still stan for Faeria as well.) While more complex than the aggressively streamlined Hearthstone, that complexity is what makes its wild combos and surprising mid-match turnarounds possible. It’s well-supported too, and unlikely to go into stasis as some of our other favorite digital CCGs have in the past.

If yo…

Let’s start with a fact. Intel’s next-gen graphics architecture is codenamed Battlemage. Beyond that it’s all speculation, but the latest fuel on the bonfire of rumours suggests that Intel is scaling back its ambitions with Battlemage. If the latest scuttlebutt is to be believed, Battlemage will actually have fewer execution units than Intel existing top graphics card, the Intel Arc A770.

The new info comes from YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead, which has a hit-and-miss record when it comes to rumours and previously claimed that the entire Intel Arc graphics project had been cancelled. MLID has revised that prediction and now claims Arc is “effectively cancelled” but that at least one Battlemage GPU will be released.

According to MLID, up to three GPU SKUs for Battlemage …

The latest dev diary for upcoming turn-based merc-manager Jagged Alliance 3 outlines a couple of interesting features. The first is mod support, which is particularly relevant given the way modders kept Jagged Alliance 2 alive. Here’s our own Evan Lahti singing the praises of the 1.13 mod, which “enhances what’s there, upping the maximum resolution, adding hundreds of new weapons—including gratifying super-items like Ghillie suits and depleted-uranium bullets—reorganizing hotkeys and altering the AI so that enemies flank better, take cover more often, climb onto roofs, and utilize suppressive fire.”

Jagged Alliance 3 will receive mod support as part of a post-launch update, the dev diary explains: “Modders will have access to the tools we use internally to create conte…