My dudes!

by FrankDerbly
#PixelArt@GameDEV

BestBuy сonfirmed that GTA VI preorders will be available from May 18 for just a few days. Ironically, up until May 21, when Take-Two will have to make a financial report.

#GTA@GameDEV
#TakeTwo@GameDEV

I can't explain you this story since it feels like April Fools, but:

Ubisoft and Unsolved Hunts are making a separate "game" to support Black Flag Resynced. Participants can win by finding a $500K priced skull, hidden in the Caribbean. They have to complete a 10-hour-long prologue and solve 15 puzzles which will take... about five years.

You just need to buy a 35 (digital) or up to 200 Euro (physical premium box) pass to participate in the hunt. Different editions are packed with extra board games.

So, a $500K crystal skull which is not gonna be easily sellable and you may get it if you build a team to solve all puzzles in about five years. And in the meantime you have riddles and board games for up to 4 players?

There's apparently a whole market for such games but it looks like an overcomplicated lottery.

#Ubisoft@GameDEV

The most unhinged private message a solo developer can get...

#WTF@GameDEV
#Piracy@GameDEV

Embark sold 16 million copies of Arc Raiders in half a year, but the steam is steamingly wearing out.

Only 2 million were sold from February and until now. There's simply not many people left to buy it further.

They are making Fortnite x Overwatch collab

#EpicGames@GameDEV
#Blizzard@GameDEV
#Fortnite@GameDEV
#Overwatch@GameDEV

Forza Horizon 6 is unplayable on 8GB cards. Despite them being the most popular on Steam. Even for 1080p you need 12GB VRAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcyEkfIu1w0
#Optimization@GameDEV
#Microsoft@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

FODA

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DRM-Format-Modifiers-GCN

After almost a year of denial that it's possible, AMD is releasing FSR 4.1 on rDNA 2 and rDNA3 GPUs (Radeon 6000 and 7000 series cards).

Officially it took them time to adjust the values for alternative INT8 computation instead of FP8 (which is only available on rDNA 4).

#Radeon@GameDEV
#AMD@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

Clown world goggles (via)

#AI@GameDEV
#Amazon@GameDEV

Subnautica 2 just got out and already sold over a million copies 😎

After all these years and the battle against unhinged Krafton publishing, the game is finally out and is indeed a huge success.

#Subnautica@GameDEV
#Survival@GameDEV
#Krafton@GameDEV

Via Octa-Hex Wire

According to the initial reviews, Elon Musk was the face model for all Forza Horizon 6 characters! No, really, WTF is wrong with their faces?

#meme@GameDEV

Stop Killing Games law is now going to be voted for in California. ESA (video game companies lobbying group) tried to put it down and failed.

If the law will be applied (and it's getting traction among ones who will vote), all new games available in California will have to either introduce a valid offline mode, provide a solution for user-hosted servers, or refund every single customer in case of closure.

It will be illegal to sell or monetize games 60 days before servers shutdown. And the warning about that should be announced clearly at least 60 days prior the closure.

ESA insists it's impossible due to security reasons (anticheat systems, commercial modules which can't be shared or sublicensed, and so on).

#Laws@GameDEV

Good news, everyone!

#GTA@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Apparently, Forza Horizon 6 is not working for a huge number of players due to some rendering bug. It only works with "Legacy ICC colour management" flag.

Other typical issues are possible for users of any monitoring apps (like afterburner) or any overlays (including NVIDIA ones), most of antiviruses, and a lot of drivers (Razer, some audio devices, etc).

Other negative reviews:
- Nothing new
- Stuttering
- Very limited wheels support
- Pirated version is account-less
- Pirated version works better
(The legal one has Denuvo)

Chinese players hate the game for the whole fact that the pirated version exists. A lot of them criticise the fact that Microsoft lost the game and post-factum made it worse with DRM.

Regarding wheels, only selected Logitech and Trustmaster are supported. True race-sim fans who tried to roll in aren't able to play. They don't even support PlayStation gamepads natively (the game is coming to PS5!)

#PlaygroundGames@GameDEV
#Microsoft@GameDEV

Over 2 million copies sold 12 hours after the release and the game reached 467K CCU on Steam.

Krafton is seemingly still a publisher but now they will have to pay founders $200m since the sequel will earn the desired sum.

#Subnautica@GameDEV
#Survival@GameDEV
#Krafton@GameDEV

Sony Xperia (yes, it's still not dead) just announced its AI assistant feature in the camera. To promote it they made photos look shittier (all three examples were completely blown out).

And now enjoy the memes!

#Sony@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

What a mystery...

#meme@GameDEV