As reported by Game Developer, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has bought its own independence from former owner Sumo Digital, but laid off an undisclosed number of employees in the process, bringing its total headcount to 55.The management buyout was done with the help of venture capital funding, and comes after Sumo Digital announced a shift away from developing its own games to co-development, or...
In Donkey Kong Bananza, you’ll hit The Junction after completing the Forest or Freezer Layer. It’s another small layer, similar to The Divide, but it still has some Banandium Gems that can be tricky to find if you’re not paying attention. The Junction is mostly just a small pathway forward and it’ll initially be covered with void goo. As you clean it up, more bananas and areas will reveal themselves,...
The co-founder of Valve Corporation, Gabe Newell, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev. The ocean-going billionaire shares his thoughts on everything from his daily routine to startup culture, but one of the largest themes is AI: and the "funny situation" Newell foresees whereby people who can't code become "more effective developers of value" than those who've been coding for a decade.In a new short, Newell returns to AI...
Elle Fanning is no stranger to sci-fi or aliens in general, but this time it looks like she’s bitten off more than she can chew as the Weyland-Yutani android Thia in the upcoming Predator: Badlands. The last live-action Predator film, Prey, took us far into the past, with Comanche warrior Naru (Amber Midthunder) discovering a deadly alien threat to her people. By using a setting that was far from what most...
The Abiotic Factor 1.0 update is almost here, finally bringing the Half-Life-inspired survival crafting adventure to its first version complete milestone. As far as early access games go, it's been a brief and fairly consistent journey—the rare, smooth roadmap rollout since Abiotic Factor's early release in May 2024.Over the last year, developer Deep Field Games has launched a steady feed of updates to tide its ethically questionable scientists over in...
The summer before NetEase released Marvel Rivals, the wildly popular 6v6 hero shooter, a Marvel editor reached out to writer Paul Allor, asking if they might be interested in writing a little comic series to accompany the game called Marvel Rivals Infinity Comic. This wasn’t Allor’s first time writing superheroes over their 14-year career, though as they tell it, it probably wasn’t the quality of their work that brought Marvel...
Some people want to watch the world burn. Others, however, will take the simplest of instructions and deliberately subvert them in the most creative manner possible in order to cause maximum irritation—and I love those people.Case in point, IT manager Mike Coats, who has submitted his entry for Hackaday's One Hertz Challenge, the Metronalmost. The competition requires creators to design devices that beat at a rate of exactly once per...
I've just declared this the best budget compact PC case, and now I'm tempted by that all white build
I've never really been the biggest case guy. With upkeep around PCs (both upgrades and general cleaning), I've always found myself in favour of something tidy and easy to hide away, rather than something to show off. That's until I had the realisation it's not quite an either-or situation back in May. Now, months later, the Thermaltake S100 TG Snow Edition takes its rightful spot as the best budget compact...
Despite coinciding with the seismic release of the second Switch 2 tentpole, Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo creative and legend Shigeru Miyamoto took to the internet last week to announce that The Legend of Zelda movie had found its live-action Link and Zelda. Two young British actors, Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, will play the respective duo. Little known, especially beyond the BBC audience, the casting of Bragason and Ainsworth...
If someone still believed that the incredible success of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train — the highest-grossing anime and Japanese film of all time — was due to circumstances such as the COVID-19 pandemic delaying all other major releases, it’s time to put those rumors to rest. The franchise’s latest release, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, has broken all box office records during its Japanese weekend release, surpassing Mugen Train’s weekend gross (¥4.6...