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Why the Rings of Power Show Is Not Good (Part #7934)

The Bottom Feeder

I’m only ever in it for the memes. Wayyyy back in the 70s and 80s, science fiction/fantasy/superhero content hadn't completely taken over the culture yet. New nerd content was rare and treasured. The Superman movie (1978) was mind-blowing. (I’m old enough to remember when Superman was a good guy.) A new Star Trek series was an impossible dream.

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Hogwarts Legacy: The Good & the Bad in a Magical World

iXie gaming

Avalanche Software and Warner Bros. Entertainment are slated to release the new Hogwarts Legacy game set in the world of the long-running Harry Potter series. There was footage of the common rooms and brand-new gameplay that was released earlier this month- which gave an insight into the game mechanics, setting, and characters to an extent. Along with the pre-order already live for the release in February 2023, the game is garnering a lot of traction in the media.

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How Artificial Intelligence tools change movies production

Filmustage

We can hardly imagine a more conservative industry than the film industry. For all its analogies, the process of filmmaking is endowed with many technological solutions that do not fit into the conventional framework at all. That's why it's funny how cinema has instilled in people a fear of artificial intelligence, and now it's actively incorporating these technologies into the production process of a film.

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Epic Games transforms gaming—and other industries—by innovating on AWS

AWS Games

Epic Games (Epic) went all in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2018 to deliver the storage, analytics, and scaling capabilities critical to its business, which had exploded with the release of Fortnite—an online game that’s seen over 15.3 million concurrent players during live events. Fortnite runs almost entirely on AWS, including its worldwide game-server fleet, backend services, and websites.

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Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Nvidia

NVIDIA recently announced Ada Lovelace, the next generation of GPUs. Named the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, these are the world’s most advanced graphics. NVIDIA recently announced Ada Lovelace, the next generation of GPUs. Named the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, these are the world’s most advanced graphics cards. Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

We released Godot 3.5 in early August, and like any release, there are few rough edges to iron out which warrant making maintenance "patch" releases (3.5.x). We've had successful testing of a first Release Candidate for 3.5.1, and a few more fixes got backported in the meantime so let's have another round of testing before publishing 3.5.1 stable.

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Gamescom 2022: Attending Biz Area

Febucci

I didn’t know if I’d attend Gamescom this year (it would have been also my first one), but after a bit of courage and going there anyways by myself, I really cannot wait for the next one to come. It was a wonderful experience, met some incredibly talented and passionate developers and said hi to some close and new dev friends in person as well. I wanted to make this post with a few notes in order to prepare for next year, and I hope they’ll be useful for you too!

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New examples pack for Unity

Smart Fox Server

We have updated the Unity examples pack and tutorials for SmartFoxServer 2X. The new pack contains the following demo examples: Connector Lobby: Basics Lobby: Buddies Lobby: Matchmaking Tic-Tac-Toe First Person Shooter MMO Basics SpaceWar 2. What’s new? The new Connector example merges the previous Connector and Advanced Connector examples, showing how to perform the connection and login process including optional HTTP tunneling and/or protocol encryption activation.

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Oh yeah. Return To Monkey Island is out

Grumpy Gamer

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Clash Quest, the Unofficial Postmortem

Deconstructor of Fun

Written by Laura Taranto , Javier Barnés , and Anette Staloy. Make sure to listen to the podcast below to dive even deeper into Clash Quest. After 16 months in soft launch, Supercell’s Clash Quest has reached the end of its run. The game has not achieved the business objectives set by Supercell and the game will shut down. Following an excellent postmortem by Laura Taranto, Javier Barnes and Anette Staloy, host Ethan Levy sits down with the writers to discuss what went right and what areas of im

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A tribute to Mexican genius: Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Filmustage

Art by @nadi_bulochka Alejandro González Iñárritu is the third person in cinema history to win two consecutive Oscars for directing. He is the first Mexican to win the Oscar for Best Film. At the same time, there is not a single film of his that has not been nominated for a golden statuette. Iñárritu is part of a company of three Mexican directors, the "three Amigos", which in addition to him includes Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro.

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"Voluntary Attempts to Overcome Necessary Obstacles" at EFA Project Space, Sept 23 - Oct 29, 2022

Radiator Blog

My gay historical bathroom cruising game "The Tearoom" is part of a new upcoming group exhibition "Voluntary Attempts to Overcome Necessary Obstacles" at the EFA Project Space in New York City, curated by Nicholas O’Brien. The show will run for about a month, from September 23rd to October 29th, 2022. Although I won't be there, since I currently live on the opposite side of the planet , I encourage you to check it out.

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