Author: James
Every game is the result of thousands of choices. Some of these choices are creative, some technical, and some are about scope and budget. There is nothing more heartbreaking for a game developer than putting sweat and tears into a project only to realize that earlier choices made long ago were not the best choices from the end user’s perspective. In this guest article, VR developer Rein Zobel offers hard-won lessons in creating rich, immersive VR worlds. Guest article by Rein Zobel Rein Zobel is the creative director and co-founder of Maru VR, an Estonian studio specializing in immersive VR…
Google-owned XR studio Owlchemy Labs has announced that its VR hit Job Simulator (2016) has surpassed 6 million installs. Job Simulator is one of the most successful VR games of the past decade, and while it didn’t really have a solid foothold back in 2016 as a launch title for the original HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Touch, it also pioneered many of the fundamentals that VR developers rely on today. In other words, the Reckless Simulator parody was one of the first to truly pull off VR object interaction while offering immersive, room-scale gameplay. And while the majority of…
Baldur’s Gate 3’s transition from early access to full release included a ton of tweaks and changes as Larian perfected the massive RPG. Naturally, this means that certain parts and plans will not remain in the final version. If you find yourself yearning for any of them after playing them for the first time or hearing about them, a new mod may be right around the corner. It’s also pretty cool if you want to get more out of BG3. Watch on YouTube This mod, “Early Access Scenes Restored”, comes from modding masters HyperspaceTowel, who have been working on restoring…
Happy New Year to everyone who is sick celebrating their return on Monday. It’s time to experience the despair of the universe once more, sliding irresistibly through the canyons of entropy, scratching the tonsils of hubris in vain. There will also be some new PC games released. It might be a good idea to save some change for Wednesday and Thursday, when there are rare surprises. Monday, January 26th It’s time for John Heigard to keep his guard up in Keighley’s anointed sci-fi fantasy raid shooter. The game is a roguelite based on the ever-lovable AA Milne character that’s garnered…
overview: The third season of Primal continues on Adult Swim with the latest episode, “Feast of Flesh.” Spear encounters a terrifying flesh-eating ghoul, but his friend may not be far behind. Our view: In the last episode, we saw Spear deal with the forces of nature. This time, he comes face-to-face with creatures lurking in the shadows. Of course, being a corpse reanimated by magic, he fits in perfectly. Unfortunately for him, he encounters a hungry faceless ghoul who thinks he has enough to eat. But first of all, we are greeted with the calm before the storm. Spears wanders…
overviewBased on a Japanese light novel series written by Puni-chan and illustrated by Akeno Naruse, this story tells the story of a modern-day Japanese woman who dies and is reborn in the otome game “The Lapis Lazuli Ring.” However, not as the heroine, but as Tiararose Lapis Clementille, the villainess designated in the game and the fiancée of Prince Heart Knight. On the eve of her scheduled destruction, she regains her memories of her past life and realizes that her engagement is doomed to failure, but things get worse when the Heart Knights publicly denounce her and abandon her in…
overviewShugen and Jikka are sent to Shinsenkyo, where Gamayumaru and his friends fight Aza Chobe and Toma.our viewThe second season of Hell’s Paradise wastes no time diving back into its brutal, high-stakes world. Picking up where the previous season left off, the story immediately draws death row inmates Asaemon and Tensen into a dangerous encounter on Shinsengo Island, balancing intense action with brief flashes of character reflection while simultaneously highlighting the evolving dynamics between the human factions and the supernatural threats lurking in the island’s wilds. And this, combined with some newly introduced antagonists, instantly raises the stakes.Visually and atmospherically,…
The ‘Stop Killing Games’ campaign has revealed the final number of signatures for a European citizen initiative called ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’. Officials behind the campaign said the European Union was able to prove that 1,294,188 of the petition’s roughly 1.5 million signatures were genuine, surpassing the goal of 1 million signatures needed for EU politicians to investigate a server shutdown that has made online-only games unplayable. “Things are moving so fast right now that we’ve decided to share the final numbers with you all earlier than planned,” volunteer Moritz Kutzner wrote in a Reddit post that included a country-by-country breakdown…
Have you ever been so obsessed with a TV series that you’ve literally rushed to IMDB to watch other movies featuring that show’s cast of actors, expecting only half of it? Because that’s how I watched The Walking Dead’s Emma Bell get trapped on a ski lift atop a snowy mountain in the 2010 film Frozen. Before you ask, there were no zombies in sight. Not to be confused with Disney’s cutesy musical tales filled with snowmen and show tunes. However, while I don’t doubt Bell could pull off “Let It Go” if he wanted to, director and writer Adam…
A seed phrase is a string of 12 to 24 words that acts as a master key for a non-custodial or self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet. This allows you to retrieve your wallet and regain access to your digital assets residing on the blockchain network.This article details the concept of seed phrases, how they work, and why they are important. We also provide a step-by-step guide on how to restore your wallet and safely store your seed phrase.What is a seed phrase?A seed phrase is a unique sequence of 12, 15, 18, 21, or 24 random words. It is generated from a…