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The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-06-21 19:16:16

“How do you make a small fortune in tabletop gaming?” runs an old joke. The punchline, of course, is that you come to that market with a large one. The tabletop truly is a brutally challenging place to try to earn money, one which you have to be either wildly deluded or unbelievably passionate to even contemplate entering. Nevertheless, people have been making a go of it there for quite some decades by now. We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that love rather than mental illnes

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Among Us is going 3D with a new release, no VR headset required

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-06-21 21:14:00

Why it matters: Innersloth is pushing the big red button, not because they've found the imposter but because they have an awesome announcement to make. Among Us is breaking into the three-dimensional world, though this time you won't need VR headsets. The developer has announced a new title called Among Us 3D where you'll be able to play from a first-person perspective, instead of the usual top-down view of the original title. This new view is reminiscent of the Among Us VR game that launched

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The remarkable banter of Cory Barlog and Neil Druckmann on the creative process

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-06-22 01:00:00

Cory Barlog, creative director at Sony Santa Monica Studio, and Neil Druckmann, studio head and head of creative of the video game developer Naughty Dog, had a remarkable unscripted conversation at the Dice Summit about their approaches to creativity. They’re among the most success creators in the game industry, and so it was worth listening to their hour-long talk before hundreds of their peers. Barlog was creative director on God of War, which won the Game of the Year Award in 2018 at The Ga

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These classic Star Wars RPGs are free on Android for a limited time

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-21 19:20:56

TL;DR Star Wars: KOTOR and Star Wars: KOTOR II are free on the Epic Games Store mobile app. Both claims can be claimed until March 20 and will remain in your library forever. The games are free on Android worldwide, but only in Europe on iOS. Epic Games has been giving away free games every week for years. In 2025, it promised to do the same with its new mobile app. The second round of giveaways includes two hit Star Wars RPGs: KOTOR and KOTOR II. In case you haven’t played the Xbox-era clas

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Game Developers Fear Anti-Trans Measures Could Hit Their Industry Next

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-06-21 20:30:00

Ashley Poprik has never been the model for a video game character. As a writer on projects like Spider-Man 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, they work on games, not as characters within them. In 2023, however, a cabal of angry gamers was convinced otherwise. They were furious over how Spider-Man 2’s Mary Jane looked; more specifically, they complained, she simply wasn’t hot enough. The problem, these gamers falsely claimed, was that Poprik—then a writing intern with no ability to change a charac

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How to Watch Team USA vs. Canada in the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off Tonight

cnet.com Matt Elliott 2025-06-21 19:30:03

When is the 4 Nations Face-Off final between USA vs. Canada? Thursday, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT). Where to watch Team USA vs. Canada? The game will air on ESPN and stream on ESPN Plus. Hockey fans are getting what they wanted: a rematch between the US and Canada in the NHL's 4 Nations Face-Off final. Team USA won the round-robin match-up between the two hockey rivals that featured three fights in the first 9 seconds of the game. Now, the two will meet again for the championship of th

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There’s a Pokémon Presents livestream scheduled for February 27

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-21 19:18:13

The Pokémon Company is hosting a morning livestream on February 27 at 9AM ET to share the "latest news and updates" from Pikachu and pals. You can stream it via the official YouTube channel . This is the yearly Pokémon Presents event that typically provides info on what’s coming to empty our wallets throughout the year (and beyond.) So what can we expect this year? Both The Pokémon Company and Nintendo remain tight-lipped, but we can make some educated guesses. Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the follow-

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Dune: Awakening will spice things up on May 20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-21 20:45:52

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . A day after it was reported that Denis Villeneuve's third Dune movie starts shooting this summer, developer Funcom announced that its open-world MMO Dune: Awakening arrives on May 20 for PC. You can even get a jump on your journey through Arrakis with a character creator that's availab

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Among Us VR is being transformed into a traditional 3D game for PC

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-21 21:45:45

Among Us VR has proven itself to be a major hit since first being released back in 2022. Now, developers Innersloth and Schell Games have announced they are rejiggering the virtual reality title for traditional PC players. Among Us 3D is playable without a headset and will be available via Steam in the near future. This title keeps the core gameplay loop from the original, but shifts to a first-person perspective. It's basically a new way to keep sabotaging your friends and family. Among Us 3D

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Cozy Lord of the Rings game Tales of the Shire is delayed to July

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-21 22:35:00

Samwise Gamgee said, "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." But then, he hadn't been exposed to the world of video game development. Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game, a cozy take on the most idyllic pocket of Middle Earth, has been delayed. The new launch date is July 29. According to a post from the devs at Wētā Workshop Game Studio, this delay is about ensuring that all the project's supported platforms "can enjoy the same cozy experience." It is curren

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What's Free on the Epic Games Store This Week?

cnet.com Aimee Hart 2025-06-21 18:29:00

Let's be honest: There will always be more games to play than you have time for. No matter how much time you invest in the world of gaming, more games come out daily, and every publisher and developer is hungry for the money in your wallet. Being concerned about your gaming budget is a wise thing to be, with gaming costs rising and 2025 looking as unpredictable as ever. With that in mind, consider the Epic Games Store and its offerings: a free game every week for you to download and keep. Heard

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Vanguard Exiles launches on March 11 as next game from Magic creator Richard Garfield

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-06-21 22:30:00

Vanguard Exiles, the next game by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, will launch into early access on Steam on March 11. The digital board game comes from Australian game developer The Tea Division, and it’s designed in association with Garfield. The title is an innovative auto battler with a redefined take on the genre. The devs say to prepare yourself for a competitive strategy gameplay experience unlike any other, offering new scenarios in each round ensuring no two turns are eve

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RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-21 21:26:17

RT64 RT64 is an N64 graphics renderer for playing games with enhancements in emulators and native ports. Work in Progress Emulator Support (Plugin) and Ray Tracing (RT) are not available in this repository yet. This repository has been made public to provide a working implementation to native ports that wish to use RT64 as their renderer. Development of these features is still ongoing and will be added to this repository when they're ready. Thank you for your patience! Features available

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10 Years Later, The Order: 1886 Is Still Stupid, Compelling, and Kinda Fun

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-06-21 22:45:57

Since 2006, PlayStation has prided itself on big, cinematic first-party titles that justify your console purchase, and when they hit, they hit. Over the years, several internal studios have delivered blockbuster franchises like God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and The Last of Us. But spare a thought for the ones that didn’t make the cut: for whatever reason, they just didn’t resonate or hit desired benchmarks, and now remain as odd one-offs with a niche fanbase that loves it for what it was and

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Xbox Game Pass was supposed to be the Netflix of gaming — what happened?

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-06-21 22:00:31

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Hello, and welcome to a special episode of Decoder! This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge. Nilay is off this week for a much-deserved break from what I can only describe as a pretty bleak news cycle. So I’m filling in for him, and the Decoder team thought this would be a good opportunity to switch gears a little bit from the

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I tried the new PS3 emulator on Android and it technically works, but it has a long way to go

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-22 00:00:53

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority The era of PS3 emulation on Android is here! To some degree, at least. Android emulation geeks are abuzz with excitement over aPS3e, the first native PS3 emulator for Android phones. Sure, most of the code appears to be cobbled together from open-source PS3 emulation projects like RPCS3, Vita3K, and Termux (probably breaking their licenses), but the fact that it’s working at all is a big step forward. The app itself has now been removed from GitHub due to th

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Emulators for Android: Can your phone handle these consoles?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-22 01:15:05

There are loads of brand new games on the Google Play Store, and you can find plenty of retro titles too. But what if your favorite classics aren’t available on Google’s app store? That’s where emulators come in. Emulators let you play console games from past generations (or current) on modern hardware, including smartphones. But how do you know which Android emulators will run well on your phone? You can either go through the painstaking process of downloading the best emulators for Android an

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Play Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader Now and More Games Soon on Xbox Game Pass

cnet.com Zachary Mcauliffe 2025-06-22 00:00:03

Xbox Game Pass subscribers can now expand the Imperium of Mankind in the grimdark universe of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. And if you've got the need for speed, you can race to the checkered flag in the Formula One Championship in F1 24. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate -- a CNET Editors' Choice award pick -- offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Series S, Xbox One, PC and mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription provides access to a large library of games, with new titles

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Microsoft's new AI for game development called Muse can generate entire gameplay sequences

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-06-21 20:10:00

In brief: Despite the controversy surrounding generative AI, some game designers use the technology to brainstorm concepts during development. Microsoft's new open-source model aims to make this practice feasible for interactive content. It focuses on maintaining consistency across many frames while recognizing and integrating player input. Microsoft researchers recently introduced Muse, a generative AI model designed to extrapolate interactive video game scenarios from images, clips, and recor

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Immutable-backed Inevitable Games Fund grows 180% in 9 months

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-06-21 21:00:00

Immutable, in collaboration with King River Capital and Polygon Labs, today announced the inaugural returns on liquid investments of the Inevitable Games Fund (IGF). The fund recorded a 2.8 multiple on invested capital (MOIC) for investments that have launched token generation events (TGEs), outpacing the 1.36 multiple seen from Bitcoin during the same time period. Anchored by Alpha Wave Ventures, backed by Alpha Wave Global and the Abu Dhabi Royal Group’s Chimera Capital, IGF has made investm

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New open-source AI for game developers interprets footage and player input

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-06-22 00:36:00

In brief: Despite the controversy surrounding generative AI, some game designers use the technology to brainstorm concepts during development. Microsoft's new open-source model aims to make this practice feasible for interactive content. It focuses on maintaining consistency across many frames while recognizing and integrating player input. Microsoft researchers recently introduced Muse, a generative AI model designed to extrapolate interactive video game scenarios from images, clips, and recor

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Xbox’s AI initiative with Muse is an attempt to read the tea leaves, not the room

venturebeat.com Imran Khan 2025-06-21 22:11:18

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Earlier today, the heads of Microsoft’s Xbox division revealed Muse, a generative AI model that intends to create both visuals and gameplay for games. The model, which was trained on the largely forgotten Ninja Theory multiplayer game Bleeding Edge, is not a shocking leap for Microsoft’s Xbox division. The company as a whole, from CEO Satya Nadella down, has wholeheart

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Horror game Mouthwashing will land on consoles later this year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-21 22:48:17

Indie horror game Mouthwashing is making the leap to consoles. Developer Wrong Organ shared today that its creepy creation will be available on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch later this year. As well as appearing in the digital storefronts, the console versions will get a physical release and additional merch courtesy of Fangamer. This is one of many truly excellent horror games that debuted in 2024. Mouthwashing harkens back to the low-poly look of games from the early

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Now We Know Exactly When The Last of Us Season 2 Is Coming

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-06-21 22:45:12

It’s been a couple years waiting for the return of HBO’s seminal adaptation of Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic, cinematic trauma simulator The Last of Us—not unlike waiting for the next chapter in a video game saga. But now, after a long, long time, we finally know: The Last of Us is back April 13. In a new press release HBO confirmed that the seven-episode sophomore season will begin just a couple of months from now in the 9 p.m. ET/PT slot on the cable network on Sunday, April 13, with episode

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Xbox Pushes Ahead With Muse, a New Generative AI Model. Devs Say ‘Nobody Will Want This’

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-06-21 22:40:40

Microsoft is wading deeper into generative artificial intelligence for gaming with Muse, a new AI model announced today. The model, which was trained on Ninja Theory’s multiplayer game Bleeding Edge, can help Xbox game developers build parts of games, Microsoft says. Muse can understand the physics and 3D environment inside a game and generate visuals and reactions to players’ movements. Among the various use cases for Muse that Microsoft outlines in its announcement, perhaps the most intriguin

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Limited Run says potentially damaging NES carts are supplier’s fault

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-06-21 22:50:03

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Limited Run Games has apologized for a potential issue with two games it has offered on NES carts — Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland and Piopow — that could cause damage to the cartridges or to NES consoles. The statement follows a Time Extension report about the games. In a statement emailed to customers, Limited Run says those two games weren’t manufactured by its “regular”

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Latest Tech News

The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead

Among Us is going 3D with a new release, no VR headset required

The remarkable banter of Cory Barlog and Neil Druckmann on the creative process

These classic Star Wars RPGs are free on Android for a limited time

Game Developers Fear Anti-Trans Measures Could Hit Their Industry Next

How to Watch Team USA vs. Canada in the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off Tonight

There’s a Pokémon Presents livestream scheduled for February 27

Dune: Awakening will spice things up on May 20

Among Us VR is being transformed into a traditional 3D game for PC

Cozy Lord of the Rings game Tales of the Shire is delayed to July

What's Free on the Epic Games Store This Week?

Vanguard Exiles launches on March 11 as next game from Magic creator Richard Garfield

RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports

10 Years Later, The Order: 1886 Is Still Stupid, Compelling, and Kinda Fun

Xbox Game Pass was supposed to be the Netflix of gaming — what happened?

I tried the new PS3 emulator on Android and it technically works, but it has a long way to go

Emulators for Android: Can your phone handle these consoles?

Play Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader Now and More Games Soon on Xbox Game Pass

Microsoft's new AI for game development called Muse can generate entire gameplay sequences

Immutable-backed Inevitable Games Fund grows 180% in 9 months

New open-source AI for game developers interprets footage and player input

Xbox’s AI initiative with Muse is an attempt to read the tea leaves, not the room

Horror game Mouthwashing will land on consoles later this year

Now We Know Exactly When The Last of Us Season 2 Is Coming

Xbox Pushes Ahead With Muse, a New Generative AI Model. Devs Say ‘Nobody Will Want This’

Limited Run says potentially damaging NES carts are supplier’s fault

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