So... that Monster Hunter Wilds update that was supposed to make the game run better apparently isn't that great. Well, on the GPU side it seems to have improved... almost nothing. But when your CPU is the bottleneck performance is noticeably worse now. What is Capcom doing with this game?

for those that wanted to see the clip of him being genuinely annoyed at the suggestion ai podcasts are good after he spends time glazing ai music lol

I bought this exact DRAM kit back in February... for $200 USD.

I checked the Tormented Souls 2 demo. At first glance it looks like a big improvement. And then I saw it, the name of the beast Unreal Engine To be fair with the default settings the game seems to run fine, sometimes at 100 fps, but during the intro it had drops to 40 which it's a bit concerning.

If only customers had told them they didn't want this dogshit. Repeatedly. www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...

Just finished Tormented Souls. I liked it. It's a nice old school survival horror, very inspired by Resident Evil with touches of Silent Hill here and there. Maybe it's nostalgia speaking but I really missed games with fixed camera angles and tank controls so this game gave me everything I wanted.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

AI imagery is the equivalent of Plato’s prisoner being bored of sunlight, clambering down into a cave, shackling himself to a rock to watch shadows cast by firelight and forgetting that the world above exists.

Well, season 1 of Welcome to Derry is over. There were some less than great episodes but overall it was good. I like the explanation for why the 3 planned seasons of the show will be in reverse chronological order. It makes sense and in a weird way it means the show is both a prequel and a sequel.

Apparently Capcom "downgraded" Pragmata's graphics late into development to prioritize performance, which is something you wouldn't be able to see unless they show you a direct comparison with whatever they were doing with it originally. I only have one thing to say. Please, keep doing that Capcom.

I hope Mappa decides to adapt the rest of CSM part 1 in season 2. If they turn the final arc into a movie it would suck. Not because we would have to wait even longer for the end but because the very last thing people would see in season 2 is the snowball fight, the worst scene to end it by far.

The Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises have been coasting on the original work and ideas of people who haven't been at the company for decades at this point. Starfield is pure modern Bethesda and pure modern Bethesda is into soaking.

there are so many ideas we'll never see realized because they dont get funding, start with those!! Or just shut up!! Go live on the moon leave everyone alone!!!

My PC was trash for so many years that even now I still forget that I can actually play new games now. So I tried the Pragmata demo. Not bad. The game ran at around 100 fps at high settings and FSR 4 Quality. I guess the RE Engine still runs fine when it's used in the kind of game it was made for.

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

If you still haven't played SOMA then you should get it now while it's super cheap. It's a really good game. store.steampowered.com/app/282140/S...

lmao

If you told me a year ago this might be a thing, I would have laughed it off as an ludicrous Orwelian nightmare.

ok its pretty funny if microsoft genuinely managed to kill call of duty in like. two years.

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

"You should see Twitter's reaction to Supergirl. They're so mad." Why the fuck would anyone want to do that to themselves? It's not worth it.

From the creators of SOMA comes ONTOS, a sci-fi adventure that takes you to the edge of reality. 👉 gog.com/game/ontos It looks absolutely stunning and is coming soon to GOG! Watch the trailer and add it to your wishlist today 💜

Never forget that Neo canonically won at #TheGameAwards and immediately tried to jump off a roof.

I want to re-emphasize, the guy who has made HUNDREDS of videos calling people in the industry slurs, calling for them to be fired, calling all the studios that are showing games "woke and gay" and has harassed multiple journalists covering the show over the years is at the Game Awards.

So... anything interesting in the game awards?

Is this accurate or is this another "the game was made by 33 people" situation that people repeated ad nauseam to criticize other games even though that wasn't true at all?

I'm not going to lie, I really don't like how Krem looks in the Supergirl movie. I hope that at least he's well written so maybe I won't care too much about that. But first impressions... oh god why?

The Supergirl trailer doesn't show a lot. BUT It shows enough to let me know that they weren't cowards, they're doing the thing that people are going to hate.

Walt spinning in his freezer

Fuck Geoff, whats YOUR Game of the Year? I don't even care if it came out in 2025, what was THE game that got you through the last 12 months I'm going with Rimworld, the new expansion absolutely sucked me back in like an endless vacuum, just typing this makes me want to play ig again

I'm going to do the same thing I've been doing the last couple of years during the game awards. I'm going to sleep because it's really not worth mine or anyone's time. I can see anything remotely interesting the next day without having to suffer through all that embarrassing shit.

Geoff needs the money for a good cause. Paying all those Hollywood celebrities going to the game awards to waste everybody's time while the people getting the awards can barely say "hellothanksbye" even though they have to pay just to be there.

reading through the article, what do mean the fucking favorite to win the GOTY still had to buy seats for their entire team at face value

In the past young men would've been simply horny for such an image. In our modern era youngsters allow an influencer to instruct them to be enraged somehow. Listen to the dick in your pants not the dick on your phone!

once again reminding everyone that we have 100 years of study showing that more than 40 hours a week drops you under 40 hours of productivity basically immediately. Crunch is one of those things that is completely debunked, but executives think science makes their dicks small

it is lowkey incredible how well plurby works as an allegory for ai despite that not being the actual drive behind the series

Milly Alcock as Supergirl.

Apparently the Switch 2 version of Skyrim is an embarrassing mess. Not only it runs at 30fps but it's also so poorly optimized that it has almost 300ms of input lag. How is that possible? www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw...

Couldn't watch the Chainsaw Man movie until today because I didn't want to watch the dubbed version. Waiting was painful but I read the manga so I wasn't exactly going to be spoiled. Anyway, I wasn't entirely sure but this arc was definitely the one that was perfect for a movie. Absolute cinema/10

In case you're wondering what Twitter is like these days.

We let western AAA gamers gaslight companies into thinking asset reuse is bad. Asset reuse is just smart lol. You get more games if they don't have to make a new walking animation for the 10th time (This is why Yakuza and Trails are great)

Like wayyyyy too many of the prominent Horses Discourse people spent the 2010s failing this test, and have never recanted once Again if your stance is "media that I agree with & like should be protected from censorship" you are 100% in agreement with the censors, you're just quibbling on details

If any part of my computer fails in the next few years before all this blows over, I will straight up flee from society and set up a shack in the woods

pals you gotta quit spotify

The announcement is that Embracer is shutting down Crystal Dynamics, while Geoff smiles and nods and cuts to the next commercial.

Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...