This video took a while to make but it’s finally out! A lot of the capture work for Part 2 is complete as well. I’ll finish that after the holiday! Enjoy.

Looking over the year, our coverage of Xbox titles in videos almost feels like it is getting harder and harder to justify from a work return perspective. Very little views there even for titles that you think could draw them in. I wonder what the future is there.

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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Today I spotted a wild environment map in its natural habitat. It had texture compression artifacts and everything!

This is awkward, but as of yesterday I'm no longer employed with Nightdive Studios. I'm currently looking for full-time work and would be happy to share more info via DMs. I'm also open to freelance work!

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is amazing.

I ain't 'fraid of no bed!

I am still confused by how in a modern OS I can't trivially limit how much CPU time, disk bandwidth and network bandwidth an app gets to use. It should be right there in the Task Manager. Like - that's the whole point of an OS - to manage that stuff. So why not let ME THE USER manage that stuff?

The second episode of the cacoward-winning Dreamblood is out now for Doom 64! HeadshotTAS returns with 8 more large and dynamic maps (16 total) to fulfill your demon-slaughtering lust. Proxy MIDI also returns with a new soundtrack as well. Get it here: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

Yet another Russian jet powered Shahed shot down by STING interceptor! Furthermore, STING, developed by @wildhornets.bsky.social, remains the only publicly known interceptor capable of intercepting such targets.

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤 www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

We now have access to AMD FSR Machine Learning Frame Generation in numerous titles, upgrading frame generation quality on RDNA 4 GPUs. Although it is higher quality, the frame-pacing still proves very problematic putting the whole feature in question. Find out in my video! youtu.be/n7bud6P4ugw

🚨 Digital Foundry is hiring a Junior Producer! Rich and the team are fantastic, and jobs like these don't often pop up. If you know how to use Photoshop, edit on Premiere Pro, and are based in the UK/Europe, and love gaming and tech, this might be for you: www.patreon.com/posts/145970...

Almost 2 years ago @rcp.family and @lesserevilgames.bsky.social decided that we'd take the (digital) fight to Russia and we've ruffled some feathers, pissed off people on the fences in terms of "what games should and shouldn't be" and released store.steampowered.com/app/2300160/...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

This blog deserves traction - are modern graphics APIs no longer reflecting the real HW underneath? Certain assumptions and hardware limitations shaped Vulkan, DX12 and Metal and 10+ years later are seeing the long term debt of that legacy. A very convincing read and idea by Sebbi here! DX13 plz🫠

A new Wild Hornets fundraiser and a raffle!

Kinda Wish CDPR put out a patch which allowes the user to set draw distance to "psycho" level. It would be nice to have that for the decade after this and while driving around.

Hey @dachsjaeger.bsky.social - regarding the FG overlay advice, I can give some background here. I said most of this at a previous GDC Q&A, but the new release is obviously after my involvement so may have changed since. At the time FSR3 FG was in dev, many overlays and apps were not expecting...

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

CONCORD TWO

These are 3 of like 20 different click through in-game adverts and full screen blocks that occured when I started up Call of Duty 7 for the first time in like 2 weeks. I have said it for years, but if there was a game that hated the people that played it, it was Call of Duty.

"Russia is already restructuring its military and building new facilities near NATO borders. Nothing in its posture suggests change," writes Margus Tsahkna, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, in his recent op-ed.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Sybiha called Orbán "Russia's most valuable frozen asset in Europe" commenting on his position regarding Russian assets.

SPOOKY

I think red dot sights and hit markers need to be rethought from an aesthetics point of view. Surely there are other ways to do FP Combat.

Snow in 3D games has been been there since the beginning: how has it changed and evolved? Which games pushed it forward? How did various techniques for snow rendering run on PC hardware of the time? Find out in this 35 minute winter-themed retro video on snow! [Sponsored] youtu.be/j3fLyhOm7X8

Do I need WeTransfer letting me know RareSquirrelPorn.wmv was my most bandwidth intensive file?

Really great work from Hardware Unboxed here, give it a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpAZ...

When you click "Update and Shutdown" #JustWindowsThings

I was wondering about the update to Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, and the incredible PC-Geniuses at Massive Entertainment added in DLSS Ray Reconstruction. I had no clue! Was that even in the patch notes?! I swear it was not! That is incredible!

One of these things is not like the others.

Steam, Epic Games, CIGs launcher and Ubisoft Connect all max my home connection (1 Gbit), yet Xbox/MS Store never really does. It is always max about 80% there. Odd.

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

For those thinking living next to Russia is just a vibes-based annoyance. Recently thousands of these 80kg balloons are sent over the border closing the country's main airport dozens of times.And there's very little a small Lithuania can actually do against it because indeed - nuclear war otherwise!

I’m very excited to share my latest article, “Premiers to Pixels: The Discourse of Cinema Envy in 1990s Videogame Magazines”, now published in the Hollywood and Games special issue of Convergence, edited by Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Anyone ever fix double click or poor clicking (left click) on a Razor Death Adder? I know it is extremely common issue for them after a few years of use.

Looks like shit

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

Technikquatsch #Podcast Folge 285! #Micron stellt die Endkunden-Marke #Crucial ein und verkauft lieber an #AI #Datacenter. #Nvidia bringt 32bit #PhysX für ausgewählte Spiele auf #RTX 50 zurück. #Microsoft muss Verkaufsziele halbieren, weil die Business-Kunden bei #Copilot nicht so recht anbeißen.

Sehr geehrte demokratische Abgeordnete des Deutschen Bundestags, der einzige Grund, warum die Plattform X in Deutschland noch Relevanz hat, ist Ihre Anwesenheit dort. Ohne Amts- und Mandatsträger wird die Plattform auch für Journalisten irrelevant und mit ihnen für die gesamte politische Blase.

Schleswig-Holstein: Microsoft durch OSS ersetzt. Schon im ersten Jahr Millionen gespart. #DigitaleSouveränität www.heise.de/news/Adieu-M...

I was at the funeral of my brother-in-arms recently. Life is not fucking fair. I looked at his wife and little daughter. I can't even imagine how it feels for them but I cried there.

It’s a good opportunity to know more about Anvil, the engine that powers #AssassinsCreed, and how we approach tech convergence at Ubi. I love this format. Thanks for the chat @gameengineering.bsky.social youtu.be/vtxXt7E63bQ?...

You can donate to Dimko’s organization, Dzyga's Paw, which works 24/7 to meet the everyday needs of Ukrainian units across the Armed Forces.

When you start a game with the wrong CD in the drive #JustWindows95Things

This is just getting ridiculous. Affordable personal computing is looking to become even more challenging. RAM - for the longest time - was one of the more price relaxed categories of a PC purchase. Not anymore for the foreseeable future. I have no idea how the world keeps on this trajectory.