I just gotta say here - there is way WAY more history behind Milestone than I ever expected. What an incredible studio history. The longest running Italian game studio!

Ha, I missed another 'not actually april fools' release. Jak 3 PC port (Beta)

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

Relevant starting today. (🥲)

I see Microsoft is taking the Fox News approach legal accountability and liability for its services. Absolute trash.

There is no way China's studios wont continue to push a majority of their output on PC. Especially the big games. I just had a quick squiz and had no idea; Simplified Chinese makes up a whopping 54.6% of Steam users' primary language, with English at 22.3%.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Trump will offensichtlich die Midterms manipulieren. Man kann das deutlich machen wie die „New York Times“ oder normalisieren wie die „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ im vermeintlich objektiven Nachrichtenstil.

Earlier in GDC, folks in our teams shared the latest progress of NvRTX branch of Unreal engine. The presentation is now public online youtube.com/watch?v=so9l... The source code for all the new hair pt work is available in our latest release of NvRTX as well developer.nvidia.com/game-engines...

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 434 - March 29th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Larry Nightdive Retirement Party - A post I never thought that I would make. Tomorrow morning at 9 AM PST join us for "Larry Nightdive Retires: A Love Letter to the Games Industry" via the Links below: lnkd.in/g3-GZyRH (Discord) lnkd.in/gZui5jkc (YouTube) lnkd.in/gsQBms72 (LinkedIn)

Some nuanced and well spoken commentary here by @jimtrinca.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7i5...

Ukrainian Special Forces strike again! There will be no place for russian warships in the Ukrainian Black Sea. They will be bullied, chased, and humiliated. I wonder if we are still housewives - because Rheinmetall never produced anything that deleted the entire Russian Navy.

Skyfall clapped back at Rheinmetall CEO Papperger’s “housewives” line. A company rep told Simon Shuster that if drones made by Ukrainian “housewives” can wipe out tanks and artillery, then the “housewives era” is officially here.

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

Crimson Desert on PC is a weird one technically in some respects. Doesn't behave like other big open world titles we've seen, with some odd issues here and there. But overall it's a solid performer with the right settings. Rich has all the answers:

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

MEGA IMPORTANT IF YOU LIVE IN THE EU NEW CHATCONTROL VOTE HAS BEEN FORCED FOR TOMORROW if it passes, we will see MASS AI SURVEILLANCE FOR MESSAGING eu-wide E2E ENCRYPTION MIGHT BE PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY OUTLAWED IN THE PROCESS, MEANING THE COMPLETE DEATH OF PRIVACY THANKFULLY, we have a WEAPON

Most successful game in the world? Layoffs!

NEW VID OUT :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kf... I am still fixing stuff in the description so if anything is amiss there lmk lol

I'll soon be ⚡ open for games work ⚡ again :) I do: 🎶 Music design, composition, mixing, mastering 🔊 Sound design 🎛️ Implementation (Wwise, FMOD) If your team needs an audio goblin, let's chat: [email protected] Samples of my work below. Shares always appreciated <3

Die lauten Pop-Pop-Pop-Geräusche in der Nacht waren doch keine Böller, sondern Schüsse. Eine Person in meiner Straße wurde angeschossen! Letztes Jahr gab es einen Mordversuch mit einer Autobombe(!!!) in der Straße. Was zum Fick geht hier in meiner Nachbarschaft ab? www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...

After my recent podcast appearance at @stayforever.de where I talked about the optimization of RollerCoaster Tycoon, I finally found some time to also write an article: larstofus.com/2026/03/22/t... If you know German I'd still recommend the podcast, which also dives deep into the rest of the game 🎧

Ukrainian drone operators’ first reactions as the Ka-52 goes down right after the hit.

Wow, check this out: an LGR viewer found screenshots for the (presumably) cancelled SimAnt Enhanced CD-ROM for DOS PCs! They found the images on an Interplay press kit they had years ago. First time these screens have been posted online, far as I can tell!

Yup, as @dachsjaeger.bsky.social noted in that recent DF video.

I was excited to see D.O.R.F. has launched its kickstarter. This game has much 90s RTS DNA in it and is actually leveraging technical insights/artstyles from that era. The factions and art is unique - strange inter-war period garbage dump tech? Watch the trailer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSzi...

Here are my thoughts on DLSS 5 - the ethical problem with it (I do not enumerate all issues in the video), the visual issues with it (not all enumerated, once again), how I struggle with it conceptually vs. other types of neural rendering and muvh more. youtu.be/5dTTfjBAFzc

I took part in a Direct QA all about DLSS5 (probably out today) - contains my 2, 3, 4 and even mustarded 5 cents.

I did film a DLSS 5 first reaction earlier today before it went public btw. Completely raw first reaction. Maybe it goes live at some point in a form? Either way you will here my 2 cents on it soon enough one way or another.

Yarrick's new model so respectful of the old sculpt. I love it

It is more than numbers probably can show, but I believe Crimson Desert may be the most popular game on our channel since Cyberpunk 2077? The world yearns for Multi-Platform, open world PC-led games apparently!

People are pretty conspiratorial about graphics in video games apparently. Some of the comments under this video... lol

Our Micropolygon pipeline (MPH) rendering the NVIDIA Zorah demo assets in #Anvil. Zorah is composed of nearly 500 million triangles — but that doesn’t scare us 🙂

The significance of a competent denoiser in real-time ray tracing cannot be understated. In our first PC video on Crimson Desert's PC version I detail the massive upgrade to lighting eclusively on PC thanks to AMD's Ray Regeneration and Nvidia Ray Reconstruction. Enjoy! youtu.be/SlRpJ553RzE

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

Watching the new Louis Theroux doc on "the manosphere" and it is very striking how much of these people's content imagery and social image is lifted directly from GTA V. I'm not the first to notice it but it's wild how unwilling the games industry is to reckon with negative influences it can have.

🎮 AMD x Microsoft at #GDC2026 Partnering to bring powerful new developer technologies to Windows: ✨ DirectX ML integration 📦 DirectStorage 1.4 🛠️ PIX tools updates ⚡ Advanced Shader Delivery 🔧 Agility SDK update support All the #gamedev details ⬇️ gpuopen.com/learn/amd-mi...

I am proud of John's for Crimson Desert on PS5Pro. Definitely give it a watch below! We are continuing coverage over the weekend. Next up is my look at the High End PC version and what makes it neat - there is some significant PC special sauce here to elevate it above! 👀 youtu.be/3uUIBUoJhk8?...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 431 - March 8th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Siiiiiiiiiiigh.

“It used to be bad; now my white friends are being treated like I used to be.” @ramiismail.com on why he’s a no to GDC. “a lot of folks in the US do not want us to exist” arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

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