The studio says it will "very aggressively" punish players who buy gold, and permanent account bans are possible. ▶ YouTube Blizzard has shared its plans to take a much stricter approach to players who purchase gold in World of Warcraft: Forever. Community Manager Randy Jordan and Senior Game…
Adobe Completes Acquisition of AI Image & Video Upscaling Company Topaz Labs The new features will be integrated into Adobe Firefly and Photoshop, with additional tools planned for the future. Adobe announced that it has completed the acquisition of Topaz Labs, an AI company specializing in video…
If you ever dream of becoming a fashion designer, this game is for you. ▶ YouTube Dressmaker is a job simulation game that has gone viral on social media on multiple occasions, and now the game has finally been released on Steam. In the game, you play as a dressmaker who makes dresses to please or…
Have you played the game? ▶ YouTube We've been following the development process of the hand-drawn Metroidvania Well Dweller, and now the game is finally out; so far, it has earned very positive reviews. In this game, you play as the tiny bird Glimmer, who, armed with a matchstick, has to save his…
Just in time for the spooky season. ▶ YouTube Graveyard Keeper 2, a sequel to the eerie pixel-style sandbox from developer Lazy Bear Games and publisher tinyBuild, has been released this month, and it has reached over 54,000 concurrent players on Steam. In this game, you play as the Grand…
You Feed Your Enemies Instead of Killing Them in This Deckbuilding Pixel-Art Adventure Hungry Horrors is a game inspired by British and Irish folklore where you escape scary creatures like Dullahan and Jenny Greenteeth by killing them with your Michelin-level cooking skills. ▶ YouTube Hungry…
Floor796, a solo project by 0x00, is definitely not a new thing: it's been in the works since 2018. If you've never seen it before, it's basically a gigantic animated pixel-art GIF packed with references to video games, movies, TV shows, anime, and memes, all crammed into the 796th floor of a…
The tech giant has filed a patent for a system that waits for natural breaks in gameplay before showing commercials. As Microsoft restructures its gaming business under new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, it has reportedly filed a patent for a system that could show ads during gameplay and use in-game events…
Wonki Choi shared his animated version of Tyler Durden and Marla Singer's closing scene. Wonki Choi's Blender-made 3D animation is a brilliant nod to David Fincher's Fight Club (1999). "You met me at a very strange time in my life" is an iconic line from the final scene, in which the main character…
The new system automatically guesses users' ages, so most people won't have to prove anything. Discord announced a new system this week that automatically figures out whether users are adults or teens, instead of asking everyone to scan an ID or take a selfie. The company says it will look at…
PIXXO 3D shared a YouTube tutorial on how to set up a shield VFX in Blender. PIXXO 3D released a YouTube tutorial on creating a glowing shield effect with Blender. The effect doesn't use too many nodes, so it is pretty beginner-friendly, the artist states. The tutorial only shows how to make the…
Create Line Art From Rendered Images In Blender's Compositor With This Tool aVersion_Lines can do more than Freestyle or Grease Pencil's Line Art modifier. aVersionOfReality, creator of Easy Custom Normals, a Blender add-on that simplifies clean toon and cel shading, continues to develop tools for…
An Ohio collector was arrested after placing a GPS tracker on a delivery driver's car to monitor new Pokémon card stock. Pokémon fans are known for their determination, but this is something you wouldn't expect. Kent Kubasta, 72, of Medina, was arrested in June after a delivery driver discovered a…
Turn real-world footage into 3D assets for 2D compositing and real-time production. ▶ YouTube A couple of years ago, splats were still largely something you'd see in research papers and tech demos. Now, they're becoming a more common part of the 3D workflow, as they're being increasingly adopted by…
The company continues its restructuring, bringing further layoffs and organizational changes. Xbox announced that its "reset," announced in July, continues with restructuring changes, including major layoffs, moving Halo under Activision, bringing Obsidian under Bethesda, and more. According to the…
Get clean weights on the body and all clothing meshes in about a second, fingers included, all processed on your GPU. ▶ YouTube Adaptive Auto Skinning is a voxel-based automatic skinning add-on for Blender developed by Jessy Leite, a Full Stack 3D Engineer. It fills the character with voxels and…
Jan van den Hemel shows two ways of creating a perfect surface in a short video. 3D Artist Jan van den Hemel, an author of many Blender tutorials and the nearly 2,000 pages e-book, Blender Secrets, started publishing a series of short videos with tips for digital creators. The first clip overviews…
Moonmilk Games is using real cave scans, field recordings, and years of caving experience to make Cave Expedition as authentic as possible. ▶ YouTube Have a look at Cave Expedition, an upcoming caving simulator from Moonmilk Games. The game was recently revealed on Steam and has received 25,000…
Do you remember playing the games when you were a kid? If you grew up in the 90s or early 2000s, you probably played, or at least remember hearing about, the early Tomb Raider games. The first one came out in 1996, and on October 25, the franchise will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The first…
Disney to Allow Ads on All Subscription Plans, Including "Ad-Free" Tiers Even Premium subscribers won't be fully spared. Disney has updated its Disney+ and Hulu Subscriber Agreement to add language allowing advertisements across all subscription tiers — including plans marketed as "ad-free" or "no…
And scalpers aren't happy about this. Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary with historic and rare new releases, including day-and-night-themed cards and classic reprints that call back to decades of the game's history. However, scalpers who normally profit by buying up rare cards and reselling…
There's also a licensing issue that limits how the studio can profit from V/H/S: SCP. Following the success of Backrooms, A24 appears to be turning its attention to another major internet horror phenomenon: the SCP Foundation. Like Backrooms, SCP began on anonymous imageboards before growing into a…
Bungie Is "Not Done with Destiny": Vaulted Content Will Be Back & Game Updates Are Coming Bungie released a YouTube video discussing their plans for Destiny and Marathon. In their YouTube video, Poria Torkan, Studio Head of Bungie, and Joshua Deane, Head of Product at Bungie, addressed what left…
Julio Sillet offers wood, tile, fabric, metal, concrete, and many other materials. Julio Sillet has an ambitious goal: to build a collection of 1,000 procedural and scanned materials. Already surpassing 800, the library keeps growing, with 99 new materials just added in the latest update. The…