| JEMC said: 'We all got laid off', says former Deck Nine narrative designer, after no-one was around to pick up Life is Strange: Double Exposure's GDC Awards win
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/we-all-got-laid-off-says-former-deck-nine-narrative-designer-after-no-one-was-around-to-pick-up-life-is-strange-double-exposures-gdc-awards-win/
I'm not entirely sure Life is Strange: Double Exposure was a good idea conceptually—nor was series fan and PC Gamer writer Mollie Taylor, who played the thing and had a good, if "unnecessary-feeling", time.
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Stephen Totilo, a journalist who was backstage at the time, wrote the following: "Nearly every game that won had people coming through, beaming with their trophy in hand. It stood out that, for Life is Strange, which won the Social Impact award, there was no one."
As to why? Well, according to former Deck Nine dev, narrative designer and writer Elizabeth Ballou on BlueSky, it was because no-one at the team expected it, because, well, "We all got laid off". She writes: "It's fitting that nobody was there to accept the GDCA award that Double Exposure won, because we all got laid off lol … (Don't be sad for me, I am very lucky and I work on BitLife now and I love it)." |
That's really sad, just imagine something like this happening at the Oscars...
JEMC said:
And the third part of the news: Ark devs distance themselves from AI-generated trailer: 'we did not know that they were doing it'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/ark-devs-distance-themselves-from-ai-generated-trailer-we-did-not-know-that-they-were-doing-it/
The reaction to the clearly AI-generated trailer for Ark's upcoming underwater DLC Aquatica was divided, in the sense that some people hated it and some people really hated it. "This is disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves" is the first comment underneath the trailer on YouTube, and it comes from an Ark YouTuber with more than a million subscribers.
The Aquatica DLC is being made by Snail Games, as opposed to Ark's original developers at Studio Wildcard, who are focused on Ark: Survival Ascended and have been quick to distance themselves from the controversy. "ARK: Aquatica is being developed by Snail Games USA Colorado, please follow them for more updates," they posted on the hatesite formerly known as Twitter. "Studio Wildcard remains entirely dedicated to the production of ARK: Survival Ascended & ARK 2, and we're excited to bring ARK: Lost Colony to you later this year!" One of the worst games ever made is coming to Steam, but we won't know how cruel this joke is until we see the price tag
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/one-of-the-worst-games-ever-made-is-coming-to-steam-but-we-wont-know-how-cruel-this-joke-is-until-we-see-the-price-tag/
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, a canonical "bad videogame" with a 1/10 review from GameSpot and 8/100 score on Metacritic, is set to be re-released on Steam some time between April and June this year. |
I saw the trailer a coule days ago and was baffled too. 3 hands on a dartgun, feet that turn into flippers, underwater lake, octopus with 6 tentacles... Suffice to say that this AI did create enough errors to be disturbingly off.
I can only give he trailer the message from Big Rigs: You're Winner!
| JEMC said: MSI shuns AMD GPUs with some of its newest power supplies
https://overclock3d.net/news/power_supply/msi-shuns-amd-gpus-with-some-of-its-newest-power-supplies/
Yesterday, we reviewed the new MPG A1000GS PCIE5 power supply from MSI, and it left us confused. Unlike almost all other high-wattage PSUs on the market, it only features one 8-pin (6+2-pin) PCIe power connector. As such, it cannot power GPUs that require multiple 8-pin PCIe power connectors. In fact, this problem seems to affect two newly released MSI power supplies. Upon further investigation, we found that the MSI MPG A1250GS (the 1250W version of the MPG A1000GS) also has only one 8-pin PCIe power connector. This means that two of MSI’s high-end PSU models cannot support most of AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 series GPU lineup, with Sapphire’s 16-pin powered RX 9070 XT Nitro+ being the only exception that we know of. While we have highlighted AMD’s RX 9070 XT series as unsupported, this is the case for all GPUs that require more than one 6+2-pin PCIe power connector. This includes older Nvidia GPUs (most RTX 3090 GPUs, for example) and some Intel ARC graphics cards.
>> I don’t really see it as a problem. Very few people will buy a PSU for an existing system, and if you need 2 or 3 8-pin connectors, there are plenty other brands to choose from. |
The problem is that we're informed, but the general public isn't. They might pick that one up without knowing this.
