I think what she's trying to (albeit clumsily) convey is that making what are, essentially, indie games with regular company structure employing 30 people, and no less in insanely overpriced London, is not sustainable - and she goes onto say ""I think going forward, we'll see that we've got a core team and any growth will come through contractors, which is something I hate about the industry. I've been in the industry for 20 years, and those of us who joined in the early 2000s, we had it very good. You want to be able to give that kind of stability, but I think that's a shift in how we want to work with people going forward."

That said, why they needed 40 developers (at peak) for Monument Valley 3 is baffling, to say the least, since that type of production goes anywhere between 1 person (like Tunic) to maybe 10 (like Cocoon).

These are the gaming news from today:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

There are three new promos at GOG:

• There are new Weekly Deals with games up to 92% off during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260506_weekly_deals_2_may
• The Mystery & Romance Promo features up to 95% discounts and will also last 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260506_mystery_and_romance_promo
• And the Pixel Promo has games up to 91% off and will last 10 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260506_pixel_promo

Steam has three new deals and two sales:

• Dread Flats has a demo and a 20% discount until the 14th of May: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3114900/Dread_Flats/
• Commandos: Origins is going to be 30% off until the 19th of May: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1479730/Commandos_Origins/
• Labyrinth Of The Demon King also has a demo and will also have a 30% discount until the 19th of May: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1804010/Labyrinth_Of_The_Demon_King/
• And these are the sales:
  • Two Point Franchise Sale has games and DLCs up to 70% off until May, the 14th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32528477/sale/TPF
  • Korean developer/publisher Storytaco puts its FMV games (with some sexual content) on sale with up to 50% discounts. There are also some demos: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/STORYTACOPublisherSale2026

Fanatical has a new BundleFest going on, and also a new sale:

• Publisher Kalypso puts its games on sale, up to 92% off during the next 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/kalypso-media-digital
• The first bundle of BundleFest is the BYO Killer Bundle (Spring 2026), with 27 titles to choose from for your 5+, 10+ or 20+ game bundles. It will last 34 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-killer-bundle
• Also, there is a contest that will give all the bundles to three lucky winners. Learn more here: https://www.fanatical.com/en/blog/bundlefest-game-bundles-at-fanatical

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Disgusting! Depraved monster adds effective quest markers to Morrowind, shows no remorse
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/disgusting-depraved-monster-adds-effective-quest-markers-to-morrowind-shows-no-remorse/
What makes The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind one of the greatest games of all time? Is it the complex imperial politics of its setting? The piquant mythopoeia? Fargoth?
It's none of these. It's the fact it's a right ballache to actually play.
I… kid? Sort of? I'll admit it: Morrowboomers can lean a little too hard into valourising Morrowind's rough edges, but that doesn't mean they're wrong. What I love about Morrowind more than anything is that its world just doesn't care about you. It will subject you to its weird and arcane rules and expect you to figure them out.
If you break against the rocks? Fine. If you totally grasp it and turn yourself into a gamebreakingly powerful death-wizard? Also fine. The game just doesn't mind either way, which makes all your struggles, tragedies, and triumphs feel like they actually belong to you.
Anyway, all this long preamble is to say: someone has made some very well-done Skyrim-style quest markers for the game, and I for one am outraged.
Coming from a modder named RPGKing117, Quest Markers Plus for Morrowind (specifically, for Morrowind's open-source engine reimplementation OpenMW) aims to dramatically reduce the amount of time you spend staring at your journal trying to figure out which goddamn tree out of Vvardenfell's 8 billion trees your quest objectives are orienting themselves by. Gotta find Caius Cosades? Easy-peasy. There's now a marker smack-bang on his front door and, once you're inside, over his Skooma-addled head.
It's also highly configurable and, as an added bonus, you can use it to mark city locations on your HUD. It's like Vvardenfell got Google Maps.
To drop kayfabe for a sec, it looks tightly constructed, taking advantage of other OpenMW map mods to create an overhauled mapsperience that brings TES 3's crusty old systems into the 21st century. Is it the kind of thing I'd use myself? Probably not, mostly because I've memorised enough quest locations for Morrowind at this point that I'll be damned if I let some robot take my job.
But a Morrowind first-timer? Yeah, I might recommend it. If you grew up on Skyrim, it'd at least mean you didn't have to acclimatise to Morrowind's old-school quest design at the same time as figuring out why none of your attacks are connecting.
But I still think its author should go to prison. Fair's fair.
>> The article has no media.

First WIP Look at Doom 3 With Real-Time Path Tracing
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/first-wip-look-at-doom-3-with-real-time-path-tracing/
Last month, modder Justin Marshall implemented DX12 and DXR in the official level editor for Doom 3. And a couple of days ago, the modder was able to add real-time Path Tracing to the actual game. As such, we now have our first look at Doom 3 with real-time Path Tracing.
In the video, Doom 3 runs through IceBridge. IceBridge is Marshall’s Direct3D 12 renderer layer that brings modern GPU features to classic idTech 4 rendering while keeping the original game’s dark, industrial atmosphere intact.
As Marshall explained, IceBridge is designed as a compatibility and modernization layer for older engines. It will allow legacy rendering paths to be pushed onto modern graphics APIs like D3D12. At the same time, it will open the door for features such as ray tracing, path tracing, denoising, and advanced upscaling.
As the title implies, this is a very early WIP demo. As you will see, there are a lot of visual bugs and issues. The lighting, denoising, path tracing quality, performance, and compatibility still need a lot of polish.
>> It’s a shorter than 2 minutes video.

Resident Evil Requiem Mod Adds Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Merchant
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/resident-evil-requiem-mod-adds-resident-evil-4-remakes-merchant/
Modder ‘fanteeek’ has released a really cool mod that adds Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Merchant to Resident Evil Requiem. This is a simple but cool mod that a lot of old-school RE fans will appreciate. So, if you are one of them, you should definitely download it. Going into more details, this mod replaces all supply boxes with the Merchant from Resident Evil 4 Remake. The Merchant has idle animations, a “Welcome” sound replacement, and a fire stand nearby. In future versions, the modder plans to add more lines of dialogue and animations. Still, even in its current state, this mod is something that will put a smile on the face of pretty much all Resident Evil fans.
>> The article has a roughly 1 minute video.

GAMING NEWS

Here are 4 minutes of new gameplay from Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-4-minutes-of-new-gameplay-from-assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced/
Ubisoft has released a new video for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. This video showcases almost 4 minutes of new gameplay footage from this upcoming remake. So, let’s take a closer look at it.

BeastLink is a giant multiplayer Kaiju experience from the devs behind GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/beastlink-is-a-giant-multiplayer-kaiju-experience-from-the-devs-behind-gta-trilogy-the-definitive-edition/
Grove Street Games, the studio behind GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, has just revealed its new game. Titled BeastLink, this is a third-person multiplayer game in which you fight huge monsters/kaiju.

The second part of the gaming news:

Surprise: The studio making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is full of former BioWare devs
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/surprise-the-studio-making-star-wars-fate-of-the-old-republic-is-full-of-former-bioware-devs/
At The Game Awards 2025, LucasFilm Games revealed Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, an upcoming "spiritual successor" to BioWare's beloved Knights of the Old Republic series. Returning to head up its development is Casey Hudson, project director on KotOR 1 and the Mass Effect series, former BioWare general manager, and now co-founder, CEO, and game director at Fate of the Old Republic developer Arcanaut Studios.
Hudson's history with the series gives the project a noteworthy pedigree, but it wasn't until this week that we had a better sense of who else is handling the return to the Old Republic era. Thanks to a fresh update to its studio page, we now know more about Arcanaut's development leadership. And hey, turns out it's a bunch of other former BioWare folks. Who would've guessed?

'The team has weathered a lot': Subnautica 2 design lead says the community kept the dev team going 'when it was at its hardest'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/the-team-has-weathered-a-lot-subnautica-2-design-lead-says-the-community-kept-the-dev-team-going-when-it-was-at-its-hardest/
Considering the months of turmoil surrounding the development of Subnautica 2, it's not just exciting that the undersea survival game is finally launching into early access next week on May 14—it's a minor miracle.
But while the legal battle between publisher Krafton and the founders of developer Unknown Worlds was incredibly loud and extremely public, we haven't heard anything from the people actually making the sequel amidst all that courtroom drama.

Ubisoft says 'Nice try' after Assassin's Creed multiplayer game, Invictus, leaks with a 'heavily altered' image
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/assassins-creed/ubisoft-says-nice-try-after-assassins-creed-multiplayer-game-invictus-leaks-with-a-heavily-altered-image/
Ubisoft suck at keeping a secret. It's long had a problem with leaks, and the Assassin's Creed series has probably suffered more from that than its other series. Even Ubisoft has joked about Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced being "gaming's worst kept secret" following leak after leak. Much like the Age of Piracy in Black Flag, Ubisoft's age of leaks isn't over either.
Just yesterday, YouTuber xJ0nathan posted on X a supposed screenshot of Assassin's Creed's (codenamed) Invictus, a dedicated multiplayer spinoff. Honestly, there's not even much in the image to go off, just a character holding two weapons in an untextured liminal space. It's kinda exactly what you'd expect from a very, very early look at an Assassin's Creed game.

IO boss says surprise! Not only is 007 First Light imminent but that fantasy RPG it announced years ago is 'Very, very far' along too
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/io-boss-says-surprise-not-only-is-007-first-light-imminent-but-that-fantasy-rpg-it-announced-years-ago-is-very-very-far-along-too/
You know, amid the steady stream of murderable celebs in Hitman: World of Assassination and the hoopla around 007 First Light's imminent release, I forgot that IO has another iron in the fire—the online fantasy RPG it announced in 2023 (and which I apparently wrote the news article for. The past is a foreign country).
But it's been boiling away somewhere in Denmark (and/or IO's various other studios) all this time, and per IO CEO (Ee Eye Ee Eye Oh) Hakan Abrak in a recent chat with The Game Business, it's actually near to full-cooked.

And this is the third part:

MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy lays off even more people
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/mindseye-developer-build-a-rocket-boy-lays-off-even-more-people/

This is Chort, a Final Fantasy 14 dungeon boss of absolutely no real significance, but a hero to us all
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/this-is-chort-a-final-fantasy-14-dungeon-boss-of-absolutely-no-real-significance-but-a-hero-to-us-all/

Coal in Old School RuneScape has, in theory, outperformed cryptocurrency Ethereum this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/coal-in-old-school-runescape-has-in-theory-outperformed-cryptocurrency-ethereum-this-year/

I found 200 Crude Gold Bars in a single spot in Crimson Desert, which amounts to 1,500 silver for only ten minutes of trouble
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/crimson-desert-crude-gold-bar-locations/

AMD Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1284/amd-reports-first-quarter-2026-financial-results

I remember when AMD was a penny stock and they bet their entire future on Ryzen. Now look how far they have come!

AMD Doubles Server CPU Forecast to $120 Billion as Agentic AI Rewrites Demand, CEO Says EPYC Verano Built Purely For AI

https://wccftech.com/amd-doubles-server-cpu-forecast-to-120-billion-as-agentic-ai-rewrites-demand-ceo-says-epyc-verano-built-purely-for-ai/

AMD Has Begun Sampling MI450 GPUs & Also Engaged With Customers On MI500, Largest AI Deployments Are For Inference

https://wccftech.com/amd-sampling-mi450-gpus-engaged-with-customers-on-mi500-largest-ai-deployments-are-for-inference/

AMD’s Lisa Su Pushes Back on GPU Cannibalization Fears, Calling Agentic AI’s CPU Surge ‘Largely Additive’ to Accelerator Demand

https://wccftech.com/amds-lisa-su-pushes-back-on-gpu-cannibalization-fears-calling-agentic-ais-cpu-surge-largely-additive-to-accelerator-demand/

AMD Warns PC & Gaming Demand Will Decline In H2 As Memory Price Surge Squeezes Consumers Out Of Market

https://wccftech.com/amd-warns-pc-gaming-demand-will-decline-in-h2-as-memory-prices-surge/

Intel Invests In Company That Is Building The World’s Most Powerful Quantum Processor, Driving 10,000 Qubits, 100x More Than Today

https://wccftech.com/intel-invests-in-company-that-is-building-the-worlds-most-powerful-quantum-processor/

Arm and AMD Poised to Eat Intel’s Lunch in Agentic AI Era, Analyst Warns, as CPU Core Counts Could Jump 5x Per GPU

https://wccftech.com/arm-and-amd-poised-to-eat-intels-lunch-in-agentic-ai-era-analyst-warns-as-core-counts-could-jump-5x-per-gpu/

NVIDIA Gives Devs More Tools To Integrate RTX & AI Features – TensorRT for Unreal Engine Delivers 50% Boost, ComfyUI Made Easy On Any RTX GPU

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-gives-devs-more-tools-to-integrate-rtx-ai-features/

NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 10 years ago today

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-announced-the-geforce-gtx-1080-and-gtx-1070-10-years-ago-today

DOOM: The Dark Ages could have needed 110GB of baked Global Illumination data, Ray-Based GI reduced it to 0

https://videocardz.com/newz/doom-the-dark-ages-could-have-needed-110gb-of-baked-global-illumination-data-ray-based-gi-reduced-it-to-0

LG Display shows 720Hz gaming OLED, 39-inch 5K2K OLED and third-gen Tandem OLED

https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-display-shows-720hz-gaming-oled-39-inch-5k2k-oled-and-third-gen-tandem-oled

Exclusive: China targets 70% advanced domestic silicon wafer use by 2026

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/china-tech/exclusive-china-targets-70-advanced-domestic-silicon-wafer-use-by-2026

TSMC Reportedly Upgrades Central Taiwan 28/22nm Fab to 4nm; Phase 2 1.4nm Trial Production May Start 3Q27

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/05/06/news-tsmc-reportedly-upgrades-central-taiwan-2822nm-fab-to-4nm-phase-2-1-4nm-trial-production-may-begin-in-3q27/

Google Chrome 'silently' downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/google-chrome-silently-downloads-4gb-ai-model-to-your-device-without-permission-report-claims-researcher-says-practice-may-violate-eu-law-waste-thousands-of-kilowatts-of-energy

I hope you guys have bought AMD and Intel when I told you to!

I have stock investments in all 3 but AMD was the one I paid the most attention to when they were ryzing from the ashes so the speak. Nvidia only really peaked my interest during early Ampere era when I realized exactly how head of the Ai game they really were but I still had no idea how big the Ai market was going to be. Intel I only really invested a few months ago when they were around $45 usd.

Personally I am still not a fond of Intel regardless of them being at $110 per share these days. It feels like instead of standing on their own two feet, they feel more like "TSMC is booked for the next few years so we need someone who's not" and that's not really a good position to be in long term. They really need big wins by 2027-2028 when things will hopefully slow down. But who knows when things will slow down as every year, the Ai trend seems to keep getting bigger and bigger.

Windows 11 “Low Latency Profile” may speed up app launches

https://videocardz.com/newz/windows-11-low-latency-profile-may-speed-up-app-launches

More 5K gaming monitors: Hisense GX Ultra with 5K 180Hz and 2.5K 330Hz modes now available

https://videocardz.com/newz/more-5k-gaming-monitors-hisense-gx-ultra-with-5k-180hz-and-2-5k-330hz-modes-now-available

Samsung lists new Odyssey OLED G8 monitors with DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR20

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-lists-new-odyssey-oled-g8-monitors-with-displayport-2-1-uhbr20

Lenovo Legion Go 2 now starts at $1,199

https://videocardz.com/newz/lenovo-legion-go-2-now-starts-at-1199

Palit confirms GALAX, KFA2 and HOF are working on next-generation GeForce GPUs

https://videocardz.com/newz/palit-confirms-galax-kfa2-and-hof-are-working-on-next-generation-geforce-gpus

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 claims 77% higher GPU performance

https://videocardz.com/newz/qualcomm-snapdragon-4-gen-5-claims-77-higher-gpu-performance

Dell and Lenovo become top-tier sponsors of Linux firmware update service

https://videocardz.com/newz/dell-and-lenovo-become-top-tier-sponsors-of-linux-firmware-update-service

AMD MI430X Is The “Highest Performance” FP64 GPU Ever Built, Surpassing NVIDIA’s Rubin By 6x In Classic-HPC Workloads

https://wccftech.com/amd-mi430x-highest-performance-fp64-gpu-ever-built-surpassing-nvidia-rubin-by-6x/

AMD Eyes Samsung 2nm Tech As Alternative In Tackling Wafer Supply Constraints With Talks In “Advanced Stages”

https://wccftech.com/amd-eyes-samsung-2nm-tech-as-tsmc-alternative-in-tackling-wafer-supply-constraints/

Arm Doubles AGI CPU Revenue Forecast to $2 Billion by 2028 as OpenAI, Cerebras, and Hyperscalers Pile Into Agentic AI Orders

https://wccftech.com/arm-doubles-agi-cpu-revenue-forecast-to-2-billion-by-2028-massive-agentic-ai-orders/

PC Manufacturers To See Massive Decline In Motherboard Shipments In 2026 Due To Low Consumer Demand As Component Prices Rise

https://wccftech.com/pc-manufacturers-massive-decline-motherboard-shipments-rising-prices-low-demand/

"Irresponsible amount of performance" - Jensen

Who knew the Pascal would be PC gaming hardware at it's peak. It all went downhill from there in one form or another.