Briins Croft said that 90 percent of the Code: Veronica fan remake used existing assets from Capcom’s recent “Remake” games, such as 3D models, animations, and textures.

This game was advertised as a crypto game from the start. Anybody who lost their money backing this game knew what they were getting into and have only themselves to blame.

I don’t get it. GDQ runs don’t need to be perfect or world records, they’re live, and sometimes the most interesting bits are when things don’t go to plan and the runner has to adapt or switch strategies. Ironically these types of events are far more in line with the “exploring and crafting new approaches to…

Why is there no Ryu’s Theme in Ryu’s Theme? Or any memorable melody of any kind? This is terrible, it’s just random music, the forgettable kind that you won’t remember after you finish playing. 

It’s one of the worst upscaling jobs I’ve ever seen in a game, those backgrounds.  The sad thing is that community efforts have shown that modern AI upscaling techniques (on this specific game) look so much better, and it doesn’t necessarily require any additional effort to have used that approach. It just required…

What are you talking about? The home stuff just merged into the main content, there’s no paywall anywhere (why would there be, the whole business model is the affiliate links), and they seem to be reviewing just as much stuff as ever.

If you think VR is just another way to have motion controls, then you’re severely misunderstanding the medium. Motion control is one of the least important parts of the VR experience. Indeed, many VR experiences don’t use motion controls at all. Instead, the main point of VR is the immersion. There’s a massive…

I met him a handful times over the years, and he helped me out on a professional level once. A small thing that probably only took him a few minutes, but it’s stuck with me. He’ll be missed.

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There aren’t any devices on the market that are comparable in terms of having a high-res screen and playing original carts for all the systems.  Heck, even without the cartridges, I’m not sure there are any other devices as portable on the market that have a screen with that kind of pixel density for playing retro…

I don’t follow... Microsoft bought Zenimax Media, with it all subsidiaries (such as Bethesda). That includes all their studios. “Bethesda the studio” is owned by Microsoft. Whatever games are coming out for competing platforms are just them wrapping up existing contractual obligations and already announced release…

It’s all about transfer speeds and random access times. An affordable somewhat performance-focused 512GB SD card like the Sandisk Extreme is rated for up to 160 MB/s reads, and with an A2 rating, is rated for 4,000 IOPS of random read. So that’s roughly the throughput of a 7200 RPM drive, but with around 50x the…

SteamOS-only, so I’m skeptical. ProtonDB shows that only 42% of the top 1000 games on Steam (and only 30% of the top 10) are either native or Platinum, so Valve saying that it has your “entire” Steam library on it is very misleading. Gaming on Linux is still a suboptimal experience and may end up this device’s Achilles…

I wouldn’t treat Bloomberg as a reliable source of information, with their history of making up tech stories like the spy chips, and then sticking to that story despite it being debunked multiple times over.

How broken is the political system when expressing support for the political side supported by half the country is enough to get you blacklisted? It’s like the red scare and McCarthyism all over again, only instead of accusing people of being communist, it’s accusing people of supporting one of the two major political…

So, not cheating, but piracy. That’s much better.

8 of 13 board members are leaving, I don’t think whatever’s going on is specific to Reggie.

PSVR is selling something like 1/8th as many units as the Quest 2 (it took almost five years to sell five million units, while the Q2 did more than a million in its first three months), but it’s been on the market much longer (so the total sales are much higher), and it’s near the tail end of its lifecycle. A more…

Analysts who track sales are good enough for estimates, if not exact figures. Superdata (part of Nielsen, who do the Nielsen Ratings), estimated the Quest 2 sold 1,098K units in Q4 2020, as opposed to 125K units of the PSVR, 61K units of the Valve Index, and 55k units of the Oculus Rift/Rift S…

Do you mean “did not vastly outperform” in terms of sales numbers, or technical performance? The Quest 2 is outselling the previous headset by something like an order of magnitude, it’s outselling all other VR headsets of any kind combined. It’s selling 20x more than the Rift or Index, and 10x more than the PSVR. If…