Friday, October 9

Gaming

“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered” Gets New Patch

“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered” Gets New Patch

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Credit: CD Projekt Red CD Projekt RED has released another free update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered. The Polish developers continue to refine this action RPG on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. The patch introduced a number of graphical improvements, including refinements to the glow effects and tone mapping—which players had complained about—as well as character lighting, ray tracing, and path tracing. On PC, fixes were implemented for issues where the GTAO quality setting reset after restarting the game, ability tooltips failed to update, the game selected the wrong graphics card, and DLSS/XeSS activated on unsupported GPUs. On consoles, settings for bloom, light shafts, and depth of field were added; various performance improvements were introduced; and incorrect frame...
A New “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Teaser Prepared Fans For Emotional Trauma

A New “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Teaser Prepared Fans For Emotional Trauma

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Credit: Netflix The premiere is fast approaching, and Netflix is ​​increasingly drumming up excitement among *Cyberpunk 2077* action fans for the upcoming season of the anime based on their favorite cyberpunk world. The streaming service has released an official clip from the upcoming series *Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2* that focuses entirely on one of the project's most talked-about characters. A new clip from *Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2* released by Netflix runs for a minute and a half and shows Roman attempting to film Talia as she gets used to her new Maelstrom cyber-implants. The teaser is titled "Something Real," and its description hints at the young cinephile's vision: "In a city obsessed with braindance, sometimes you have to seek out something real." Users in the comments...
GTA V Launched Directly In Browser

GTA V Launched Directly In Browser

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Credit: Rockstar Games The hit open-world crime action game GTA V, developed by the British studio Rockstar Games (owned by Take-Two Interactive), received an unofficial browser-based version 13 years after its release—but lost it almost immediately. After its launch, PlayGTA5.com initially displayed a Cloudflare 1014 error, and the site's content was subsequently replaced with vintage 1970s-style food advertisements. The site is now completely inaccessible. No official reason has been given for the site's shutdown. There is no confirmation that Take-Two Interactive or Rockstar Games have issued legal demands to the developers. However, intervention by the rights holders remains a possibility; Take-Two has previously succeeded in shutting down other unofficial projects involving t...
2XKO Was Doomed To Fail From The Very Launch

2XKO Was Doomed To Fail From The Very Launch

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Credit: Riot Games Riot Games co-founder Marc "Tryndamere" Merrill explained why the fighting game “2XKO” failed to gain significant popularity. According to him, the studio missed a window of opportunity while “Street Fighter” was without a new installment. Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill revealed on the “Lemonade Stand” podcast that, given maintenance costs, continued development of “2XKO” required a monthly audience of hundreds of thousands—or even millions—of players. "We have no one to blame but ourselves. I think we had the opportunity to do something really great for the fighting game community, but then *Street Fighter 6* came out. By that point, we had been working on [2XKO] for eight years," lamented Merrill. The executive believes that had Riot released the game a...