Gaming – Page 6

Oct282024 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Valve Corrects Team Fortress 2 Scout’s Pants Color 17 Years Later

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Generally, bugs in games are fixed as quickly as possible, but sometimes the mistakes made elude developers for years. That's what's been happening with Valve and its team shooter Team Fortress 2 for the past 17 years. The developers changed the color of the Scout's pants when he plays for the blue team. Due to a graphical bug that happened 17 years ago, his pants were beige, as if he still plays for the red team. In a recent patch, his pants became dark blue, as they should be. However, after 17 hours, Valve rolled back the fix. The studio explained this by technical problems, saying that the blue pants conflict with the character skins. Team Fortress 2 was released in October 2007 and became free-to-play in June 2011. In April 2024, the game received 64-bit support, an update th...

Oct252024 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

What Remains of Edith Finch Creators Are Preparing Unusual Game

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In 2017, Giant Sparrow released the emotional What Remains of Edith Finch, which was very popular with players, and the studio was expected to release its next game. And now, finally, it has shown concept art of the future project. Its main focus will be “exploring the wonders and horrors of biology.” Players will play as a field biologist studying urban wildlife, both mundane and fantastical. Sources of inspiration include Ico, Windosill, Spirited Away, David Attenborough documentaries, and the spirit of animation pioneers like Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, who used cutting-edge technology for their time to create work that felt eerily alive. Interestingly, the project has become noticeably darker over time, just like What Remains of Edith Finch did in its day.

Oct252024 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Released

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The shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been released on PC and Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles. The game is also available in the Xbox Game Pass service catalog for PC Ultimate plans. Black Ops 6 features a story campaign that continues the story of the previous part, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, a multiplayer with 16 maps, and a Zombies mode. One of the main innovations is the “unlimited movement” mechanic, which, according to the developers, provides the smoothest movement in the Call of Duty series and allows you to perform combat maneuvers with jumps in any direction. Also in this part, a “human shield” was added - the ability to cover yourself with an enemy. The cost of the standard edition of Black Ops 6 is $ 70 , but the game is available from d...

Oct222024 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Silent Hill 2 Remake Gets First Post-Release Patch

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The creators of Silent Hill 2 Remake have released a major update, which is now available for download. It fixes the most important errors, improves gameplay and performance. Technical improvements in the PC version of Silent Hill 2 Remake include: DSOGaming reports that the patch adds an option to enable DLSS 3 frame generation technologies from Nvidia and Fluid Motion Frames from AMD; reduction of visual bugs when using the latest version of DLSS; update of AMD FSR to version 3.1.1; Nvidia Reflex now works when DLSS frame generation is active; the ability to enable DLSS/AMD frame generation when using DLSS/FSR for supersampling; performance improvements and optimizations for the game on Steam Deck; elimination of stuttering associated with sky map generation; ...