#jeff-kaplan

#jeff-kaplan

Whenever you're working with an existing IP, there's always the question of how you're going to translate and adapt, right? Because it's not a one-to-one sort of interpretation.

Darkspear Dash will be available on the Feathermoon-US server from June 27 to June 29, right when Running of the Trolls is set to take place this year and during Pride Month.

"I thought about two books that I'd read. The first book is by an author called Miyamoto Musashi, it's called The Book of Five Rings, and the other book I was thinking about was called Here Be Dragons, which is a physics book about wormholes, and advanced physics, and extraterrestrial life and so forth."

Ubisoft is ceasing game development at its studio, Red Storm Entertainment, best known for its work on the Tom Clancy's series. While the studio is set to remain open, 105 people will be laid off, a Ubisoft source told. Those who survive the cull will reportedly continue to work on the Snowdrop engine, used in many of Ubisoft's tentpole games over the last decade.

Kaplan says that he does see AI as something that could potentially help with some of the more mundane logistical sides of game development, but he feels that the technology and its peddlers are "overconfident" in what it offers. He tells a story of how he used ChatGPT to try to solve a UI problem, as that isn't his area of expertise, and the bot "overconfidently" gave him the wrong answer.

As AI continues to encroach on game development, the worry that the studios that make your favorite games are dabbling in the tech, especially for art assets and written dialogue, grows ever greater. Sometimes this concern and the scrutiny that comes with it are well-founded, but other times it leads to witch hunts with fans seeing AI-generated art where it actually doesn't exist. Blizzard's has been the subject of these moments of mass hysteria .

It was almost certainly time for a change,

At a time when layoffs are hitting our industry hard, today is another big step in building a better future for video game workers at every level,

Overwatch 2, the free-to-play hero shooter from Blizzard, is now just Overwatch. The game is rebranding and dropping the '2' from its title as part of a major revamp that includes a new year-long story, 10 new heroes, and a host of new content, Blizzard announced Wednesday at its Overwatch Spotlight livestream. The game will get an all-new Season 1 with five of the 10 new heroes on February 10.

Jetpack Cat's minor perk Claws Out--which grants her a quick melee attack that damages and slows enemies over time--now has a longer cooldown, increasing from six to eight seconds. The bigger nerf is directed toward the major perk Territorial, which gives her Purr healing ability the trait of damaging nearby enemies--that damage has been reduced from 50% to 33%.

The original was an unexpected hit. Rising above the tide of urban sandboxes in 2006, the game pushed its tomfoolery further than even Grand Theft Auto dared. The most recent entry, however, was a misfire. 2022's reboot was busted across technical levels and tonally out of sync for fans. Last year, rumors arose that the series might get another pass, but Chris Stockman, design director for the original game, now says the long-running has a fork in it.

My feeling is that BioWare has always been changing,

The game design itself having a pretty profound evolution midway through, and that changed the visual psychology a fair amount,

At the end of Darrah's video, he starts to give a soft pitch for how could live on and maybe even see a bit of that fabled No Man's Sky redemption arc that BioWare was hoping for when it announced it was revamping the game in 2019. He says that his idea would "conservatively" run EA about $10 million, and if that should sell more than 400,000 copies, it could actually work out for everyone involved.

"I feel like with Anthem, it heavily relies on online data that was stored in Bioware's server," Andersson added. "In my initial testing, the game couldn't load into the level without that data."

Trails Beyond the Horizon's new character, Ulrika, is like staring into the abyss of a broken TikTok algorithm, and while my knee-jerk reaction might have been shock and even a little disdain, over the next 100 hours, I grew to find the character's bit surprisingly genuine and, admittedly, hilarious. What first felt like a gimmick grew to become one of my absolute favorite parts of the game, enhancing the already distinct personality of the Trails games.

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