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ดูเหมือนว่ากระแสจะยังคงแรงต่อเนื่องสำหรับ Astro Bot ที่เพิ่งเปิดให้เล่นกันช่วงปลายสัปดาห์ที่ผ่านมา ก็ทำให้ทุกคนต่างตื่นเต้นกับเกมที่แสนเรียบง่ายแต่ก็เต็มไปด้วยไอเดียเด็ดๆ ทั้งนี้แม้เกมยืนตระหง่านท่ามกลางผลงานอื่นในเครือ PlayStation Studios แต่สิ่งที่ไม่เหมือนกันกับเกมทั่วไปในระยะหลังก็คืองานภาพแบบการ์ตูน ขณะที่เกมอื่นจะให้ความสำคัญกับโปรดักชันกราฟิกสมจริง Hyperrealistic นั่นเองครับ

ล่าสุด มีการเปิดเผยจาก Team Asobi ค่ายผู้พัฒนาเกมกับทาง …

หากจะพูดถึงเกมม้ามืดประจำปีนี้คงหนีไม่พ้นAlan Wake 2ภาคต่อเกมแนวระทึกขวัญชื่อดังที่ชิงรางวัลบนเวที The Game Awards ไปกอดกันได้พอๆ กับแชมป์อย่าง Baldur’s Gate III เลย ทว่าสิ่งที่เราสังเกตเห็นก็คือจนแล้วจนรอดRemedy Entertainmentก็เลือกที่จะไม่ผลิตเกมเวอร์ชันแผ่นออกมาให้สะสม และดูจะไม่มีแววที่จะได้เห็นเร็วๆ นี้ด้วยเช่นกันครับ ทั้งนี้ล่าสุดการดำเนินธุรกิจแบบนี้อาจเป็นดาบสองคมในที่สุด

Mat Piscatellaนักวิเคราะห์คนดังวงการเกมได้ออกมาให้ควา…

TickerLogic ประกาศเปิดให้ลองเล่น DEMO สำหรับ Lumiterra เกมมือถือ P2E  Open-world เอาชีวิตรอดด้วยการคราฟต์ ดาวน์โหลดได้แล้วทั้ง PC และ Android สโตร์ไทย

Lumiterraเกมมือถือ P2E Open-world เอาชีวิตรอดด้วยการคราฟต์ สัมผัสประสบการณ์โลกเปิด Multiplayer ต่อสู้และทำฟาร์มร่วมกับเพื่อน ๆ รวบรวมทรัพยากรเพื่อทำมาคราฟต์สิ่งประดิษฐ์

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ผู้เล่น Genshin Impact ได้ค้นพบวิธีใหม่ในการไขปริศนาภายในเกมที่เรียกได้ว่าเป็นการประยุกต์ใช้ AI ได้อย่างน่าสนใจ ล่าสุดมีผู้ใช้ Reddit รายหนึ่งเปิดเผยว่าพวกเขาใช้ ChatGPT ซึ่งเป็น AI ที่พัฒนาโดย OpenAI เพื่อไขปริศนาที่ซับซ้อนที่สุดเกมหนึ่งในเกมชื่อดังเกมนี้ และโพสต์ดังกล่าวได้รับความนิยมอย่างรวดเร็วและได้รับการโหวตมากกว่า 3.3k ครั้งใน subreddit อย่างเป็นทางการของเกม

แม้ว่าในอัปเดตเวอร์ชั่นล่าสุด 3.6 ได้แนะนำสองภูมิภาคย่อยใหม่ ได้แก่ Gavireh Lajavard และ Realm of…

Valve has suffered the biggest asset leak in the company’s history, after a series of asset repositories for its games from 2016 were released online. The games are Portal, Counter Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2: Episodes 1 & 2, Half-Life 2 multiplayer, and Team Fortress 2.

The leaks seem to originate from an account that calls themselves WandererLeaker, and to have been disseminated initially through Discord. In Discord chat the leaker wrote: “I don’t care anymore. I also did my toying around with it for a few years, did not upload because I was threatened every time […] A real shame. I have no legal binding to these files. Not anymore”. They would later add “I have held onto these files since 2016”.

The leaks are in the form of asset repositories, which is typically how a game’s files would be bundled-up to share with an external partner. The biggest leak in terms of sheer scale is Team Fortress 2, and diving into that one will give you an idea of what there is to be unearthed here. The short version is that it’s a 61GB package of almost every asset that the game’s had.

“Tons of never before seen maps, models, PSDs & VMFs,…

Diablo 4’s new season dumps so many rare items on you that I’m pretty sure it would’ve been deemed a game-breaking exploit around the game’s release.

Season 2’s Blood Harvests are a revamp of Diablo 4’s Helltides, which are essentially limited time events that take over a portion of the map. Like Helltides, Blood Harvests are stuffed with demons that drop unique currency you can spend on chests and other objects to find loot.

At the center of these green-tinged zones is a skull icon on your map that lets you know how long it has left. It’s also the exact location of three “Blood Lure Pedestals” that you can activate with Blood Lures dropped from enemies there. Each pedestal requires 50, but any player in the zone can activate them.

PC Gamer’s Sean Martin and I have both found success activating a pedestal and waiting for other players to show up and do the same. Once all three are activated, a group of bosses spawn who drop buckets of loot. And after comparing screenshots, it looks like each boss will always drop at least two Legendary items.

In Season 1, it was exceptionally rare to see multiple Legendaries drop below level 50. Now, it’s practically rain…

Inside a game industry job applicant today there are two wolves: One is tearing shit up in reckless glee because they just got a job offer from Netflix as a videogame graphics programmer earning $600,000 a year. The other is howling in despair for getting the same job offer, but at a salary of only $50,000, which is barely enough to live in your car in Los Angeles. “We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right,” says Netflix.

I call bullshit.

In an economic study of the entire games industry, from fresh college grads to superstar veterans, that half a million dollar salary range may be accurate. But in the case of this specific job posting, the comically broad $50,000-$600,000 range is Netflix’s way of weaseling out of a new California transparency law requiring employers to list salary bands for new hires. While Netflix may technically be complying with the letter of the new law, which went into effect at the start of 2023, it’s certainly not following the spirit. And Netflix isn’t the only game company posting comically broad salary ranges as a bare minimum …

30 years after cluttering up PC keyboards with the Windows key, the key responsible for booting you to desktop at the worst possible moment in your Dota 2 match, Microsoft is poised to once again transform our keyboards. 

The company today unveiled the Copilot key, a new button that will help usher in, as Microsoft executive vice president Yusuf Mehdi put it, “a significant shift toward a more personal and intelligent computing future where AI will be seamlessly woven into Windows from the system, to the silicon, to the hardware.” 

Based on promotional images, the Copilot key looks like it will replace the menu key that currently sits to the right of the spacebar. Mehdi said the button will start to appear on new Windows 11 PCs from Microsoft’s “ecosystem partners” in the days leading up to and at CES, which gets underway January 5—that’s tomorrow—with availability set to begin later in January.

“The introduction of the Copilot key marks the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades,” Mehdi wrote. “We believe it will empower people to participate in the AI transformation more easily. The Copilot key joins …

What do you do with yourself after creating a terrifying mutant spider train that haunts my dreams? Apparently, you do a complete 180 and go for some adorably strange mutant… koalas? Mice? Teddy bears? 

Whatever they are (“Jailiens”, according to the trailer at Summer Game Fest), solo developer Two Star Games is back with Cuffbust. It’s another addition to the ever-growing “chaotic psychics-based party game” pile, with the developer promising “destructible environments, proximity chats, a multitude of escape roots, and 20 player lobbies.” 

As the name suggests, Cuffbust is all about breaking out of jail with yer pals. Making use of tools like soap, dynamite, and spoons to carve your way out of prison all while avoiding guards and figuring out the best way to escape unscathed. The trailer shows some of the jailiens breaking boxes to squeeze through a vent, or jumping down a rather grimy looking sewer on their path to freedom.

The trailer ends with the freshly escaped jailiens celebrating their victory on the beach with what I can only assume to be a giant joint. Is it okay for mutant alien koala-mice-bear things to be smoking? I’m not sure, but they …

You don’t need ChatGPT to tell you that AI is big business. Nvidia is making an absolute killing. Yet, for all the buzz and talk about AI, and Nvidia’s understandable shift of attention to where the big money is, its gaming business continues to thrive.

Nvidia released its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, raking in $22.1 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 265% from a year ago. Its revenue from data centers, where the big AI bucks come from, was up by over 400% from the same period last year, reaching $18.4 billion.

Analyst expectations were for $20.55 billion, so these results were ahead of expectations. Still, Nvidia shares are down by over 7% over the last five days at the time of writing. However, those losses were reversed in after hours trade, surging by up to 10%, largely on the back of guidance for the next quarter. Nvidia is forecasting an even higher revenue of $24 billion for the first quarter of 2024.

The company released its full year results at the same time, reporting revenue of $60.9 billion and net income of $29.76 billion. What caught my eye was the gross margin of 72.7%. That’s, uhh, pretty astonishing! And, its forecast for the next …

In a surprise moment today, BioWare’s upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard has popped up as Steam Deck Verified. We don’t know what the system requirements, minimum or recommended,  are yet. But from that bit of information, at least, we know that Valve has tested it on Proton and says that it works well enough on their little handheld gaming PC.

“We’re making great progress towards our fall launch date and can confirm early that #DragonAge: The Veilguard is going all-in on @Steam features!,” posted BioWare on Steam. 

“We’re verified on Steam Deck,” they followed up, then saying that “We’ll be Steam native—meaning the EA App will not be required to play the game.”

The second statement will probably be of great interest to people who hate logging in to more than one thing at once, which given most game launches is either the majority or an extremely vocal subset who if I were a developer I would not want to anger—just look at what’s happening to poor Earth Defense Force 6 as we speak, which has a “Mostly Negative” rating on Steam due to its Epic account requirement.

How well Veilguard runs on Steam Deck is another thing en…

Everyone’s favourite boys, their vibrating eggs, and their computer-destroying hair will finally cast off their Epic Games Store exclusivity next month. Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin will hit Steam on April 6, giving everyone who still stubbornly tries to keep their games library on a single digital shelf a shot at killing Chaos. You can see its new celebratory trailer here.

To celebrate its transition—and to coax you into spending money on it—the game is getting a permanent price cut. Its former price tag of $60/£50 is being reduced to $40/£35. Witnessing the destiny that awaits Jack when he has severed all binding ties of fate is easier on your wallet than ever.

If you’ve somehow avoided the memes, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is a Final Fantasy game centred around Jack, a beefcake/lughead who really, really wants to defeat the evil overlord Chaos alongside his buddies Jed and Ash. Jack is dressed in an outfit he got on sale at The Gap and wields a greatsword, and somehow this all amounts to an alternate universe prequel to the original Final Fantasy on the NES.

It’s kind of wonderful? Don’t get me w…

Netflix has posted a trailer for Black Mirror season 6, so set a reminder on the smartphone app that’s secretly harvesting your personal data and selling it to an evil corporation: the Twilight Zone-style anthology series will once again attempt to scare us with the dark side of technology in June.

To which I say… good luck? We’re already pretty scared.

Look, I’ve enjoyed a lot of Black Mirror episodes since the series began airing in 2011, but a lot has changed since then. Frankly, a lot has changed since season 5 came out in 2019. These days, the idea of a bunch of satirical stories warning us about the horrors of technology just feels a bit… quaint. We’re already experiencing plenty of fear when it comes to new tech, especially with the recent and sudden advancements in AI which is already threatening to replace humans at their jobs and making us doubt every image, video, and soundbyte we see on the internet.

Not to mention the heartbreak caused when sexy AI chatbots abruptly get lobotomized. The tech-fuelled dystopia? We’re already soaking in it!

That said, I’m still definitely gonna watch the new Black Mirror. The series has prod…

Capcom has finally issued a warning to those who are getting a little too brazen with their cracked copies of Street Fighter 6, threatening to disqualify them from future tournaments.

It’s an open secret that a cracked version of Street Fighter 6’s closed beta test has existed since October 2022. Many have been chipping away at the game in private, labbing its small roster of characters and practising their execution in anticipation of June’s release. Some have been a little cheekier, bringing the cracked copy to local tournaments or casuals to play offline among friends.

However, it seems that as time has gone on, people have been getting a little too cocky with how openly they’re playing something they shouldn’t be. A select handful of streamers have been publicly playing the game on Twitch, leading professional players like Momochi to complain that Capcom was “being too soft” in its approach. “I feel like those playing on the cracked version should be permanently banned,” he said during a stream in April.

It seems Capcom has listened, as it’s now released a statement warning of potential tournament bans. “It has come to our attention that some users have bee…