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Back in early 2021, we heard there were plans to fully fold Vicarious Visions and its 200-plus employees into Blizzard, and it seems that plan has come to fruition. — Vicarious Visions (@VvisionsStudio) April 12, 2022 As the tweet above mentions, the Vicarious Visions team will remain in its current Albany, New York location. As for what they’re working on, the only thing we’ve been told officially is that they’ll be “fully dedicated to existing Blizzard games and initiatives....

Speaking in a recent interview to promote Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion and FFVII Rebirth in China, as reported and translated by @aitaikimochi, Yoshinori Kitase revealed some new information on the game’s story, revealing that the story will basically be the same as that of the original, but those who played Final Fantasy VII Remake may feel that something is off, and consider Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion as part of the FFVII Remake project....

Maybe they’re growing out of that now. It was such a weird thing because they were like, “what if your stuff competes with my stuff?” You’re making 40million dollar AAA’s here, I just want to make a little physics simulation! And they’re like “no, what if the game you make…what if you know it’s going to be the next Minecraft and you’re not telling us because you could make it on the side?...

The videos, which have been put together by Bear Gaming Asia, highlight how NPCs reactions, in particular, have been improved a lot in the latest update. Things still are not perfect, but it’s undeniable that the new patch is a step in the right direction. Cyberpunk 2077 1.5 patch, which went live earlier this week, also marked the game’s debut on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series. New content has also been added, such as new rentable apartments, appearance customization, and much more....

Speaking with Eurogamer, CDPR’s Philipp Weber confirmed that the multiplayer was indeed canceled, as most suspected, due to the game’s horrible state at launch. The developer, Weber says, had to look at where the priorities for the game and getting the main experience to work as intended meant that other R&D projects had to be abandoned. “The priority was that the main experience will run for the people in a really good state....

The Performance Boost for Potato PC mod is mainly aimed toward those with weaker systems that still want to enjoy the role-playing game by CD Projekt Red with decent performance and are willing to sacrifice visual quality to achieve decent results. Settings, unfortunately, aren’t saved, so users will have to set everything up again every time they start the game. How to use: Important notes: Some settings are tagged with “Requires Reloading” as well as some other useful info....

The original Dead Space was already an intense experience, but it looks like the remake is turning the dial to 11. Need to know more? Here’s an extensive rundown of some of the new features coming to the Dead Space remake… Isaac is fully voiced: Isaac speaks up this time around, like yelling his teammates’ names when they’re in trouble or explaining his plans to fix the Ishimura’s Centrifuge and fuel lines....

The first two videos, which have been put together by KyoKat PC Gameplay, highlight how Intel’s new upscaling technology cannot compare with AMD FSR 2.0 in terms of visual quality and performance in the game developed by Kojima Productions. Death Stranding also looks worse on the smaller Steam Deck screen running with Intel XeSS compared to AMD FSR, as highlighted in another video shared on YouTube by Great on Deck....

The news was first broken by Deathloop Game Director Dinga Bakaba from Arkane Lyon, who was featured alongside Harvey Smith (from Arkane Austin, he worked on the first Dishonored and then on Prey and the upcoming Redfall) in the latest episode of Major Nelson’s Xbox podcast. Bakaba confirmed that Deathloop has been imagined as one possible future of the Dishonored universe following the events of Death of the Outsider (the last installment in that franchise, released in 2017)....

Dell’s U4323QE Display Leaks Out, 43-inch UltraSharp 4K USB-C Hub With IPS Panel Dell sells the UltraSharp 32-inch 4K USB-C Hub display on their website and through their partners for $859.99 (estimated at this time of writing). However, the company is close to revealing another UltraSharp model with a 42.5-inch display, the U4323QE display. The screen type is an active matrix-TFT LCD technology with a panel type that offers in-plane switching technology....

As usual, the new expansion launches alongside fresh seasonal content. The Season of the Risen offers up a new Matchmade Activity (PsiOps Battlegrounds), weapon (Synaptic Spear), a total revamp of the Void available free to all players, and more. You can check out a trailer for the Season of the Risen, below. Here’s a bit more detail about Season of the Risen: Of course, a new Season of the Risen battle pass will also be available....

— Rod Fergusson (@RodFergusson) June 1, 2022 Need to know more about Diablo Immortal before you jump in? Do check out Wccftech’s recent interview with the game’s director Wyatt Cheng for more information on monetization, future content, and more. Meanwhile, here are the game’s key features… Activision Blizzard has faced a series of lawsuits and other legal action on the heels of a suit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) alleging widespread gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment at the Call of Duty publisher....

As reported by Insider Gaming, the latest entry in the popular series by Blizzard will release in three different editions - Standard, Ultimate, and Deluxe. The Standard Edition will include a copy of the game, some Diablo Immortal cosmetics as well as a few pre-order perks, including early access to open betas. Standard Edition Digital Edition Pre-order Bonuses: Early access to open betasMessenger of Light Standard Edition includes: Diablo IV for PS4™/PS5™® – Amalgam of RageDiablo Immortal Cosmetic Set “Winged Darkness Reddish Brown” The Diablo IV Ultimate Edition will include plenty of additional in-game items, Release Season Battle Pass skips, and up to 4 days early access to the game as pre-order bonus....

TeaserPlay, who has shared many Unreal Engine 5-powered concept trailers, shared today a new trailer showing how a remake of the first entry in the CAPCOM series would look powered by the new version of the engine by Epic. The results, as expected, are amazing. Recreation of Dino Crisis, Nostalgia Game in Unreal Engine 5 with high-end graphics features such as Lumen, Nanite, Screen Space Ray Tracing and Global Illumination Shader It has been quite some time since we have seen a new entry in the Dino Crisis series, and a new one doesn’t seem to be on the horizon....

Super People debuted two days ago on Steam Early Access and will be updated later today (around 10 PM Pacific Time) with DLSS 3 support. As you might remember, the game already received NVIDIA Reflex support earlier this year, which is a requirement for the new version of Deep Learning Super Sampling. Super People is also scheduled to get AMD FSR 2.0 and Intel XeSS, allowing a direct comparison between all the main upscaling technologies on PC....

The new version of DLSS takes advantage of the hardware feature called Optical Flow Accelerator available in the GeForce RTX 4000 series GPUs. According to NVIDIA, this feeds pixel motion data from subsequent frames to the DLSS 3 Frame Generation neural network, generating new frames on the GPU and even ensuring performance accelerates in CPU-bound game scenarios. While the Optical Flow Accelerator has been originally introduced with the Turing architecture, NVIDIA’s VP of Applied Deep Learning Research Bryan Catanzaro explained that it has received major improvements with Ada Lovelace....

The lack of full crossplay is a bit of a shame, because Dying Light 2’s co-op component sounds fairly promising. As mentioned, up to 4 players can play together, and even if you’re not hosting, you get to keep all your items and player progression. No mission is walled off from co-op either, with players being able to vote when branching narrative choices come up. Need to know more about Dying Light 2?...

Interesting stuff. The lushness and verticality of the environment certainly hints Techland will be bringing their parkour and climbing mechanics forward into this new IP. A fantasy RPG with minute-to-minute gameplay that resembles Uncharted perhaps? I could get into that. Here’s what Techland CEO Pawel Marchewka had to say about the new project. In our recent interview with Dying Light 2 creative director Tymon Smektała, he also expressed excitement for the new IP… It seems like Techland is looking to recruit talent for this new fantasy RPG, as their careers page is now positively packed with new open positions....

Specifically, it seems boss battles that task you with facing multiple enemies have been toned down, with players now less likely to be mobbed by multiple aggressive baddies at once. This was documented by YouTuber Illusory Wall, who found a number of other secret changes included in the latest Elden Ring update (Miyazaki really is addicted to secrets). Those who watch the video can learn some interesting things about changed enemy behaviour, that “50 hit” illusory wall people were talking about, and more....

The announcement was made in a presentation video submitted at the Taipei Game Show 2022. In it, Yasuhiro Kitao talks about the development of the game so far, stating that the development is going smoothly. You can watch the presentation video from Bandai Namco below: The presentation video also includes the latest trailer for the game as well as some comments made by Kitao regarding the upcoming game’s features and focus....