Month: October 2024

มีข่าวอัปเดตเกี่ยวกับเกม Dead Space Remake มาให้ทุกคนได้ติดตามกันเพิ่มเติมครับ เมื่อล่าสุดหนึ่งในนักพัฒนาที่ทำงานเกี่ยวกับการรีเมคเกม Dead Space ของ EA ได้ให้สัมภาษณ์เมื่อเร็ว ๆ นี้ว่า “เกมนี้น่ากลัวเกินไปที่จะเล่นตอนกลางคืนโดยใส่หูฟัง” ซึ่งการให้สัมภาษณ์นี้ก็ไม่น่าแปลกใจมากนัก เมื่อพิจารณาว่าเกมต้นฉบับในปี 2008 ก็เป็นเกมสยองขวัญที่ได้รับการยกย่องมากที่สุดเกมหนึ่งตลอดกาล

ดังที่ตัวอย่างเกมเพลย์ Dead Space ล่าสุดได้โชว์ให้เราได้ชมกัน ก�…

เกมออนไลน์ เป็นอนึ่งในเกมที่ได้รับความนิยมอย่างมากของเกมเมอร์ โดยเกมออนไลน์ในปัจจุบันนี้ก็มีหลากหลายแบบให้เลือกเล่น แต่ดูเหมือนว่าเกมที่จะเป็นที่นิยมพอสมควรก็คือเกมแนว Competitive Shooting ซึ่งแน่นอนว่าเกมประเภทนี้จะต้องมีการแข่งขันอยู่พอสมควร

อย่างไรก็ตามล่าสุดมีผู้ใช้ Reddit คนหนึ่งได้ออกมาโพสต์ระบายความในใจเกี่ยวกับความยากของเกมออนไลน์ในปัจจุบัน ซึ่งมีผู้เข้ามากดไลก์ให้มากกว่า 770 ครั้งแล้วในเวลาไม่กี่วัน

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ในขณะที่เกมยิงปืนส่วนใหญ่ มักจะตัดสินแพ้ชนะกันที่ฝีมือการยิงปืนแทบจะทั้งหมด เกมยิงปืนแนวเอาตัวรอด (Survival Shooter) กลับได้รับความนิยมในหมู่เกมเมอร์ทั่วโลกจากความเป็นไปได้ในการวางแผนอันลึกล้ำและหลากหลาย โดยนอกจากจะต้องตามหาทรัพยากรณ์อย่างกระสุนและชุดเกราะเช่นเดียวกับในเกมแนว Battle Royale อย่าง PUBG, CoD: Mobile, หรือ Apex Legends แล้ว ผู้ที่เล่นเกมแนวเอาตัวรอด (เช่น Rust, Undawn, หรือ H1Z1) ยังมักต้องใส่ใจตัวแปรอื่นๆ เช่นการหาอาหาร น้ำดื่ม และแหล่งหลบภัย เพ…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has another update coming this month, bringing good tidings for anyone fretting over whether their Pawns have contracted the terrible scourge that is dragonsplague. Not only does it make the disease less appear less frequently, it also makes it easier to spot whether your Pawns are afflicted.

Dragonsplague, if you don’t know, is a mysterious illness that affects Pawns–the game’s customisable NPCs. When contracted, the illness will eventually drive the infected Pawn mad, causing them to turn violent and wreak havoc in the game’s towns and villages. You can check if a Pawn has dragonsplague by examining whether their eyes are glowing. But not only can it be hard to see a Pawn’s eyes in the game to begin with, their virtual peepers only glow intermittently anyway.

The update intends to take a three-pronged approach to adjusting players’ experience with dragonsplague. First, it is “reducing the infection frequency” of the disease, so you’ll outright have to deal with it less often. In addition, it will be “adjusting the signs of Pawns infected with dragonsplague to be more noticeable” adding “For example, when infected, glowing eyes will be more no…

Elias Toufexis, the actor behind the gravelly, world-weary voice of Deus Ex lead Adam Jensen, has bid what seems to be a final farewell to the series in a heartfelt message posted to Reddit.

Toufexis said in January, following layoffs at Eidos Montreal and the reported cancellation of a new Deus Ex game that was in the early stages of development, that he hadn’t been involved in the project and “gave up on it a long time ago.” But it seems he didn’t want that clear sense of disappointment to be his last word on the matter.

“I wanted to come on here and say thank you for this page, your wonderful messages over the years, and your continued, unbelievably strong support,” Toufexis wrote.

“As you guys all know, Jensen is one of the characters I’ve played who is near and dear to my heart. It seems I will always be associated with him and that’s just fine with me. Alas, his story seems done. I’m relatively certain the game that was canceled was not an Adam Jensen story, so the cancellation angers me more than anything else because friends at Eidos got laid off. Videogame companies right now are in a weird place. I hope it gets straightened out.”

The apparent en…

Hades 2 released into early access earlier this month—and it’s been doing gangbusters, unsurprisingly. Supergiant has a sterling reputation behind it, with so much industry heft to every step it takes that other indie devs have already leapt out of the way of the game’s early access, considered a quasi-‘shadow drop’. 

I’ve apparently already sunk close to 30 hours into this thing (I just checked the stats now, and I’m left wondering when exactly that happened). I’ve beat Chronos up enough to wonder how many lessons I have to teach an old man, and I’m pretty content with what I’ve seen so far. Supergiant, however, seems to feel it can improve the game’s baseline mechanics before it really gets cooking on new content.

“Our first patch should be coming later this month,” reads an announcement on the game’s Steam page, “though note we don’t have a more-specific timeline. With it, we’re looking for improvements we can make in the near term, in a way that makes Hades II better for everyone and come closer to realising our goals.”

The first of two changes Supergiant will take aim at the game’s resource gathering—while I’m already massively thankful fo…

Researchers at the University of Zurich have created a drone AI that was able to beat out the top human drone racers in the world (via Nature). Swift AI was able to master a course in a week, record the fastest lap times, and outperform the best drone racers from three different drone racing leagues in head-to-head races.

You might have seen drone racing on TV, an event where remote-controlled drones are flown by pilots wearing special visors with a first-person video feed from the drones’ onboard camera race through a series of LED gates. It’s chaotic, and watching little brightly colored quadcopters crash into gates never gets old. 

Elia Kaufmann, one of the researchers who developed Swift AI, says its result “marks the first time that a drone powered by AI has beaten a human champion in a real physical sport designed for and by humans.”

The way it works is that Swift sends video data from the drone’s onboard camera to its neural network via an onboard module, which factors in the drone’s position, orientation, and speed. This info is then fed to a second neural network that tells the drone what to do as it approaches each racing gate. 

The hu…

I don’t usually cover enterprise products unless it does something really unique that impresses even me, a non-businessman. And the Philips 24B1D5600 monitor does exactly that. It’s a dual-screen monitor with a quirky feature—the second screen is essentially an e-reader. As someone who spends most of my workday sifting through emails and Google docs, I’m intrigued.

The Philips 24B1D5600 (via Tom’s Hardware) is your standard 24-inch 1440p monitor that is no different than what you’ve probably got sitting at your desk at work, except this one has a 13-inch e-paper side panel display that promises to make reading those endless PDFs and emails a lot easier on the eyes. 

This monitor’s 75Hz refresh rate and 4ms response time don’t make it an ideal candidate for gaming, so it’s better suited for work than play. Although tiny 1440p gaming monitors are becoming increasingly popular, this monitor doesn’t offer the performance serious gamers would expect.

The 13.3-inch E-Paper display has a resolution of 1200 x 1600 (with a 3:4 aspect ratio) and folds in up to 45 degrees. It uses its own power independently of the main screen via USB Type-C connection. An on-s…

Some of Guilty Gear Strive’s most prominent players have found themselves unable to play the game thanks to a recent exploit that allows hackers to crash their matches remotely.

As reported by Vice, the issue gained prominence over the holiday period, with the hackers using R-Codes—a player’s unique player ID—to target pro players and streamers. It’s allowed hackers to do things like change a player’s name while they’re mid-match online, crashing them out of the game. They can also push through chat messages that look like they’re coming from the affected players, which pro player Hotashi says is causing some pretty serious memory leaks. He says it slows the game down to “an unplayable crawl,” even in training mode.

Despite streamers trying to hide their R-Code to prevent the exploit from taking place, a follow system means that if a hacker has followed a streamer or professional then they’re easily able to spot when someone is online and ruin the fun. Streamer Squirrel147 says she had to make an alt account and play offline to avoid the trouble after finding that someone was repeatedly crashing her game in late December. 

The exploit will be c…

Like some kind of evil Victorian capitalist attempting to make up for a lifetime of exploitation, EA appears to have unexpectedly slashed the prices on some truly excellent RTS games immediately after making headlines for, ah, laying off 5% of its workforce. Every little helps?

Spotted by PCGamesN (and, for clarity, likely not related to those layoffs at all, I just have a bad taste in my mouth), EA seems to have wordlessly revised the prices for Command and Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 down to practically nothing. Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Kane’s Wrath are now $2 (£1.89) each, as is the Red Alert 3 main game. Red Alert 3 – Uprising, meanwhile, is a mere $1.49 (£1.49).

Those price changes appear to have kicked in yesterday, March 4, per data from SteamDB, and mark a significant reduction. Both Tiberium games were $15 (£15) before the change, while the Red Alerts were each $20 (£18). But the plot thickens: A glance at the EA App by, well, several members of the PC Gamer editorial team reveals that the prices there don’t seem to have shifted. Mostly, the EA App’s prices are as they were on Steam before this reduction, …

Intel has had a tough year to date. Poor financial results and a new round of layoffs grab the headlines, but hopefully there’s some good news around the corner. Though we’ve still got a long time to go, rumors are indicating that Intel’s Meteor Lake and future generation CPUs are looking quite mighty. The integrated GPU of Meteor Lake mobile processors in particular is shaping up to have Nvidia and AMD looking over their shoulders, not to mention Apple. 

The leak comes from Moore’s Law is Dead. According to the video above, the high end Meteor Lake Xe GPU with 128 Execution Units should beat out the mobile GTX 1650 and possibly even the mobile RTX 3050. If that’s the case, Intel is set to take big chunks out of Nvidia’s entry level GPU market share.

Even just matching the GTX 1650 or RTX 3050 would be a win for Intel. The reason being? Battery life. Discrete GPUs are the enemy of battery life, so if Intel is able to deliver an integrated GPU that can deliver passable 1080p gaming along with a full day of battery life, it will surely attract many design wins. If the driver is up to par, I’d definitely be interested in upgrading from my aging 8th Gen Dell.

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