Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use […]
Category: Gaming
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VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription
VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style matching from a reference image, and sharing images through VSCO Galleries. VSCO says more features are coming later, […]
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Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to shield our customers from the […]
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Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat pictures" produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it's an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical […]
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How Warframe is building upon its most heartbreaking quest in a continuation "no one saw coming"
Roughly two years ago, Warframe received a delightful dose of heartbreak in the form of Jade Shadows. Digital Extremes' free-to-play sci-fi shooter has a history of 'intermission' quests – smaller stories that helped fill the space between larger narrative beats; smaller portions of intrigue, and fresh gameplay loops to indulge in. Read more
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"Rockstar thought they could control the narrative. They're wrong" – tribunal rules against GTA 6 developer's request to remove union's blacklisting claims from ongoing legal dispute
An employment tribunal has ruled against Rockstar Games' request to remove blacklisting claims from the ongoing legal dispute over alleged union busting at the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio. Read more