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"Framerate Estimator" evidence in Steam's new update points to more detailed performance tests than Valve's Verified programmes
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"Framerate Estimator" evidence in Steam's new update points to more detailed performance tests than Valve's Verified programmes

Steam is, most likely, going to get a lot more prophetic about how its thousands of games might run on your PC. ResetEra user dex3108 spotted, deep within the Valve app’s newest client update, a number of unused text strings relating to a "Framerate Estimator" tool. Putting aside my sadness that no-one’s ever thought to call me The Framerate Estimator, in the appropriate title case, it sounds like this would take a rough punt on how many frames per second the user’s hardware c

Just Cause studio's canned dragon-riding fantasy romp AionGuard "would have been Crimson Desert", reckons former Avalanche creative head
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Just Cause studio's canned dragon-riding fantasy romp AionGuard "would have been Crimson Desert", reckons former Avalanche creative head

Back in the late 2000s, Just Cause developers Avalanche ended up in a publishing pickle with a fantasy open-worlder they were working on. It was dubbed AionGuard, and ex-Avalanche chief creative officer Christofer Sundberg reckons that had it not ended up chucked on the cancellation bonfire, the game would've done a lot of the same things which've helped make Crimson Desert a hit all these years later. Read more

The widening of Steam continues with another UI beta, this time for the mod hotspot Workshop
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The widening of Steam continues with another UI beta, this time for the mod hotspot Workshop

The era of wide Steam is well and truly upon us. Last year Valve made store pages on Steam wider, only making me slightly uncomfortable. Last week the Steam homepage entered into its own wide beta. And now, as part of another beta, Valve are testing this same widening in the Steam Workshop to "make the browsing experience quicker and easier to use." Read more

I want to live in Nippets' charming, silly hidden objects world
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I want to live in Nippets' charming, silly hidden objects world

Hidden object games always amuse me conceptually, as there's this sort of unspoken implication that we act as some sort of god-like figure from on high, discovering secrets that maybe weren't meant to be found. They're games about getting yourself involved in the lives of others unbeknownst to them, and it's through whatever power you may have that you shape said lives. In Nippets, out today, that power is your hand, with which you poke, prod, and swipe the world and all its inhabitants. Read

How does Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope deal with sharing his work in this era of AI? A severe lack of posting
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How does Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope deal with sharing his work in this era of AI? A severe lack of posting

This current era of the internet is very easily the worst one, even within its comparatively short existence. A myriad of reasons contributes to this, the most annoying and newest one being the advent of AI preying upon every last post you release unto the world. Artists are essentially in a constant state of looking over their shoulder in a dark alleyway in fear of their works being stolen. So what is Lucas Pope, creator of Papers, Place and Return of the Obra Dinn doing to combat this? Simpl

The Myst lifts over Call of the Elder Gods, granting it a May release date
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The Myst lifts over Call of the Elder Gods, granting it a May release date

Adventure puzzle games inevitably always come back to Myst, and 2020's Call of the Sea was no different. But the genre's siren song is being sung once again with a follow-up to the pretty mysterious island game in the form of Call of the Elder Gods. Which, as it just so happens, now has a release date that is fast approaching. Read more