The Elder Scrolls Online devs want the Arcanist to be your new main

What you need to know The Arcanist is a new class being added to The Elder Scrolls Online with the Necrom expansion.  A new trailer provides an overview into the myriad powers of the Arcanist, who wields a fraction of the power of the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora.  Speaking with the developers, the Arcanist is […]

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Xbox going green(er) with new sustainability toolkit for game devs

What you need to know On Wednesday, Xbox announced a new Developer Sustainability Toolkit for game designers to help reduce Xbox gaming’s impact on the environment. This new tool allows developers to identify energy inefficiencies in their games so they can be improved upon without negatively affecting the playing experience.  Ubisoft and 343 Industries collaborated […]

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Une seconde Preview d’Android 14 pour les devs

Google vient d’annoncer la date de sa conférence annuelle pour les développeurs, Google I/O, où nous devrions en apprendre beaucoup plus sur ce sur quoi Google a travaillé au cours de l’année écoulée. L’un des produits qui fait toujours l’objet d’une grande attention lors de la conférence I/O est Android. Google a publié le premier […]

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Samsung is helping devs optimize ray tracing for mobile games

Samsung wants to spearhead the development of ray tracing-based graphical rendering techniques for mobile devices, the company revealed at MWC 2023. This technology can greatly improve graphics quality and realism, but it comes at a considerable performance cost, and Samsung wants to help the optimization process. Ray tracing is barely used by PC and console […]

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STALKER 2 devs raise Ultimate Edition price to ensure quality amid Ukraine conflict

What you need to know STALKER 2 develper GSC Game World has increased the price of the game’s Ultimate Edition by $40 (or the equivalent amount in other currencies) in order to “keep the quality of all the collectible items at the desired level during these uneasy times.” The studio is referring to Russia’s ongoing […]

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C’est pour vous ! OpenAI recrute des devs pour améliorer ChatGPT

OpenAI recrute des centaines de presta dans différentes régions du monde pour améliorer le code de ChatGPT, mentionne Semafor. Plus précisément, la société recrute des programmeurs informatiques pour créer des données de formation qui comprendront des lignes de code, ainsi que des explications du code écrites en langage naturel. OpenAI dispose déjà d’un modèle ChatGPT […]

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Former 343i devs respond to Microsoft layoffs: ‘They set Halo up for failure’

What you need to know Microsoft recently announced its intent to lay off 10,000 of its employees between now and June 30, 2023.  So far, Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries has been hit particularly hard by these cuts, and has lost over 60 of its employees. Former 343 Industries developers have voiced scathing criticisms of […]

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Former 343i devs respond to Microsoft layoffs: ‘They set Halo up for failure’ (Update)

What you need to know Microsoft recently announced its intent to lay off 10,000 of its employees between now and June 30, 2023.  So far, Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries has been hit particularly hard by these cuts, and has lost over 60 of its employees. Former 343 Industries developers have voiced scathing criticisms of […]

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Microsoft and ID@Azure just opened the floodgates for indie game devs with new credits

What you need to know Microsoft announced a new way for independent game developers to gain access to powerful tools often used by larger studios. Starting today, ID@Azure members can apply to be members of the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub and receive benefits of both programs. Microsoft’s ID@Azure launched earlier this year and can […]

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Les devs se jettent toujours sur JavaScript mais boudent les NFT

Les développeurs de logiciels passent moins de temps à expérimenter de nouveaux outils et de nouveaux frameworks et s’en tiennent à ce qu’ils connaissent. Et ce, même si la blockchain semble susciter un intérêt croissant dans les communautés de codeurs. Ces conclusions proviennent du 23e rapport “State of the Developer Nation” de SlashData, dont les données […]

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Samsung supports 3rd-party camera app devs better than Google

It turns out that Samsung’s flagship phones, like the Galaxy S22, offer better support for third-party camera app developers than Google does with its own Pixel phones. Even though Google encourages camera app developers to use the CameraX Jetpack library, smartphones from Google and other Android OEMs don’t offer support for this standard. This bit […]

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Lollipop Chainsaw devs form new studio for game remake

What you need to know Lollipop Chainsaw is a 2012 action game featuring protagonist Juliet Starling, a cheerleader who just happens to come from a family of zombie hunters.  Lollipop Chainsaw was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, created as a collaboration between Goichi Suda (Suda51) and director James Gunn. The game is getting a remake for […]

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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 is now available for Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC game devs

Last year, Microsoft announced plans to integrate AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution into Xbox consoles, and now, we have the second generation of the technology heading into the Xbox game dev kit for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles.  AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR2) is an upscaling technology that uses machine learning to […]

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Devs can now optimize apps for Galaxy S22 and Tab S8 on cloud hardware

Samsung has made it possible for Android developers to test their apps on the Galaxy S22 and Tab S8 lineups even if they don’t have the hardware at hand. The company has now added these new flagship devices to its Remote Test Lab (RTL) environment. RTL is a cloud-based Samsung service that allows Android app […]

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