Apparently, people thought that Zelda (named after princess Zelda) will be happy to see her father Robin Williams in AI slop videos.

The legendary comedian took his life many years ago when his neurological issues started to appear. He was no longer able to remember scripts nor improvise.

#AI@GameDEV

Yeah, I can relate 😅

#meme@GameDEV

It seems like Total War Warhammer III developers made players mad and a lot of influencers to quit the series.

1. New bugs caused AI to do nothing after certain moment. Some factions just literally stop any steps further after turn 20.

2. New random effects from unique places can cause significant damage to the player without clarity on how to counter, like plague everywhere.

3. A lot of GPU-related crashes.

4. New skills and gameplay features often not fit into the overall balance (there are over 100 lords in the game, folks).

Honestly, at certain point it may make sense to move on and make the new Total War Rome.

#RTS@GameDEV
#Bugs@GameDEV
#SEGA@GameDEV

Yeah, if you missed the point: the recent "COD lost $300m because of GamePass" isn't true in my opinion.

They lost it because the series is getting worse for what was supposed to be their target audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D7M4_KZL2U
#Multiplayer@GameDEV
#XBox@GameDEV
#CallOfDuty@GameDEV

Don't trust bots, folks

#Steam@GameDEV
#Security@GameDEV

Also, YEAH: Battlefield explained!

1. Revive
2. Wait for Revive
3. Play as a team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPTcJssGRc

That's curious: The Beast has unusually high % of people who played it through. Despite huge sales, it seems they are VERY targeted, not random bypassers.

Usually the first mission in an open-world is only completed by about 75-85%, not 97%+

Then 70% for a mission that is like 10 hours into the gameplay? That's insanely good conversion rates.

For example: only 61% of The Witcher 3 found Yennefer, which is literally the first objective.

Arduino was already overpriced as hell, what's now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKX616-nsE
#Hardware@GameDEV
#DIY@GameDEV

Steam is down. To be more specific, Steam community went offline in the morning and how it got even worse, so the store and APIs are also down.

#Steam@GameDEV
#Bugs@GameDEV

And yes, not just Steam: earlier today a wide range of services went down or were disrupted. But Steam is at its worst now.

Here's how it looks if you try to install games now.

Someone at Valve just found a reboot button on their network, so Steam is partially up again.

Some regions are full and the hackers are still trying to overload the system. Let's see how it goes!

I'm still unable to install new games.

#Steam@GameDEV

AI Slop Is Killing
Kurzgesagt... and the internet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0
#AI@GameDEV

The art of doing nothing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dkN-6TJNHs
#Programming@GameDEV
#Tutorial@GameDEV

Don't you dare 😅

#meme@GameDEV
#Programming@GameDEV

Never trust AI

#AI@GameDEV

Whoa, one of the best LTT hosts is no longer with them. And he spoke out about a lot of cool inner stories:

The biggest of them — GamersNexus took Linus down so much that most of big and expensive projects were discontinued inside media group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GPnA9pW8k
#SocialMedia@GameDEV

IDK, folks!

#meme@GameDEV
#Battlefield@GameDEV

The Discord breach is worse than expected!

- 1.5 TB of data
- Over 2 million government ID photos
- Threat actor publishes some user data due to Discord's inaction

Sample of a user showing her face, ID, and a written note.

🔗 International Cyber Digest