Rock Paper Shotgun

Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"

Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender has taken a firm view on genAI art assets. "I fucking hate gen AI art and it has made my life ...

From 'Slapped On' to 'Grown In': Hitem3D 2.0 Bets Integrated Texture Generation Can Make AI 3D Assets Actually Printable

dragon-shaped asset where scales, horns, and whiskers follow the underlying geometry rather than appearing as a flat overlay.
Creative Bloq on MSN

Here's how I created this fantasy tavern using Photoshop and Blender

This image was part of a community concept art challenge I created for my members on Patreon. Here you’ll see a method I use ...
Creative Bloq on MSN

Forget digital modelling, this indie dev is making a video game from leaves

The Swedish Indie developer Räfven Studios is crafting scenes and characters using clay, foam and foraged materials, ...
GitHub

Get any asset (texture, model, etc) from Genshin, at any version, without having the game installed

Select an index file, to get one you can see the list of available files here, or make one yourself (see bellow section on making an index) Tip The index file have the following naming scheme : ...
The New York Times

Europe to Lend $105 Billion to Ukraine, Without Touching Russian Funds

European Union officials wanted to use Russia’s frozen assets to back a major loan to Ukraine. Facing opposition in their own camp, they settled on another way. By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from ...
GamesRadar+

Despite the initial pushback, Larian is making Divinity with the help of AI, but you won't see it in-game: "Everything is human actors; we're writing everything ourselves"

Larian CEO Swen Vincke has confirmed the studio's use of AI in regard to the development of Divinity. Speaking to Bloomberg, Swen Vincke spoke about his wish to get Divinity out quicker than the six ...
PC Gamer

Amazon sells a free-to-play MOBA it had in development, and the studio making it, to Ubisoft

The sale of March of Giants comes less than two months after Amazon said it had decided to "halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development." When you purchase through links on our ...
wargamer.com

The next DnD game after Baldur's Gate 3 is already making fans grumpy

After Baldur's Gate 3, fans of Dungeons and Dragons had high hopes for the franchise's video game future. After multiple Game of the Year accolades and millions of units sold, it's hard to be anything ...
PC Gamer

The next official D&D videogame won't be anything like Baldur's Gate 3: 'We're making a third-person action-adventure open world game that focuses on the warlock'

Movies & TV 'That's pretty cool': Larian boss Swen Vincke responds after Stranger Things co-creator credits Baldur's Gate 3 for inspiring the show's climactic battle Baldur's Gate The best Baldur's ...
NOLA.com

These Louisiana techies help make one of the world's most successful video games

Jessa Carlson usually starts her workday by taking a stroll in the blocks surrounding her 200-year-old Faubourg Marigny home. When she heads upstairs for her first videoconference of the day, she may ...
TweakTown

Microsoft is committed to making Windows 11 the 'best place to play' PC games

TL;DR: Microsoft highlights 2025 Windows PC gaming advances, including full-screen handheld support, Windows on Arm improvements, and DirectX Raytracing 1.2. Despite recent performance issues on ...