You boot up Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, eyes peeled for heart-stopping visuals, and you’re ready for that glorious, retina-scorching HDR. But wait—where’s the setting? Your TV sits in judgment, dripping with HDR allure, mocking your lack of dynamic range. Game after game flexes dazzling color...
I spent a good chunk of the recent long weekend plowing through Call of Duty—not solely because the adrenaline of narrowly escaping digital demise is preferable to, say, mowing the lawn, but because there's never a dull moment in this ever-morphing, sometimes confounding shooter universe. Yet...
How Ubisoft’s Open-Sourced Chroma Tool Marks a Watershed Moment in Game Accessibility
The Challenge of Game Accessibility: An Industry at a Crossroads
Video gaming has evolved from a niche pastime into a dominant force in global entertainment, captivating billions across every demographic...
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Microsoft’s experimental AI-powered Quake 2 demo makes a bold, if shaky, leap into the future of game ideation. At first glance, it’s a quirky mash-up of nostalgic 90s shooter aesthetics and modern generative AI technology—a recipe that promises both innovation and, inevitably, a fair share of...
Microsoft’s new AI-powered Quake II demo is turning heads as it blurs the line between classic gaming and modern artificial intelligence research. In a browser-based tech demo, Microsoft showcases how its Copilot AI platform and the Muse family of AI models can simulate an entire level of the...
In more than a decade working at Reallusion – a 3D and 2D software and content developer that specializes in Windows-based real-time animation and creation tools – Enoc Burgos has seen a lot of changes in the industry, but one thing is consistent in his role as director of partnership marketing...
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First, a few screenshots:
As one can see the graphics are superb and requirements are surprisingly low:
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows® 10.
PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200.
MEMORY: 8 GB.
GRAPHICS: GeForce® GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB.
Direct X: Version 12...
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One hundred and thirteen years ago in New York, a girl was born into a generation where the average woman was more likely to perfect a signature pie recipe than solve a pi-based equation. Pushing against expectations, this girl became one of the pre-eminent technologists of our times and made it...
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Created by Nicole McDonald and JauntVR, the full immersive app experience Link Removed is now available on Link Removed. Read on to learn how its award-winning director made her childhood dream into a reality.
Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Link Removed, creator of Link...
When we launched the Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge in June, we had big plans for not just a contest, but a way for indie game developers to connect with each other and show off their skills and experience. We didn’t set out to replace existing communities, but maybe we could create a little...
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I first met Lucas Rizzotto at a Link Removed hackathon last December, where he and his team built a holographic advertising solution. Fast forward to August, and he’s now an award-winning mixed reality creator, technologist, and designer with two HoloLens apps in Windows Store...
Over the next few months, we will feature game creators who are making games using the Unity game development platform. We’ve partnered with the Made with Unity program to showcase some of the amazing, talented game developers out there and how they use Surface to make their games come to life...
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New developers – bring your app to various devices on Windows 10 with a simple mouse click.
Link Removed has joined the Universal Windows Platform revolution with the release of its new UWP Exporter for Link Removed, a game and software creation tool used to write 2D games and apps across...
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Buildbox—which allows users to create games without needing to code or program—has been used to create a number of Top 100 games. Developers like David Riechelt who created the hit game Color Switch with Buildbox, have been using the software to build chart topping games across multiple...
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Last December Miguel de Icaza blogged about a cool, cross platform, light weight 3D game engine that's very C# and friendly...
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Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as...
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In our second Link Removed theme week post, Link Removed and Link RemovedLink Removed spend 6+ hours teaching you have to create 3D Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform games with Unit 5...
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Are you looking to build 3D games with Unity 5 for the Windows 10 Universal Windows...
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June is the quite before the storm month. With Windows 10 and related items coming out next month, well July and August are going to be exciting months!
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