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2023-12-08 Video Game Awards Update Get ready for this monster update. I'll work on plugging this into the sheet but full details and links below! Full Showcase Nominees and Winners source: https://www.ign.com/articles/the-game-awards-2023-winners-the-full-list Game of the Year Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields. Best Game Direction Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design. Best Narrative For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game. Best Art Direction For outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation. Best Score/Music For outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song and/or licensed soundtrack. Best Audio Design Recognizing the best in-game audio and sound design. Best Performance Awarded to an individual for voice-over acting, motion and/or performance capture. Games for Impact For a thought-provoking game with a pro-social meaning or message. Best Ongoing Game Awarded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time. Best Indie Game For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system. Best Debut Indie Game For the best debut game created by a new independent studio. Best Mobile Game For the best game playable on a mobile device. Best Community Support Recognizing a game for outstanding community support, transparency and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates/patches. Best VR/AR Game For the best game experience playable in virtual or augmented reality, irrespective of platform. Innovation in Accessibility Recognizing software and/or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience. 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Thanks for the technical response. I should of been more clear: From an operational standpoint, how they will manage the transition and what impacts there are to their engagement and subsequently, their financials. E.g., Overwatch -> Overwatch 2, CS:GO -> CS2.

Can confirm. Just note that you can enable FSR3 with or without frame gen. I tried at 4K with FSR3 and frame gen enabled. My base frame rate was 40fps and I resulted with 70 fps. I'll play more with it but yes... night and day difference between the driver level implementation. No large stutters anymore. It's just getting used to the latency of 40fps whilst the screen is displaying 70 fps. More subjective opinion. Without FSR (disabling FSR3 & Frame gen), I've adjusted TAA (only alternative on AMD to FSR) to get my framerate at 60fps. Adjusting it (TAA) to "quality" gets me to my target frame rate. I found that 60fps experience better than the frame gen at 40fps but honestly, it really splitting hairs and your mileage may vary.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 4K, Ultra (HDR) James Cameron will make your PC bleed with this one. Fun note: first game I have tried on PC in about 3 YEARS that supports adaptive triggers with Xbox Series S|X controllers. I was a bit surprised to finally feel the triggers rumble.

Honestly, very much appreciated. I'm under NDA so everything I wish I could say needs to be [REDACTED] but as many of you are likely aware, the games industry has seen quite a large amount of layoffs and thats the lovely industry I moved into a few years ago. Luckily I am still employed (yay) but let's just say, I am really looking forward to the holidays *cracks beer* Anyway, grateful you all enjoy this thread and these discussions

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Hello, and welcome to another thread full of updates and log of all games (within reason...) to be released in 2024! The goal of the thread is simple: Consolidate the general discussion and track the releases throughout the year. The previous thread started off a bit rough, but over time, the cadence evened out and it was a bit clearer (to me) how to organize and promote a conversation So with that said... Some basic guidelines:

For those curious... Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora performance benchmarks below on my rig (7900 XTX, 5800X3D, latest AMD video driver, Win 10). Ultra 1440p (FSR Disabled) - ~80 Fps Avg. Ultra 4K (FSR Disabled) - ~40 FPS Avg. What's neat in this benchmark tool is you can filter through performance graphs to highlight the render time (ms / frame) depending on division per device (CPU and GPU). See below render time for Raytracing @ 4K. I haven't really had time to play games at all this past month, or spend a lot of effort here but hope to change that next week as work begins to slow down

PC players will probably have to wait even longer for Grand Theft Auto VI ARSTECHNICA.COM History suggests PC port could come months or years after planned 2025 console launch.

PC version will always be delayed. It’s their financial model at this point. Also get ready for a PS5 Pro / Series X Pro $10 update down the line. Double dip aint enough these days. Gotta triple dip XD. I am sure they plan to launch a series of micro transactions alongside GTA VI on consoles and in my humble opinion, best to soak console users first before the game is available on PC and exposed to mods. Also, to their forecast for FY ending March 2025, we could see pre-orders open up during that FY which could account for a large increase in their revenue without actually releasing the game. Considering that digital sales require a full purchase and roughly account for ~50% of game sales these days, it’s a reasonable assumption. I am more curious, from a financial perspective, how they will handle the transition of GTA Online. That’s reoccurring revenue paying for their current operations. Obviously you want to approach that transition as smoothly as possible to sustain the revenue.

It's GTA. It's always been commentary on modern society. Besides, it's also GTA. If you're driving the car, slam the brakes, mash the accelerator. Problem solved.

2025 eh. So PC in 2026 XD. Well, it looks unbelievable. The animations and amount of NPCs mixed together with the environment and lighting is great. Sign me up!

Cool! I didn't know a trailer was released. Seems a bit "over produced and cinematic" but looking forward to it

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Yes, I’ve been meaning to do a follow up post here. Like a 3 month post review of my experience going from a consumer grade espresso machine to prosumer. I make approximately 2-4 cappuccinos a day so I can deep dive on it including explaining what I learned and how bean preferences changed (dramatically).

Agreed. That's actually what I did in Diablo III. I recall there was even a skill called glass canon. Super fun to literally become a stationary cannon, shoot a giant laser to melt everything in front of you. In Diablo IV, Druid was a bit slow to start but I only got to level 4-5 with it and wasn't jibing with me but I was also relearning how to play Diablo. Been a long time (~8 years?). Once I went to Necromancer and saw how many skeletons I could spawn.... I realized this is more my flavour. Large wrecking crew to pillage. I'm also at level 20 and I have my class setup right now with skeletons with scythes, frost mages (7 NPCs following me) and I focus on using corpses as traps and tricks. Once skill pulls in all the enemies within range to a selected corpse with tentacles, once they're all gathered together, I use my corpse explosion to maximize my AOE and Iron Maiden skill. Honestly, super fun. I purchased the game after going to Necro and I feel this will be my new slow grind game to play whenever I am bored and don't want to focus on single player content.

Diablo IV has a free trial this week FYI. I gave it a try a few days ago. Wasn't feeling the Druid class. A few co-workers told me just to give it another chance and I switched to Necromancer. Having a really good time with it. I put a stupid amount of hours into Diablo III and never thought I would go back but... they got me.

Still pausing on Alan Wake 2 for now but in the meantime, went with a few purchases that we're on my backlog. I'll wait until the winter sale for Sea of Stars and hopefully Armored Core VI goes on sale soon

Ultrawide monitors remind us there’s still much to learn about OLED burn-in ARSTECHNICA.COM Can playing 16:9 content on a 21:9 screen impact burn-in risk? Apparently. Worth a read if you’re about to dip your toes into UW OLED.

So many other games to play and games to purchase but I love Alan Wake... Tempted... Need to sit on it.

Try the* mod recommended by Ultramega a few pages back to remove the instagram filters. It will help a lot with contrast and I suspect these filters are the reason why HDR doesn't properly work in this game.