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Earlier this year, freelance data scientist Antoine Mayerowitz uploaded a blog post to hir website showing the best build to have the fastest racer in Mario Kart 8. For this, he used the “Pareto Front” to calculate the efficiency of each of the 703,560 combinations of character, vehicle, tires and glider used for player builds in the racing game. Designed by the Italian polymath Vilfredo Pareto, the front sets all of the solutions calculated by the Pareto Efficiency. Mayerowitz used this method to combine the different builds players can make in Mario Kart 8 down to 14 of the most efficient af...
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From April 20 to 22, Nintendo’s squid-themed shooter, Splatoon 3, will host a “Splatfest” event where players can experience in-game musical performances and see the game’s characters and cities with a spring theme. On the game’s official X account, the developers told fans that this year’s theme will involve the question: “Which fuzzy fluffiness do you like the most?” The post included the three options of “Baby Chicks,” “Li’l Bunnies” and “Bear Cubs,” with the studio asking fans to pick their favorite of the three. And it was not just the fans who were saying their favorites – the official W...
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After its release in 2022, Rockstar Game’s GTA+ subscription service has hosted several games previously released by the studio within their massively successful title, Grand Theft Auto V, which continues to be one of their best-selling games despite launching over a decade ago in 2013. While it had first been released to introduce new in-game benefits for players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, in October 2023, they had started to have the subscription include older games from their library to be available to play in rotation within the base GTA V game. At first, it was the old...
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Throughout its five-year development, fans anticipating Team Cherry’s upcoming Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, have been teasing each other with memes regarding the game’s unknown release date. One of these supposed “jokes” came from a user named Eroke on the gaming forum site ResetEra, who posted a screenshot of the title receiving a rating of “12+” from the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) of South Korea. However, this may be less of a joke than what fans had thought. On April 1, a product marketing manager for Xbox, Tao Sila, posted on X that the wishlist page for Silksong wa...
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On April 1, Blizzard Entertainment updated their massively successful first-person shooter game, Overwatch 2, with a patch reflecting the mischievous holiday of April Fools Day. This has been a yearly tradition for the franchise that fans look forward to each year. To see the changes that the patch had made to the game, players could access the new content by selecting the “Balanced Overwatch” option in the Main Menu. After selecting the option, players could discover the various ways that the studio had “unbalanced” its heroes. For example, D.Va’s “Self-Destruct” move can knock players hit by...
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a technical marvel. Some aspects of its physics engine have great potential across many industries. However, when Tears of the Kingdom was in development, it actually broke. The break was significant, affecting game mechanics and physics. Across the developer floor, programmer Takahiro Takayama could hear people shouting things like, “it’s flying” or “it broke” and that things were absolute “chaos.” They had realized that everything had to be physics-driven by removing all non-physic-driven objects. One innovation they implemented was independent in...
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Diablo 4, Season 4 release date is getting pushed back nearly a month to May 14. While players are left with a disappointing season in the meantime, it does leave time to level their battle pass. The expected overhaul includes so much content that Season 4 is getting its own Public Test Realm. Some argue that the changes are so extensive, it might as well be a new game. Their show about the Season was two hours long. Notably, the overhaul in loot is going to have a big impact on in-game playability and how you build your character. Loot drops will be smaller but more valuable to speed up the p...
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On March 22, Capcom released a new entry into the Dragon’s Dogma series about 14 years after the first game’s release in 2012. With generally positive reviews, the sequel has come up in many discussions online due to the game’s intentionally difficult gameplay as well as some hidden mechanics that can extremely impede the player’s progress in the story. A few examples of the game purposely messing with players would be some aerial enemies may abandon the battle in mid-flight which can strand players, masking the elven language from players until they have a party member that speaks their langu...
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On March 20, during their “State of Unreal” report that was streamed onto YouTube live from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Epic Games outlined a public roadmap toward the future of the massively successful battle royale title, Fortnite. In the outline, they had laid out plans to release future seasons of the game using an Unreal Engine editor they launched last year, titled Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), which was designed to allow players to create their own games and levels for the game. With the new updates, players will be able to do in-game trades with other players,...
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In light of the controversial decisions from Warner Bros. Discovery, such as the last-minute cancellations of several HBO Max series along with a refusal to release the nearly finished Batgirl film, the studio has struck again by announcing that they will be pulling games published by Adult Swim Games from online marketplaces. This announcement has brought anger and fear among developers and fans as the company has listed that they were going through “business changes” leading to their decision to pull the games. Some developers such as Owen Deery and Michael Molinari have gone public with the...
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