Topic: world building
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Pocket Lands: A Mixed Reality Playground for Creators
Pocket Lands is a new mixed reality sandbox for creators on Meta Quest, offering a flexible platform to build digital worlds, though it's currently in Early Access with some rough edges. It features three distinct viewing modes for world-building and a standout ability to instantly shift from a g...
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Assassin's Creed Shadows: Claws of Awaji DLC Review
The Claws of Awaji DLC for Assassin's Creed Shadows is a story-focused expansion that introduces a new weapon and more aggressive enemies but lacks significant new content or narrative revelations. The expansion's environment and side activities closely resemble the base game, offering familiar l...
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Hell Is Us: A Surprisingly Accessible Soulslike With a Dark Story
Hell Is Us combines challenging soulslike combat with a more forgiving structure, set in a brutal fictional civil war that draws from real-world conflicts. The game features unique mechanics like a healing pulse system and extensive customization through glyphs and relics, though it suffers from ...
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Pocket Lands: Mixed Reality Minecraft on Quest
Pocket Lands merges mixed and virtual reality, allowing players to build miniature dioramas in their physical space and then explore them interactively in VR, launching in early access next month. Developed by Thomas van den Berge, it uses hand tracking to manipulate building materials and enable...
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Ghost Of Yōtei Creators On Atsu: 'A Chapter Is Done'
The game centers on Atsu's transformation from a quest for revenge to a journey of healing and self-discovery, emphasizing her emotional growth and interactions with characters like Oyuki and Jubei. Key narrative elements include Atsu's forced perspective shifts, such as seeing the world through ...
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Keeper Review: Bold and Bright, But Lacks Depth
Keeper is a visually stunning adventure game featuring a sentient lighthouse and a seabird companion exploring a surreal post-human world, though its narrative and puzzles are considered somewhat shallow. Gameplay centers on manipulating light and directing the bird to solve environmental puzzles...
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Stability AI & EA Partner to Revolutionize Game Creation
Stability AI and Electronic Arts (EA) have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop generative AI tools and workflows, aiming to empower EA's creative teams and redefine video game development processes. The collaboration will embed Stability AI's 3D research team with EA's developers to enha...
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The Outer Worlds 2's Factions Fail to Match Fallout: New Vegas
The Outer Worlds 2's factions lack the ideological depth and narrative impact of Fallout: New Vegas, making them feel less compelling and more peripheral to the main plot. Developers designed the game with a cynical philosophy, suggesting that powerful individuals are trapped by systems, which re...
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