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So a user on Reddit posted on the Starfield subreddit that there was a problem in Starfield when running the game on an AMD Radeon GPU. The issue is very simple, the game just won't render a star in any solar system when you are at the dayside of a moon or even any planetary object. The issue only occurs on AMD Radeon GPUs and users with the Radeon RX 7000 & RX 6000 GPUs are reporting the same thing.

The issue is that the dayside of any planetary body or moon needs a source of light that gets it all lit up. That source is the star and on any non-AMD GPU, you will see the star/sun in the sky box which will be illuminating light on the surface. But with AMD cards, the star/sun just isn't there while the planet/moon remains illuminated without any light source.

Original reddit post by u/Yoraxx

Corden made the claim in the latest edition of his podcast, The Xbox Two Podcast, in a broader conversation about the pros of established studios sticking to the development blueprint that made their games so special versus the cons of taking risks and innovating, only for it to instantly crash and burn.

Reflecting on Bethesda's success with Starfield and its recycling of so many of the things we've come to expect from the team's internal development studios, Corden's thoughts turned to Mass Effect, which had phenomenal success with its first three games (Mass Effect 3's controversial ending aside), but struggled to make a similar impact with follow-up Andromeda. And that's when he made the revelation.

"I've heard that Mass Effect is ditching open world," Corden said, "and going back to its classic format. I don't know if that's accurate, 100 per cent, but it's an industry rumour."

Ascendant Studios and EA have detailed tomorrow's Immortals of Aveum update 3 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

Here's the full patch notes from the game's site:

Key Fixes:

• Addressed DLSS compatibility issue causing blurriness for some users on PC
• Addressed DLSS ghosting that was caused when Frame Generation is on
• Fixed an issue where DLSS settings would not apply properly on game launch for PC
• Improved Upscaling for better image fidelity on consoles
• Addressed an issue with Dynamic Shader Branching, improving performance on console and PC
• Various Memory optimizations on console and PC

General:

• Fixed minor bugs and progression issues
• Minor visual improvements and fixes throughout the game

Speaking to the Dungeons & Dragons YouTube channel, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke admitted that the developers feared some low scores for Baldur's Gate 3 due to potential bugs encountered by reviewers. This explains why review codes were only sent a handful of days before the PC launch.

We were worried, like, they're gonna score it six out of ten, seven out of ten. There's going to be a bug, something's going to happen, it's going to break down, everybody's going to hate it. So that was literally our mentality going in, knowing that the content was good, but we were afraid of that. That was the thing that frightened us the most because it's a very big game, and so we know that stuff can go wrong, although the game usually finds a way of settling back on its feet.

Voice and motion capture actor Neil Newbon, known to fans of Baldur's Gate 3 as Astarion, is streaming a co-op let's play of Baldur's Gate 3 alongside friend and horror writer-director Tom de Ville. As they stream they laugh along to the game, and yeah, Newbon does The Astarion Voice a lot when he's in control of, you know, the character he played in the game.

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Blizzard says it's taking "big steps" to discourage cheating, and has banned over 250,000 players since Overwatch 2 launched as part of its "zero-tolerance policy toward cheating and botting".

In a detailed update posted to the official website, the team revealed what it was doing to tackle "disruptive behaviour and cheating", as well as disruptive chat and griefing issues "that negatively impact many multiplayer video games".

"We've been taking big steps to help discourage and remove disruptive behaviour and cheating and wanted to share more details with you," the team began. "Defense Matrix is the name for our collection of efforts to quell the cheating, disruptive chat, and griefing issues that negatively impact many multiplayer video games, including Overwatch 2.

A fire has destroyed part of the offices of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World.

As reported by Vortex (thanks, @HazzadorGamin), the fire broke out at the team's Prague office on Thursday and while, thankfully, no one was injured, the fire has devastated one of the three floors the studio uses, and now requires "complete reconstruction".

Hello, I am looking to buy a new laptop, and I noticed that the GIGABYTE G5 with rtx 3060 is currently at available at a very good price for me at ~900$. I cannot find a similar specced device for that price anywhere. Is it good enough to buy, or should I wait for another better deal?

Also is amazon safe for this?

Our review of the ASUS ROG Ally (with Z1 Extreme) handheld gaming PC tests it primarily against the Steam Deck, including gaming performance, frametimes, thermals, acoustics, battery life and charging, noise samples, and impressions of hardware and software. This is a showcase review for us -- it's detailed, but a fun excuse for our team to throw everything at a device for an in-depth review that teaches us (and hopefully the audience) about some of the testing processes at the same time. We also tried to look at the MicroSD card 'melting' issues with the ROG Ally, only to find that our MicroSD card reader on our Ally was dead within 2 hours of gaming and prior to ever being used for a card.

Handheld gaming device specialist Ayaneo has finalized its highly anticipated RGB keyboard-packing portable device. On its Discord channel, the firm confirms the Ayaneo Slide is now in trial production.

There haven’t been many handheld PCs that pack in a slider mechanism to reveal a physical keyboard; we think the only other model comes from form factor stalwart GPD. However, this still allows Ayaneo to boast its device is the first such design with an RGB backlit keyboard. Of course, the components are thoroughly modern, too.

Previously released specifications indicate that the Ayaneo Slide will come packing an AMD Phoenix processor – no surprise. Specifically, an official teaser from July says that the Ryzen 7 7840U has been chosen.

Diablo 4, Path of Exile, and the rest of the ARPG genre has competition in the mega-ambitious Last Epoch, built by its Reddit community and heading towards 1.0.

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Donald Mustard may not be the most well-known name in gaming, but he's definitely one of the most influential. For the past seven years he's been the chief creative officer at Epic Games and "Loremaster of Fortnite"—the big hand on the wheel of one of the biggest videogame phenomena of all time. But soon that era will come to an end, as Mustard has announced that he is retiring.

Mustard's first videogame credit, according to Mobygames, is on the 2002 action game Bloodrayne. In 2005 he co-founded Chair Entertainment, the developer of the Xbox shooter Undertow, which was acquired by Epic Games in 2008. Mustard remained as creative director at the studio, helming the development of Shadow Complex and the Infinity Blade mobile games, until 2016 when he became CCO at Epic.

The mind behind all those weird RPG skits has a succulent take on Starfield.

YouTube Link - Starfield from the NPC's Perspective

For all of you cat lovers, remember the hit that went to PlayStation Plus a few months ago called Stray? Well, it was so well received by the community that they decided to do an Animated Movie Adaption.

Valve's next entrant in the VR industry is highly anticipated amongst fans, given that the Valve Index was well received. It is now being reported that a new "Valve Hardware' has been certified in South Korea, indicating that the company is indeed prepping for the next step in VR.

The VR expert Brad Lynch disclosed the RRA (Radio Research Agency) certification on Twitter, with Valve applying for certification for a new '1030' hardware. While it isn't confirmed that the certification is based on Valve's next VR device, the analysis is made based on the fact that the details mentioned in the certification match the ones of the Meta Quest 3 and HTC VIVE XR Elite; hence, it could be said that Valve is preparing to release something in that domain, especially since they said not long ago that a proper Deck 2 device wouldn't be released until the hardware improvement was significant.

Only Up! was discontinued by SCKR Games on September 8. The game is no longer available on Steam. In an announcement, the developer mentioned wanting to put the game behind them.

According to Bethesda Support, even the Intel Arc A770 GPU does not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirements.

The Steam Deck has kick-started a wave of handhelds from some of the big names in PC gaming. Asus has its Windows-powered ROG Ally, Lenovo just announced its own Legion Go handheld PC, and Logitech released a cloud-focused handheld. AMD has been quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors, and that got me thinking: where’s Microsoft’s Xbox handheld?

You probably already know what I'm talking about here: that thing where you're in the middle of dialogue with an NPC, but the rest of the scene has chosen not to cooperate. It's a common feature of RPGs, but it shows up extra often in Bethesda games, and of course has returned in Starfield. I can't get enough of it.

My favorite example so far is the video embedded above, which tells the very brief tale of a chipper fellow who fails to watch his own back.

These mid-dialogue attempted murders come in lots of flavors, though. Sometimes it's not a messed up bone-spider thing that ruins the NPC's day, for example, but the player themselves.

Example YouTube Video from article

The new Rust update makes life in the sky a lot more interesting.

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Make friends or frenemies! Be a savvy schemer in this hybrid RPG party game!

Originally released for the PlayStation®2 and the Nintendo Wii, the hybrid party board game is back! The game is simple: spin the roulette and defeat whoever stands your way!

I have a ton of unclaimed games collecting dust in my Humble Bundle account, either games I already own or have no interest in. So instead, I'm giving them all away here.

Just comment the name of the game you want from the list below and I'll PM you the Steam key. First come first served.

EDIT: Seems like I can only send PMs to people who have their account here on kbin.social. For people from lemmy instances you'll have to let me know what your Steam or Discord account is so I can contact you there.

Claimed games will be striked out, but depending on how fast people claim games I might be lagging behind, so bear with me.

Games:

• 2064: Read Only Memories
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• ~~Aliens: Fireteam Elite~~
• Ashes of the Singularity Escalation
• ~~BATTLETECH~~
• Bad North: Jotunn Edition
• ~~Borderlands 3~~
• ~~Chivalry 2~~
• Cook, Serve, Delicious!
• Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
• ~~Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3~~
• ~~Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy~~
• ~~Day of the Tentacle~~
• ~~Encased~~
• ~~Endless Space 2~~
• ~~Fallout~~
• ~~Fallout 76~~
• ~~Galactic Civilizations III~~
• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
• ~~Graveyard Keeper~~
• ~~Guacamelee! 2~~
• ~~Hellpoint~~
• Iris and the Giant
• ~~Just Cause 3~~
• ~~Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning~~
• Lara Croft GO
• ~~MORDHAU~~
• ~~Maneater~~
• ~~Middle-earth: Shadow of War~~
• ~~Mini Metro~~
• ~~Monster Prom~~
• ~~Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp~~
• ~~Moonlighter~~
• Mr. Shifty
• ~~Nuclear Throne~~
• ~~ONE PIECE BURNING BLOOD~~
• Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
• ~~Outlast 2~~
• ~~Overcooked~~
• ~~Paradise Killer~~
• ~~Per Aspera~~
• Planet Alpha
• ~~Q.U.B.E. 2~~
• ~~Quantum Break~~
• ~~RUINER~~
• ~~Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition~~
• ~~Road Redemption~~
• ~~STRAFE: Millennium Edition~~
• ~~SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE~~
• ~~Shenmue I & II~~
• ~~Slay the Spire~~
• ~~Sleeping Dogs~~
• ~~Sniper Elite 3~~
• ~~Sonic Mania~~
• Splasher
• ~~Street Fighter V~~
• ~~Sundered~~
• Surviving Mars
• ~~Tacoma~~
• ~~The Henry Stickmin Collection~~
• ~~The Long Dark~~
• ~~The Stanley Parable~~
• ~~The Survivalists~~
• ~~Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales~~
• ~~Tomb Raider~~
• ~~Tribes of Midgard~~
• ~~Two Point Hospital~~
• ~~Valkyria Chronicles 4~~
• ~~Vane~~
• ~~Wandersong~~
• ~~Wizard of Legend~~
• World of Goo
• ~~Worms W.M.D~~
• ~~Yakuza 3 Remastered~~

One of the most succinct yet exciting announcements from last year’s D23 Expo was Gargoyles Remastered, a modernized facelift of the classic (and challenging) side-scrolling Sega Genesis title based on the popular ‘90s cartoon. A new trailer revealed the game’s new presentation and an October release date.

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I'm enjoying Starfield so far, but when we're talking about having the right tools, the biggest problem a lot of players will face comes down to the limited accessibility settings the game comes with. This was a worry for the accessibility community during the buildup to Starfield's arrival, as gameplay trailers, interviews with Bethesda's Todd Howard and the general trickle of pre-release information failed to explore accessibility. Unfortunately, our accessibility worries were rooted in reality.

PB Tech New Zealand has lowered the price of a Galax GeForce RTX 4070 1 CLICK OC X2 12 GB graphics card to stay competitive with the initial batch of freshly released AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT cards. This particular custom NVIDIA model is not quite as fancy as its triple fan sibling that sits in TPU's database, but the promotional price of NZ$999 (abt $588 USD) could be enough to tempt customers away from Team Red's new mid-range offerings—starting with Sapphire's reference model at NZ$998.99. For NZ$1018.99 (abt $600 USD) you reach the first tier of custom design RX 7800 XT models—ASRock's AMD Challenger 16 GB OC and a Sapphire Pulse Gaming 16 GB card.

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