Ken and Roberta Williams are some of the most influential video game designers ever, and also founded a video game publisher that did a whole lot more — until Sierra On-Line became a victim of massive accounting fraud and dramatically collapsed.
Vice’s Waypoint published this must-read feature story about it, before it, too, became a victim. Now, an authorized Sierra documentary is coming:
Actually, no! io9’s ever-reliable James Whitbrook found legit reasons to love the Star Wars movie we don’t talk about. A slideshow that delivers:
Anbernic’s Game Boy Advance SP homage goes on sale tomorrow for $65, and the just announced $339 Ayn Odin 2 Mini is a dead ringer for PlayStation Vita but with Qualcomm, Wi-Fi 7 and a 1080p mini-LED screen. Then on Saturday, Ayaneo will reveal its takes on the original Game Boy and Game Boy Micro.
Choices, choices!
2003’s Need for Speed: Underground is the latest modded RTX Remix game, with over 1,000 additional light sources and almost completely ray-traced lighting. (Headlight ray tracing is TBD.)
2005’s Most Wanted was more my jam, but this looks great. More about it (and downloadable files) here. Also see: ray traced Half-Life and Half-Life 2, and more listed here.
The blink-and-you-missed-it AR glasses at Google I/O? “The glasses shown are a functional research prototype from our AR team at Google. We do not have any launch plans to share,” Google spokesperson Jane Park tells The Verge.
However: “Looking further ahead, we anticipate that capabilities demonstrated with Project Astra could be utilized through wearables and other next-generation devices.”
The Canon EOS R1 will “dramatically improve the performance of both still images and video” compared to the company’s previously flagship EOS R3. It’s “coming soon.”
Though it has the same Digic X processor, a new “Digic Accelerator” and ML algorithms can — for instance — allegedly tell when one player’s shooting a ball and focus on them automatically.
Ubisoft’s Cécile Russeil is EVP in charge of Communications, Corporate Affairs, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, Human Resources, and Legal. So anything and everything the company does to fix that toxic workplace we heard about in 2020, which led to some changes and more recently to arrests — it’s all on her. Sounds like a monster job.
[staticctf.ubisoft.com]
