NVIDIA Will Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion The deal keeps Hugging Face open to all developers, with no NVIDIA hardware required. NVIDIA is set to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform, in a deal worth $12,930,300,000. CEO Jensen Huang shared the news in a blog post, calling…
"No DLSS 5. Just good art direction." NVIDIA's highly controversial DLSS 5 and its 3D-Guided Neural Rendering technology debuted with 2K Games' NBA 2K27, shortly after a leaked version circulated online and was modded into several games. Aside from its massive performance impact of up to 60%, the…
And until they sell their memecoin, apparently. GTA 6 has seen its fair share of leaks over the years, and the most recent one is connected to someone called Cyberleek, a person (or a team, most likely) who has recently shared some footage from the game, and they have something to say. Apparently,…
Black Pony Immersive will focus on developing single-player, first-person action RPGs. This week, veteran game developer Harvey Smith announced the launch of a new game development studio, Black Pony Immersive. Smith previously co-led the Deus Ex and Dishonored series and is joined at the new…
Brad Faucheux really nailed her moves, and the 2D effects are the cherry on top. Brad Faucheux, a Senior Animator at NetherRealm Studios, known for developing the Mortal Kombat and Injustice series, put his fighting-game expertise to work in this impressive animation featuring Hollow Knight:…
Undertraining can lead to some pretty interesting results. Blue Nile has been experimenting with 3D Gaussian Splatting for some time, and the results are often wonderfully weird. If you've missed the artist's work so far, they've been creating all kinds of surreal visuals, like these hologram-like…
Would you like to play this game? ▶ YouTube Biomass: Extermination is a psychological sci-fi FPS set in a narrative environment where you will explore ruined cities, abandoned underground facilities, military stations, and fight different enemies. A distress signal leads you to a wasteland that…
"BioShock Meets Willy Wonka" Retro Shooter Is Out, and You Need to Try It Twisted Tower puts you against creepy fairy-tale mascots. ▶ YouTube If clowns and old Disney cartoons creep you out, you should try Twisted Tower, a freshly released first-person shooter heavily inspired by BioShock. Set in…
What else would you like to see in the game? ▶ YouTube The team behind Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis continued their mini-doc series on the game's development, sharing what they kept and what they changed from the older title. This time, in episode 6, they talked about the reimagination of the…
Quad Maker helps you keep your models clean. Retopology is a task I feel no artist likes, but you can make it easier with Mark Kingsnorth's Quad Maker for Blender, a tool that lets you deal with it manually. Quad Maker is a set of mesh operations designed to help 3D modelers quickly retopologize…
Would you like a D-pad cushion? This is probably a collaboration you didn't expect, but it might be one you didn't know you needed, especially if meatballs or hot dogs are part of the deal. In a joint post, Xbox announced that it is partnering with Swedish furniture giant IKEA on a new line of…
Warren Spector thinks he's done what he planned. Game designer Warren Spector, the creator of Deus Ex, Ultima Underworld, and System Shock, is retiring from development, as he announced on LinkedIn. His reasons are simple: he feels like he's done what he wanted to do, and now it's time to write…
Unity-Based Algorithm For Seamless Dungeon Generation Learn how the Labyrinth Procedural Generator works and try the demo. ▶ YouTube This project began in 2023, when Ryan Carpenter was designing an algorithm to procedurally generate a 3D dungeon for an FPS he was working on at university. While the…
Shadows Make This Character's Face Change In The Creepiest Way Try making your own version. 3D Artist known on Reddit as QuestionableHoney recently showcased a PS2-style model that has different faces depending on whether they are in shadow or not. It's a neat concept with a neat execution, and the…
True First-Person Mode In Unreal Engine's Game Animation Sample Project FocalRig replaces aim offsets with precise procedural look and aim. Maks Maisak has showcased a use case for Focal Rig, his Control Rig plug-in for performant procedural animation. According to him, it took only 10 minutes to…
Morrigan Aensland From Capcom's Darkstalkers Reimagined In Realistic Style Truly phenomenal work. Creating fan art and trying to capture the original style is already a fun challenge, but adding your own take while still keeping the character recognizable makes it even more interesting. Renowned 3D…
It's very satisfying to watch. The FX Artist Iman Vafaei shared on LinkedIn an impressive Houdini coral growth simulation that is very hypnotizing. The video shows the coral growing rapidly, causing bubbles in the water and stirring the sand. The artist explained that it was created using a SOP…
Save 97% off the total value. Nicolas Swijngedau, a Creature and Character Artist, released a ZBrush and Blender Creature Brush Bundle that features more than 20 brush packs to help you add more detail to your characters and creatures. You can use the different brushes directly in your projects to…
Three Professional VFX Tools For Blender In One Bundle Get RBDLab, VDBLab, and FluidLab. ▶ YouTube BeFX Studios, the developers behind Hurricane and MatPlus, has put three of its most advanced VFX products together in one bundle, giving you a solid toolkit for creating all kinds of effects and…
This Indie Dev Replaced Quest Markers With Something More Creative Definitely not a game for introverts. People really do yearn for Morrowind. If you don't mind getting lost, finding your own way, and figuring things out for yourself, you might like this prototype by Moths Games, who also dislikes…
Check Out This Impressive Nylon Tension Simulation Set Up in 3D We see who you're aiming for, Sakura Rabbit. Sheer materials are not easy to simulate, but Sakura Rabbit has never been afraid of challenges. Following other fun experiments, the artist showcased a tension simulation of nylon…
Create Sculpted-Looking Edge Details With Decals In Blender Generate decals in just a few clicks, and place and fine-tune them exactly how you want. ▶ YouTube Originally started as a simple mesh decal script, this has grown into a full add-on for creating non-destructive decals along mesh edges.…
Tutorial: Procedural Blender Shader With Hand-Painted Look Follow lassyla's guide and download her shader to try it out yourself. ▶ YouTube 3D Artist lassyla recently shared a tutorial on the EEVEE shader she uses for most of her Blender art, which is fully procedural, and despite the hand-painted…
Aaron Victor shared updates to his stylized game project. Animator Aaron Victor unveiled a new sneak peek at his Godot game project, which we featured before – with demos of the character walking in somber woods and a pistol animation. This time, the developer showed a stealth sequence inspired by…