Morning Overview on MSN

Nvidia demos neural texture compression, claiming 85% less VRAM use

Nvidia researchers have proposed a neural compression method for material textures that, according to results reported in ...
The BackDash on MSN

Morbid Metal early access review

Morbid Metal looks like a promising hack-and-slash game in the first few hours of its roguelite systems, but there's still a ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

"I was chomping at the bit to crack the code": How procedural maps became XCOM 2's biggest ambition, after Firaxis couldn't manage it in Enemy Unknown

The developers of XCOM 2 reveal the challenge of making procedural maps for their turn-based tactical game, including why ...
GIGAZINE

'Hex Map Toy' automatically generates hexagonal hex maps commonly used in games on WebGPU, applying wave function contraction

An experimental map generator called ' Hex Map Toy ' has been released that automatically generates hexagonal tile terrain maps commonly seen in games using WebGPUs. According to the creator, it can ...