Carbon Games – независимая американская студия разработки видеоигр, наиболее известная благодаря своей free-to-play игре AirMech. Компания специализируется на разработке стратегических игр в реальном времени с элементами экшена. AirMech, их флагманский проект, сочетает в себе элементы MOBA и RTS, предлагая игрокам управлять трансформирующимися мехами и строить базы. Carbon Games стремится создавать инновационные и увлекательные игровые опыты для широкой аудитории.
Even with the importance of physical media ownership in the current era of digital product ephemera, it's often unlikely your PC will actually be able to play the CDs, DVDs or Blu-Rays you have around the house. Internal disc drives aren't common amongst desktops or even laptops anymore, so your only recourse is often an external drive. One Steam Frame user was hoping to connect his own detachable disc drive to watch movies and play Need For Speed Carbon (valid!) using the headset, which can run both VR and 'flat' games without a separate PC , but found that the Frame lacked the drivers to read a disc. In a very earnest community post , user Aiodensghost lamented that this fact "KILLED MY ABILITY TO INSTALL MY ABANDONWARE FROM 2006.
Valve adds CD-ROM support to Steam Frame kernel less than ten minutes after saying it would look into it That was fast. You can truly never anticipate how one might use their tech. After a Steam Frame owner asked why the VR headset didn't work with their detachable disc drive, Valve developer gaberow said they were looking into it—and patched in kernel support mere minutes later. As spotted by Tom's Hardware, AiodensGhost asked for the feature on October 18, gaberowe responded on October 19, then made the commit to the Steam Frame kernel in less than ten minutes.
Google and Unity unveil gen-AI game-making platforms, and demonstrate one of them with depressingly rubbish "dream game" Space Corridor "They successfully identified that their target market was people with no imagination." Google and Unity yesterday announced new generative-AI game-making platforms designed to make and shape games by inputting text prompts. Google's product is called Playground and is available for testing now, if you live in the US, and Unity's product is Unity Spark and is "coming soon". Google Playground will work with and integrate Unity Spark when "creators" want to "expand their concepts" with "robust, professional-level mechanics, high-fidelity 3D capabilities", Google's Playground blog post said. On Bluesky, Dan Marshall of Size Five Games - creator of the recent point-and-click villain comedy Earth Must Die - described Unity Spark's creation of Space Corridor "as the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands".