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During Anime Expo 2023, Studio Bones released a brand-new trailer for its upcoming cyberpunk anime, Metallic Rouge. Its lush futuristic cityscape, in tandem with its inventive cybernetic character design for its leading protag, hopes to wow fans with an affinity for strong female leads with magical girl… Read more... View the full article

The Pokémon Company revealed on July 6 a new trailer for Pokémon Sleep, the tracker app it first teased in 2019. The video, “How To Play Pokémon Sleep,” is likely the closest thing to a “gameplay” trailer we’re going to get, though it doesn’t include an official release date. Read more... View the full article

Warner Bros. Japan and Spy x Family producer Wit Studio announced at Anime Expo 2023 a new anime centering the DC supervillain team the Suicide Squad. The series, titled Suicide Squad Isekai, does not yet have a release date or an associated streamer, but it will no doubt unite the worst people you know once it does. Read more... View the full article

I haven’t finished Elden Ring, but now that a goldfish has beaten Malenia, one of the hardest bosses in FromSotware’s latest game, I feel like I have to in order to maintain any modicum of self-respect I have for myself. Read more... View the full article

Final Fantasy XVI’s first post-launch update just added one of its most requested features: the option to turn off motion blur. A new toggle in the settings menu will let players make the PlayStation 5 game look less dizzying, a boon to everyone who was getting motion sickness while trying to play. Read more... View the full article

Editor’s note: This post is part of our weekly In the NVIDIA Studio series, which celebrates featured artists, offers creative tips and tricks, and demonstrates how NVIDIA Studio technology improves creative workflows. We’re also deep diving on new GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU features, technologies and resources, and how they dramatically accelerate content creation. A diverse range of artists, fashionistas, musicians and the cinematic arts inspired the creative journey of Pedro Soares, aka Blendeered, and helped him fall in love with using 3D to create art. Now, the Porto, Portugal-based artist uses his own life experiences and interactions with people, regardless of their artistic background, to realize his artistic vision. Enamored by Japanese culture, Blendeered sought to make a representation of an old Japanese temple, dedicated to an animal that has consistently delivered artistic inspiration — the mighty wolf. The result is Japanese Temple Set, a short animation that is the subject of this week’s edition of In the NVIDIA Studio, built with Blender and Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve. https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nvidia-studio-itns-wk64-pedro-soares-1280w-clip1.mp4 In addition, get a glimpse of two cloud-based AI apps, Wondershare Filmora and Trimble SketchUp Go, powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs, and learn how they can elevate and automate content creation. Finally, the #SetTheScene challenge has come to an end. Check out highlights from some of the many incredible submissions. Thank you to everyone who participated in the #SetTheScene challenge! We were blown away by your creativity and artistic skill. Stay tuned next Monday for the launch of our next community challenge. pic.twitter.com/hARW2Z8glQ — NVIDIA Studio (@NVIDIAStudio) July 3, 2023 An AI on the Future Week by week, AI becomes more ubiquitous within the content creation workflows of aspiring artists and creative professionals. Those who own NVIDIA or GeForce RTX GPUs can take advantage of Tensor Cores that utilize AI to accelerate over 100 apps. For others yet to upgrade and seeking more versatility, NVIDIA is working with the top creative app publishers to accelerate their apps on RTX GPUs from the cloud. Take the Wondershare Filmora app, which creators can use to capture and touch up video on their mobile devices. They can, for example, add photos and transform them into an animated video with the app’s AI Image feature. Those with a PC powered by RTX GPUs can send files to the Filmora desktop app and continue to edit with local RTX acceleration, such as by exporting video at double the speed with dual encoders on RTX 4070 Ti or above GPUs. Data is based on tests carried out by Filmora technical experts. To test the export of 4K footage in H.265 and AV1 formats, Wondershare Filmora 12 has been performed on computers with RTX 3090 and 4090 graphics cards respectively. With the Trimble SketchUp Go app, architects can design structures on any device — such as an iPad — without loss in performance thanks to RTX acceleration in the cloud. Projects can be synced in the cloud using Trimble Connect, allowing users to refine projects on their RTX-powered PC using the SketchUp Pro app. There’s even an Omniverse Connector for Trimble, enabling SketchUp Pro compatibility with all apps on NVIDIA Omniverse, a development platform for connecting and building 3D tools and applications. Cloud-based AI support with Trimble SketchUp Go. Hungry Like the Wolf To gather inspiration, and reference materials, to fuel his Japanese temple project, Blendeered browsed Google, Pinterest and PureRef, a stand-alone app for creating mood boards. He sought wolf-inspired and Japanese open-source 3D assets to enrich the scene he envisions before modeling. “Little details in the scene are a celebration of wolves, for example, the paintings on the ceiling and the statues,” said Blendeered. “I did this scene with the goal of invoking calm and relaxing emotions, giving people a moment to breathe and catch their breath.” Work began in Blender with the block-out phase — creating a rough-draft level built using simple 3D shapes, without details or polished art assets. This helped to keep base meshes clean, eliminating the need to create new meshes in the next round, which required only minor edits. Experimenting with camera angles. Blender is the most popular open-source 3D app in the world as it supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline. Blendeered uses it to apply textures, adjust lighting and animate the scene with ease. “Blender, my ultimate 3D app, captivates with its friendly interface, speed, power, real-time rendering, diverse addons, vibrant community, and the best part — it’s free!” said Blendeered, whose moniker underscores his enthusiasm. Aided by his NVIDIA Studio laptop powered by GeForce RTX graphics, Blendeered used RTX-accelerated OptiX ray tracing in the viewport for interactive, photoreal rendering for his modeling and animation needs. Blendeered can view footage through an Instagram aspect ratio. “GPU acceleration for real-time rendering in Blender helps a lot by allowing instant feedback on how scenes look and what needs to be changed and improved,” said the artist. With final renders ready, Blendeered accessed the Blender Cycles renderer and OptiX ray tracing to export final frames quickly, importing the project into DaVinci Resolve for post-production. Here, his RTX card was put to work again, refining the scene with GPU-accelerated color grading, video editing and color scopes. Node application in DaVinci Resolve. The GPU-accelerated decoder (NVDEC) unlocked smoother playback and scrubbing of high-resolution and multistream videos, saving Blendeered massive amounts of time. Blendeered had numerous RTX-accelerated AI-effects at his disposal, including Cut Scene Detection for automatically tagging clips and tracking of effects, SpeedWarp for smooth slow motion, and seamless video Super Resolution. Even non-GPU-powered effects such as Neural Engine text-based editing can prove to be tremendously useful. Once satisfied with the animation, Blendeered used the GPU-accelerated encoder (NVENC) to speed up the exporting of his video. Reflecting on the role his GPU had to play, Blendeered was matter-of-fact: “I chose a GeForce RTX-powered system because of the processing power and compatibility with the software I use.” 3D artist Blendeered. View Blendeered’s portfolio on blendeered.com. Follow NVIDIA Studio on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Access tutorials on the Studio YouTube channel and get updates directly in your inbox by subscribing to the Studio newsletter. View the full article

GFN Thursday arrives alongside the sweet Steam Summer Sale — with hundreds of PC games playable on GeForce NOW available during Valve’s special event for PC gamers. Also on sale, OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II join the GeForce NOW library as a part of five new games coming to the service this week. Saved by the Sale Get great games at great deals to stream across your devices during the Steam Summer Sale. In total, more than 1,000 titles can be found at discounts of up to 90% through July 13. Grow your game collection with some top picks. Get to the gaming while also saving. Enjoy iconic Xbox Game Studios hits from the Age of Empires series — even on Mac — thanks to the cloud. Control an empire with the goal of expanding to become a flourishing civilization. Age of Empires II arrives to the GeForce NOW library this week, joining Age of Empires, Age of Empires III and Age of Empires IV. Stream Square Enix games at beautiful quality on underpowered PCs with heart-wrenching single-player stories like Life is Strange 2 and Life is Strange: True Colors, or battle it out with a squad in the dark sci-fi universe of Outriders. Become a Viking, sail the open sea and fight monsters in the world of Valheim, or play a spooky game of hide-and-seek as a Ghost or a Hunter in Midnight Ghost Hunt. Take these titles from publisher Coffee Stain Studios on the go playing on nearly any Android or iOS mobile device. Tune in on the big screen with NVIDIA SHIELD TVs for THQ Nordic favorites. Return to an apocalyptic Earth in the hack-n-slash adventure Darksiders III, or terrorize the people of 1950s Earth as an evil alien in Destroy All Humans! Experience these titles and 1,600+ other games on GeForce NOW with all of the perks of an Ultimate membership, including RTX 4080 quality, support for 4K 120 frames per second gameplay and ultrawide resolutions, and the longest gaming sessions on the cloud. Priority and Ultimate members can also experience DLSS 3 and RTX ON for real-time cinematic lighting in supported games. Choose Your Path Eight travelers, eight stories, one very powerful cloud to stream from. Visit faraway realms playing OCTOPATH TRAVELER and OCTOPATH TRAVELER II from Square Enix — also on sale on Steam. Members can even start their traveler journey with the OCTOPATH TRAVELER II Prologue demo. Explore the story of eight travelers hailing from different regions who are set on vastly different ventures. Step into their shoes and use their unique talents to make decisions that will shape your path and aid you along your journey in these two award-winning role-playing games. In OCTOPATH TRAVELER, engage in side quests and thrilling battles where every choice made by players shapes the storylines and destinies of these remarkable characters. Continue the adventure with OCTOPATH TRAVELER II and a fresh new set of eight travelers in the land of Solistia, a land comprising eastern and western continents divided by the sea. It’s Good to Be the King And that’s not all — five new games are joining the GeForce NOW library this week. The (Industrial) Revolution will be streaming from the cloud. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the world’s most popular real-time strategy games. Explore all the original campaigns like never before, spanning over 200 hours of gameplay and 1,000 years of human history. Rise to the challenge of leading four new civilizations, exclusive to the Definitive Edition, and head online to challenge other players in a bid for world domination throughout the ages. Catch the full list of new titles available to find your next adventure: The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (New release on Steam, July 7) OCTOPATH TRAVELER (Steam) OCTOPATH TRAVELER II (Steam) OCTOPATH TRAVELER II Prologue Demo (Steam) Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Steam) Members can also experience Major League Baseball’s new Virtual Ballpark and be a part of MLB’s interactive All-Star Celebrity Softball Watch Party on Saturday, July 8. Supported by NVIDIA’s global cloud streaming infrastructure, fans will have frictionless access to high-fidelity interactive experiences. Register for the event. What are you planning to play this weekend? Let us know on Twitter or in the comments below. If you could 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍 to any video game land, where would it be? — NVIDIA GeForce NOW (@NVIDIAGFN) July 5, 2023 View the full article

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EventJuly's Double the Gain Event Event PeriodJuly 6 (Thurs), 2023 after maintenance–August 3 (Thurs), 2023 before maintenance Event DetailsOutlineThe buffs below will be applied across ALL servers during the event period.Week 1 (July 6, after maintenance–July 13, before maintenance): XP x2Week 2 (July 13 after maintenance–July 20 before maintenance): Conflict/War/Siege/Quest completion Honor Points x2Week 3 (July 20 after maintenance–July 27 before maintenance): Vocation Badges x2Week 4 (July 27 after maintenance–August 3 before maintenance): XP, quest completion Honor Points, Vocation Badges x2 DisclaimerItems that grant extra XP from monster kills do not benefit from the event XP bonus.The double gain effect for XP, Honor Points, and Vocation Badges may not be applied at CEST 22:58–23:02 (PDT 20:58–21:02) daily during the event period.The Double the Gain event does not apply to Arenas and Instances.View the full article

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.View the full article

Patch NotesContent UpdatesThe weekly quests at Western/Eastern Hiram Mountains will now complete automatically.The weekly quests at Western/Eastern Hiram Mountains previously required you to go back to the quest NPC to complete the quests. We wanted to make this more convenient, so the quests will now complete automatically once you fulfill the quest conditions.Reward Crates will be given upon completing the quests. The rewards will remain the same.Relevant QuestsWestern Hiram Mountains: Animal Control, Guard Hiram MountainsEastern Hiram Mountains: Haradium Abominations, Stop the Abyssal LegionThe Space-Time Core can now be purchased/used by Commanders.We wanted to make improvements to the inconvenience of not being able to use guild residence furniture when the Guild Leader was absent. Therefore Commanders will now also be able to purchase/use the Space-Time Core.This means Commanders can now activate the following guild residence furniture: Base Teleportation Device, Statue of Noble Gallantry, Carpet of Noble Gallantry.New customizable furniture were added to the Guild Residence Prestige Shop.Empty Frame of Noble GallantryBlank Canvas of Noble GallantryCertain items can be switched to new items.Earth's Bounty Barbecue Table Bug FixesFixed the issue where there the wrong acquisition conditions were displayed for the Equipment Expert title.Adjusted the range from which you can interact with the Recovered Treasure Chest, to make it easier to interact with it.Fixed the issue where an abnormal object was seen in the skies of Marianople.Fixed the issue where the Delphinad Ghost Ship reward, Delphinad Ghost Ship Stone Slab of Blessing, was obtainable by factions other than the Pirate Faction.Fixed the issue where the selling price of relics would not be visible when selling relics to the Relic Merchant.Fixed the issue where the animation and sound effect would not play when using the Daru Pocket Watch.The Daru Pocket Watch will no longer have a casting time.Fixed the issue where item information would not be displayed when equipping multiple costumes.Fixed the issue where Charybdis's Frenzy would stack. EventsJuly's Double the Gain event has started its first week. Week 1 (July 6, after maintenance–July 13, before maintenance): XP x2View the full article

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.View the full article

La Liga, Spain’s top flight of professional football and home to some of the world’s biggest clubs—like Barcelona and Real Madrid—has signed a new sponsorship deal that sees its previous branding (“La Liga Santander”) swapped out, with the league now to be known as LALIGA EA SPORTS. Read more... View the full article

Fairy tales and Drew Barrymore movies taught me that a girl with butterflies in her stomach might be easily inconvenienced by some weird guy (either a literal beast or an everyman who acts like one), but the fluttering is a product of purity, clear like a raindrop. Without a sword or a big-shot career at her disposal,… Read more... View the full article

The Skyrim modding community is currently embroiled in its own deepfake porn controversy, with popular modding site NexusMods and AI voice-cloning technology at its center. Ahead of the release of Bethesda’s upcoming space epic, Starfield, and the belief that the game will be a sort of Eden for the modding community,… Read more... View the full article