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NCSOFT’s Project M Receives Stunning New Trailer

Ravi Sinha — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:59:52 +0000

NCSOFT’s action-adventure title Project M was showcased during the State of Unreal presentation at GDC 2023, highlighting Unreal Engine 5’s features. It starts with a digital version of chief creative officer Taekjin Kim, created using the company’s AI text-to-speech. The facial expressions and lip-sync are possible courtesy of its “voice-to-face technology.”

As for Project M, it’s an interactive title not unlike Detroit: Become Human, where the player makes choices in different scenes. Each branch off in unique ways, so using a gun suddenly changes the game into a third-person shooter.

With “informational particles,” the player can “simulate the momentarily provided time and space.” Blending the past, present and future in different spaces looks interesting, and the visuals are fantastic, thanks to Unreal Engine 5.

Project M is in development for consoles with no release date yet. Stay tuned for more details and check out announcements from the State of Unreal, including a new trailer showcasing facial animation in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 and a technical showcase for Lords of the Fallen.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chronobyl Will Receive New “Exclusive Look” at GDC

Shubhankar Parijat — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:00:13 +0000

GSC Game World is continuing to plug away behind the scenes on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Shadow of Chronobyl, and as hype surrounding the horror open world shooter continues to grow, so too does the demand for more details on the game. Some of those new details, as it turns out, will be arriving soon.

GDC is happening later this month, and there, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will be getting a new “exclusive look”. The panel, presented by GSC Game World 3D animator Anton Riabchuk, will focus on how the developers are “adopting generative AI technology from NVIDIA in their content creation workflows”, while also going over the “workflow challenges in the facial animation and localization process”, and the Omniverse Audio2Face AI SDK and the “challenges it helps solve”.

This being a GDC talk, you obviously shouldn’t expect a gameplay showcase, though there will likely still be new tech-related details and information on how the game’s development is proceeding to parse through.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornoyl is due out sometime this year for Xbox Series X/S and PC.

State of Unreal Presentation Announced for GDC 2023 on March 22

Shunal Doke — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:38:07 +0000

Epic Games has announced that it will be holding a live streamed presentation during the upcoming Game Developer’s Conference 2023. The presentation, titled State of Unreal, will likely focus on games being developed using the new engine, and is set for March 22.

For the sake of context, the previous year’s State of Unreal featured studios like Crystal Dynamics and CD Projekt RED announcing a move away from their older game engines on to Unreal Engine 5. The company also showed off the Lyra and the City demo.

The presentation will likely focus more on the development side of things than the consumer side, and new games will likely not be announced or shown off. Instead, developers will get a glimpse at new features coming to Unreal Engine 5, as well as other new Epic technologies, such as MetaHuman.

The company is also set to have a series of talks for developers revolving around programming, art, and game development.

The State of Unreal presentation is going to be livestreamed on the company’s YouTube and Twitch channels.