Valve’s move to censor visual novels undoes its Steam Direct promises

Visual novel developers who have mature-themed games on Steam are reeling from what developer MangaGamer is calling Valve’s “sudden and abrupt policy shift.” Valve, which owns and operates the Steam PC gaming service, has notified MangaGamer and certain other developers that they have until the end of the month to remove pornograp…Read More

Visual Out Is A Metroidvania Adventure Through A Dying, Glitchy Computer

In recently released metroidvania Visual Out, an adventure awaits within the files and code of an rotting mainframe. As a rogue program, you descend deep into the operating system of this collapsing cyberspace environment, a CRT glitch-scape where bending the environment to your will is your means of uncovering the secrets of the computer and […]

Edgar Wright Praises ‘Ready Player One’ and Spielberg’s “Audio Visual Feast”

After working on it for three years, director Steven Spielberg finally debuted his film adaptation of Ready Player One at the SXSW Film Festival last week and earned a largely rapturous reception. Now you can add another name to its list of fans: Edgar Wright, the director of films like Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The […]

See Snoke Without Visual Effects in ‘The Last Jedi’ Behind-the-Scenes Footage

Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits Blu-ray and digital this month. In anticipation of that release, some new behind-the-scenes footage has arrived revealing Andy Serkis‘ Snoke performance before visual effects were applied. The curtain is peeled back to reveal the work Serkis does before computers turn him into a giant old man. Also: the actor provides […]

Visual Out explores the inside of an old computer on March 15

In Visual Out, you play as a software program navigating the guts of a dying computer. But it’s nothing like the sleek neon lines of certain sci-fi interpretations of cyberspace. Instead, indie developer MadameBerry created her environment from the building blocks of obsolete tech — beige-grays and muted colors, blocks and glitches, and a low-res filter […]

Pinterest hires Google’s Chuck Rosenberg to lead visual search team

Pinterest today announced it has hired Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg to be the company’s head of computer vision and lead its visual search engineering team. During his nearly 15 years at Google, Rosenberg led image search and image understanding groups at the search giant and helped the company implement its first neural […]

Netflix’s ‘Altered Carbon’ is a Visual Feast Lacking Sustenance

Netflix’s new original series Altered Carbon is a big, bold, visually stunning sci-fi extravaganza. Unfortunately, the story the show is telling fails to live up to the jaw-dropping visuals on display, ultimately robbing the series of its power. Minor spoilers follow. A Visual Feast Lacking Sustenance  Netflix’s bombastic new sci-fi action-drama Altered Carbon comes barreling out […]