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Guerrilla’s Decima Engine is pure witchcraft🤯 There’s a reason Digital Foundry crowned Horizon Forbidden West, Best Graphics of the Year. 💠 PS5 Pro + OLED TV = Eye Popping — the detail, lighting, environments… absolutely mesmerizing.

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Dread LYFE 5018 days ago

I would love to see a Killzone game using this engine

Lex Not Luthor7 days ago

This is why I like PlayStation so much, their studios design custom engines and really maximizes them! And you can tell the dedication to detail is remarkable in all their games.

GamerLexual8 days ago

It’s just graphics gameplay really lacking

Kevo Spaceboundlego8 days ago

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Val Gorsky7 days ago

Too bad they didn’t concentrate on the gameplay and story

angel8 days ago

Only if they make good games with it.

Heat0_0Blast7 days ago

Stunning 🤩

Teodor7 days ago

Looks sharp as fuck if you don't already know it's also boring as fuck, dialogues are cringe and written by a woke/DEI teenager.

mike7 days ago

I can see the reveal of the 3rd installment now, ending scene Aloy riding in on a Thunderjaw!!!

Alex Kalex7 days ago

Kojima Productions used their knowledge from Fox Engine to make Decima better 👍

Helker7 days ago

Tendrían que volver a Killzone.

Thorin7 days ago

It's a shame they made Aloy so insufferably boring in contrast.

Agnostic Firebird7 days ago

Best looking PlayStation game and it's cross gen

jabre7 days ago

And it would be game if decade if it wasnt fuckin gay!

Sean7 days ago

PS5 Pro? It’s on PC, you should see it there

Tom7 days ago

Would like to see an update to pssr2

Amol Bhatia7 days ago

Best engine in gaming

alex_de_tampa7 days ago

No need for ray tracing

micashash 🚾7 days ago

that was fucking 2022 lol

Andrés Smaluk7 days ago

Imagine ultra pc + oled monitor, that is way more amazing

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I want all the anti-exclusives and "all games should be multi-platform" folk to watch, listen and ponder WHY Digital Foundry said this. Is John anti-consumer? Or could it be he's PRO consumer, but intelligent and knowledgeable enough to understand the tech/design benefits of exclusivity? "It's refreshing to see a title that not only launches exclusively on a single platform, but also raises the bar visually." Again, there's a reason an exclusive whether timed or otherwise, has won a whopping 35/46 or 76% of the best tech/graphics awards over just under a decade, from 5 of the most notable institutions giving out such awards. And this despite exclusives making up less than 10% of overall releases. Exclusivity increases (but certainly doesn't guarantee) the chances of quality, both in game design, technology and graphics, due to the extra design and optimisation leeway afforded by ground up single platform focus, dual for Xbox. And Digital Foundry being tech experts, of course understand this. Tech/graphics awards winners: DICE Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards winners 2024 - Astro Bot 2023 - Spider-Man 2 2022 - Elden Ring 2021 - Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart 2020 - Dreams 2019 - Death Stranding 2018 - Red Dead Redemption 2 2017 - Horizon Zero Dawn 2016 - Uncharted 4 2015 - The Witcher 3 NAVGTR Technical Awards winners 2024 - Astro Bot 2023 - Alan Wake 2 2022 - God of War Ragnarok 2021 - Rift Apart (Engineering/Animation) 2020 - Ghost of Tsushima 2019 - Control 2018 - Horizon Zero Dawn 2017 - Uncharted 4 Game Developers Choice Awards Best Technology winners 2024 - Astro Bot 2023 - Tears of the Kingdom 2022 - God of War Ragnarok 2021 - Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart 2020 - Microsoft Flight Sim 2019 - Control 2018 - Red Dead Redemption 2 2017 - Horizon Zero Dawn 2016 - Uncharted 4 2015 - Witcher 3 Digital Foundry 2024 - Indiana Jones 2023 - Avatar 2022 - Horizon Forbidden West 2021 - Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart 2020 - Cyberpunk PC, Miles Morales 2019 - Death Stranding/Metro Exodus PC 2018 - RDR2, Spider-Man 2017 - Horizon Zero Dawn 2016 - Uncharted 4 NXGamer 2024 - Indiana Jones 2023 - Alan Wake 2 2022 - Horizon Forbidden West 2021 - Rift Apart 2020 - Cyberpunk PC, TLOU2 2019 - Death Stranding 2018 - Red Dead Redemption 2 2017 - Horizon Zero Dawn 2016 - Uncharted 4 List includes console exclusives. A few years Digital Foundry and NXGamer included a winner on console, and a separate winner on PC. #PS5 #PS5Pro #DeathStranding2

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Local TV weather is one of the last places on television where real-time science still meets personality in real time. This FOX 10 segment shows a meteorologist walking viewers through a major heat event across the South and Southwest. The graphics are standard — temperature gradients, pressure patterns, the usual regional outlook — but the delivery is what makes local weather stick. Clear gestures, steady pacing, and the ability to make dense information feel immediate. Clips like this travel for a reason that goes beyond the obvious. Extreme heat is not abstract right now. Large stretches of the country are dealing with prolonged triple-digit temperatures, elevated heat-index values, and the health and infrastructure stress that comes with them. When a station packages that information with a polished, confident presentation, people actually stop and watch the forecast instead of scrolling past another generic alert. There’s also a longer cultural note here. Weather has always been one of the few remaining appointment-viewing formats that still feels local and useful. The same segment that gives you the numbers also carries the visual language of the station — wardrobe, lighting, energy. That combination is why these moments keep circulating: the information is practical, and the packaging is memorable. The forecast itself is the substance. Everything else is just how it gets delivered. Credit: @yournewsndweatherbabe What’s your local station doing with the heat right now — straight numbers, or are they leaning into the presentation side too?

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SteelerNation

217,598 views • 2 months ago

Today, we’re excited to announce our $50M Series B, led by Greenfield Partners, with participation from Lightspeed and Notable Capital. 🚀 At Patronus AI, we develop simulations and evals to train and improve AI. The first phase of AI was built on static benchmarks, but that era is over. As agents are used to solve longer and longer tasks, they need to practice in dynamic, living worlds to get better. Simulations are the critical infrastructure powering this next phase. As a company, we’re behind the most influential research and products in AI evaluation, like FinanceBench, Lynx, and Percival. And things have moved at the speed of light since.⚡ We partner with the world's leading frontier AI labs and enterprises, and our revenue has grown more than 15x over the past year. Additionally, today, we’re introducing a preview of the first Digital World Model for AI agent training and simulation: Patronus-DWM. Digital World Models are language diffusion world models that predict realistic environment behaviors and steer agent actions across digital workflows. Just as physical world models predict how objects move through space, we’re developing the equivalent for the digital world: predicting how agents act in digital workflows, then using that to scale the creation of high-quality training data for LLMs. Digital World Models help us push the frontier of ultra long horizon workflows, and unlock a new class of self-improving RL environments. This is our scalable approach to simulating all of the world’s intelligence. The round was also joined by Datadog, Inc., Samsung Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Factorial Capital, and a large cohort of amazing AI leaders across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Recursive, and more.✨ It has been the ride of a lifetime. But we’re just getting started. The best is yet to come. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas (1954)

Today, we’re excited to announce our $50M Series B, led by Greenfield Partners, with participation from Lightspeed and Notable Capital. 🚀 At Patronus AI, we develop simulations and evals to train and improve AI. The first phase of AI was built on static benchmarks, but that era is over. As agents are used to solve longer and longer tasks, they need to practice in dynamic, living worlds to get better. Simulations are the critical infrastructure powering this next phase. As a company, we’re behind the most influential research and products in AI evaluation, like FinanceBench, Lynx, and Percival. And things have moved at the speed of light since.⚡ We partner with the world's leading frontier AI labs and enterprises, and our revenue has grown more than 15x over the past year. Additionally, today, we’re introducing a preview of the first Digital World Model for AI agent training and simulation: Patronus-DWM. Digital World Models are language diffusion world models that predict realistic environment behaviors and steer agent actions across digital workflows. Just as physical world models predict how objects move through space, we’re developing the equivalent for the digital world: predicting how agents act in digital workflows, then using that to scale the creation of high-quality training data for LLMs. Digital World Models help us push the frontier of ultra long horizon workflows, and unlock a new class of self-improving RL environments. This is our scalable approach to simulating all of the world’s intelligence. The round was also joined by Datadog, Inc., Samsung Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Factorial Capital, and a large cohort of amazing AI leaders across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Recursive, and more.✨ It has been the ride of a lifetime. But we’re just getting started. The best is yet to come. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas (1954)

PatronusAI

95,899 views • 3 months ago

Today, we’re excited to announce our $50M Series B, led by Greenfield Partners (formerly TPG Capital), with participation from Lightspeed and Notable Capital. 🚀 At PatronusAI, we develop simulations and evals to train and improve AI. The first phase of AI was built on static benchmarks, but that era is over now. As agents are used to solve longer and longer tasks, they need to practice in dynamic, living worlds to get better. Simulations are the critical infrastructure powering this next phase. As a company, we’re behind the most influential research and products in AI evaluation, like FinanceBench, Lynx, and Percival. And things have moved at the speed of light since. ⚡ We partner with the world's leading frontier AI labs and enterprises, and our revenue has grown more than 15x over the past year. Additionally, today, we’re introducing a preview of the first Digital World Model for AI agent training and simulation: Patronus-DWM. Digital World Models are language diffusion world models that predict realistic environment behaviors and steer agent actions across digital workflows. Just as physical world models predict how objects move through space, we’re developing the equivalent for the digital world: predicting how agents act in digital workflows, then using that to scale the creation of high-quality training data for LLMs. Digital World Models help us push the frontier of ultra long horizon workflows, and unlock a new class of self-improving RL environments. This is our scalable approach to simulating all of the world’s intelligence. The round was also joined by Datadog, Inc., Samsung Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Factorial Capital, and a large cohort of amazing AI leaders and researchers across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Recursive, and more. ✨ It has been the ride of a lifetime. But we’re just getting started. The best is yet to come. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas (1954)

Today, we’re excited to announce our $50M Series B, led by Greenfield Partners (formerly TPG Capital), with participation from Lightspeed and Notable Capital. 🚀 At PatronusAI, we develop simulations and evals to train and improve AI. The first phase of AI was built on static benchmarks, but that era is over now. As agents are used to solve longer and longer tasks, they need to practice in dynamic, living worlds to get better. Simulations are the critical infrastructure powering this next phase. As a company, we’re behind the most influential research and products in AI evaluation, like FinanceBench, Lynx, and Percival. And things have moved at the speed of light since. ⚡ We partner with the world's leading frontier AI labs and enterprises, and our revenue has grown more than 15x over the past year. Additionally, today, we’re introducing a preview of the first Digital World Model for AI agent training and simulation: Patronus-DWM. Digital World Models are language diffusion world models that predict realistic environment behaviors and steer agent actions across digital workflows. Just as physical world models predict how objects move through space, we’re developing the equivalent for the digital world: predicting how agents act in digital workflows, then using that to scale the creation of high-quality training data for LLMs. Digital World Models help us push the frontier of ultra long horizon workflows, and unlock a new class of self-improving RL environments. This is our scalable approach to simulating all of the world’s intelligence. The round was also joined by Datadog, Inc., Samsung Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Factorial Capital, and a large cohort of amazing AI leaders and researchers across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Recursive, and more. ✨ It has been the ride of a lifetime. But we’re just getting started. The best is yet to come. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas (1954)

Anand Kannappan

45,854 views • 3 months ago

Tyreek Hill has played with two pro bowl QBs but there’s one that stands above all. “He’s obviously the best QB in the league” - Ty Hill on Patrick Mahomes II Hill recalls the statement he made proclaiming Tua was the most accurate QB he’d played with, and notes that this was a year for the young QB to build on. Says he has the skill set & players to take the next step! Most would agree that Patrick Mahomes is the best QB in ball, but Hill doesn’t point to his skill set as a reason why here. Instead, he tells a story of Mahomes’ leadership that will give you chills. During a bad stretch Mahomes called up the entire skill group of the Kansas City Chiefs & got in their faces one by one starting with Hill & Travis Kelce ! When the most talented QB in football gets it out the mud it motivates everyone! Pivot Podcast live on YouTube #ThePivot #TyreekHill #Tua #Dolphins #ChiefsKingdom

Tyreek Hill has played with two pro bowl QBs but there’s one that stands above all. “He’s obviously the best QB in the league” - Ty Hill on Patrick Mahomes II Hill recalls the statement he made proclaiming Tua was the most accurate QB he’d played with, and notes that this was a year for the young QB to build on. Says he has the skill set & players to take the next step! Most would agree that Patrick Mahomes is the best QB in ball, but Hill doesn’t point to his skill set as a reason why here. Instead, he tells a story of Mahomes’ leadership that will give you chills. During a bad stretch Mahomes called up the entire skill group of the Kansas City Chiefs & got in their faces one by one starting with Hill & Travis Kelce ! When the most talented QB in football gets it out the mud it motivates everyone! Pivot Podcast live on YouTube #ThePivot #TyreekHill #Tua #Dolphins #ChiefsKingdom

Ryan Clark

840,633 views • 2 years ago

Digital Foundry posts their Top 10 Best Graphics of the Year list, and it's the first time I've ever strongly disagreed with the top pick. Doom The Dark Ages for me has no business being #1 this year. It's polished, well optimised and solid looking, but seldom truly standout. I think we're getting to a point where well optimised on PC titles may be getting extra leeway, and technical "checklist" features like different types of Ray Tracing and Path Tracing, are taking precedence over overall graphics impact and other visual achievements. Many games that include RT features, can be less potent or dynamic in other areas, and Doom is no different. Death Stranding 2 may not have RT, but it has other state of the art aspects (some of which DF touched on), such as mind blowing environmental dynamism, including; +Mass engulfing forest fires. +City sized violent desert storms, masking all visibility and caking you and objects around you in thick sand. +Snow storms doing the same. +Extreme rain storms causing interactable physics based flash floods, rivers, rapids and lakes in areas completely dry and barren prior. +Avalanches. +Extreme weather impacted volumetric clouds and fog permeating everything around you. Including the ability to be atop them on mountains, and even traverse through them. +Black tar that will cover everything as far as the eye can see. +Segments where enrire areas are underwater with all the caustics, changes in physics etc. +Segments where hundreds of thousands of particles will bloom and bounce all around. +Etc. It also did this while having arguably more impactul overall assets, geometric complexity, shaders, materials, visual realism, scope, scale, atmospheric and other effects, attention to detail, far superior character models etc, while being FULLY open world. Hell, it even has giant Kaiju type battles where multiple foes the size of apartment blocks can battle it out (Doom has similar, but in closed off seperate segments, and sans the entire environment changing dynamically on the fly). In that regard, Death Stranding 2 for me graphically had infinitely more jaw on the floor and how is this even possible type moments, feeling like a true next-gen graphical showcase, pretty much from start to finish. I'd argue it's potentially the best looking current-gen game to date. To that end, you show a thousand gamers the best looking scenes from Death Stranding 2 and Doom The Dark Ages, I'm almost certain the overwhelming majority would say Death Stranding 2 is the far more graphically impressive game, and they'd be right to. Assassin's Creed Shadows was #2. It's graphically stellar and imo more deserving of #1 than Doom, though despite having excellent RT, physics, scale, draw distance etc, it has a few drawbacks that have a negative impact to its overall visual cohesion, especially in things like character models and some of their facial animations, which were important and emphasised parts of the game owing to how cinematic/story driven it is. Also a little surprised Kingdom Come Deliverance II and Battlefield 6 aren't there, especially in place of something like Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, inspite of Switch hardware limitations. Here's the full list. 1. Doom: The Dark Ages 2. AC Shadows 3. Death Stranding 2 • Dying Light: The Beast • Ghost of Yotei • Metroid Prime 4 Beyond • Mafia: The Old Country • Silent Hill F • Earthion • Routine Video montage of some of #DeathStranding2's environmental and weather effects included. #PS5 #PS5Pro Full Digital Foundry video .

Digital Foundry posts their Top 10 Best Graphics of the Year list, and it's the first time I've ever strongly disagreed with the top pick. Doom The Dark Ages for me has no business being #1 this year. It's polished, well optimised and solid looking, but seldom truly standout. I think we're getting to a point where well optimised on PC titles may be getting extra leeway, and technical "checklist" features like different types of Ray Tracing and Path Tracing, are taking precedence over overall graphics impact and other visual achievements. Many games that include RT features, can be less potent or dynamic in other areas, and Doom is no different. Death Stranding 2 may not have RT, but it has other state of the art aspects (some of which DF touched on), such as mind blowing environmental dynamism, including; +Mass engulfing forest fires. +City sized violent desert storms, masking all visibility and caking you and objects around you in thick sand. +Snow storms doing the same. +Extreme rain storms causing interactable physics based flash floods, rivers, rapids and lakes in areas completely dry and barren prior. +Avalanches. +Extreme weather impacted volumetric clouds and fog permeating everything around you. Including the ability to be atop them on mountains, and even traverse through them. +Black tar that will cover everything as far as the eye can see. +Segments where enrire areas are underwater with all the caustics, changes in physics etc. +Segments where hundreds of thousands of particles will bloom and bounce all around. +Etc. It also did this while having arguably more impactul overall assets, geometric complexity, shaders, materials, visual realism, scope, scale, atmospheric and other effects, attention to detail, far superior character models etc, while being FULLY open world. Hell, it even has giant Kaiju type battles where multiple foes the size of apartment blocks can battle it out (Doom has similar, but in closed off seperate segments, and sans the entire environment changing dynamically on the fly). In that regard, Death Stranding 2 for me graphically had infinitely more jaw on the floor and how is this even possible type moments, feeling like a true next-gen graphical showcase, pretty much from start to finish. I'd argue it's potentially the best looking current-gen game to date. To that end, you show a thousand gamers the best looking scenes from Death Stranding 2 and Doom The Dark Ages, I'm almost certain the overwhelming majority would say Death Stranding 2 is the far more graphically impressive game, and they'd be right to. Assassin's Creed Shadows was #2. It's graphically stellar and imo more deserving of #1 than Doom, though despite having excellent RT, physics, scale, draw distance etc, it has a few drawbacks that have a negative impact to its overall visual cohesion, especially in things like character models and some of their facial animations, which were important and emphasised parts of the game owing to how cinematic/story driven it is. Also a little surprised Kingdom Come Deliverance II and Battlefield 6 aren't there, especially in place of something like Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, inspite of Switch hardware limitations. Here's the full list. 1. Doom: The Dark Ages 2. AC Shadows 3. Death Stranding 2 • Dying Light: The Beast • Ghost of Yotei • Metroid Prime 4 Beyond • Mafia: The Old Country • Silent Hill F • Earthion • Routine Video montage of some of #DeathStranding2's environmental and weather effects included. #PS5 #PS5Pro Full Digital Foundry video .

NIB

46,463 views • 10 months ago