Adobe demos Illustrator tools that rotate vectors and finish sketches

Adobe has been working on experimental technology that could help speed up concept and planning work for graphic designers and audio engineers. The “sneaks” previewed during Adobe's MAX event include tools to transform sketches into a variety of sophisticated designs, as well as a feature to rotate 2D artwork as if it were 3D -Object. … Read more

I hope Straftat is 2024’s breakout shooter, because the demo’s 25 maps are gloriously unwholesome


“Do you have a ping of 1000 or something,” my opponent asked, during my inaugural bout of Straftat. Ah yes, this is it, that sense of unpleasantly intimate sheepishness. That‘s the withering late-90s chatbox scorn I’ve been missing, in this age of glossy live service multiplayer. I hid under a stairwell in order to meditate upon my response, then laboriously typed: “No, I just suck.” Right on cue, the other player tumbled into view and shredded me with an AK.

The player I met in my second match was more forgiving. “I honestly think the characters need more HP,” they said, generously. My wrists need more HP, actually. My eyes and reflexes need urgent patching.

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Steam’s Turn-Based RPG Fest has discounts and demos you can download then play, in that order

“Turn-based” games are, as we know, all derived from Turn, the strategy game about a dog digging for coins released for the BBC Micro in 1987. Prior to this, all actions in games simply took place simultaenously, as fast as the player or players could make them.

Fast forward to today and many games are now “turn-based”, from Tactics Ogre Reborn to Age Of Wonders 4 to chess. In celebration of their orderliness, Steam is currently running a turn-based RPG fest featuring discounts and demos for “turn-based games where you grow stronger with every battle”.

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