Deep Learning Super Sampling Five

About this episode

The crew discusses Nvidia's DLSS 5 technology and its reception, along with various gaming news and updates.

Support Us! Join The Hive! This week, the crew gets completely redrawn on the fly by Nvidia's new AI-powered technology that everyone besides Digital Foundry seems to hate! How do they look? So lifelike, I bet. While getting yassified (and polluting water sources near data centers!), John , Niki , and Lotus discuss: DLSS 5 and its introduction to the world Why everyone hates DLSS 5 Jensen Huang's hilarious responses to the criticism Saudi Arabia's EGDC acquires 5% of Capcom Remedy's FBC: Firebreak gets its final major update; commitment to stay online Ubisoft's Red Storm Entertainment studio to cease game development Crystal Dynamics lays off 20 despite working on two Tomb Raider games Rubato is a 2D physics platformer that scoffs at genre Should you play Slay the Spire 2 with a calculator on hand? Pokopia is a lot of game Funi Raccoon Game asks "what if Super Mario 64 was made by the most online people you've ever encountered?" Your Hive Questions straight from Discord , including our thoughts on Geoff Keighley's dad not getting a mention during the Oscars As always, thanks for listening, leave us a review, and considering joining The Hive !

People in this episode

Hosts: John, Niki, Lotus

Topics covered

• DLSS 5
• Nvidia technology
• video game industry news
• game development
• AI in gaming
• game reviews

Keywords

• DLSS 5
• Nvidia
• video games
• game development
• Capcom
• Tomb Raider
• AI technology
• gaming news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia, Digital Foundry, Saudi Arabia's EGDC, Capcom, Remedy, Ubisoft, Red Storm Entertainment, Crystal Dynamics

Books & works: FBC: Firebreak, Tomb Raider, Slay the Spire 2, Pokopia, Funi Raccoon Game

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