Issue #555 - August 23rd 2024

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Articles:

Second human to receive Neuralink brain chip uses it to play Counter-Strike 2
Alex is using the chip and a mouth-operated controller to help him play Counter-Strike 2.
Michael Kan at PCMag

Big games, reveals, and trailers from Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024
New Borderlands! New Dying Light! New Mafia! Old Goat Simulator?
Michael McWhertor at Polygon

Black Myth: Wukong opens to 2.2 million Steam players
Game Science's action-RPG has clearly found an audience on PC, most of which comes straight from Chinese players.
Justin Carter at Game Developer

Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV
Ibrahim Al-Nasser said he got tired of juggling plugs just to play his collection.
Kyle Orland at Ars Technica

Masters of Albion is Peter Molyneux's final shot at redemption (probably)
The game designer on his return to PC and console, his quest for an Edge 10, reuniting with old friends and why this is likely his final game.
Christopher Dring at GamesIndustryBiz
 

Tutorials:

Playable Pushori prototype built in vanilla JavaScript
I really liked Pushori, so just to test it in workings, I wrote a few lines in vanilla JavaScript to build the game engine.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Tools:

KodeLife - real-time GPU shader editor

Stable Projectorz - free tool for making textures and 3D via StableDiffusion

Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2)
 

Demos:

Mandelbrot's shell labyrinth

Editable Barnsley snowflake

Dweet of the week: tropical flowers remix
 

Games:

Horror Pinball

Eightile