The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and ...

UK-Asia production company Java Road has hired Sam Lavender as creative executive and executive producer. Java Road is a partnership between Osborne, Nicholas Simon of Bangkok-based Indochina ...

Alright, gamers, let’s talk about that screen. You know the one. You’re all fired up to jump into the game you’ve been waiting months for, only to hit a wall plastered with two haunting words: ...

I'm tired of staring at screens telling me that only 1,239 of 22,594 shaders have been compiled. What happened to reticulating splines? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

School’s out. Teens are bored. And the siren call of social media and video games beckons. Parents and caregivers bungling through new summer routines, or lack thereof, have long sought to balance the ...

This is one anomaly you don’t want to get. If you’re on PC and dealing with this issue, other players have found solutions that are reportedly working as of the time of this writing. If you’re still ...

When launching Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, players are always greeted with the message, “Compiling Shaders, please wait…” But what does this mean, why does it take so long, and is it even necessary ...

The STALKER 2 compiling shaders message is probably something you've experienced this every single time you launch the game, while you wait for a progress bar to fill. So, what exactly is it? The ...

Shader Compiling is essential to modern PC games, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard is no different. It changes shaders into a format that your graphics card can use. Since Veilguard is a huge game, the ...

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