Nintendo confirms the mysterious animated short was about Pikmin
Another version of the mysterious animated short Nintendo posted can be found on the Nintendo Today app, confirming the Pikmin theory.
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Matt Buckley
October 9, 2025
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Once Again Defends Starfield From Criticism, This Time Animations
A senior quest designer at CD Projekt RED is defending Starfield. It's about the criticized animations during conversations with NPCs.
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Adam Adamczyk
October 3, 2023
NPCs in Starfield Look Dead Inside - Developer Analyzes Facial Expressions
One of the developers working on such series as Dragon Age and God of War has taken on the facial expressions of NPCs in Starfield. What are her conclusions?
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Kamil Kleszyk
September 12, 2023
Aloy Doesn't Have to Bend Down to Loot Now; Horizon Players Happy
Patch 1.09 for Horizon: Forbidden West, released last week, brought with it a handful of improvements, but the most important one in the eyes of players was noticed only recently - it makes collecting loot in the game faster.
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Michal Ciezadlik
April 4, 2022
HyperMotion in FIFA 22 is the Beginning of AI's Reign Over Animation, EA Sports Rep Says
The release of FIFA 22 is getting closer and closer and EA Sports has found another excuse to remind us about it. This time, producer Sam Rivera talked about HyperMotion, a technology designed to give control over animation to machine learning.
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Jacob Blazewicz
September 15, 2021
A Love Letter to Gaming; The Witcher, Skyrim and CP2077 as 'Living' Miniatures
Bored with hundreds of visits to the same location in your favorite game? This small channel on YouTube will enable you to fall in love with them all over again.
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Michael Zegar
August 23, 2021
Take-Two Acquires Dynamixyz, Creators of RDR 2's Facial Animations
Take-Two Interactive has announced the acquisition of Dynamixyz, a company that specializes in creating facial animations. We've seen the effects of its work in Red Dead Redemption 2 and NBA 2K21, and now we'll almost certainly see it in GTA 6 as well.
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Hubert Sledziewski
July 1, 2021
Impressive Mo-cap Footage of Apex Legends' Resident Madman Octane
A behind-the-scenes video presenting a mo-cap session for Apex Legends character Octane has surfaced online. As you can see for yourself, capturing the animation for this character was incredibly fun for everyone involved.
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Michal Ciezadlik
May 28, 2021
Sony Will Use AI to Create Realistic Faces in PS5 Games
Sony is working on a new self-learning AI. It is supposed to help create realistic facial expressions.
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Przemyslaw Dygas
April 26, 2021
Bethesda Works on New Animation System for Starfield
Starfield will receive a new animation system. The chief programmer at Bethesda Maryland posted this information on his LinkedIn profile. Soon after the information was posted, the note was deleted.
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Paul Musiolik
October 20, 2020
Movie Actors in Marvel's Avengers; Future of Facial Expressions in Games
We won't find actors known from Marvel Cinematic Universe in Marvel's Avengers. However, a video has appeared on the web, which shows what this game would look like if Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo were to perform.
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Christian Pieniazek
August 27, 2020
New Quality in Video Games - Last of Us 2 Dev on Face Animation System
Roger Clark - actor known from Red Dead Redemption 2 - praised facial animations in The Last of Us: Part II. Thanks to a response from one of the devs at Naughty Dog, we learned that the system developed by animator Keith Paciello plays an important role in the final effect. It allows for automatical adjusting of animations to the emotions felt by the characters.
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Bart Swiatek
June 22, 2020
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time Announced
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, a game that continues the popular cartoon, has been announced. The release date, platforms and hardware requirements of the PC version were revealed. The title is developed by Soleil, a studio known from Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker.
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Adrian Werner
February 26, 2020
Platige Image Awarded for Metro Exodus Trailer
Platige Image won the main prize in the Best Game Cinematic category at the animago conference, ending today in Munich. The studio was awarded for Artyom's Nightmare trailer for Metro Exodus.
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Konrad Serafinski
November 5, 2019