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Radiance Cascades 🌐, Duskbloods Delay ⏳, Godot 4.8 Beta 🛠️

Game News and Releases 🎮

Arkheron to enter early access November 27 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S

Bonfire Studios’ isometric PvP game Arkheron is scheduled to enter early access on November 27 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Fifteen teams of three fight monsters and rival squads while ascending a tower until one team remains. Collected Relics grant abilities, with no fixed heroes or roles. The studio, founded by former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo, says the game remains far from its intended 1.0 competitive experience and plans to iterate using player feedback.

Suri: The Seventh Note launches on PS5 and PC

Tathvamasi Studios’ debut rhythm action platformer, Suri: The Seventh Note, launched on October 30, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, following three days of early access for Digital Deluxe Edition owners. Backed by Sony’s PlayStation India Hero Project, the game…

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Radiance Cascades 🌐, Prefix Sums ⚙️, Godot 4.8 Beta 2 🛠️

Rendering and GPU Techniques 🎨

Ray splitting adapts radiance cascades for 3D global illumination

Jack Tollenaar describes implementing ray splitting with radiance cascades (RC) for 3D global illumination. The method traces full rays from reconstructed screen-space positions, bins their results into cascade intervals, and merges those intervals using sparse surface probes. Probe LODs, temporal accumulation, and a secondary cache extend the approach to stabilize lighting and accumulate multiple bounces. Tollenaar reports that, in an Unreal implementation on a laptop RTX 5070, RC costs about 2 ms depending on probe sizing; ray tracing adds about 13 ms at two samples per pixel, with roughly 2 ms for ray deposits. Tracing cost varies by scene and hardware.

Prefix Sums Organize GPU Compaction, Expansion and Binning

This video explains how parallel prefix sums let GPU threads assign output offsets for variable-sized workloads, forming a common basis for compaction, expansion and binning. Examples include…

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Arkheron Early Access 🎮, Duskbloods Delayed ⏳

New and Upcoming Games 🎮

Arkheron to enter early access November 27 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S

Bonfire Studios’ isometric PvP game Arkheron is scheduled to enter early access on November 27 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Fifteen teams of three fight monsters and rival squads while ascending a tower until one team remains. Collected Relics grant abilities, with no fixed heroes or roles. The studio, founded by former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo, says the game remains far from its intended 1.0 competitive experience and plans to iterate using player feedback.

Suri: The Seventh Note launches on PS5 and PC

Tathvamasi Studios’ debut rhythm action platformer, Suri: The Seventh Note, launched on October 30, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, following three days of early access for Digital Deluxe Edition owners. Backed by Sony’s PlayStation India Hero Project, the game…

Read full issueBrowse archive

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