As this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) fast approaches, we’re starting to see teasers and previews of what might be discussed at the sessions beginning on March 18. We’d already spotted Microsoft’s DirectX “State of the Union” and its announcement of a preview to something called DirectSR, which we speculated to be a new hardware-agnostic upscaler, and guess what? Microsoft has confirmed that this isn’t quite the case, but something that might be even more useful.

In a post on the DirectX developer blog, Microsoft has discussed further details around DirectSR, describing it as “the missing link developers have been waiting for” in regards to integrating Super Resolution features (more generally referred to as upscalers) into DirectX games.

The new API has been desig…

Looks like Diablo 4 has Diablo 2’s most powerful hat, as Blizzard has now confirmed a Harlequin Crest drop in the new action RPG. Harlequin Crest may not be a name that means much to you if you didn’t play hundreds of hours of Diablo 2 or Diablo 2 Resurrected, but the unique hat—called Shako by veterans for the class of items it was based on—was a staple of nearly any powerful build. Blizzard’s global community development director for Diablo, Adam Fletcher, confirmed the drop of a Harlequin Crest for Korean players via Twitter: “Can confirm they do indeed have a Harlequin Crest :),” he said.

That legacy will probably live on, as reported by wowhead, because the Diablo 4 Harlequin Crest is a beast. It’s got a bonus to everything every class build wants: life, resource …

The industrially-inspired town building game Factory Town has a spinoff as of this week, packing the entire experience of building up and expanding an oddly factory-like society into a series of oddly spreadsheet-like screens. All of which depict the details of an oddly factory-like society. I think you get my drift.

My drift being this is a great game if you, like me, enjoy complex production chains, optimizing incomes to match outputs, and—generally speaking—when numbers go up. There’s a demo if you’re curious.

It starts pretty simple, with a few clicks here and there generating resources and putting up buildings full of workers to craft things with those resources. From there, it becomes ever-more-complex as you choose what items to sell at market and which to…