Valve Directly Mentioned HLX, Modders Bypassed NVIDIA - The Most Interesting News for October 22

A brief digest of everything that happened in the entertainment industry worldwide over the last day.

• A celebration for those awaiting Half-Life 3 — a Valve employee directly mentioned the HLX project. Fans are once again expecting a surprise at TGA
• Modders bypassed NVIDIA: all RTX graphics cards received a convenient DLSS switch. Universal MFG Unlocker received update 1.6.1, allowing GeForce RTX 20, 30, 40, and 50 graphics cards to switch DLSS presets directly during gameplay without restarting
• Xbox hit on PS5 ported to Unreal Engine 5.7. It takes up half the space. Developers from Obsidian Entertainment released a major update with a new location, Woodpile
• Steam Deck 2 will get a powerful AMD chip? Leak revealed first characteristics. An unannounced AMD processor based on the Zen 6 architecture, presumably intended for Steam Deck 2, was spotted in benchmarks
• CD Projekt RED head reacted to BioWare's closure: the studio helped in the development of The Witcher. The Canadian studio provided the Polish developers with the Aurora engine for the first The Witcher
• Owlcat bid farewell to BioWare — the creators of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn published a touching video. BioWare's work inspires the Owlcat Games team
• Mass Effect will still get a sequel after BioWare's closure — but not the one fans expected. Amazon is not going to abandon the iconic sci-fi universe even after the cancellation of the new game
• The budget for Gears of War: E-Day exceeded half a billion dollars without marketing — Media. Xbox will never recoup these costs
• EA will leave Mass Effect and Dragon Age to gather dust, according to a former BioWare producer. Mark Darrah was among the people whose creative decisions led to the studio's closure
• Dark Dungeons in your pocket — Darkest Dungeon ported to Android. Fans continue to port their favorite projects to smartphones