🗝️Bosskey Newsletter 58 - Nvidia DLSS 5 backlash, GDC Xbox Ecosystem, Palmer Lucky Games lack innovation, Tiny Shop

# 🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter #3 Things: 1 🎮 Game news, 1 🔎 Interesting Find, 1 📱Social Post. Written by an Indie Game Dev

Mar 20, 2026

Hi There Gamers and Devs,

Been away on a short holiday so there was no Newsletter but reading the news There were some things from GDC and of course Nvidia DLSS 5 Memes. I do think DLSS 5 can be a game changer but I am skeptical about it until I see it myself. But it does changes the whole workflow of Game Dev if it can be done easily.

🎮 Game News - DLSS 5 Memes and Backlash

🎮 Game News – Project Helix Next Xbox Ecosystem play

🎮 Game News – Clair Obscur uses unreal Blueprints for systems

📱 Social Post – Ex Oculus Palmer Lucky Comments on Games Industry lacks innovation

🔎 Interesting Finds – Tiny Shop A Cozy Shop Game

Lets Go!

🎮Game News

DLSS 5 Memes and Backlash

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Announced and Gamers are Memeing (Mezha, Pcgamer) and not happy about it

My personal take is that Nvidia is probably going to build AI Models based on this though its conspiracy. But I feel its a wait and see when its ready AI is probably here for next gen consoles too.

But interestingly some tweet and rumors that Capcom had no idea about this new tech being unveiled with Resident Evil.

Grace Ashcroft@GraceAshcroft_9

" CAPCOM developers had no idea what NVIDIA was going to reveal And in fact, they fear that people might think CAPCOM supports this initiative when, in fact, they are against AI" Respect the efforts of real artists who use techniques and knowledge to satisfy players and forget

6:04 PM · Mar 18, 2026 · 403K Views

90 Replies · 2.5K Reposts · 17.5K Likes

Social media mocks NVIDIA DLSS 5 technology

NVIDIA GeForce@NVIDIAGeForce

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality. Learn More → nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/…

6:53 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 88.5M Views

24.9K Replies · 7.1K Reposts · 68.6K Likes

Indie Game Joe@IndieGameJoe

@NVIDIAGeForce This. This. This looks absolutely hideous. I want my game to look like this... Not like that.... sigh.

8:29 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 42.6K Views

9 Replies · 19 Reposts · 829 Likes

HazzadorGamin, Dragon of Dojima@HazzadorGamin

@NVIDIAGeForce Giving me filter Aloy vibes lol.

7:17 PM · Mar 16, 2026 · 23.8K Views

5 Replies · 13 Reposts · 346 Likes

🔗 Link: https://sea.ign.com/resident-evil-9-1/240041/feature/nvidias-dlss-5-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to-the-art-of-video-game-design

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the-dlss-5-memes-are-in-full-swing-so-here-are-the-ones-that-tickled-me-the-most/

Next Xbox Project Helix GDC Ecosystem

The Project Helix from Xbox was announced at this year GDC and it looks like they are going for an ecosystem play while Sony retreats from PC.

But me thinks Steam already is doing this well and beat Microsoft to it. Now if Xbox had exclusives to their ecosystem I wonder how it might play out.

Weiqing William / CG BOSS@weiqing_teh

So the next gen consoles will be an ecosystem play not just on a box in the living room. I feel Steam beat Microsoft to that with their Steam machine announcement. I am not sure about PlayStation plans but if PSP 2 revival.

Klobrille @klobrille

Xbox Project Helix: • Plays your Xbox Console & PC Games • Powered by Custom AMD SOC • AMD FSR Next, including Multi Frame Generation • Deep Texture Compression "We're sending alpha versions of Project Helix to developers starting in 2027" says Jason Ronald.

12:09 PM · Mar 13, 2026 · 36 Views

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Claire Obscura Uses Blueprint

Did not have time to read all the GDC news but thought this was interesting that Clair OBscur used Unreal Blueprints instead of C++. Which can be a timesaver.

VGTimes@VGTimes

🤯 The devs behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn't write a single line of code — the entire game was built with visual scripting At GDC the team revealed they used Unreal Engine's built-in Blueprints system for almost all gameplay features and deliberately avoided writing

8:06 AM · Mar 10, 2026 · 475 Views

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🔗 Link:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/clair-obscur-expedition-33-was-built-95-percent-with-unreal-blueprints

📱Social Post

Palmer Lucky talks about the games industry now is cooked and worse than before. Right now everyone is trying to extract more dollars than innovate.

““The gaming industry, like many industries, figured out what actually worked a long time ago. They figured out how to make fun games. They figured out how to make things that make people keep coming back. But it’s moved from innovation to extraction.”

@techno.optimist.prime