Lighting News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

If you’re looking to improve the quality of your content, improving your lighting is one of the best steps you can take. Great lighting will not only make your photos and videos look more professional, it can also add visual interest and open new doors for your creativity. The FIVERAY M20C is the latest RGB video light from ZHIYUN, a company that has been producing some of the best gimbals you can buy for years, and has made a splash with its new lighting products. 

Google recently unveiled three exciting features to Google Meet, the popular video communication service, making your virtual meetings more engaging and personalised. These features have already started rolling out, promising a more dynamic and enjoyable experience for everyone. Let's dive into what these new additions are and how you can make the most of them.

The "biggest Starfield update yet" is now available in beta on Steam, and while you'll still need to wait another couple of weeks for the final version to roll out across all platforms, you can peruse some pretty meaty patch notes right now.

Keeping with tradition, Bethesda’s Starfield launched with its fair share of bugs and issues, which have been steadily addressed with patches since. Bethesda has now announced Starfield’s biggest update to date will enter Steam Beta next week, with a full launch around two weeks after that. The update promises various visual improvements, fixes for various bugs affecting quests, space exploration, and more. While we don’t have full patch notes yet, Bethesda made the following promises on X.

I've never had the space in my life or my house for a VR setup, but the promise of having an all-time favorite like Resident Evil 4 or Jedi Academy transformed by the tech always gives me pause. The DXU24 mod project for the original Deus Ex seems set to offer that and more.

The general reception surrounding Diablo 4 has had many ups and downs in its first six months since release. Currently, Diablo 4 is in a far better state than it was earlier this year. Evidently, the developers learned some valuable insights on carefully tuning this massive action RPG to meet community expectations.  In an interview with the Electronic Playground Network, Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson took some time to reflect on the first six months of Diablo 4. He also talked about the rough patches -- both the actual patches and the resulting community backlash -- and stated that upcoming updates would instead go for more thoughtful changes. According to Fergusson, a big lesson that Blizzard learned is that sometimes it's OK for things to "feel" broken to keep the fun.

Developers Dillon Rogers and David Szymanski have announced a major new update for indie immersive sim Gloomwood. The update, dubbed The Mirror Realm, brings with it the eponymous new realm that players can visit to more easily revisit other places in Gloomwood.

Arkane Lyon's upcoming Marvel's Blade game is said to be using the same game engine as Deathloop and Dishonored 2.

A Cyberpunk 2077 lighting mod called E3VR was recently updated to a new version that essentially restores the lighting system used in the game's pre-release versions.

A new Starfield mod is being hailed as a "game changer" for overhauling the game's lighting.

RGB toilet light | $19.99 $16.49 (18% off)I'm serious! This thing is great. The motion sensor turns on the light inside your toilet when you walk into the room, which is much better than turning on the bathroom light late at night. You can choose from different colors or set it to alternate. You've got RGB on your PC, mouse, and maybe even your microphone, so why not your bowl? Take my word for it: I RGB'd my toilet, and you should too.

Bored Ape Yacht Club company Yuga Labs says it is «aware of the eye-related issues» suffered by attendees of the ApeFest Hong Event that took place over the weekend, and is encouraging people experiencing symptoms «to seek medical attention just in case.»

Hello everyone! My name is Eric Chahi, and I’m the creative director at Pixel Reef. For the upcoming release of our game, Paper Beast Enhanced Edition on PS5 and PS VR2, I wanted to share with you the game’s evolution compared to the original version released on PS4 in 2020.

A new Starfield comparison video was shared online, putting the 2022 demo build side by side with the retail version to highlight the differences between the two versions of the game.

Want to work for Bethesda? Making mods for the studio's games might help you get you noticed. A couple of years ago, Ryan Johnson from the Fallout: London mod team was hired to be a level designer on Fallout 76, and modder Elianora, aka Emmi Junkkari, just revealed that she worked as additional lighting artist on Starfield.

Bethesda hired noted Skyrim clutter mod creator Emmi «Elianora» Junkkari to help design Starfield's delightfully cluttered environments.

Half-Life 2 RTX is setting out to be an incredible remake, as the lighting improvements brought by RTX Remix are only the tip of the iceberg.

New Red Dead Redemption early comparison videos were shared online, highlighting some of the visual differences between the original release, the soon-to-be-released PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch versions, and the enhanced version via Xbox backward compatibility.

Minecraft obviously isn't the most graphically demanding game out there, and it's often brought up as an example whenever someone is arguing about the everlasting graphics versus gameplay debate. That doesn't mean its fans don't want it to look the best that it possibly can though, and the game's latest preview build has added a bunch of new tools that will let you customize certain graphics options such as lighting, shadows, and a whole lot more.

That the upcoming Forza Motorsport will be a visual stunner has never really been in doubt – that’s an area where the racing series has consistently been an industry leader with each new instalment, after all – and it’s continued to cement that notion further each time it’s been showed off. In a couple of newly leaked screenshots, that continues to be the case.