Martha Is Dead News

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They're kick-starting their indie game celebrations in style with a week's worth of glorious primed and juicy content. Central to the party you’re all invited to, is Wired's biggest ever Steam Sale.
The sale is so big that the wordsmith team worked for 15 days straight to land the most unique and eloquent title… the “Wired 15th Birthday Mega Sale”.

Of course, we know this isn’t enough to get everyone excited on a Friday afternoon, so we've bundled a free weekend with Tiny Troopers: Global Ops, packed in the launch of Tin Hearts with up to 20% off, dropped brand new money-saving bundles, hit the green button on new demos for Gori: Cuddly Carnage and Bulwark: The Falconeer Chronicles, and (!) managed to drop coin with the reveal of all new pinball DLC for indie hit Arcade Paradise.
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The Wired Mega Birthday Schedule Includes:

- Steam Publisher Sale (May 12th to 18th)
- Tiny Troopers: Global Ops Free-to-Play Weekend (May 12th to 14th)
- Xbox Publisher Sale (May 15th to May 29th)
- Tin Hearts Launch (May 16th for PC, PS4/5 and Xbox Series S|X)
- Arcade Paradise Pinball DLC launch (May 18th)

Our biggest sale is here!! That's right, it's our birthday (15 wonderful years of indie gaming!) so we've fired up our AI deal maker (we call him Mauro 2.0) to curate the very best offers we've ever dared to drop! More so, as it's our birthday, we've teamed up with PCGamesN to offer our community a chance to win a SteamDeck! Want to win? Enter HERE! Please check out our lineup and hit follow to stay up to date on all Wired'd releases!

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In addition, Wired is giving away over $1,000 in prizes via the Wired Social channels, from Steam Decks to custom consoles and the introduction of the Wired Black Card - think a Nando's card but instead of free chicken for life it’s indie games. Each year Wired will distribute a select number of Black Cards to friends, community members and other lucky folk. Follow @WiredP on Twitter for all the details.

Ivar & The Horde released the anti-war song “Broken Walls”, dedicated to raising money for the children affected by the War In Ukraine.

Leading on from the success of the Single, which amassed a total of 100,000 listeners, the brand-new “Broken Walls” Future Funk Squad Remix video is an opportunity for us to kickstart the GoFundMe campaign and to get us all to dig deep and contribute to the charity WarChild.

TURN THIS UP LOUD and watch the 'Future Funk Squad Remix' below:

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Released on Black Razor Records. “Broken Walls” is the latest release from alternative rock/rap artists, Ivar & The Horde (Stu Brootal & Kieron Pepper), and draws inspiration from the war-themed arcade twin-stick shooter ‘Tiny Troopers: Global Ops’ which launched on 9th March.

The game highlights a series of military megalomaniacs from around the world, and their greed-filled desire to cause conflict and chaos.

Every contribution on the GoFundMe will receive a download code for:

Ivar & The Horde - Broken Walls Ivar & The Horde - Broken Walls (Future Funk Squad Remix)

All proceeds from the song on Bandcamp and the GoFundMe will be donated to War Child.

Please give as much as you can, because 1 in every 6 children in the world are affected by armed conflict and we can make a difference. If you can't support financially. Please, share the message and get it seen by as many people as possible.

If you would like to know more about the charity. Visit them here: WarChild.

Thank you.

After winning Best Innovation at the 10th annual Italian Video Game Awards, Annie Warburton winning Gaming Female Voice-Over Artist Of The Year at the One Voice Awards and several Grand Prizes at the NYX Awards. We thought we had seen it all.

However, Martha is Dead has gone even better and won the Grand Prix award at the Indie Game Award 2023 at the Taipei Game Show.

You can watch the awards below:
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The organizers at the Taipei Game Show got to interview Luca Dalcò from LKA about the win.


"Winning such an award can change something inside a person. When my ideas and the team receive such an important award, especially from a distant place with a culture so different from Italy, it becomes even more special. It serves as a powerful motivation for the team to strive to do better."

You can read more over on: Indie Game Award 2023 Winner's Interview: Grand Prix - LKA

If you haven't experienced Martha is Dead yet. buy it here:
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The Indie Game Award 2023, one of the most prominent awards for indie games, unveiled award winners at the Taipei Game Show (TGS).

Shuhei Yoshida, Head of Indies Initiative at Sony Interactive Entertainment, was invited to present the awards at TGS, bringing incredible honour to indie game developers.

The Indie Game Award 2023 received 170 submissions from over 35 countries, which are record-high numbers that make the award more competitive than ever.

Only 8 indie game developers were able to take home the prizes and we are immensely proud to say Wired published title Martha is Dead took home the grand prize.

We are incredibly proud of this dark first-person psychological thriller crafted by the Italian Developers at LKA. A game that never shies away from loss, relationships, and the psychological undertones of a dark period of history. It also proudly embraces its Italian heritage from the breathtakingly realised Tuscany countryside to the authentic Italian soundtrack.



We have also celebrated Martha is Dead in a Collector's Edition. Our most ambitious one yet and is truly an item that every collector will cherish. Our initial run has now shipped from our warehouse and we are close to announcing the commencement of allocation two.

Register over at the Wired Store to be first in the queue.

Martha is Dead Collector's Edition

Grand Prize

Martha Is Dead, from the Italian developer LKA, received the Grand Prix award for the Indie Game Award 2023.
This continues the award-winning year that Martha has had. Such as two awards at the China Joy Awards and World Trailer Awards.

Other winners at TGS were:

Best Audio
Asterigos: Curse of the Stars from Acme Gamestudio

Best Design
Alina of the Arena from PINIX

Best Narrative
Gerda: A Flame in Winter from Denmark’s PortaPlay

Best visual art
Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist from Sweden’s Flamebait Games

Best innovation
RP7 from South Korea’s Turtle Cream

Best Mobile Game
Afterburn’s Railbound from Poland

Best VR Game
Railbound from Polands Afterburn

Best VR Game
Intercosmos 2000 from Ovid Works S.A From Poland

If you haven't experienced Marth is Dead yet. Now is that time.
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Martha is Dead has a massive 30% discount as part of the Steam Daily deals starting at 6 pm GMT on the 16th of November.

Now is the time to experience the dark first-person psychological thriller, set in 1944 Italy, that blurs the lines between reality, superstition and the tragedy of war.

We are also launching a new update.

• Metahuman intro and outro video added for graphical settings below ‘Ultra’, for all PC’s running the Steam version of the game - replacing ‘text’ versions of the prologue and epilogues on machines previously not capable of running Metahuman tech.
  
• Added support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1.
  
• Added support for Intel Xe Super Sampling.
  

Watch Martha Is Dead | MetaHuman | AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1 and Intel XeSS Support Trailer below:
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What is AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1?



FSR 2.1 is an enhanced upscaling algorithm used to and is designed to deliver similar or better than native image quality whilst improving frame rate on supported hardware.
This allows higher resolutions or next generation effects (such as ray tracing) to be enabled to improve visual quality across the board in supported titles - without sacrificing framerate whilst maintaining a playable experience and enhancing certain visual aspects such as fine edges and detail over distance.

This latest implementation of FSR shows additional improvements to upscaling image quality over FSR 2.0 - reducing issues such as ghosting or shimmering.

What hardware supports FSR 2.1?



AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution scales across a broad spectrum of new and older products, including integrated graphics, and is optimized for AMD RDNA™ and AMD RDNA 2™ architecture-based Radeon™ RX 6000 and RX 5000 Series graphics cards. FSR is also supported on select NVIDIA® graphics cards.*

AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series
AMD Radeon™ 6000M Series
AMD Radeon™ 5000 Series
AMD Radeon™ 5000M Series
AMD Radeon™ VII Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX Vega Series
AMD Radeon™ 600 Series
AMD Radeon™ RX 500 Series
AMD Radeon™ RX 480/470/460 Graphics
AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processors with AMD Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30 Series
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 20 Series
NVIDIA® GeForce® 16 Series
NVIDIA® GeForce® 10 Series

*AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is “game dependent” and is supported on the products listed above if the minimum requirements of the game are met. AMD does not provide technical or warranty support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution enablement on NVIDIA® graphics cards. To prevent over-sharpening, we recommend not to use Radeon™ Image Sharpening with FSR-enabled games.

What impact does FSR 2.1 have on Martha Is Dead?

FSR2.1 is selectable from the settings menu by enabling ‘upscaler’ at the bottom of the page, you will be able to select between 3 visual modes with the upscaler enabled :

• Quality : Highest visual fidelity and highest frame impact
  
• Performance : Native visual fidelity lowest frame rate impact
  
• Balanced : Increased visual fidelity over native, small frame rate impact
  

FSR 1.0 will also remain within the game.

Added support for Intel XeSS

What is Intel Xe Super Sampling?



Intel Xess is similar to AMD’s FSR and Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling solutions - with the benefit of being able to support a wider range of GPU’s across the board.

XeSS isn’t too complicated to understand. Instead of running a game at native resolution (let’s say 4K), it takes a variety of inputs from the game at a lower resolution (like 1080p). Those inputs feed into the XeSS upscaling engine, which includes an AI model to enhance the upscaling. The final result, theoretically, should be an image that looks like the native resolution but with much higher performance.



For specifics, XeSS takes depth, motion, color, and lighting inputs from the game. After performing the upscaling, the final results from these inputs are stored in an internal history. That history feeds data to the next incoming frame, and the cycle continues. While that’s happening, XeSS takes the frame you see and performs temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) to clean up jagged edges. XeSS replaces traditional anti-aliasing, as it can upscale and perform anti-aliasing in the same step.


What hardware supports Intel XeSS?



Intel Arc Alchemist (Xe-HPG)
Intel Xe-LP integrated graphics (11th-generation mobile)
AMD RX 7000 (RDNA 3)
AMD RX 6000 (RDNA 2)
Nvidia RTX 40-series (Ada Lovelace)
Nvidia RTX 30-series (Ampere)
Nvidia RTX 20-series (Turing)
Nvidia GTX 10-series (Pascal)

Using the upscaling technology added in this new update on mid-tier PC rigs running on High Detail and 4k resolution has seen increases of up to 35 FPS average across various chapters - all without a loss of fidelity or detail.

Download the newest update now to enable the upscalers on compatible hardware and see Tuscany smoother than ever before - and don't forget to tell friends yet to play Martha Is Dead that they take advantage of our largest ever discount for the next week and join you in Tuscany.

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