Korean pop, anthropomorphized animals, strong visual effects coming out of a comically large hammer—the DokeV trailer has it all. Developer Pearl Abyss showed a new trailer for their upcoming open-world MMO at Gamescom today, and I was intrigued by the juxtaposition between the realistic art style of American…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Meets Pixar In A Vibrant MMO
It’s been almost a year to the day since we last got a glimpse of the latest Lego Star Wars game, which was meant to come out earlier this year, only to slip into a silent delay. Turns out we’re going to have to face waiting for it a little longer, which is a shame, because it continues to look hilarious.
Source: Gizmodo – Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s New Trailer Makes It Almost Worth the Wait
Laravel is an open-source PHP web framework that can be used to develop web applications easier and faster through built-in features.
Source: LXer – How to install Laravel on RoseHosting Cloud
Sure, maybe you wish you had thousands of dollars to pour into updating your living room so that it sports a new—massive—TV (plus surround sound), new recessed lighting, a large leather sectional to relax on, and a handmade coffee table from your favorite local craftsman. That does sound nice. But if your budget is…
Source: LifeHacker – How to ‘Renovate’ Your Living Room Without Spending Renovation Money
In the pantheon of the armed services, the U.S. Space Force has always been a bit of an odd duckling. Its genesis during Donald Trump’s administration was hardly auspicious, much of its mission exists in the future tense, and it might take a little time for the convention of referring to its personnel as “Guardians”…
Source: Gizmodo – Space Force Now Says Its Most Important Mission Is Protecting GPS Satellites
Jeremy Keith, a web developer and contributor to the web standards movement, has resigned from the AMP Advisory Committee. Keith was selected for the committee last year, despite his well-documented criticisms of the AMP project. From a report: In his resignation email, he cites Google’s control of the project and its small percentage of open source parts as reasons for his growing resentment: “I can’t in good faith continue to advise on the AMP project for the OpenJS Foundation when it has become clear to me that AMP remains a Google product, with only a subset of pieces that could even be considered open source. If I were to remain on the advisory committee, my feelings of resentment about this situation would inevitably affect my behaviour. So it’s best for everyone if I step away now instead of descending into outright sabotage. It’s not you, it’s me.”
During his time with the committee, Keith worked on defining what AMP is and pushing for clarification on whether the project encompasses more than just a collection of web components. The Google-controlled AMP cache and validation aspects of the project were the most concerning in evaluating his continued participation.
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Source: Slashdot – Jeremy Keith Resigns from AMP Advisory Committee: ‘It Has Become Clear To Me that AMP Remains a Google Product’
Sifu has been on our radar for a while, but until now, it hasn’t been clear when exactly we’d get our hands on the kung fu action title. During Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event, Sloclap announced a release date for the game: February 22nd, 2022. The Absolver studio initially planned to ship Sifu this year, but it pushed the game back to early 2022 to avoid overworking the team or compromising on quality.
Sloclap revealed the release date at the end of the latest gameplay trailer. The clip shows the protagonist fighting a bunch of goons in locations including a rooftop, an art gallery and a firelit alleyway. Unlike the last trailer, the latest preview doesn’t focus on one of Sifu‘s most intriguing mechanics: your character is a bit older every time they respawn after dying.
Pre-orders are now open for Sifu, which is coming to PlayStation 4, PS5 and Epic Games Store. If you lock in the $40 standard edition now, you’ll receive a special avatar pack and an exclusive cinematic pack for the photo mode. If you pre-order the $50 special edition, you’ll get those bonuses, as well as a digital art book, a copy of the soundtrack and 48 hours of early access before the official release date.
Source: Engadget – Sifu’s slick kung fu battles arrive on PlayStation and PC February 22nd
In the Southwest, if you happen across a tank of water in the desert, don’t disturb it. The tanks are meant for bears, deer, birds, and other wildlife—and they’re more in need of the water than ever this year amid the megadrought.
Source: Gizmodo – Hidden Cameras Reveal Arizona’s Daring Plan to Save Its Wildlife From Drought
There are so many games available for digital download on the Nintendo Switch, but the library varies depending on where you live. Tons of fun games are only officially on sale in Japan and Europe, and every now and then a country will get early access to an upcoming global release before other parts of the world.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Play Japanese and European eShop Games on Your Nintendo Switch
The Amiga classic Lemmings turns 30 this year. To celebrate, current license holder Exient (who acquired the property from Sony) is producing a documentary titled Lemmings 30th: Can You Dig It?, which follows the series from its European PC origins to its current mobile iterations.
Even though it has been ported to a seemingly infinite number of consoles in the US, Lemmings is deeply British. It’s a game about guiding blue-robed, green-haired critters to an exit before they accidentally kill themselves on the way.
The game’s dry humor and puzzle design eschewed the typical ’90s American-style action/arcade platforming for something less reflex-intensive, helping Lemmings become a hometown favorite over time. “If you visit Dundee, where Lemmings was originally created for the Amiga by DMA Design, there’s even a park with three little monuments to the Lemmings characters,” Exient Creative Marketing Manager Jamie Wotton told Ars. “Quite clearly—and hopefully the documentary will show this—the franchise has a special place in British culture.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Documentary about Amiga classic Lemmings due for game’s 30th anniversary
As of Wednesday afternoon, according to at least one tracker, more than 100,000 Americans are hospitalized with covid-19. The “milestone” is yet another sign that the country is again being battered by the pandemic, despite the availability of several effective vaccines. Data continues to indicate that most of those…
Source: Gizmodo – 100,000 Hospitalized With Covid-19 as U.S. Somehow Faces New Pandemic Surge
Despite the efforts of Square Enix’s mediocre-at-best Avengers game last year, it feels like it’s been a while since we got a really good Marvel superheroes video game. That could change next year when 2K Games releases Marvel’s Midnight Suns—even though every single thing about the game is completely unexpected.
Source: Gizmodo – Marvel’s Newest Superhero Game Unleashes Hell on Earth
YouTube has removed 1 million videos for dangerous COVID-19 misinformation since February 2020, according to YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mahon.
Mahon shared the statistic in a blog post outlining how the company approaches. misinformation on its platform. “Misinformation has moved from the marginal to the mainstream,” he wrote. “No longer contained to the sealed-off worlds of Holocaust deniers or 9-11 truthers, it now stretches into every facet of society, sometimes tearing through communities with blistering speed.”
At the same time, the Youtube executive argued that “bad content” accounts for only a small percentage of YouTube content overall. “Bad content represents only a tiny percentage of the billions of videos on YouTube (about .16-.18% of total views turn out to be content that violates our policies),” Mahon wrote. He added that YouTube removes almost 10 million videos each quarter, “the majority of which don’t even reach 10 views.”
Facebook recently made a similar argument about content on its platform. The social network published a report last week that claimed that the most popular posts are memes and other non-political content. And, faced with criticism over its handling of COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation, the company has argued that vaccine misinformation isn’t representative of the kind of content most users see.
Both Facebook and YouTube have come under particular scrutiny for their policies around health misinformation during the pandemic. Both platforms have well over a billion users, which means that even a small fraction of content can have a far-reaching impact. And both platforms have so far declined to disclose details about how vaccine and health misinformation spreads or how many users are encountering it. Mahon also said that removing misinformation is only one aspect of the company’s approach. YouTube is also working on “ratcheting up information from trusted sources and reducing the spread of videos with harmful misinformation.”
Source: Engadget – YouTube has removed 1 million videos for dangerous COVID-19 misinformation
Western Digital is in advanced talks for a potential $20 billion stock merger with Japanese semiconductor firm Kioxia Holdings, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters: The companies could reach an agreement as early as mid-September, and Western Digital Chief Executive Officer David Goeckeler would run the combined firm, the report said. The news sent Western Digital’s shares up as much as 15% in afternoon trading to a market cap of $21.45 billion. Kioxia Holdings, the world’s second-largest maker of flash memory chips, last year shelved plans for what would have been Japan’s largest initial public offering in 2020. In June, however, financial magazine Diamond said the company was planning an IPO as early as September.
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Source: Slashdot – Western Digital in Advanced Talks To Merge With Japan’s Kioxia Holdings
Coming almost three months after Clonezilla Live 2.7.2, the Clonezilla Live 2.7.3 release is here with an up-to-date package base that was synced with the Debian Sid (Unstable) software repository as of August 17th, 2021, and a newer kernel based on Linux 5.10.46 LTS.
Clonezilla Live 2.7.3 is not a major release, but it includes some important improvements to make your disk cloning/imaging experience better. For example, it introduces a mechanism in the ocs-clean-disk-part-fs (formerly ocs-clean-part-fs) tool to clean the RAID metadata in the disk, a new program to expand LVM (Logical Volume Manager) called ocs-expand-lvm, as well as support for mounting BitLocker (Windows 10) devices as image repositories.
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Source: Linux Today – Clonezilla Live 2.7.3 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Released with Various Improvements
In case you somehow missed the memo, big, bushy brows are in and have been for a few years now. There are all manner of makeup products and procedures that can help someone with even the sparsest of facial hair achieve full, luxurious brows—or the illusion of them—but how do you even know where to begin? Let’s start…
Source: LifeHacker – How to ‘Fix’ Your Sparse Eyebrows, If You Want
Over the years, I have come across many blogs that claim Linux is impenetrable by security attackers too many times to count. While it is true that GNU/Linux operating systems for desktops and servers come with a lot of security checks in place to mitigate attacks, protection is not “enabled by default”.
Source: LXer – 6 Must-Have Open-Source Tools to Secure Your Linux Server
Aloy rides again in Horizon Forbidden West, coming to PS5 and PS4 consoles in February 2022. [credit:
Sony Interactive Entertainment / Guerrilla Games ]
After receiving a lengthy gameplay reveal in May of this year, the upcoming PlayStation-exclusive sequel Horizon Forbidden West went into hiding in terms of previews and hype. Today, the game’s developers at Guerrilla confirmed a major reason for that silence: the game wasn’t actually ready for its teased “2021” release window.
The news of the game’s delay—and a (possible) firm release date of February 18, 2022—came from its director, Mathijs de Jonge, as part of Wednesday’s Gamescom 2021 Opening Night presentation. While he claims that the sequel had reached a “major milestone” shortly after its May gameplay reveal, he then offered familiar-sounding caveats about the challenges of video game development during a pandemic—and didn’t clarify whether the upcoming game was yet feature-complete.
The Wednesday news was met with neither new gameplay footage nor any clarification of how Horizon Forbidden West, launching on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 next year, will scale between two generations of consoles. Instead, de Jonge took the opportunity to announce that a patch is now live on PS5 to bring the franchise’s first PS4 game, Horizon Zero Dawn, up to a 60 fps refresh rate.
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Source: Ars Technica – Horizon Forbidden West delayed, leaves Sony with fall 2021 first-party gap
Jurassic World Evolution 2, the next installment in everyone’s favorite dinosaur-based park-management franchise, is heading to Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 4, PS5 and PC on November 9th. Pre-orders are open now, and buying the game early will net players three vehicle skins inspired by the 1997 film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 allows players to build, manage and mess around in a world of Spielberg-inspired dinosaurs. There are four modes: campaign, chaos theory, challenge and sandbox. Campaign mode takes players through a narrative arc set after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the 2018 movie. Chaos theory presents classic moments from the film franchise, but with a twist, playing out “what if” scenarios. Challenge is the mode for folks who want to test their dino-rearing skills, while sandbox is the creative way to play.
Jurassic Wold Evolution 2 is made by Frontier Developments, the studio that handled the 2018 game Jurassic World Evolution.
Source: Engadget – ‘Jurassic World Evolution 2’ brings dino world-building to PC and consoles November 9th
The GeForce RTX 3090 currently sits at the top of NVIDIA’s stack for enthusiast-level Ampere graphics cards, with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti not too far behind. However, a new report claims that NVIDIA wants to send Ampere off with a bang by releasing a GeForce RTX 3090 Super next year.
According to rumors from Greymon55, the GeForce RTX 3090
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Reportedly Prepping GeForce RTX 3090 Super 400W Ampere Monster GPU