The Red Dead franchise is one of the most popular in the gaming industry, second only to Grand Theft Auto for Rockstar Games after the release of Red Dead Redemption 2. However, this series hasn’t always been this big. Starting from humble beginnings, the franchise made its debut two decades ago and celebrated its 20th…
At the “Let Loose” event on the evening of May 7th, Apple officially unveiled the Apple Pencil Pro for the new iPad models. The highlight of the Apple Pencil Pro is its ability to rotate the pen body to change the tool direction, provide haptic feedback when pinched or touched, and support the Find feature….
During the Xbox Games Showcase livestream, developers of World of Warcraft announced the release date for the highly anticipated expansion titled “The War Within.” The first installment of the three-part series, part of “The Worldsoul Saga,” is set to launch on August 27th. Players who purchase the “Epic Edition” will gain early access on August…
Machine vision is a rapidly developing field in robotics, integrating cameras, sensors, and algorithms into systems for capturing and analyzing images. Modern conditions require that collected data be processed as quickly as possible, ideally within the device itself—whether in a smartphone, laptop, or car. For such edge computing needs, specialists from Tsinghua University in China…
Google DeepMind specialists have introduced a relatively small model with 11 billion parameters. After reviewing 200,000 hours of videos of people playing two-dimensional platform video games, it deduced the rules of the game and the physical laws of the flat world, despite the recordings lacking information on which buttons were pressed by the players. But…
AstraZeneca has announced a global recall of its COVID-19 vaccine, developed jointly with the University of Oxford, after confirming the potential occurrence of a rare side effect – thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS) – in legal documents. While the mechanism of the disease remains unknown, AstraZeneca acknowledged in its statement that the vaccine may, in rare…
Riot Games, in collaboration with Netflix, unveiled two new posters for the upcoming second season of the series “Arcane” (Arcane: League of Legends). The creators of the show decided to present new footage on June 12 at the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. The images will be showcased in the format of “Developer…
Today, Microsoft and its gaming division, Xbox, made another controversial decision. Top managers deemed it necessary to dissolve several experienced development studios that had gifted gamers with unique gaming worlds. One of the affected teams was the Japanese studio Tango Gameworks, responsible for titles like Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within. Many users on social…
In the gaming industry, a drama has unfolded: a team of enthusiasts working on creating a fan-made alternative to Plants vs. Zombies 3 was forced to halt their ambitious project under pressure from gaming giants EA and PopCap. The developers of Plants vs. Zombies 3: What Could Have Been announced with heavy hearts the cessation…
Recently, actor Viggo Mortensen had an interview with GQ Magazine where he was asked about his thoughts on the upcoming film “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.” The actor also shared an interesting anecdote related to a prop from “The Lord of the Rings”: after filming, Mortensen kept the sword Narsil (Anduril)…
