December 20, 2025
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The creators of Alan Wake 2 drew inspiration from The Evil Within and are open to welcoming developers from the now-closed Tango Gameworks studio

Dmitriy Pianov02 mins

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…

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Epigenetic Editing Potentially Lowers Cholesterol Levels Permanently

Alex Carter03 mins

Scientists have presented the results of a remarkable preclinical study that employs an epigenetic approach instead of traditional gene editing. In this method, DNA sequences are not cut and replaced — instead, scientists merely adjust the activity of specific genes. This treatment has already led to the normalization of cholesterol levels in mice. Epigenetic editing…

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Quentin Tarantino and Jay Glennie are working on books about the making of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Inglourious Basterds”

Dmitriy Pianov02 mins

According to Deadline, Quentin Tarantino has teamed up with Jay Glennie to write two books detailing the creation of the films “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Inglourious Basterds.” Jay Glennie, who has written about the making of films such as “The Deer Hunter,” “Trainspotting,” “Raging Bull,” and others, conducted hours of interviews with…

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Pixar will abandon directors’ personal projects: the studio will start paying closer attention to the quality of future projects

Dmitriy Pianov02 mins

Recently, Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter gave an interview to Bloomberg, where he shared the studio’s future plans. In particular, Docter stated that the failure of “Buzz Lightyear,” “Turning Red,” “Luca,” and several other Pixar projects seriously concerned the studio’s leaders. They realized that the studio was heading in the wrong direction and began…

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NASA plans to send another probe to the asteroid Didymos to understand where it is currently heading

Dmitriy Pianov04 mins

In October of this year, the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch the Hera probe to thoroughly investigate the Didymos and Dimorphos double asteroid system. This mission will follow up on NASA’s experiment, during which the DART probe collided with Dimorphos in 2022. This collision was intended to test whether Earth could be protected…

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The first combined vaccine against influenza and COVID-19 has been developed

Dmitriy Pianov02 mins

Scientists at the pharmaceutical company Moderna have developed the first mRNA vaccine targeting both influenza and coronavirus. This combined vaccine successfully completed Phase 3 clinical trials and is awaiting approval from the US regulator FDA. According to Nature, the combined vaccine has shown higher efficacy compared to monovalent vaccines targeting only one virus. mRNA technology…

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