Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, an action-adventure game which focuses on the lead character’s battle with psychosis, has swept the board at the 2018 BAFTA Video Games awards winning five in total. The game, created by the small UK-based developer Ninja Theory, sees the lead character Senua battle through the otherworldly realms of Norse and Celctic mythology in …
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Panzer Dragoon Saga: An oral history
It was Team Andromeda — an internal R&D team at Sega of Japan — that first revealed the potential of the Sega Saturn. Its debut game was the on-rails shooter Panzer Dragoon. Part Space Harrier, part Dune, part Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Panzer Dragoon filled Sega Saturns around the globe with evocative …
How Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa virtual AI assistants got their names
ACROSS the world, people are shouting the names Siri and Alexa at their gadgets – and it’s only going to get worse. Now that humanity is resigned to talking to tech, you should probably know where Apple’s and Amazon’s virtual assistants actually got their names from. Why is Siri called Siri? Although the virtual …
Crowdfunding Spotlight – The Good Life
An “auteur” is commonly defined as someone whose aesthetic, style, and degree of control makes each of their projects utterly unique and unquestionably “theirs.” Readers might think of Hideo Kojima, Suda51 or today’s subject, Hidetaka Suehiro, also known as SWERY or Swery65. SWERY’s newest project is The Good Life, described by its creators White Owls …
GamesBeat: Bill Roper on bringing computationally ridiculous games to life
Our latest speaker for GamesBeat Summit 2018 event is Bill Roper, CCO at Improbable. He’ll be talking about how the cloud is offering developers the opportunity to unleash their gaming visions. It’s all part of our panel, “Games with ridiculous computation.” We’ve also switched venues to a secluded placed called The Seminary at Strawberry in Mill Valley, …
Battlefield 5 Should Not Suffer the Microtransaction Disaster of Star Wars: Battlefront 2
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 was actually quite a decent game. It had a lot of varied combat and somehow managed to make melee weapons effective vs ranged ones. The game had a lot going for it and both the Single and the Multi player variants of the modes were quite well designed. However, there was …
Black Panther Concept Art Gives Okoye New Armor
Warning: Black Panther spoilers ahead.– With Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther movie clawing away at the box office, concert art has emerged revealing alternate costume and armor designs for Danai Gurira’s character Okoye. While much of Black Panther focused on Chadwick Boseman’s lead, the sympathetic Erik Killmonger, and the sneering Ulysses Klaue, the women of the ensemble certainly get their …
Sainsbury’s announces largest gender pay gap of high street banks
by Press Association March 23 2018, 4.29pm Updated: March 23 2018, 5.38pm FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedInEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Want to read more?Subscribe today from £1 a week Sainsbury’s has announced the largest gender pay gap of all high street banks who have submitted their figures to the Government. With less than two weeks to …
From struggle to embrace – TV’s technological conundrum
Television is undoubtedly one of the most popular forms of mass media ever developed. While a television set can have static, television itself is far from static. The medium has changed considerably since its inception and is bound to change even more in the near future. The Evolution of TV Back in 1948, only one …
Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies You Should Watch With ‘Tomb Raider’
(Welcome to Movie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition: Tomb Raider.) The new Tomb Raider is a fascinating cultural artifact when you think too long about …