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Videogames: Entertainment Centers
VR and AR are dying in the home market. Meanwhile arcades and entertainment centers are growing from the possibilities. This is an interactive Immersion room with a moving floor. It looks simple and stupid, but it's also easy to maintain, and can have several new games come out for it.
Namco takes over a famous arcade area in Akihabara. The arcade seen in Japan is doing great.
Videogames: Corporate
Shinji Mikami to leave his company after over a decade of working in it. He created a ton of games for Capcom, and a failed MegaMan clone.
Entire XBox line up heading to GForce. Likely the same will happen to Switch.
How Valve tricked 40,000 cheaters to put themselves and get banned.
Videogames: Mods
The original half life has been modded to have ray tracing.
Another article on Half Life Ray Tracing. I just want a sequel ok.
Doom on a Lego computer
Videogames: VR
I debated on putting this into the Cars section. Gran Turismo 7 VR is excellent. They use eye tracking to render what you are looking at better, and every detail they could. Is it worth $650 to get? Probably not.
Videogames
Have a list of great games based on the Resident Evil franchise.
A book about the MegaDrive is seeing a release after the publisher was cease and desisted.
Into Creates has a Metroidvania out for Switch. It looks nice, and plays nice, but is in a very crowded genre.
Cars
The new ECar from Mercedes Benz will have TikTok.
Toyota and two other car companies may be creating a supercar together.
Fallen Greatness
Meta continues to lose jobs even after promising not to.
NPR to lose at least 10% of their jobs.
Teachers license is about to get even easier in Florida.
Film
Spielberg is making another Kubrick film. Since I loved AI, I look forward to this one.
A live action remake of How to train your Dragon to be made. I expect the awkwardness of viking culture mixed with Polynesian culture to continue.
Propaganda
Democrats condemn McCarthy for releasing videos of January 6th walk through museum.
Georgia Juror reveals info that proves his case is on the rocks!!
That shouldn't be there*
A UH-60 aircraft was spotted at the Ukrainian war. It was sold to the country and seems to be in active use.
A pilot gets a selfie with a Chinese balloon. You might as well know. The super amazing sattalites everyone was raving about was actually drones, balloons and planes. They could talk about the satellites without any real problems while the others were classified. Basically, when a new bit of tech is introduced, it has been in use for about 20 years beforehand.
Tech
Women who take selfies and constantly try to make themselves look better are more likely to self objectify.
The robots that work at the Meta cafeteria have been fired.
The apple watch is being banned. President Biden has not vetoed the ban. Said ban is from the apple watch having tech already held by medical companies.
AI
Gigolo Joe what do you know?
An eternal AI recreated Steamed Hams sketch is now on Twitch.
A long list of cheap or free programs to help you skip steps in film production.
It's nice to VR and AR might revive and return the prominence of arcades and hopefully arcade culture.
There's a lot less shit talking when your opponent is in uppercut range....
Especially when losing a Tually costs money.