Driving
Driving games haven't really improved for a long time. No mention of actual arcade game racing which is a lot of fun.
Maximum Tune and Wangan Midnight club are excellent examples of games meant for arcade, and great driving experiences. You race others through a city with actual traffic, and update your car.
https://www.bandainamco-am.com/Ecommerce/category/commercial-games/maximum-tune-5dxplus
Initial D arcade is also a lot of fun to play, and gets a newer edition every few years.
Tesla is making so many cars, and has so much competition, it isn't as popular. This is a propaganda piece acting like an article about cars.
Fisker says it is ready to ship EVs.
Tesla is a lot harder to beat than meets the eye. Deloreon is not progressing as expected.
Videogames
Bloodborne remade in unreal 5.
Article on the fan remake of Bloodborne.
You can update steam from it's Half Life 2 install CDRom.
A history on the faces from Half Life 2.
A romhack of Portrait of Ruin that redoes a ton of things for a new adventure.
https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/10056/
A full boomer shooter for free.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ashes-2063
Here's a video of gameplay.
Mods for Atomic Heart are already out.
Videogames: Entertainment Centers
One of the best articles with updates and info about theme parks, entertainment centers, and arcades is the stinger report. VR Experiences and other social gathering spots are included.
TTRPG
Wizards of the Coast say Dark Sun Badlands will likely not come back because of how problematic I can be.
Film
Steven Spielberg would like to make scary movies again.
Fran Drescher wins award and tries to say everything she thinks is modern and popular. This includes hating vaccine mandates.
AI
A new set up called prompt to prompt. Place a base image and describe it. Then write the prompt for the new image.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/kadirnar/prompt-to-prompt_stable-diffusion
AI imaging may help robots understand tasks faster. Google is all in for it.
Microsoft is letting ChatGPT control robots.
https://archive.ph/PcQYT#selection-397.163-397.168
Who does AI serve? One author says we fear capitalism, while another says we should fear whoever it serves.
An article on getting markerless motion capture to work for really cheap.
Instructions on getting cinematic images from AI.
New grocery robotics systems to improve time of orders.
VR
Meta is not able to keep up with its own roadmap to success.
Xiaomi shows off their new VR AR glasses. It looks like the glasses old folks wore in the 90's.
Science
There were a few different battery articles I found, but this one was my favorite. Crab shells may have ingredients to make a new type of biodegradable battery.
Build your own compact ultrasonic control.
Quantum molycircuits and exotic nanotubes.
Not really science, but I don't know where else to put it. If you have a lab or shop, keeping it organized is a chore. Introducing the Resident Evil 4 compartment method. It looks beautiful, and efficient.
Will eco architecture save LA?
Politics
The president of Mexico posted a picture of what could be an ancient Mayan fantastical creature. An Aluxe sounds like a monkey, and the images pretty much agree.
The tweet the Mexican president made about the Aluxe.
Medicine
With Covid insanity newly defined medical problems can not be taken care of. Pots is a messed up thing that comes with ehlers danlos syndrome and can mean fainting, sudden paralysis, and even seizures. My sister has it and had to get titanium plates surgically installed to live a normal life.
Ashes is legit, very fun boomer shooter with rpg/adventure elements. It’s also free and could run on a toaster, play it now!
And I would pay any amount of money for that Bloodborne remake. I now Sony is allergic to good ideas, but announcing a remaster/PC port of Bloodborne would make them bank. And give us an official Demon’s Souls port too Goddamn it!
I would happily play a PC port as well.