April Fool's
Elon Musk buys Hyrule castle and runs it into the ground.
3DFX reenters GPU competition.
Live action Goofy Movie.
Elon Musk works without a break and goes insane.
Super Nintendo Maker.
Jurassic World petting zoo announced by Universal
The Mandalorian is cancelled due to fan backlash.
Videogames
Remakes should be sold against the original, not replace it.
51% of steam users use simplified Chinese.
Learn to read Japanese with Final Fantasy 7.
Minecraft goes multithreaded.
Nintendo working to make more online stuff.
Videogames: Graphics
The best games with RTX.
Cyberpunk 2077 with some new graphical upgrades. Ever played a game just to walk through it and enjoy the view? That's my ASMR.
Videogames: Strategy Games
The Great War: Western Front is too Grognard for PC Gamer.
The best Grand Strategy Games in GameRants opinion.
Konami has a new studio in Osaka, and it has a pretty good salary.
https://archive.ph/fw2Yj Videogames: City Builders
A list of new city Builders out this week.
https://archive.ph/aAHv6 Videogames: Dark Souls like
A Zelda game with hard enemies. It releases next week.
Vermis is a concept dungeon crawler
https://archive.ph/6mFef Videogames: Fan Made and mods
A patch to make Dreamcast Football game have announcers and rosters from the latest world cup. They have to watch Argentina win over and over again. Warning, video is in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Videogames: Classic
Ed Boon shares graphics for Mortal Kombat before it was named that.
Videogames: Chinese RPG history
Here is an article on it.
Here is a Twitter synopsis of it.
Film TV
Shin Japan has something big on the horizon. Check out this video of traman, Godzilla, and the Power Rangers running together. Where Batman, Shaq, and Chuck Norris will appear is unknown.
An interview with the directors of the original Mario Bros movie. Apparently they wanted it to be like Batman.
The new Lara Croft looks like the actress for Padme.
Blue Beetle looks about what it should be.
Secret Invasion looks dumb.
Hulu is redesigning it's interface.
Legendary gains Street Fighter movie and TV rights.
The new Doctor Who season will have a Drag actor. It just wouldn't archive. Sorry.
https://tvline.com/2023/04/03/doctor-who-jinkx-monsoon-cast-season-14-bbc/
Remembering the amazing Matt Smith era on Who.
Comics
Evil Power Rangers in latest comic.
AR VR MR
I found this video on Twitter. A camera records the page, and the projector changes based on what it sees. So it's a pop up book Mixed Reality game.
Holy crap, another MR game to show off. Usually it's all talk and nothing to show.
Will apple take over the Metaverse? Will it's new goggles save the day for Virtual Reality? Even apple doesn't know.
Meta quest is getting an updated hand tracking feature.
A better mixed Reality system is being created. This one lets you view papers and have graphs appear.
AR VR MR: Golly Ghost
Mixed Reality is actually pretty old. Golly Ghost had a projected screen and mechanical parts that fit for a Jamma 2 set up. It can be played at Galloping Ghost in Chicago.
https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7980
Here is a video of it working.
CrunchyRoll
From my last list, GameTaco said CrunchyRoll is a bad publisher. Basically, a game is released for April Fool's has games that are being put down. So, these links and comments are from him.
Despite the decision being made and in-app purchases being shut down, Crunchy almost defiantly chooses to stick to the schedule and intends to run its last character on April 17th. Today they even announced that Tamaki can now be ascended to 6-star, for what good that is now worth.
Also, they still ran a 24-hour event yesterday, Landosol Wars: Return of the Colossus. They're essentially running a "business as usual" approach up until the day of the shutdown itself.
As for Uma Musume, that's still speculation based on a slide at the Google for Games developer summit
I don't exactly see anything outright denying it, plus this has the whole "developers were supposed to see this, not consumers" angle, so I'm going to rule an English release as plausible.
If we go by March 29-30 of LAST year, sources had said Cygames were pursuing a global release, but "global" was believed to mean China-Taiwan-Korea, not so much the western world. Could be related to THIS year's March 30 decision to kill Crunchyroll's license, might not.
AI
Hugging Face had a giant expo on AI.
Someone figured out panoramas in MidJourney
Using ControlNet, you can get different angles from the same shot.
A guy made a Tshirt for his son from an AI image of Muscle bound Mario.
AI: Program lists
AI as a personal assistant
Interesting AI tools
AI: Business and Propaganda
Italy banned ChatGPT.
Shutterstock now is big on AI.
AI is beating robotics in new stuff.
Former Google CEO is scared of AI and how it will destroy so many job sectors.
Bill Gates thinks the call to Pause AI is stupid. Especially since he knows it's a lie.
Diffusion is being sued for being able to create copyrighted materials.
AI: Papers
Neural Radiance Cache to help render things faster in Nvidia GPUs.
A new method with a shorter scan time to create images has been created.
A new method of analyzing how AI works.
3D aware in Diffusion
https://jeffreyxiang.github.io/ivid/
How to used Stable Diffusion XL.
Tech
Check out this machine learning.
New version of Revit is released. This is the major CAD program for architects.
A new controller for smart homes has been released.
Best add ons to unreal engine 5.
Tech: Android
New updates to Android for cars.
Harry Potter Magic Awakened is a card capture game for Android.
Science
Mummies from Mexico might be infecting people.
A meatball made of cloned mammoth was made, but no one tried it out of fear of allergic reaction.
A deep sea trench has been named after Godzilla.
Using sun power to cause nuclear fusion.
Astrophysicist close to creating time machine.
Propaganda
Want to watch the New York Times twist itself into knots? There was a culling of buffalo in an area by mostly native tribes. NYT tries to prove it's evil, except it's traditional, except the buffalo were destructive, except they are noble creatures. It's fun.
NYT trying to twist itself again by blaming guns and militias for the Nashville shooting.
4 people heading to the moon. It's NASA, so you can guess what they look like.
Kids raised as influencers is messed up.
Guam will be the next big staging point for war.
Dental stuff being put under review.
The Chinese spy balloon got tons of info about US military bases.
Propaganda: Universities
Community Colleges are down in all aspects.
Florida University professors demand protection.
The university attendance is down. That's a good thing.
Propaganda: Disney
Bob Iger will take down his enemies.
A bunch of stuff has been canceled by Disney.
A live action Moana is being prepared starring Dwayne Johnson.
Bob Iger calls Ron DeSantis anti business.
Orlando Sentinel crows about the Disney cloak and dagger winning for the moment.
Propaganda: Donald Trump
Several world leaders have been indicted and gone to jail before winning an election.
Trump's lawyer is a white collar lawyer.
The indictment has helped Trump's campaign. Money is coming in.
Business
The internet archive lost its case against Hatchet publishing. What happens next will not be fun to watch. So, the future is piracy because the world is unwilling to adapt to new tech.
Steve Jobs archive releases book of his papers.
McDonalds is closing office while preparing large set of layoffs.
Business: Walmart
Walmart has a new look for it's app.
Walmart set to take over more areas as the economy drops. They intend to have upper middle class stuff soon and expand beyond that.
Walmart to close 15 stores in April.
NYT continues to shift blame for the female shooter off women.
They seem pretty desperate to not talk about it, but also wanting it to fit into their Narrative.