Videogames
Mr Sun's Hatbox is a rogue lite platformer that looks at what it takes to deliver a box to a shop.
A co-op space game where you travel the stars ina. Rusted bag of bolts, and your friends have to keep it working as you improve.
Pocket City 2 is a Sim City like game that also lets you roam it like a GTA or Animal Crossing player. It's being released on Android.
A nice looking RTS called Tempest.
Super Bomberman R 2 is coming out soon.
Final Fantasy 16 will be more like Devil May Cry.
A nice hex based city builder called Terrascape.
The Invincible is a survival exploration game with some story set in a retro futuristic planet.
An open world Zelda like Star Wars game by Ubisoft will either be terrible or amazing.
Imagine a StarCraft style shooter made by the people who brought you Arma.
Videogames: Fan Made and Mods
Doom modders release game for sale. It's a full mod with new everything.
Videogames: Opinion
I played a flight simulator and eventually got a flying license.
An opinion piece that Firaxis should bring back Civ City.
Videogames: Rumors and Remakes
Possible Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi games in the works.
Paper Mario and the thousand year door
Videogames: Business
Capcom removes Denuvo from Resident Evil Village.
There will not be a third Alice Madness game.
Videogames: Graphics
Unreal Engine view of Russia.
Videogames: Classics
Gran Turismo 4 has cheat codes.
Donkey Kong Country early drawings.
Sonic Adventure Tournament disk found.
VR AR MR
Augmented Reality tour of a museum.
Crimen is a slasher style arcade beat em up in VR.
OpenXR only renders what your eyes are looking at in Quest Pro and other similar PC Set Ups.
Quest has a new experience about the African Diaspora.
PSVR2 is not selling, and Don't has begun to have fewer manufactured.
MR: New non VR displays perfect for interactive rooms
A new holographic display is now tested and will likely be released soonish.
Sony has a new 3D TV that doesn't require glasses. Can I play old PS3 3D games on it? Unknown.
Film and TV The attempt to forgive the creators of the Live Action Mario Bros Movie.
Logan's Run to be directed by Gore Verbinksi.
Now that Bob Chapek is gone, Kathleen Kennedy can play. Three new really bad ideas for star wars movies announced.
The new Super Mario Bros movie is for children. It's not as cool as the Sonic movies. Who paid for this!?
Roku grabbed some canceled HBO shows.
Former head of Marvel says he was fired for trying to keep movies in cheaper budget.
Animation production workers have walkout.
AI
Automated video creation using python.
AI film stills is a big thing among enthusiasts. I tried it, but can't say I did well.
AI: Business
Google has a better AI processor than NVidia!
Mark Zuckerberg abandons Metaverse for AI.
AI: Opinions
AI is great and doesn't have the bad sides you think it does. Propaganda.
AI will destroy the world
We are at the iPhone moment for AI.
AI has come really far in a year. Here's Obama and Trump playing basketball against each other.
Bing is better than Dall E
AI is creating new programs and apps.
AI: Papers
A new photo to 3D system has been created.
http://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/Vicini2022SDF
Video based on the paper.
Bloomz and Havana are LLM.
A 22 Billion LLM and it's transformers.
HuggingGPT
The ability to add things, and change the lighting in Neural Radiance Fields is now possible.
Gigagan
Architecture
The multi cabin plane trip is being proposed.
Housing problem? Buy land, then set up 5-6 mini homes or sheds. Bam, house. Separate them so they don't have regulations saying they are one place. Cost, $25,000.
Tech
This could also be in Propaganda. Two female google workers said they had a better AI chip creation system. The mean male chip creators laughed told them to get bent. But does the new method work? Here's the opinion of someone who may or may not know enough to give an actual opinion.
YouTube makes it obvious that YouTube premium is for apple users.
Thermal energy turned into Electricity.
Rocket Powered Space Plane in New Zealand.
German engineered water gun returns!!
Tech: 3D Printers
3D printed food with multiple ingredients can be made. It looks awful, but is edible.
3D printers using holograms. Not what you think, but still cool.
Business
There are people who are hired to do things so niche, they work maybe 10 minutes a year. They're paid a full yearly salary.
Big companies are cutting middle management and HR departments because they aren't needed as much anymore.
Spectrum says they won't have data caps. Believe them, they're telling the truth…
Toyota's new push for electric cars.
Amazon stopped a bill that would control data center emissions. The empire is starting to show it's teeth.
Propaganda
The standing desk not enough for you? Try the walking room office.
Republicans want to send special forces into Mexico to take on Drug Cartels. Harrison Ford movie imminent.
I get articles every day about an oncoming financial situation that will make the great depression look pleasant. A Harris Poll and Yahoo say most people don't care.
Clarence Thomas accepted bribes! Says the people taking bribes.
Chinese President to meet with various European leadership.
True: Elon Musk lives in a single-wide* that doesn't call itself that. Probably a good thing too, because I can imagine all the rage articles about him that would start with "Elon Musk, who lives in a single-wide on the SpaceX grounds"
Cheap housing isn't a technical problem: it's that the sort of people who gravitate toward cheap housing are the sort of person normal people would rather avoid if they can help it. Because as a society "we" have decided that the only way you can discriminate against people is on price, so the only legal way to keep out the riff-raff is to make things too expensive for the riff-raff to afford.
* Yes a single-wide doesn't fold. But I can also have one trucked from the lot up the street instead of it having to ship from Vegas.
I'm going to include a few articles on the next link list because of this conversation. Heck, I might separate it and make a full article with links to talk about it.
A friend proposed the idea the other year as a possible way his house might work out. He ended up building a dome house, still is actually, and it has all sorts of problems. But the idea has intrigued me. So long as there is a cover over the central connecting area I am good.