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What Are We Playing This Week?
I managed to get a little more Hyrule Warriors (Switch) completed, while one day my 2 year old insisted on playing some Atari XEGS, so we played a few titles before she wanted to do something else. Still, I managed a decent score on Caverns of Khafka. It’s faaaar from a perfect game (the collusion detection was absolutely terrible - which sometimes helps, but often does not), but I played it as a kid so give the nostalgia pass.
Otherwise, I was busy coming up with a new Space Force design based on Atari’s Gravitar
What about you?
Gaming Headlines
Alert: Amazon Prime Is Removing The Discount For Pre-Ordering Video Games This Week
Probably One Reason That Super Smash Bros. Brawl Is In The Top Sellers On Amazon
When Miyamoto Speaks, The Industry Listens
Pirates of the Caribbean Pinball Is Now In Production
No Pro Controller Support For Super Mario Party (SW)
List Of Games That Supports nVidia RTX
Microsoft Looking At Subscription Based Program For Getting Xbox Hardware - Kinda like getting a new phone
Play Metro Cop, A Demake Of Sega’s Virtua Cop
Buy Our Game Or We’ll Put It Out To Pasture! - Well, it is a better threat than something EA/DICE could come up with
Pre-Order Earth Defense Force 5 On The PS4
Sky Gamblers Scratches The WW2 Aerial Combat Itch For Switch - Previously only available on mobile
Cyberpunk 2077 Sounds Like The Killer App That SJWs Are Clamoring For
Switch Surpasses # Of WiiU Releases, Looks To Surpass The 3DS Next
Resident Evil 2 Remake Gameplay Footage (NSFW for violence)
LoveROMs.com Owner Hopes To Settle Out Of Court With Nintendo
After Fan Backlash, KT Puts “Breast Physics” Back In Dead Or Alive 6
Here’s A New Space Force Design Inspired by Atari’s Gravitar
Gaming
Streets Of Rage 4 Announced - In a big surprise this morning, Dotemu & Sega unveiled a return to a “cult classic,” Sega’s iconic Streets of Rage series. The series first came around back when brawlers like Turtles In Time, Final Fight and others were kings of the arcades. While the first two SOR’s were available in arcades, they were only made so via the “Mega-Tech” platform, which was Sega’s equivalent of Nintendo’s Playchoice (the home console in an arcade cabinet). This made finding it in arcades a difficult task, Mega-Tech’s rarely show up out there these days. This long-awaited return reminds me a little of Double Dragon Neon; although what will really interest me is if Sega decides to make an arcade version out of this to compete with the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Streets of Rage 4 - Reveal Trailer
Lizardcube, Guard Crush Games and Dotemu are thrilled to present Streets of Rage 4. Featuring hand-drawn visuals from the team behind 2017’s gorgeous Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap remake, Streets of Rage 4 builds upon the classic trilogy’s gameplay with new mechanics, a fresh story and a gauntlet of dangerous stages with a serious crime problem.
Making A Halo Arcade Game - I’m sure those who appreciate American industry will enjoy this in particular, as the forces of Microsoft, 343 Industries, Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix came together to make the new Halo arcade game. Granted, it was only because of the latter two companies that this really took place, since they have been a driving force in keeping the arcade flame alive for the past 15 years.
Making of Halo: Fireteam Raven
Join us for an inside look at the development of Halo: Fireteam Raven. Hear from development teams at Raw Thrills, Play Mechanix, and 343 Industries to find out what it takes to bring an arcade experience to life, from developing the game itself to building the massive and imposing physical cabinet to house it all!
Shenmue III Will Launch On PC/PS4 Exactly 1 Year From Today - What a nice coincidence for our thread, eh? Here’s a new trailer for the game as seen at Gamescom 2018:
Shenmue3 ShenhuaProphecy Trailer Gamescom2018
Uploaded by Shenmue 3 Official on 2018-08-21.
DAEMON X Machina (SW)Footage From Gamescom 2018 - With the involvement of former Armored Core devs, this should really be of interest to one of our readers (although I haven’t seen CP in these threads in a while). If you’re not interested in the AC series, but enjoy moving giant robots around to blow stuff up, then I think there is plenty to be interested in here:
DAEMON X MACHINA from the RedCube @ gamescom 2018 (Nintendo Switch)
Get a new look at the gameplay of DAEMON X MACHINA with the game’s producer Kenichiro Tsukuda, fresh from gamescom 2018!
Infintesimals Making Big Promises (PC) - I stumbled across this on Oneangrygamer (NSFW ads and articles) and found it to be quite intriguing. A very small team pulling off impressive graphics reminds me of Project Offset, but hopefully this one will manage to come to light despite the ambitious nature of it all.
Infinitesimals - Brief game overview/introduction
Uploaded by Cubit Studios on 2017-08-27.
Technology Headlines
Fed Judge In Seattle Rules Against 3D Printed Gun Files
Breakthrough Made With Lithium-Oxygen Rechargable Batteries
Intel Backtracks On Benchmark Ban
Chinese & Russian Oil & Gas Rigs; Military Bases To Be Powered by Floating Nuke Reactors Next Year
Windows 95 Made Available As An App
Gut Enzymes The Key To Producing A Universal Blood Type?
The Magic Leap One Teardown - So that’s what $2.3B Of investment money gets you (in glue)
The Ruskies Allegedly Got Their Hands On The Unannounced Google Pixel 3 XL
AMD Wins Patent Infringement Case Against Vizio & Others
AMD Cuts Prices On Threadripper CPUs - Yep, already
TECHNOLOGY
How To Grow Your Social Media Platform? Get The Brazilians On Board - If you use the social alt-media site Gab at least once a week, then you likely noticed a bit of a shift there this week - one that I would call seismic. The platform exploded with posts in Portuguese, from fed-up Brazilians led by those who are the latest outcasts on Facebook/Whatsapp (the latter FB owned app is *huge* in the country, with more than half of the 200m population using it) & Twitter. Naturally, CNN pretends these people and their situations don’t exist, because their opinions are classified as “wrongthink,” aka, all leaning to the Right. In the aftermath of several high-profile users getting the censor/banhammer, including another Whatsapp censorship fiasco, thousands of Brazilians began making the social switch. Gab seems to have benefited the most from this, seeing user growth reaching around 10,000 per day. The #GetOnGab hashtag was trending on Brazilian Twitter pages; some high profile Brazilians, including a right-leaning professor, a journalist for the 2nd largest TV channel in the country, some Brazilian YouTubers and even a Brazilian royal prince (yes, really) have also joined up.
Very difficult times are ahead for the country regardless; these new Gabbers have an uphill battle in trying to prevent the already socialist Brazil from becoming the next communist Venezuela.
Russia Preps For Mechwarrior Combat - Giant robots made for combat aren’t nothing new, but this is the first I’ve heard of Russia making one. Not sure that these kinds of things are really useful for live combat, but maybe we’ll get there one day:
RUSSIAN ROBOCOP: Internet Goes Crazy Over Kalashnikov’s Huge Bipedal Robot “Igorek”
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Asteroids Responsible For At Least 26 Nuclear Bomb-Level Explosions Since 2000 - All as they impact Earth’s atmosphere. Fortunately they have happened in remote areas and tend to be high up; the largest being 660 kilotons of TNT in size. We have been able to detect them through means of microphone arrays, while telescopic tracking hopes to find all of the rocks that might be out there to pose a threat.
B612 Impact Video
Between 2000 and 2013, a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1-600 kilotons — all caused not by nuclear explosions, but rather by asteroid impacts.
Space Pr0n Of The Day: The Land Of Giants - 15,000 light-years away is a star cluster we call Westerlund-1. While all star clusters carry some natural beauty about them, this one has some distinctive inhabitants that set it apart. You can’t tell just by looking at this photo, but this region is home to some of the largest stars we’ve discovered. For the red star near the center, the scale is just mind-boggling - if that star were dropped into the place of our Sun, it’s outer surface would reach to Jupiter (it’s 484 million miles from the Sun to Jupiter on average, so that gives you an idea). Our best guess is that this will eventually turn into a proper globular cluster:
