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I have spent most of my working life looking at efforts to breach the FPS event horizon, and going 'OMG who cares, they literally all look the same?'. People like our hardware editor James then point and laugh at me, as an objectively wrong person. But according to a small study highlighted by the Guardian, I might have been right too! Turns out there's evidence that we might all see life at different FPS. That player might not be cheating, he might just experience Fortnite at a speed you don't.

Well, the Future Games Show is always full of surprises, but we've not had one quite like this before. We've just had the reveal of a game that's currently codenamed Project Mango, and it's a collaboration between Toukana Interactive - aka the developers behind chill puzzle game Dorfromantik - and kurzgesagt, the hugely popular animated science storytellers of YouTube fame. 

If you choose to upgrade your Science! precon deck from , you can significantly improve your performance at Commander-focused tables. This is especially true considering there is a plethora of cards you can add to the Jeskai-colored deck. Science! is one of the many different EDH decks brought to fruition from a collab between Wizards of the Coast and developer Bethesda. Like the x sets, this is a product of the Universes Beyond line of crossover collaborations. With the set, the card game gets even more references to the post-apocalyptic franchise.

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One of the bigger stories to come out of 2023’s Toronto International Film Festival was Bertrand Bonello’s science fiction movie The Beast, a dizzying, surreal story about a woman, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux), reliving three past lives as part of a process to purge her memories and emotions. In each of these lives, she encounters Louis (George MacKay of 1917 and Marrowbone) in a series of emotional relationships that lead in dangerous directions. Critics’ responses were split between strong positives and dubious negatives, but they seemed to agree that it’s a remarkably image-driven, idea-packed film that’s sensual and challenging. The comparison to the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas seemed obvious, too, given the separate but linked stories of people echoing across time together.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may have given new tools to science, but the most interesting thing to watch out for will be what it can do to accelerate science, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella said on Tuesday.

The time has come to send 2023 and all of its highs and lows packing and to ring in the new year. While it’s impossible to say now what 2024 holds in store for all of us, there is one thing that I know for certain: It is going to be a truly banner year for sci-fi and fantasy readers. Not only does Leigh Bardugo have a new novel coming out (I’m counting down the days for this one myself), but there are also titles translated by Anton Hur and Ken Liu coming out, the writing duo that makes up James S.A. Corey is joining forces once again, and the long wait for several sequels is finally coming to an end.

James Ohlen is no stranger to intriguing RPG worlds, having worked at developer BioWare for two decades on everything from Baldur’s Gate to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. He’s now working to create “the best possible science fiction universe” at an entirely new studio, Archetype Entertainment, but the team's first game Exodus “isn’t trying to compete against Starfield.”

Be me, right? It's my first playthrough of Elden Ring. I'm playing a spell swordsman, which means I start a lot of fights in the Lands Between by chucking my strongest long-range spell. This strategy serves me well until I get to Castle Sol and chuck spells at the wrong dude. A notorious dual-wielding Banished Knight shrugs off my magic like it's a paper ball thrown his way, and then teleports behind me to turn my entrails into extrails before I know what happened. 

IIT Delhi has extended an invitation to professionals at early and mid-level stages to apply for its Certificate Programme in Data Science and Machine Learning to boost their career growth prospects. This IT course is ideal for those seeking a cutting-edge perspective on Data Science and ML to enhance their career prospects. The application deadline for this certificate course is December 6, 2023. The course is scheduled to commence on February 11, 2024, spanning a duration of six months through live online sessions. Classes will be conducted every Sunday from 12:15 pm to 3:15 pm, offering a comprehensive learning experience.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the anime adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s hit comic series by studio Science Saru, premiered on Netflix last friday. Produced and written by O’Malley and co-creator BenDavid Grabinski, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off diverges significantly from the source material, morphing into an adaptation that at once functions as both a sequel and a remake of O’Malley’s original comic.

Today’s jigsaw puzzles don’t always look like yesteryears’, and that’s for the best: Not all of us care for scenery, birds and flowers as much as we like Disney and Pixar, for instance. Let’s not be snobs, classic puzzles can be very enjoyable, too. But there’s a whole world that opens up when you realize that puzzle themes can overlap quite a bit with the kind of stuff we care about at TechCrunch.

Game Developer Deep Dives are an ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design decisions aren’t really that simple at all.

Hey, internet people, this is Yasmine here from the marketing team at Survios. We’re over the moon to reveal the upcoming Sweet Science update, heading to Creed: Rise to Glory – Championship Edition tomorrow on PS VR2! After the nationwide premiere of Creed III in theaters earlier this year, Creed: Rise to Glory – Championship Edition has introduced an array of new boxers, a Muscle Beach setting inspired by the film, and an expanded version of the original 2018 PS VR game.

Where the first game had Research Stations, has EMF Experiments that can give players rewards for upgrading skills and gadgets. These experiments are important to Peter and Harry's new Emily-May Foundation. Like the Research Stations, these side missions show Peter's helpful energy at its finest, improving the world in a way any player could with experiments, science, and a desire to fix things.

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete.

In , players can find Miles and Phin’s Science Trophy on top of New York City’s Trinity Church. As an excellent reference to the events of, finding the Science Trophy gives Miles a chance to reflect on his new role as Spider-Man. Finding the award also causes the Just Let Go Bronze trophy to pop, making it an essential objective for Platinum trophy hunters.

This review of The Beast comes from the film’s screenings at the 2023 New York Film Festival.

A Starfield scientist has crunched the numbers to prove that truly excellent loot is extremely hard to find - by murdering the same unlucky level 98 NPC 100 times and recording the gear they dropped.

Sci-fi games allow game developers to craft incredible worlds and characters and see how far their imagination can fly. Here are some games in 2024 that’ll scratch that itch for gamers.

The future is here! Just imagine glasses that let you share videos on Facebook and Instagram without even touching your phone! Well, that's exactly what Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has done in partnership with Ray-Ban. They've just introduced the Meta Smart Glasses, and they're like something out of a science fiction movie. These glasses are here to make your life more exciting and connected.

As spotted by Gamesradar, a particularly stubborn mathemagician has rolled up their sleeves to properly prove whether it's even worth it to run high-tier nightmare dungeons in Diablo 4.

It's rare for a game to have showy tech which is more than skin-deep and actually enables new types of play. Sure, the dynamic mud of driving sim Spintires was impressive to look at, and it also gave us a game where driving two metres through a puddle could become a serious puzzle. So I'm certainly interested in today's announcement of Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, this time sending us off-roading to conduct science. Well, if the mud doesn't blind me, the science surely will.

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Co-development firm Rocket Science Corporation has set up shop in Cardiff, Wales.

Despite concerning voices telling everyone that artificial intelligence will cause the end of humanity, there are many who are trying to use this emerging technology as a way to improve the lives of billions of people. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, started with a philanthropic cause, and now the former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, is all set to launch his own AI-powered initiative aimed at making breakthroughs in science and technology. The initiative will be a nonprofit organization, as per reports.

We now know where Greta Gerwig's Barbie Land would be located in the real world – and science says it wouldn't be California.

Arena shooter Bio Prototype has made the jump from PC to Android, and we’re all excited to welcome it to the better platform.

In the fast-paced world of technology, numerous tools and extensions are continually emerging to simplify and enhance our digital experiences. For Data Scientists, these advancements are a boon, as they simplify and enrich their work processes. Here we have researched and curated a list of the top 5 AI-powered Chrome extensions that have become indispensable for Data Scientists in 2023. These extensions cater to a diverse range of needs, from research support to text processing, code optimisation, and smart note-taking.

Final Fantasy 16 doesn’t give players a lot of consumable item slots, so they’ll need to make do with what they’re given. Luckily, the game allows Clive to hold more potions if he’s willing to help out Owain the engineer from time to time in the Weird Science side quest line.