Wildlife News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

It’s the noble job of science educators to bring the distant cosmos down to Earth, where it can ignite human fascination in more than an abstract way. But the total solar eclipse that will cast its shadow across thousands of miles of North America this Monday doesn’t need any help. Along the path of totality temperatures will drop, wildlife could become confused, and it may get dark enough to see other planets, in a kind of 360-degree sunset.

Bohemia Interactive has announced DayZ Frostline, the survival game’s second-ever expansion (of course, modders have expanded the game in a number of ways, but this is only the second official expansion). As the title implies, DayZ Frostline will introduce a new wintery map, which will require players to manage warmth in order to survive. You can check out a quick trailer for DayZ Frostline, below.

The official release date trailer of Athenian Rhapsody, uploaded on YouTube, is a hilarious farce. It centers on our wide-eyed hero, who discovers that Athenian Rhapsody is about to launch after a dubious snack while out on a nature stroll! A creepy-smiled mushroom who can’t wait to reveal the release date but ends up clogging the toilet instead.

Diablo 4 is celebrating Earth Day by donating up to 666 buckets of maggots to the Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital! Players can help contribute to this cause by Liking the post from the official Diablo account. Every 25 Likes will provide 45,000 more maggots to help feed birds who are undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. Some Diablo 4 players even received an email that goes into more detail about the charity and their cause.

Earth Day is April 22, and to commemorate the occasion, you can currently save on a variety of documentaries from the BBC’s Planet Earth collection in 4K UHD format at Amazon. Even if you’ve already seen some of these films, streaming service resolution can’t compare to the visuals on a physical disc. While this isn’t a comprehensive collection of nature documentaries produced by the BBC, it is an excellent opportunity to explore the majesty of our little blue marble without leaving the safety of your living room.

After collaborating with movies like Wonka in Words With Friends 2 last year, Zynga is teaming up with a docuseries this time. The Words With Friends 2 x BBC Earth Mammals crossover is merging the natural world with word puzzles effortlessly.

Whitehorn Games, known for titles like Evan’s Remains and Princess Farmer, has just dropped a new game on Android today. Skate Fish is the game I’m talking about. Yes, there are no hidden meanings to that name. It actually is a land where skateboarding meets fishing.

Australian wildlife AI project receives $750,000 boost for wildlife identification; Abridge raises $150 mn in series C for AI clinical documentation tools; Tyler Perry halts $800 mn studio expansion amid AI job loss concerns; AI generated car free city images boost support for sustainable policies in the US- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

The highly anticipated crime drama series, "Poacher," produced by Alia Bhatt, is scheduled to premiere on February 23, 2024. As an Amazon Prime Video original, the series delves into the pressing issue of poaching and the illegal killing of animals.

The Pax Dei team is reminding everyone that not only will players create most things in the world, there will also be flora and fauna there to discover. This time, the team is previewing some of the fauna, showing off new screenshots of animals in the world, taken from its current Friends and Family playtest build.

The world never looks particularly inviting in the future does it? The stability of buildings reaches an all-time low, there seems to have been an increase in sand, and any human beings spend a good deal of time being bothered by some form of irradiated wildlife. It’s bleak, and New Cycle, the latest post-apocalyptic city builder from Core Engage, captures that bleakness with a surety and poise that you may actually wonder how on Earth you’re having any fun. And yet, you are.

Ara: History Untold is the historical grand strategy game that’s aiming for a piece of the Civilization pie and spans - check notes thrice - all of human history. But such a complex game wasn't simply plagued by code tangled to emulate centuries of human conflict - cougar hordes were supposedly just as pesky during development. 

If you own a copy of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition or Minecraft: Education Edition, you can now grab a free expansion pack based on the BBC's Planet Earth III. Much like the previous Frozen Planet II experience, this new wildlife documentary DLC lets players explore five scenarios through the lens of animals — arctic wolves, ocelots, musk oxen, leopards, Cape fur seals, great white sharks, impalas and more.

Mojang Studios has partnered with BBC for a brand-new Minecraft Education world inspired by Planet Earth 3.

We review Wild: Serengeti, a board game published by Bad Comet. Compete as rival filmmakers to make the best documentary on the wildlife of Africa's Serengeti.

One talented Starfield player has mocked up what the RPG's local planet maps might look like when they eventually arrive.

'Cosmic horror' and Call of Cthulhu are synonymous, so it's just as well that you can get the horror TTRPG and a library's worth of its books for a pretty absurd discount.

Humble Bundle's dropped another great TTRPG deal—this time for Lovecraft lovers with its Call of Cthulhu book bundle. At the time of writing, the bundle has raised over $22,000 for the World Wildlife Fund. It's also a pretty damn good deal from a buyer's standpoint, too.

You don’t have to spend a lot to get a huge digital bundle of Call of Cthulhu RPG books and gaming aids. At Humble, the Lovecraftian horror RPG set from Chaosium costs $25 and includes 25 items, and is full of items catered to both new players and and returning fans. Proceeds for this bundle go to the World Wildlife Fund.

Since the unveiling of GTA 6's official trailer in December, fans have been tirelessly dissecting Rockstar's first glimpse into the highly anticipated game. While the GTA 6 trailer, a major highlight of 2023 for gamers that came after years of anticipation, fueled speculation and excitement, the GTA 6 release date still remains shrouded in mystery, with gamers having to wait until 2025 for the full experience.

Good news, my friends: Starfield players have entirely abandoned human morality in their quest to invent the most effective methods of XP grinding possible, turning the game's rambling planetary plains into a kind of Victorian safari hunt. I'm discomfited, disturbed, and would quite like to unlock the manipulation ability, so might give this a try myself.

There's just no getting around it, if you're interested in taking photos of far-off subjects, whether they be backyard critters or linebackers scrambling to make a tackle, a long telephoto lens is a must-have. But because of the the amount of glass required to get close up, the lenses tend to be pretty big, and correspondingly heavy to carry. Nikon is addressing that problem head-on with the latest addition to its mirrorless lens catalog. Its Nikkor Z 600mm F6.3 VR S weighs just 3.1-pounds, thanks in part to its Phase Fresnel (PF) lens element.

Today's Artificial intelligence roundup indicates that AI can prove to be a boon, but it is also open to abuse and, interestingly, it can be fooled too! RBI has picked McKinsey and Accenture for enhanced AI regulatory supervision; Scientists have applauded AI breakthrough in tracking UK wildlife- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

Larry The Bird is dead! Billionaire Elon Musk has ensured that by ruthlessly replacing it with the current X logo. However, even as millions of Twitter users (X), mourn its passing, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), is has used the opportunity in a brilliant way to promote its own agenda - wildlife conservation. WWF Germany has compared the passing of the Twitter bird logo with that of the deaths of countless millions of species on earth due to the changes in the environment wrought by humanity. In reality, the extinction of species that is currently going on at a furious pace has been likened and ccompared to the one that happened during and in the aftermath of the asteroid strike 65 million years ago that caused the demise of the dinosaurs.