In 2019, I rediscovered OpenBSD. Being a green Unix guy at the turn of the millennium, I tried everything I could get my hands on. Then Theo, represented by OpenBSD, explained to me that I should go play other toys. And now, almost 20 years later, in 2019, it came up again - the most secure OS and all that. Well, I think I’ll take a look - for sure [...]
Valve continues to publish its weekly Steam sales rankings. From February 9 to 15, the action role-playing game Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem in the spirit of Diablo was in the lead on the site. The project from developers from Wolcen Studio received mixed reviews from users due to technical problems, but managed to attract the attention of a large audience. The second place on the list was taken by the Iceborne add-on to Monster Hunter: […]
The long-awaited return of the post-apocalyptic shooter Metro Exodus to Steam did not go unnoticed - the game updated its year-old record for the number of concurrent users. In February 2019, when Metro Exodus was released on Steam only to those who managed to pre-order the shooter before its temporary disappearance from the site, 11,9 thousand people were recorded in the game. According to Steam Charts, […]
Не успел игровой инструментарий Dreams от Media Molecule поступить в продажу, как пользователи уже заполнили Интернет своими творениями. Одно из самых впечатляющих — вольная интерпретация Fallout 4 за авторством Robo_Killer_v2. На создание своей версии постапокалиптического ролевого приключения у Robo_Killer_v2 ушло порядка девяти месяцев — работа началась ещё в период пребывания Dreams в программе раннего доступа. […]
Разработчики из студии Ubisoft Montreal поделились подробностями о том, что принесёт пятый год развития командного боевика Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege в рамках общего двухлетнего плана. Директор по разработке игры Леруа Атанассофф (Leroy Athanassoff) сообщил, что команда желает внимательно изучить те аспекты, которым ранее не удавалось уделить достаточного внимания, и постарается вернуться к первоначальной концепции. […]
Исполнительный вице-президент Platinum Games Ацуси Инаба (Atsushi Inaba) и старший вице-президент студии Хидеки Камия (Hideki Kamiya) в интервью Nintendo Everything рассказали о возможном продолжении The Wonderful 101. По словам Инабы, судьба сиквела будет зависеть от успехов переиздания: «Если фанаты поддержат игру и у The Wonderful 101 всё сложится хорошо, то выпуск ещё одной части серии […]
Китайская компания OPPO официально представила смартфон среднего уровня A31, информация о подготовке которого не так давно появилась в Интернете. Как и предполагалось, электронным «мозгом» новинки служит процессор MediaTek Helio P35 (восемь ядер ARM Cortex-A53 с частотой до 2,3 ГГц и графический контроллер IMG PowerVR GE8320). Чип работает в тандеме с 4 Гбайт оперативной памяти. Экран […]
A study conducted by Strategy Analytics shows that the global market for smart speakers with intelligent voice assistants is growing rapidly. In the last quarter of 2019, sales of smart speakers reached 55,7 million units - this is an absolute quarterly record. Year-over-year shipment growth was approximately 44,7%. In first place in terms of quarterly shipments is Amazon with 15,8 million […]
Broadcom has presented the world's first chip for mobile devices that supports the Wi-Fi 6E standard. In addition to significantly increased data transfer speeds, the new wireless module boasts power consumption that has decreased by 5 times compared to its predecessor. The new Broadcom chip, labeled BCM4389, also supports Bluetooth 5, and its main purpose is smartphones. In addition to reduced energy consumption, the company promises […]
A significant release of the NetBSD 9.0 operating system is available, in which the next portion of new features is implemented. Installation images of 470 MB in size have been prepared for download. The NetBSD 9.0 release is officially available in builds for 57 system architectures and 15 different CPU families. Separately, there are 8 primarily supported ports that form the core of NetBSD’s development strategy: amd64, i386, evbarm, evbmips, evbppc, hpcarm, […]
The release of the free 3D modeling package Blender 2.82 has been published, which includes more than a thousand fixes and improvements prepared in the three months since the release of Blender 2.81. Main changes: Added a new backend for simulating gas, smoke, fire and liquid, implemented based on the Mantaflow physical process simulation framework. To simulate fluid, a new three-component FLIP Solver was used; Improved bloat simulation […]
The first stable builds of the Trident 20.02 distribution, transferred from FreeBSD and TrueOS to the Void Linux package base, are presented. The size of the boot iso image is 523MB. Let us recall that in October 2019, the Trident project announced a migration to Linux, the reason for which was the inability to otherwise get rid of some problems that limit users of the distribution, such as compatibility with hardware, support for modern […]
