In 1982, director Ridley Scott delighted the world with the film Blade Runner. This is a cult SF film that showed viewers a dark and disturbing future - November 2019. Now we can compare what was shown in the film and what we have now. This is about technology, not the political, social or economic model of Blade […]
In the article “How the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke almost closed down the magazine “Technology for Youth”,” I promised to talk on Friday about how the editor-in-chief of “Veselye Kartinki” almost got burned by bugs—in the most literal sense of the word. Today is Friday, but first I would like to say a few words about the “Funny Pictures” themselves - this unique case […]
The release of PeerTube 2.0, a decentralized platform for organizing video hosting and video broadcasting, has been published. PeerTube offers a vendor-neutral alternative to YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo, using a content distribution network based on P2P communications and linking visitors' browsers together. The project's developments are distributed under the AGPLv3 license. PeerTube is based on the BitTorrent client WebTorrent, which runs in the browser and uses WebRTC technology to […]
Google has taken an initiative to encourage increased loading speed of sites on the Web, for which it plans to include special indicators in Chrome that highlight very slowly or, conversely, very quickly loading sites. The final methods for indicating fast and slow sites have not yet been determined, and the optimal option for users will be selected through several experiments. For example, if a site usually loads […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2019-2201) has been identified in libjpeg-turbo, a library for encoding and decoding JPEG images, resulting in an integer overflow and subsequent heap corruption when processing certain formatted JPEG files. Potentially, the vulnerability does not exclude the possibility of creating an exploit to organize code execution in the system (the attack requires processing a very large image with […]
Nixxes studio, responsible for the development of the PC version of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, has released a patch for the game. This update added support for AMD FidelityFX. As a reminder, this is a set of high-quality post-processing effects that automatically break down various effects into fewer shader passes to reduce load and free up GPU resources. Specifically, FidelityFX combines Contrast-Adaptive Sharpening […]
The film company Paramount Pictures listened to fans of the Sonic gaming universe and completely remade the film version of the famous supersonic hedgehog. You can see his new image in the latest trailer for the film Sonic the Hedgehog. Let us remember that in the spring of this year the film company published the debut trailer of the film, which caused a flurry of criticism from fans. The hedgehog shown there was not just distant […]
Independent game developer and co-founder of the Little Chicken Game Company Tomas Sala has announced that his role-playing game The Falconeer will be released not only on PC, as previously planned, but also on Xbox One. Both versions will be published by Wired Productions next year. Unfortunately, the publisher has not yet announced more precise release dates. Let us add that Thomas […]
Unlike The Last of Us and the Uncharted games, The Last of Us Part II will be completely devoid of an online component. The developers announced this in September, but soon after that they clarified that they were planning to release an independent multiplayer mode for the upcoming action game. Judging by the recently opened vacancy, work on it has already begun. However, the announcement may refer […]
Famitsu was suspected of a conflict of interest. In Death Stranding, which received the maximum score from the Japanese magazine, the former editor and mascot of the publication was discovered. Famitsu has been published since 1986, and during its existence, only 40 games have received the coveted 26 points (the rating is given by four reviewers at once), including four works by Hideo Kojima - Death Stranding, MGS 4, […]
An event organized to support creators has begun on the Epic Games Store. Users who make a purchase in the service worth $14,99 (899 rubles) or more can receive a coupon for $10 (650 rubles). To do this, you need to use the developers' link or enter the author's tag when placing an order. The number of gifts is limited - one per account. Coupon applies […]
The general hype did not help Death Stranding conquer the UK retail sales charts. According to the Games Industry portal, the new product lost first place to the leader of recent weeks - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Death Stranding's opening sales were 36% worse than Days Gone. The action game Bend Studio, released in April, still remains the most successful exclusive […]
