Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson announced a new major in-game event in Apex Legends. He made the statement during the company's report for the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The event will take place in the next few weeks, before the start of the third gaming season. Details have not yet been announced. Wilson said that the success of the second season of Apex legends exceeded all expectations. He […]
Apple Arcade, a monthly subscription service, was recently announced, giving users access to a library of mobile games for devices running the iOS mobile platform. The service has not yet been launched, but Google developers have already begun testing an analogue for their own ecosystem. The service is called Google Play Pass. Images that recently appeared on the Internet […]
In April, Gearbox Publishing and Compulsion Games unveiled the first addition, Roger & James in They Came from Below, to the We Happy Few adventure. It immersed players in a completely new story from the life of deliriously happy Wellington Wells, created with humor in the spirit of 1960s science fiction. Now it's time for the second of three DLCs promised as part of the season pass […]
Japanese publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment announced the creation of a new company with the self-explanatory name Bandai Namco Mobile. This division of Bandai Namco Group will focus on the development of mobile business within the Network Entertainment Unit - it will combine the development and marketing of game projects for mobile platforms outside the Asian market. Bandai Namco Mobile will be based in Barcelona and will allow more […]
It was recently announced that MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries has become a limited-time Epic Games Store exclusive. Fans, as expected, were outraged, but Piranha Games studio president Russ Bullock revealed the reason for this decision on Reddit. The president of Piranha Games wants to dispel misconceptions that the agreement with Epic Games was concluded due to greed. According to Bullock, he feels that […]
Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that a collection of its mini-games, Disney Tsum Tsum Festival, presented in February, will be released on November 8, 2019. We are talking about a rather unusual exclusive for the Nintendo Switch platform - the main characters in it are funny Tsum Tsum collectible figurines based on Disney characters. This will be their first look at a Japanese console. The developers also presented [...]
“Work fills the time allotted for it.” Parkinson's Law Unless you are a British official from 1958, you don't have to follow this law. No work has to take up all the time allotted for it. A few words about the law Cyril Northcote Parkinson is a British historian and brilliant satirist. An essay published by […]
“I inherited this mess, starting with the unscrupulous Zello; LinkedIn and ending with “everyone else” on the Telegram platform in my world. And then, with a hiccup, the official hastily and loudly added: “But I will restore order (here in IT)” (...). Durov rightly believes that it is authoritarian states that should be afraid of him, the cypherpunk, and Roskomnadzor and golden shields with their DPI filters […]
During development, I like to change compilers, build modes, dependency versions, perform static analysis, measure performance, collect coverage, generate documentation, etc. And I really love CMake because it allows me to do everything I want. Many people criticize CMake, and often deservedly so, but if you look at it, it’s not all that bad, and recently […]
We continue the series of publications about the best mobile applications of SAMSUNG IT SCHOOL graduates. Today – a word from young developers from Novosibirsk, winners of the VR application competition “SCHOOL VR 360” in 2018, when they were first-year students. This competition concluded a special project for graduates of the “SAMSUNG IT SCHOOL”, where they taught development in Unity3d for Samsung Gear VR virtual reality glasses. All gamers are familiar with [...]
Hello, Habr! For more than 3 years now I have been teaching SQL in various training centers, and one of my observations is that students master and understand SQL better if they are given a task, and not just told about the possibilities and theoretical foundations. In this article, I will share with you my list of tasks that I give […]
Hello, Khabro residents! In the book, David Clinton describes 12 real-life projects, including automating your backup and recovery system, setting up a Dropbox-style personal file cloud, and creating your own MediaWiki server. You'll learn virtualization, disaster recovery, security, backup, DevOps, and system troubleshooting through interesting case studies. Each chapter ends with an overview of practical recommendations […]
