Hunting

Do aliens exist? Almost certainly. The Universe is vast and ancient, and our corner of it is not particularly special. If life emerged here, it probably did elsewhere.Keep in mind this is a super broad assumption. A single instance of fossilized archaebacteria-like organisms five superclusters away would be all it takes to say, "Yes, there are aliens!" …if we could find them somehow.Wiretapping ETUntil we can send paleontologists to other galaxies, the best way to search for aliens is to stay at home and look for…

A new game under the EA Originals label has just been announced, which will be developed in partnership with the team behind Dynasty Warriors--publisher Koei Tecmo and studio Omega Force. The as-yet untitled project is a AAA hunting game that will be set in a fantasy version of feudal Japan.The upcoming game, which will introduce an original IP, seems set to try and compete with Capcom's Monster Hunter series, with its focus on hunting action and fantasy feudal Japanese setting. In a press release, Koei…

Dramatic footage showed killer whales using a rare hunting technique to trap and kill a seal in the icy waters surrounding Antarctica.The video, part of the BBC's new Frozen Planet II documentary released Sunday in the UK, shows four killer whales that attacked a Weddell Seal. The seal had found refuge on a platform made of ice floating on water.The killer whales started by swimming side by side, which created a wave that cracked the seal's large ice platform into a smaller one, making it vulnerable.A second wave the…

Published under the EA Originals banner Do you wish more games followed in the footsteps of Monster Hunter, especially after big-budget hits like Monster Hunter: World and Iceborne? While Capcom has been on fire, there’s room for more, and EA of all companies is making a move with Omega Force. Electronic Arts announced its partnership with Koei Tecmo for an Omega Force-developed hunting action game that’s set in “fantasy feudal Japan.” According to the companies, they are aiming to deliver “the next great hunting game”…

EA and Koei Tecmo are partnering on a new title that they’re describing as “the next great hunting game.” When I first read that description, my thoughts jumped to Big Buck Hunter, the arcade series of hunting games where you shoot wild animals, but looking at the concept art (above), combined with who’s making it, I’m guessing this game will actually be much more like Capcom’s popular Monster Hunter series. In a press release, EA and Koei Tecmo describe this new game as an original IP that “delivers a truly AAA…

How to index hundreds of terabytes of malware using Apache Spark and Iceberg tablesPhoto by Hes Mundt on UnsplashIn this article, we will show how we used Spark and Iceberg tables to implement a malware index similar to UrsaDB and integrated this index into Mquery an analyst-friendly web GUI to submit YARA rules and display results.This proof of concept was developed during GeekWeek an annual workshop organized by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and bring together key players in the field of cyber security to…

Oh, and there’s a Pokemon that looks like a Mega Man character As promised, the latest Pokemon trailer is live, and it deals with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet treasure hunting: a thematic aspect of the upcoming generation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NreJ_VEcuYE In this voice-overview-less trailer, we get to see how some of the overarching factions will play out, and we get a brief overview of a few gym leaders, as well as some upcoming creatures. According to Game Freak, “in Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet, the…

He’s your worst nightmare Tomorrow sees the next pop culture superstar join the roster of Warner Bros Games’ MultiVersus — The popular crossover fighter will welcome the mischievous Mogwai Gizmo to its ranks, joining a star-studded crossover cast including characters from Game of Thrones, DC Comics, Steven Universe, and more. While developer Player First Games is yet to release an official gameplay trailer for the gremlin, it has revealed Gizmo’s gameplay card, which reveals that the Mogwai is a Support class character…

Aerial photo of a typical kite from eastern Jordan. Credit: APAAME Archaeologists at the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology have used satellite imagery to identify and map more than 350 monumental hunting structures known as "kites" across northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq—most of which had never been previously documented.…

Streaming giant Netflix has ramped up its dream to make it big in Cloud gaming, as the company hunts for professionals to take on Cloud gaming services like Sony PlayStation Now, Google Stadia, Apple Arcade and Amazon Luna.According to Protocol, the streaming service is looking for a security product manager with experience handling "cloud gaming challenges", a rendering engineer who can support Netflix's "cloud gaming service", and other related positions.Netflix recently launched mobile games like "Into the Breach" and…