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Obsidian Entertainment first released Grounded in early access for a limited time period back in 2020, but at today’s Xbox and Bethesda showcase, after two years of development and over 10 million players on Xbox Game Pass, the 1.0 release arrives in September 2022. Grounded is a game in which players are shrunken down to a minuscule scale and must battle their way through challenges, surviving a garden overrun by bugs and other hazards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKYG-Lj0lpQ Whilst in Early Access it has had a…

Peter Rice joined Disney as part of the company’s acquisition of entertainment assets from 21st Century Fox. Photo: bonnie cash/pool/Shutterstock…

Source: Joseph Keller / iMore Apple TV+ has lost a director for its super-secretive Artemis project, according to a new report. The movie, which is thought to be set against the space race, will still star The Avengers pair Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans but Ozark star Jason Bateman is out of the director's chair. Little is known about the Apple TV+ project other than it will be procured by Johannsson while the screenplay comes from Rose Gilroy. It's thought to have cost Apple TV+ around $100 million to nail the…

You can deliver a tight slap across face of hackers who are running this dangerous malware. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an extremely dangerous malware that is immune to most cybersecurity measures that are on your devices! The most interesting fact is that the attackers have apparently mastered the man-on-the-side attack method which makes it helpful to deliver malware as well as to control already infected computers. That means this horrific…

A new version of macOS means a new collection of Macs can no longer run Apple’s latest desktop operating system. Perhaps most notably, the new macOS Ventura update won’t be available for the 2015 MacBook Pro. This laptop quickly became a fan-favorite model because it was one of the last to come with a traditional scissor switch keyboard before Apple ditched it in favor of its much derided butterfly keyboard. Thankfully, Apple has since brought back this traditional keyboard design, meaning there are some very good…

Sheryl Sandberg announced in a Facebook post Wednesday that her 14-year tenure with Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has come to an end.In 2008, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recruited Sandberg, who had served at Google, to come in and build the advertising business, which targets ads based on the personal data the platform aggressively collects from a user pool that’s now swelled to nearly three billion. Sandberg’s power in the company only increased, and she continued to make strategic decisions collaboratively with…

It didn’t take long after Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008 for critics to say that she wasn’t providing enough “adult supervision” as the company faced its first major privacy scandals. In the past several years, many have been quick to criticize Sandberg — long regarded as the No. 2 person at Facebook, now known as Meta — for the company’s many mistakes. Those include everything from allowing Russian bots to spread propaganda ahead of the 2016 US presidential election to its role in the January 6 insurrection.…

Junicho Masuda, co-founder and managing director of Game Freak, has left to join The Pokémon Company. Masunda founded Game Freak in 1989 alongside Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori and has helped develop almost every title the studio has ever put out. He originally composed and helped program the original Pokémon games – Red & Green before taking on a more senior development role. He was director of Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, Fire Red & Leaf Green, Diamond & Pearl, Black & White, X & Y and Let’s Go…

He’s been working on the series in some capacity since Game Freak’s inception Game Freak co-founder Junichi Masuda has been with the company since the start; but is now departing for another predominantly-Pokemon-flavored role: “Chief Creative Fellow” at The Pokemon Company. The news was announced today, as the industry veteran, composer, director, producer, and designer is bringing his talents to the overarching joint firm that oversees the entire Pokemon franchise. Here is Masuda’s full statement on the move, provided…

Netflix’s test to crack down on password sharing has reportedly left some users confused, according to a report from Rest of World. The streaming service started experimenting with password-sharing solutions in Peru, Chile, and Costa Rica in March, prompting subscribers in these markets to pay an additional fee to enable streaming for others outside their household who use the same account. When speaking to over a dozen Netflix subscribers in Peru, Rest of World found that most users weren’t formally made aware of the…