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One evening many months ago, Mike Chapman, the creative director of the co-op pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves, sat down to play the game with producer Joe Neate. This wasn’t just a standard playtest – joining them online would be a crew of players they’d never taken to the ocean with before. It was a team from Sony Interactive Entertainment. The plan to bring the Xbox exclusive to PS5 had just been hatched; now it was time to get into the detail. “We were educating them about the game, talking through what was…

NASA is developing solar sail technology for deep space exploration. This innovative propulsion system, powered by sunlight reflecting off its surface, has recently achieved a new readiness level, making it suitable for future science missions. Solar sails offer a fuel-free, environmentally friendly method of propulsion, capable of propelling low-mass missions to novel orbits and distant planets. Credit: NASANASA is pioneering solar sail technology for space exploration, offering an eco-friendly propulsion system that…

NIS America has confirmed the latest Ys entry for a western release date. Ys X: Nordics will arrive sometime in Fall 2024 for the PlayStation 4, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch. While it’s not surprising to see a Ys game head west, it is reassuring to see it get dated. There’s been a gap, for most of the recent Ys titles, between the Japanese retail launch and their ports to North America. At least with this game, the wait wasn’t terribly long; Ys X: Nordics launched in Japan in September 2023 for PlayStation and Switch.…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Solar Boat in Ayodhya: Ayodhya is gearing up for the consecration ceremony of Shri Ram Temple on January 22. The Uttar Pradesh government is turning the religious city into a model solar city as part of these preparations. First Solar Boat in a River A remarkable addition is the launch of a solar-powered electric…

Stede (Rhys Darby) and Ed (Taika Waititi) in the Our Flag Means Death series (?) finale.Photo: Nicola Dove/MaxThe news that Our Flag Means Death would not be returning for a third season was a devastating way to kick off the new year, and it galvanized the Max pirate series’ supercharged fanbase to launch a campaign to try and save the series. In a new interview, HBO and Max boss Casey Bloys said that while the show won’t continue at his network—it might, perhaps, find a new horizon elsewhere.Would Peter Capaldi Return to…

Rachel Brosnahan discusses getting ready to play Superman Legacy’s Lois Lane. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Godzilla x Kong swap release dates. Plus, a new version of The Blob could be on the way, and Sony teases Venom 3, Karate Kid, and more. To me, my spoilers!Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewThe BlobAccording to The Wrap, David Bruckner (Hellraiser, The Ritual, The Night House) is attached to write and direct a new remake of The Blob for Warner Bros. David Goyer and Keith Levine of…

Native Hawaiian graduate student surveys reef. Credit: Todd Glaser In Hawaiʻi and across much of Oceania, Pacific Islanders celebrate the connections between their islands and the ocean that surrounds them. "As descendants of the ocean, the dearth of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) in ocean science seems inconsonant," writes a team of…

Satellite image of Iceberg A-23A captured on November 28, 2023, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite. Stuck on the seafloor for decades, Iceberg A-23A now freely drifts northward toward warmer, iceberg-destroying waters. For decades, Iceberg A-23A sat quietly, out of sight, off the coast of Antarctica. But the berg has been attracting notice in November 2023 as it drifts northward across the Weddell Sea—closer to shipping lanes, islands inhabited by wildlife, and warmer…

IMAP will study the protective magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system, called the heliosphere, and the particle acceleration that occurs across it. Credit: NASA/Princeton/Johns Hopkins APL/Josh Diaz IMAP, set for launch in late April to May 2025, marks a key phase in space exploration, focusing on mapping solar wind interactions and the heliosphere’s boundary. This NASA-led mission, with broad international collaboration, also features a unique public live feed of its development. The Interstellar Mapping and…

Captain Marvel can’t even spend a full week at the top of the Marvel totem pole apparently, as word has it that the next most powerful MCU hero has been cast. Even if we weren’t supposed to know that yet. Elsewhere, a Disney Plus series we all thought had been snapped out of its existence may have actually been quietly rebooted behind the scenes, at least going by encouraging production rumors. And another day, another Fantastic Four casting rumor. But, first, a plea for leniency, addressed to Kevin Feige… Invincible…