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In March 2024, user Flimsy-Zebra3775 posted about an eBay listing for a PS3 development kit. One of the images for the console showed a game that never made it to market or even close to the light of day. TimeSplitters 4. Initially, they checked in with the PS3 community. After all, the developer of the TimeSplitters franchise, Free Radical, all but disappeared after its PS3 launch title Haze failed to impress. It’s since completely closed as a result of the Embracer Group layoffs. However, it seems as though this…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI 04:52 Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, with the Tesla founder alleging they violated the artificial intelligence company's original mission statement by putting profits over benefiting humanity. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in San Francisco, comes amid a larger debate over the potential impact of AI, such as that it could produce misleading or…

Image: SentinelFor the past few years, toymaker Sentinel’s “Fighting Armor” toyline has transformed Marvel heroes from across the comics into mechanized warriors better than even the actual Marvel Comics crossovers to do so. While its forays into the worlds of Mutantkind have been few and far between, its latest turns an X-Men stalwart into maybe its best spin on the idea yet.Announced overnight, Sentinel revealed a first look at the Fighting Armor Cyclops, which takes an amalgam of several of Scott’s classic comics…

Embracer Group has released its fiscal report for Q3 2023, and while much of it is operational information for shareholders, it does provide some insight into where they are in regard to the vicious restructuring that has resulted in a tremendous number of lost jobs. Headlining this is a 4% growth of sales, but this growth isn’t due to their PC/Console games, which has actually contracted 5%. Instead, this is largely because of their tabletop games and “Entertainment & Services,” while mobile games also saw a small…

Monthly Dipole Mode Index (DMI) correlations with total precipitation over the Middle East. Significant correlations are shown in color using a student t-test at the 5% significant level. The correlation is most notable in October. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53677-x A new study led by Dr. Assaf Hochman from the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on the…

Image: Marvel StudiosThe MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. How Ewan McGregor Helped Bring Back Obi WanRecently, Downey appeared on Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast and mentioned how he feels like his Iron Man work—which he considers “some of the best work I…

It’s time to look back at spaceflight in 2023, a real “two steps forward, one step back” kind of year, filled with highs, lows, and everything in between.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe New Space Race is in full swing, and with both public and private entities pushing the limits of what’s possible, failures are an inevitability, as is progress. 2023 was no exception, with some notable achievements like historic deep space missions and advancements in satellite and rocket technology, alongside setbacks such…

CLIMATEWIRE | In Paris eight years ago, world leaders agreed to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius. Six years later, in Glasgow, Scotland, they pledged to phase out coal. And on Wednesday, negotiators patted themselves on the back for the first-ever deal to begin "transitioning away" from fossil fuels.If the past is prologue, it won’t prompt a significant shift in energy markets anytime soon.The deal — brokered at the U.N. climate summit, known as COP28 — comes as global emissions from fossil fuels …

Fans are fast losing faith in the MCU, but it wasn’t so long ago that the branching cinematic giant reigned supreme. The first Avengers flick dropped just over a decade ago, after all, igniting a furor around the franchise and its future. And boy was that future bright — for a few more years, at least. The downfall seemingly started after Endgame, which — to be fair — could have to do with the near-impossible task of topping that cinematic moment. There’s also the loss of several OG Avengers, including the man who…

Robert Downey Jr’s innings as Iron Man has ended, according to Kevin Feige. That is the update the Marvel Studios president shared during a recent event for fans who have been hoping for the resurrection of Tony Stark, after he died in Avengers: Endgame (2019). “We are going to keep that moment and not touch it again,” Feige maintained when asked if Downey would return in his superhero avatar in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). He added, “We all worked very hard for many years to get to that,…