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There has long been a hole in my heart the exact shape of Lionhead Studios 2005 tycoon game, The Movies, and now Super Sly Fox is trying to fill that hole with Blockbuster Inc. And now they’ve announced that it will be released on June 6 for PC. That’s what they’re billing Blockbuster Inc. as: the spiritual successor to The Movies. This means that not only do you manage a film studio, there is also a large degree of customization, allowing you to essentially shoot your own movies. A new trailer showcases this with Barbie…

Nvidia Corp.'s rise is captivating the stock market and driving the S&P 500 Index to new highs. But it also raises cautionary reminders of another investor darling that soared on dreams of a technological transformation, only to tumble back to earth when those hopes turned to disappointment. That stock belongs to Tesla Inc., which sparked its own mania in 2017 as investors bet that electric vehicles were going to take over the world. Back then, Elon Musk's company was a phenomenon as it blew past established…

Inkbound from the indie studio Shiny Shoe will be leaving early access in its upcoming 1.0 update. The studio is known for its previous deckbuilding roguelike Monster Train. Inkbound is a tactical co-op roguelite, and with its official release, it adds a new narrative, additional classes to choose from, more worlds to explore, and quality-of-life changes.Inkbound was released in early access for Steam in May 2023. The game has had a plethora of consistent updates with new narrative questlines refined over…

Reuters reported that the Biden administration has intensified restrictions on China’s top sanctioned chipmaker, SMIC, following revelations that its most advanced factory, SMIC South, produced a sophisticated chip for Huawei’s Mate 60 series devices. China manages to fabricate chips despite several trade restrictions intended to prevent the same The trade sanctions aim to curb the flow of U.S. technology to SMIC and undermine its ability to manufacture advanced chips for Huawei or any other Chinese manufacturer. The…

Maximum Entertainment and Blue Manchu Games have revealed new gameplay for Wild Bastards, a standalone successor to Void Bastards. Wild Bastards is a first-person shooter roguelike where players go through procedurally-generated sectors and planets with varying parameters such as terrain and weather.Wild Bastards follows a group of lawbreakers called the Bastards. After all but two members are killed by a puritanical magnate named Jebediah Chaste, they are saved by a sentient spaceship called The Drifter.…

Microsoft has begun to tease the successor to the Xbox Series X/S, promising the “largest technical leap” in Xbox console history. READ MORE: How Søren Lundgaard is taking the toxicity out of video games Following rumours Xbox was set to make a number of exclusive titles available to both PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch gamers, many fans assumed Microsoft could be about to follow the lead of Sega and pivot away from hardware to become a software-only studio. However during a podcast presentation about the “vision…

February 7, 20244 min readA feasibility study on CERN’s Future Circular Collider identifies where and how the machine could be built—but its construction is far from assuredBy Elizabeth Gibney, Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazineThe proposed Future Circular Collider, or FCC (large circle, dashed outline), would be built close to its predecessor at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider (small circle). Europe is pushing forwards with plans to build a 91-kilometre-long, 15-billion-swiss-franc (US$17-billion) supercollider…

Electric vehicle maker Ather Energy's chief financial officer (CFO) Deepak Jain is set to exit the firm, with senior finance controller Sohil Parekh set to take over the position.The change was announced by chief executive Tarun Mehta in an internal communication to employees. Jain worked at Ather for over four years, where joined after a stint at background checking software firm First Advantage. He has previously worked in finance roles with the likes of Apple and Procter & Gamble, according to his LinkedIn…

For Honda to compete as the industry shifts to electric, CEO Toshihiro Mibe explained, “We need more affordable EVs.” Honda is set to expand its lineup with an electric replacement for its all-time best-selling Civic. Honda to launch an affordable electric Civic replacement The company revealed two new EV concepts as part of its new “0 series” electric brand at CES earlier this month. Honda “went back to the basics,” including a “design for the new era” for the EV series. It features a…

Much of the gaming world is holding its breath in anticipation of the Switch 2, or whatever Nintendo decides to call the follow-up to its hybrid console. For now, we know nothing about it, but it seems developers are already working on titles for the mystery machine (not to be confused with the van from Scooby-Doo). According to the latest GDC State of the Game Industry survey (as spotted by VGC), about 8% of development teams are currently developing a project for the Switch successor. Considering around over 3,000…