Tactical

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will "make use of all weapon systems available to us" if Russia's territorial integrity is threatened. Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against the West, which he said wants to weaken,…

The age of the ray gun is almost upon us after the US Navy took delivery of a near-operational high-energy tactical laser weapon called the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system from Lockheed Martin that can be installed in existing warships.When the first laser was invented by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Lab in Malibu, California, in 1960, it was almost immediately seen as a potential superweapon – the death-ray of science fiction come to life.While the ability to…

PUBG: Battlegrounds has switched to a free-to-play model and is available to all gamers for free on PC and consoles, publisher Krafton announced on Wednesday. Krafton, also the publisher of the popular mobile battle royale game Battlegrounds Mobile India, has introduced a one-time, non-recurring Battlegrounds Plus premium account upgrade alongside. The premium upgrade comes with benefits like additional G-Coin, a 100 percent boost for Survival Mastery XP, special in-game items, and custom match functionality with access…

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle was a pleasant surprise. A charming game that married Nintendo’s Mushroom Kingdom with the chaos of Ubisoft’s Rabbid mascots and crammed it into a game that was, well, pretty much a cartoon interpretation of the tactical strategy series XCOM. It was an unlikely early hit on the Switch. Ubisoft was able to offer a different kind of game than Nintendo was offering in its first-party titles. Apparently, that was the seed that led Ubisoft Milan Creative Director Davide Soliani to Mario +…

It’ll be made with player feedback in mind We’ve seen a few games so far at the PC Gaming Show, and while a few were old, Endless Dungeon looks intriguing, as the name literally just tells us what we need to know about it: dungeons are the focus. Duh! It’s from the development team Amplitude, published by Sega. Here’s a quick roundup of what to expect from PC Gamer: “Despite being known as a 4X developer, Humankind and Endless Space‘s Amplitude Studios also knows its way around a tactical roguelite. 2014’s Dungeon…

School life as a demon hunter Fans of both Shin Megami Tensei and its sister series Persona get to see the two combine in a new indie project. Necrosoft Games’ Demonschool mixes school life, tactical RPGs, and horror cinema into a devilish blend coming next year. Announced during today’s PC Gaming Show, Necrosoft’s new RPG is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch alongside the PC and Steam Deck. Demonschool follows freshman Faye, the last in a line of demon hunters. During her time at school,…

How to maximize business outcomes without burningInlinking data to business outcomes, Data Analysts play the most critical role. They are typically the only people on the Data team that understand both the data context as well as the business context.In my experience, on a typical day, a Data Analyst will get pulled into multiple ad-hoc tactical requests by the business:” Can you send the 2-year trend for our product CAC by this afternoon.” While these requests are a distraction from the strategic roadmap tasks, a subset…

On top of the (already known about) Headhunter As much as our eyes can glaze over when skimming through game publishers’ financial reports, sometimes, there are head-turning tidbits about upcoming games we’d actually like to play. In this case, it sure seems like Thunderful has big plans for the wider SteamWorld series — four new games are in the works, including SteamWorld Headhunter, a body-swapping robot cowboy adventure we learned about last year. According to the Thunderful Group’s report for January through March…

We've always had first-person shooter games to pass our time with. Games such as Counter-Strike, PUBG, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, and Battlefield come to mind as I make that statement. There's a different category of games that are just as interesting and addictive: top-down shooters. Popular top-down shooter games such as Nuclear Throne and Animal Royale have a decent number of active players still enjoying each and every minute of it. Personally, I've never been fond of this category, partly because of the way we have…