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The Düsseldorf publisher Astragon Entertainment is traveling to PAX East 2024 in Boston with an extensive package of innovations.
For 20 years, PAX – once launched as the Penny Arcade Expo – has been one of the most popular festival formats among game manufacturers and customers. Small and medium-sized studios and publishers in particular use the direct connection to the audience.
PAX East 2024 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is scheduled for March 21-24. The participants from German-speaking countries include Astragon Entertainment GmbH from Düsseldorf, which is traveling to the US state of Massachusetts with the following games:
An Astragon PAX showcase is planned for the Saturday of the trade fair (March 23rd) from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. German time, which will be moderated by US influencer Raptor. The live stream can be followed via YouTube and Twitch.
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Due to an update that is actually intended for HyperOS, Xiaomi, Poco and Redmi devices may currently be damaged.
A faulty update for Xiaomi, Poco and Redmi smartphones is currently causing major problems for users. After installation, affected devices are put into a so-called bootloop. This can have fatal consequences for the owners’ data. The background for the incorrect update could be a mishap in the current situation ongoing system change from MIUI to HyperOS be with the Chinese manufacturer.
Because the update in question should actually only be distributed to cell phones that are already equipped with the new HyperOS, such as the one recently released Xiaomi 14. For unknown reasons, the update was also made available for the previous MIUI system, which is not compatible with it.
Update not suitable for MIUI phones
According to current knowledge, the update affects the essential MIUI system app, which regulates many processes on the devices. It is currently unknown whether other parts of the operating system will be affected. Since the affected devices can no longer boot into normal operating mode, the changes cannot be easily reversed.
The only known way out at the moment is a factory reset. However, such a factory reset deletes all stored data – and usually irretrievably.
Like that Online magazine XiaomiUI reported, there is still hope. Xiaomi is aware of the problems and advises users to contact official customer service for help. Unfortunately, it is not known whether this help can be guaranteed to prevent data loss.
Sometimes publishers work with real singers for their video games and if everything works out, then the fans can look forward not only to a soundtrack, but even to a single release, as they are known from the music industry.
This honor will now be the joy of fans Loren Allred and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth allocated. The American singer and songwriter sings “No Promises to Keep”, the game’s theme song, composed by Nobuo Uematsu. Square Enix is releasing a maxi single and even a limited edition.
There are four versions of “No Promises to Keep” on both singles, including the version from the game, an instrumental version and a version recorded by Nobue Uematsu’s band conTIKI.
The limited edition, which is available at Amazon.co.jp, includes a メガジャケ, a “mega jacket” – this is a 24 x 24 cm case with a beautiful motif. But both variants are out of stock on Amazon.co.jp anyway.
You can still pre-order from CD Japan*. In the Japanese Square Enix store, which does not deliver to Germany, there is a cool, fictional employee ID card from LOVELESS as a bonus. Whether you can still find the single in the German Square Enix Store remains to be seen today. The single will be released in Japan on April 3, 2024.
The title song will be heard for the first time during a performance of LOVELESS in the game; excerpts from it have already been offered in a trailer. “Composer Nobuo Uematsu is a musical visionary who has given so much to the world of Final Fantasy, and it was a great honor to work with such an innovative talent,” said Loren Allred.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will be released on February 29, 2024. Want to stay up to date on all things Final Fantasy VII Rebirth? Here you can find all articles from our detailed reporting.
The FritzBox sends various information to AVM when the diagnostic function is active. But what data does the company actually receive?
By collecting diagnostic data from users, hardware and software manufacturers can identify errors and improve devices and applications. However, it is often not entirely clear what information companies receive and how the diagnostic function can be deactivated. On the routers A lot of sensitive data flows – because as the central point in the home network it is responsible for providing the Internet to all devices. Of course, this also applies to the popular ones FritzBoxes to. But what data do the routers send to AVM? And how can the diagnostic function be switched on and off if necessary?
Where can you find the diagnostic function?
When setting up the FritzBox, users first determine whether the diagnostic function should be active or not. To check your settings for the FritzBox diagnostics, call up the router menu by in the address bar of a browser and log in with the device password. For older FritzOS versions, click on the three dots at the top right and activate them extended view. Select from the menu on the left Internet and access data as well as the rider AVM servicesto access the diagnostic settings. The function can be switched on and off here. click on View diagnostic summary, save a text file on your device where you will find all the submitted data. This includes the product ID of your FritzBox, the software version and numerous configuration details. However, the router does not transmit WLAN names and passwords to AVM.
What data does the FritzBox transmit?
The FritzBox sends data about the firmware version used to AVM – this is important so that the device recognizes and installs updates. Then there is the diagnostic data already mentioned: Anyone who activates it voluntarily helps AVM to improve the product, for example by sending error reports to the manufacturer. By checking “Diagnostics and Maintenance” you allow AVM to access the FritzBox, for example to retrieve selected diagnostic data. This makes things easier for anyone who needs help from support. Alternative: Under After logging in with the device password, if you wish, you can also create a comprehensive diagnostic report yourself to send to AVM support.
With more than 40,000 subscribers on Instagram, an influencer who filmed his speeding was arrested, the Brussels prosecutor’s office announced this Friday.
Crazy driver arrested in Belgium. The Brussels public prosecutor’s office announced this Friday, December 22, the arrest of a motorist who had filmed his speeding before broadcasting the videos on social networks, where he had more than 40,000 subscribers.
This “speed madman”, according to the prosecution, had been wanted since the spring, when the police had spotted for the first time the Instagram account where he broadcast his videos.
He liked to film himself during dangerous overtaking on the highway, at speeds sometimes exceeding 250 km/h.
More than 70 sports cars rented abroad
In the space of two years, again according to the prosecution’s account, this man is suspected of having “rented more than 70 sports cars registered abroad (Germany, Poland)” in order to commit his crimes in Belgium.
He was eventually arrested on December 7 while allegedly driving under the influence of cannabis and made the subject of a “driving ban” following a conviction.
He was charged by an investigating judge with “various traffic offenses”, and on Thursday the Brussels Court of Appeal authorized him to continue his preventive detention under an electronic bracelet.
As in the case of this “influencer”, driving without a driving license or in a state of intoxication is “punishable by heavy penalties which can go as far as imprisonment”, recalls the prosecution, which “will continue to closely monitor the accounts on social media promoting speed.” .
Xiaomi slammed the table last October when presenting HyperOS, a complete operating system with which it plans to unify its entire ecosystem, and which, as they promise, is the definitive evolution for the user experience of its mobile phones and more devices.
HyperOS is full of new features, and more than 100 models from the brands Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO They will receive the company’s new operating system. The question is: which smartphones will receive it first?
We already have the answer: below you will find the first 16 smartphones that will be updated.
More than 120 phones will be updated to HyperOS, but these will be the first
What makes HyperOS so special is that It is a complete operating system, and not just a new custom layer based on Android, as MIUI is. Its features include a new user interface, new features in artificial intelligence and, very interesting, the compatibility of this operating system not only with mobile phones but also with wearables, smart home devices (IoT) and even cars.
The system is designed to work on many devices, but not all. At least twelve mobile phones will be left without the update.
As for the smartphones that will be updated with HyperOS, it has already been announced which will be the first terminals that will receive the operating system, and the date in which the update will arrive.
Xiaomi’s new operating system will arrive during the first quarter of 2024 to the first seven compatible Redmi phones, and to the first nine Xiaomi phones. Below you can find the list of terminals, so if you have one of them, you will be among the first to receive the new HyperOS.
These are the first Xiaomi phones that will receive HyperOS
If there is a franchise that is crying out for a remastering for the current generation of consoles, that is undoubtedly Metal Gear Solid. The original MGS have not been touched up since the excellent Metal Gear Solid HD compilation of 2011, and there are no signs pointing to a relaunch for PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, despite the fact that MGS cutscenes apparently rendered with Fox were discovered a while ago. Engine in a Japanese pachinko machine. However, we have good news: the 2011 remastering is now backward compatible on Xbox One, and this is the best way to play these classic games on modern hardware.
However, it is better that you moderate your expectations. Like most Xbox 360 titles that work on Xbox One, the rendering resolution is still 720p with 2x MSAA as in the original from Bluepoint Games and, save for the inclusion of an additional 16x anisotropic filtering at the software level of system on Xbox One X, the general presentation of all the games in the compilation is identical to the one they had on Xbox 360. Luckily, the backward compatibility does bring improvements in another aspect.
We talked, of course, about performance, where Bluepoint was trying to move both Metal Gear Solid 2 and its ambitious sequel to a stable 60FPS. The task for the developers was significantly easier with MGS2, as the team led by Hideo Kojima already set 60Hz as a goal in the original game. The result in the transition to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 was a nearly stable frame-rate for most of the action. The opening sequence with Snake on the ship is without a doubt the most demanding of the entire game, with lots of geometry and rain effects. The previous generation consoles were already moving it well, so it’s no surprise that the Xbox One and Xbox One X do as well.
But the situation with the cinematics of MGS2 is very different. Whether in the hangar or in the Raiden sections on the oil rig, any sequence showing a larger area reduces its performance on the original Xbox 360 hardware. This is practically fixed with backward compatibility, but there are still moments in which the problems remain, even on Xbox One X. In a scene that dropped sharply to 35FPS on Xbox 360 the new Xbox go up to 48FPS. It’s unusual not to see an improvement in the Xbox One X hardware here, as it doesn’t seem like a GPU-demanding scene, and even if we were limited by the CPU X it is 31% better than its predecessor. Anyway, while you play 60FPS is maintained more solidly than in any other console, and you also get the advantage of having 16x anisotropic filtering.
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It is in Metal Gear Solid 3, technologically more advanced, where Bluepoint Games began to run into the limits of what they could achieve in their remastering on previous generation consoles, and where current consoles make a greater difference. On the PS2 original, Kojima’s team tried to revolutionize in-game detail at the expense of frame-rate, going from MGS2’s 60FPS to 30FPS. In fact, the implementation of this decision was quite visionary; Although the kinematics operated in vertical sync (and performance that often plummeted), playable parts ran at 30FPS with adaptive sync, occasionally exhibiting some tearing. Adaptive timing, especially at 30FPS, was unusual in the PS2 era, although it was used often in the next generation. In any case, MGS 3 was, by and large, the result of brilliant technical development, with a team trying to push PS2 to the limit in its last years of life. For its remastering, Bluepoint set itself the goal of obtaining the same 60FPS of MGS2, something without a doubt quite ambitious.
And they almost succeeded. Similar to the original PlayStation 2, the cutscenes often fail to hit that number, but the gameplay is pretty solid. Ironically, considering the roots of the series, the remastering for Xbox 360 ran noticeably smoother than the version for PlayStation 3, although both were a huge improvement over the same game running on original hardware.
The advantage is especially evident in the playable parts, although the fluidity of MGS3 depended a lot on the version you were playing. The standard game with its default perspective offers basically 30FPS with some small drops below said objective, accompanied by the flickering of on-screen tearing. The later released Subsistence version, with a free camera option, saw performance drop to between 20FPS and 30FPS with a lot of tearing. When it came to optimizing the code on PS2, the gameplay was much smoother with the fixed perspective.
For its remastering Bluepoint not only faced the extra challenge of the free camera, but even improved it with respect to the implementation on PS2. The truth is that it continues to produce some performance drops on PS3 and Xbox 360, but when playing on Xbox One hardware the frame-rate improves ostensibly, despite not taking advantage of the extra power of the Xbox One X hardware GPU. .
And this brings us directly to the situation surrounding Xbox One X-enhanced Xbox 360 games: why has the stream of releases stopped so abruptly? It’s been six months since Microsoft released the second wave of titles, and we haven’t seen any more since then, even though more backward-compatible titles are released on a regular basis. When a game as important as Metal Gear Solid HD Collection comes to Xbox One, one wonders why there are no improvements on Xbox One X.
In the case of these remastering, we would be facing an Ultra HD presentation with 3840×2160 resolution, with MSAA to produce perfect image quality. And based on the quality of Bluepoint’s 720p remastering – not to mention moving the PS2 originals to native 4K via PCSX2 emulation – we can see that the art holds up and that we could be looking at something truly special. Previous Xbox 360 games enhanced on Xbox One X also showed that increased resolution is often accompanied by improved performance. The idea of playing these classic titles in 4K is more than attractive, but it is still out of reach.
As we head into the fourth quarter, when the biggest games are released and when manufacturers intend to sell more consoles, our hope is that the Xbox 360 enhanced games program on Xbox One X will be reactivated. In any case, the truth is that Xbox One is right now the best way to play the titles of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, much as a patch to take advantage of the Xbox One X hardware would be the icing on the cake for users with Ultra HD televisions.
The Amazon Echo Connect connects smart Alexa speakers to the landline. Now Amazon wants to put the device on ice.
Anyone who has an Alexa speaker can easily use it to call friends and family members in their contact list. However, this usually only works if these people also join in Alexa device own. Calls to landlines are not possible – unless you use one Amazon Echo Connect. The gadget was introduced in Germany in 2018 and has always served its users as an intermediary between Alexa and the landline. However, users now have to prepare for the end of Echo Connect.
End of support for Alexa mediators
Because like from the Support page of the Echo Connect, Amazon will completely stop supporting the gadget on February 29, 2024. Once the deadline passes, the Amazon Echo Connect will no longer work and is ready for electronic waste or the collector’s showcase. After all, affected users should not look completely out of their minds after the shutdown. As a small compensation, Amazon should offer Echo Connect users a voucher worth 10 euros, like the portal iFun reported.
Gigaset speakers may also be affected
However, this will probably be little consolation for anyone who likes to use the device frequently. The bar, which cost around 40 euros, was connected to the telephone socket or router using a telephone cable with a Western plug (RJ11), TAE adapter or an adapter for DSL splitter to connect to the landline network. Sometime after the introduction of the Echo Connect appeared with the Gigaset L800HX also an Alexa speaker that integrated the functions of the Echo Connect, like Golem reported. It is currently unclear to what extent the end of product support for the Echo Connect will also affect users of the Gigaset speaker.
Control has two DLC to explore: The Foundation Y AWE. Before you start playing them, you will need to know how to start each.
The Foundation takes Jesse to the origins of the Immemorial House to find out what happened to Marshall, the FBC’s Director of Operations, who disappeared during the Control campaign.
For its part, AWE takes us to explore the Investigations Section, previously closed, and has a certain connection to another Remedy game: Alan Wake.
On this page you will find:
How to start The Foundation Control DLC
To start The Foundation DLC in Control, you’ll first need to complete the main Control story.
As soon as you have done it, it will automatically start the first mission of the DLC, also called The Foundation.
If you are having trouble getting through this DLC, we recommend playing side missions to get more skill points.
How to start the AWE DLC in Control
If you want to play the AWE Control DLC and explore the Research Sector, you will first need to make sure that you have successfully downloaded the DLC.
The only additional requirement is to complete the seventh mission of the main Control story: The Face of the Enemy.
Although you can start it at this point, we recommend that you play the main campaign, some secondary missions and even the DLC The Foundation first to get in good shape.
When you reach Face of the Enemy or load Control, AWE’s first mission, A Dark Place, will begin, giving you access to the Investigations Sector from the Executive elevator.
There are great prizes to be won again in the SamaGame February 2024 competition. Included is the LucidSound LX15X wireless gaming headset and 10 games for Xbox.
All SamaGame members have the chance to win great prizes again in February 2024!
Anyone who participates diligently in the SamaGame community and frequently visits SamaGame.de with their profile to write comments will receive XD XP points for these activities. Anyone who actively collects XD-XP within a month will automatically take part in the following draws depending on their points balance.
Participation in the new XD-XP competition will be divided as follows:
We Were Here (€1.99) +50 XP
You have a chance of winning on We Were Here if you have collected at least 50 XD-XP in the current month.
Infinity Circle (€12.99) +500 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on Circle Infinity if you have collected at least 500 XD-XP in the current month.
Bad Dream Coma (€9.99) +750 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on Bad Dream Coma if you have collected at least 750 XD-XP in the current month.
Rogue Company Starter Pack 1 (€9.99) +1000 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning Rogue Company Starter Package 1 if you have collected at least 1000 XD-XP in the current month.
Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure (€19.99) +1250 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure if you have collected at least 1250 XD-XP in the current month.
Wintermoor Tactics Club (€19.99) +1500 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on Wintermoor Tactics Club if you have collected at least 1500 XD-XP in the current month.
UnMetal (€19.99) +1750 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on UnMetal if you have collected at least 1750 XD-XP in the current month.
Encodya (€29.99) +2000 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on Encodya if you have collected at least 2000 XD-XP in the current month.
Grid Legends (€69.99) +2500 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on Grid Legends if you have collected at least 2500 XD-XP in the current month.
Ghostrunner (€69.99) +3000 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning on Ghostrunner if you have collected at least 3000 XD-XP in the current month.
LucidSound LS15X Wireless Gaming Headset (€99.99) +3500 XP
You can secure your additional chance of winning a LucidSound LS15X wireless gaming headset if you have collected at least 3500 XD-XP in the current month.
SamaGame T-Shirt +5000 XP
Unbelievable but true, the unsaleable SamaGame T-shirts are back. After we have already given away 300 pieces at the Xbox FanFest at Gamescom 2023, you still have the chance to win a shirt in 2024.
You can secure your additional chance of winning an SamaGame T-shirt if you have earned at least +5000 XP to your current points balance in the current month.
The SamaGame T-shirt will only be raffled off among all real SamaGame hardcore fans who have collected at least 5000 XP in a month. The winner can freely choose the size as long as they are in stock. The competition is extended every month as long as the supply of t-shirts lasts!
This is how you get XD-XP points with your logged in profile
Comment on a post +20 points
Comment on a test +20 points
Comment on a preview +20 points
Comment on a guide +20 points
Comment on a gallery or screenshot +5 points
Creates an answer in the forum +10 points
Registration +500 points
The deadline for participation is February 29, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. The general conditions of participation apply. The draw takes place at the beginning of the following month. Shipping costs are only covered within Germany. All winners will be informed of their win via private message.
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French art historian and collector of old drawings Louis-Antoine Prat, president of the Friends of the Louvre group, has been accused of slandering a respected art dealer with anti-Semitic stereotypes that he published in a new book.
Prat’s news The aisles of the living room, a reference to the Paris drawing fair, comes from a collection published by El Viso in September. The story draws an unflattering comparison between a “pure-hearted” drawing collector and an art dealer named Nicky Schwarz who is “driven by greed.” The latter is characterized by his poor personal hygiene, his “disgusting” appearance and his manipulative behavior towards collectors and journalists.
The story also contains passages interpreted as homophobic and misogynistic, concerning an “effeminate young man” groped by Schwarz during the opening night of the Salon du Dessin and “single ladies cursed by age”.
The book includes a disclaimer that any similarities between a work of fiction and real people, living or dead, are purely coincidental. But details of the fictional Nicky Schwarz’s clothing and published catalogs have led art experts to identify him with a leading Paris-based specialist and dealer in antique drawings, Nicolas Schwed.
“It’s very easy for anyone in the field to identify Nicolas Schwed in this story,” says George Goldner, former head of the drawings departments at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Journalist Carole Blumenfeld says that Prat himself told her privately that the character of Nicky Schwarz was indeed Schwed.
Academic and author Claudine Sagaert has studied anti-Semitic stereotypes in 19th and early 20th century French literature. In a 2013 anthropology article, she noted how demeaning depictions of Jewish people’s physical appearance were commonly associated with immoral character traits, such as greed and dishonesty.
The language used in Prat’s story “is borrowed from the old anti-Semitic tradition” of French literature, comments collector and patron Pierre Morin. “Maybe the author isn’t even aware of it. » Parisian art dealer Hubert Duchemin condemns the “freely slanderous and nauseating” passages in the book.
“This vocabulary is definitely part of the language defining hatred of Jews around 1900 and beyond,” explains Schwed, who adds: “This is not the role of any museum representative, and in particular the president of the Friends of the Louvre, to slander art dealers. Morin and Duchemin point out that Schwed is considered a professional rival by Prat, a passionate collector of master drawings.
Prat’s perceived attack on Schwed is “totally inappropriate,” Goldner says. “The author, with whom I have no personal problems, has exceeded the limits of decency. He must also be aware that he has a responsibility to preserve the reputation of the Louvre and its Friends.
Prat did not respond to a request for comment but said The world He said he was “horrified by the accusation of anti-Semitism”, affirming that a “cabal” wanted to jeopardize his re-election as president of the Friends of the Louvre next June. “It’s grotesque,” he protested. “I have a number of Jewish friends.”
Former Louvre director Pierre Rosenberg, who oversaw an exhibition of the Prat collection at the museum in 1995, came to his defense, saying: “I can testify that he is not an anti-Semite. » Prat’s editor at El Viso, Nicolas Neumann, affirms that he “did not see an ounce of anti-Semitism in his text”.
The controversy pushed art historians Jean-Christophe Baudequin and Alexandre Gady, director of the Musée du Grand Siècle, to withdraw their contributions from an upcoming book of tributes to Prat.
The current director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, refused to comment, saying she could not interfere with the independent association Friends of the Louvre. However, a spokesperson says Des Cars “disapproves of Prat’s outpourings of all kinds” and “is always saddened by anything that affects the reputation of the Louvre.”
If you examine our list of easter eggs present in Cyberpunk 2077, you will realize that there are some related to Death Stranding, showing the good relationship that exists between CD Projekt and Kojima Productions. Interestingly, Hideo Kojima’s studio has wanted return the coin by exchanging the main games.
This assumes that Death Stranding has just received a free update that you can now download and with which you will have access to a few news based on the world of Cyberpunk 2077 thanks to this special collaboration that has been carried out between both titles.
In this way you will have the possibility of drive one of the motorcycles RPG, which has been given an improved jump. You can also change the look of Sam Bridges face with very characteristic marks or make one of his arms become the robotic arm by Johnny SilverhandIn addition to making him wear his sunglasses.
Along with this, the holograms may carry a Samurai symbol and there will be holograms of the Atlas Trauma Team vehicle for certain constructions. To finish off the play, you can complete six new missions related to Cyberpunk 2077 and all these news.
It should be noted that this Death Stranding update is exclusive to PC version. Therefore, if you have a copy on PS4, you will have to settle for the trailer that accompanies the news or take advantage of the fact that the game is on sale on Steam having reduced its price to 50%, temporarily going to cost 29.99 euros.
Apple teamed up with the University of California to release the open-source artificial intelligence model MGIE.
Its peculiarity is that it edits photos using text commands. MGIE uses multimodal large language models (MLLM) to understand user commands and simultaneously recognize objects in images at the pixel level.
Artificial intelligence can change contrast, exposure, sharpness, color balance, crop and rotate photos. It can also do complex things, such as editing only certain areas in a photo.
For example, you can say “remove the woman from the background” and MGIE will carefully cut out the person and replace him with a different background.
MGIE can add objects. If you say “make it healthier,” MGIE will add tomatoes and herbs to the pizza photo.
Another example: if you write the command “make the sky bluer”, the AI will increase the saturation of the sky by 20%.
MGIE is available on GitHub, where anyone can find the code and pre-trained models.
You can also test the AI on the Hugging Face Spaces website. MGIE only supports English, and commands currently take several minutes to complete due to the large influx of users on the platform. (VentureBeat)
We are going to explain why in some cases, TikTok accounts are going private automatically. This is a new security measure announced by TikTok around the world. Your goal is to protect the accounts of underage users so that they are not so exposed to people with bad intentions.
In addition to the default change in the privacy of Tik Tok, which we will explain in a simple way, it has also announced other complementary measures that we are also going to tell you. These will be implemented possibly in the coming days. In the article, we’ll also clarify who this TikTok change is going to affect specifically.
Which accounts will become private and why
As announced by TikTok, this measure will apply to user accounts between 13 and 15 years old, the youngest who are allowed to register and use this popular application. If you are older than this age, the measure will not affect you.
What TikTok is going to do is change account settings to be private by default. So far, all TikTok accounts are public by default. If you sign up and don’t change anything, everyone can see your content. What is going to happen now is that in this age group the accounts will be private by default, that is, if a minor of those years registers, automatically and unless he does not touch anything, his account will be private.
When an account is set to private, it means that only people who are approved as followers will be able to see the content. Therefore, if you have a private account and I want to see your content, I will have to send you a request to be able to follow you, and you will have to accept it when it arrives.
The intention of TikTok with these changes is that younger users have more control over the decisions to make about their privacy. Therefore, by default your accounts will be private, and the decision to change them to make them public will have to be yours, not an automatic service configuration.
These changes will begin to apply from today, so if you are a minor or a parent of a minor, and your account or your account has not yet been converted to private, it will be something that will probably happen during the next few hours.
Other changes that will also be made
In addition to the change to the default account type settings, users under the age of 16 will also experience other default changes. For example, the Everyone option is removed in the settings of who can configure their videos, and now they can only choose between Friends and Nobody.
Besides this, Only those over 16 years old will be able to use the Duet and Paste functions, and for those between 16 and 17 years old, by default only friends will be able to make these options, although this default configuration can be changed manually in the latter cases.
Only users over 16 years of age may allow their videos to be downloaded In the configuration of your profile, and in those who are 16 to 17 years old, this feature can be activated, although it will be deactivated by default.
By last, the option to recommend your account to others will be disabled by default in minor accounts who are between 13 and 15 years old. All these measures have been taken, according to Tik Tok, to protect the privacy and integrity of its youngest users, and that other people do not take advantage of them.
Over the past few hours, many Xbox players have tried to play Assassin’s Creed Mirage without success. The reason why they are not yet jumping across the roofs of Baghdad is an error that occurs when starting the game once they have purchased their copy. In other words: they can’t play the video game they paid for.
He error 0x87e10bc6, according to Xbox Support, occurs when you “try to download and install or launch a game” without success, which could mean that it is “temporarily unavailable, not available in your region, or no longer in the game catalog.” This has alerted many players, who quickly took to Reddit to share their problem. The user u/KPsea has been one of those affected.
Microsoft was quick to issue a statement on social media to inform them that they are aware of the problem and that they are working on it: “We are aware that some users are experiencing problems when playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage and we are currently investigating. Stay tuned for updates here or check our status page.”
If you are one of those affected, Microsoft recommends keeping an eye on the Xbox Status website to see when the problem has been resolved. At the time of writing, the “games” section under “services” is experiencing a “major outage” specifically affecting Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
miHoYo, the developer of Genshin Impact, has leaked private data of some users on the official website of the game, including personal phone numbers linked to Genshin accounts.
According to several users on Reddit, it has been several weeks since the company has been informed that it is possible to discover phone numbers by searching for the username on the official website using the password recovery function. “
One user described that “I tried two random usernames from the Genshin Impact subreddit, and I was able to see their phone numbers.”
Another added that “when I tried it I could see my full phone number without any protection.”
“If you go to the miHoYo account page, to the option to recover forgotten password and enter your username, the email address appears partially hidden. However, if you linked your phone number, nothing is hidden.”
MiHoYo has yet to comment on this security hole, and it is also unclear how many users have been affected. However, some Reddit users point out that the problem has now been fixed.
Meanwhile, Genshin Impact received update 1.1 a few days ago, the largest to date. Titled A New Star Approaches, the update adds new stories, characters, a reputation system, and a seasonal event.
The Chinese company has also confirmed that Genshin Impact will be playable on PlayStation thanks to the backward compatibility option, with “graphical improvements” and shorter loading times.
With the release of the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2, players quickly searched through the game’s files to discover secrets. And this is what happened! The players finally found out what happened to the missing princess.
If you played Red Dead Redemption 2, at one point you will find a poster that promises a $ 100 reward to anyone who finds Princess Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister of Luxembourg. Players have never been able to find princesses until now.
In the game files a model of the princess was discovered. Players believe that the princess was part of a mission that was cut from the final version. In the video you can see gameplay with the princess (through a program that allows you to play with any NPC in the game).
In the poster the princess was still a child, having disappeared in 1884. However, as the game takes place in 1899, the model already shows a princess in her teens, aged 15.
Finally the mystery of the missing princess has been solved!
iOS 17.4 introduced a feature for downloading applications not from the App Store for EU countries. But how do you know if you can use it?
Apple only allows apps to be installed from approved stores. The company calls them App Marketplaces.
The operating system itself will determine whether you can download applications from other stores, bypassing the App Store. There are several factors for this:
• Apple ID billing address
• User’s current location (Apple only checks the country, not the exact location for privacy reasons)
• Current region set in iOS settings
• Device class (iPhone, iPad, etc.)
The system also additionally checks whether the device comes from China. Why this is so is unknown.
In the Settings -> General -> About this device menu, there is now also a line that will show the country of origin of your iPhone or iPad.
The list of countries where the ability to download apps from other stores is enabled comes from Apple’s server, which means the company can update it at any time. Currently it includes: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal , Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
If more countries end up adopting antitrust laws similar to the DMA, Apple could implement the same changes in those regions without having to release another iOS update.
Finally, the MDM API has arrived. It has basic controls for downloading, installing and even updating applications from external sources. It can also check whether an app is compatible with a specific device or version of iOS, something the App Store already does.
The iOS 17.4 beta adds a “MarketplaceKitBridge” component to this API so that both APIs can share what is needed to download apps outside of the App Store. (9to5)
Kazutaka Kodaka, creator of the Danganronpa series and most recently Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE, has announced with a tweetto announce a “crazy” new title “in the not too distant future.”
“The game I’m working so hard on right now – the scenario is so crazy and so exciting that I end up working harder than anything else,” Kodaka said.
He continues: “Even when things get difficult or tedious, I end up either working or writing scenarios instead of playing or resting. This is perhaps the first time I’ve become so obsessed with a work. I wonder if I’ll burn myself out. In any case, the announcement and release are not too far away, so I want everyone to look forward to it. And well, I’m tired, so I hope you can cheer me on.”
When Too Kyo Games announced its founding in September 2018, the company announced four projects in production with concept art. Of these four projects, only one has yet to be officially announced: “A game with a common scenario by Kazutaka Kodaka x Kotaro Uchikoshi: Limit x Despair.” Kodaka also alludes to the title in his tweet with corresponding hashtags.
Here is the artwork that was included in the project description:
Keyword “Kotaro Uchikoshi”: He also alluded to the project in his recent New Year’s message. “Our next project is particularly fitting for the name ‘too kyo’, as it is a game that can only be described as crazy, and I hope to announce it next year. “It’s a game that we’re all passionate about and we’re all vomiting blood (sic) making it, so please support us when the time comes,” said Kodaka.
via Gematsu, images: Limit x Despair, Too Kyo Games
Are there also cheats for the Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series or PC for the new Story of Seasons A Wonderful? Can you cheat yourself infinite money with a money cheat? One or the other player of the new SoS A Wonderful Life who has already spent a few hours in the game or who would like to try something out quickly and now needs money for it will perhaps deal with these questions.
Are there cheats for Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life?
As you already know from previous Story of Seasons parts, there are no official cheats in the new (old) Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life either. So the developers haven’t integrated any cheat codes into the game that you can use to cheat for infinite money or get infinite stamina, for example. However, if you play the game on the PC, you can now use trainers. On the net you can find both free and paid trainers with a money cheat, but also with cheats for stamina, no hunger, infinite energy, water fields automatically and fertilize or increase friendship with a certain villager to the maximum.
In older parts there were some different glitches that could be used as money cheats. For example, a glitch is a duplication glitch that allows you to duplicate items. You can then sell the duplicated items to the dealer and use them as a kind of money cheat. So far, no glitch has been found in Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life on Switch, PS5, Xbox Series or PC. Should this change over time, we will add the information here.
Trainer for SoS A Wonderful Life
If you are looking for a trainer with a money cheat and other cheats for Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life, we recommend this one linked FLiNG trainer. As mentioned above, the trainer offers various cheats for money, stamina, energy, friendship and other useful features such as automatic watering and fertilizing of the crops. You can also set and increase the game speed to make the time in the game run out even faster.
Update: The first cheat table for Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life is now available. You can use the cheat table via the free cheat engine and use it to cheat money, among other things.
By the way, when downloading trainers, you should make sure that you download them from “trustworthy websites”. Unfortunately, there are always cases where malware or other adware can be found in the trainer.
Do you use a Google Pixel smartphone in combination with a Samsung Galaxy smartwatch? Then you may have already noticed that the Galaxy Watch app no longer works since the last update. The January security update seems to be the culprit.
Many users of the previously mentioned products report that the Galaxy Watch app, which you use to connect the smartphone to the Galaxy Watch, crashes, does not start up or gets stuck on the loading screen. Users also no longer receive notifications on their smartwatch. The problem occurs on the Galaxy Watch 4, Galaxy Watch 5 and the Galaxy Watch 6. These smartwatches all run on Wear OS.
It is striking that the problem now also occurs on Samsung smartphones. Google and Samsung have one thing in common, both manufacturers have rolled out the January 2024 security patch. So the latest security update seems to be the problem. There is a good chance that Samsung will quickly solve the problem via an update for the Galaxy Wearable app, but the manufacturer has not yet announced anything about this.
In this zombie apocalypse game, your decisions are of great importance and they affect both your survival and that of other NPCs, as well as the entire storyline. It means that every part is different and formed based on all of each player’s choices and experiences. We bring you the complete walkthrough for Tenants of the dead of our gaming experience.
Tenants of the Dead Walkthrough
Day 0
At the start of the game, you meet the main character, Daeshim, who has just finished his online game and then complains about the low viewership these days. Soon after, he hears the sound of a helicopter outside and wonders what is going on. Then his stomach growls, so he decides to go to the store to buy some food.
Once arrived at store, Daeshim is surprised by the darkness inside. Nelson, who works in the store, appears before Daeshim and tells him that the lights went out yesterday and that someone was supposed to come and fix them but never answered his calls. Daeshim then suggests that he call someone else. Nelson is annoyed by his comments and tells him to shut up, grab lunch and leave, and that he will add it to Daeshim’s bill. He then offers him the job and mentions that he could forget the note if Daeshim accepts. The phone rings and Nelson leaves. Daeshim gets Sushi for the lunch.
The main protagonist has returned home. He is angry because his electric bill is 20 percent higher and realizes his funds are running out and considers accepting Nelson’s offer. His girlfriend Minjee appears. She teases Daeshim for sighing and blaming her for being stubborn and not wanting to adapt to the world of streaming by playing “cute games”. They argue for a while, and Daeshim soon feels remorse for telling him something he shouldn’t.
Daeshim and Minjee hear a strange noise coming from outside and an emergency alarm. He goes out to see what’s going on and notices traces of blood on the stairs. Then he hears a moan coming from above. A man in white shirt covered in blood appears. Daeshim tries to talk to him, but the man doesn’t respond. A bloody man chases him, but he manages to escape and return to the apartment.
Minjee is terrified. This damn man had been knocking on their door all afternoon when it stopped with a banging sound like someone was hitting him. Daeshim and Minjee hid in the far corner of the apartment, holding knives in both hands. They hear the sound of car tires, screamsAnd panic from the outside. After looking out the window, they noticed that the entire city was on fire. The chaos subsided overnight, but they continued to hear cries for help from horrified people on the streets.
After a while, they decided that it was safe to move around the apartment. Minjee is hungry, then they eat noodles. Minjee wonders if anyone will save them and is afraid for their food supplies. They slowly fall asleep and Daeshim promises to protect Minjee at all costs.
Day 1
When you finish Day 0 and the zombie apocalypse breaks out, you’re basically stuck in the apartment alongside your girlfriend. In the upper left corner of the screen, you will have bars that show you the level of food and medical supplies, as well as Daeshim’s hunger and energy status.
After waking up, Daeshim realized that it was quiet outside and decided to take advantage of it. As you approach the door, a few options:
Stay inside
Check the building
Check the exterior.
I chose to check out the building. Daeshim remembers the neighbor who was very loud and attacked him with a baseball bat when our hero showed up at his door to complain. He says he hasn’t heard a sound from the neighbor’s apartment in days and wonders what happened to him. He decides to check on him, only to find a ransacked apartment with blood everywhere and traces that show there was a fight, but the neighbor is nowhere to be found. Then he heard noises and footsteps approaching, grabbed what he could from the apartment and fled to his room. You get a baseball bat from the neighbor’s apartment. I decided to take a shower and rest for the day.
Note that every time you approach Minjee, she will ask you a question. You will have the choice between 2 answers, and when you answer, the game will tell you if she liked your answer or not.
Day 2
Immediately after the start of Day 2, you hear a knock at the door. I decide to check who’s outside and a guy in a hazmat suit greets me. He says he is from Body molecule and welcome you to Outbreak, stage 1. He presents himself as Shaun, Resident Pathologist/Survival Insurance Agent. Daeshin asks him if he’s there to save them but makes the hazmat guy smile and tells him he’s not there for that purpose.
He further explains that he was abandoned by his pilot a few days ago when a horde attacked them. Now his superiors have asked him to do some field work before taking early retirement. He invites himself for a “quick inquiry.” After greeting Minjee, she goes to the kitchen and leaves you to answer. Questions from Hazmat Guy. He jokes about “selling your daughters’ possessions” as an asset, which angers Daeshin.
The Hazmat Suit Guy then asks you how you are feeling right now. You have three options for an answer:
Fine, I guess
Not so good…
I don’t know.
I chose the second option because I can’t feel good when the zombie apocalypse happens. He then asks you about your feelings about the current situation. You can choose between:
It’s surreal…
I don’t know
I just want it to end already….
I chose the last option. Then Hazmat Guy asks if you’ve had a cough or anything in the past few days, and Daeshim says no.
Now an unpleasant question arises: “Would you be willing to share your girlfriend if it means for your survival? » Possible answers are:
What?
I-If we lacked choice…
I think so
I don’t know…
I chose the first one and Hazmat Guy said I gave “such interesting answers“. When you ask him what the purpose of this investigation is, he won’t tell you. He then tells you that he will give you Bottled water and pair of cup noodles like a reward for answering his questions. A useful addition to my bass refueling…
Hazmat Guy then leaves and tells you: “Do not forget. Don’t swing low“, and trying not to join the consensus of Undead. He adds that his ride might come soon for him and that he could guarantee a ride for Daeshin and Minjee. Daeshin doesn’t know if he should trust him.
I then decide to go out to look for resources, but I found nothing useful, and our food reserves are exhausted. extremely low. I also met many Undead and I took care of them with my baseball bat.
Day 3
On Day 3I decided to take the risk and leave out to try to find food. This time I was more successful and won a Bear spray And one Aluminum foil. Once again, I had to face many Undead.
Once I got home, I decided to take a shower, watch TV to improve my Mental Health, and after that I quickly fell asleep. It worries me to know that the food supply, medical supply, hygiene and hunger were all on the same scale. critical level.
Day 4
After waking up, Daeshim states that it has now been several days since the outbreak started and he is beginning to wonder if he and his girlfriend should try to get out of town before things get even worse. Looking out the window, he notices a van parked nearby with the indicators still on and wondered if he should check it out. I decided to do it in by clicking on the door and choosing the option “ Check the parked van…”.
I went out at dawn. A lot Undead were lurking around, but I managed to take care of them with my baseball bat and I avoided getting hurt. Then I checked the van to see if there was anyone or anything inside, but luckily it was empty. As I checked the front door, I saw that the key was still in contact, but…. the van was out of fuel. Daeshim states that he must find fuel and return home.
I took a shower and decided to chat with Minjae. This conversation allowed us make love. You see, something nice can happen even during a zombie apocalypse…After this pleasant experience, I slept the rest of the night.
Day 5
Before starting day five, I took a shower and ate. Today, I decided to try my luck again by going outside to get some supplies. Unfortunately, this time I didn’t succeed and didn’t find anything useful. This really bothered me, because the refueling because Minjae and I were dangerously low…
To make things interesting, I engage in another conversation with her. She asked me one of her questions… She liked my answer. After the conversation, it was time to sleep.
Day 6
Knock on the door woke me up. Minjae is scared, but I decide to check who is knocking by clicking the button door and choosing the “ Check who’s out there… ” option. I see a child named Jiwoo standing in front of me. He says he came here to do trade. I tell him to go home. Then suddenly we hear a moaning noise coming from the hallway of the building, so I call him to come in.
Once inside, I ask him if his parents know he’s outside, but he says his parents are taking a long time. dead. Jiwoo tells you he has a Portable Battery Generator. Just as he’s about to say what he wants in return, Minjae comes out of the bathroom and completely confuses the kid, making him blush. Enchanted by her, he offers you the generator free. He leaves then, Minjae tries to stop him, but I…
Over the past two years, the leader in views and popularity among TV series in Russia has been the South Korean project “The Squid Game.” No one has managed to get ahead of him until today.
Zhora Kryzhovnikov’s sensational novelty “The Boy’s Word. Blood on the Asphalt” is now the leader in Russia according to the Kinopoisk Pro index. This service evaluates the popularity of TV series among viewers based on Yandex and Google data.
For the week from November 27 to December 3, 2023, the series gained 3394 interest points of Russian viewers. This is 2 times more than the Squid Game (1556 points).
Everyone helps the popularity of the series, even deputies
Initially, the project quickly became the leader of Kinopoisk thanks to its atmosphere and cast.
The Children’s Ombudsman called for the series to be checked for compliance with traditional values due to the “romanticization of gangsterism.” At the same time, Roskomnadzor also joined the inspection.
Today, producer Andrei Razin appealed to the prosecutor’s office because of the songs of the leader of “Tender May” Yuri Shatunov, sounded in the series “The Boy’s Word.” He accuses the authors of stealing intellectual property.
And even this is not all. The Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Family Protection, Nina Ostanina, sent letters to the Investigative Committee and Roskomnadzor with a request to check “The Boy’s Word” for propaganda of prohibited information.
I ask you, dear Andrey Yuryevich, to check two series – “The Boy’s Word” and “Food Block” – for propaganda and dissemination of prohibited information in them that can cause harm to the younger generation, including harm to the life and health of children, as well as the entire Russian society.
— excerpt from an address to the head of Roskomnadzor Andrey Lipov
And the other day in Irkutsk, a group of teenagers killed a 15-year-old peer who was standing with a group of friends at a bus stop. There was a similar scene in the series. Many immediately drew parallels. However, one of the detainees assured the investigation that he had not watched the series. The regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also officially denied the relationship with the series.
Against the backdrop of this news, the chairman of the Union of Fathers of the Novosibirsk Region, Sergei Mayorov, said that such series are dangerous for teenagers who perceive everything emotionally and at face value.
And in the wake of constant discussion, the project’s ratings, along with its popularity, are only growing.
Will the finale be reshot?
Something strange happened in Yaroslavl today. Crowds of teenagers rushed around the city in search of the film crew of the series. And information about the recruitment of extras began to appear in public pages.
Photo from a possible location for additional filming of one of the scenes in the series, Telegram “Overheard in Yaroslavl”
According to official information, the planned additional filming of episodes and scenes that were missing during editing is now underway.
However, there is another version – according to rumors, Kryzhovnikov is completely re-shooting the finale of the series, probably under public pressure.
Still hard to digest what we saw « Chernobyl », the heartbreaking HBO series that quickly became a TV phenomenon and became one of the 100 highest rated series in history by IMDb users. It is therefore normal that after such an impact, certain more specific subjects linked to the history of this accident were studied.
One of them is « Joker », a German robot that was used by police for tactical tasks, such as defusing bombs, and that was sent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to help clean up radioactive material. Something that in the end didn’t work out the way everyone expected.
Robots were the first choice
In episode four of “Chernobyl” we saw cleanup efforts begin in the area after the explosion of reactor number four. The idea was to use robots for these tasks and avoid, as far as possible, human intervention. However, hopes soon faded.
After the reactor exploded, large amounts of debris, including pieces of radioactive graphite, filled the roofs of the facility. Because graphite was originally used to moderate the reaction, Soviet officials believed that throw graphite into the exposed reactor core It could be a quick fix to contain it.
Making this idea a reality was not easy, because who could clean up the radioactive graphite and throw it into the reactor? Workers with special equipment, called « biorobots », could only expose themselves for a maximum of 90 seconds to this material, and even then it was extremely dangerous. The solution? Use Soviet space technology.
This is how they decided to send “Lunokhod” (Lunojod program), lunar rovers that were part of the Soviet space program. West Germany discovered it and offered to lend them « Joker », their famous police robot that can be controlled remotely and they thought it would be ideal for cleaning tasks.
The bad news is that it didn’t go as planned, as « Joker » was dispatched to clean up the most radioactive part of the roof, where he soon died. At first it was thought to be stuck in the rubble and they sent men to take it apart, but when they got to the place they found it was fried.
The alleged lie as a desperate measure
It is not clear exactly how the Germans offered to lend their expensive robot, but according to Telecon’s documentary « On the Roof of Chernobyl », the reasons the Russians decided to lie to the Germans because they were desperate and they wanted to try everything.
The Germans reportedly sent « Joker » believing it would withstand the radiation levels, as the Soviets told them the roof was contaminated with 2000 roentgens, when in fact, the ceiling radiated more than 12,000 roentgens. This caused the immediate death of the robot.
Craig Mazin, co-creator of the series, explained it like this:
“The Soviets – and this is mind-boggling to me – refused to accept the gravity of the situation. Even then, months after the world knew what was going on at Chernobyl and how dire the situation was, even then They refused to tell the West Germans how much radiation was in that roof. It was 600% or 700% more than he could take. And what amazes me is that the Soviet power system thought it was good. Why not « Come on, that’s the same kind of attitude that caused the Chernobyl thing in the first place. «
What happened to « Joker »?
After « Joker » died, the Lunokhod was used to clean the lower roof structure of radioactive debris and build the sarcophagus. The radiation on the lower roofs was not that high, so the soviet lunar rover was able to accomplish its task. However, up to the highest ceiling, where « Joker » was supposed to clean up, they ended up sending people out at 90-second intervals.
The rovers reportedly failed in the end despite being overhauled to withstand higher radiation levels. The Soviets knew what the actual radiation levels were and tried to prepare the rovers as best they could. However, the « biorobots » are those who have finished cleaning the roofs.
This image, the origin of which is unknown, supposedly corresponds to the Joker abandoned in a dump in the exclusion zone. The robot would remain extremely radioactive to this day. Apparently what’s in the background on the left is a Lunokhod.
