Rayka Studio has Home of the Yokai announced, an adventure role-playing game with a collecting component and an automatic combat system. The title will be released on July 10th via Steam for PC and features English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese texts.
Players take on the role of a Yokai Keeper and are tasked with maintaining peace between humanity and Yokai. However, an evil threatens to disrupt this balance and plunge the land of the ancients into danger.
Home of the Yokai entices you to collect creatures – there are said to be over 300 unique Yokai – in a sprawling, semi-open world and an automatic combat system.
Players challenge other Yokai Keepers and use Yokai strategically in battle. And of course, crafting, cooking and farming also play a role. It remains to be seen whether the title will also appear on consoles.
Home of the Yokai in the announcement trailer
via Gematsu, images: Home of the Yokai, Rayka Studio
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“You know yourself, that , when you cause all this conversation,” Beyoncé boasted in her hit “Formation.”
Well, this week proved that Bey was right about herself – in a way.
On December 1, she premiered the film on her recent Renaissance Tour, “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé.” When news broke that the film would be shown in Israel, amid the country’s punitive attack on Gaza, some fans urged her to remove it from the country. When the film was released, a video emerged showing Israelis waving their flags to the tune of “”Break my soul» – while in Gaza, Palestinians were mercilessly attacked by Israeli bombs.
Many on social media were appalled. “Break My Soul… ironic, this is their fight song when they break the bones of thousands of children in the streets of Gaza,” said one X user. Another wrote: “Beyoncé has really taken her own advice to stay silent to heart and has remained silent while we are forced to watch Israelis celebrate the screening of their film on stolen land while the Palestinians are annihilated. »
Beyoncé’s defenders clapped back, saying that black stars deserve clemency, and that celebrities who aren’t intellectuals or activists should not be expected to do so. lead freedom movements and that other billionaires are not held to these standards.
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As of this writing, Beyoncé has not spoken publicly about what is happening in Gaza.
I really appreciate Beyoncé’s music and cultural production. But I can salute her while understanding that she is a capitalist blank slate, defending everything and nothing at the same time. And when it comes to talking about Israel and Gaza, her silence speaks volumes about the immense cultural power – and structural powerlessness – of black women.
Black women are often treated as both goddesses and social justice mules. We hear “listen to black women”, “vote like black women”. At the same time, black women are expected to do liberation work for all possible causes, while fighting against misogynoir, abuse, and lack of support and resources.
“Black musical traditions may have the potential for radicalism,” Angelica Jade Bastién wrote for Vulture, “but Beyoncé’s neutrality demonstrates that they are not inherently that way.” More than anything, “Renaissance”is proof that Beyoncé is a brand that stands for absolutely nothing beyond her own greatness.
I argue that silence in the face of oppression is not neutral. Beyoncé represents something: a particular strain of racial capitalism that is primarily concerned with selling the aesthetic of black liberation to mass consumption. There is a lot of money to be made in satisfying dominant white fantasies of “safe” liberation, although – perhaps especially if – these fantasies destabilize movements for real freedom and justice and preserve the status quo.
Facets of this liberal fantasy include “Black First-ism,” or being exploited by white-owned brands to be the first black person to do something. This was highlighted when Beyoncé was the first black woman to headline Coachella and when she was introduced by Tiffany as the first black woman to wear her famous yellow diamond, a rock from the bloody era of British colonialism in South Africa.
The liberal fantasy of progress requires performances that borrow from the aesthetics of Black and LGBTQ+ liberation. This allows black people to make millions from organizations with a history of anti-blackness, like the National Football League, or from colonial entities like Tiffany. In Beyoncé’s case, this allows her to quote Malcolm X on the dehumanization of black American women, while saying absolutely nothing about the terrifying dehumanization of Palestinians. This allows him to make a song called “America’s Got a Problem”, without mentioning the role of the United States in the bombing of the Palestinians.
It’s not like black celebrities haven’t spoken out. Beyoncé’s sister Solange posted “Free Palestine” on Instagram, and R&B singer Amerie spoke about Palestinian freedom on the platform. Singer the Weeknd announced he would provide 4 million emergency meals to Gazans. Rapper Redveil called for a ceasefire at a music festival and displayed the names of dead Gaza children during his set.
Meanwhile, Brand Beyoncé’s performative use of black radical aesthetics calls nothing into question. This poses no threat. This does not inspire people to mobilize to build real power or to help the oppressed. Above all, it does not inspire the public to marshal their love, solidarity, and courage to challenge American power and abuse.
Rather, its main goals are to champion individualism, inspire feel-good endorphins, and inspire us to whip out our credit cards at the checkout. The Beyoncé brand is part of the same system that wants us to shell out money for nonsense like the Juneteenth “It’s Freedom for Me” napkins at Walmart, but not to demand justice and liberation of state brutality. He likes his revolution to be profitable and not problematic.
But Bey has amassed enough power and money to break the pattern, right? She broke the internet with surprise visual albums and broke records with tours big enough to rock local economies. Is it too much to ask for a simple statement about state brutality against Palestinians? If liberation is his trademark, could such a stance really bring about the downfall of his empire?
In the absence of words from Beyoncé herself, that’s what we have to assume.
Perhaps it was this specter of black powerlessness that made the rhetoric about Bey’s silence on the Palestinians and the decision to screen his film in Israel so fierce. Her lack of real action reveals the superficiality of the black liberation aesthetic she profited from – a difficult pill to swallow when other artists and writers around the world are excluded for speaking out.
“Always remain courteous, the best revenge is your diary,” says Beyoncé in one of her most famous lines. Indeed, in the face of brutal oppression, it projects a clear message:Any black person who wants to be like B and secure the bag needs to get in formation and shut up.
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The “Desperate Housewives” star was back during the “Dancing with the Stars 2024” bonus this Friday, February 23, on TF1. Everyone was waiting to know if James Denton would finally be able to dance despite his injury. In the end, he ended in tears.
On February 16, TF1 kicked off Dancing with the Stars 2024. A show during which James Denton was to take his first steps on the floor. But an injury ruined everything. Was he able to dance during the show this Friday, February 23?
His presence in the casting is a real event. The star of Desperate Housewives agreed to participate in season 13 of Dance with the stars. A joy for the public, but also for the entire TF1 program team who welcomed him like a king. Everyone was looking forward to discovering their first dance with Candice Pascal last Friday. But, during a tape, it was announced that James Denton had been injured during rehearsals. He suffered from a torn hamstring and was therefore unable to perform. After apologizing, he promised that he would do everything to dance the following week.
James Denton still can’t dance
This evening, TF1 viewers were hoping to finally discover his performance. Unfortunately, the 61-year-old star was once again unable to take to the floor. “The Desperate Housewives star was supposed to make her debut last week, but suffered an injury during practice. He did everything to be able to dance tonight but, alas, it’s going to be a little tight. He’s not capable, he doesn’t have the go to be able to dance“, confided Camille Combal. He then asked James Denton how he felt. “It is very frustrating, but everyone was very nice. They are the nicest people I have ever worked with in my life. The judges too. I’m not kidding, really. Every day I come and tell them I’m sorry. I really feel like I’m disappointing everyone. But everyone tells me my leg is more important“, he replied.
In order to cheer him up, the production decided to broadcast him a message from his children Malin and Sheppard (fruits of his union with Erin O’Brien). A tape recorder that made him cry and us with it.
In recent years, Kylotonn Racing with publisher Nacon has provided us with official rally games, but that will change next year. Codemasters has the license back and that means we can expect a new official WRC game from them.
The game hasn’t been announced yet, so we don’t have any official details yet. Unless we can assume new information from insider Tom Henderson. He writes in a new message Insider Gaming that the new game has a unique feature: the ability to build your own car.
As a player you can build your car from the ground up, choosing which parts of which brands you want to use. This would be very in-depth, similar to the video below. This would also have an in-game currency tied to it, which must equate to a long in-game grind.
As soon as you build a car, you will have the opportunity to test drive your build before actually purchasing specific parts. You will also be able to design your car in terms of livery from A to Z to your own taste.
We already know that Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game in which You can do whatever you want. Overwatch 2 voice actor Matthew Mercer demonstrated this by stacking 45 boxes to scale a castle in the game. But that freedom that the game gives us can also lead us to believe in the most absurd character of all Faerun, with two equipped salamis like two-handed weapons.
Yes, I have not been wrong. You can have a 2 meter barbarian called “the widow maker” and attack with two sausages to death. Baldur’s Gate 3 offers us these foods as items to trade or to use as provisions, but they can also be equipped by our characters.
The fault that now he wants to create a barbarian called “the scourge of salami” comes from Thorusin, a YouTube user who shared his peculiar paladin build with these sausages. The most curious thing is that both have damage statshardly of 1-7 pointsand also attacks associated with hammers or morning stars.
Thorusin, with his SalamiPaladin and both weapons, gets defeat 3 trolls without much effort, although it is true that he also does it with the support of his teammates and a character above level 3. But it is still spectacular to see him in action. If you want to copy his build to go through Baldur’s Gate with two sausages in hand, you can do it thanks to the video he shared.
This madness is not new to the game. Baldur’s Gate 3 official reddit shared 2 years ago the inclusion of “two-handed salami” in the patch 6, something that generated a stir among the community, in a positive way, yes. Some added that, obviously, the game weighed 60 GB at that time solely because of the power of the sausage.
