Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2023-03-23
17-Mar-2023 – Study Shows Millennials Are Bigger Gamers Than Gen Z
Brief Summary: “It’d be easy for the layman to assume that Gen Z is more addicted to gaming than Millennials, but it seems the opposite is the case.”
23-Mar-2023 – After 20 years, Final Fantasy 11 is heading into maintenance mode
Brief Summary: ”
Long before Final Fantasy 14 swept over the MMO landscape, there was 2002’s Final Fantasy 11 Online. I wasn’t really away that Final Fantasy 11 was s”
23-Mar-2023 – CD Projekt made Keanu Reeves a “real asshole” in Cyberpunk 2077 because his “star power” made players side with him
Brief Summary: ”
Keanu Reeves’ “star power” gave him such a draw that CD Projekt Red had to make his Cyberpunk 2077 character, Johnny Silverhand, especially “horrible”
23-Mar-2023 – The Lord of the Rings: Gollum out in May
Brief Summary: ”
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will finally be released on 25th May.
That’s across PC, PlayStation and Xbox consoles. A Nintendo Switch version will “
23-Mar-2023 – Are Unreal Engine’s procedural generation and Ubisoft’s Ghostwriter the future of game development?
Brief Summary: ”
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the bleeding-edge technologies on show this week at GDC 2023 – from Epic Games’ eye-popping Unreal En”
23-Mar-2023 – GTA producer’s not-crypto project Everywhere is part episodic blockbuster, part Roblox rival
Brief Summary: ”
In a former casino on the outskirts of Edinburgh, ex-Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies is readying his next big gamble: a creation-fuelled gam”
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23-Mar-2023 – FTC introduces proposal to make US subscriptions easier to cancel
Brief Summary: “Regulators plan to put an end to businesses ‘tricking’ customers into paying for services they no longer wantIt is one of the ires of the digital age:”
23-Mar-2023 – Robot lips invented for long-distance kissing – video
Brief Summary: “A Chinese startup has invented a long-distance kissing machine that transmits users’ kiss data collected through motion sensors hidden in silicon lips”
23-Mar-2023 – China Reminds US That It Can and Will Kill a Forced TikTok Sale
Brief Summary: “China pushed back against the U.S. government’s proposal to force a sale of TikTok on Thursday, rejecting the possible solution to ongoing national se”
23-Mar-2023 – Voltron
Brief Summary: ”
Toy Name (Short)
Voltron
Toy Number
Toy Review Summary
5PRO Studio
Original Price
699."</p>23-Mar-2023 - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/03/23/isa-over-tpm-to-your-pc/">ISA over TPM to Your PC</a>
Brief Summary: “Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t have ISA slots, [TheRaster”
22-Mar-2023 – Teaching News Apps with Codespaces
Brief Summary: “Teaching News Apps with Codespaces
Derek Willis used GitHub Codespaces for the latest data journalism class he taught, and it eliminated the painful p”
23-Mar-2023 – ‘Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’ Revisits Pixel Art Glory With Fanmade Creation
Brief Summary: ”
Remember when we used to imagine what a 3D version of Pokémon would look like while we were enjoying these games before 2013? Fast forward to today a”
23-Mar-2023 – Creating a Game Boy ROM From Pictures
Brief Summary: “There are very few legal ways of obtaining ROM files for video games, and Nintendo’s lawyers are extremely keen on at least reminding you of the fact “
23-Mar-2023 – Commodore 64 Reports the News
Brief Summary: “In the late 80s and into the 90s, [Cameron Kaiser] aka [ClassicHasClass] was an aspiring journalist, first becoming interested in the career in elemen”
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New York Times:A look at RightWingGPT, an experimental AI model fine-tuned to manifest conservative viewpoints, made by a researcher who claims Chat”