Key Points Jacob Auch, a well known clockmaker born in Echterdingen of Germany, was an apprentice of Philipp Mathaus Hahn.He became the court mechanic for the Duke of Weimar in the year 1798 n remained so until his death in 1842.He was the inventor of the double sided clock, that showed the time on one side and the movement of the plants in our solar system on the other. Jacob Auch – Biography, History and Inventions...
The release of Jumanji: The Video Game surprised everyone and no-one at the same time. Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, was released back in 2017, showcasing teenagers being sucked into a Jumanji video game, rather than a board game, an associated game was expected. What we didn’t expect was for it to be released just before the second reboot movie, but with a production level that seems more in keeping with the original title way back in 1995....
Just Cause 3 is to receive at least three new “game-changing” DLC packs following its release this December, it’s been revealed. As detailed on Steam, the ‘Air, Land and Sea Expansion Pass’ offers access to “3 incredible DLC packs and exclusive Flame Wingsuit and Parachute Skins”. Expansion pass owners will also be granted 7 days early access to each pack, with the skins unlocking immediately at launch. “It’s never over for Rico Rodriguez,” explains the DLC’s description....
Key Points: All Kinsta sites are protected by Cloudflare. This consists of automatic wildcard SSL certificates, a firewall with application-specific rule sets, and DDoS protection at the enterprise level. Compared to other managed WordPress hosting, Kinsta provides free WAF and DDoS protection with Cloudflare. © Thapana_Studio/Shutterstock.com Kinsta provides 24/7 live chat and email support from its WordPress experts. It has a knowledge base with in-depth articles and tutorials on various topics, including performance, security, development, and more....
The Game Developers Conference, better known as GDC, has been a massive staple of the video game industry’s annual press lineup for a number of years. Not only does it allow industry veterans to discuss their work and deconstruct some of the biggest games of the year, but it allows players and aspiring game developers to get a peek behind the game development curtain. This year, significant figures from the likes of Nintendo and Respawn will be speaking at the expo, however, one of the biggest names said to be attending the show has just dropped out....
The latest pair of stills from Tomb Raider 2’s fanmade HD remake have just been released and the results are jaw-dropping. The project - aptly named Tomb Raider: The Dagger of Xian - is entirely fanmade using Unreal Engine 4 and headed up by an ambitious fan operating under the name Nicobass alongside his small team. The project has already been underway for at least 3 years now. Although it might seem rather slow-going, it’s incredible how much has already been produced....
More footage from the set of HBO’s upcoming The Last of Us TV adaption has come to light, and it appears to confirm that we will be seeing more of the original game’s backstory when it airs. The footage in question was shot in downtown Calgary and shows Military forces moving through the city’s streets. As the trucks make their way through, red flares go off from the nearby buildings and celebratory gunfire can be seen and heard....
Blizzard has shared a new animated short for one of Overwatch’s latest recruits, Kiriko. The nine-minute video - which debuted at TwitchCon earlier today - introduces us to the game’s newest healer, giving us a peek into the origins of this “loving daughter and deadly protector”. “The protector of Kanezaka strikes again. Discover the two sides of Kiriko, the loving daughter and the deadly protector,” is all that the video description gives away....
LEGO Harry Potter Collection is winging its way to Nintendo Switch and Xbox One this autumn, TT Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have announced. Originally released on PlayStation 4 in remastered form last year, the collection bundles together LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 in one package. What’s more, it features spruced up visuals, with lightning effects and environments looking better than they did on previous-gen consoles....
Following the commercial (if not critical) success of its Halo TV series, Paramount+ is delving into video-game-adjacent realms anew, this time with a live-action adaptation of the seminal Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing series. As reported by Deadline, Paramount+ secured the TV rights to the series following interest from multiple buyers, with the streaming service having now placed an eight-episode order. Paramount Pictures and eOne are partnering to produce the series (the pair are also co-producing the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie Honor Among Thieves), which is being described as the studio’s “largest-scope TV project ever”....
Luigi’s Mansion 3 is set in a massive hotel that is more akin to a skyscraper than a mansion, with themed-floors that contain gyms, swimming pools, and even a castle. The expanded setting of the game means that many fans are asking how long Luigi’s Mansion 3 will take to complete. According to HowLongToBeat, the original Luigi’s Mansion could be finished in around six hours, while Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon took around fourteen hours to beat....
Mac Studio computers have been making waves in the computer world since their debut in March 2022, but do they live up to the hype? More importantly, how do they compare to PC? If you’re interested in the primary differences between the two or you’re trying to decide on your next purchase, keep reading to learn more so you can decide which one is right for you. © Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com Mac Studio vs PC Side-by-Side Comparison Mac Studio vs PC: What’s the Difference?...
Magic The Gathering, the beloved tabletop card game, which celebrates it’s 30th anniversary in 2023. Is getting the Netflix treatment with it’s first ever animated show, set to introduce viewers worldwide to the incredible worlds and characters that have made the Magic TCG a fantasy and sci-fi staple throughout the decades.Since it was first announced, the show has gone through several changes, with the Russo Brothers (Community, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Gray Man), and writers, Henry Gilroy (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, GI Joe: Renegades, Star Wars: Rebels), and Jose Molina (Dark Angel, Firefly, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit) stepping away, along with animation studio, Bardel (Teen Titans Go, Rick and Morty, The Dragon Prince)....
It may be a fairly quiet year for MCU movies, but that doesn’t mean fans of Marvel Comics don’t have plenty to stay busy with. Marvel’s Avengers has been delayed to September, but gamers looking to take control of Captain America, Iron Man, and other heroes simply need to turn their attention to the tabletop to face off against Rhino, Ultron and other iconic villains solo or with a group of friends in Marvel Champions....
Remember the Medal of Honor series? It used to the big dog in town; that is, until a little thing called Call of Duty hit the streets. Well, Electronic Arts aren’t one for taking the back seat and have decided to go back to the drawing board, to plot their comeback. When talking about the upcoming release of Medal of Honor (no sub-subtitle, back to basics), Richard Farrelly, EALA creative director, stated:...
Those of you anxiously anticipating the Medal of Honor reboot will be pleased to hear that a release date has been announced: October 12th, 2010 for North America and October 15th, 2010 for Europe. Yes, that’s right. You’ll be able to play the new Medal of Honor in less than half a year, before all the holiday rush. Awesome, right? Developed by EA Los Angeles (with the multiplayer component being created by DICE) Medal of Honor is a supposedly more-realistic take on the modern warfare setting....
Earlier this week, news broke of a modder that hacked AMD’s FSR 2.0 temporal upscaling technology into Cyberpunk 2077, allowing users of non-RTX graphics cards the chance to play the game at higher frame-rates with substantially better visual quality than with FSR 1.0 upscaling. That’s massive for owners of AMD GPUs, and the mod even works beautifully on Steam Deck. We contacted the mod’s creator, the gloriously named PotatoOfDoom1337, to find out exactly how it works - and whether it means that FSR 2....
One Step From Eden, an indie game designed by developer Thomas Moon Kang, is currently slated for a release sometime later this month (its Steam Store page simply lists an early 2020 release date, but it was announced elsewhere for January 2020 and there’s currently no word to the contrary). Its core gameplay mechanics are primarily inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series, which was a Mega Man spinoff with a style of battle that featured an idiosyncratic mix of real-time and turn-based combat centered around a deck-building mechanic....
In a surprising reveal during the Summer Game Fest 2021, SNK has announced Metal Slug Tactics, a turn-based tactical game based on the run-and-gun arcade shooter. Metal Slug games have enriched lives of arcade shooter fans since 1996. However, it hasn’t really strayed far beyond its typical blast ’em up genre. Well, it won’t be like that for long. SNK is taking the cartoony, violent game and turning down the speed, and upping the strategy while mixing in roguelike elements....
Whispers of a Metroid Prime remaster for Switch have been circulating for quite some time, but a new report has claimed Nintendo is finally almost ready to share the fruits of its labour, and will be releasing the long-rumoured game at the end of this year. That’s according to the persistently leaky Jeff Grubb, who shared the news on Giant Bomb’s Game Mess Mornings show, saying he’d been told “pretty definitively” that an updated version of Metroid Prime 1 - what he referred to as Metroid Prime Remastered - was set to be one of Nintendo’s “big holiday games” for 2022....
