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   By Gutemberg Flappy Bird is a side-scrolling mobile game featuring 2D retro style graphics. The objective is to direct a flying bird, named "Faby",who moves continuously to the right, between sets of Mario-like pipes. If the player touches the pipes, they lose. Faby briefly flaps upward each time that the player taps the screen; if the screen is not tapped, Faby falls because of gravity; each pair of pipes that he navigates between earns the player a single point, with medals awarded for the score at the end of the game.No medal is awarded to scores less than ten. A bronze medal is given to scores between ten and twenty. In order to receive the silver medal, the player must reach twenty points. The gold medal is given to those who score at least thirty points. Players who achieve a score of forty or higher receive a platinum medal. Android devices enabled the access of world leaderboards, through Google Play. There is no variation or evolution in gameplay throughout the...

The excellent Flappy Bird battle royale game is now available for everyone   By Gutemberg Flappy Bird is a gaming legend and one of the most explosively popular mobile games ever made. But what if it were more like Fortnite ? That’s the idea behind Flappy Royale , a new game from developers Orta Therox and Em Lazer-Walker (with contributions from Zach Gage). It mashes together the endless flapping gameplay of Flappy Bird with the last-bird-standing style of the battle royale genre that’s all the rage these days. Gameplay is simple, just like it was in the original game: tap on your bird to flap and dodge your way through some suspiciously Mario-esque pipes. Except the goal isn’t to survive as long as you can; it’s to survive longer than the other 99 players, all of whom you can see flapping alongside you in real time. And because it’s a battle royale game, everyone starts out together on a bus, of course.  It’s a similar style as the recently released ...

Big Rage 2 Update Out Now, Adds New Game+, Ultra Nightmare Difficulty, And More   The free update is now live on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and it introduces a load of new content to the game, including three new modes. First is the long-requested New Game+, which will let you play through the story again with all your weapons, abilities, upgrades, and more. You'll also earn Prestige badges when you play through the game again. Additionally, developer Avalanche has added an Iron Man mode--die once in this mode and it's game over. If that isn't enough of a challenge, there's also a new Ultra Nightmare setting that promises to ramp up the difficulty considerably. Rounding out the free update are a variety of new cheats, as well as new skins, a number of quality-of-life improvements, and a voice pack featuring the Wolfenstein's hero, BJ Blazkowicz. You can read more about all the new content available for Rage 2. There's more content on the way t...

Classic PS1 Series Monster Rancher Is Coming Back    he classic PlayStation game Monster Rancher is coming back this year, according to publisher Koei Tecmo. The Japanese company tweeted an announcement of the rerelease (via Gematsu). It also opened a teaser site under its Japanese name, Monster Farm. The phrasing implies that this will be a digital-only release, and no release plans have been announced outside Japan. Monster Rancher first released in 1997, and shares some similarities with Pokemon in that you collect monsters to battle each other. However, Monster Rancher puts much more emphasis on monster husbandry your creatures, as you selectively breed and then raise your creatures to make stronger and stronger iterations of them. One twist was that you could load data to generate a monster from any CD you might have laying around, but that aspect probably won't be present in this digital version. In GameSpot's original review, Jeff Gerstmann said the ...

One Piece Crossover Come To Pokemon Go - GS News Update A new event is now underway in the Pokemon hit mobile game. At this time, players from all over the world can pick up a Pikachu wearing a straw hat as part of a special One Piece collaboration event, but you'll need to act quickly as the Pokemon will only be available for a limited time. O chapéu de palha especial Pikachu aparecerá na natureza, In addition, Niantic will be offering matching straw hat avatar items to your instructor through the in-game style store. Meanwhile, players in Japan will be able to visit statues of Luffy and other characters. In addition to the One Piece collaboration event, Armored Mewtwo is still appearing in Raid Battles around the world for a few more days. The Legendary Psychic Pokemon will serve as a five-star Raid boss until July 31. This version differs from a standard Mewtwo in a few ways. Not only is it donning the armor it wears in the new Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution movie,...

Pokemon Masters Is Light On Microtransactions, Big On Battles      James Max In May 2019, The Pokemon Company revealed a new Pokemon mobile game: Pokemon Masters. Developed by DeNA, which assisted on other Nintendo mobile games like Fire Emblem Heroes and Super Mario Run, Pokemon Masters is a lot more complex than you might expect. In some ways, it's like many other gacha -style mobile games, tempting you to play more with the promise of (possibly) pulling your favorite characters. But Pokemon Masters limits microtransactions to a small corner of the game, leaving room for a surprisingly involved story mode to show through. I recently played around 45 minutes of Pokemon Masters, and it's not quite a pick-up-and-play kind of game. The actual narrative part of the story mode, like a lot of Pokemon games, is not particularly complex; you're a trainer in a new region called Pasio, where Pokemon Trainers form a "Sync Pair" with one partner Pokemon, ...

Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default As stated above, new Firefox users will have strong privacy protection from the moment they install. We also expect to deliver the same functionality to existing users over the coming months. Because we are modifying the fundamental way in which cookies and browser storage operate, we’ve been very rigorous in our testing and roll-out plans to ensure our users are not experiencing unforeseen usability issues. If you’re already using Firefox and can’t wait, you can turn this feature on by clicking on the menu icon marked by three horizontal lines at the top right of your browser, then Content Blocking. Go to your privacy preferences and click on the Custom option on the right side. Mark the Cookies checkbox and make sure that “Third-party trackers” is selected. To learn more about our privacy and security settings and get more detail on what each section — Standard, Strict, and Custom

  At some undetermined point in time in the future (note that they do not have a date specified) eBay is going to deploy a bot that will look at listing descriptions, and if your description is more than 800 characters, it will write its own shorter description for smart phone users. The size will be 250 characters, which is less than two twitter tweets worth of words. The bot will show that automatically generated description to buyers who are shopping on their phone.  The descriptions will be 250 characters or less — assuming an average of 6 characters per word, that’s around 41 words. Basically, one paragraph of automatically generated text. 800 characters, the threshold at which eBay says they will deploy a bot, is not a lot. It’s around 133 words, again assuming an average of 6 characters per word. In theory you can use special tags to select which 800 characters you want the bot to display in lieu of the auto-generated description, but this adds an ex...

GIMP 2.10.10 Released   We haven’t had any updates for a few months but the wait is hopefully worth it! We’ve got many nice new features, optimizations, and stability fixes in this release! Version 2.10.10 highlights include: Line art detection in the Bucket Fill tool for comic artists Various usability improvements in transformation tools Sample Merged option added to the Heal tool and fixed in the Clone  tool Parametric brushes now have 32-bit per channel precision Easier brush and pattern creation workflow On-canvas layer selection Faster saving/exporting and layer groups rendering Initial DDS  support Many improvements in GEGL , the image processing engine Notable improvements Improved tools Bucket Fill tool The Bucket Fill tool got a bit of a revamp making it much easier to use. It also got a new “ Fill by line art detection ” mode (a.k.a. “Smart Colorization”)! Quick Color pick...

Pokemon Go's One Piece Crossover   by Pokemon Mobile The special straw hat Pikachu will appear in the wild until 1 PM local time on July 29. Additionally, Niantic will be offering matching straw hat avatar items for your trainer through the in-game Style Shop. Meanwhile, players in Japan will be able to visit statues of Luffy and other One Piece characters across Kumamoto Prefecture, which will serve as special PokeStops. You can read more details on the official   In addition to the One Piece collaboration event, Armored Mewtwo is still appearing in Raid Battles around the world for a few more days. The Legendary Psychic Pokemon will serve as a five-star Raid boss until July 31. This version differs from a standard Mewtwo in a few ways. Not only is it donning the armor it wears in the new Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution movie, it also boasts different stats and a different movepool than a typical Mewtwo. In other Pokemon Go news, Niantic recently rolle...

   Animaniacs Séries Animaniacs used a heavy musical production for an animated program, with each episode with at least one original score. The idea for an original music score in each episode came from Steven Spielberg. Animaniacs used an orchestra of 35 pieces, and seven composers were hired to write the original underline for the Run series: the use of the Great Orchestra in the modern animation of Warner Bros. began with the predecessor Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, but Spielberg pushed for its even more use in Animaniacs. Although the result was a very expensive show to produce,  "The sound differentiates us from all the others in animation, ," said Jean MacCurdy, the executive in charge of production for the series.  According to Steve and Julie Bernstein, not only was the music of the Animaniacs written in the same style as that of the composer Carl Stalling of Looney Tunes, but that the music was recorded on the Eastwood score stage, which was used b...

Subway Surfers series animated The first episode of a new 10 x four minutes, 2D-Animated series of the same name, made in partnership with the Canada DHX Media and Denmark-based CGI-animation house Wil Film. The mobile app Subway Surfers, of the Games, in commemoration of the debut of the animated series on YouTube, its latest game update and the launch of a limited edition collection from SUBSURF, the first licensed brand of the game. For industry veteran Sander Schwartz (Skylanders Academy, Teen Titans), who joined SYBO as a freelance producer in 2016 to help develop the short and long series of form before becoming head of animation six months later, June 1 marks the Hard work and joining a key group of creators, animators, producers, writers, directors and licensing specialists. Before the game, SYBO founder and president Bodie Jahn-Mulliner alongside additional founder and CCO Sylvester Rishøj created an animated short in 2009 about a rebellious character who graf...

Ubisoft Narrows Down RainBown Six Quarantine Release Window James Richard The Company stated in its most recent earnings call that the game will launch before the end of the current finacial year That man's we'll , playing Quarantine at the very latest--barring any delays, of course. Designer Ubsoft create in to games.

Overwatch's newest hero might have a name and a face  James Richard   Overwatch is going through some big changes with Blizzard's recent announcement of Role Queue in Competitive, but that's not stopping it from teasing (and possibly leaking) Overwatch's next hero: Sigma. In fact, the new Role Queue is the reason we have could our first look at Sigma's face. The supposed leak came from Mexico's official team in the Overwatch World Cup. Assuming this is real, I'm sure Blizzard had a grander reveal planned than this (it even posted a fun teaser this morning where Jeff Kaplan kinda maybe dies), but that's the world we live in. Still, the cat's not completely out of the bag. We don't know what Sigma does or what the rest of their body looks like. Considering Sigma is named after math, an evil force in the universe, I'm guessing they're Talon.        

It's time to stop calling videogames 'addictive,' UK trade group boss says     James Richard   It risks reinforcing the belief that games are, in fact, addictive.   Calling a videogame "addictive" is usually intended as a compliment, but Jo Twist, head of the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment—better known as Ukie—sees it differently. As reported by GamesIndustry, Twist said during an address at Develop:Brighton last week that it's time to find a better way to describe games we really like to play. "People who know me know that I care about words a lot. Semantics and language matters," Twist said. "I get really annoyed when I see game reviews and they say [this game is addictive], when actually what they mean is, 'This game is really well designed, this game is good, you should play this game'." "It's not fucking addictive. We need to mind our language when we're using these words b...

The basics of keeping the beat James Richard Yo u can learn the basics of keeping the beat, exploring a randomly generated Hyrule, and playing as Cadence, Link, and Princess Zelda in this rhythmic action adventure title. The  Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda  game is available now on the Nintendo Switch system.

 Super Mario World: James Richard Mario fans from all over the world, gather round! Now you can play, create and share * the side scrolling paths of Super Mario™ who have always dreamed of the game Super Mario Maker™ 2, available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch Console™! Dive into Story mode for individual players and play paths included in the game to rebuild Princess Peach's castle. Create your own routes, either alone or together. And with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription * You can share your routes, access a multitude of content created by other players, enjoy online multiplayer and more! A new Mario side-scrolling adventure that frees the creative potential of Super Mario Maker 2 is waiting for you in Story mode, which contains over 100 routes that come with the game. In Course Maker, a wide variety of parts, tools and more are available for you to build your own routes. You want cannons that shoot coins? The Bowser on the croup of a giant Goomba? The Mario cat...

Epic Games Backs Blender Foundation with Epic MegaGrants by Akush Epic MegaGrants is a program by Epic Games to support game developers, enterprise professionals, content creators and tool developers doing amazing things with Unreal Engine or enhancing open-source capabilities for the 3D graphics community. As part of that, Epic Games granted Blender Foundation $1.2 million to help improve their development. If you didn’t know already, Blender is one of the best open source video editorsand specifically famous for creating professional 3D computer graphics. Tim Sweeney  ( Founder and CEO of Epic Games ) also commented on the grant: “Open tools, libraries and platforms are critical to the future of the digital content ecosystem,. “Blender is an enduring resource within the artistic community, and we aim to ensure its advancement to the benefit of all creators.” Even if this is good news, there are people who are not happy...

Take a look at the epic new trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 2. The third trailer for The Angry Birds 2 brings with it some new clips and new insight into the volatile alliance between the birds and pigs. Heads up! The final trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 2 is dropping like a giant ball of ice careening towards your island home. No need to team up with your arch enemy to unravel the mystery of this metaphorical frozen projectile. Just press the play button below. The third trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 2 takes us inside some brand new scenes from the upcoming movie, providing some more details on how the birds and pigs will be working together in their mission to infiltrate the source of the giant balls of ice that have been raining down on their homes. If they want to save their islands from impending doom, they will have to dig deep, put aside their differences, and... pull out their hottest dance moves? No one said it would be easy. Can they pu...

Rovio’s standalone subsidiary Hatch partners with SEGA Rovio Entreteniment  Sonic Jump, Sonic 4 Episode 2, Sonic CD, Crazy Taxi and Virtua Tennis to join world’s first service for streaming games on mobile as easily as movies or music Hatch has today announced its partnership with SEGA to bring beloved, high quality gaming experiences to new audiences on mobile. As a first step in their partnership, the two companies have agreed to bring the SEGA games Sonic Jump, Sonic 4 Episode 2, Sonic CD, Crazy Taxi and Virtua Tennis to Hatch, the world’s first cloud gaming service for mobile that lets players stream games as easily as they would movies or music.  Hatch Entertainment was founded in 2016 in Espoo, Finland, as a new company spun out from Rovio Entertainment.  SEGA is the latest partner to sign on to distribute their content via Hatch, joining a highly curated, hand-picked collection of titles from established majors like Bandai Namco (PAC-MAN...

Rovio and Resolution Games reveal first Angry Birds mobile AR game, Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs James Karl  Today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO) and Resolution Games have revealed details of their upcoming mobile augmented reality (AR) game, Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs. The new game, available for pre-order now on the App Store for iPhone 6s and later, all iPad Pro models, iPad 5th generation and iPad 6th generation, and the new iPad Air and iPad mini, allows players to take the power of the Angry Birds slingshot into their hands like never before, placing the classic piggy constructed towers into the player’s own environment using Apple’s ARKit technology. Initially launching with at least 40 levels of gameplay, fans of the Angry Birds series of games will get a one-of-a-kind view into different locales of Piggy Island, toppling towers and popping pigs in the classic satisfying gameplay...

Resolution Games and Rovio uncage Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs onto HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ngry Birds makes its debut release on virtual reality today, transporting fans to a remote island where Red, Chuck, Bomb and the Blues face off against their piggy nemeses Get ready for take off. Resolution Games and Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO) today announced the launch of the new virtual reality (VR) game Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.  Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs is the first time Angry Birds fans can slingshot the likes of Red, Chuck, Bomb and the Blues within the fully immersive environment of VR. Initially launching with more than 50 levels of gameplay, fans of the incredibly popular franchise travel around a remote island where the infamous green pigs often vacation. Players bombard the island’s exotic beaches, steep cliffs, snowy slopes and party city to take on the green pigs, destroy their structures and retrieve the stolen ...