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Bungie Teases Destiny's Next Six Months of Updates

2015-12-10T21:50:00.035-08:00

How We Finally Figured Out What These Glowing Spots on Ceres Are

2015-12-10T21:50:00.033-08:00

Ceres has been home to a lot of strange sights for scientists to wonder over—but nothing has been as confounding as the presence of several strange glowing areas on the planet’s surface. Here’s what they are—and something new that helped confirm it.

An interesting read via Gizmodo

Imperial Star Destroyer: the Christmas tree edition

2015-12-10T21:50:00.031-08:00

In the same way that anything longer than it is wide can be a phallic symbol, Frank Wu demonstrates that all isosceles triangles are potential Star Destroyers.

An interesting read via Boing Boing

Not All Multiplayer Shooters Are Abandoned After 12 Months

2015-12-10T21:50:00.029-08:00

Some are abandoned and then picked up again years later, when everyone had forgotten all about them.

There are a lot of things wrong with multiplayer shooters these days, but not all of them are guilty of costing $60 then dying a year later. I mean, look at Tribes Ascend, a game released in 2012.

Three years old, and without an update since 2013, it got one today, and it’s a big one. The game has essentially been reset, with changes across to the board to classes, weapons and vehicles.

Fans seem pleased, and long-time players have had all their in-game currency (it’s a free-to-play gamed) and XP refunded so that they can spend it all over again.

Of course, that long silence wasn’t for nothing; Tribes had been left to die while developers Hi-Rez focused their efforts on Smite, so another way of looking at this is that it’s an...unabandoning?

Wish more games got a breath of fresh air like this, regardless of how minor or trivial it ends up being.

An interesting read via Kotaku

This Artist Is Giving Bratz Dolls an Awesome Feminist Makeover

2015-12-10T21:50:00.027-08:00

Would you like to see a Hillary Clinton Bratz doll? That fantasy may not be far-fetched.

An interesting read via GOOD

Pranksters Put a Quran Book Cover Over the Bible to Make a Point About Violent Religions

2015-12-10T21:50:00.025-08:00

The had no idea the Bible was such a violent read.

An interesting read via GOOD

Watch The Trailer For One of 2016's Most Beautiful, Mysterious Sci-Fi Movies

2015-12-10T21:50:00.023-08:00

Evolution, directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, is as soft, beautiful and mysterious as sci-fi films get. It’s about an island that’s just populated by young boys and their mothers, but the boys are always in the hospital. Why? There are some secrets, to be sure.

An interesting read via io9

Bring Back Victorian Science with this Lego Lovelace, Babbage, and Analytical Engine

2015-12-10T21:50:00.021-08:00

You know you want this badass Victorian scientist to glower at you from a corner of your desk accompanied by her massive steampunkish Analytical Engine and an oversized spanner.

An interesting read via Gizmodo

Valve quickly nerfs Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's overpowered new gun

2015-12-10T21:50:00.019-08:00

An interesting read via Polygon - Full

Tripwire Interactive talks Killing Floor 2 on PS4

2015-12-10T21:50:00.017-08:00

An interesting read via destructoid

Alton Brown hates your dumb kitchen gadgets

2015-12-10T21:50:00.015-08:00

https://youtu.be/FgFeVlw2Ywg

I do love my citrus-squeezer and spiralizer, but I'll agree that the badly-designed shitgadgets that author/chef Alton Brown highlights in this Daily Dot viral video are indeed super dumb.

An interesting read via Boing Boing

Who Could Cate Blanchett Play in Thor: Ragnarok?

2015-12-10T21:50:00.013-08:00

Variety reports that Marvel is in talks with Cate Blanchett to be in Thor: Ragnarok. Which could be great, but which character do they have in mind?

An interesting read via io9

Star Wars Battlefront In 4k Is Just Hahaha Who Can Even Run This

2015-12-10T21:50:00.011-08:00

Regardless of your thoughts on flimsy content, streamlined mechanics and game modes — Star Wars Battlefront is a gloriously pretty video game.

Want to watch some footage of it running in 4k at 60 frames per second with fancy mods? Damn right you do.

It’s legitimately beautiful.

Crank up the resolution, blast it on full screen and enjoy.

This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia, where Mark Serrels is the Editor. You can follow him on Twitter if you’re into that sort of thing.

An interesting read via Kotaku

An Unusual Commission

2015-12-10T21:50:00.009-08:00

An interesting read via Daring Fireball

Yahoo Mail gets multiple mailbox support for Gmail and Google Apps accounts (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat)

2015-12-10T21:50:00.007-08:00

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Yahoo Mail gets multiple mailbox support for Gmail and Google Apps accounts — Yahoo Mail has expanded its server-side IMAP support to now include Gmail and Google Apps accounts. In doing so, you're now able to further consolidate your emails under one umbrella inbox and service.

An interesting read via Techmeme

Xbox One Exclusive ReCore Inspired by Metroid and Zelda

2015-12-10T21:50:00.005-08:00

Former Oklahoma City police officer found guilty of serial rape of Black women

2015-12-10T21:50:00.003-08:00

Late on Thursday, a jury found a former Oklahoma City cop accused of sexually assaulting and raping 13 women guilty of rape and sexual battery.

Daniel Holtzclaw, who turned 29 on Thursday, cried as the guilty verdict was read in the courtroom.

(more…)

An interesting read via Boing Boing

Kitase speaks about Final Fantasy VII Remake's 'multi-part' format

2015-12-10T21:50:00.001-08:00

An interesting read via destructoid

I loved a song on Last.fm: Vocal Point - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

2015-12-10T20:33:00.001-08:00

Vocal Point - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

The Apple TV already has over 2,600 apps

2015-12-10T17:02:00.023-08:00

It really shouldn't surprise anyone that the new Apple TV is already home to over 2,600 apps. The company that helped launch the entire app-centric industry might have been a bit late to the streaming-media box app store, but according to data collec...

An interesting read via Engadget

Where is our review for Devil's Third? No US review copies

2015-12-10T17:02:00.021-08:00

An interesting read via destructoid

4 simple tricks to make way better scrambled eggs

2015-12-10T17:02:00.019-08:00

What did you have for breakfast? Eggs? Scrambled? Were they good? Of course! Everyone loves scrambled eggs and any variation of it is edible. But there are very easy ways to make scrambled eggs more luxurious and pillowy and delicious. America’s Test Kitchen says to add extra yolks, add dairy, whisk with a fork so you don’t over whisk, and to first cook the eggs on medium-high heat and then on low.

An interesting read via Gizmodo

These Drones Can Fight Fires Using Thermal Imaging

2015-12-10T17:02:00.017-08:00

As more tech companies are fighting to enter the drone market, Chinese drone titan DJI just dropped some news that’ll give its products an edge, in everything from agriculture to fighting fires: thermal imaging.

An interesting read via Gizmodo

Valve can't stop Steam account theft and customers are suffering because of it

2015-12-10T17:02:00.015-08:00

An interesting read via Polygon - Full

Two Years Later, Tribes Ascend Gets a Massive New Patch

2015-12-10T17:02:00.013-08:00

As promised, Hi-Rez Studios has released the first patch for free-to-play shooter Tribes: Ascend in well over two years, and it's a substantial one.

Following a round of public testing that began in September, Hi-Rez today pushed out the update--dubbed Out of the Blue--for all players. It introduces three new CTF maps, dramatically changes classes and equipment, adds new weapons, improves the usefulness of vehicles, and quite a bit more.

In terms of classes, Hi-Rez has condensed them so that there are now only three, rather than nine. Each of these has nine loadout slots and be completely customized, which wasn't previously the case. There are some restrictions in place, such as those preventing players from equipping multiple weapons that are similar in type.

Because of how significantly everything has changed, all in-game purchases are being reverted. That means you'll get back all of your in-game gold and experience, and you'll receive the Ultimate Weapon Pack if you had any gold sitting in your account.

The full patch notes are incredibly long. Hi-Rez has shared them in full in this Google Doc, where you'll find detailed breakdowns on exactly how each weapon, vehicle, and piece of equipment has been adjusted.

Hi-Rez ceased development on Ascend back in mid-2013, when it announced that it would be shifting its focus to Smite. That game, a third-person MOBA, has proven to be successful enough that Hi-Rez has the resources to again offer a limited amount of support for Ascend. The company also recently made every game in the Tribes series (as well as some of the games that predate it) available for download for free.

An interesting read via GameSpot