Molly-Mae Hague ‘shocked’ by Tommy Fury split
Molly-Mae Hague ‘shocked’ by Tommy Fury split
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Influencer Molly-Mae Hague has spoken of her “shock” at her recent split with her fiancé, professional boxer Tommy Fury.
She said she had been counting down the days to their wedding next September, adding that her wanting to marry Fury “would never have changed”.
They met in 2019 on ITV’s Love Island dating show and got engaged in 2023. They share daughter Bambi, born early last year.
They announced their split in August, in separate social media posts, and this is the first interview Hague has given since.
Both aged 25, they were arguably the most high-profile couple to have emerged from Love Island.
Asked by British Vogue whether the break-up was sudden, she replied: “Yeah. I mean. It was a bit of a shock.”
She said she “didn’t want what happened to happen” adding that she “wanted to get married to Tommy, 100%, and that would never have changed”.
“I wanted to get married next September and it’s very hard when it’s kind of taken away. But I will always have a lot of love and respect for him,” she added.
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Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague, both 25, met on ITV2’s Love Island in 2019
The pair took their legions of fans by surprise when they announced their split.
“I am extremely upset to announce that mine and Tommy’s relationship has come to an end,” Hague told her 7.9 million Instagram followers.
“After five years of being together I never imagined our story would end, especially not this way,” she wrote.
In his own statement, Fury said he was “heartbroken” and asked fans for privacy. He also thanked Hague for “making me a dad”, adding: “Bambi is our priority.”
Hague said that people at the time were saying “it’s Princess Diana and Charles”, in a reference to the separation of now King Charles III and the late Princess of Wales.
But the impact on her was also clear.
“ had a few days,” she said, “where I thought, ‘I don’t really know how I’m going to get through this.’”
‘No one will ever know’
In October, Fury put his side of the story across in an interview with the Daily Mail, in which he denied cheating on Hague.
“All the allegations that were made of me recently are completely false,” he insisted.
He also expressed hopes to reconcile with Hague, calling her “the woman of my dreams”.
Hague, for her part, said “no one will ever really know what went down apart from Tommy and I, and that’s how we’d like to keep it, for Bambi’s sake”.
But she indicated we may hear more from her ex in due course, saying: “I do think that he will talk about things eventually. I do think that when he’s ready, like, maybe more will be said. But I think that’s for him to do on his terms.”
She added: “It’s not like it’s gossip, it’s real life and it’s, you know, it’s a really deep situation. It’s really sad.”
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In the interview, Hague also confirmed that she is set to star in a new three-hour documentary series for Prime Video, set to air in early 2025.
It is produced by the team behind Netflix’s At Home with the Furys, and is expected to give viewers access to all parts of her life.
“So far, so good. I’ve not lost my mind with the cameras in my house all the time,” Hague told the magazine.
She added that co-parenting was going really well, saying the pair were both being “really mature about it”, and opened up about how much she is enjoying motherhood, now that Bambi is a toddler.
“I absolutely adore it,” she said. “If I could have a million more ******* that are at this stage, I would do it.”
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CEO behind GTA Trilogy calls out Rockstar's "d*ck move" for removing his studio's name
CEO behind GTA Trilogy calls out Rockstar's "d*ck move" for removing his studio's name
Grove Street Games was removed from the GTA Trilogy collection’s splash screen in the latest update
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Activist ValueAct is poised to trim ****, help boost profits at Meta. Here’s how
Activist ValueAct is poised to trim ****, help boost profits at Meta. Here’s how
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Company: Meta Platforms (META)
Business: Meta Platforms builds technologies that help people find communities and grow businesses. The company’s products enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, wearables and in-home devices. The company operates through two segments: Family of Apps (FoA) and Reality Labs (RL). FoA includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and other services. RL includes augmented and virtual reality-related consumer hardware, software and content. Facebook enables people to connect, share, discover and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers. Instagram is a place where people can express themselves through photos, videos and private messaging. Messenger is a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups and businesses across platforms and devices.
Stock Market Value: $1.39T ($554.08 per share)
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Activist: ValueAct Capital
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Activist Commentary: ValueAct has been a premier corporate governance investor for over 20 years. ValueAct principals are generally on the boards of half of ValueAct’s core portfolio positions and have had 56 public company board seats over 23 years. ValueAct has previously commenced activist campaigns at 26 information technology companies and has had an average return of 54.63% versus 30.16% for the Russell 2000 over the same *******.
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ValueAct has extensive experience in mega-cap technology companies, most notably Microsoft and Salesforce. ValueAct CEO Mason Morfit was on the board of Microsoft from March 2014 through the end of 2017 as the tech giant transformed into a cloud-based enterprise software business and went from a $250 billion market cap company to more than $3 trillion today. At Salesforce, when a handful of activists were engaging, the company opted to add Morfit to its board on Jan. 27, 2023, and the stock has more than doubled since then.
Now, ValueAct has engaged another titan of the market, Meta Platforms, announcing an approximately $1 billion dollar position in the company. Meta’s products enable people to connect and share through various platforms and devices, including mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, wearables, and in-home devices. The company operates through two segments: Family of Apps (FoA) and Reality Labs (RL). FoA includes social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, while RL includes augmented and virtual reality-related consumer hardware, software and content. This has been an extremely volatile year for Meta’s stock price — with dips below $400 per share and highs above $600 — giving ValueAct many opportunities to acquire its position at a favorable price. With the stock price up about 56% in 2024, ValueAct still sees significant untapped value in Meta.
Meta is expected to deliver $30 in EPS by 2026, which at a 20-times multiple would put the company at approximately $600 per share. This EPS can be broken down into the company’s two segments: $40 EPS from its core FoA segment and -$10 EPS from the RL segment. This would place the valuation of Meta’s core FoA business at $800 per share, while its RL segment would be valued at -$200 per share, or a $400 billion drain on the company’s valuation. This -$10 EPS from the RL segment is made up of -$7 from the RL division and -$3 from AI spending. ValueAct has shown at Microsoft and Salesforce that it is very good in helping companies trim **** and build muscle. There is certainly some **** in the RL division that can be trimmed. The AI spending, while concerning to some in the market, can be the muscle that strengthens Meta’s core FoA business. AI will provide benefits to many companies, but one of its best uses is to create value in consumer internet and matching-based business models that are monetized by connecting their vast audiences to relevant content or services, such as such as Spotify, Indeed.com and Expedia. When AI and GPU computing power are applied to these business models, it can lead to significant improvements in matchmaking and monetization. This is because at the end of the day, AI – even generative AI – is just pattern spotting and pattern recognition, so its application can inherently enhance user-product matching and preference alignment. Meta can be one of the biggest beneficiaries of this market in its core FoA business with respect to delivering content and optimizing advertising. The second lever for AI growth for Meta is the impact of how developers are using large language models (LLMs) to create technologies. Developers are increasingly using multiple LLMs within the same project, so they rely on tools that enable different models to work together. Currently led by OpenAI and Microsoft, companies are competing to control the tools used to layer these LLMs, which are necessary to run and develop new technologies. To enter this market, Mark Zuckerberg has open-sourced Meta’s “LLaMA” model, a high-performance AI model designed to compete with OpenAI’s GPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. The decision to open-source LLaMa has helped build Meta’s role in the AI ecosystem by driving LLaMA adoption. It should more than justify Meta’s AI spend. So, if Meta continues to bleed the RL division at the same pace and gets absolutely no value from its AI spend, it will have a $600 stock in 2026. However, if ValueAct can do what it has been able to do at Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe and others – help grow the muscle and trim the **** – RL’s -$7 should decline substantially and AI’s -$3 will be money well spent and be a significant value creator, as opposed to a drain on value as the market attributes today. Even a neutral valuation ($0 EPS) for RL/AI would place Meta at $800 per share, implying 40% growth from its current price. And if AI prospects become positive, which seems very plausible given these potential avenues of growth, RL/AI should actually contribute to EPS growth. Thus, 40% growth almost becomes a floor that underscores the significant upside for Meta.
This is not ValueAct taking a “flyer” on AI. First of all, ValueAct is a very thoughtful and diligent investor and doesn’t take “flyers.” Second, ValueAct has extensive experience from both sides of AI. The firm has been in the boardroom at companies like Microsoft and Salesforce, two of the largest developers of AI. And the firm has been an active shareholder at companies like Spotify, The New York Times, Expedia and Recruit (Indeed.com) some of the largest users and beneficiaries of AI. So, when ValueAct invests in AI, it isn’t just ***** balling. The firm thoroughly understands AI and how its customers can use it.
When thinking about how ValueAct will approach this engagement going forward, we must address the elephant in the room: Meta is a controlled company, with Mark Zuckerberg holding approximately 61% of the company’s voting power. While most activists would never bother with a controlled company for obvious reasons, ValueAct actually has a strong track record of creating value at controlled or quasi-controlled companies, including engagements at Martha Stewart Living, The New York Times, 21st Century Fox, Spotify and KKR. In these situations, ValueAct averaged a return of 124.12% compared to an average of 30.79% for the relevant market benchmark. This is because ValueAct understands that activism is about the power of the idea; the power of the argument; the power of persuasion. As such, even in its investments in non-controlled companies, the firm almost always only takes one board seat because it is confident that its ideas will resonate. However, given Meta’s controlled structure, we don’t expect ValueAct to push as hard for a board seat here as it might at other portfolio companies. In a controlled company you can almost be as effective as an active shareholder as you can as a director. That being said, given ValueAct’s track record of board success, particularly at other mega-cap technology companies, shareholders would be well served if Meta added a ValueAct representative to the board.
Ken Squire is the founder and president of 13D Monitor, an institutional research service on shareholder activism, and the founder and portfolio manager of the 13D Activist Fund, a mutual fund that invests in a portfolio of activist 13D investments.
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‘Smacked me in the face with its potential consequences’
‘Smacked me in the face with its potential consequences’
The recent revelation of the cancelation of Tom Hardy’s Splinter Cell movie is another ***** to fans hoping to see their favorite ******-ops agent come to life on the big screen. Originally announced in 2012, Tom Hardy was to play Sam Fisher, the iconic stealth agent of Third Echelon.
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Despite years of development and high anticipation, the project crumbled due to budget and script issues. Producer Basil Iwanyk confirmed its demise saying that it was “one of the ones that got away.” It’s such a pity because the Splinter Cell franchise has some storylines that could’ve truly shined.
Tom Hardy Could’ve Done Justice To Some Of Splinter Cell‘s Storylines
Richard Dansky, a longtime writer for the Splinter Cell series, knows the weight of Sam Fisher’s choices better than anyone. Dansky has overseen the series’ narrative since his early days at Red Storm Entertainment.
Speaking to Game Developer, he previously described a story moment that “smacked [him] in the face with its potential consequences.”
The story moment I like best from the most recent round of Clancy games is in Double Agent, when Sam is given the choice of letting the terrorists take out the cruise ship – and a lot of innocent people with it – or stopping them, and risk getting someone he’s got a personal attachment to *******.
In Double Agent, Sam Fisher faces a crucial choice on a cruise ship mission: he must decide whether to let a **********-planted ***** explode, ******** hundreds of innocent people, or to risk his life and loyalty to prevent the *******.
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Announced in 2012, the hype for the Splinter Cell movie was ignited by Tom Hardy’s casting as Sam Fisher, the ******-ops operative at the heart of the Splinter Cell series. Hardy’s intense and shadowy persona seemed a perfect fit for Fisher’s morally gray missions and covert operations.
According to Dansky this narrative delivered high emotional stakes and moral complexity. Such a storyline could have captured the essence of Fisher’s duality in a live action adaptation. It would’ve given Hardy a compelling character arc filled with weighty decisions.
Now That It’s Cancelled All Hope Is Lost
So many stories could’ve been told. | Image Credit: Ubisoft
The project has ultimately been cancelled, as confirmed by Basil Iwanyk, who was the movie’s producer. Iwanyk signed up to produce the movie in 2013 and recently talked to The Direct about the cancelled project.
That movie would have been awesome… Just couldn’t get it right, script-wise, budget-wise. But it was going to be great. We had a million different versions of it, but it was going to be ********* and awesome. That’s one of the ones that got away, which is really sad.
Hollywood’s track record with video game adaptations has been mixed at best. Unlike colorful franchises like Super Mario, Splinter Cell’s themes of espionage, betrayal, and moral conflict are ******* to translate for mainstream audiences.
For now, Splinter Cell’s cinematic future ******** uncertain. However, Ubisoft has not entirely forgotten its stealth-action property. A Netflix animated series titled Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, starring Liev Schreiber as Fisher, is set for release in 2025.
The ******** to launch this film isn’t the only setback for the franchise. Ubisoft’s treatment of the action franchise has frustrated fans for years, as no new mainline games have been released since 2013’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
While a remake of the original game was announced in 2021, it ******** in development limbo.
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‘Ravenous Wolves Trying to ******** Us’: Joel Rosenberg Points to ******* and Biblical Prophecy
‘Ravenous Wolves Trying to ******** Us’: Joel Rosenberg Points to ******* and Biblical Prophecy
Author Joel Rosenberg believes some of the events unfolding around us hold biblical significance, particularly when it comes to ******* and the Middle East.
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Rosenberg, an expert on biblical prophecy who now lives in *******, recently spoke with CBN News about ******, the war in Gaza, and how current events might play into what the ****** says about future happenings and the end of days.
“That is the No. 1 question I’m getting asked … ‘Can you put this [current moment] in a prophetic context?’” Rosenberg said. “I would say, No. 1, we’re definitely in a birth pang, right? ****** speaks in Matthew 24 that there’s going to be contractions and releases, moments of wars and rumors of wars, and kingdom against kingdom, nation against nation, as well as earthquakes and famines and other disasters.”
He continued, “Those are contractions and, just like when your wife gets close to delivering, … the contractions are longer and more painful, and the release moments are shorter.”
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Rosenberg said Israelis were living in a time of release on Oct. 6, 2023, as it was safe, prosperous, and secure — the safest it had been in modern history.
“You’d have to go back to the days of Solomon and David when the kingdom was peaceful and secure,” he said, noting ******* had just come off making four *****-******** peace treaties and normalization treaties via the Abraham Accords. “We were just about to finalize another deal — the biggest peace and normalization deal in ******** history — and that would be with the Saudi government.”
But all of that peace was obliterated by ******’ horrific ******* ******* on Oct. 7, 2023, an event he said was the “longest contraction” modern ******* has faced.
“I would add that, just in context, I believe COVID was a biblical Matthew 24 contraction where … a lot of people *****. But the other part was … not only was there this terrible health pandemic, plague, a biblical plague, but even the ********* government could say in an instant, ‘You can’t go to *******. You can’t leave your house. You can’t go see your friends, but the strip clubs could stay open. The casinos could stay open. The bars could stay open — the ******* stores, but not churches. That was a contraction.”
Another contraction, he said, is Russia’s elongated war in Ukraine, a chaotic and deadly ongoing event further creating international stability.
Rosenberg cited Amos 9:9 while discussing *******’s current war after the ****** invasion. That verse reads (NIV): “For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of ******* among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.”
He believes Amos 9:9 is a recurring prophecy, but that the current war in ******* is another “shaking” that falls under its umbrella.
“I don’t believe *******’s under judgment … in other words, **** didn’t send this ******, but **** … allowed it,” Rosenberg said. “Why? To shake us, to help us realize that most Israelis either haven’t read, don’t remember, or don’t care about Psalm 23, in which David, our greatest king, told us the Lord is our shepherd.”
He said some Israelis forgot, due to security, the realities inherent in this Scripture.
“We forgot as a nation that there are ravenous wolves trying to ******** us,” he said. “It shows what a moment of release of security we felt like we were in. But I think this is a wake-up call.”
As for the Palestinians of Gaza, Rosenberg said he believes they are facing a “biblical judgment,” appealing to Genesis 12:1-3 (NIV) to make his case. Those Scriptures read:
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Rosenberg said the Abrahamic Covenant makes it clear **** will bless those who bless ******* and curse those who do not.
“If you curse ******* every day for 76 years, and you want to … elect a genocidal government, even if later you don’t want that, but what are you going to do now?” he said. “I believe we’re seeing a judgment. Doesn’t mean **** doesn’t want to show mercy. Also, we need to pray as Christians. Who else is praying for the Palestinians? We need to be. We need to show compassion. But there’s a judgment going on from 76 years of hatred, hostility, cursing, and now, you know, an attempt at genocide against ******* and the ******* people.”
Considering the prophetic verses in ****** books like Ezekiel — particularly the Gog and Magog prophecy — Rosenberg broke down his beliefs on what’s happening now and how it might relate.
“In terms of watching where we are going, there’s no question in my mind that we’re seeing the chess pieces on the board align in a manner that’s consistent with the prerequisites of Ezekiel 38-39 happening, the war of Gog and Magog,” Rosenberg said, referring to the ****** chapters that purportedly predict Russia, Iran and Turkey attempting to invade *******.
But Rosenberg was also careful in addressing these issues, reminding Christians not to read too closely into what’s happening. He said dynamics can and do quickly shift.
“I just want to caution people who are interested in those prophecies … don’t try to jump to a fast conclusion,” he said. “The data doesn’t support yet a conclusion, but it definitely supports [the premise], ‘Isn’t this interesting?”
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Professor Finds First Physical Evidence Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails
Professor Finds First Physical Evidence Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails
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A University of South Florida professor found the first-ever physical evidence of hallucinogens in an Egyptian mug, validating written records and centuries-old myths of ancient Egyptian rituals and practices. Through advanced chemical analyses, Davide Tanasi examined one of the world’s few remaining Egyptian Bes mugs.
Such mugs, including the one donated to the Tampa Museum of Art in 1984, are decorated with the head of Bes, an ancient Egyptian **** or guardian ****** worshiped for protection, fertility, medicinal healing and magical purification. Published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the study sheds light on an ancient Egyptian mystery: The secret of how Bes mugs were used about 2,000 years ago.
“There’s no research out there that has ever found what we found in this study,” Tanasi said.
“For the first time, we were able to identify all the chemical signatures of the components of the liquid concoction contained in the Tampa Museum of Art’s Bes mug, including the plants used by Egyptians, all of which have psychotropic and medicinal properties.”
The presence of Bes mugs in different contexts over a long ******* of time made it extremely difficult to speculate on their contents or roles in ancient Egyptian culture.
“For a very long time now, Egyptologists have been speculating what mugs with the head of Bes could have been used for, and for what kind of beverage, like sacred water, milk, wine or *****,” said Branko van Oppen, curator of Greek and Roman art at the Tampa Museum of Art. “Experts did not know if these mugs were used in daily life, for religious purposes or in magic rituals.”
Tanasi using technology in the USF Institute for Digital Exploration to create a 3D digital model of the mug. (USF Communications)
Several theories about the mugs and vases were formulated on myths, but few of them were ever tested to reveal their exact ingredients until the truth was extracted layer by layer.
Tanasi, who developed this study as part of the Mediterranean Diet Archaeology project promoted by the USF Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment, collaborated with several USF researchers and partners in Italy at the University of Trieste and the University of Milan to perform chemical and DNA analyses. With a pulverized sample from scraping the inner walls of the vase, the team combined numerous analytical techniques for the first time to uncover what the mug last held.
The new tactic was successful and revealed the vase had a ********* of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids and alcohol – a combination that Tanasi believes was used in a magical ritual reenacting an Egyptian myth, likely for fertility. The concoction was flavored with honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice and grapes, which were commonly used to make the beverage look like blood.
The original mug next to the successfully created 3D digital version. (USF Communications)
“This research teaches us about magic rituals in the Greco-Roman ******* in Egypt,” Van Oppen said. “Egyptologists believe that people visited the so-called Bes Chambers at Saqqara when they wished to confirm a successful pregnancy because pregnancies in the ancient world were fraught with dangers. So, this combination of ingredients may have been used in a dream-vision inducing magic ritual within the context of this dangerous ******* of childbirth.”
“Religion is one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of ancient civilizations,” Tanasi said. “With this study, we’ve found scientific proof that the Egyptian myths have some kind of truth and it helps us shed light on the poorly understood rituals that were likely carried out in the Bes Chambers in Saqqara, near the Great Pyramids at Giza.”
The Bes mug is on display now at the Tampa Museum of Art and can be viewed in the exhibition, “Prelude: An Introduction to the Permanent Collection.” View a 3D model of the Bes mug produced by the USF Institute for Digital Exploration.
This article was originally published under the title, ‘USF professor confirms Egyptians drank hallucinogenic cocktails in ancient rituals’ by University of South Florida as a press release.
Top image: Left; Drinking vessel in shape of Bes head; El-Fayūm Oasis, Egypt. Right; Prof. Tanasi with the 3D digital model of the mug. Source: Left; courtesy of the Tampa Museum of Art, Florida. Right; USF Communications
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Tanasi, D., van Oppen de Ruiter, B.F., Florian, F. et al. Multianalytical investigation reveals psychotropic substances in a ptolemaic Egyptian vase. Sci Rep 14, 27891 (2024).
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Photo Mode returns in Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered, launching February 14
Photo Mode returns in Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered, launching February 14
25 years ago, we were shocked with the image of Lara Croft hanging from a cliff inside an Egyptian tomb, as the credits rolled on Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation.
It’s time for Tomb Raider players to re-experience the next remastered chapters of Lara Croft’s darkest adventures.
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Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run ***** Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red ***** Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4
Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run ***** Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red ***** Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4
A leading Raspberry Pi torchbearer has demonstrated relatively modern AAA games like ***** Eternal, Crysis Remastered, Red ***** Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4, running at 4K on the humble $50 SBC.
Pi wizard Jeff Geerling shared a video of his latest attempts to boost the credit card-sized computer’s GPU muscle. Things have progressed since the ***** 3 4K demo he shared a few weeks ago. The most important developments since October are getting newer generation AMD Radeon GPUs to work with the Pi, potentially delivering massive performance uplifts.
To swiftly recap Geerling’s recent progress, he demoed 4K gaming on his Raspberry Pi 5 in October with the help of an eGPU setup featuring a modest Radeon RX 460. With this setup, some less demanding 3D titles like SuperTuxKart and ***** 3 (2004) could achieve 4K60 nirvana.
Now, thanks to Pi fanatics working on RX 6000 and RX 7000 series drivers, Geerling has been able to run some far newer AAA PC titles at 4K. However, we must warn that newer PC games aren’t hitting 4K60 even with the best RX 7000 card Geerling could get – primarily due to his latest test setup’s underpowered CPU, restricted bandwidth, and max 8GB RAM. He tested with a Radeon RX 6700 XT.
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In addition to these gaming advances, the newest Radeon drivers and patches enable hardware video transcoding. LLM acceleration is still unavailable, and Geerling confirmed that AMD ROCm support isn’t coming to Arm soon.
How ***** Eternal (2000) fares on the Pi with a powerful eGPU setup using the Radeon RX 6700XT. Geerling admits this title is a little frustrating at 4K on his new setup, with an average of 20 FPS just too low for the fun factor. Typically, reducing the resolution can do wonders for frame rates.
Still, the Pi enthusiast commented that the CPU is such a bottleneck that it is only inches above 30 FPS when reducing screen res to 720p. At 4K with RTX On, the frame rate plummeted to around 12 FPS. A system utility revealed that the GPU utilization was below 50%, as the rest of the Pi system bottlenecked it so comprehensively.
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Geerling also checked the benefits of overclocking the Pi 5 CPU from 2.4 to 3.0 GHz. However, for the new average 4K at 25 FPS performance observed, there was too much system instability to make it enjoyable.
If you care to digest the Pi enthusiasts video, you will see similar observations playing titles like Crysis Remastered, Red ***** Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4. Better experiences were seen in the Obduction adventure title and Halo 3. Geerling seemed most pleased with how well his Pi eGPU system handled Portal 2“”“” (2011), enjoying a “flawless… butter smooth” 4K gaming session. The same game was “extremely choppy” on the Pi’s iGPU at 720p.
Before the video wrapped up, Geerling turned his attention to serious application and content creation shenanigans with the eGPU. He plugged in the Radeon Pro W7700Pi’s workstation graphics card for this video part. Again, the Pi’s CPU, bandwidth, and meager 8GB of RAM decreased the system’s performance. Nevertheless, the Pi enthusiast enjoyed pushing this powerful GPU in the Gravitymark outer-space visuals rendering benchmark and creating a ‘Battlestation Pi’ with six external 60 Hz monitors.
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Russo gives Arsenal 'dream start' in north London derby
Russo gives Arsenal 'dream start' in north London derby
Alessio Russo scores for Arsenal after just two minutes in the north London derby to put them 1-0 up at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Is an Anomaly in Many Ways, and a Stable Player Count Is Proof of It
Baldur’s Gate 3 Is an Anomaly in Many Ways, and a Stable Player Count Is Proof of It
Baldur’s Gate 3 was launched in 2023 and went on to become one of the greatest games of all time. The previous year was jam-packed with huge titles like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Diablo 4, Alan Wake 2, Starfield, and many more. But still, the Larian Studios title won the Game of the Year award.
Baldur’s Gate 3 was released on August 3, 2023. | Credit: Larian Studios.
Now, there is a major difference between this RPG title and other great titles in the past. A game gets a huge reception upon its release with huge player counts, but slowly that fades away as time passes by. However, that’s not the case with Baldur’s Gate 3.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is Still Spiking 50,000 Players
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Despite being released over a year ago, there’s no stopping of Baldur’s Gate 3. This RPG title still soars with more than 50,000 concurrent players (according to SteamDB) with a 24-hour peak of 77,298 (at the time of writing this article).
The Sales are higher but also AVG playtime. Players are spending more time in Baldur’s Gate 3. 30% of the player base has 100-500h in Baldur’s Gate 3. pic.twitter.com/WrX4Gb5MEO
— Lakrix (@Lakrixx) November 15, 2024
With no DLC, these figures place the game above other popular titles that came out this year and show a higher player retention rate than games like Elden Ring. Rather, what draws and retains players in Baldur’s Gate 3 is an inconceivably vast world with so many options that exploring it all would take hundreds of hours.
It would be an understatement to say that Baldur’s Gate 3 had an impact at launch. Baldur’s Gate 3‘s continued development was significantly impacted by the quantity of award shows Larian Studios had to attend due to the game’s immense popularity.
Due to Larian’s careful consideration of user feedback and the addition of much-desired features, the game has remained captivating for a considerable amount of time. Larian’s team has been working tirelessly on the game, always trying to improve the game’s experience for players, whether they are Dungeons & Dragons combat experts or simply want to experience the story.
What Is the Reason for This Huge Success?
Baldur’s Gate 3 has recently added official mod support. | Credit: Larian Studios.
Larian Studios has kept fans entertained by introducing tiny bursts of new content, such as new dialogue options, epilogues, and a brand-new difficulty mode called Honor mode, even though Baldur’s Gate 3 hasn’t received any meaningful DLC.
More such aspects were added in September’s Patch 7 for Baldur’s Gate 3, which includes an integrated mod manager, improved Honor mode actions, and an expanded “evil” ending. It won’t be shocking to see the player count rise once more as a result of the significant additions, as gamers return to try their hand at a modified playthrough and see the expanded endings.
Since community-generated content will be available at the touch of a button, the addition of an official mod manager is certain to keep game enthusiasts interested for a very long time.
There are plenty of amazing mods for Baldur’s Gate 3, and mods themselves are a great way for players to improve their experience. Considering all of this, it is not surprising that Baldur’s Gate 3 is still sweeping the gaming industry.
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GPU cooling supplier claims Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs will “seize the whole market starting in December” — Auras says key components like cold plates and manifolds already adopted by Nvidia and its AIB partners
GPU cooling supplier claims Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs will “seize the whole market starting in December” — Auras says key components like cold plates and manifolds already adopted by Nvidia and its AIB partners
According to DigiTimes Asia, some of Auras’ crucial cooling components, like cold plates and manifolds, have already been included in Nvidia’s recommended supplier list and are already being adopted by some AIB partners for the upcoming GeForce RTX 50-series (codenamed Blackwell) GPUs, which will rival the best graphics cards.
Taiwan-based cooling company Auras Technology Co., Ltd., one of the manufacturers that supply cooling components for discrete graphics cards, claims that Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs may “seize the whole market starting in December.” Its chairman, Yu-Shen Lin, made this statement during its earning call last November 13, and they said that the company expects demand for its cooling products to grow across the PC, GPU, and server markets next year.
This news might be exciting for those looking forward to Nvidia’s latest graphics cards, which reportedly consume over 450 watts. If that power demand is genuine, the 50-series GPUs will likely run hotter than the previous-generation GPUs, requiring more robust cooling solutions. However, despite Auras’ (and some hardware leakers) December prediction, most indicators still point to a January 2025 launch. It is especially likely, given that Jensen Huang will be the CES 2025 keynote speaker, and there’s no better place to launch your next-generation product than at one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade shows.
Aside from the launch date of Nvidia’s next-generation GPUs, the company also made some healthy predictions about the state of the PC and server market next year. The company says that server-related revenue is expected to grow by 130% due to increasing sales of water-cooling systems designed for AI servers. It also expects the demand for display card cooling to grow by double digits with the launch of the RTX 50 series, while the PC sector is expected to see more ************* numbers.
Overall, Auras expects to grow by over 50% in 2025, so it’s considering expanding its presence in Mexico, adding to its existing manufacturing facilities in China, Taiwan, and Thailand.
As for its December prediction, we think Lin made this statement as the company will likely deliver cooling components for cards that month. It will help ensure that there will be enough supply for the market when Nvidia reportedly launches its latest line of graphics cards in January 2025.
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Hatton dubbed 'terrible influence' after Dubai strop
Hatton dubbed 'terrible influence' after Dubai strop
Star English golfer Tyrrell Hatton has been labelled a “terrible influence” after his foul-mouthed petulance during the 2024 ********* tour finale in Dubai.
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Nvidia is giving away a custom Half-Life 2 RTX 4080 Super to celebrate the HL2 RTX announcement
Nvidia is giving away a custom Half-Life 2 RTX 4080 Super to celebrate the HL2 RTX announcement
As Half-Life 2 celebrates its 20th anniversary, we see the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX and Nvidia’s custom RTX 4080 Super giveaway.
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Philippines warns of ‘potentially catastrophic’ Super Typhoon Man-yi
Philippines warns of ‘potentially catastrophic’ Super Typhoon Man-yi
A super typhoon sweeping towards the Philippines on Saturday was intensifying and could have a “potentially catastrophic” impact, the state weather forecaster warned, with millions of people at risk from storm surges.
More than 650,000 people have fled their homes ahead of Super Typhoon Man-yi, which is expected to make landfall later Saturday or early Sunday, becoming the sixth major storm to pummel the archipelago nation in the past month.
With wind gusts of up to 240 kilometres per hour (about 149 miles per hour), Man-yi was on track to slam into the sparsely populated island province of Catanduanes as a super typhoon or “near peak intensity”, the weather service said.
“Potentially catastrophic and life-threatening situation looms for northeastern Bicol region as Super Typhoon ‘Pepito’ further intensifies,” the forecaster said, using the local name for the storm and referring to the southern part of the main island of Luzon.
Up to 14-metre (46-feet) high seas were expected around Catanduanes, while more than 7.6 million people were at risk from storm surges of one to three metres, the forecaster said.
At least 163 people ***** in the five storms that pounded the Philippines in recent weeks, leaving thousands homeless and wiping out crops and livestock.
The government urged people Saturday to heed warnings to flee to safety.
“If preemptive evacuation is required, let us do so and not wait for the hour of peril before evacuating or seeking help, because if we did that we will be putting in danger not only our lives but also those of our rescuers,” Interior Undersecretary Marlo Iringan said.
In Albay province, Legazpi City grocer Myrna Perea was sheltering with her husband and their three children in a school classroom with nine other families after they were ordered to leave their shanty.
Conditions were hot and cramped — the family spent Friday night sleeping together on a mat under the classroom’s single ceiling fan — but Perea said it was better to be safe.
“I think our house will be wrecked when we get back because it’s made of light materials — just two gusts are required to knock it down,” Perea, 44, told AFP.
“That’s why we evacuated. Even if the house is destroyed, the important thing is we do not lose a family member.”
Scientists have warned climate change is increasing the intensity of storms, leading to heavier rains, flash floods and stronger gusts.
About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the Southeast ****** nation or its surrounding waters each year, ******** scores of people, but it is rare for multiple such weather events to take place in a small window.
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Evacuation centres were filling up on Catanduanes island in the typhoon-prone Bicol region, with the weather forecaster warning of “widespread incidents of severe flooding and landslides”.
Power was shut down ahead of the storm, with shelters and the command centre using generators for electricity.
More than 400 people were squeezed into the provincial government building in the capital Virac, with new arrivals being sent to a gymnasium, provincial disaster officer Roberto Monterola told AFP.
Monterola said he had dispatched soldiers to force about 100 households in two coastal villages near Virac to move inland due to fears storm surges could swamp their homes.
“Regardless of the exact landfall point, heavy rainfall, severe winds, and storm surges may occur in areas outside the predicted landfall zone,” the forecaster said.
The mayor of Naga city in Camarines Sur province imposed a curfew from midday on Saturday in a bid to force residents indoors.
– Back to ‘square one’ –
In Northern Samar province, disaster officer Rei Josiah Echano lamented that damage caused by typhoons was the root cause of ******** in the region.
“Whenever there’s a typhoon like this, it brings us back to the medieval era, we go (back) to square one,” Echano told AFP, as the province prepared for the onslaught of Man-yi.
All vessels — from fishing boats to oil tankers — have been ordered to stay in port or return to shore.
Nearly 4,000 people were stranded after the coast guard shut 55 ports.
The volcanology agency also warned heavy rain dumped by Man-yi could trigger flows of volcanic sediment, or lahars, from three volcanos, including Taal, south of Manila.
Man-yi will hit the Philippines late in the typhoon season — most cyclones develop between July and October.
Earlier this month, four storms were clustered simultaneously in the Pacific basin, which the Japan Meteorological Agency told AFP on Saturday was the first time such an occurrence had been observed in November since its records began in 1951.
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Apex Legends Players Pay the Ultimate Price After Respawn Bug Causes Matches to Lag Until a New Match Begins
Apex Legends Players Pay the Ultimate Price After Respawn Bug Causes Matches to Lag Until a New Match Begins
Apex Legends has seen its fair share of challenges and beatdowns lately, from the somewhat controversial ban on Linux OS affecting Steam Deck users to the massive backlash caused by the Battle Pass Changes.
Wraith in Apex Legends – Image Credit: Respawn Entertainment.
But while the game continues to maintain its familiar cadence still, a new bug, supposedly only on Ranked Matches, has now begun to frustrate players to no end. Those who are already skeptical of Respawn’s ability to maintain this game are going to have a field day with this one.
Careful – a new respawn bug might just ruin your ranked matches in Apex Legends
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So, what’s the deal with this new issue? Well, the thing is that in certain ranked matches, upon receiving a respawn by a teammate, the respawned player begins to experience severe lag, to the point of simply becoming useless in the game.
What’s interesting is that this horrible rubber-banding, for a lot of cases, doesn’t seem to go away even after restarting the system itself and jumping back in, leading to, as lag always does, significant packet loss, wonky animations, and just overall unresponsiveness.
Interestingly, players not engaging with ranked matches don’t seem to have encountered the problem so far, leading many to believe that the problem is tied to the game mode itself.
What’s worse is that no one is able to identify the root cause of the problem. While a few players have suggested that this sometimes happens when you get respawned at one of the default respawns on the map, there hasn’t been any confirmation of the same either.
Naturally, and as one might expect, most players are disappointed with Respawn and the game once again, especially since this is happening only two weeks after the start of Season 23, as they should be.
Respawn needs to work fast on fixing Apex Legends’ growing list of problems
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When you put this newfound bug aside from the already frustrating respawn and revive meta of the game, it’s easy to see why people would once again feel appalled by Respawn’s mishandling of the game.
The mere fact that this one bug is now probably the biggest counter to the Respawn meta says a lot about the game. It is symptomatic of its current state, which has already endured 23 seasons of ups and downs.
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Competitive players are, of course, particularly vocal. With ranked play being their bread and butter, they express unbridled frustration that a game with Apex’s pedigree is still struggling with these kinds of bugs years into its lifecycle.
The point is that, after all this time, such problems just shouldn’t be happening in the game, and yet the developers continue to find some way of messing it up. Is Apex Legends’ code running on duct tape and stitches? Only the dev team knows the answer to that.
While Respawn hasn’t implemented a hotfix yet, many within the community hope the issue is addressed swiftly. This still doesn’t change the fact that this game’s problems are starting to run a little deeper than what a simple patch or nerf can fix.
But with all that said, what do you think of Apex’s current state? Should Respawn prioritize fixing bugs like this, or are these inevitable in a live-service game? Let us know in the comments below!
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30-year-old took a pay cut to work for herself—and doesn’t regret it
30-year-old took a pay cut to work for herself—and doesn’t regret it
In 2023, Anna-Marie Ortiz worked remotely for a fintech startup, where she earned $60,000 a year.
She liked the job well enough, but wasn’t sure what her future at the company would look like. “I realized I can’t wait around for other people’s dreams, and that’s when I decided to go all in on mine,” she tells CNBC Make It.
That July, Ortiz used the last of her $2,000 in savings to start a cleaning company on the side. By November, she took the business, Cool Aunt Cleaners, full-time.
Although she’s only able to pay herself around $29,000 this year — a significant pay cut from her last position — she’s happy with her choice to strike out on her own.
“I love being my own boss,” she says. “It allows me the flexibility to make my own decisions and create a work environment that reflects my values.”
Becoming an entrepreneur in her 20s
Cool Aunt Cleaners isn’t Ortiz’s first experience with entrepreneurship.
After working at a series of tech startups in her early 20s, she opened a plant store in Wichita, Kansas, in 2020. Although the store closed in early 2021, it taught her about managing inventory, customer service and budgeting — key lessons she later applied to launching Cool Aunt Cleaners.
Ortiz decided to start a cleaning business instead of another retail store because of the low startup costs and solid return on investment, she says. Low overhead gave her the flexibility to start solo and gradually expand, hiring employees as demand increased.
She also liked that cleaning is a “tried and true” service that’s been “around forever,” giving her hope that the business would offer stability for her future.
Anna-Marie Ortiz cleaning an apartment.
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In its first month, Cool Aunt Cleaners brought in about $2,600 in revenue. That has steadily grown over time, and the business has brought in about $10,000 per month so far in 2024.
After taking Cool Aunt Cleaners full time in November 2023, Ortiz was eager to scale it up. She hired four employees, but quickly realized the challenges of expanding too fast. She decided to scale back her team to the point where she was running the business solo during the summer of 2024.
“When you start a business, you have no idea how it’s gonna go,” she says. “But you keep going because you believe in what you’re building.”
The future of the business
The business has since stabilized, with about 15 to 20 recurring clients. And in August, Ortiz hired a part-time worker using a commission-based pay structure.
She plans to continue expanding as she secures more cleanings, eventually growing Cool Aunt Cleaners into a seven-figure business.
“When you have a vision for your business, it is a long-term investment, it’s not something that can be rushed,” she says.
Although Ortiz’s $29,000 salary is less than she’s earned in previous roles, she sees it as a small sacrifice for the long-term independence her business will bring.
“I think people have a false sense of security with their 9-to-5 jobs,” she says. They can get “used to being told what to do every single day,” which can be “dangerous” and lead to staying in a place where “they’re no longer happy.”
While Ortiz has taken on more risk to be a small business owner, she finds fulfillment in creating her own path: “I’d rather put in the work now to build something that lasts.”
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War Thunder Shows Graphics Upgrade Coming With Firebirds Update: Ray Tracing & More
War Thunder Shows Graphics Upgrade Coming With Firebirds Update: Ray Tracing & More
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“PS4 Pro made sense!!! Made 4K gaming possible”
PS5 Pro actually has 4k that often looks even better than native when PSSR is used unlike PS4 Pro which had checkerboard but often made the image more blurry.
“enhanced computing power for PSVR”
PS5 Pro offers the same type of improvement for both PSVR and PSVR 2.
“had 1GB dedicated memory for UI”
PS5 Pro has an additional 2GB.
“and of course the constant flow of all the amazing 1st party titles helped”
PS5 Pro has more than double (almost 3x) the number of supported games at launch. And of course every first party will support it going forward and the list of third party support is already better than PS4 Pro.
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Samsung 990 EVO 1TB SSD hits all-time low ahead of ****** Friday
Samsung 990 EVO 1TB SSD hits all-time low ahead of ****** Friday
It might not be ****** Friday yet, but it’s definitely ****** Friday season. Vendors are starting to lower prices, including big names like Samsung on the 990 EVO 1TB SSD. This SSD usually goes for around $149, but today, it’s discounted to just $69 at Amazon and the official Samsung website.
We had the opportunity to review the Samsung 990 EVO 1TB SSD in February of this year. We weren’t blown away but felt generally pleased with its performance. The MSRP was a little high, making today’s discount more favorable. Our biggest gripe was with the power efficiency.
Today’s discount is for the 1TB edition of the Samsung 990 EVO 1TB SSD, but it’s also available in a 2TB capacity. All of the drives in this line have an M.2 2280 form factor and are built around the Samsung Piccolo controller. They have 133-layer TLC memory and support for both PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2 interfaces. The 1TB edition can reach speeds as high as 5,000/4,200 MB/s.
The drive is supported by a 5-year manufacturer’s warranty from Samsung that voids should it reach 600TBW. It’s also backed up by Amazon’s 30-day return policy if you decide to purchase the drive through Amazon.
Overall, this is a pretty decent deal for this drive, given its capacity and performance. As of this writing, it’s unclear how long this offer will be available. Visit the Samsung 990 EVO 1TB SSD Product page at Amazon or Samsung for more details and purchase options.
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The ‘chip shop diva’ who became a TikTok star
The ‘chip shop diva’ who became a TikTok star
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Destiny Harold has become known as the ‘chip shop diva’
She’s the “chip shop diva” catapulted to stardom through a series of TikTok videos.
Destiny Harold’s online clips, shot by colleague Mitch Key, have added glamour to her job at Merchants fish and chip shop in Bewdley, Worcestershire.
Together, the pair have racked up millions of online hits, earning their employer five star reviews and plenty of new customers in the process.
Ms Harold, who works two days a week at the chippy while studying to become a nurse, said the aim was just to promote the shop’s food and they did not expect it to become so big.
Their TikTok antics have attracted millions of followers
Merchants has now become an institution on the video sharing site with its most watched video having 25m views.
The teenager said the store had become busier since its success, adding she did not mind her new status as a local celebrity.
“They’ve been coming in asking for pictures and everything ,” Ms Harold added.
“People come and ask for a can of pop just to come and see me.”
Listen on Sounds: Destiny and the team at Merchants fish and chip shop have been seen by millions
Owner Antony Akathiotis wants to make sure his “hardworking” employee is protected.
“Destiny and Mitch work really well together but social media can be a scary business,” he told the Dudley News.
“It does worry me and we want to make sure we are protecting Destiny.”
The TikTok project is the brainchild of Mr Key
The TikTok project is the brainchild of Mr Key, who has also worked at the restaurant for about three years.
It originally started off as an account promoting its food, such as the chip shop’s giant cod meal, but soon went huge.
“We’ve always wanted to get the staff involved and show that human, real, raw aspect of the business,” Mr Key said.
The pair said they had some more surprises to come through their films.
The videos have even spawned musical tributes, with one being reworked into a dance track.
It comes after the Binley Mega Chippy in Coventry also found global fame when a fan created a TikTok with a catchy jingle.
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‘We’re just getting started’ on Alan Wake and Control Crossover as Remedy Connected Universe is Now Official
‘We’re just getting started’ on Alan Wake and Control Crossover as Remedy Connected Universe is Now Official
When Sam Lake and Remedy first started using the term Remedy Connected Universe (RCU) around the time of the release of Control’s AWE expansion, most assumed that it was nothing more than a move to chase trends started by the likes of Marvel and DC—just slightly more insane and horror-themed.
Sam Lake as Alex Casey in Alan Wake 2 – Image Credit: Remedy Entertainment.
Fast-forward to the release of Alan Wake 2’s The Lake House DLC last month, however, and it is crystal clear to all of us that the RCU is no longer just some buzzword. This connected universe is a living, breathing narrative ecosystem that’s about as real as anything gets in gaming.
Sam Lake’s Remedy Connected Universe Now Begins in Full Swing
Agent Estevez in The Lake House DLC – Image Credit: Remedy Entertainment.
In a recent interview, Lake reflected on his studio’s journey so far and elaborated on what the Remedy Connected Universe means for him and his team now.
According to him, the crossover between Control and Alan Wake—now culminating in The Lake House DLC—is more than just a clever little nod to the studio’s fans.
It is, in essence, a rather purposeful merging of two different storylines with different settings and tone. Speaking on his passion for such interconnecting stories and elaborating on whether he sees an end to it anytime soon, Lake said:
“I feel we are just getting started, so it’s too early to start talking about an endgame. I love tying these things together. I love making it deeper and expanding on the lore. It really feels like this kind of opportunity to take these strands that we have put there, expand, entertain different ideas. It feels really exciting. And the way we are looking at it, every game needs to be enjoyable on its own and stand on its own feet.”
To be honest, hearing the man himself say this feels like a sigh of relief, especially that last bit. Instead of focusing on some “grand finale” already, Lake wants his individual games to stand out on their own and not some filler for the ******* picture.
When you think about it, the concept of connected universes isn’t exactly new to gaming. After all, we got Half-Life and Portal’s shared universe, Arkane’s Deathloop and Dishonored universe, and, of course, the interconnected worlds of Rockstar with GTA and Red ***** Redemption.
But for our money, what Remedy is trying to achieve with the RCU is on a whole other level. From what we can tell, the studio seems less interested in planting sly Easter eggs and more focused on creating a meticulously interconnected web of ideas.
Lake himself praised this approach, emphasizing that Control’s AWE DLC and The Lake House were designed with deliberate reciprocity, each enriching the other IPs’ core themes and ideas.
At the end of the day, though, it is exciting to speculate on how this connected universe will realize its potential from here on out, blending horror, action, and a few cerebral thrills our minds simply aren’t ready for. If The Lake House is any indication, the RCU is no longer a gimmick—it’s a commitment to evolving how games can weave worlds together.
What are some of the pitfalls Sam Lake can avoid with the RCU?
Jesse in the Oldest House’s ****** Rock Quarry – Image Credit: Remedy Entertainment.
Now, despite Lake and his team making his dedication to the project clear, history is proof that any such connected universe project in any medium can face a few massive challenges as it continues to grow.
Take the MCU, for example, which offers a cautionary tale of how even the most promising projects can lose focus when overburdened by sprawling, interconnected projects and playing all its best cards a little too early.
Based on our observation, Remedy’s strengths lie in how it utilizes its creativity and how it restrains said creativity is what’s going to matter at the end of the day.
So, instead of inundating fans with spin-offs, side stories or just overwhelming them with lore, Remedy should maintain a balance: delivering stand-alone narratives that take the studio’s signature creative risks while layering subtle, interconnected pieces of places, characters, and stories in between.
The main lesson, then, is that overexplaining or overexpanding risks turning intrigue into fatigue very quickly—a fate the RCU must avoid. Take it slow and play the long game.
We’re also concerned about Remedy’s recent partnership with Annapurna for the live-action adaptation of Control and Alan Wake, which poses risks of its own.
While expanding into film and TV can undoubtedly broaden the RCU’s appeal, translating the surrealistic and cerebral nature of the games and explaining their very existence in the world of prestige media might become a bit difficult. After all, as Alan Wake 2 and Control have shown, these titles already merge the worlds of film and TV within themselves.
Still, if anyone can navigate these pitfalls, it’s Sam Lake and his team. Given their knack for crafting uncanny, layered worlds with memorable experiences, the RCU will surely survive in the long run with the right decisions. That said, here’s hoping they continue to keep it bold, weird, and unmistakably Remedy.
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Canada, Indonesia agree to trade pact as APEC summit braces for Trump – National
Canada, Indonesia agree to trade pact as APEC summit braces for Trump – National
Ottawa has concluded negotiations for a trade deal with Indonesia and is proposing nuclear-energy collaboration with Southeast ****** leaders.
The moves are a show of ****** for multilateralism as the re-election of Donald Trump in the ******* States is raising fears of further strain in global co-operation on trade and the environment.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima on Friday, announcing the end of trade talks that should lead to Canada signing a new deal with the world’s fourth-most populous country next year.
It comes as Trump’s impending return to the White House looms large over the discussions of the APEC grouping, which aims to improve trade among Pacific Rim nations.
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Trump’s first presidency saw him pull back from many multilateral agreements, including the Paris climate agreement and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, of which half of APEC nations are members.
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This time around, he has promised to slap at least a 10 per cent across-the-board import tax on all goods coming into the ******* States, which is causing great concern among America’s trading partners and has been a frequent topic of discussion at the summit.
“APEC is meeting in the context of rising protectionism, intense geopolitical competition, uncertain economic growth and the Trump election,” said Vina Nadjibulla, research vice-president for the Asia Pacific Foundation.
She said Trudeau has been pushing to preserve rules-based trade “that is critical to our prosperity,” especially with like-minded countries.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told reporters in Lima on Friday that Trump’s return is actually boosting Canada’s influence in the world.
“If there’s a country in the world that understands the ******* States, it’s Canada,” she said. “That’s why there are so many delegations, so many countries, coming to see us to ask about how we, they, can adapt.”
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Joly did not specify which countries or delegations have reached out for Canada’s advice. The ********* Press has reached out to the minister’s office for further details.
Joly also confirmed she expects Trump to visit Canada next year when the G7 leaders’ summit is held in Kananaskis, Alta.
She is, however, still pushing to get things done before Trump takes over. She met Thursday night in Lima with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, where the two discussed trying to get a new Columbia River Treaty over the finish line before the current administration exits.
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The deal governs how the two countries manage and share the resources along the Columbia River. Trump’s campaign comments about turning to Canada to solve Western U.S. water woes have raised concerns about how he might address that issue.
John Kirton, head of the G20 Research Group, said he expects Trudeau and many leaders to have informal talks on the sidelines of both summits to make sense of how to navigate another Trump presidency.
“Trudeau will be in a relatively privileged position, because he’s been with Donald Trump at (several) summits, and we’re the next-door neighbours; we’re a front-line state,” he said.
Nadjibulla said Trump’s re-election likely means a reduced role for the U.S. in multilateral institutions and fighting climate change, as well as greater tension with China over trade, tariffs and technology.
Trudeau and Canada did not have the smoothest relationship with the first Trump administration, though the two did conclude a renegotiation of the North ********* free trade deal. The ******** government is depending on its previous experience of dealing with Trump to guide its efforts to maintain a strong relationship now, stressing the critical trade ties across the border, continental security and working to diminish China’s dominance in clean technology and electric vehicles.
Canada has also been pursuing efforts to offset China’s influence in Asia with a new Indo-Pacific strategy announced in 2022.
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In announcing the conclusion of trade talks with Trudeau Friday, President Subianto praised Canada for being a partner in everything from sustainable fishing to artificial intelligence. The deal should advance digital trade and renewable energy, he said.
Indonesia has a soaring economy, buoyed by a population of 280 million that includes a large proportion of young people. The country has been trying to wean itself off high carbon emissions as it copes with threatened biodiversity.
Trudeau told corporate leaders that Canada was looking to partner on nuclear energy in Southeast Asia, particularly as countries in the region raise concerns about the large amounts of energy needed to power artificial intelligence.
At the APEC CEO summit Friday afternoon, he said developing the nuclear industry is about economies planning for the next 25 years.
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“You can’t talk about AI without talking about the power necessary to generate it,” he said.
Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy made no direct mention of the nuclear sector when the Liberals released it two years ago.
But now, Trudeau said Canada will use its “trade gateway” initiative to not only link businesses but also to help broaden local knowledge of nuclear technology, such as how to create a viable market for nuclear goods and adequately train personnel.
Ottawa will also “identify opportunities for Canada’s broader nuclear industry to supply products and services to support ********* and regional objectives,” Trudeau’s office wrote in a statement.
Trade Minister Mary Ng said the idea came about when peer countries said they had energy needs for sectors like AI, quantum computing and data centres. “Nuclear came up in that context, and then we just sort of connected the dots,” she told reporters.
Joly also met with China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, on Thursday, discussing Canada and China’s co-operation on air transport and combating fentanyl. She said she also discussed with him the ********* public inquiry on foreign interference and sent “clear messages to China that we will never accept any foreign interference.”
********* officials have been mum on the prospect of Trudeau meeting with ******** President Xi Jinping, whether in a formal sit-down or an informal hallway chat, either in Lima at APEC or over the weekend when they both travel to the G20 leaders’ summit in Brazil.
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Devs Say Terrain Should Not Play a Significant Role in The First Descendant
Devs Say Terrain Should Not Play a Significant Role in The First Descendant
Sure, there are some situations in TFD where you run for cover, especially in boss fights when you want to recharge your Shields or get some MP back. But more often than not, it is all about blasting your opponents directly.
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Thompson, Purcell let match point slip in ATP Finals
Thompson, Purcell let match point slip in ATP Finals
Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell have, agonisingly, seen a match point come and go as their ATP Finals doubles bid succumbed at the penultimate hurdle in Turin.
The Sydney mates, who were the first all-*********** pair through to the semi-finals of the season-ending men’s championship since Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in 1999, were ousted in a match tiebreak decider by Tim Puetz and Kevin Krawietz 2-6 6-3 [11-9] on Saturday.
The ******* duo gained revenge for their defeat by the *********** pair in the US Open final two months earlier as Thompson and Purcell had to reflect again on a frustrating near-miss in what has been, otherwise, a special season for them.
Just as in the Wimbledon final which they lost having held match points, the four-time winners on the ATP circuit this season had their big opportunity at 9-8 in the deciding super-breaker.
But Thompson netted when he had a good look at a potential backhand winner and the chance was gone, with the Germans going on to take the victory in 80 minutes when Purcell slammed a forehand into the net.
It was a particularly galling loss for the Aussies after they had been in irresistible form, leading by a set and a break early in the second stanza, dominating affairs to the point that their ********* opponents looked just a little demoralised.
But after they’d won 22 of 24 points in one purple patch, Purcell’s sublime form of the opening set, in particular, began to drop off as his serve was broken twice in the second, and the steadiness of Puetz and Krawietz came increasingly to the *****.
“The first part of the match was a lesson (from the Australians) and then we tried to apply what we learned from those two,” Puetz said.
“They lowered their level a bit and we came up a bit and it was close and at the end it was quite strange. But that is what happens in doubles with the scoring format.”
The ******* pair will now face either Briton Henry Patten and Finn Harri Heliovaara or top seeds, Croatian Mate Pavic and El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo, who meet in the other semi later on Saturday.
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