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A new game from Arkane Studios was revealed at Xbox’s E3 presentation on Sunday. Titled Redfall, it’s an open world, co-op survival shooter where players fight against swarms of vampires. The trailer for Redfall shows various vampires fighting against a superpowered squad of humans. Each human has their own special abilities and weapons to take vampires…

The Gang or a subset did a Clubhouse, longer than a regular show by a good third. The audio only structure lacked the visual cues that distinguish between irony and bad manners, but otherwise it felt familiar if not comfortable. I can’t remember what we talked about, only that I seemed a little more emphatic…

WISA Woodsat is a 10-by-10-by-10-centimeter CubeSat, a type of nanosatellite built up from standardized boxes but with surface panels made from plywood. Woodsat’s only non-wooden external parts are corner aluminum rails used for its deployment into space, plus a metal selfie stick. Arctic Astronautics A Scandinavian company plans to launch the world’s first wooden satellite…

A Plague Tale: Requiem is coming to the Xbox console and PC in 2022. The game was part of the many announcements at the E3 2021 Xbox conference. From the looks of the trailer, we can expect to see new rat-controlling powers and more knights to take down as quickly and as stealthy as possible….

Contraband is coming to Xbox consoles and PC from developer Avalanche Studios, the same team that worked on the Just Cause series. The project will be an open-world cooperative game, though not much else is known about it. The company showed a brief teaser trailer for Contraband as part of Microsoft’s E3 showcase. While we…

Back 4 Blood held a short showcase today highlighting what is new with its latest game mode, called Swarm. While the showcase itself was only about 10 minutes long, it gave us extensive details on what we can expect with this new game mode. Swarm is a player-vs-player game mode that pits two teams of…

EA revealed a new gameplay trailer for Battlefield 2042 at the joint Xbox & Bethesda Games E3 Showcase today. Included in the trailer were some new features that we haven’t seen previously in other Battlefield titles, including hot-swapping attachments and wingsuits, which were teased in the game’s announcement trailer. However, the gameplay itself confirmed that 2042 will…

These healthy “space pup” mice were born from sperm that had been freeze-dried and stored on the International Space Station. Teruhiko Wakayama/University of Yamanashi Healthy mice — charmingly referred to as “space pups” — have been born from sperm that was freeze-dried before spending nearly six years on the International Space Station (ISS). Questions remain…

Square Enix has announced a remastered collection of six classic Final Fantasy games. Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster will include Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI. Square Enix has released several retro Final Fantasy games for mobile, but the “enhancements” to their pixel art have not been received well by fans. The…