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• SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) is proud to share a significant milestone for development of its Open 3D Engine (O3DE).
• Today, The O3DF is unveiling Carbonated, Inc.'s use of O3DE for the development of their debut title, MadWorld, on mobile devices.
• "We are proud to unveil MadWorld as the first mobile title powered by O3DE, demonstrating the large potential of open-source technologies in game development," said Joe Bryant, Executive Director of the Open 3D Foundation.
• The development of MadWorld using O3DE underscores Carbonated's goal of creating a mobile title for players to fight in high-stakes shootouts, using Strategic Map Gameplay to control territory and earn tributes.

• Consuming and sharing foreign media in North Korea can be punishable by death.
• However, North Korea closed its borders during the COVID pandemic, and since then the steady flow of escapees has slowed considerably.
• This has prompted North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to adopt increasingly harsh measures to combat access to illegal media.

Crackdown

• Shortly after inheriting the leadership in 2011, Kim tried a number of relatively soft approaches to controlling foreign media access, alongside continued punitive measures.
• This law sets out specific punishments for both viewers and distributors of foreign media, going further than the existing criminal code.
• At the same time, Kim has publicly condemned K-Pop (pop music originating in South Korea) as a “vicious cancer” permeating North Korean society.

Changing hearts and minds

• North Korean escapees have also reported paying keen attention to the settings they saw in films and dramas.
• Modern streets, cars and homes, with people displaying relative freedom of choice, expression and movement, all offer North Koreans a glimpse into life under capitalism.
• A similar campaign condemns young North Koreans for showing affection in public and mimicking “western style” dating culture.

Building social bonds

• It also unsettles the government’s ability to maintain a culture of suspicion and mistrust between citizens.
• This could potentially generate social change.

• Foreign diplomats, humanitarian aid workers and tourists are not yet allowed back into North Korea following the pandemic.
• So, combined with many fewer escapees arriving in the South, it is difficult to know whether foreign media access and consumption has declined since 2020.

Sarah A. Son does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• The project is a stunning western narrative with a widescreen musical treatment that has McGaw writing most of the album's 11 songs, with Goren and Lind contributing one song each.
• Directed by Thomas Trail (Klepto, R-Generation), it features the roaring performance and powerful presence of vocalist Lind.
• "He was new in Ojai and I had moved there recently, so we just hit it off as musicians, singer-songwriters.
• Danny invited me to play on a song of his at his house, and we collaborated from then on."

• PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Jan. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Country Club at Mirasol congratulates Chef de Cuisine Ryan O'Sullivan for outlasting seventeen talented chefs to win the 22nd season of FOX TV's "Hell's Kitchen", hosted by renowned chef Gordon Ramsay.
• Following a series of rigorous culinary challenges, O'Sullivan won the ultimate prize of head chef at Hell's Kitchen Caesars in Las Vegas and a $250,000 cash prize.
• O'Sullivan joined the Mirasol team in 2018 as a seasonal line cook, working between the club's four dining outlets.
• He quickly moved up the ranks, being promoted to sous chef in 2020 and becoming Chef de Cuisine in the club's fine-dining restaurant, Solstice, in 2021.