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MagmaByte's flagship title, Galaxy Commanders, joins the gaming ecosystem of NEAR Protocol

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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MagmaByte announces integration of their blockchain game, Galaxy Commanders, with NEAR Protocol

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  • MagmaByte announces integration of their blockchain game, Galaxy Commanders, with NEAR Protocol
    NEAR Protocol, focusing on expanding the Korean gaming ecosystem, achieves remarkable growth
    NEAR Protocol plans to continuously discover capable game development studios to contribute to the advancement of Web3 gaming ecosystem.
  • SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MagmaByte, a Web3 game developer, announced the development of their real-time strategy blockchain game, Galaxy Commanders, to onboard for NEAR Protocol.
  • The collaboration between the two entities aims to enhance the user experience for Galaxy Commanders players by utilizing various user-centric features of the NEAR Protocol, offering convenience and diversity.
  • Scott Lee, General Manager of NEAR Korea, stated, "NEAR Protocol is extremely excited to have a top-quality game such as Galaxy Commanders join us.

EA, NCSoft, Nexon Veterans Tap Immutable zkEVM for Web3 Space Battle Game, Galaxy Commanders

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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SEOUL, South Korea, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Galaxy Commanders, an upcoming, competitive web3-based mobile/PC game founded by Electronic Arts, NCSoft, and Nexon veterans, has teamed up with Immutable, the leading web3 gaming platform, to build out its vision for the Interstellar odyssey via Immutable zkEVM.

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  • SEOUL, South Korea, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Galaxy Commanders , an upcoming, competitive web3-based mobile/PC game founded by Electronic Arts, NCSoft, and Nexon veterans, has teamed up with Immutable , the leading web3 gaming platform, to build out its vision for the Interstellar odyssey via Immutable zkEVM.
  • Galaxy Commanders is a competitive Player-versus-Player (PvP) game with immersive space battles and cooperative planetary conquests where gamers can collect unique battleships to build their own customized fleet.
  • "We at MagmaByte are thrilled to be partnering with Immutable, bringing Galaxy Commanders to their leading blockchain ecosystem," noted MagmaByte Founder John Lee.
  • The impressive track record of Immutable in facilitating over $1 billion in funding for games also further solidifies their strong commitment to the new Immutable zkEVM chain."

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: a thrilling farewell to Harrison Ford's greatest character

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Friday, June 30, 2023
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And I don’t mean Harrison Ford, who at 80 gives a bravura performance in what is surely his last outing as the adventurer with the leather jacket and battered hat.

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  • And I don’t mean Harrison Ford, who at 80 gives a bravura performance in what is surely his last outing as the adventurer with the leather jacket and battered hat.
  • There is much mayhem, a mind-bending plot, friends old and new, stunning locations and an ending that may bring a tear to the eye.
  • Not even a neat trick of an atom bomb-resistant fridge could elevate this penultimate film to the pantheon of what went before.

Wearing it well

    • First, a few things need to be said, including the inclusion of some necessary spoilers (but nothing to completely ruin your enjoyment).
    • The vivid facial expressions that made Indy and Han Solo so beloved still flicker and sparkle throughout.
    • Yes, they are more hangdog but they’re still there, connecting Ford to his audience in that way he always managed in his prime.
    • He fares better than a frankly weird-looking Robert De Niro did in The Irishman – and the effect is generally convincing.

New faces

    • The pace is fast and frenetic, but perhaps a bit too Jason Bourne, particularly the chase sequence in Marrakesh.
    • Overall, though, Mangold’s direction is deft and true to the visual action gags that made the original films so exciting and watchable.
    • The appearance of an old fan favourite from the series provides a moment of unexpectedly powerful pathos at the end.

Harrison Ford is back as an 80-year-old Indiana Jones – and a 40-something Indy. The highs (and lows) of returning to iconic roles

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Friday, June 30, 2023
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Saddle up, don the fedora and crack that whip: Harrison Ford is back as the intrepid archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

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  • Saddle up, don the fedora and crack that whip: Harrison Ford is back as the intrepid archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
  • The film premiered at Cannes, where Ford was awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or in recognition of his life’s work.

Role returns


    Ford first played Indy in 1981 and last played him in 2008. That is a full 15 years since the most recent film in the series, and 42 years since his first outing in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ford has form in returning to celebrated characters. One of the great pleasures of watching The Force Awakens back in 2015 was seeing Ford play Han Solo again for the first time in over 30 years. Actors return to roles for numerous reasons:
    • And still, I’m intrigued to see what Michael Mann could do with his long-rumoured sequel to Heat, his definitive 1995 crime film.
    • Read more:
      Heat 2, the book sequel to Michael Mann's film, is 'fundamentally bizarre' – but superb

Undoing time

    • Actors used to just play characters of their own age when reprising earlier roles.
    • Here, it is as if we are getting two Fords for the price of one: the “younger”, fitter Indy and the older, more world-weary version.
    • Some viewers complain that the whole process is distracting and that the hyper-real visual look of de-aged scenes resembles a video game.
    • Given its reduced cost, speed and reduced human input, AI-driven innovation might have industry-changing ramifications.

The star of Ford

    • Harrison Ford remains a bona fide “movie star” in an industry profoundly buffeted by COVID, the rise of streaming platforms, the demise of the monoculture, and the changing nature of who constitutes a star.
    • In the midst of all this industry uncertainty, it seems there is no longer a statute of limitations on actors returning to much-loved characters.

Jurassic Park at 30: how its CGI revolutionised the film industry

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Saturday, June 10, 2023
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1993’s Jurassic Park used pioneering computer-generated imagery (CGI) to bring dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg’s adaption of the novel of the same name.

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  • 1993’s Jurassic Park used pioneering computer-generated imagery (CGI) to bring dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg’s adaption of the novel of the same name.
  • Jurassic Park originated in 1983 as a screenplay by Michael Crichton, whose previous foray into film as writer and director of Westworld (1973) featured an immersive amusement park where androids malfunctioned and caused havoc.
  • But his dinosaur-themed story first found publication as the novel Jurassic Park, which was released in 1990 and became a bestseller.
  • Of these methods, a combination of stop-motion animation for long shots and animatronic puppets for close ups were initially chosen by Spielberg for Jurassic Park.

CGI and animation

    • Dennis Muren from the visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), provided an alternative approach by using CGI modelling and animation.
    • Off the back of pioneering CGI work in The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Muren and his team produced a test sequence of skeletal dinosaurs.
    • Jurassic Park features 15 minutes of on-screen dinosaurs, of which approximately nine minutes feature Stan Winston’s animatronics and six minutes of ILM’s CGI animation.
    • Although the CGI sections are relatively short, they have a huge impact on the overall storytelling, not to mention the believability that the event is actually happening in front of us.

Impact

    • It also presented the perfect opportunity to develop and showcase the latest advances in CGI.
    • Jurassic Park inspired a number of similarly themed movies such as Disney’s Dinosaur (2000) and the award-winning BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs (1999).
    • But more than that, it helped bring about a revolution in the use of CGI in filmmaking.

Jurassic Park yn 30 a'r chwyldro effeithiau arbennig ddigwyddodd yn sgil y ffilm

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Saturday, June 10, 2023
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Defnyddiodd Jurassic Park 1993 ddelweddau a gynhyrchwyd gan gyfrifiadur (CGI) arloesol i ddod â deinosoriaid yn fyw yn addasiad Steven Spielberg o'r nofel o'r un enw.

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  • Defnyddiodd Jurassic Park 1993 ddelweddau a gynhyrchwyd gan gyfrifiadur (CGI) arloesol i ddod â deinosoriaid yn fyw yn addasiad Steven Spielberg o'r nofel o'r un enw.
  • Daeth y ffilm yn ddigwyddiad yr oedd yn rhaid ei weld yn gyflym iawn a chafodd cynulleidfaoedd eu syfrdanu gan yr olygfa o weld deinosoriaid credadwy yn ymlwyybro ar draws y sgrin fawr am y tro cyntaf.
  • Nid yn unig y gwnaeth Jurassic Park gamau enfawr mewn gwneud ffilmiau effeithiau arbennig, ond fe wnaeth hefyd baratoi'r ffordd ar gyfer myrdd o gynyrchiadau dilynol a oedd yn cynnwys bwystfilod o bob lliw a llun.
  • Fe oedd awdur a chyfarwyddwr y ffilm, Westworld (1973), oedd yn adrodd stori parc adloniant lle’r oedd androidau yn camweithio ac yn rhedeg yn benwyllt.

CGI ac animeiddio

    • Darparodd Dennis Muren o’r cwmni effeithiau arbennig, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), ymagwedd amgen drwy ddefnyddio modelu ac animeiddio CGI.
    • Ar gefn gwaith CGI arloesol yn The Abyss (1989) a Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), cynhyrchodd Muren a'i dîm gyfres brawf o ddeinosoriaid ysgerbydol.
    • Adeiladodd y dechneg hon fodel y deinosor o esgyrn, ychwanegu cyhyr ac yna yn olaf, y croen.
    • Er bod y darnau CGI yn gymharol fyr, maent yn cael effaith enfawr ar y stori, heb sôn am y gred bod y digwyddiad yn digwydd o'n blaenau mewn gwirionedd.

Effaith

    • Roedd hefyd yn gyfle perffaith i ddatblygu ac arddangos y datblygiadau diweddaraf mewn CGI.
    • Roedd y wefr o weld rhuthr y Gallimimus, arswyd ymosodiad y T. Rex ac arswyd yr helfa Velociraptor wedi swyno cynulleidfaoedd ar draws y byd.
    • Ond yn fwy na hynny, fe helpodd i greu chwyldro yn y defnydd o effeithiau arbennig CGI mewn ffilmiau.

A Monumental Achievement: 300 Wins for Kevin Schewe's 'BAD LOVE TIGERS'

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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Schewe has big plans for the future of his work: "We are actively seeking interested Producers, Studios and Directors.

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  • Schewe has big plans for the future of his work: "We are actively seeking interested Producers, Studios and Directors.
  • We have assembled a 'look book' with a wish list of actors and a comprehensive budget down to the most minute details, including comparable film financial performances.
  • Schewe's Bad Love Tigers is an action-adventure, sci-fi blend of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Back to the Future.
  • Kevin L. Schewe, MD, FACRO, is a board-certified cancer specialist who has been in the private practice of radiation oncology for nearly 35 years.

A Spectacular 250 SCREENPLAY Wins for Kevin Schewe's 'BAD LOVE TIGERS'

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kevin Schewe's Bad Love Tigers has won a spectacular 250 international screenplay awards.

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  • HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kevin Schewe's Bad Love Tigers has won a spectacular 250 international screenplay awards.
  • "The Bad Love Gang and I are honored beyond words with this far-reaching global recognition.
  • Schewe's Bad Love Tigers is a feel good, action-adventure, sci-fi blend of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Stand by Me.
  • The screenplay has strong youth appeal and great potential to attract an audience of all ages back to the big screen.

NVIDIA Brings RTX 4080 to GeForce NOW

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023
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With GeForce RTX 4080 performance, Ultimate members will be the first to experience true PC gaming — streaming at up to 240 frames per second from the cloud with full ray tracing and DLSS 3 , in hit games like Portal With RTX.

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  • With GeForce RTX 4080 performance, Ultimate members will be the first to experience true PC gaming — streaming at up to 240 frames per second from the cloud with full ray tracing and DLSS 3 , in hit games like Portal With RTX.
  • With the addition of NVIDIA Reflex , GeForce NOW achieves click-to-pixel latency below 40 milliseconds — another first in cloud gaming.
  • “NVIDIA’s Ada architecture is a big leap in graphics quality, and through GeForce NOW we’re streaming an RTX 4080 experience to more devices and more gamers than ever,” said Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of GeForce at NVIDIA.
  • Next-generation RTX technologies coming to GeForce NOW include full ray tracing and DLSS 3 — introduced with the GeForce RTX 40 Series launch.

Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics Strike Deal to Develop and Publish Next Major Entry in Iconic Tomb Raider Series

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Thursday, December 15, 2022
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Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics today announced they have reached an agreement under which Crystal Dynamics will develop a new multiplatform Tomb Raider title, with Amazon Games providing full support and publishing the game globally.

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  • Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics today announced they have reached an agreement under which Crystal Dynamics will develop a new multiplatform Tomb Raider title, with Amazon Games providing full support and publishing the game globally.
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    Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics have reached an agreement under which Crystal Dynamics will develop a new multiplatform Tomb Raider title, with Amazon Games providing full support and publishing the game globally.
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    The as-yet-untitled new Tomb Raider game is a single-player, narrative-driven adventure that continues Lara Crofts story in the Tomb Raider series.
  • Tomb Raider is one of the most beloved IPs in entertainment history, said Christoph Hartmann, VP of Amazon Games.