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Mecha BREAK Gets New Trailer Showcasing Mid-Match Gameplay

✇Video Game News, Reviews, Walkthroughs And Guides | GamingBolt
Od: Joelle Daniels
21. Srpen 2024 v 11:03

Amazing Seasun Games has released a new trailer for its upcoming multiplayer mech game, Mecha BREAK, this time around showing off some gameplay. Check out the trailer below.

The latest trailer for Mecha BREAK gives us a short glimpse at a 6-on-6 match happening in the game. Each player is piloting a different kind of mech, and some of their abilities are shown off quite extensively in the brief trailer.

Alongside releasing the trailer, the studio has also announced that Mecha BREAK will be getting a closed beta test in Xbox, from August 25 to August 27. This follows the previous open beta for PC players.

Mecha BREAK is a competitive multiplayer games where teams of 6 will be pit against each other. There will be a host of different game modes available once Mecha BREAK launches, including a 6v6 Battlefield mode, a 3v3 Arena m ode, and a 60-player PvPvE mode.

Mecha BREAK doesn’t yet have a release date aside from a 2025 window, and will be coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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  • 19 magnificent images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlistPopular Science Team
    A galactic worm gobbles stars. A plasma whale slides across the sun‘s surface. And an eerie dragon dances with an aurora. It’s not the plot to a fantasy novel, it’s our incredible universe captured in stunning detail. The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images for the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The finalists were selected from more than 3,500 images submitted from professional and amateur photographers from 58 countries. The winner will be announced Se
     
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19 magnificent images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist

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Od: Popular Science Team
4. Srpen 2024 v 00:05

A galactic worm gobbles stars. A plasma whale slides across the sun‘s surface. And an eerie dragon dances with an aurora. It’s not the plot to a fantasy novel, it’s our incredible universe captured in stunning detail.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images for the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The finalists were selected from more than 3,500 images submitted from professional and amateur photographers from 58 countries. The winner will be announced September 12 and an exhibition of the top images will be on display in London at the National Maritime Museum starting September 14.

the stages of an eclipse showing the moon as a black dot and pink colors of the sun behind it
“Total Solar Eclipse”
 Gwenaël Blanck travelled to Australia in April 2023 to see the 62-second long total solar eclipse. In this collage he shows the corona and the pink chromosphere, the prominences and Baily’s beads, chinks of sunlight that shine through due to the Moon’s rugged landscape. The image is made of seven superimposed pictures, one overexposed for the background and six others for the chromosphere and prominences. Image: © Gwenaël Blanck (France)
meteors look like rain with red bursts of light seen above a building
“A Cosmic Firework: the Geminid Meteor Shower” 
This photograph of the Geminid meteor shower was taken under perfect conditions on La Palma. During the peak of the night, Sahner could easily spot two or three or more meteors per minute within the field of view. The panorama shows the entire winter Milky Way as seen from La Palma in RGB natural colour with extra details in H-alpha. Image: © Jakob Sahner (Germany)
a swirly galaxy on the backdrop of a black sky and dots of stars
“M81, a Grand Design Spiral Galaxy”
M81, also known as Bode’s Galaxy, is about 11.75 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is one of the brighter galaxies in the night sky. In the image’s background, some Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) can be seen. IFN is dust outside the Milky Way’s galactic plane that is illuminated only by the stars in the Milky Way. Image: © Holden Aimar (USA), aged 14 
a rainbow aurora above a mountain near a lake. to the left is a person
“A Night with the Valkyries”
A view of the Eystrahorn Mountain (Iceland) on the night of a KP7 storm (a strong geomagnetic storm that can cause aurorae and upset electrical power systems). The intensity of the storm resulted in the impressive range of colours in the sky. Image: © Jose Miguel Picon Chimelis (Spain) JOSE CHIMELIS
a swirling aurora that resembles a dragon's head turning back
“The Fire-Spitting Dragon“
The photographer was able to capture the aurora in motion when it turned into something resembling a dragon’s head on a clear night. Telser chose to use black and white to emphasise the contrast of the aurora against the dark sky. Image: © Moritz Telser (Italy) MORITZ TELSER
swirls on the sun's surface, including a chunk of plasma in the shape of an upside-down whale
“A Whale Sailing the Sun“
This image shows the details of the Sun’s surface. The photographer views the shape of the filament to the left of the disc as an immense plasma whale traversing the solar surface. Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau captured this photo by recording two videos (one for the disc and another for the prominences), each consisting of 850 frames. Image: © Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau (Argentina) 
the milky way and thousands of stars above an abandoned house and dead tree
“Abandoned House”
This image shows an abandoned house in the middle of the Namib Desert with the Milky Way rising above it. The sky was captured with a star tracker to lower the ISO. The veil of clouds and halos around the stars create a dreamlike effect. Image: © Stefan Liebermann (Germany) 
a green and purple aurora above rock structures shaped like upside-down Vs
“Arctic Dragon“
This impressive aurora, which seemingly takes the form of a dragon, was the result of a geomagnetic storm (level G2) generated by a coronal mass ejection. The photo was captured at the Arctic Henge, which was one of the only places in Iceland with clear skies that night. Image: © Carina Letelier Baeza (Chile) Cari Letelier
the international space station looks tiny in front of a full moon
“Hunter’s Moon and the ISS“
This image captures the International Space Station (ISS) in transit across October’s Full Moon, the Hunter’s Moon, approximately 12 hours after a partial lunar eclipse. The striking beauty of the Full Moon is on display, with its mix of rugged highlands, bright crater rays and darker maria. Image:  © Tom Glenn (USA) 
volcanic fire emerges in the foreground with stars and skies in background
“Earth and Milky Way Galaxy Show”
Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture is the collective name for the five peaks often called the ‘Five Mountains of Aso’. One of the peaks, Nakadake, has a volcanic crater that is still active. Abe wanted this image to show how the Milky Way has watched over activity on Earth since prehistoric times. This is a composite photograph with the foreground and sky photographed separately but without moving the tripod. Image: © Yoshiki Abe (Japan)
a swirling galaxy on black sky with bright stars
“M100 (The Blowdryer Galaxy) and Ceres“
In this image the photographer was able to capture a dwarf planet, Ceres, more than a billion times smaller than its galactic counterpart, transit beyond the galaxy’s spiralling arms. Ceres shines brighter than the galaxy and moves quickly across the night sky. For this image, multiple long exposures were captured over an eight-hour period to showcase the beauty of the Blowdryer Galaxy and the relatively quick speed of the dwarf planet Ceres. Image: © Damon Mitchell Scotting (UK) 
a cloud shaped like a large worm with its mouth open on the backdrop of a dark sky and stars
“The Galaxy Devourer“
CG4 (Cometary Globule 4) is a complex of nebulosity and dust with a very peculiar shape, located in the southern constellation of Puppis. The ‘head’ of the galactic worm has dimensions of about 1.5 light years. This image is the result of the work of a team of astrophotographers: they joined forces to rent the powerful Newtonian 500-mm telescope from Chilescope service, processing the raw files and then voted for the best images. Image: © ShaRa
time-lapse photograph of stars moving in the sky shown as streaks with a cracked desert in the foreground
“Serpentine“
This image was taken at Snettisham Beach, famous for its vast tidal mudflats that attract migrating birds in staggering numbers. The foreground subject is a dilapidated jetty, which was built in the Second World War to allow gravel extracted from the nearby pits to be moved by boat. The curved channel in the mudflat mirrors the trailing stars. Image: © Paul Haworth (UK) 
a statue of a person walking under the milky way
“Run to Carina”
This photograph captures a sculpture in north-west Namibia. Made of stone, this is one of a group of sculptures known as the ‘Lone Men of Kaokoland’ [as the region was formerly known]. No one knows who has put them there. A long exposure of the stone running man was taken first, then the tripod was moved for a clear view of the horizon. Image: © Vikas Chander (India) 
a rainbow of color appears around the sun above mountains
“The Palette of the Himalayas“
During the Spring Festival, the Sun and altostratus clouds acted together to create this huge corona, soaring above the Himalayas. The result is an enormous colour palette above the snowy peaks. Image: © Geshuang Chen (China) 
a ringed planet on a black sky
“Saturn with Six Moons”
Saturn’s decreasing ring tilt means the moon Titan is closer to Saturn from our viewpoint than it has been in over a decade. At the centre of the image, Tethys is just about to disappear behind Saturn, while Rhea, Enceladus and Mimas are on the left, and Dione is to the lower right. The planet’s shadow on the rings is prominent, as are the Cassini and Encke divisions. Image: © Andy Casely (Australia) 
a pancake-shaped galaxy
“The Inner Dust Lanes of M104 (The Sombrero Galaxy)“
 The intense brightness of M104’s core often hides the details that lie inside the encircling ring of dust. In this image the dust appears to spiral into that core, floating on a wafer-thin layer as it falls towards the massive central black hole. The brighter, more colourful stars in the image are actually in the foreground − a part of our Milky Way galaxy. Image: © Kevin Morefield (USA)
red and blue bursts of color
“The Scream of a Dying Star”
The Cygnus supernova afterglow is a popular object with astrophotographers, but the idea here was to take advantage of the high quality of the sky and the long exposure time to highlight details that are rarely seen, such as the outer envelope of the supernova remnant. The image’s name is a nod to The Scream, the famous painting by Edvard Munch, symbolising the scream that continues to echo through space after the star’s death. Image: © Yann Sainty (France) 

The post 19 magnificent images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist appeared first on Popular Science.

Cataclismo is not about protecting your towns, it’s about protecting your beautiful staircases

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Od: Nic Reuben
23. Červenec 2024 v 17:00

Between Against The Storms’ critters, Manor Lords’s perfect oxen, and now Cataclismo, Hooded Horse’s roster of strategy games share a common thread that many guard-the-village-em-ups can fatally overlook: they present a civilisation that’s worth protecting. Even if the fallen culture you’ll defend against waves of gribblies offers fascinatingly few concrete details on its origins, there’s a lithe and impressionistic otherworldliness and use of colour in Cataclismo’s art that evokes unearthed layers of history. Also, everyone is just so gosh darn likeable, with their foppish hats plopped atop stretched bodies, and dialogue that remains resolute, chirpy, and eager, even when you’re click-marching these poor folk straight to their deaths.

Still, none of this will stop me will sacrificing every last man, woman, and child of these beleaguered warriors if it means preserving a single one of my immaculately crafted staircases.

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  • Cataclismo is not about protecting your towns, it’s about protecting your beautiful staircasesNic Reuben
    Between Against The Storms’ critters, Manor Lords’s perfect oxen, and now Cataclismo, Hooded Horse’s roster of strategy games share a common thread that many guard-the-village-em-ups can fatally overlook: they present a civilisation that’s worth protecting. Even if the fallen culture you’ll defend against waves of gribblies offers fascinatingly few concrete details on its origins, there’s a lithe and impressionistic otherworldliness and use of colour in Cataclismo’s art that evokes unearthed la
     
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Cataclismo is not about protecting your towns, it’s about protecting your beautiful staircases

✇Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Od: Nic Reuben
23. Červenec 2024 v 17:00

Between Against The Storms’ critters, Manor Lords’s perfect oxen, and now Cataclismo, Hooded Horse’s roster of strategy games share a common thread that many guard-the-village-em-ups can fatally overlook: they present a civilisation that’s worth protecting. Even if the fallen culture you’ll defend against waves of gribblies offers fascinatingly few concrete details on its origins, there’s a lithe and impressionistic otherworldliness and use of colour in Cataclismo’s art that evokes unearthed layers of history. Also, everyone is just so gosh darn likeable, with their foppish hats plopped atop stretched bodies, and dialogue that remains resolute, chirpy, and eager, even when you’re click-marching these poor folk straight to their deaths.

Still, none of this will stop me will sacrificing every last man, woman, and child of these beleaguered warriors if it means preserving a single one of my immaculately crafted staircases.

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  • 19 magnificent images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlistPopular Science Team
    A galactic worm gobbles stars. A plasma whale slides across the sun‘s surface. And an eerie dragon dances with an aurora. It’s not the plot to a fantasy novel, it’s our incredible universe captured in stunning detail. The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images for the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The finalists were selected from more than 3,500 images submitted from professional and amateur photographers from 58 countries. The winner will be announced Se
     
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19 magnificent images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist

✇Popular Science
Od: Popular Science Team
4. Srpen 2024 v 00:05

A galactic worm gobbles stars. A plasma whale slides across the sun‘s surface. And an eerie dragon dances with an aurora. It’s not the plot to a fantasy novel, it’s our incredible universe captured in stunning detail.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images for the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The finalists were selected from more than 3,500 images submitted from professional and amateur photographers from 58 countries. The winner will be announced September 12 and an exhibition of the top images will be on display in London at the National Maritime Museum starting September 14.

the stages of an eclipse showing the moon as a black dot and pink colors of the sun behind it
“Total Solar Eclipse”
 Gwenaël Blanck travelled to Australia in April 2023 to see the 62-second long total solar eclipse. In this collage he shows the corona and the pink chromosphere, the prominences and Baily’s beads, chinks of sunlight that shine through due to the Moon’s rugged landscape. The image is made of seven superimposed pictures, one overexposed for the background and six others for the chromosphere and prominences. Image: © Gwenaël Blanck (France)
meteors look like rain with red bursts of light seen above a building
“A Cosmic Firework: the Geminid Meteor Shower” 
This photograph of the Geminid meteor shower was taken under perfect conditions on La Palma. During the peak of the night, Sahner could easily spot two or three or more meteors per minute within the field of view. The panorama shows the entire winter Milky Way as seen from La Palma in RGB natural colour with extra details in H-alpha. Image: © Jakob Sahner (Germany)
a swirly galaxy on the backdrop of a black sky and dots of stars
“M81, a Grand Design Spiral Galaxy”
M81, also known as Bode’s Galaxy, is about 11.75 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is one of the brighter galaxies in the night sky. In the image’s background, some Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) can be seen. IFN is dust outside the Milky Way’s galactic plane that is illuminated only by the stars in the Milky Way. Image: © Holden Aimar (USA), aged 14 
a rainbow aurora above a mountain near a lake. to the left is a person
“A Night with the Valkyries”
A view of the Eystrahorn Mountain (Iceland) on the night of a KP7 storm (a strong geomagnetic storm that can cause aurorae and upset electrical power systems). The intensity of the storm resulted in the impressive range of colours in the sky. Image: © Jose Miguel Picon Chimelis (Spain) JOSE CHIMELIS
a swirling aurora that resembles a dragon's head turning back
“The Fire-Spitting Dragon“
The photographer was able to capture the aurora in motion when it turned into something resembling a dragon’s head on a clear night. Telser chose to use black and white to emphasise the contrast of the aurora against the dark sky. Image: © Moritz Telser (Italy) MORITZ TELSER
swirls on the sun's surface, including a chunk of plasma in the shape of an upside-down whale
“A Whale Sailing the Sun“
This image shows the details of the Sun’s surface. The photographer views the shape of the filament to the left of the disc as an immense plasma whale traversing the solar surface. Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau captured this photo by recording two videos (one for the disc and another for the prominences), each consisting of 850 frames. Image: © Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau (Argentina) 
the milky way and thousands of stars above an abandoned house and dead tree
“Abandoned House”
This image shows an abandoned house in the middle of the Namib Desert with the Milky Way rising above it. The sky was captured with a star tracker to lower the ISO. The veil of clouds and halos around the stars create a dreamlike effect. Image: © Stefan Liebermann (Germany) 
a green and purple aurora above rock structures shaped like upside-down Vs
“Arctic Dragon“
This impressive aurora, which seemingly takes the form of a dragon, was the result of a geomagnetic storm (level G2) generated by a coronal mass ejection. The photo was captured at the Arctic Henge, which was one of the only places in Iceland with clear skies that night. Image: © Carina Letelier Baeza (Chile) Cari Letelier
the international space station looks tiny in front of a full moon
“Hunter’s Moon and the ISS“
This image captures the International Space Station (ISS) in transit across October’s Full Moon, the Hunter’s Moon, approximately 12 hours after a partial lunar eclipse. The striking beauty of the Full Moon is on display, with its mix of rugged highlands, bright crater rays and darker maria. Image:  © Tom Glenn (USA) 
volcanic fire emerges in the foreground with stars and skies in background
“Earth and Milky Way Galaxy Show”
Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture is the collective name for the five peaks often called the ‘Five Mountains of Aso’. One of the peaks, Nakadake, has a volcanic crater that is still active. Abe wanted this image to show how the Milky Way has watched over activity on Earth since prehistoric times. This is a composite photograph with the foreground and sky photographed separately but without moving the tripod. Image: © Yoshiki Abe (Japan)
a swirling galaxy on black sky with bright stars
“M100 (The Blowdryer Galaxy) and Ceres“
In this image the photographer was able to capture a dwarf planet, Ceres, more than a billion times smaller than its galactic counterpart, transit beyond the galaxy’s spiralling arms. Ceres shines brighter than the galaxy and moves quickly across the night sky. For this image, multiple long exposures were captured over an eight-hour period to showcase the beauty of the Blowdryer Galaxy and the relatively quick speed of the dwarf planet Ceres. Image: © Damon Mitchell Scotting (UK) 
a cloud shaped like a large worm with its mouth open on the backdrop of a dark sky and stars
“The Galaxy Devourer“
CG4 (Cometary Globule 4) is a complex of nebulosity and dust with a very peculiar shape, located in the southern constellation of Puppis. The ‘head’ of the galactic worm has dimensions of about 1.5 light years. This image is the result of the work of a team of astrophotographers: they joined forces to rent the powerful Newtonian 500-mm telescope from Chilescope service, processing the raw files and then voted for the best images. Image: © ShaRa
time-lapse photograph of stars moving in the sky shown as streaks with a cracked desert in the foreground
“Serpentine“
This image was taken at Snettisham Beach, famous for its vast tidal mudflats that attract migrating birds in staggering numbers. The foreground subject is a dilapidated jetty, which was built in the Second World War to allow gravel extracted from the nearby pits to be moved by boat. The curved channel in the mudflat mirrors the trailing stars. Image: © Paul Haworth (UK) 
a statue of a person walking under the milky way
“Run to Carina”
This photograph captures a sculpture in north-west Namibia. Made of stone, this is one of a group of sculptures known as the ‘Lone Men of Kaokoland’ [as the region was formerly known]. No one knows who has put them there. A long exposure of the stone running man was taken first, then the tripod was moved for a clear view of the horizon. Image: © Vikas Chander (India) 
a rainbow of color appears around the sun above mountains
“The Palette of the Himalayas“
During the Spring Festival, the Sun and altostratus clouds acted together to create this huge corona, soaring above the Himalayas. The result is an enormous colour palette above the snowy peaks. Image: © Geshuang Chen (China) 
a ringed planet on a black sky
“Saturn with Six Moons”
Saturn’s decreasing ring tilt means the moon Titan is closer to Saturn from our viewpoint than it has been in over a decade. At the centre of the image, Tethys is just about to disappear behind Saturn, while Rhea, Enceladus and Mimas are on the left, and Dione is to the lower right. The planet’s shadow on the rings is prominent, as are the Cassini and Encke divisions. Image: © Andy Casely (Australia) 
a pancake-shaped galaxy
“The Inner Dust Lanes of M104 (The Sombrero Galaxy)“
 The intense brightness of M104’s core often hides the details that lie inside the encircling ring of dust. In this image the dust appears to spiral into that core, floating on a wafer-thin layer as it falls towards the massive central black hole. The brighter, more colourful stars in the image are actually in the foreground − a part of our Milky Way galaxy. Image: © Kevin Morefield (USA)
red and blue bursts of color
“The Scream of a Dying Star”
The Cygnus supernova afterglow is a popular object with astrophotographers, but the idea here was to take advantage of the high quality of the sky and the long exposure time to highlight details that are rarely seen, such as the outer envelope of the supernova remnant. The image’s name is a nod to The Scream, the famous painting by Edvard Munch, symbolising the scream that continues to echo through space after the star’s death. Image: © Yann Sainty (France) 

The post 19 magnificent images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist appeared first on Popular Science.

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  • What to Play This May 2024Chris Tapsell
    Hello and welcome back to What To Play! We've returned from a little hiatus, which you definitely noticed and have been very sad about, of course. It's finally edging towards spring here in the UK, but don't let that tempt you into going outside, there's video games to be a-playin'!As ever, this is where we'll round up the best games from the month gone by, and the things we're most excited to play from the month ahead - plus, any other suggestions for what might complement it. Here's What To P
     
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What to Play This May 2024

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Od: Chris Tapsell
1. Květen 2024 v 14:00

Hello and welcome back to What To Play! We've returned from a little hiatus, which you definitely noticed and have been very sad about, of course. It's finally edging towards spring here in the UK, but don't let that tempt you into going outside, there's video games to be a-playin'!

As ever, this is where we'll round up the best games from the month gone by, and the things we're most excited to play from the month ahead - plus, any other suggestions for what might complement it. Here's What To Play This May 2024.

Availability: Out now on PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

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Children of the Sun Review – Cult Crasher

✇PC Reviews – MonsterVine
Od: Nick Mangiaracina
9. Duben 2024 v 17:00
It’s raining on the compound. It’s always raining on the compound. The sound of tires churning through mud coats the nearby forest as men in yellow and black cheer on the drivers as they make large donuts in the grass. Fire crackles from a series of open metal drums a few of the men have […]
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