Posted by Kenneth Shepard from Kotaku
It’s been over a decade since ArenaNet’s fantasy MMO Guild Wars 2 launched. In the years since its 2021 PC debut, the team has released several expansions and updates for it, with the latest being 2023’s Secrets of the Obscure. With two more expansions still in the works set to launch this year and in 2025,…

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Posted by Levi Winslow from Kotaku
Remember Spyro the Dragon, the lovable, purple-colored flying lizard that collected gems and spat fire? It’s been a minute since he’s had a brand-new game of his own, huh? Well, it seems that’s going to change, as developer Toys for Bob appears to be working on a new, mainline entry in the long-dormant platforming…

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Patch 10.2.7 - Encrypted wowdev3 Build

Patch 10.2.7 has been pushed to the wowdev3 endpoint, indicating that 10.2.7 PTR could arrive in the near future. Note that the build is currently encrypted, datamining is not possible yet.

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From the music-stops department: An anonymous reader shares a report: According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, 'consonance' -- a pleasant-sounding combination of notes -- is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4. More recently, scholars have tried to find psychological explanations, but these 'integer ratios' are still credited with making a chord sound beautiful, and deviation from them is thought to make music 'dissonant,' unpleasant sounding.

But researchers from the University of Cambridge, Princeton and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, have now discovered two key ways in which Pythagoras was wrong. Their study, published in Nature Communications, shows that in normal listening contexts, we do not actually prefer chords to be perfectly in these mathematical ratios. "We prefer slight amounts of deviation. We like a little imperfection because this gives life to the sounds, and that is attractive to us," said co-author, Dr Peter Harrison, from Cambridge's Faculty of Music and Director of its Centre for Music and Science.

The researchers also found that the role played by these mathematical relationships disappears when you consider certain musical instruments that are less familiar to Western musicians, audiences and scholars. These instruments tend to be bells, gongs, types of xylophones and other kinds of pitched percussion instruments. In particular, they studied the 'bonang,' an instrument from the Javanese gamelan built from a collection of small gongs.
Posted by Tony_Bacala from The Toyark


A couple new Marvel Legends figures dropping soon with the new branding of Deadpool Legacy.  The first two feature repaints of existing characters, but there will be Deadpool and Wolverine Marvel Legends figures as well later in the year.  Read ...

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From the breaking-news department: Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years [non-paywalled link] in prison for a massive fraud that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world's most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. From a report: Bankman-Fried, 32, was convicted in November of fraud and conspiracy -- a dramatic fall from a crest of success. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan imposed the sentence in the same Manhattan courtroom where, four months ago, Bankman-Fried testified that his intention had been to revolutionize the emerging cryptocurrency market with his innovative and altruistic ideas, not to steal.

Kaplan said the sentence reflected "that there is a risk that this man will be in position to do something very bad in the future. And it's not a trivial risk at all." He added that it was "for the purpose of disabling him to the extent that can appropriately be done for a significant period of time." Prior to sentencing, Bankman-Fried had said, "My useful life is probably over. It's been over for a while now, from before my arrest."
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From the how-about-that department: Dashlane, in a support page: Due to changes in business priorities, we've decided to discontinue the Dashlane Authenticator app as of May 13, 2024. You can still use the main Dashlane app as an authenticator to protect logins stored in Dashlane with 2-factor authentication.
Posted by Tony_Bacala from TFW2005


The Transformers team’s stream for week 4 of a month long stream fest has wrapped. Focus this week was on pop culture items, collabs and a bit of Space Bridge future releases.  Wondercon is this weekend with a panel planned so stay tuned for even more over the weekend.  Read on for pics from the stream and stay tuned for a recap. Licensed items Fanatik Silver Coin Packs 40th Anniversary G1 Cartoon Score on vinyl — new art by Matt Ferguson — 2 New Tracks — Art inspired by opening sequence of cartoon Collaboration Figures Party Wallop TMNT x Transformers, » Continue Reading.

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Posted by Moises Taveras from Kotaku
Joe Lieberman, a former U.S. senator who crusaded against violence in video games, has passed away at 82. According to a statement from his family, he suffered “complications from a fall.”

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Posted by Levi Winslow from Kotaku
Microsoft seems poised for an all-digital future, folks. The company is swapping the black coating on the Xbox Series X for white and pulling the disc-drive for an all-digital refresh of its “most powerful Xbox ever,” according to eXputer.

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From the aggressive-expansion department: Amazon plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving the cloud-computing giant the firepower to handle an expected explosion in demand for artificial intelligence applications and other digital services. From a report: The spending spree is a show of force as the company looks to maintain its grip on the cloud services market, where it holds about twice the share of No. 2 player Microsoft. Sales growth at Amazon Web Services slowed to a record low last year as business customers cut costs and delayed modernization projects. Now spending is starting to pick up again, and Amazon is keen to secure land and electricity for its power-hungry facilities.

"We're expanding capacity quite significantly," said Kevin Miller, an AWS vice president who oversees the company's data centers. "I think that just gives us the ability to get closer to customers." Over the past two years, according to a Bloomberg tally, Amazon has committed to spending $148 billion to build and operate data centers around the world. The company plans to expand existing server farm hubs in northern Virginia and Oregon as well as push into new precincts, including Mississippi, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
Posted by Willa Rowe from Kotaku
Dragon’s Dogma 2 has only been out for a week but Capcom is already considering the possibility of adding content to the game in the future. The action-RPG has been met with widespread critical acclaim (and, yes, no shortage of player grievances), and it looks like the game’s publisher may want to keep the…

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From the oops department: An anonymous reader shares a report: Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an internal audit that started in December and took months to complete, TechCrunch has learned.

The EV startup was ultimately able to track down a majority of those payments or request new ones from customers whose payment methods had expired. But the disarray, which was described to TechCrunch by three people familiar with the internal payment crisis, took employees and resources away from Fisker's sales team at a time when the company was attempting to save itself by restructuring its business model.

Fisker struggled to keep tabs on these transactions, which included down payments and in some cases, the full price of the vehicles, because of lax internal procedures for keeping track of them, according to the people. In a few cases, it delivered vehicles without collecting any form of payment at all, they said.
Posted by Black Convoy from TFW2005


And just a few ours after our first images of the new Target Legacy United Versus Multipack, now we can share for you official images of this set. This pack contains a curious selection of figures from different universes. Cyberverse Tarn – Legacy Tarn repaint G1 Squeezeplay – Titans Return Mindwipe retool, includes a Masterforce Browning gun. Transformers Prime Cliffjumper – Legacy Chase retool Beast Wars Tarantulas – Kingdom Tarantulas retool, inspired by the prototype seen in the first Beast Wars commercials. Pre-orders are live via Target for $79.99 with limited quantities on Hasbro Pulse. Check out the images including product description » Continue Reading.

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Via their Facebook page, third party company DNA Design have revealed their new DNA Design DK-53 Upgrade Kit For Studio Series ROTB Bumblebee, Mirage & Wheeljack. This kit contains several new parts for the Deluxe class Studio Series Rise Of The Beasts Autobots. SS-100 Bumblebee – New battle mask and left arm cannon. SS-105 Mirage – New feet, leg fillers and extra arm cannon. SS-108 Mirage – New arm blasters, can be attached to the sides of alt mode. This upgrade kit is planned for release by August 2024. Check it out after the jump and sound off your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

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Courtesy of Hasbro designer Mark “Markclonus” Maher, via his Instagram account, we have good quality and clear in-hand images of the new Target Optimus Prime & Autobot Bullseye . This is a redeco of the Laser Prime cab and Earthrise Prime trailer in Target-themed colors, along with a reuse of the Siege Ravage cassette mold as Bullseye. Mark sure had fun with this pictures, showing Optimus having fun with Bullseye as his lovely pet. Pre-orders for this figure are still up via Target website. See the mirrored images after the break as well as Mark’s comments on these new capsule collection figures. Share » Continue Reading.

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Posted by Kenneth Shepard from Kotaku
Another company has escaped the gaping, acquisition-hungry maw that is publisher Embracer Group, as Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has been sold to Take-Two Interactive. This lines up with Kotaku’s previous reporting on the matter in February, in which sources told us Gearbox was nearing a sale. Embracer is…

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Posted by Kenneth Shepard and Moises Taveras from Kotaku
PAX East was in Boston this past week, and while there were some heavy hitters at the show like Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios and Square Enix showing off Final Fantasy XIV’s Dawntrail expansion, the show didn’t have a ton of big names.

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From the freedom-of-speech-missing department: An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Nigeria doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation when it comes to respecting the speech rights of its own citizens, nor the rights of platforms that its citizens use. But I will admit that even with that reputation in place, I'm a bit at a loss as to why the country decided to arrest and charge a woman for violating those same laws because she wrote an unkind review of a can of tomato puree on Facebook: "A Nigerian woman who wrote an online review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused her of making a 'malicious allegation' that damaged its business. Chioma Okoli, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from Lagos, is being prosecuted and sued in civil court for allegedly breaching the country's cybercrime laws, in a case that has gripped the West African nation and sparked protests by locals who believe she is being persecuted for exercising her right to free speech."

By now you're wondering what actually happened here. Well, Okoli got on Facebook after having tried a can of Nagiko Tomato Mix, made by local Nigerian company Erisco Foods. Her initial post essentially complained about it being too sugary. So pretty standard fair for a review-type post on Facebook. When she started getting some mixed replies, some of them told her to stop trying to ruin the company and just buy something else, with one such message supposedly coming from a relative of the company's ownership. To that, she replied: "Okoli responded: 'Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it's pure sugar.'"

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Posted by Moises Taveras from Kotaku
I’m filling in some gaps in my RPG history. I’ve been playing series like Final Fantasy since I was a kid, but there are countless other landmark RPGs I’ve rarely touched, including the fantasy RPG Mana series, which splintered off of Final Fantasy Adventure in 1991. The only installment in the long-running franchise…

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