Netflix’s latest livestreamed boxing match will take place on September 19th at the Las Vegas Sphere.
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At the end of a long and personal blog post to mark the occasion of Balatro’s second birthday, LocalThunk confirmed that the 1.1 update, which was delayed from a planned 2025 release, is still in the works. I’m looking forward to it, but in the near term, Slay the Spire II will help pass the time.
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The multiplayer title, which will shut down on April 9th, reportedly struggled to find players, and developer Glowmade recently laid off staff.
It’s yet another change for Amazon’s gaming efforts, which include ditching MMOs and offloading a MOBA to Ubisoft.
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The LHC will enter a four-year “intensive work period” to “transform the LHC into the [High-Luminosity] LHC,” according to The European Organization for Nuclear Research (aka CERN).
The upgraded accelerator will “increase by a factor of ten the number of particle collisions (called ‘luminosity’), vastly increasing the volume of physics data available for researchers.”
The very good Ball x Pit is coming to iOS and Android on March 12th.
Among other things, Marathon will have dedicated servers, a “Fog of War” that “limits the regions of a map that individual player clients have knowledge of,” and a rebuilt game security stack, Bungie says in a new blog post.
Cheaters will also be permabanned with “no second chances,” which is different from Arc Raiders’ three-strike policy.
[Bungie]
