Month: June 2024

The creator of Elden Ring claims that he is really bad at video games

El director de Elden Ring y creador de la saga Souls ha confirmado que no es un jugador muy habilidoso y que cree que las mecánicas están ahí para algo.

Every fandom has its fair share of annoying people. But let’s not kid ourselves. Few fandoms have as many annoying fans as the From Software games fandom. Players who tell others how they should beat the games and claim that they haven’t truly beaten the game if they’ve used certain game mechanics are, ultimately, a negative part of the experience of playing these kinds of games. It’s something hard to stomach, and oftentimes, it makes the experience worse for all the other players.

There is no reason why a player shouldn’t use whatever they want in a video game. And in an interview by The Guardian with Hidetaka Miyazaki, director of Elden Ring, as well as director and CEO of From Software, it seems that he shares this impression. Especially as he does not consider himself a professional player.

Although he stated that he doesn’t enjoy playing his games once they’re complete because he finds things that bother him, he has made an exception with Elden Ring to prepare for Shadow of the Erdtree. This is quite a challenge, since Miyazaki himself admits that he’s “terrible in video games.” That’s why his strategy is to use all the tools available, literally “every help, every little detail that the game can provide and all the knowledge he has as an architect of the game.”

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Obviously, this is remarkably funny. That the creator of a video game franchise known for being tremendously difficult admits to being a very clumsy player is, to say the least, comical. Moreover, that he disproves the most toxic part of the community by affirming that he himself uses all the game’s tools without any shame at all, truly elevates it to hilarious. It makes us ask ourselves the question: Why should the rest of us be ashamed of using the tools the game gives us? Just so some strange guy on the Internet can’t judge us?

If Hidetaka Miyazaki can use the Mimic Tear, so can you. So instead of continuing to complain about the difficulty, let’s accept the obvious: Shadow of the Erdtree is designed around the idea that the player will use all the tools at their disposal. Just like Miyazaki has done. Nothing is something that was thought of afterwards. Nothing is off limits. If someone who claims to have no gaming skills can beat Elden Ring simply by using all the tools at their disposal, and on top of that, they are the creator of the game, who are we to question it?

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If you have an Amazon Fire TV, now you can also use Xbox Game Pass

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate llegará “en julio” a 25 países.

Less than 24 hours ago, we gave you details about Keystone, the Xbox console that was going to exclusively use the cloud for gaming. The project ultimately didn’t come to fruition due to development costs and the price not being appealing to the public, but also because of the widespread use of the cloud among different market gadgets. The cloud has allowed us to play from countless different locations, and now a key one is being added: Amazon Fire TV.

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Microsoft announced just hours ago that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon. The goal is to make Xbox Game Pass Ultimate available for use on all Fire TV 4K devices or Fire TV Stick 4K Max. This way, any user who has the famous Amazon “Stick” and an active Xbox Game Pass subscription will be able to play video games, thanks to the “power of the cloud”.

Continuing with the revealed information, Microsoft specified that Xbox Game Pass will arrive “starting in July” in a total of 25 different countries. “We are excited to add Fire TV to our growing family of cloud gaming devices and eager to welcome new players to this experience,” emphasizes Ashley McKissick, Corporate Vice President of Experiences at Xbox, in the text.

As you would assume, to use Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on Fire TV, you’ll also have to have a controller to play. The controller will connect via Bluetooth, although it’s important to note that it’s not specified whether the Xbox controller is the only functional one. In other words, it’s possible that the PlayStation 5 DualSense can also be used, but we’ll have to wait to confirm this.

As soon as we have more details about it, here at Softonic you will be the first to know all the information.

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One Piece confirms all these actors for the second season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation

Obviously, Netflix wants to take good care of One Piece as the golden goose it promises to be. Undoubtedly, the live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s work was a great surprise for the streaming platform, achieving the highest numbers on the platform in the second half of 2023. That’s why they are moving forward with everything they have for the second season, and now we can understand why.

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Still to be confirmed are the three most anticipated actors for the second season of One Piece, which we all know are the characters Robin, Crocodile, and Chopper, as well as others that are yet to be confirmed, like Dr. Kureha —did someone say Jamie Lee Curtis? Netflix has already announced several supporting characters that we’ll see in the new season. Undoubtedly, the cast is very promising.

In the absence of the Crocodile, his henchmen are great

The first names that have been announced are Clive Russell as Crocus, Werner Coestser as Dorry, and Brendan Murray as Brogy. This confirms something that was already suspected: that we’ll see the small story arc of the twin capes and also the story of Little Garden, where we’ll meet these two giants who will accompany the Straw Hat Crew for a long time.

In addition, several even more important names have also been confirmed. Finally, we know who will be Marine Smoker: Callum Kerr. Alongside him, Julia Rehwald as Tashigi, Rob Colletti as Wapol, and Ty Keogh as Dalton have been confirmed. In other words, we will see the entire Drum Island story arc and the Smoker plot.

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But hey! there’s more. As I was saying, Crocodile seems to be emerging as the final villain of this second season, and although we still don’t know who will play him, his Baroque Works henchmen have already been announced. David Dastmalchian, an actor who is very popular thanks to the movie Late Night with the Devil, will be Mr.3. Miss Valentine will be played by Jazzara Jasslyn, Mr. 5 by Camrus Johnson, and Mr. 9 by Daniel Lasker.

The use of artificial intelligence has consequences in DC Comics too

Y a muy pocos les está gustando (e incluso haciendo ilusión, por algún motivo) que deje sin trabajo a gente realmente creativa. Por el camino, la IA ha salpicado a Pokémon, Dungeons & Dragons e incluso a los cómics de DC.

Artificial intelligence has directly impacted creative jobs. And it is evident: some governments have adopted it as part of their daily lives to avoid paying artists for institutional advertising, we have read apology letters written with ChatGPT, and even some video games are considering incorporating it into everyday life as something inevitable. However, the public has reacted.

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Not over here

Since OpenAI, they believed it was going to be a piece of cake: A machine gives a drawing, a worker digitally touches up the mistakes, and voila. However, they didn’t count on the fact that the public is much smarter than they seem and can spot the AI from miles away. And very few people are pleased (and even stirring up excitement, for some reason) that it’s taking away jobs from truly creative people. Along the way, AI has affected Pokémon, Dungeons & Dragons, and even DC Comics.

Although the publisher has been strongly against art made by an AI, there are artists who have preferred to save themselves the work of thinking about a plan and drawing it by asking the machine of the moment. In May, AI influence was caught in a few panels that basically shamelessly plagiarized (the usual modus operandi, you know), yet in June it happened again.

The artist in this case was Francesco Mattina, who, among others, illustrated the 2017 series ‘Darth Vader: Dark Lord’ and who will now be known as “the one with the covers”. And the fact is that several of the alternative covers he has made for various DC comics (‘Superman’ and ‘The Brave and the Bold’, among others) had AI errors even in such mythical things as the Superman logo on his chest.

Mattina already had a long record of plagiarism, and DC has withdrawn not just these covers from future circulation, but they’ve also banned him from working with them again. Despite insisting that artificial intelligence is the future, it sometimes seems to be the present. Specifically, a present filled with layoffs and long faces.

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It’s confirmed in what time period and universe the Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four movie will be set

The Marvel Studios Cinematic Universe has been in a slump for a while, but in 2025 it promises to come back strong, and the stakes are high with titles like Captain America 4: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, Blade, and The Fantastic Four. Regarding the latter, scheduled for May 2, 2025, we already know the complete cast and we’ve seen some promotional images. But there are still many details to confirm, and now we know some more.

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In The Official Marvel Podcast, Kevin Feige talked about the movie and clarified some details about the film’s production that were already becoming known to the public. Among other details, we now know in what time period and universe this new adaptation of The Fantastic Four will be set.

The New York of the 60s… but not the one we know

Feige explained: “There was an artwork we released with Johnny Storm flying in the air, forming the shape of a ‘4’, and there was an urban landscape in the corner of that image. Many smart people noticed that this landscape didn’t exactly resemble the New York we know, or the New York that existed in the 60s in our world. I will say that these are smart observations.”

With these words, Kevin Feige makes two things clear. First, that the movie will be set in the 60s. And second, that it’s not the New York we all know; that is, it will be set in another universe. Adding to our understanding, actor Joseph Quinn also provided some details in an interview for Entertainment Weekly:

“We want to do it right with the Fantastic Four story. There are aspects that are very different from other Marvel movies. It was very appealing to me. And again, going back to who is involved, Matt [Shakman], of course, the director, I think he is brilliant, and the cast, and the script is brilliant. It’s really brilliant. I’m delighted to have this opportunity. Superhero movies are movies about people. And if we are interested in people and characters and danger and spectacle, then that’s why people go to the movies to watch films.”

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Season 3 of The Bear is full of cameos: meet them all

The Bear is a series that is becoming a delight for cooking fans. It’s already aired three seasons without slowing down, featuring Jeremy Allen White in the lead role and attracting more and more viewers thanks to the show’s crazy rhythm. But now things are getting even better, and in the third season, they’ve brought in all kinds of cameos. But who exactly do we see in the latest episodes of The Bear?

All the cameos in The Bear – Season 3

Below, we present you the cameos who will appear in The Bear, divided by episodes:

  • Episode 1: Will Poulter (repeats in episode 10), Olivia Colman (repeats in episode 10), Jon Bernthal (repeats in episode 6), Gillian Jacobs (repeats in episode 9), John Mulaney, Joel McHale (repeats in episode 10), David Zayas (repeats in episode 6).
  • Episode 4: Josh Hartnett.
  • Episode 5: John Cena.
  • Episode 8: Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Shigeru Miyamoto is now ready to pass on the inevitable generational torch of Nintendo

At 71 years old, Miyamoto knows it’s time to start making way for a new generation. It’s not that he has any intention of retiring soon, but it is inevitable.

Year 1977. A young man named Shigeru Miyamoto with dreams of becoming a mangaka meets with Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of the toy and arcade company Nintendo, in the planning department. Two years later, the first game with his imprint, ‘Sheriff’, appeared, for which he did the art. No one imagined that more than 45 years later he would be a living legend of video games.

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Your princess is in another castle

If you don’t know him (how is that possible?), it’s enough to say that ‘Super Mario Bros’, ‘The Legend of Zelda’, ‘Donkey Kong’, ‘F-Zero’ or ‘Pikmin’, among many others, have come out of his head. But at 71 years old, Miyamoto knows that it’s time to start making way for a new generation. It’s not that he has any intention of retiring soon, but it’s inevitable.

“I consider that the generational change is progressing smoothly. We have young and brilliant developers”, he stated. In fact, it is the first time he acknowledges that the majority of practical development is in the hands of new teams, which does not mean he is out of the processes. In fact, he is fully involved in, for example, the adaptation of ‘Pikmin’ to mobile, ‘Pikmin Bloom’.

In fact, for example, Miyamoto did not direct ‘Super Mario Bros Wonder’, which was handed over to Shiro Mouri, nor ‘Super Mario Odyssey’, by Kenta Motokura. In fact, in both projects he gave the team total freedom by passing them the torch of the character. The last game directed by Miyamoto was ‘Super Mario Run’, and since then he has dedicated himself only to producing wonders like ‘Tears of the kingdom’ or ‘Pikmin 4’. We knew this moment would come, but it’s always too soon.

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Flight Risk: the trailer for the new action thriller directed by Mel Gibson arrives

Mel Gibson is one of the biggest names in 21st century Hollywood, having directed films such as The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, and Braveheart. After several controversies, the director had to retire from the studio’s top ranks, although a few years ago he returned with a lower profile in films as eye-catching as Hacksaw Ridge.

Now, the director has just returned with a somewhat small but promising film: Flight Risk. Starring Mark Wahlberg, the film will hit theaters on October 18th. Its trailer has just been released and it certainly couldn’t be more spectacular:

A classic thriller with all the style of Mel Gibson

In Flight Risk, a pilot (Wahlberg) transports a lieutenant general (Michelle Dockery) who is accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to his trial. Once in the air, tensions rise and trust is at stake. This tension may arise from the fact that not everyone on board the plane is who they claim to be.

Repairing an iPhone battery will be easier thanks to electricity

Apple is developing a new technology to facilitate battery replacement in iPhones, according to The Information. This initiative arises in response to the imminent legislation of the European Union that could require companies to make device batteries more accessible and replaceable by the user.

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A new fastening system that eliminates glue

As far as we know, Apple is exploring the use of an “electrically induced adhesive detachment” technology for battery replacements. Currently, the process of replacing an iPhone battery requires the use of tweezers to remove the existing battery, which is attached with adhesive strips. Then, the strips must be replaced with new ones and the new battery must be glued in place.

The new technology promises to significantly simplify this procedure. Apple plans to use metal to coat the new batteries, which would allow us to remove it from the chassis by applying a small electrical discharge to the battery.

Making the battery of all our devices accessible has several drawbacks. It has implications on the device’s resistance to dust and water or the ease of turning off a lost phone to prevent it from being located, something that is currently not possible since the battery continues to power location services even when the phone is turned off—there are many questions.

Being able to replace the battery easily is indeed interesting, but the compromises in day-to-day life, even in reducing its capacity in exchange for a thicker coating that is safer for the user, do not necessarily compensate for this convenience.

That being said, the simplification of the replacement, whether it is done at an Apple Store or an authorized Apple provider, is really interesting. Today’s information coincides with what was published in May by Ming-Chi Kuo, who reported that the battery of the iPhone 16 Pro will have a metal casing for the first time.

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Thus, it could reach only a few iPhones in 2024 and expand to the rest of the range in 2025. For now, we will have to see how the regulations evolve, if they come into effect, and how Apple develops this new technology.

Recording your Steam and Steamdeck games is now possible: here’s how it’s done

Recording your PC games will be much easier thanks to Steam’s new feature, Game Recording. With it, we will be able to record and share any gameplay sequence from our Steam library.

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Although it is still in testing phase, players will be able to use this feature to record any clip of what they are playing. Additionally, you will also be able to edit them and do whatever you want with them, such as uploading them to social media.

We will have two recording modes to choose from: Background Recording and Manual Recording. According to Steam itself, in the first one “Steam will start recording video automatically when you start playing […] The last 120 minutes of video will be saved so you can play them back or save them as clips”.

If you choose Record manually, “Steam will only start recording when you press Ctrl + F11. All recordings are automatically saved as clips”. You can also stay as before and not record anything, something you can do simply by disabling the option.

To ensure your privacy, Steam only records your gameplay, not your desktop. You will be able to select the audio channels that will be captured and then, all clips will be saved locally.

This option is available in both the desktop version of Steam and Steamdeck, as long as you are running the beta version of Steam. To access it, go to Settings, then Interface, and finally Participation in the client beta. To configure the recordings, select Settings again and then Game recording.

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