There are wad of horror movies themed around psychiatric hospital — be they fully functional facilities , likeA Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3 : Dream Warriors , orabandoned , likeSession 9 . Regular medical hospitals do n’t pop up nearly as often — but as these 10 films show , leaning into what ’s already an unsettling air can be enormously effective . Daily Newsletter Get the respectable tech , scientific discipline , and culture news in your inbox day by day ....

This took four days! What goes into creating a character’s highlight intro forOverwatch? Far more than you might imagine. This annotated video from Blizzard senior animatorDavid Gibsonshrinks about four days worth of animation work in Autodesk Maya down to a digestible four-minute recap. “Animating Mei’s face takes the most time because of all the fine detail,” he notes, “but it’s the most fun.” According to Gibson, “This video was originally made and presented as part of the Overwatch Exhibit in Blizzard’s Irvine Museum....

Activision hasannounced on its blogtoday that it is forming Elsewhere Entertainment, a new studio that will focus on a new narrative-based “genre-defining” AAA franchise. We don’t know what that franchise will be, nor what genre it will be defining, but we do know it will be headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. Activision states that the developer will be “built from the ground up” and will establish “an environment that inspires bold and diverse ideas....

AI can flap the world ’s best atchess , Go , Jeopardy ! , and now , six - player no - terminus ad quem Texas hold ‘em fire hook – showing it ’s well on runway to become our almighty overlord in the not - so - aloof future . computer programmer have developed a computerized poker wizard that has successfully defeated Darren Elias ( who control the most World Poker Tour title ) , Chris " Jesus " Ferguson ( winner of six World Series of Poker events ) , and 13 pro who , between them , have won over $ 1 million from the plot ....

Beer and brick have both been essential to humanity for thousands of years , dual column that helped us build the societies we know today . Now , scientists have combine them , fortify brick with grains will over from brewery to create brick that keep a construction best insulated . Turns out beer really can keep you strong on a cold day . enquiry engineer foundthat bricks made with 5 % spend brewing grains were nearly 30 % better insulators , and just as strong as traditional brick ....

Cobra Electronicshas expandedits lineof radio detection and ranging detector with the world ’s first touchscreen models , which will let you know of forthcoming radar andspeed cameras . They ’ve also got the first manikin for under $ 200 , which unfortch is n’t touchscreen . https://gizmodo.com/cobra-brings-radar-detectors-to-the-21st-century-with-o-341127 The two touch screen model , theXRS 9970GandXRS 9965have 1.5 - column inch colour interface . The former also solve with Cobra ’s AURA television camera Driving Hazard Database and has IntelliView Pro which displays a lifelike alert with the speed you ’re traveling at ....

Test your videogame music knowledge and walk away with a free game [Update:Contest over!Here’s the link to the answers; were you one of the lucky winners?] In the mood for some good old (and not so old) games on the cheap?GOG.comis holding a pretty awesome 50% off promotion forits 41-game Ubisoft catalogthis weekend, which includes titles likeAssassin’s Creed: Director’s Cut,Far Cry 1and2, theHeroes of Might and Magicgames,Rayman,Splinter Cell, and more. I’m thinking of picking up the originalRainbox Sixto see if I can’t rekindle those tense weekend nights spent guiding Ding Chavez through terrorist hell during my high school years....

Denmark is already one of the gullible countries in the world , thanks to its offshore wind farm , and now its climate minister has made a dramatic hope . The nation will stop burning coal for vitality in ten years . Photo viaVattenfall Because Denmark already has a moderately robust alternate energy substructure , this architectural plan might actually pan out . It ’s surely a bold move , and a right way to raise the streak for other state that are making the electrical switch to clean fuels ....

The Federal Election Commission has found that Twitter did n’t break any kind of election law when it blocked people from posting links to a New York Post write up filledwith dubious claimsaboutHunter Biden ’s laptop . In October 2020 , shortly before the federal elections in November , Twitter prevented user from postinglinks to the Post’sholes - filledstory and suspended the paper ’s account outright , mention its policy against the firing of information obtained via hacking ....

Latest marketing campaign terminated after two hours It seems controversy andHitman: Absolutionare destined are go hand-in-hand. Square Enix drew fire earlier this year for a trailer in which Agent 47beat the crap out of fetishized nuns, and wascriticized incredibly harshlyupon release by UK reviewers (scroll down that link). Time for round three! Not content to piss off half the gaming community with one awkward marketing stunt, Square Enix tried again withits “Hire Hitman” campaign— a site that let you send death threats via Facebook to your friends … or people whoaren’tyour friends, but you’d like to really screw with....

The Monolith AR416 is a wonderful assault rifle that can do immense damage to all forms of enemies, and you can obtain it if you’ve purchased the Digital/Ultimate Edition ofStalker 2. The bonus content includes special suits and weapons spread all over The Zone. To gather them, you’ll have to solve a side mission to uncover the Journalist Stashes. Once discovered, you’ll be able to find this assault rifle and much more by simply exploring the different regions inside The Zone....

In 2014 , the same yr thatSilicon Valleymade its first appearance , Todd Silverstein was in the thick of having Vizify — the Portland , Oregon - base data visual image startup he founded — acquired by Yahoo ! , who he then worked for for a while before make his room to Tumblr . If you had ask Silverstein at the time where he visualize his career might take him over the next few year , he probably would n’t have predicted that he ’d be sitting in the writers ’ elbow room of one of HBO ’s most successful funny series ....

Sup Holmes every Sunday at 4pm EST! [Sup Holmes is a weekly talk show for people that make great videogames. It airs live every Sunday at 4pm EST onYouTube, and can be found in Podcast form onLibsynandiTunes.] A few Sunday’s ago on Sup Holmes, we welcomed game developer, design professor, andCastlevania 2defender Thais Weiller to the program. Thais is the first game developer I’ve spoken to who has just as much experience with the Amazon jungle as she does the game publisher and online storefront of the same name....