For many of the white-collar professionals among us, the message notification sound from Slack, the Discord-before-there-was-a-Discord work-chat platform, is a source of stomach-churning dread. A fun little book calledSeveral People Are Typingtakes this feeling up a notch, with body possession, creepypasta Excel files, a missing persons case, and an avalanche of emojis. Where WFH meets WTF—reads the blurb for Calvin Kasulke’s debut novel, or it would perhaps be more precise to call it his introductory collection of chat logs for the literary world....

EA Sports is bringing just one game to the PlayStation Vita launch party, but it looks as if that title will be one of the stars of the show. I playedFIFA Soccerback in mid-October, and came away feeling like EA Canada has actually translated the console experience to the Vita. The publisher released a trailer today that highlights the game’s Vita-specific features. In addition to the touchscreen passing and touchpad shooting that I played with, it appears you’ll also be able to use the touchscreen for switching players on defense and free kicks on offense....

August 1914 should have been the superlative of Marie Curie ’s vocation . After all , she haddiscoveredtwo element , open up the skill of radioactivity , snag not one but two Nobel Prizes , and was on the precipice of open a groundbreaking institute for the study of radium in her embrace hometown of Paris . But the twentieth 100 was not tolerant to Marie , who was born on this mean solar day 150 years ago ....

A unexampled service calledPrintingFacebookwill put your friends ’ profile flick — every last one of them — on a eminent - quality , 20″ x 40″ placard for just $ 20 . Throw a dart at it to decide which smoldering friendship to rekindle first ! $ 20 is not that much money . It ’s like the cost of a declamatory pizza pie , or one goddamn film ticket here in New York City ....

iPhone 3 G Campers . Devoted fan or masochistic screwballs ? We do n’t have the answer , but we do n’t have enough evidence yet . That ’s where you amount in . We require you to get off in word picture of the first person in argumentation at Apple stores and cellphone stores around the creation so we can see just what variety of testicular fortitude it take to sit in the cold for two days just for a headphone ....

Company to reaffirm its place in the fighting scene as well Taking part in a massive group interview, over at4gamer, a few of Capcom’s lead developers have shed some light on what’ in stow for the Japanese company in the new year. While many of the announcements were merely teases of what’t to come,Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destiniesdirector Takeshi Yamazaki did confirm that his team has begun work on the next title in the series....

It can’t come soon enough since there’s nothing to do [Update:The trailer is live.] Destinyhas been lagging quite a bit lately. With no new content for the past few months, players in my group (myself included) have been quitting left and right. Thankfully we’re about to get an injection in the form of the second expansion next month. Activision has announced thatHouse of Wolveswill debut on May 19. The publisher sent us over a trailer, but it is currently not live yet — when asked, we were told that it would go live at 1PM EST today....

Make America Game Again It started with a simple question by Jed in our group chat. “Can Destructoid officially endorse a candidate for president?” We kicked it around for a while and decided that while we couldn’t agree on a single candidate we’d all like to endorse, each of us had thoughts on someone we’d like to see ascend to the presidency. Since Jed broached the subject, it’s only fair that he get to answer first....

David Tennant could incur a record - breaking £ 1.3 million to stay on as the star of British time - travel action mechanism - max Doctor Who . Not only that , but the BBC may offer him some other incentive , like plum tree roles in some of its other drama . “ Everybody assumes David is quit , but that ’s not the causa , ” a BBC source told Scotsman newsworthiness ....

Up until this week , those flex to the Google search stripe for information on drug dependency in the UK might have been served lead astray ads directing them to pricey secret clinics . But after the release ofa Sunday Times reportclaiming the tech heavyweight was making “ millions ” from rehab - related lookup advertizement , Google annunciate it has shun the ad class all in Britain . “ Substance revilement is a rise crisis and has led to deceptive practices by intermediaries that we need to better see ....

When you purchase through links on our website , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . A meteor streaked through the nighttime sky over Vermont on Sunday ( March 7 ) , creating a spectacular abstemious show and causing ground - didder booms as it burned through the atmosphere . The meteor ’s volatile passage through the atmosphere relinquish the equivalent of 440 pounds ( 200 kilograms ) of TNT , intimate that the meteor was probable 10 pounds ( 4....

The bass is finally picked up There’s a sub-community of emulation fans out there dedicated to disassembling and modifying the arcane code of yesteryear’s classics. Brad Smith, a.k.a. rainwarrior, is one such individual, who after hearing the errors in two music tracks of Nintendo’s classic island adventure,StarTropics, took it upon himself to right the coding errors that are almost as old as I am. It seems like it requires quite a bit of knowledge on how the NES processes audio and in the video he details the process he went through to isolate and correct the bugs present in each track....

First appearing in written records in the third century B.C.E. and documented by Julius Caesar himself, Druids were esteemed ancient Celts who served as teachers, judges, and priests found in Britain and Gaul. GL Archive / Alamy Stock PhotoThough once powerful Gaelic leaders , Druids for the most part disappeared when the Romans inhibit Britain and Gaul . Druids , Roman historiographer Cornelius Tacitus declare around 116 C.E. , were a violent people who covered their altars with the line of their captives and consulted their gods using human entrails ....