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The best games, demos, and tech of E3 2019

And, yes, every entry in our preview-filled list came from real-time gameplay.

C'mon, how can you deny Keanu? (credit: Xbox / Microsoft)

LOS ANGELES—There's no getting around it: Walking through the Los Angeles Convention Center for 2019's Electronic Entertainment Expo felt weird. This year's new Sony-sized hole compounded the fact that Xbox and EA held events elsewhere (and Activision, once again, didn't really show up).

As a result, this year's E3 was the most thinly attended iteration we've seen in years—but that was by no means the fault of the games on offer. We left E3 2019 impressed by a variety of games old and new. While we're still working through a backlog of hands-on impressions, the Ars gaming braintrust is already ready to name its favorite games of the show—all of which were games shown with real, live gameplay. Admittedly, narrow preview builds mean devs could still be fooling us with some smoke and mirrors—this is E3, land of unfinished games—but all of the below demos presented well enough at E3 to pass our sniff test for hype and BS.

Here, for your consideration, is our unranked list of the Top 10 games of E3 2019, along with a selection of honorable mentions.

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MySQL-Fork: MariaDB veröffentlicht Enterprise Server

Das Unternehmen MariaDB hat mit dem Enterprise Server 10.4 die erste Version seines Datenbankservers speziell für Großkunden veröffentlicht. Der Server soll mehr Sicherheit und zusätzliche Funktionen bieten. (MariaDB, MySQL)

Wikileaks: Entscheidung über Assanges Auslieferung nicht vor 2020

Die britische Justiz entscheidet erst 2020 über die Auslieferung von Julian Assange an die USA. Ein Datum für die mehrtägige Anhörung steht bereits fest. Assanges Verteidiger spricht von einem “Angriff auf die journalistischen Rechte”. (Julian Assange,…

Die britische Justiz entscheidet erst 2020 über die Auslieferung von Julian Assange an die USA. Ein Datum für die mehrtägige Anhörung steht bereits fest. Assanges Verteidiger spricht von einem "Angriff auf die journalistischen Rechte". (Julian Assange, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Sky Streaming Service Uses ‘Pirate’ Subtitles on Chernobyl Episode

The Swiss streaming platform of Comcast-owned broadcaster Sky is using fan-made subtitles on the final episode of the hit-series Chernobyl. The subtitles are credited to Addic7ed.com, a community that’s been branded a ‘pirate’ site by many major copyright holders.

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Every day, millions of people enjoy fan-made subtitles.

These files help foreigners to better understand English entertainment and provide the hearing impaired with a way to comprehend audio.

The subtitles are often used in combination with pirated files. While helpful to many, they are a thorn in the side for major copyright holders, who see them as yet another threat to their business.

As a result, fansub communities are increasingly portrayed as illegal operations. Several sites are now blocked by ISPs and site operators have been taken to court following copyright infringement allegations.

Given this backdrop, it’s quite unusual to see one of the largest entertainment industry brands using these ‘pirate’ subtitles on its official streaming service. This is exactly what Comcast-owned Sky Switzerland is doing at the moment.

Subscribers of the local Sky platform who watch the last episode of the hit series Chernobyl, with English subtitles enabled, see the following message appearing around the five-minute mark.

“- Synced and corrected by VitoSilans – www.Addic7ed.com.”

The message is part of the credits that are typically added to fan-made subtitles. In this case, it clearly indicates that they were sourced from Addic7ed.com, a well-known resource for these type of subtitles and one that is blocked by ISPs in Australia.

Looking more closely at the official video and the Addic7ed subtitles, we see that the timing doesn’t match. This suggests that the subtitle has been synced separately to fit the Sky video. However, the opening ‘credits’ were not removed.

Also, these subs generally have a closing credit too. These are not visible during the episode on Sky.ch.

The Addic7ed team tells us that it doesn’t mind seeing their subs being used by major entertainment conglomerates. It has happened before and as long as it helps people to enjoy a movie or TV-show, everybody benefits.

“When we started the project we wished that content would be available to a larger audience by breaking the language barrier or providing English subtitles for hearing impaired people, which would otherwise not enjoy videos as much. If this means that others take our work, so be it,” Addic7ed informs TF.

“Professionals or not, our main objective was reached: more people enjoyed the show. Kudos to Sky for keeping the credits.”

Sky Switzerland hasn’t responded to our request for comment at the time of publication. Whether the Addic7ed credit was left in intentionally is highly doubtful though. It seems more likely that someone forgot to remove it.

In any case, the mention hasn’t gone unnoticed either. At least one person has alerted Sky via Twitter, but the company didn’t respond there either.

Interestingly, this is not the first time ‘pirate’ subtitles have been used on a streaming service. In the past, Netflix was caught using “unauthorized” fansubs as well. In addition, American anime distributor Funimation previously used ‘pirate’ subs in their dubbing room.

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Firefox: Mozilla will Erweiterungen zum Finden glaubwürdiger Inhalte

Statt gegen Falschinformationen und “toxische” Inhalte vorzugehen, sucht Mozilla nach Technik für den Firefox-Browser, die “glaubwürdige und qualitativ hochwertige Inhalte” findet und für Nutzer aufbereitet. (Mozilla, Firefox)

Statt gegen Falschinformationen und "toxische" Inhalte vorzugehen, sucht Mozilla nach Technik für den Firefox-Browser, die "glaubwürdige und qualitativ hochwertige Inhalte" findet und für Nutzer aufbereitet. (Mozilla, Firefox)

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HBO’s Los Espookys will make you want to be a horror technician, too

“We’re going to need a 3×2 room, a nightgown, a possessed girl… and tons of dried ice.”

At the 2019 ATX TV Festival, HBO premiered new comedy Los Espookys then let Drunk History's Derek Waters ask the cast and head writers questions. [credit: Nathan Mattise ]

AUSTIN, Tex.—"When was the last time you ever saw a show like that?" Drunk History's Derek Waters asked the crowd after a world premiere screening at last week's ATX TV Festival. "I'm honored to moderate this panel because what you just saw is groundbreaking."

To be clear, "never" might be the answer to Waters' question. And this panel did not center on Drunk History; it didn't even feature another Comedy Central show. Instead, the host sat onstage alongside an all-Latinx main cast and head-writers group from what might be HBO's next great comedy: a half-hour, Spanish-language, horror-adjacent series debuting tonight (11pm ET) called Los Espookys.

Horror how-to

At the most basic-level, Los Espookys follows four friends who form a business in an undisclosed Latin American country where occasional supernatural occurrences are an unacknowledged, normal part of daily life. After the friends successfully execute a spooky-themed Quinceañera for one of their younger sisters, wise Uncle Tico (Fred Armisen of SNL, Portlandia) offhandedly says their work looks so good, so full of passion that they should pursue it as a side hustle. (Wise Uncle Tico would know; he works as a valet.)

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Ocean Discovery X Prize: Autonome Fraunhofer-Roboter erforschen die Tiefsee

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