Month: December 2022

Elden Ring opens up its colosseums to multiplayer brawls in free DLC

The free download, out Dec. 7, takes new PvP modes into battle-ready arenas.

Elden Ring chaaracters leaping at each other in battle

Enlarge / Let's put aside the Greater Will and Golden Order for a moment and absolutely clobber one another. (credit: Bandai Namco)

Elden Ring's map is huge and feature-packed, but it has a trio of notable colosseum-sized holes in it. As of tomorrow, those holes will be filled with a free multiplayer-focused DLC, aptly named "Colosseum Update."

The colosseums of the Lands Between have long been considered the most likely site of duel-centered DLC, as they are large, locked off to (non-modded) players, hinted at in the game lore, and the subject of some intriguing file names and alternate assets and textures. With the December 7 update, the sites in Limgrave, Leyndell, and Caelid will offer "duels, free-for-alls, and team fights," publisher Bandai Namco announced today.

The Colosseum Update trailer from <em>Elden Ring</em> publisher Bandai Namco.

The trailer says that version 1.08 will let players "join forces to fight for the Elden Ring" and shows three player characters—two of them shaded the light red typical of multiplayer summons and invasions—wandering the landscape, fighting a dragon, and finally opening the doors to a long-locked colosseum. "Then battle for glory in new PvP modes," the trailer reads, before showing battle scenes between two players, players plus their Spirit Ash summons, and then a three-on-three melee.

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Xiaomi Note is a 10.3 inch E Ink tablet with pen support

Xiaomi has been making eBook readers with E Ink displays for a few years, but now the company is throwing its hat into the growing ePaper tablet space with the launch of the Xiaomi Note. It’s a 10.3 inch Android 11 tablet with a black and white …

Xiaomi has been making eBook readers with E Ink displays for a few years, but now the company is throwing its hat into the growing ePaper tablet space with the launch of the Xiaomi Note. It’s a 10.3 inch Android 11 tablet with a black and white E Ink display, a 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 […]

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Xiaomi Note is a 10.3 inch E Ink tablet with pen support

Xiaomi has been making eBook readers with E Ink displays for a few years, but now the company is throwing its hat into the growing ePaper tablet space with the launch of the Xiaomi Note. It’s a 10.3 inch Android 11 tablet with a black and white …

Xiaomi has been making eBook readers with E Ink displays for a few years, but now the company is throwing its hat into the growing ePaper tablet space with the launch of the Xiaomi Note. It’s a 10.3 inch Android 11 tablet with a black and white E Ink display, a 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 […]

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Open Source: Gimp läuft auf Apple Silicon

Mit Gimp läuft nun auch eine der bekanntesten und ältesten Open-Source-Apps auf Apples M-Series – zwei Jahre nach der Hardware-Veröffentlichung. (Gimp, Grafiksoftware)

Mit Gimp läuft nun auch eine der bekanntesten und ältesten Open-Source-Apps auf Apples M-Series - zwei Jahre nach der Hardware-Veröffentlichung. (Gimp, Grafiksoftware)

Die Linke am Rand der Spaltung: Welche Chancen hätten zwei neue Parteien?

Einer “Wagenknecht-Partei” werden in Umfragen gute Chancen eingeräumt. Auch die “Progressiven” wären dank enttäuschter Grünen-Wähler nicht chancenlos. Aber es gibt mehr als zwei Strömungen.

Einer "Wagenknecht-Partei" werden in Umfragen gute Chancen eingeräumt. Auch die "Progressiven" wären dank enttäuschter Grünen-Wähler nicht chancenlos. Aber es gibt mehr als zwei Strömungen.

After lunar flyby, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is set to splash down on Sunday

NASA is now three weeks into a 25.5-day test flight of the Orion spacecraft.

Orion, the Moon, and a crescent Earth on Monday.

Enlarge / Orion, the Moon, and a crescent Earth on Monday. (credit: NASA)

The Orion spacecraft swung by the Moon on Monday, flying to within 130 km of that world's surface as it set course for a return to Earth this weekend.

In making this "powered flyby burn" to move away from the Moon, Orion's service module performed its longest main engine firing to date, lasting 3 minutes and 27 seconds. After successful completion of the maneuver, NASA's mission management team gave the "go" to send recovery teams out into the Pacific Ocean, where Orion is due to splashdown on Sunday, during the middle of the day.

By getting into an orbit around the Moon, and back out of it again during its deep space mission, Orion has now completed four main propulsive burns. This completes a big test of the spacecraft and its propulsive service module, which was built by the European Space Agency. Although a boilerplate version of Orion made a flight in 2014, it did so without a service module.

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