Month: September 2023

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The New York City Police Department said it will use drones to check out backyard parties when neighbors call to complain about large crowds this weekend.

"The drones are going to be responding to non-priority calls and priority calls," NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said at a press conference yesterday. "For example, if we have any 311 calls on our non-emergency line where if a caller states there's a large crowd, a large party in the backyard, we're going to be utilizing our assets to go up, to go check on the party, to make sure if the call is founded or not, and we'll be able to determine how many resources we need to send to that location for this weekend. So we will have our drone teams out there starting tonight, all the way into Monday morning."

Daughtry spoke near the end of a press conference (see video) about safety and security measures for J'Ouvert, a "traditional street festival honoring the vast heritage and culture of the Caribbean diaspora," and the West Indian Day Parade.

Enlarge / Hopefully the use of Unreal will help prevent major glitches like this, which showed up in the console edition of Cyberpunk 2077 around its 2020 launch. (credit: CDPR / @MrDelabee Twitter)

Developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed that there will be no more DLC content made for 2020's Cyberpunk 2077 after this month's release of "Phantom Liberty." But that decision is being driven less by analysis of player interest or sales potential and more by behind-the-scenes changes in the studio's development pipeline.

“It’s a technological decision to be honest,” CDPR Senior VP of Business Development Michal Nowakowski said in a recent Q&A session (as transcribed by Video Games Chronicle). "This is the last time we’re working on the Red Engine for the time being at least, and in the foreseeable future as you know we are working on the Unreal Engine from Epic. This was one of the key reasons why we decided this was the only one."

"This is the only expansion of the game, and it has nothing to do with the numbers and how satisfied or not we are with sales or anything of the kind," Nowakowski added.