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The Future of Elite Dangerous: The Great In-Game Debate
MDRs IronJaguar and SoapyKnight joined me in an unarranged VoiceComms chat session this evening to discuss wing options.
Or so I thought. Suddenly, we were talking about VR gaming and the collective disappointment with how long new features were taking to be rolled into the Elite: Dangerous universe. As a software developer myself, I’m acutely familiar with how it’s produced. Prior experience with the world’s largest software production company, Microsoft, has helped that education and acquaint me with the most modern practices involved with the full software development lifecycle. I thought I’d bring this view to a pair of gaming consumers; one from New York and another a fellow Canadian who lives relatively close, geographically (which is not a given in the world’s second-largest country). CMDR IronJaguar, in particular, laid the heaviest expectations on Frontier (the producer of the Elite game series). Could he be convinced to be more understanding of the issues involved in producing Elite: Dangerous? And what about Frontier’s competitors? Where is Star Citizen? What about EndSpace and From Other Suns? Could they pose a threat to Elite’s dominance in the VR flight sim market at some point?
Watch today’s gaming session here to find out!
The Birds Strike Back….
r perhaps “The Pork Strikes Back” would be a better title. But whatever you call it, what self-(dis)respecting parody to Star Wars could you have without a sequel even more hilarious than the one before it? In that spirit, here’s hoping the following brings a bit of Christmas cheer thanks to folks at Rovio:
On Joining the “Pork Side”…
n celebration of the Christmas shopping season, might I share with you fine folks something I found especially entertaining this year under the heading of “game software” for the Android, iPhone and PC (which still seems to have some of the gaming audience despite devices taking over everything last year): Angry Birds.
Reminds one of the forthcoming epic movies finishing off the 9-movie Star Wars saga, now projected to open in last 2015. But next year promises to be another blockbuster for the Star Wars franchise leading up to this next watershed event (simply titled “Episode VII” at the moment. Stay tuned for more info about all that and more here!
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InfoQ Articles (Software Architecture)
- Java 1.0 Turns 25 23-Jan-21 10:00 am ESTOn January 23rd, 1996, Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Java 1.0, an object oriented, platform neutral programming language. The fact that it was released as a freely available language and compiler for multiple platforms, coupled with its embedding in popular web browsers of the time, spring boarded Java to the world. InfoQ looks back at Java […]
- Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: GCP Outpaces Azure and AWS 23-Jan-21 08:03 am ESTCockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report identifying Google Cloud Platform as the best overall provider. The 2021 Cloud Report compares AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads. By Renato Losio
- New Rust-Based JavaScript Tool Manager to Simplify CLI Management with Global Installs 23-Jan-21 01:55 am ESTVolta, a new JavaScript tool manager, recently released its first stable version. Volta installs CLI tools globally while locally storing version information. Like nvm for Node, Volta enables having multiple versions of the same tool installed, without having to worry about switching versions when switching projects. Rust-based Volta ships as a native, fast […]
- Podcast: Evan Leybourn on Responding to Uncertainty Using Business Agility 22-Jan-21 04:30 pm ESTIn this podcast recorded at the Agile Christchurch conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Evan Leybourn about the characteristics of agile organisations and how they respond to disruption. By Evan Leybourn
- Article: Java Feature Spotlight: Pattern Matching 22-Jan-21 01:00 pm ESTJava SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is limited to one kind of pattern (type patterns) and one language construct (instanceof), but this is only the first installment in a longer feature arc. By Brian Goetz
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