Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii brings back the Yakuza action with a new adventure based in Hawaii. As with its predecessors, the game has many side quests and activities, including the Photo Rally, where the players must capture pictures of specific locations across the map to complete the objectives and gather rewards.

The iconic Tomb Raider herself, Lara Croft, shoots her way into the Fortnite Battle Royale scene with a new skin from the Item Shop. Players who missed out on Lara Croft's first appearance way back in early 2021 with Chapter 2 Season 6 have another chance to add this stylistic and action-packed archaeologist to their lockers.

If you search for SoulerCoaster, you will find a multitude of names for it. It is also named Curvemesh, Splinemesh, or Swoosh.They describe a technique to visualize magic or energetic effects.The SoulerCoaster is a path mesh with an overlapping UV map.

Your GM puts up with your partys antics week after week, so why not show them a little love by checking out DriveThruRPGs GM Day sale? This sale includes plenty of core rulebooks if youre looking to get introduced to a new system like the Alien RPG, Cyberpunk RED, or Dune: Adventures in the Imperium. But you can also find a wide variety of discounted supplements and other texts if youre looking for ways to expand your favorite TTRPG, like Battletech Universe, the Colonial Marines Operations Manual, or Interface Red just to name a few.Hundreds of products from a variety of publishers are currently discounted as part of this sale, but weve pulled together a short list of core rulebooks for our favorite systems below.

Herbivore carapaces are an equipment material in Monster Hunter Wilds. Youll get them from hunting certain small monsters or as rewards for certain hunts once you reach High Rank. The Low Rank version is called an herbivore shell.Youll need herbivore carapaces for armor like the Death Stench set and the High Rank Doshaguma Mail.Our Monster Hunter Wilds guide will tell you how to get herbivore carapaces and how to collect them.How to get herbivore carapaces in Monster Hunter WildsHerbivore carapaces come from High Rank Ceratonoths. And thats it. Youve got a 70% chance of getting an herbivore carapace each time you carve a slain Ceratonoth.Ceratonoths are only found in the Windward Plains. Theyre pretty abundant, though. Head to your map and open the icon filter to find some male or female, it doesnt matter and set a waypoint for your Seikret.There arent any hunts that reward herbivore carapaces and no large monster drops them.To also help you understand Monster Hunter Wilds, we explain how to capture monsters, how to change weapons, provide some Seikret tips, and teach you how layered armor works.

We may earn a commission from links on this page.Netflix's streaming era began way back in 2007, right around the time the company had delivered its billionth DVD by mail (a copy of Babel to a woman in Texas). Thats the year when the company began development of an app that would allow you to watch video-on-demand content on your actual TV, rather than in a window on your PC via Internet Exploreror whatever the hell browser you happened to be using during the George W. Bush administration. Internet speeds and interest built and, by 2011, the company had moved fully away from its DVD-by-mail business as streaming took on a life of its own. While distribution rights for streaming content were, and remain, wildly different than for physical copies, the potential of streaming was obvious: Netflix would offer something like the breadth and depth of its DVD library, minus the "mailing things back and forth" part. There was a value proposition there, too: As cable prices skyrocketed and we were all forced to pay for endless channels that we mostly didnt watch, the promise of Netflix (and Hulu, which grew more slowly, but debuted around the same time) was irresistiblea vast library of movies to watch whenever you wantedand cheap: In 2011, you could get an all-streaming subscription for about $8 a month. That was a good deal, even during the Obama administration.Despite a few caveatsyou might've needed to bump your internet connection to a higher, pricier bandwidth, and you still needed a separate DVD subscription to watch some older movies, it seemed like the future was in sight, filled with endless possibilities.A decade and a half later, we all know that future was a lieespecially if you're a movie lover.The rise of "streaming originals"Netflixs first foray into original programming was a straight-to-series order for the Kevin Spacey-led, David Fincher-produced political thriller House of Cards, which debuted in 2013. The decision to pursue the showand to outbid every traditional cable and broadcast network for itwas almost entirely data-driven, and a harbinger for what would come: Netflix saw that viewers liked Kevin Spacey (it was a different era, obviously), and David Fincher movies! House of Cards had both.Data has always been the Holy Grail of entertainment programming, but Netflix had data that was better, more specific, and more current than any focus group could hope to provide. Gone were the days of extrapolating from surveysNetflix knew who was watching what and when with unheard-of specificity, and thus the streamers ability to give people what they want would become unprecedented. It would also lead them to focus more on developing their own proprietary series and films, rather than negotiating massive licensing deals for stuff other studios owned.And the deals were massiveNetflix would spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to fill its servers with "content." But as time went on, and other studios launched their own streaming services, chasing cash they used to make selling movies to cable, Netflix's library started to shrink, going from 11,000 titles in 2015 to just 6,000 by 2022.The golden age of streamingStill, it was hard to complain too much when those Netflix rivals seemed willing to do anything to compete. Whereas Disney once kept tight control over its library, placing films into "the Disney Vault" so it could rerelease them to theaters and on video every decade or so, the launch of Disney+ in March 2020 saw the studio offering up hundreds of its classic films at oncea treat for animation buffs and a boon to parents who no longer had to endure their kids watching the same handful of DVDs on repeat (in theory, anyway). Not to be outdone, when Warner Bros. launched what was then known as HBO Max in May 2020, it seemed like a pandemic-era gift: The studio went all-in on its massive catalogueone of the largest and most enviable in Hollywood, encompassing classic films, more recent blockbusters, beloved animation, and shows culled from its array of cable networks. Alongside big getslike securing the rights to all of the films from Japan's revered Studio Ghibli, something its cranky co-founder Hayao Miyazaki swore would never happenWarner Bros. leaned into its history, loading the service with hundreds of classics from across the decades.For a while, perusing the lists of films coming to these services every month was a delightsure, no one service offered every movie, but there was a decent chance what you wanted to watch was available somewhere, and monthly subscriptions were cheap enough that most people subscribed to a few of them. But this golden age of streaming proved to be short-lived. Shrinkflation comes for streamingEven during this period of explosive growth, streamers started to follow the Netflix model of investing more money in original content, and leaving catalogue as an afterthought. It's hard to build buzz around movies that are 50, 20, or even a decade old, after all, when you could instead promote something shiny and new.Still, the reckoning didn't truly come until 2022, when inflationary pressures, including rising interest rates, coupled with a surprising loss of subscribers, caused Netflix's stock value to crater, dropping from more than $600 to less than $200 over the course of a few months. Suddenly, every streaming service seemed concerned about the bottom lineand it seems the easiest way to cut costs, when it comes to digital offerings, is to reduce your library. Over the course of the next year, embattled entertainment companies announced plans to begin removing vast quantities of older content from their servicesoften even as they raised prices. Like spending more money for a smaller bag of chips at the grocery store, shrinkflation came for streaming too: prices rose while content libraries got smaller. Where did all those movies go?Remember the data I mentioned earlier? The downside is that the numbers apparently showed streamers that customers don't care that much about older moviesor at least, not enough about any one movie for a lack of them to move the needle when it comes to subscriptions. So why give people free access to stuff most wouldn't watch when you could instead make a little money?While some of these films have gone to ad-supported services like The Roku Channel and Tubi, watching a movie with a bunch of ad breaks is no cinephile's dream.Enter digital rentals: For five years I've been writing streaming guides for Lifehacker, suggesting movies you can watch based on your mood or to fit a particular theme. And, anecdotally but undeniably, these film lists are increasingly less about "streaming" and more about reminding you of things you can pay to rent. Whereas I used to be able to point you to a few dozen films spread across the major services, these days my recommendations tend to include a lot more rentals.Broad categories of films, usually anything more than a decade old, arent typically included with any streaming service. If you want to watch them, you're going to have to pony up around $4 for a digital rental. This holds true no matter how beloved the movie: As of this writing, the likes of Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, All About Eve, The Shining, Back to the Future, Malcolm X, and The Iron Giant are all rental-only, meaning you have to pay extra on top of whatever streaming fees youre already paying. That list of movies is entirely off the top of my headI looked them up based on my confidence that, being older than a decade or two, they would only be available for a fee.Netflix still has a classic movies section, but it's pretty anemic. While the rotation changes, the oldest movie currently in the lineup is 1957s An Affair to Remembernot ancient by classic film standards, but certainly venerable. Its tagged as Leaving Soon. Beyond that, there are but a dozen movies from the 1970s (almost all of them Bollywood classics), and a few more than that from the 1980s and 90s. Of the dozen or so 1980s movies offered, several are marked as Leaving Soon, including The Karate Kid films. (They do have a James Garner movie from 1984 that Ive never heard of called Tank, if you have a couple of hours to kill.)New content has pushed classic movies to the backIm picking on Netflix here, with its relentless focus on original content and newer releases that sees the streamer churning through shows and movies, often before they have time to register. But the picture at Hulu, Paramount+, MGM+, etc. is roughly the same, even if those others have slightly better libraries of current-ish movies. Max remains a bright spot, with a reasonably well-curated selection of movies dating back to the silent erabut even that has shrunk. The streamer used to prominently feature its association with classic-movie network TCM as its own category. Its still there, but now you have to dig. No ones tracking exact month-to-month numbers of older (meaning, sigh, the 90s or earlier) movies included in streaming, but, again, anecdotally: whenever possible, I try to recommend movies from a cross-section of streaming services. I figure its nice if any list of suggestions includes options for everyone, and I know that for me, personally, that extra rental price (on top of all the streaming fees) is a big barrierno matter how much I want to see a particular movie. And that's a lot harder than it used to be.A culture of relentless, exhausting new-ness has evolved around streaming, one in which shows and movies are considered out of date once the first-week drop window has passed. So we're left with a (very) limited selection of old movies, or we're stuck with rental fees on top of streaming charges.It's hard out there for a cinephile. The best streamers for movie fansMaxThough I still mourn the loss of HBO Max, Maxthe app that replaced itis still the mainstream streamer with the best classic film library, including a broad range of Warner Bros. stuff, from Casablanca to Goodfellas to Lord of the Rings; it includes popular favorites alongside some more artsy fare, including those Studio Ghibli films. A recent partnership with A24 films has also made it the destination of choice for the modern cinephile crowd. Cost: starting at $9.99/month with ads, or $99.99/year.The Criterion ChannelAn offshoot of boutique film distributor Janus Films, The Criterion Collection has billed itself as a purveyor of "important classic and contemporary films" for decades. The Criterion Channel streaming service is, thus, unsurprisingly the destination of choice for anyone who wants to watch movies older than the Reagan administration. It has a rotating library of a couple of thousand films, including many foreign and classic American films. You may never heard of many of them, which could be either a pro or a con, but its not all snooty art films. Last year, for example, the Channel ran a month of Razzie-nominated movies including Showgirls, Gigli, The Blair Witch Project, and even Freddy Got Fingered. Cost: $10.99/month or $99.99/year.MubiAnother boutique streamer, Mubi is similar in some ways to The Criterion Channel, but with a key difference: Since Mubi has more of a focus on its role as a distributor of newer films (including recent Oscar nominee The Substance), the catalog tends to be a bit newer, and a bit smaller, but with a steady and smartly curated rotation. Cost: $14.99/month or $119.88/year.TCM (Turner Classic Movies)TCM is the gold standard in classic film, particularly when it comes to Hollywood, and the curation is solid. TCM has introduced me to more classic films that I otherwise never might have heard of than any other service, but finding it is more complicated. Max has a limited selection of TCM-branded films but, to get the full experience, including live movies, interviews, host segments, etc., you need to either suck it up and subscribe to cable, or a rough equivalent: YouTube TV offers TCM as part of its lineup, including on-demand content, as do Hulu with Live TV and Sling TV. Sticker shock with these options is real, however. Cost: Sling TV: starts at $45.99/month, YouTube TV: starts at $82.99 per month; Hulu+Live TV starts at $82.99/month.

A pair of human rights groups are challenging the UK government's shockingly intrusive order for Apple to create a backdoor into its encrypted user data, as first reported by Financial Times. Privacy International and Liberty have filed a legal complaint with the country's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which is reportedly scheduled to hear Apple's appeal on Friday.The complaint argues that Apple's appeal to the order should be publicly heard. In addition, the groups' challenge contends that the government's move violates customers' free expression and privacy rights by forcing the company to neuter its product security."The UK's use of a secret order to undermine security for people worldwide is unacceptable and disproportionate," Caroline Wilson Palow, legal director at Privacy International, told The FT. "People the world over rely on end-to-end encryption to protect themselves from harassment and oppression. No country should have the power to undermine that protection for everyone."UK media outlets (including the BBC, Reuters, Financial Times, The Guardian and more) have also filed complaints with the IPT, arguing that the case should be heard publicly. Ditto for the advocacy organizations Big Brother Watch, Index on Censorship and the Open Rights Group.AppleThe UK order requires Apple to give the government blanket access to private user data encrypted through its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature. Introduced in iOS 16.2 in 2022, ADP applies end-to-end encryption to iCloud data like device backups, Messages content, notes and photos. Even Apple can't access it.Apple removed ADP in the UK in response to the order before issuing its own legal challenge. But since the backdoor would also apply to users outside the UK, the private data of anyone with an Apple account would be vulnerable. Security experts (and common sense) warn that the backdoor would needlessly expose anyone with an Apple Account to foreign spying, hackers and adversarial countries.We only know about the UK order because of a leak last month. That's because it was issued under the country's Investigatory Powers Act 2016, which expanded the surveillance powers of British intelligence agencies and law enforcement (earning its, uh, term of endearment, the "Snooper's Charter"). The rules also prevent Apple from commenting on or publicly acknowledging the existence of the privacy-eviscerating order or using its appeal to delay compliance. Apple said last month, "We have never built a back door or master key to any of our products or services, and we never will."This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/british-human-rights-groups-challenge-the-uks-apple-backdoor-order-163329777.html?src=rss

Several people have been arrested as part of a corruption investigation linked to the European Parliament and Huawei. The company is suspected of bribing European Union officials, according to the Associated Press.A spokesperson for the federal prosecutors' office in Belgium, where the European Parliament is located, said authorities are conducting "an ongoing investigation on preliminary charges of active corruption, forgery of documents, money laundering at the European Parliament." Prosecutors stated that "the offences were allegedly committed by a criminal organization" and were carried out to promote "purely private commercial interests in the context of political decisions.""Corruption was allegedly practiced regularly and very discreetly from 2021 to the present day, under the guise of commercial lobbying and taking various forms, such as compensation for political positions or excessive gifts such as food and travel expenses, or regular invitations to [soccer] matches," the office said in a statement. It later added that the "alleged bribery is said to have benefited Huawei."Police raided several addresses in Belgium and Portugal, according to reports. Two European Parliament offices linked to two assistants who are allegedly involved in the case have been sealed.Those arrested were being questioned over their alleged involvement "in active corruption within the European Parliament," prosecutors said. A spokesperson for the office told the BBC that no members of the parliament (MEPs) were directly targeted in these raids. However, reports suggest that around 15 current and former MEPs are "on the radar" of investigators.Huawei said it would "urgently communicate with the investigation" to better understand the issue at hand, while the company is taking the allegations "seriously." A spokesperson told The Guardianthat "Huawei has a zero-tolerance policy towards corruption or other wrongdoing, and we are committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations at all times."A European Parliament spokesperson said the legislative body had "received a request for cooperation from the Belgian authorities to assist the investigation which the Parliament will swiftly honor."This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/huawei-allegedly-benefited-from-european-parliament-bribery-scheme-142423000.html?src=rss

Reacher season 3 is Prime Videos biggest returning series following its release on February 20.