You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here Despite the upcoming release of the Oblivion Remaster, Skyblivion developers remain unfazed. While it’s clear that the remaster of the former Game of the Year may affect the upcoming mod, there’s still plenty of space for both to thrive. After all, knowing how popular The Elder Scrolls is and knowing its dedicated community, both projects are poised for success. Skyblivion developers recently released a statement supporting the Oblivion Remaster and even emphasizing its advantages over their own mod. Oblivion Remaster will give gamers something that Skyblivion never could The Horse Armor DLC aside, we can all agree that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was a masterpiece. Released in 2006, the open-world game became an instant success, selling more than 9.5 million copies. It wasn’t until five years later that it was dethroned by Skyrim, another fantastic game in the series. Now, the remaster of Oblivion will bring the classic gameplay with the improved graphics and engine. While this sounds amazing for gamers, the remaster clashes with Skyblivion, an Oblivion mod that uses Skyrim’s engine. The mod is supposed to come out in 2025 and will remain unaffected by the remaster. Its developers released a statement supporting Bethesda’s upcoming release and believe that it’s a victory for gamers. Oblivion remaster will be available on consoles. Image by VideoGamer “We want to emphasize that there is no need for comparisons or a sense of competition between Skyblivion and a potential official remaster,” Skyblivion developers wrote on Facebook, while also assuring fans that the development is still going strong. “Both projects can exist and thrive together, offering unique experiences for players,” they added. In addition, the development team highlighted a key distinction between the two projects. While the Oblivion Remaster will be available for both PCs and current-gen consoles, Skyblivion will remain exclusive to PC as a mod. “As a PC mod, a console release is impossible for us, so the remaster offers a great opportunity for console players to revisit Oblivion, something our project simply can’t provide.” In the end, this year promises two incredible projects for Oblivion fans. While it’s clear that the remastered game may have some impact on Skyblivion, the real winners will undoubtedly be the gamers. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One Genre(s): RPG 9 VideoGamer Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share

With spring in full swing, we are leaning into cottagecore bedding. How could we not? The sumptuous linen bed sheets and ditsy floral patterns are hominess at its best. But unlike just cozy interiors, when bedding has notes of cottagecore it becomes a place to get away when the world becomes too much. “Cottagecore bedding is all about evoking a sense of nostalgia—it's the feeling of waking up in the countryside with the windows open and the morning sun flowing in,” says Jessica Hanley, founder and CEO of Piglet in Bed. “It’s romantic, comforting, and just a little bit whimsical too!”To curate countryside scenes in your chamber, look for bedding made of soft-washed linen or cotton blends that artfully crease to create that lived-in look. “It should feel like something that’s been passed down with love, rather than plucked off a shelf,” Hanley adds. When choosing a color palette, consider tones you’d find in a meadow or a wildflower garden—dusty rose, sage, cream, and pastel or buttercup yellows.While cottagecore bedding is all about mixing and matching, you still want to have some cohesion. Designer Roger Higgins of R. Higgins Interiors loves pairing an eclectic mix of patterns with ivories and whites to create a chic combination of colors and textures.“When designing a classic, serene retreat, my go-to bedding includes a quality mattress pad, a set of crisp white sheets—possibly with hotel-style stitching—two sets of pillowcases, a cotton blanket, a matelassé cover, and a duvet folded at the foot of the bed,” Higgins adds. “Styling your bed with layers not only adds visual interest but also creates versatility."Here, 16 picks that range from pastel gingham to trailing vine pillow covers that will transform any room into a countryside retreat.Our Top Picks for the Best Cottagecore Bedding:Best Floral Bedding: Piglet Mini Meadow Cotton Duvet Cover, $139A Whimsical Comforter Set: Bedazzled Comforter Set, $65, $59The Best Bundle: Piglet Heritage 100% Linen Bundle, $399A Breezy Quilt: Brooklinen Airweave Cotton Quilt, $299 $224Best Cottagecore Throw: Quince Chunky Hand Knit Wool Throw, $130A Classic Cottagecore Pillow Cover: West Elm Pierce & Ward Floral Grid Pillow Cover, $49Piglet Pearl Posy Bud Linen Blend Bed SkirtA classic gathered bed skirt with soft frills, like this one in a delicate posy-motif from Piglet in Bed, is a quintessential cottagecore bedding staple. This simple posy pattern was popular in the 1900s Edwardian era and pairs perfectly with lace and trim detail on decorative pillows tossed on your bed. The bedskirt is woven from European linen and long staple cotton, giving it an airy aesthetic. You could also choose the sage or warm blue gingham colorway, should you want the bed skirt to break up the duvet cover in the same colorway.Bedazzled Comforter SetFloral patterns don’t always have to look like a meadow. This budget-friendly pick includes a comforter and two pillow shams in a quilted stitch motif, which also keeps the polyester fill from shifting around. The pinch pleat looks as if it was crafted by your grandmother and the ruffles add to the shabby chic bedroom decor style.Sijo AiryWeight Eucalyptus ComforterSensitive sleepers, who might not love the more coarse feel of linen, can still indulge in cottagecore bedding looks by incorporating a striped duvet color from Sijo from their AiryWeight Eucalyptus line. It’s silky-smooth, moisture-wicking, and the only Tencel sheets certified by the National Allergy and Asthma Foundation. The only way your eyes would get watery is if you read Pride & Prejudice in bed.Brooklinen Airweave Cotton QuiltCottagecore cozy wouldn’t be complete without a quilt, and this one from Brooklinen is on par to nestling into a cotton candy cloud. The four-layer gauze construction—made with 100% Turkish Cotton—is fluffy without weighing down your bedscape. “It reminds me of the blankets I chose for my baby—incredibly cozy but still delicate,” says contributor Yelena Alpert. “What a nice surprise to find something that is adult-size!” We love the romantic pink Tulip hue, thought the perky orange Marigold would liven up any floral duvet cover.Quince Chunky Hand Knit Wool ThrowQuince bedding products are definitely some of our favorites around here. That’s why adding a large-scale knit throw to your cottagecore collection is a must. These are made from natural wool and look as good on your bed as they do draped over the couch. Since they come in olive, neutral, and ivory, they will fit seamlessly in whatever color palette you’re working with.QSH Ruffle Bed SheetsA ruffle bedding set with flounce-trimmed pillowcases and flat sheet puts a romantic twist on the cottagecore vibes. Choose from the neutral white or ivory or lean into the garden designs with chintz prints against white or teal background. To amp up the aesthetic, add a vintage teacup to your nightstand as a jewelry organizer.Buffy Belgian Linen Sheet SetBuffy linen sheets have an inherently rustic quality that makes parting with your bed a challenge. “The weight of these is just right,” says Alpert, who has tested this sheet set during the fickle spring months when weather temps fluctuate. “I feel cocooned but not suffocated.” The sheets come in 14 colorways. Alpert has Desert Sand, a blush terracotta hue, that pairs especially well with navy accent pillows. “I think WFB (Work From Bed) days are in my future,” she adds.Piglet Mix & Match Linen BundleA cottagecore bedroom wouldn’t be complete without some mix-and-matching. Piglet in Bed has a new colorway, sage, for the gingham pattern. Choose from linen or linen-blend that’s woven with long staple cotton. The pastel colorway, which also includes a warm blue and a mushroom hue bestows a sort of quiet luxury to your chamber. While these are not inexpensive, senior digital design editor Zoë Sessums made the case for this investment bedding: “Though this sheet set is a bit steep in price, the quality is unmatched and I predict I’ll use these for as long as they’ll last (seemingly incredibly long!). You really get what you pay for, so I would say these are A+++ sheets.”Pierce & Ward Linen Stripe Duvet Cover & ShamsInterior designers Louisa Pierce and Emily Ward elevate the cottagecore aesthetics with their new collection that involves adding decorative closures to the bold brown stripes of the duvet cover and shams (these come in standard and Euro shams). This cotton-linen blend set is an investment because the design can just as easily fit more contemporary home decor.GreenRow Gingham Floral Reversible QuiltA reversible cotton coverlet in a ditsy floral pattern is a small-scale print that has roots in England evokes prairie dresses. The Greenrow designs are handcrafted in an artisan women’s workshop, giving it that heirloom quality, especially seen in the gingham trim detail. You can use it in lieu of a bedspread or as an extra layer for chilly nights. Don’t be surprised if your cat claims as well.Rifle Paper Co. Climbing Vines Lumbar Pillow CoverChannel the Secret Garden storyline by adding a Rifle Paper Co. Climbing Vines lumbar pillow to your bedding fortress. The embroidered accents against the white cotton are vintage-inspired and will fit seamlessly in a rustic-themed space. For a full-on vine invasion pair it with a sage cotton percale comforter. While you’re at it, add some natural greenery to your decor with indoor houseplants like cascading pothos.Piglet Mini Meadow Cotton Duvet CoverYou might resort to living in pajamas after adding this new arrival from Piglet In Bed. Vintage florals abound in the ditsy pattern of the Blue Mini Meadow cotton percale duvet cover. We appreciate the details like natural corozo button fastenings and handy inside corner ties that keep your duvet in place. Other colorways (there are 17) of this 200 thread count duvet cover include Blush Pink Slumber Stripe and Cafe au Lait small gingham.Schoolhouse Wallowa Floral Percale Sheet SetThe delicate blooms of this Schoolhouse best seller are inspired by the wildflowers of Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. We love that the orange-green-red-blue pattern has a ton of mix-and-match potential and works just as well in a whimsical bedroom as it does in a dorm space turned little garden-alcove (the cotton percale sheet set comes in twin XL).Pierce & Ward Floral Grid Pillow CoverSomething about the Pierce & Ward Floral Grid pillow cover makes us think that had Virgina Woolf shopped at West Elm for home accents to decorate a room of her own, she’d pick this pattern for her country estate. Its forest green grid against the earthy background gives this pillow just enough sophistication without veering too far from a bucolic moment.Lambswool Throw by Tartan Blanket CoPicture yourself with a cup of Earl Grey tea as you’re having breakfast in bed. Having a Tartan Blanket Co. lambswool throw at your feet is only going to add to this bliss. We are especially fond of the Mulberry and Twill Check colorways, but you really can’t go wrong with any of the eight hues. To really lean into the pastoral vibes, add a François-Xavier Lalanne sheep sculpture to your cottagecore bedroom design.Dusen Dusen Check BeddingThose who want to lean into cottagecore but still love their boho style, the Dusen Dusen stonewashed cotton quilt set. The varied check pattern—woven in a matelassé jacquard, a French-inspired technique that gives the fabric a padded appearance—makes the coverlet and shams a cottagecore bedding set that honors tradition but with a contemporary twist. Made in Portugal, the stonewashed cotton feels airy to the touch and will work well when you switch out your bedding for the summer months.

Is 4chan gone for good? The notorious online platform is believed to have suffered a hack so severe that some are speculating it might never return. However, the details about what happened and the potential consequences are still becoming clear: The forum went down earlier this week, and reports of the hack soon surfaced. Wired links the breach to a rival forum called Soyjak.party. One celebratory post bragged that a hacker had been inside 4chan's system "for over a year," per TechCrunch. The hack goes far beyond merely taking down the site. Hackers appear to have gained access to its back-end systems and obtained information about 4chan's anonymous moderators and "janitors." The latter raises the possibility–which would be devastating to 4chan—that they could be exposed, notes Tech Crunch. Information about the site's premium users also may have been exposed. "It might be hard or at least painfully slow and costly for 4chan to recover from this, so we might really see the end of 4chan as we know it," UC Riverside computer science professor Emiliano De Cristofaro tells Wired. A post at Boing Boing by Grant St. Clair reaches the same conclusion: "With every single user of note doxxed, the site's servers decimated, and the admin team in disarray, it's unlikely 4chan will be back up soon. Or ever." 4chan has been linked to vile content and even mass shootings, with Vice describing it as the "internet's favorite hot spot of moral bankruptcy." A previous investigation at Wired found that moderators explicitly allow racism. (More 4chan stories.)

Image: Nintendo LifeFalling. It hurts, right? We’ve all tripped up over nothing while walking and scraped our knees, or tripped up the stairs and landed face-first. It’s not fun. It’s embarrassing, it's painful, and it stands as a persistent reminder that I am the most clumsy of human beings. There’s a reason we can't jump off of buildings and cliffs and live to tell the tale – we’re just flesh and bone. That’s what video games are here for, then. They allow us to do the impossible, the unthinkable, and the absolutely ridiculous consequence-free, for the most part. Jumping off of platforms and high places is completely normal, and you don’t need to be good at parkour to do it.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube809kWatch on YouTube Except you still can’t jump off of buildings and mountains and land safely. I can get torched and squashed by a Gleeok in Tears of the Kingdom and live to tell the tale, but falling off a high cliff might kill me? What’s the point? Well, in comes Xenoblade Chronicles X, a game where I can literally launch myself from the top of Blade Tower in NLA or Mount Edge Peak in Oblivia and land without so much as a hair out of place. Now, I can truly live my dreams of looking cool as I leap from the top of a skyscraper and land effortlessly with one fist on the ground. Who needs to defeat giant Ciniculas? Image: Nintendo Life Lots of people talk about video games as escapism, as a way of getting away from the world. I use them for that reason sometimes, too, so it tickles me that realism is so often valued. Graphics that are uncannily close to real-life, motion capture, the idea that I might break a leg if I fall from one of the Deku Tree’s branches. Zelda’s not exactly the picture of realism, but you get the idea. I acknowledge that it might be a bit weird if, in Red Dead Redemption, John Marston and his horse could fall off a cliff and survive – there’s a time and a place for it. But I’m also obsessed with the space jump in Xenoblade Chronicles X and think every video game should have it. I clearly don’t respect the balance. My huge, death-defying jumps across the planet of Mira do have a sound narrative purpose, something I’m not going to go into here because of spoilers. We’re talking leaps thousands of feet high with no consequence other than a brief stagger. Who cares about realism when you look this good jumping? Not me, because it’s so damn fun. Just look at that landing. — Image: Nintendo Life Think about The Witcher 3 for a second. Set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology, filled with terrifying monsters, yet Geralt, the titular Witcher [Nice. - Ed.] who has undergone years and years of training and conditioning to be an extremely powerful fighter, could die from simply falling a couple of metres. That’s apparently been fixed in the next-gen version, so maybe Geralt will be invincible on the Switch 2. Fall damage is inconsistent across video games, and it sort of has to be. Imagine playing Super Mario Odyssey and Mario just outright dying because he jumped off the top of a New Donk City skyscraper. It’d be odd, right? Because this is a bright and colourful platformer where exploration and movement is king. Instead, he’s briefly stunned either on the spot or by getting stuck in sand. Side note: I love this description of why Mario can survive big falls in Odyssey, which explains why he takes damage in Super Mario 64 and not in the latest 3D adventure. There’s the solution, then – space. Image: Nintendo Life Fall damage is present in all three other Xenoblade games, and it at least makes a bit of sense there. Is it annoying? A little bit! But then, whose fault is it when I keep jumping off of large structures and expecting to survive? Although, again, if Rex can survive multiple attacks from Jin and Malos – who both have pretty dangerous weapons – what is a mere 'big jump' to him? Who cares about realism when you look this good jumping? Am I just bitter because I’ve done multiple sky dives in Tears of the Kingdom and not pulled out my paraglider at the last minute, resulting in Link’s untimely death? Maybe – and look, I don’t think Link should be able to survive a one-thousand-foot drop. But there are other times where I’ve ragdolled mountains and taken just a bit too much damage that has ultimately led me to my death. Just imagine how rubbish it would be to have fall damage in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow or a Kirby game. Kirby is literally a living marshmallow, so of course he doesn’t take damage from big falls. It’s part of why it’s so fun to control him. Those are pretty fantastical examples, but I do think that the desire for realism gets in the way of fun sometimes. If Shulk can essentially kill God and Link can take out Ganondorf with just a stick, why can’t they survive a 20-foot jump? Image: Nintendo Life Sometimes, despite all of my philosophising and losing myself in the weeds of the narrative, I just want to have fun. It’s cool that Xenoblade Chronicles X has a reason for being able to jump from and survive such ludicrous heights, but ultimately, how much more uninviting and unexciting would exploring the world of Mira be without that space jump? Now come on, don’t tell me you haven’t dreamt of space jumping and careening to the ground from great heights in GTA or Pokémon Legends: Arceus… Let us know what you think of all of that pesky fall damage in the comments.

The first week of the Meta antitrust trial brought new revelations about how the company formerly known as Facebook approached the competitive threat posed by Instagram in the early 2010s. The U.S. government is accusing Meta of violating competition laws by acquiring companies like Instagram and WhatsApp that threatened the Facebook monopoly. If lawyers for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are successful, the government could force Meta to break up its business by selling off Instagram and WhatsApp. As part of the trial, the FTC shared compelling evidence to demonstrate that Facebook was very much aware of the risk Instagram created for its business as the photo-sharing app grew in popularity. In documents containing Facebook’s internal emails, Facebook execs fret over Instagram’s growth and discuss how much to pay for the app, if Facebook were to acquire it. The company execs also discuss other strategies for limiting Instagram’s growth, including copying its functionality and releasing an app of their own, or buying the app and then no longer adding new features to it while working on its own products. Facebook’s strategy to either buy or bury its competition is on display in these conversations, according to the government’s arguments. In addition to showing how the company was thinking about its competition at the time, the messages are indicative of the cutthroat strategies that have allowed Meta to become the social networking behemoth it is today. Some of the highlights from these messages are below. “Instagram seems like it’s growing quickly. In 4 months they’re up to 2m users and 30k daily photo uploads. That’s a lot. We need to track this closely. Also, apparently Dropbox’s next big push is going to be in photo sharing.” — Mark Zuckerberg, February 2011 “If Instagram continues to kick ass on mobile, or if Google buys them, then over the next few years they could easily add pieces of their service that copy what we’re doing now, and if they have a growing number of people’s photos then that’s a real issue for us. They’re growing extremely quickly right now. It seems like they double every couple of months or so, and their base is already ~5-10m users. As soon as we launch a compelling product a lot of people will use ours more and future Instagram users will find no reason to use them. But at the current rate, literally every couple of months that we waste translates to a double in their growth and a harder position for us to work our way out of.”  — Mark Zuckerberg, September 2011 “The photos team is now focused almost exclusively on a new mobile photo app as we gawk at Instagram’s simple photo-sharing app taking off (and even our own app sees fat growth … mobile uploads increased to 17.7M day, +5.3 w/w). Like Beluga, watching these guys explode validates our strategy of de-cluttering our mobile experience and offering standalone messaging and photos products outside from the monolithic app garden.” — Chris Cox, chief product officer, February 2011 “One concerning trend is that a huge number of people are using Instagram every day — including everyone ranging from non-technical high school friends to even FB employees — and they’re only uploading some of their photos to FB. This creates a huge hole for us and one that I’m sure anything we’re going to do on platform or with social dynamics will completely solve.” — Mark Zuckerberg, February 2012 Facebook considers an Instagram acquisition, stopping its development and growth “I wonder if we should consider buying Instagram, even if it costs ~500M. Right now they seem to have two things that we don’t: a really good camera and a photo-centric sharing network.” — Mark Zuckerberg, February 2012 “I think it’s quite possible that our initial thesis was wrong and theirs is right — that what people want is more to take the best photos than to put them on FB … we might want to consider paying a lot of money for this.” — Mark Zuckerberg, February 2012 “I actually think that there is a serious argument to be made that we should buy Path, Pinterest, Instagram, Evernote, and whomever else we really admire/are doing great things right now if (1) we can structure it in a way that we keep their products up & running but transition the teams to working on FB proper; (2) we think the people deeply care about building great things and we think we can lock them up for 4+ years to work on our platform.” — Samuel W. Lessin (former Facebook VP of Product), corresponding with Mark Zuckerberg in February 2012 “I think what we’d do is keep their product running and just not add more features to it, and focus future development on our products, including building all of their camera features into ours. By not killing their products we prevent everyone from hating us and we make sure we don’t immediately create a hole in the market for someone else to fill, but all future development would go towards our core products.” — Mark Zuckerberg, February 2012 “One way of looking at this is that what we’re really buying is time. Even if some new competitors springs [sic] up, buying Instagram, Path, Foursquare, etc now will give us a year or more to integrate their dynamics before anyone can get close to their scale again.” — Mark Zuckerberg, February 2012

The Fan in Jinshanling | © Jonathan Leijonhufvud In the vast mountainous expanse of Jinshanling, located in Chengde City, Hebei Province, China, a subtle yet evocative architectural gesture redefines how visitors experience the threshold between nature and exhibition. Titled The Fan, this outdoor installation designed by TEAM_BLDG was conceived as a spatial prelude to sculptor Sheng Jiang’s solo exhibition Being In The Open Field. The exhibition, staged in 2023, occupies a once ancient and intensely present landscape, where lush valleys give way to the rugged outline of the Great Wall built during the Ming Dynasty. The Fan offers more than a transitional space; it becomes an atmospheric device, a ritualized passage, and a study in architectural restraint and responsiveness. The Fan in Jinshanling Technical Information Installation Architects1-6: TEAM_BLDG Architectural Design (Exhibition Venue – Jinshanling The Upper): Atelier Deshaus Location: Chengde, Hebei, China Area: 240 m2 | 2,583 Sq. Ft. Project Year: 2021 – 2023 Photographs: © Jonathan Leijonhufvud We want to achieve a relatively soft and light installation that complements the hard landscape. In our conception, the installation should be like a natural tree—it can capture the wind while also providing shelter for someone walking on the stone-paved exhibition path. – TEAM_BLDG Architects The Fan in Jinshanling Photographs © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Jonathan Leijonhufvud Contextual Framework: At the Edge of the Ancient Wall Situated at the terminus of the developed exhibition zone, The Fan operates within a landscape layered with historical, spiritual, and environmental weight. Its proximity to the Great Wall inscribes it into a cultural continuum. At the same time, the topography—comprising cliffs, terraced walkways, and natural flora—presents a dynamic ground condition that resists conventional architectural imposition. The main indoor exhibition is housed within Jinshanling The Upper, a landscaped architecture designed by Atelier Deshaus. However, the building remains visually secluded, nested within the valley’s folds. Here, TEAM_BLDG was invited to introduce a subtle architectural intervention—a “clue,” as they term it—that would guide and prepare visitors for the exhibition through a gradual immersion in space, sound, and materiality. Design Intent: Evoking Softness in a Hard Terrain Upon first encounter, Jinshanling presents a series of austere material juxtapositions: the coarse stone of ancient ruins, the sharp silhouettes of contemporary concrete structures, and the textured presence of Sheng Jiang’s Buddha sculptures. Against this context of hardness, the design team sought to introduce an element of softness—both materially and experientially. Inspired by Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags, The Fan reinterprets spiritual iconography into architectural form. Rather than replicating cultural motifs, the installation abstracts their essence: movement, rhythm, ephemerality, and a sense of presence within absence. This approach results in a structure that does not assert itself through monumentality but rather through its sensitivity to wind, terrain, and visitor interaction. By referencing sheltering trees and wind-catching canopies, the design encourages a contemplative mode of passage. It is a threshold not marked by gates or signage but by atmosphere and tempo. The Fan Material Expression and Spatial Resolution Structurally, The Fan consists of approximately forty T-shaped steel pipe units—each 3 meters high by 2 meters wide—arranged in a meandering sequence that extends more than 120 meters along the stone-paved exhibition path. These units support soft white gauze, suspended via articulated joints that allow the fabric to sway and flutter with the valley’s wind currents. The steel elements are anchored to concrete footings that accommodate the site’s irregular topography, allowing each element to adapt to the undulating ground without compromising structural clarity. This deliberate minimalism—the distilled composition of steel, gauze, and concrete—reinforces the project’s commitment to transparency and legibility. “What you see is what you get” becomes a spatial ethos. The structure’s openness allows natural light to pass through without obstruction while creating a shaded, modulated corridor for visitors. Equally significant is the inclusion of bells hidden within the steel joints, which respond to wind movement with soft chimes. This auditory element introduces a temporal and situational quality to the experience: visitors may hear the installation before they see it, and as they move along the path, the soundscape becomes part of the architectural narrative. The bells, inspired by Buddhist traditions of joy and surprise, elevate the structure from static object to participatory environment. Poetic Integration: Architecture as Sensory Experience Construction of The Fan demanded both precision and improvisation. Full-scale mockups were built and tested in Shanghai to simulate environmental conditions, yet on-site challenges—including stronger-than-anticipated wind loads—forced real-time structural adaptations. This responsive methodology made the final installation feel grounded in its context, not merely placed upon it. Ultimately, The Fan performs as more than a built form—it operates as a sensory register of place. Sunlight filters through the gauze in shifting patterns. Beetles and birds interact with its surfaces. Visitors find themselves not just passing through, but dwelling briefly within a space of quiet ceremony. The visual recall of Buddhist robes fluttering in the breeze reinforces the spiritual undercurrents in both the material and the site. The Fan in Jinshanling Plans Concept | © TEAM_BLDG Site Plan | © TEAM_BLDG Details | © TEAM_BLDG The Fan in Jinshanling Image Gallery About TEAM_BLDG TEAM_BLDG is a multidisciplinary architecture and design studio based in China. It is known for its thoughtful integration of architecture, art, and landscape. With a focus on spatial narratives and contextual sensitivity, the studio engages in a wide range of projects, from cultural and educational buildings to installations and exhibitions. Their work emphasizes clarity of structure, material honesty, and the creation of immersive environments that invite reflection and human interaction. Credits and Additional Notes Installation Design: TEAM_BLDG Architectural Design (Exhibition Venue – Jinshanling The Upper): Atelier Deshaus Design Team: Xiao Lei, Deng Zhaojing, Yang Yuqiong, Lin Yufeng, Hong Shining Architectural Design of Main Venue: Atelier Deshaus Landscape Design: Shunmyo Masuno + Japan Landscape Consultants (courtyards and gardens), Turenscape (environment) Client / Exhibition Organizer: The JIANGS (Sheng Jiang, Sculptor)

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Recap: Nvidia's RTX 50 series has arguably been another forgettable and disappointing GPU launch in recent memory. Issues with the new graphics cards include underwhelming gen-to-gen performance improvements, melting power cables, stingy VRAM allocation, near-nonexistent launch inventory, missing ROPs, and software stability problems. While Nvidia has attempted to address bugs and crashes with recent driver updates, user complaints appear to persist. Users on the ComputerBase forums report that Nvidia's graphics driver version 576.02 noticeably improves performance in 3DMark's Steel Nomad benchmark. However, Reddit users have also disclosed degraded performance in several recent major titles. ComputerBase confirmed that the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070 see performance gains between 6% and 8% in Steel Nomad. Users on the site's forums and Reddit have shared screenshots showing score increases of up to 2,000 points after installing the new driver. However, their results for 3DMark's Speed Way and Time Spy tests show unchanged performance or a slight 1% decline. Furthermore, Reddit users report continued crashes in titles such as Black Myth Wukong, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Monster Hunter Wilds. The errors in Rebirth and Monster Hunter appear to occur during shader compilation. If the new crashes are widespread, they represent a potentially serious setback to Nvidia's efforts to fight bugs that first emerged with the RTX 50 series launch. For months, users have reported frequent game crashes and instances where Windows boots into a black screen after installing drivers intended for the new GPUs. Patch notes for several driver versions released since February claim that Nvidia has addressed these problems. However, some developers have advised users with RTX 40 or 30 series cards to stick with driver version 566.36, released in December. // Related Stories These ongoing glitches only add to the RTX 50 series' mounting challenges. Critically low stock at launch made MSRP listings almost mythical, though availability has improved slightly in recent weeks. Additionally, most new GPUs have delivered only modest performance gains over their RTX 40 series counterparts. The RTX 5070, in particular, has drawn sharp criticism for performing nearly identically to – or sometimes worse than – the 4070 Super, while facing stiff competition from AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. Nvidia's 576.02 driver introduces support for the newly released RTX 5060 Ti, which, as our review shows, offers a decent improvement over the 4060 Ti as long as users choose the 16GB variant. The company withheld 8GB variants from reviewers, likely to avoid backlash from releasing yet another 8GB GPU in 2025.

As he continues to promote Sinners, actor Delroy Lindo has also spent some time talking about a film that didn’t ultimately get off the ground. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lindo discussed his role in Marvel’s attempt to bring Blade “When Marvel came to me, they seemed to be really interested in my input,” Lindo said. “And in the various conversations I had with producers, the writer, the director at the time, it was all leading into being very inclusive. It was really exciting conceptually, but it was also exciting in terms of the character that was going to form.” Recommended Videos “For whatever reason, it just went off the rails,” Lindo added, saying that the excitement around the movie wasn’t enough to get anything made. Related Lindo didn’t offer specifics on exactly who he would play in the film but did compare the character to famous activist Marcus Garvey. “I’m not saying that it would’ve been an out-and-out Garvey-ite. Not that, but just in terms of how this man’s philosophy, his ethos, and what was driving him,” he explained. “He was a character who had created a community, a Black community. He was a character who was the head of this community.” Blade has now been pulled from Marvel’s release calendar after cycling through a number of different writers and directors. The film still remains in creative limbo, but it seems distinctly possible that Wesley Snipes’ Blade will remain the only Blade there is. Editors’ Recommendations