Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube785kFollowing a release date announcement earlier this year, Koei Tecmo has now released its second official trailer for Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land. It's also released some key art and more than 30 minutes of new gameplay footage, which you can check out below.This game stars the new alchemist Yumia Liessfeldt and is scheduled to bring "vast open world" RPG action to the Switch and multiple other platforms on 21st March 2025. Although it's in Japanese, this new trailer shows off more gameplay, the battle mechanics, and exploration.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube785kWatch on YouTube Once again, this adventure takes place in a world where alchemy is considered evil and explores the theme of memory. It leads to Yumia and her friends investigating the Aladissian Empire, a now-ruined kingdom, which once thrived on alchemy."Yumias quest will take her across a ruined continent, and despite the uncertainties of confronting her past, she will need to create her own path if she hopes to unravel the mysteries behind the cataclysm that destroyed Aladiss."...Players will have a wide range of actions and items at their disposal throughout the adventure, allowing them to explore a vast open world made up of different biomes as they make their way through these unknown lands gathering materials that can be used to synthesize and craft new items for use in their quest both during exploration and combat. Not only will fans be able to craft items without having to return to their base thanks to the Simple Synthesis feature, but for the first time in the series, fans will be also able to build, furnish, and decorate their own base with the all-new Building feature!"You can see the gameplay from the latest broadcast at the 35 minute mark in the video below:Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube785k We could have envisioned thisWill you be checking out the next Atelier game? Let us know in the comments.[source finalweapon.net]Related GamesSee AlsoShare:00 Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related ArticlesNew Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Update Leaves The Switch BehindLa-li-lu-le-lower resolution'Switch Pro' Dongle Is Making A Comeback With New 'RGB Collection'But we're not sure what they actually doReview: Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Switch) - Square Doesn't Drop The Ball, Just Some FramesThe wait is finally over

Double trouble.We are back, back, back with another edition of Box Art Brawl!Last time, we matched up two Game Boy covers for the weird Tetris sequel, Hatris, and oh boy was it a close contest! The colourful Japanese design just about clinched it in the end, taking 51% of the vote over North America's 49%. Talk about a photo finish!Read the full article on nintendolife.com

In BriefPosted:2:26 PM PST November 17, 2024Image Credits:picture alliance / Getty ImagesWorld of Warcraft turns 20Blizzard Entertainment first released World of Warcraft in November 2004, so The New York Times celebrated the anniversary by outlining the many ways we can still see the massively multiplayer online roleplaying games influences 20 years later.For one thing, while multiplayer games and early social networks such as MySpace already existed, WoW provided a real preview of a future where everyone would connect to friends and strangers online. For another, the game made billions of dollars with a business model combining monthly subscriptions with in-game purchases (including for pets and animals that players could ride), becoming a massive cash cow for Blizzard and pointing the way to future internet business models.The game also spawned immortal memes, attracted celebrity fans, and prompted epidemiologists to argue that an incident involving the uncontrolled spread of a fantasy disease could be studied for insights into real-world epidemics.Also, for the record, I thought the movie wasnt that bad.Topics

Bluesky is having a moment a moment thats already stretched on for nearly three months.Over the summer, the social media app saw a wave of new signups in Brazil after X (formerly Twitter) was temporarily banned there. And in the United States, unhappiness with changes at X, and with owner Elon Musks close relationship with President-Elect Donald Trump, seem to have dramatically accelerated Blueskys growth.According to SimilarWeb, Xs traffic and account deactivations both peaked the day after the presidential election. Bluesky, meanwhile, says its started adding a million new users every day; on Saturday, the company announced that it now has 18 million total users, and its currently the number one free app on Apples App Store.This has, unsurprisingly, caused some problems, with periods of slowness or where the app just doesnt load, as well as challenges for content moderation and safety. In an interview with The New York Times, CEO Jay Graber acknowledged that there are always some growing pains, but she said her 20-person full-time team takes pride in our ability to scale quickly.Alongside the technical issues, longtime users seem to be wrestling with what this rapid growth means for the Bluesky community. Yes, there have been triumphant posts about App Store rankings and the latest celebrity signups, but also self-deprecating discourse about the qualifications of being Bluesky elder, handwringing when the wrong kinds of users show up, and pleading/scolding reminders to dont engage, just block when dealing with trolls.Ive even noticed that own weird relationship with Bluesky is changing. While Ive spent more time there than on any other social media app in the past year, my follower count stalled at around 200 a fact that I found weirdly freeing, though it didnt motivated me to post more than once a month or so. This week, however, the numbers started to go up again and even though theyre still pretty low (I used to be big on other social networks, I swear), I immediately started worrying that someone might actually notice if I said something stupid.Despite my own Bluesky presence being negligible, I do feel protective about it. I suppose its a familiar story: Early fans are always complaining when something new and cool gets discovered by the mainstream. And no, Im not about to start posting Keep Bluesky weird! or declaring, Bluesky is over! But I worry that whats been fun and weird and even life-affirming about the Bluesky community could dissipate or disappear with the influx of new users.Put another way: Bluesky has always felt like the small, left-y alternative to X. What makes Bluesky Bluesky when its no longer the short king of social media? Seeing so many familiar names from Old Twitter, I wondered if were just going to recreate Twitter circa 2014. Which wouldnt be the worst thing, but cant we do better?At least Blueskys executives have signaled that they want to do things differently. Some of the distinctions, like the focus on decentralization, may be largely invisible to regular users, but many of their priorities seem baked into the product and the business. There are the aggressive blocking features, the reverse chronological (not algorithmic) feed, the pledge to not train AI on users posts, and a future business model focused on paid subscriptions rather than advertising.Graber is aware of a potential culture clash, describing it as an eternal September problem, where old-timers become unhappy when waves of newbies show up and inevitably change things. She said Bluesky is looking to address this by adding more features to allow users to customize their experience, and by improving its automated content moderation tools.Maybe the coming months and years will demonstrate that those decisions and features can actually protect and nourish healthy online communities. And maybe weve all learned something from seeing how other social networks wither with toxicity or sterility. I hope so. And if not? Well, one thing Ive learned from Twitter is that you should always be ready to move on to the next app.

Amid rampant overdevelopment, the Guangdong-based architect seeks to revive an appreciation for Lingnan building traditionsChen Donghua Architects is highly commended inthe AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist hereHistory is the basis for architects, says Chen Donghua, founder ofChen Donghua Architects (CDA), based in Guangdong inChina and active in the Pearl River Delta. For him, this means a rootedness in the architectural tradition of the surrounding Lingnan region its ancestral halls and oyster shell homes impressed on Chen, from an early age, the importance of form, light, openness and adaptability to the local subtropical climate.Chen trained at the South China University of Technology and pursued his postgraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became captivated by the typology of the shed. Sheds are usedthroughout Guangdong and typically built from bamboo and tarpaulin to create informal semi-outdoor spaces. Upon returning to China and setting up CDA in 2017, Chen found the architectural landscape plagued by big ambitions and scale and lacking in concern for culture andcelebrating the everyday. This resonated with ideas encountered in Great Leap Forward, research compiled by Rem Koolhaas and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in 2001, which argued that western-style development was destroying Chinese social structures.The sheds are materially simple yet structurally complex; they are both interior and outdoor spaceCompleted earlier this year, a primary school extension by CDA in Shenzhen responds to this condition. The school sits amid towering skyscrapers built by foreign architects including Koolhaas. Chen usedsteel, aluminium and fabric to create lightweight sheds and canopies that fill in the gaps across the site. These structures are tent-like and delicate in appearance compared with existing utilitarian school buildings, which were also lightly refurbished.The jewel in the crown is the large rooftop shed, a steel space-frame system that is perched on top of an existing building, andwhich provides a multipurpose hall forthe school. Here, a series of trusses and columns form inverted triangles inspired bythe structural language of Mies van der Rohe. The shed is materially simple yet structurally complex; it is both interior and outdoor space. Harking back to Lingnan building traditions, Chen believes that such gathering spaces should be connected with the external and feature no solid walls, glazing or insulation. The space is enjoyed by pupils all year around.Chen recently met with Koolhaas in Guangzhou, almost a quarter-century onfrom the publication of Great Leap Forward. We spoke about how overdeveloped the Pearl River Delta has become, Chen remarks. It has lost its roots. Chen hopes toexpand his practice, without losing sight of his reinvention of the local vernacular. Hisnext project will be a series of portable sheds for stray cats in Guangzhou.

The Trinity Episcopal Church in Newton Centre is one of the most unique and architecturally significant buildings in the village. Episcopalians began meeting in Newton Centre by at least 1889 and began discussions about erecting their own church. A small wood-frame chapel was built (since relocated and used by the Newton Parks Department) and provided worship space for years until the 1910s when the congregation acquired enough funds to build a more substantial structure. The cornerstone for the new church, which was designed by architect George W. Chickering, was laid in May of 1915, and the building was completed in 1916. Modeled after the stunning Kings College Chapel in Cambridge, England, the high-style Gothic edifice is notable for the crenelated parapet and pinnacles rising above the buttresses.

Eternal return (2024), terracotta vessel, plaster, wood, steel, resin clay modeling paste, and acrylic paint, 23 5/8 x 42 1/2 x 37 3/4 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsClementine Keith-Roach Unearths Ancient Vessels for Her Motherly SculpturesNovember 17, 2024ArtGrace EbertFrom her studio in Dorset, Clementine Keith-Roach sculpts expressive, bodily forms that appear as if plucked from an ancient cavern or soot-filled cellar.The terracotta works feature fragments of weathered limbs that crisscross and grasp fingers around hand-built vessels. Dents, cracks, and white patina mark the surfaces of each domestic object and trace their histories and former uses.I is another (2024), terracotta vessel, plaster and resin composite, wood, steel, resin clay,modeling paste, and acrylic paint, 20 1/2 x 58 1/4 x 29 7/8 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsIn a conversation with Colossal, Keith-Roach frequently references themes of nurturing and communal responsibility and the roles she sees those values playing in a world that strives more earnestly for equality and care. What if we saw mothering as a metaphor, she asks?The transformative nature of pregnancy, the ways bodies merge, and a mandate of care figure prominently in the artists practice. When she became a mother herself, she felt broken apart, both psychologically and physically as she responded to the needs of the baby. This severing between mind and body remains in Keith-Roachs work, as nude, headless chests buttress a wide, sloping bowl in Eternal return, for example. Although she currently enjoys leaving the vessels empty, milk would fill the basins in some of her earlier pieces, directly invoking motherhood.Keith-Roach refers to her new workswhich are on view at PPOW in New Yorkas statues, although she complicates the idea that monuments deify singular people, often men with imperial inclinations. Instead, her sculptures remain anonymous and contain several pairs of hands or limbs that, often literally, elevate a central object.A statue boils down to a representation of an individual. Even if theyre the most extraordinary person, theyre born out of a social moment, the artist adds. An individual is never isolated. Theyre born out of a kind of collective moment.Detail of I is another (2024), terracotta vessel, plaster and resin composite, wood, steel, resin clay,modeling paste, and acrylic paint, 20 1/2 x 58 1/4 x 29 7/8 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsAt the center of each work is an antique terracotta amphora the artist sources from second-hand shops and markets. Plaster casts of her own body and those of her friends create a series of detached limbs that, despite retaining the distinctive wrinkles and shapes of a particular person, are unidentifiable as they cradle or reach across the vessel.For some sculptures, Keith-Roach wanted to have the bodies merge before they were pulled from the cast. When creating Herm, for example, she asked her subjects to stand tightly together, allowing their skin to touch so she could create one form from two figures. In many works, she says, a multitude of people becomes one mass.Once she fuses the body parts to the anchoring amphora, Keith-Roach embarks on a deceptive trompe loeil process, in which she paints and conditions the new additions to mimic the patinaed surfaces of the older components. In the completed sculptures, theres tension between the bodys inevitable decay and the timeless durability of ceramic, which the artist celebrates: My works have this sacred quality to them. Theres raising the domestic vessel up, transforming it into something ceremonial. Its taking it out of the everyday and making it into an object of reflection. Its the same with the body parts. Its looking at these movements and gestures and things we do every day and monumentalizing them. Its monumentalizing the everyday.Keith-Roachs solo exhibition New Statue is on view through December 21. You can find more of her work on Instagram.No one (2024), terracotta vessel, plaster, wood, steel, resin clay modeling paste, and acrylic paint, 18 7/8 x 23 5/8 x 29 1/2 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsEternal return (2024), terracotta vessel, plaster, wood, steel, resin clay modeling paste, and acrylic paint, 23 5/8 x 42 1/2 x 37 3/4 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsHerm (2024), terracotta vessel, plaster, wood, steel, resin clay modeling paste, and acrylic paint, 50 x 20 1/8 x 20 7/8 inches. Photo by Damian Griffithsworks and days 2 (2024), plaster, resin clay, paint, 17 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsDetail of works and days 2 (2024), plaster, resin clay, paint, 17 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches. Photo by Damian Griffithsworks and days 1 (2024), plaster, resin clay, paint, 18 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsDetail of works and days 1 (2024), plaster, resin clay, paint, 18 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches. Photo by Damian GriffithsNext article

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Looking for help with today's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle? Here are some hints and answers for the ... [+] puzzle.Credit: NYTIn case you missed Saturdays NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here:Its been a chilly weekend, and Im hoping for warmer weather to see us through the week. Its still autumn, and Im not ready for winter just yet. Theres plenty of time for cold and grey and snow. Lets have some of the white fluffy stuff on Christmas, how about? For now, Id like to solve all my word puzzles in cool autumnal air. Speaking of which, lets solve todays NYT Mini Crossword!The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, its free-to-play without a subscription to The New York Times. You can play it on the web or the app, though youll need the app to tackle the archive.One good tactic with crossword puzzles is to try to get as many ACROSS as possible first and then youll find a lot of the DOWN are already doneor vice versa if the ones ACROSS are trickier.While some of todays words are pretty simple, some might have you stumped. Youll find the answers below. Spoilers ahead, obviously. Skip ahead for the image of todays solved puzzle.MORE FOR YOUACROSS1 ___ Martin, frequent collaborator with 1-Down STEVE6 Parts of irrigation systems HOSES7 Beginning ONSET8 Backup camera's place on a car REAR9 Make an attempt TRYDOWN1 Martin ___, frequent collaborator with 1-Across SHORT2 Stuff in a printer cartridge TONER3 Common kind of test for a literature class ESSAY4 Make a sudden turn VEER5 Jokey suffix with best ESTToday's MiniScreenshot: Erik KainThis was the easiest Mini Crossword Ive done in a hot minute, though thats largely because 1-Across and 1-Down were so obvious, especially if youve been watching Only Murders In The Building. From here, most everything was either pretty simple or filled itself in. Im not really sure about 5-Down but I didnt need to be since I got everything else around it filled in. This took me 1:19. I was slowed down by accidentally switching from Across to Down and vice versa a few times.How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.If you also play Wordle, I write guides about that as well. You can find those and all my TV guides, reviews and much more here on my blog. Thanks for reading!