Today on the befores & afters podcast, were diving into season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, with DNEG and visual effects supervisor, Greg Butler. This season, DNEG delivered over 900 shots and led the work in some of the biggest battle sequences that happen around Eregion. This also involves Damrod the Hill Troll. With Greg, we look at what was filmed for these battles, the CG environments, digi-double soldiers and Orcs, CG horses, and the specific approach to the atmosphere in the scenes.This episode of the befores & afters podcast is sponsored by SideFX. Looking for great customer case studies, presentations and demos? Head to the SideFX YouTube channel. There youll find tons of Houdini, Solaris and Karma content. This includes recordings of recent Houdini HIVE sessions from around the world.Listen in above, and below, check out some fun before and after images and a video breakdown.The post How DNEG crafted the troll and the Eregion battle in s2 of The Rings of Power appeared first on befores & afters.

Remember that time when Apple removed the Function keys from its MacBook Pro laptops and replaced with with a long screen instead? It definitely earned its share of critics, but the Touch Bar offered a kind of versatility that was probably ahead of its time. Apple has since then gone back to a traditional row of keys, but there are definitely fans of the technology that felt it could actually become a useful tool with the right design.Introducing Flexbar, the ultimate touchscreen strip that revolutionizes how you interact with technology. This versatile 10-inch strip brings the convenience and flexibility of the MacBook Pro Touch Bar to everyone, offering a fully customizable experience for power users, streamers, gamers, and content creators. Whether youre managing complex workflows or executing intricate gaming strategies, Flexbar ensures you stay focused, in control, and connected across both Windows and Mac systems.Designer: ENIACClick Here to Buy Now: $139 $179 (22% off). Hurry, 5/560 left! Raised over $227,000.Flexbar is a joy to use in every way. Its compact, sleek, and portable design makes it a seamless plug-and-play addition to desktops, laptops, iPads, phones, and even MacBook Pros. With its ability to adapt to any scenario, it becomes an indispensable tool for content creators managing Adobe Premiere timelines, streamers controlling OBS layouts, and gamers executing complex in-game macros. Flexbar gives you a tool that adjusts to your needs, whatever they may be, not the other way around.What sets Flexbar apart is its deeply integrated extension toolbar for your most-used apps. Thanks to its third-party API support, Flexbar provides advanced, native-like controls for highly interactive professional software applications. It learns to automatically switch between relevant interfaces based on your current task window, ensuring a seamless and efficient workflow. The Workspace function lets you record and recreate your favorite layout, getting you started in a blink.Flexbars one-click macro recording feature is a game-changer. It learns your moves and effortlessly replays them through simulated raw mouse and keyboard inputs, automating repetitive tasks instantly. It also features sequence execution where you can set up advanced sequences with delays, loops, and custom configurations, all through FlexbarDesigners intuitive drag-and-drop interface. This capability not only saves time but also enhances productivity by eliminating manual repetitions.What makes the Flexbars customization capabilities possible is the innovative FlexbarDesigner, the software that powers every level of personalization. From preloaded shortcuts and combos to icons you can customize to your aesthetic tastes, the companion app gives you the freedom to tailor Flexbar to your specific workflow needs effortlessly. Discovering and using designs created by others becomes incredibly convenient and time-saving. Whether its a shortcut combo for your favorite software or a unique layout idea, you can explore, download, and apply shared templates in just a few clicks.In addition to its powerful functionality, Flexbar collects all hardware performance metrics from your PC and displays them in stunning, real-time graphs. This feature is particularly useful for gamers and content creators who need to monitor system performance closely. The vibrant 10-inch 2K AMOLED touchscreen offers a crystal-clear display, ensuring that every detail is visible and easy to read.Flexbar is designed to feel just as good as it works. In addition to an aluminum alloy body that gives it a premium personality, its strong haptic feedback makes every touch feel substantial and significant. It also comes with an aluminum magnetic stand, providing optimal ergonomics and convenience. Put it on your desk behind the keyboard or put it on top of your laptop while on the go. The stand ensures that Flexbar is always positioned perfectly for ease of use no matter the situation youre in.Despite its simple appearance, the Flexbar offers a revolution in how we interact with technology. Its versatility, customization options, and powerful features make it an essential tool for anyone looking to enhance their digital workflows. For streamers, gamers, content creators, and power users, Flexbar offers a tailored experience that keeps you focused, in control, and connected. Embrace the future of interaction with Flexbar, and transform the way you work and play.Click Here to Buy Now: $139 $179 (22% off). Hurry, 5/560 left! Raised over $227,000.The post Transform Your Workflow with Flexbar: A MacBook Touch Bar for Everyone first appeared on Yanko Design.

Autoregressive LLMs are complex neural networks that generate coherent and contextually relevant text through sequential prediction. These LLms excel at handling large datasets and are very strong at translation, summarization, and conversational AI. However, achieving high quality in vision generation often comes at the cost of increased computational demands, especially for higher resolutions or longer videos. Despite efficient learning with compressed latent spaces, video diffusion models are limited to fixed-length outputs and lack contextual adaptability in autoregressive models like GPT.Current autoregressive video generation models face many limitations. Diffusion models make excellent text-to-image and text-to-video tasks but rely on fixed-length tokens, which limits their versatility and scalability in video generations. Autoregressive models typically suffer from vector quantization issues because they transform visual data into discrete-valued token spaces. Higher-quality tokens require more tokens, while using these tokens increases the computational cost. While advancements like VAR and MAR improve image quality and generative modeling, their application to video generation remains constrained by inefficiencies in modeling and challenges in adapting to multi-context scenarios.To address these issues, researchers from BUPT, ICT-CAS, DLUT, and BAAI proposed NOVA, a non-quantized autoregressive model for video generation. NOVA approaches video generation by predicting frames sequentially over time and spatial token sets within each frame in a flexible order. This model combines time-based and space-based prediction by separating how frames and spatial sets are generated. It uses a pre-trained language model to process text prompts and optical flow to track motion. For time-based prediction, the model applies a block-wise causal masking method, while for space-based prediction, it uses a bidirectional approach to predict sets of tokens. The model introduces scaling and shifting layers to improve stability and uses sine-cosine embeddings for better positioning. It also adds diffusion loss to help predict token probabilities in a continuous space, making training and inference more efficient and improving video quality and scalability.The researchers trained NOVA using high-quality datasets, starting with 16 million image-text pairs from sources like DataComp, COYO, Unsplash, and JourneyDB, which were later expanded to 600 million pairs from LAION, DataComp, and COYO. For text-to-video, researchers used 19 million video-text pairs from Panda70M and other internal datasets, plus 1 million pairs from Pexels-a caption engine based on Emu2-17B generated descriptions. NOVAs architecture included a spatial AR layer, a denoising MLP block, and a 16-layer encoder-decoder structure for handling spatial and temporal components. The temporal encoder-decoder dimensions ranged from 768 to 1536, and the denoising MLP had three blocks with 1280 dimensions. A pre-trained VAE model captured image features using masking and diffusion schedulers. NOVA was trained on sixteen A100 nodes with the AdamW optimizer. It was first trained for text-to-image tasks and then for text-to-video tasks.Results from evaluations on T2I-CompBench, GenEval, and DPG-Bench showed that NOVA outperformed models like PixArt- and SD v1/v2 in text-to-image and text-to-video generation tasks. NOVA generated higher-quality images and videos with clearer, more detailed visuals. It also provided more accurate results and better matched the text inputs and the generated outputs.In summary, the proposed NOVA model significantly advances text-to-image and text-to-video generation. The method reduces computational complexity and improves efficiency by integrating temporal frame-by-frame and spatial set-by-set predictions with good-quality outputs. Its performance exceeds existing models, with near-commercial image quality and video fidelity. This work provides a foundation for future research, offering a baseline for developing scalable models and real-time video generation and opening up new possibilities for advancements in the field.Check out the Paper and GitHub Page. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our60k+ ML SubReddit. Divyesh Vitthal Jawkhede+ postsDivyesh is a consulting intern at Marktechpost. He is pursuing a BTech in Agricultural and Food Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a Data Science and Machine learning enthusiast who wants to integrate these leading technologies into the agricultural domain and solve challenges. [Download] Evaluation of Large Language Model Vulnerabilities Report (Promoted)

This review contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy episode 6.Its time to change tactics, Valya (Emily Watson) declares at the start of the finale to Dune: Prophecy. Valya has good reason for a revision. The High-Handed Enemy finds her plans threatened on every side. The revived Lila (Chloe Lea) is under the control of Dorotea, who wants revenge against Valya for murdering her. Javicco (Mark Strong) seeks to regain control of his empire from not just Valya, but also from the increasingly powerful Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel). At the same time, Empress Natalya (Jodhi May) makes her move for power, while Princess Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) tries to rescue Kieran Atreides (Chris Mason), even as the Sisterhood moves to put her on the throne.With so many plot lines in play, it would seem wise for Dune: Prophecy to change tactics as well. Thus far, the show has been a murky mess of lore dumps and exposition, hamstringing even proven actors like Emily Watson and Olivia Williams and burying human emotions. With all the plotting plotters who fill the show moving into their endgames, nows the time to focus on clear motivations and character exploration.Unfortunately, no such change in tactics occurs in The High-Handed Enemy. Written by Elizabeth Padden & Suzanne Wrubel and directed by Anna Foerster, the season finale squanders its potential to achieve actual compelling drama by favoring exposition and lore.Nowhere is that more clear than in Lilas storyline. Chloe Lea has been a highlight of the series, especially when her wide-eyed true believer character accessed genetic memory and was possessed by her ancestors Dorotea (Camilla Beeput) and Raquella Berto-Anirul (Cathy Tyson). Lea convincingly plays a vengeful adult in the body of a child, and while the explanation of the mix of identities likely confuse viewers who have only seen the Denis Villeneuve movies, the composite character has a legible motivation. Valya killed Dorotea, and now Doroteas back for revenge.The episode starts to follow that trajectory, with thrilling scenes of Lila convincing her sisters to go along with her, before they realize that shes possessed by ancestors. But instead of having Lila go after Valya, she instead gets ideological. Lila spends all of her time gathering sisters to her anti-machine perspective.The ideological turn in the episode fails for numerous reasons. First, its just not as emotionally immediate as a revenge plot. Second, the philosophical stakes of the Butlerian Jihad havent been well-articulated throughout the series. The show has demonstrated people mistrust machines in this world, but the religious fervor that drives Butlerians in the book has not been on display, not so much that it deserves this much attention in the finale, especially over a basic revenge plot. Third, it muddles Valyas intentions, which already fluctuates between revenge against the Atreides and putting a Sister on the throne.Sadly, Lilas storyline is not the only time the finale chooses lore over characters. An otherwise powerful scene at the beginning, in which former Sister and current Suk doctor Nazir (Karima McAdams) exposes herself to the virus with Tulas help, trips up with they throw out the term prana-bindu as if it means anything to anyone who hasnt read the books. Furthermore, the duo discusses at length the viruss attraction to fear, which readers will recognize as setting up an origin for the Litany Against Fear, but doesnt feel like a actual conversation between real people.The failure of the scene between Nazir and Tula highlights the true problem with this series. McAdams and Olivia Williams give proper performances during the interaction, doing their best to find emotional truth under all the jargon. Likewise, Jessica Barden and Emma Canning shine during a flashback scene with young Valya and Tula. Both performers use their expressive faces to speak volumes with just a wrinkled brow or a flicker in the corner of their mouths. In those moments, we believe that were watching two sisters struggle with contradictory feelings and not just pieces on the board, to use a tired metaphor invoked throughout the show.Watson suffers worst of all in this regard. Not only has the writing on the series failed an actor of her caliber, but the adult Valya must be in control at all time, which deprives her of any opportunity to play the emotional range given to her on-screen sister Williams. The viewer can almost see Watson giving up on the character when Valya explains the entire plot of the show to Javicco, even as Mark Strong continues to play against type as the weak-willed Emperor.Frustrating as these positive points are within the episode, they do provide some hope for the future. Surprisingly, Dune: Prophecy has been given a second season and there is enough good stuff here for showrunners Diane Ademu-John and Alison Schapker to make a solid second season. By the end of the episode, Valya has escaped to Arrakis with Ynez and Keiran, Tula has decided to stay with her son Desmond Hart, and Lila/Dorotea continues to recruit Butlerian followers within the Sisterhood.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!The show still has some secrets left to explain. We now know that a machine was involved in Harts transformation, but its not clear who had control. The machine could very well be a specific figure from the books, Omnius or Erasmus, or it could be related to Ixians, a race only mentioned in the show. Either way, the series hasnt shown that it can balance lore with character well, which does leave worries about the second season.Still, Dune: Prophecy ends with a strong cast, a fully-developed world, and, some lessons learned. Hopefully, it wont take centuries of engineering to create a leader who can guide the series into something as rich and moving as the Frank Herbert books that inspired it. Hopefully, a change of tactics will be enough.Every episode of Dune: Prophecy season 1 is streaming on Max now.

In BriefPosted:6:53 PM PST December 22, 2024Image Credits:TechCrunchX jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harderX is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service by 37.5%, marking the largest price increase since the platforms acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022.The Premium+ service costs $22 monthly in the U.S., up from $16, effective December 21, according to a company statement. Annual subscription cost has increased to $229 from $168.X said it was adjusting the prices to support the experience it offers. Existing subscribers will be grandfathered into current rates until January 20.International markets face similar increases, with European Union prices rising to 21 from 16 monthly. Canada will see Premium+ rates climb to $29 from $20.Some markets are more impacted than most. X Premium+, which completely removes ads among other features, will cost users in Nigeria 34,000 monthly, up from 7,300. Users in Turkey, similarly, will have to pay 770 for the top-tier X service, up from 300 currently. The platforms basic subscription remains unchanged at $3 monthly.Topics

Mini CrosswordNYTIn case you missed Sundays NYT Mini, you can find the answers here:The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, youll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives.The NYT Mini is a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all. I try to beat the standard weekday grid in less than a minute. But sometimes I can't quite figure out one or two clues and need to reveal the answer.To help you avoid doing that, here are the NYT Mini Crossword answers (spoilers lie ahead, of course):MORE FOR YOUNYT Mini Crossword Clues And AnswersACROSS1) Character who's blue in the face? - SMURF6) Mideast country that juts out from Saudi Arabia - QATAR7) Loosen, as a knot - UNTIE8) Author's negotiator - AGENT9) Labourite's rival, in British politics - TORYDOWN1) What catchers do behind home plate or an adjective that might describe their physique - SQUAT2) Tropical fruit in a sweet salsa - MANGO3) Say aloud - UTTER4) Like stereotypical weather in the Pacific Northwest - RAINY5) Bar on a guitar's neck - FRETMiniNYTA bit of a speed run today for this one, as I cannot say anything really tripped me up. I knew it was going to be Qatar or Yemen as soon as I saw that clue, and despite being clever, the catchers one was pretty easy to get to Squat. I dont know anything about British politics outside of the word Tory, but that certainly came in handy today.Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.

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Nissan and Honda are reportedly considering a merger.But former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said the move suggests that Nissan is in "panic mode.""There is practically no complementarity between the two companies," Ghosn told Bloomberg on Friday.The potential merger between Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda is a "desperate move," said Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's former CEO.On Tuesday, Japanese newspaper Nikkei said the two companies are entering into merger negotiations.Pooling their resources would allow Nissan and Honda to better compete against rivals in the electric vehicle space like Tesla and China's EV makers, the outlet reported.Honda and Nissan are the second and third largest automakers in Japan, respectively. Their local rival, Toyota, is the world's biggest automaker.A Nissan-Honda merger would result in the world's third-largest car company by volume.Last week, Nissan and Honda told Business Insider that they are "considering various possibilities for future collaboration" but added that "no decisions have been made."Ghosn said in an interview withBloombergon Friday that pursuing a merger with Honda suggests that Nissan is in "panic mode.""It's not a pragmatic deal because frankly, the synergies between the two companies are difficult to find," Ghosn said."There is practically no complementarity between the two companies. They are on the same markets. They have the same products. The brands are very similar," he added.Ghosn, Nissan, and Honda did not respond to requests for comment from BI.Ghosn, once considered a legend in the auto industry, experienced a dramatic fall from grace in 2018.The former CEO and chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance was arrested in Japan and charged with financial crimes in November 2018.Ghosn was detained in a Japanese jail for over 100 days, before he fled the country by smuggling himself to Lebanon in a musical-instrument case in December 2019.The disgraced auto chief has maintained his innocence. Last year, Ghosn filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against Nissan in Lebanon for damaging his finances and reputation.On Friday, Ghosn told Bloomberg that the Japanese government specifically Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry was likely behind the Nissan-Honda merger talks."So at the end of the day, they're trying to figure out something that could marry the short-term problems of Nissan and the long-term vision of Honda," Ghosn said.The merger talks come at a precarious time for Nissan, which has been grappling with falling profits and decreased sales this year. Last month, Nissan cut 9,000 jobs globally in a bid to reduce costs. The company's stock is down 20.7% this year.Nissan is also facing increased competition from Chinese EV makers like BYD, as automakers vie for market share in developing markets like Southeast Asia and Latin America. Data compiled by the technology firm ABI Research for BI showed that Chinese carmakers accounted for 70% of the EV market in Thailand and 88% in Brazil in the first quarter of this year.Nissan initially led the EV race when it launched the world's first mass-market EV, the Leaf, in 2010.But the Japanese car company's EV strategy has since floundered. Nissan is one of the few car manufacturers in the US without a hybrid or plug-in offering."Nissan finds itself now with a very poor lineup of products and without obvious leadership in EVs, and that's the direct result of poor management," Andy Palmer, the former chief operating officer of Nissan, told BI in November.

Can you imagine gaming without PlayStation? (Credits: Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/Shu)The Monday letters page wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year, as a reader hopes for an early January Switch 2 reveal.To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.ukPLEASE NOTE: This will be the last Inbox of 2024, before we return to normal service on Monday, January 6. Therell be plenty of exclusive features till then though, including our Top 20 of 2024 and preview of 2025. In the meantime, we wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!Expect the unexpectedAlthough Xbox is the obvious choice to lose out next gen, if theres only going to be Nintendo and one other, I dont think people should be too quick to take that as a given. Remember that Microsoft is a vastly bigger company than Sony and theyve poured so much money into Xbox at this point that Im sure its become a sunk cost fallacy for them. That is, they think since theyve spent this much, they shouldnt stop now.I think for Microsoft its just a waiting game. They can sit around and make money from Call Of Duty and the other Activision games, then when streaming is stable enough to go mainstream theyre going to totally dominate that tech and Sony wont have a chance.I dont necessarily see that happening next gen but then I dont know when Wi-Fi and whatever is suddenly going to become more reliable. Im not saying its likely anytime soon, but I could easily imagine a future where PlayStation is pushed into third place and Sony just give up and leave the industry. Sounds implausible now but so did Xbox going multiformat a year or so ago.TacleBefore OblivionIm not against an Oblivion remake but I do wish Bethesda would remake Morrowind instead. Ive never properly played it, because by the time I found out about it, after Skyrim, it was already old, and I found it pretty much unplayable.I often see older fans of the series saying its the best one, because it has deeper role-playing gameplay but its very hard to appreciate if you werent there the first time round, I think.I guess the reason theyre not doing it is because it would be a lot of work, since the game is so old and theres basically nothing they can keep. Theyd probably have to change the UI and controls and everything else too. I wish they would though, Id like to play it properly but after a modern makeover.CarterSneak peekIf people are leaking the Pro Controller as well as everything else for the Switch 2, I dont think Nintendo has any choice but to announce the console ASAP. Early January always seemed the sensible choice anyway, but now I think its one that Nintendo must take.Its a bit of a shame to have the design spoiled like this but, as a reader said, perhaps its best to get the fact that it looks the same out of the way first, as it is kind of disappointing. Not that I think they shouldve changed it for the sake of it, but you do always expect something different from Nintendo.Im glad that the secrets of the new buttons havent been spoiled though, or any of the new games, as thats what most important.GlottisWarning signIm not blaming gamers for that list of the best-selling games being so uninspired, but it really is not the sign of a healthy games industry. If nobodys buying new games, then youve got to ask what is the point in making them?You can tell publishers have already been asking themselves that, because thats what doing nothing but live service games essentially is. I really dont know how you turn things around now, because just playing the same game forever is how a generation of kids now think of games.So even if Fortnite or Minecraft or whatever falls out of fashion something else similar will fill the gap and then everything else will still be left out in the call. The answer has got to be spending drastically less on making new games but does anyone really want the next God Of War or Call Of Duty to be made by AI?CodfreyPortable massiveRE: Kobold. Ive been playing Throne And Liberty, which is a free-to-play MMORPG. It plays great on my ROG Ally, so I imagine it will be the same performance on the Steam Deck.The game is open world and the quests are lot more engaging than I was imaging. While you will get the most fun by being in a guild, Ive enjoyed my time soloing through the main story.WallaceX marks the spotIve been playing games for over 40 years now and to this day I have to concede, I still struggle with X, Y, A, B or indeed the PlayStation configuration X, O, and the rest I cant type in.As the early 90s kicked in the SNES came out with its four buttons on the face of the controller. Each button was coloured differently, so that helped when knowing which button to press and also the Xbox controller. The GameCube controller was a godsend, as you could tell by feeling which button you where pressing.I bought Bayonetta 3 on the cheap the other day and I just cant get my head around the different buttons I need to press, incidentally I had the same problem with Bayonetta 2 on the Wii U.Im sure I would enjoy it a lot more if I knew what I was doing, instead of just button bashing and hoping for the best.Its actually really irritating that I cant get my head around it, but Ive been gaming long enough now to know what Im doing?Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a trait of dyslexia?Having said that, Im enjoying smashing monsters in Bayonetta 3 even if I am just ridding my luck.freeway 77GC: It sounds like youre having more trouble than just forgetting which button is which? All the Bayonetta games have easily accessed tutorials you can practise in, which will teach you the basics and various combos.Zero to heroGC, you and your team have been doing this job from the good old Teletext days and Ive never seen anyone ask this question, so here goes: is there any games you have reviewed and got a score lower than 3, then after a few updates and free DLC has gone above an 8 or do you just review games once and then move on?DavidGC: That is a peculiarly specific question. We cant think of any DLC that has improved our view of the parent game that much. Cyberpunk 2077 is the most famous example of a game improving from launch but were not sure if thats the sort of thing you mean.The year that wasIts been a heck of a year, with many ups and downs, but its still good to know the compassionate world of gaming is stronger than ever.That compassion extends to the many job losses in the gaming industry, which this years Game Awards definitely stressed the importance of. The development teams are what gives us these great games and without the hard work and dedication of these people we would not be in this great situation of gaming choices.The Game Awards made the point throughout the show, of the importance of respecting the designers and creators and how awful it is to lay these people off. Its good to know there are people willing to help the unfortunate workers who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, with a means to get back onto the job ladder with suitable development careers for them.The games in whole I feel have been great, as usual, with my favourites, interestingly, being DLC: Shadow Of The Erdtree and Alan Wake. But with Indiana Jones, Silent Hill 2, Dragons Dogma 2, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard still taking my time currently it definitely shows the top level of games available for us gamers. In fact, I had less time to play indie games because of the triple-A games available this year.Next year looks to be good but surely not a 2024 beater, though if Death Stranding 2 is released, then surely this is going to be my game of the year for me! I feel announcements will be made regarding next generation consoles and maybe a Switch 2 release date. But well see regarding all this, as I am in no rush whatsoever for this news.But all is good regarding this years games. I wish GameCentral and GCs awesome viewers the best Christmas over the holiday season and a very happy new year. May all your gaming wishes come true and stay safe and well. Heres to 2025.AlucardInbox also-ransJust read that the creator of Dead Space pitched a new game to EA and was told no. After seeing that Silent Hill 2 didnt seem to sell much are we ready to call this latest survival horror renaissance a failure too?ZeissGC: Were to sad to say thats probably true.Merry Christmas one and all! Heres hoping for some Switch 2 and GTA 6 news as soon as possible next year!CranstonMore TrendingEmail your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.ukThe small printNew Inbox updates appear every weekday morning, with special Hot Topic Inboxes at the weekend. 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maoom office / Design Studio MaoomSave this picture! Donggyu kim,maoomOffices, RenovationMapo-gu, South KoreaArchitects: Design Studio MaoomAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:82 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:Donggyu kim,maoom Lead Architects: Minkyu Choi, Yeonjong-Kim , Jeonghwan Lee More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. This place is a 55-year-old house that served as a home for a family for 47 years and as a space for Design Studio Maoom for the past 8 years. Design Studio Maoom has now renewed the space to welcome its second season. The newly redesigned space has been thoughtfully crafted to foster flexible thinking for Maoom's creative journey. Throughout the space, Maoom's members can freely explore and share their ideas. By exchanging stories with one another, their thoughts will grow deeper and broader.Save this picture!Walls for Free Doodling This is a space where anything goes, and thoughts can be freely expressed anywhere, reminiscent of the hidden doodles of our childhood. In this space with walls where free doodling (posting) is possible, we hope for creative and proactive ideas to flow naturally.Save this picture!Interwoven Grid Structure This structure represents a form that is composed of interconnected and intertwined elements. The tables in this structure symbolize the organic connections between various elements, creating an open structure where different materials or ideas can be freely combined. These tables, where various materials and forms can be combined, resemble pathways connecting small worlds. Here, we hope to return to a childlike state, immersing ourselves in play with no purpose, and discovering creative ideas.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Material Wall System This represents the concept that everything has its unique place and role. We designed a method to efficiently use the materials we frequently use and seek, placed at the boundary between the hall and the office (workroom). When needed, the system can be opened to view materials at a glance, and when done, materials can be organized back in their original place in a structured and rational way.Save this picture!Children's creative thinking starts from small play activities. In these small moments of play, they naturally explore various possibilities and ideas. To reclaim and maintain the flexible state of childlike wonder, we continuously strive to find a communication style that resembles play.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Mapo-gu, South KoreaLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeDesign Studio MaoomOfficePublished on December 23, 2024Cite: "maoom office / Design Studio Maoom" 22 Dec 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1024852/maoom-office-design-studio-maoom&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream