Marvel Snap confirms new publisher after going dark during TikTok outage"To ensure this never happens again."Image credit: Second Dinner / Marvel News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Published on Jan. 29, 2025 The developer of Marvel Snap has confirmed it has landed a new publishing partner in the wake of this month's outage that saw the game suddenly become unplayable in the US.In a statement, Second Dinner said it had "already signed agreements and started the work to bring almost all operational and publishing responsibilities in-house", with support from Skystone Games, a US-based indie games publisher.Second Dinner had previously pledged to ditch its current publisher, Nuverse, in order to avoid any further disruption.Marvel Snap went offline in the US for over 24 hours and was pulled from app stores in the country as a result of Nuverse's parent company being ByteDance - the Chinese owner of social meda app TikTok. TikTok has officially been banned in the US due to security concerns around how it handles user data, and similarly went offline for a brief period. For now, the ban has been paused while negotiations continue over an expected sale - with Microsoft reportedly one of the interested parties.At the time of Marvel Snap's sudden outage, US users were greeted with a message apologising that the game "isn't available right now" as "a law banning Marvel Snap has been enacted in the US".As players reacted in shock, the game's developers issued a statement which suggested they had been given no warning the downtime was set to occur."This outage is a surprise to us and wasn't planned. Marvel Snap isn't going anywhere," Second Dinner said in a defiant statement. "We're actively working on getting the game up as soon as possible."After the game returned, Second Dinner announced an enormous package of in-game rewards as an apology to players, and pledged to find a new publisher "to make sure this never happens again".

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 hereHaving a decent Vanguard is a must in Marvel Rivals. The most successful team composition has two tanks, which comes as no surprise. Magneto, the Master of Magnetism, is one of the most popular characters in his role. Unfortunately, his ultimate ability is currently glitched and can easily result in zero damage.Magnetos kit is relatively simple, and he can be mastered in only a few hours. However, Meteor M, his ultimate ability, requires an impeccable awareness and is one of the most misused abilities in Marvel Rivals. To make the situation worse, landing a fatal blow is quite difficult due to a bug.Magneto has a fatal flaw with his ultimate ability in Marvel RivalsIn Season 1, Magneto is the second-most popular Vanguard, trailing only Doctor Strange. His pick rate is at 26.96%, which ranks sixth among all heroes. However, despite being a popular pick, Magneto only has the 13th-lowest win rate among all heroes and second-lowest among Vanguards. Its hard to pinpoint the exact reason for his low winning percentage, but it may have something to do with his ultimate ability.According to a recent Reddit post, Magnetos Meteor M ability is flat-out awful at hitting enemies. The post shows a player hitting an enemy directly with the meteor. However, instead of landing a killing blow, the meteor simply passed the target, causing no damage.While Magneto is unlikely to wipe out an entire enemy team in Marvel Rivals, his ultimate has a lot of potential. When properly charged, it can easily one-shot opposing supports and turn the tide in the battle. Thankfully, the ability can deal splash damage, which is a life-saver considering that direct hits are bugged. However, we hope that NetEase will fix this bug soon and make the character more viable.The next Marvel Rivals update is scheduled for mid-February, but the Magneto patch may arrive sooner.Marvel RivalsPlatform(s):macOS, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series XGenre(s):Fighting, ShooterSubscribe to our newsletters!By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime.Share

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 hereHelldivers 2 has a lot of plans for 2025, and it all possibly begins with its upcoming one-year anniversary on February 8th. Leaks show a massive battle on Super Earth is imminent and unavoidable, and other leaks show an armor customisation system currently in-development. While HD2 has a lot of exciting prospects, some fans are worried due to the announced departure of Pilestedt. In response to worried fans, the Helldivers 2 CEO has assured players HD2 can still exist for a long time, even in the wake of its one Jesus figure leaving.Helldivers 2 CEO assures fans worried about Pilestedt leavingOn X, Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead CCO, Pilestedt, has announced that he is taking a sabbatical. Not only that, but Pilestedt announced that he will be working on the next Arrowhead game when he comes back.As for why they are taking a break, its because they have been working on the same IP for 11 years. Pilestedt was working on HD in 2013, they started working on HD2 in 2016, and working around the clock for over a decade has resulted in Pilestedt setting aside himself and loved ones.Image credit: @Pilestedt on XThe break is well-deserved, but the announcement has naturally resulted in some Super Earth soldiers being worried about HD2s future. After all, Pilestedt has been the face and voice of Helldivers 2 for many, even after stepping down as Arrowhead CEO.Pilestedt was replaced as CEO in 2024 by Shams Jorjani, and Jorjani has responded to concerned fans on Discord. In response to a fan worried about Pilestedt never working on HD2 again, Shams Jorjani said, The lead for the game is Mikael Eriksson and has been for the last few years Johans role as a senior creative is to support all our projects.Jorjani assured players that Pilestedt will absolutely still be involved in the same way hes been the past year gives input on high level plans, collaborates with designers on some stuff. The CEO also informed players that The vast majority of Helldivers is a team effort rather than the work of just one Jesus figure. Image credit: Helldivers DiscordIn addition to assuring fans that Helldivers 2 is still in good hands following Pilestedts sabbatical, Jorjani relayed fears about how long HD2 can, and will, last. In response to a query about when support for HD2 will end, Jorjani said, as long as people play, pay and we can build a business case around it well support it to hell and back. If we can keep it going for 10 years we will.As to whether the continued existence of HD2 would jeopardize development for Helldivers 3, Jorjani said, compare Helldivers today to when it launched. Its so, so much more. Now imagine Helldivers in 3 years. Tell me how thats different from a hypothetical Helldivers 3.Image credit: Helldivers DiscordFor more Helldivers 2, check out our guide to thebest warbonds ranked, along with thebest stratagemsandbest throwables. We have also a guide to thebest weapons, and, if youre coming back to HD2 for the first time in a long while, we have a bunch oftips and tricksto help you get reaccustomed to the battlefield.Helldivers 2Platform(s):PC, PlayStation 5Genre(s):Action, Shooter, Third Person8VideoGamerSubscribe to our newsletters!By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime.Share

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This Is The PlaceWicked is a tough act to follow, so its director is going back to the classics for his next film with an adaptation of Dr. Seuss' final bookIt has some big musical talent attached to it too.Image credit: Random House News by Oisin Kuhnke Contributor Published on Jan. 29, 2025 The first part of Wicked has been a big hit at the box office, and after part two releases this year, director Jon M. Chu will be diving into your childhood.When you direct a film that ends up as successful as Wicked - which has taken home an impressive $717 million at the box office on a $150 million budget - you can probably end up taking any project you want! Perhaps Chu would be interested in adapting another big musical, or even just have his hand at The Wizard of Oz? Nope! As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Chu's next film is set to be an animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go!, which in this version will apparently follow a "young adventurer navigating the ups and downs of life." Chu won't be helming the project on his own, though, as Jill Culton (Open Season, Monsters, Inc.) will be serving as co-director alongside him.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Penning the screenplay is Rob Lieber, best known as the writer of 2018's Peter Rabbit and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, and also of the upcoming Karate Kid: Legends. It seems like Oh, The Places You'll Go! will also be a musical, as EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are composing original songs for it - they're best known for writing the music and lyrics for Dear Evan Hansen, as well as Disney's 2019 version of Aladdin and the upcoming Snow White remake.Oh, The Places You'll Go! isn't obviously as well known as titles like The Cat in the Hat or Horton Hears a Who!, but it is still the usual kind of thing you can expect from the author (it was also the last book he ever released before his death in 1991). Don't expect it for quite a while though, as it currently has a release year of 2028 - I'm sure Wicked part two will keep you plenty occupied.

Gromit!The cheesiest movie star you know is now playable in Ninja Gaiden 2 BLACKI mean who could hate this?Image credit: HaiseSasan125 News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on Jan. 29, 2025 Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is out, and as you can imagine folks are having a blast playing through the game yet again. But for PC players, modders are adding a little bit of extra pow to the whole experience. The best mod released to this point, by far, has got to be the introduction of the world's most beloved movie star in a new role.No, I'm not talking about Timothe Chalamet. Wallace, of Wallace and Gromit fame, has made an appearance, taking the place of Ryu courtesy of HaiseSasan125 on Nexus Mods. The mod, which you can download right now, is a simple model swap. But even so, it's getting some love on social media. You can see a video of Wallace in action below.Wallace and Gromit is currently on the up and up in large part due to the 2024 release: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. This film is nominated for best animated feature at the Oscars this year. This makes the duo six time Oscar nominees, which is pretty darn good for a pair of clay lads.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Every time we get a PC release, there's always a horde of talented and ambitious creators who take modding tools to the game for the sake of technical improvement, accessibility, pure fun factor, and more. Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is no different, with people putting out optimisisation mods, UI changes, and more. As of writing, Wallace is the top mod on Nexusmods, as he should be.Are you a fiend for cheese and fancy downloading this Wallace mod? Let us know below!

Traders of the Lost Card.Pokmon Trading Card Game Pocket's hotly-anticipated Trade feature is finally live in the mobile app. Those who have been waiting to swap cards with their pals can now do so, but there's a catch: it's a real headache.As with everything TCG Pocket, Trading is all about consumable items and currency. We've known for a while that you'll only be able to trade cards with friends, and those trades can only be cards of the same rarity, but a lengthy tutorial when you first open up the new feature explains there are a bunch more rules to keep in mind.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

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Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his Ph.D. in mathematics, focused on numerical weather prediction, before working for Meteomedia AG, a network of weather stations in Switzerland and Germany. But while he knew a lot about weather forecasting from the prediction side, he realized the gaps that remained on the consumption side when he started working toward his pilots license in 2011.I learned a lot about weather forecasting from a user perspective, Fengler told TechCrunch. Its, of course, much different than looking to the weather forecast as a mathematician and minimizing error measures. But sitting at an airstrip and you cant fly because of fog or a bad forecast, that was quite eye opening.Fengler decided to launch a weather company of his own, and started Meteomatics in 2012. The St. Gallen, Switzerland-based company pulls weather data from more than 110 sources in addition to gathering data from its own autonomous weather drones. This combination of data sources allows Meteomatics to update its weather forecasts every hour and make precise predictions for areas as little as one square kilometer.Martin Fengler / MEteomatics.Meteomatics puts all that information into one place for its customers and built an API on top of it so its customers can use the data how they see fit, including running their own AI algorithms on top of it. Fengler, CEO, added that the fact that Meteomatics translates weather data into one uniform structure seems simple but is a feat of its own.It was dealing with complicated large files, data formats that are very specific to these industries, there is little standard around that, Fengler said. Bringing APIs to this industry was like bringing the light to the blind.Fengler said this focus on building a weather company aimed at enterprises, or the commercial sector in general, sets it apart from most weather companies because many are focused on one area and one audience.Most weather companies have a focus on the media industry and I didnt like that, Fengler said. Its very much about TV and radio, but theres a huge demand from industry, and I was always intrigued by the topics those customers are dealing with.Meteomatics now works with more than 600 customers, including large enterprises like Tesla, CVS Health, and Swiss Re, among others. Fengler added that while some enterprise use cases for Meteomatics are more obvious, like a renewable energy company using weather data to predict outcomes from their wind or solar farms, others are less so, and Fengler said he learns of a new enterprise use case for weather data almost every week.Enterprises will likely increasingly look for this kind of data too as the impacts of climate change continue to get more intense. Climate disasters cost $150 billion a year, in the U.S. alone, with businesses shouldering a percentage of those costs.Meteomatics just raised a $22 million Series C round led by Armira Growth with participation from Alantras energy transition fund, Klima, and Fortyone Group, among others. Fengler said that the company has intentionally reinvested the money its made back into the business over its 12-year history which has allowed the startup to avoid raising a ton of capital.Fengler added that they usually raise a new round when they are looking to put money toward a specific project or initiative. This Series C round is no different, as the company plans to use the capital to work on its U.S. expansion by hiring a sales and marketing team focused on the region.Some of the money from the round will also be put toward building out the companys tech. Fenglers grand vision is to bring precision weather, defined as down to a one-square kilometer range, to the whole globe. This level of specificity is currently available across Europe and should be available in the U.S. by the end of Q1.That remains the North Star for Meteomatics, Fengler said. It makes me get up in the morning. I strongly believe that we will be able to deliver a global one-kilometer model one day.

In BriefPosted:3:51 AM PST January 29, 2025Image Credits:David Tramontan/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty ImagesDeepSeeks AI avoids answering 85% of prompts on sensitive topics related to ChinaAI chatbot DeepSeek has taken the world by storm, topping app store charts and sending Silicon Valley and Wall Street into meltdown.An offshoot of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeeks cost-to-performance ratio makes for impressive reading compared to incumbents such as OpenAI. However, reports have increasingly documented some of the things the AI chatbot is unwilling to discuss, including thorny topics like the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, and Taiwan.A new report from the folks at PromptFoo, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that helps companies find vulnerabilities in AI applications, has found that DeepSeeks R1 reasoning model refused to answer some 85% of 1,360 sensitive-topic prompts, and the models canned responses were replete with an over-the-top nationalistic tone often offered instead.The researchers also noted that DeepSeek can be easily jailbroken, suggesting that the Chinese lab has implemented CCP [Chinese Communist Party] censorship in a crude, blunt-force way.The full dataset of sensitive prompts are available on Hugging Face. TopicsAI, China, deepseek