Russell Adler didn’t eliminate Vikhor “Stitch” Kuzmin after all, instead confining the villain to an Icelandic black site prison as insurance for a rainy day. That day has come as Adler and crew free their former foe, their only chance to finally crack the Pantheon codenames. Witness the return of Stitch in the massive Season 04 update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone, bringing new maps, modes, weapons, and more. Season 04 launches May 29 on PS5 and PS4. Play Video Multiplayer overview New Core 6v6 Maps Shutdown (Launch): Shut off the power to the prison with an attack on a hydroelectric dam in Iceland. Fight over the rugged terrain, dive into the lake, and battle around the damaged turbine. Fugitive (Launch): With the power cut, it’s time to break Stitch out of the black site prison. Infiltrate the frozen compound, climbing, ziplining, and battling over the grounds and in the cell block where alarms warn of the jailbreak. New 2v2/6v6 Strike Maps Blitz (Launch): Traffic comes to a halt as Pantheon agents race towards the prison but get ambushed by the Rogue team. Duck under the bridge for quick cover or trek the cliffside seeking enemy targets. Eclipse (Mid-Season): Stitch arrives in Avalon, slipping into an underground nightclub to discuss business. Battle in the neon lights down the halls and over the dance stage. Remaster, Core 6v6 Map Fringe (Mid-Season): Revisit Fringe, originally featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and coming to Black Ops 6 reimagined as the grand opening of the Rolling Hills distillery. New Multiplayer Modes Team Elimination (Launch): This twist on Kill Confirmed gives both teams a limited number of lives each round. Eliminated players drop a dog tag on death that can be picked up by the enemy to confirm the kill and drain the opposing team’s remaining lives, or by a teammate to prevent the action. One in the Chamber (Launch Window): One pistol, one bullet, a knife, and three lives. Eliminate enemies to earn more bullets in this Black Ops classic. Party Ops (In-Season): Get the party started in a new Limited-Time Mode arriving later in the season dropping players into a randomized set of themed minigames. Now launching: The Grim Reaper Scorestreak: Grim Reaper (Event Reward): The quad-tube loaded Launcher returns from the original Black Ops, inflicting heavy explosive damage on enemy Operators and Scorestreaks alike.   Zombies overview Returning Mode: Grief (Launch) The fan-favorite competitive Zombies mode returns! This 4v4 indirect PvP mode pits S.A.M. against Director Richtofen as teams pledge their support for one or the other, receiving handler comms guiding them throughout the match. Secure Capture Zones to thwart the enemy with modifiers including reduced damage, drained ammo, slowed movements, and more.  Put your Zombies talents to the test in this mode while competing against real players attempting to survive longer than you and your squad.  New Ammo Mod, GobbleGums, Grim Reaper  Ammo Mod: Shatter Blast: Modify your ammo to explode on contact, dealing armor-piercing damage in a blast radius. Research Major and Minor Augments to specialize Shatter Blast’s abilities in all-new ways. Three New GobbleGums: Chew on Explosive Flourish to trigger an area-of-effect explosion around your Operator when reloading. Pop Flavor Hex to activate a random Ultra GobbleGum, and force eliminated zombies to belch sparkly rainbow bubbles via Rainburps. Grim Reaper: Build the new Support weapon at the Crafting Table and blast those zombies to bits! New Challenges and LTMs Expect an influx of Dark Ops Challenges awarding Calling Cards and bounteous amounts of XP for those able to complete the secret challenges. Play new Limited-Time Modes, including the Starting Room LTM and Abomination Challenge LTM later in the season. Call of Duty: Warzone Overview New Point of Interest: The Overlook Battle up and down The Overlook, a new skyscraper under construction in Downtown. Burger Town and the SKN Comm tower have been demolished to make way for the building. Two cranes flank the dominant POI and checkpoints line the entrances. Work your way from ground level including the relocated Burger Town up to the Penthouse and Roof, or latch onto an ascender and get some serious height. New Limited-Time Modes Clash (Launch): Two teams of 52 drop into a specific POI within Verdansk. With no Circle Collapse and instant access to your Loadouts, be the first team to earn 500 points by eliminating enemies, completing contracts, and participating in Public Events. Earn upgrades like the new Door Barricade Field Upgrade and the Hand Cannon, spend cash to activate SAM Turrets, and earn powerups that alter the course of the match. Havoc Royale (Mid-Season): Compete in a Resurgence mode where modifiers bend the rules in game-changing ways. Survive the havoc, be the last team standing, and claim victory! Resurgence Casual (Mid-Season): Drop into a Resurgence match mixing human players and bots. A great mode for warming up, teaching new players about the game, or just chilling out. Mid-Season Loadout Items  Care Package: Deploy this rare throwable to summon an aerial drop with the chance to obtain rare equipment, the Specialist Perk, and more. Perk: Loot Master: Available only in Resurgence and Plunder, gear up faster by increasing the amount of loot you find while opening caches, including an increased drop rate for equipped weapon ammo, Tacticals and Lethals, cash, Field Upgrades, Killstreaks, and other high-tier gear. General Overview New Weapons: In the Battle Pass, unlock two rapid fire weapons in the LC10 SMG and the FFAR 1 Assault Rifle. Earn more across multiple seasonal events including the lever-action Essex Model 07 Marksman Rifle, Olympia Special weapon, and the Pickaxe Melee weapon. New Attachments: Lock in with the G-Grip Tactical Foregrip available on most SMGs and Assault Rifles. Get three weapon conversions, including a burst conversion for the Stryder. 22 Pistol and full-auto conversions for the SVD Sniper Rifle and TR2 Marksman Rifle. Events & Ranked Play Earn additional rewards across several in-season events, including coveted items like the Essex Model 07 Marksman Rifle, Stryder .22 3-Round Burst Mod, and the Grim Reaper Scorestreak. Plus, compete in a new season of Ranked Play for Multiplayer and Call of Duty: Warzone, including Ranked Play: Battle Royale and, in Mid-Season, Ranked Play: Resurgence. Play using a competitive ruleset and earn new seasonal rewards based on the highest Rank obtained in the season. Season 04 Battle Pass & Store Content Purchase the Battle Pass to immediately unlock rewards including a seasonal 10% Battle Pass XP Boost, the new “Supermax” Stitch Operator Skin, and more, providing access to over 110 pieces of unlockable content. Plus, earn up to 1,100 COD Points as you progress through the Battle Pass Pages. Get even more with BlackCell. Look for exciting new Store Bundles including the cel-shaded Tracer Pack: Ink and Smoke plus the Tracer Pack: System Breach, Tracer Pack: Olympus Bolt, and much more. Season 04 launches May 29 Black Ops 6 is available now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Experience the spy action thriller Campaign, the in-depth tactical chaos of Multiplayer, and soak in the gory glory of round-based Zombies.

Avalon Holographics unveiled Novac, its first commercially available, true holographic table display. With it, groups can visualize detailed holograms together, turning their 3D content into mechanisms for high-powered decision making without glasses, headsets or tracking systems that can leave them feeling worn out or nauseous. With the ability to leverage AI, digital twins and more, Novac is a powerful way to garner insights and create experiences that help people do more with their data. Because Novac is a true holographic display, it can deliver unparalleled real-time depth and accuracy, without the stereoscopic tricks that limit experiences to a single person. Instead, multiple users can walk around the display at once, as they explore different perspectives, just like they would with a real object. This freedom encourages real-time collaboration that not only gets everyone from military commanders and doctors to factory executives on the same page, but helps them retain more information as they do it. “If you can’t see it, you might miss it,” said Wally Haas, president of Avalon Holographics in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. “Novac gives decision makers all the visual information they need to make the right choice — in a format that is as easy as using a TV. Groups can now simulate scenarios, assess risks and adjust strategies on the fly, ensuring that everything from space missions to surgical training go off without a hitch.” Avalon’s view of how holograms work. Novac can be applied to any high-stakes environment where real-time insights are needed to gain confidence and clarity. With research funding from tier-1 contractors, Novac has already found success in the defense industry, where commanders are prioritizing next-gen visualization tools for situation awareness, mission planning, etc. Because Novac can also ingest nearly any 3D asset, it is primed for any industry utilizing digital twins. A recent Omniverse integration will make this technology instantly valuable to executives in manufacturing, automotive, robotics, aerospace operations and more, especially when paired with future voice command updates. Avalon Holographics team With 61 patents and $65 million in funding, Avalon is at the nexus of three rapidly accelerating markets (holographics, digital twins and immersive experiences) which have projected growth rates between 25-40% over the next five years. As creator of the first commercially available true holographic display, Avalon is uniquely positioned to open up new opportunities in each, bringing holograms to a much wider audience. To build Novac ’s successor, Avalon is actively raising $50 million in additional investment to accelerate the transition from projector-based holography to OLED-based tiles. When available, these 6-inch flat tile panels can be linked together to make massive tables, walls and showroom displays at an accessible price point. Not only will this be effective for digital twin environments, but immersive brand experiences for theme parks, esports, retail and location-based entertainment. Availability Novac is available now and optimized for Nvidia RTX GPUs, Windows and Linux. It offers seamless integration with Unreal Engine, Unity and key digital content creation applications, while also providing support for industry-standard file formats like OBJ, FBX, GLTF, 3DTiles, DICOM and GIS. Origins Avalon Holographics concept art. Haas had a previous optical telecom startup Avalon Microelectronics, which he sold to Altera in 2010. He worked at Intel (which acquired Altera) for four years, and then he got interested in holographic displays, as he was inspired by the film Iron Man. He started Avalon Holographics in 2015. His new company has more than 100 people and it has more than 60 patents, with another 60 in the pipeline. “I thought this was really something interesting, and then through the process of learning about holographics. We benefited from the experience that I had with optical telecom. It’s taken us 10 years to get here, but we finally have this large holographic display, and we’re just super excited to show it,” he said. Avalon Holographics president Wally Haas. As for the 10 years, he said, “It’s just been a bit of a journey.” The company created four holographic display prototypes so far, and sold them as research devices to groups such as the Canadian Armed Forces. “This is our first full product, but the right way to think of it is just the first stepping stone on a long journey we’re making,” he said. The company is raising money for a display that looks more like a flat panel, and it will be able to allow for larger tables, walls and immersive experiences full of holographic effects, like where part of the image appears to float in the air above the display. Creating a hologram Hologram vision Rivals include Light Field Lab in San Jose, California. And some folks often disagree what the word “hologram” really means. The name itself from the Greek means “full information.” “You put a beam on an emulsion, and you specify, you illuminate it and then the constructive phase creates an image. But human eyes don’t determine phase. They only get color direction and intensity. So we are technically a light field display, but we are a holographic display, because hologram literally means full information,” Haas said. “We are reproducing light the way that exists in the real world, and we are producing rays of light. So conceptually, we’re moderately similar to Light Field Lab in the way that we are producing a real hologram.” He added that it is not auto stereoscopic. When you walk around the big black box, you can see different parts of the 3D image, so you can see that it is being rendered in 3D. “We are producing rays of light, and you’ll see in a second the we have five billion rays. That’s by far the densest, the biggest holographic display ever made. But the way that you see light in the real world is light bounces off real objects and then comes in your eyes with a certain vector,” he said. “We do the exact same thing, but the way that we produce the light is, instead of perfectly straight wavefronts, they’re more like cones. And so as digital objects, either get too far in or too far out of the frame, they’ll get a bit foggy. And because it’s ray based, it only has a certain limited field of view, and so we can’t see the hologram from this perspective, but as soon as you get up there it’s super cool.” Cool demo, heavy-duty hardware He showed me you can put your hand through the top of the hologram, above the glass cover (for protection) of the display. It was foggy and pixelated, but it was real 3D. Haas proved that to me by showing me two parking lots in a landscape. I could see that one of the lots was at a higher elevation, even when viewed from above. “You get that spatial awareness in a situation that humans immediately understand. That proves that you’re seeing a real light field,” Haas said. “It proves that you’re actually seeing something that is producing rays of light the way that a human body perceives it. This is the fourth one ever built. No one else can do this except a true holographic display. And that’s one of the things that makes us really unique.” The device uses thousands and thousands of tiny projectors, manipulating light to make tiles, or little squares of the image. They put it through a custom optical system to produce the rays. It’s a costly system now, but it will be reduced over time. The Novac system in front of me had 12 tiles, but I could not tell where the seams were, as it was all just one screen. The screen has about six to eight inches of depth. “The Star Trek Holodeck is the vision, and these are just steps along the way,” he said. The current hardware runs at 30 frames a second now. But it pulls a lot of data from the internet. The Novac system supports photogrammetry software and Gaussian Splats, which help capture 3D spaces. It works with the open USD format pioneered by Pixar and supported by Nvidia’s Omniverse. It works with Unreal and Unity as well. Haas showed another application that showed wireless network waves spreading across a city. You could tell where the waves hit obstacles like buildings or cliffs, resulting in lost signals in places like urban canyons. He also showed some images of MRI slices of a human body for medical applications, showing what someone’s kidneys look like. The Novac system uses an RTX server — a three-rack system with eight graphics processing units (GPUs). The hardware specs include a 40-inch display, a resolution of 63,888 pixels x 69,696 pixels, and a display aspect ratio of 1:1 (square. It has 4.5 billion active pixels, a viewing angle of 74 degrees x 74 degrees and a total weight of 975 pounds. (So nope, it’s not going to be a portable device). It’s got the effect of a few thousand TVs, runs at 30 frames per second and processes five terabits per second of data. That is about a third of the average internet traffic in Canada, he said. The company designs its own chips to run the compressed algorithm and then the decompression processing. There is a lot of water cooling in the system. Haas thinks the machines will be able to be the heart of theme park rides in places like Disneyland, or enable precise digital twins via Nvidia’s Omniverse. So it’s likely to find high-end applications. The full Novac system, once funded, is expected to come out in four years and it will be 10 times better in performance and cost about 10% as much, Haas said. Within a decade, Haas hopes it will be prevalent within society. Raising money for … Asteroids and more Asteroids on Avalon Holographics hardware. Haas invested $5 million of his own money into the company, and the firm raised another $40 million. Hardware is expensive, though, and so the company hopes to raise another $60 million. The defense application was interesting, where it showed an overhead view of a 3D space that captured an operations area. In it, there was a building that a number of military vehicles surrounded. The mission was to extract something from the building, and the vehicles left for extraction after that. The whole imagery was captured by drones with cameras. One of them is installed at a government lab, and another at a defense installation. There’s also one at a hospital and one in Orlando at the University of Central Florida. The sharpness of the graphics and the richness of the colors wasn’t there. You could see a screen-door effect on top of the pixelated images. But it was a hologram, as the image stuck out of the display into the air. Haas handed me an Xbox controller and then booted up the next app, which was a game. I played some Asteroids, a simple 2D game converted into a game with holograms. I had trouble figuring out how to fly in 3D, but it brought home the point of hologram gaming. I felt like I must have been one of the few people in history to play a hologram version of Asteroids. GB Daily Stay in the know! Get the latest news in your inbox daily Read our Privacy Policy Thanks for subscribing. Check out more VB newsletters here. An error occured.

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News Marathon Uses Decals and Visual Style Stolen From Independent Artist, Confirms Bungie Bungie said that it will be implementing stricter checks to ensure that all artwork used in its assets are attributed correctly. Posted By Joelle Daniels | On 16th, May. 2025 As Bungie gets ready for the September 23 release of its PvPvE extraction shooter Marathon, the studio has found itself embroiled in a new controversy. A visual artist, going by Antireal, has taken to social media platform X accusing Bungie of stealing the artistic style and design elements from projects she had worked on back in 2017. In her post, Antireal said, “the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs I made in 2017.” She went on to say that, while Bungie wasn’t obligated to offer her a job for her design work, the company outright stealing her ideas without appropriate attribution or compensation wasn’t a good thing. “Bungie is of course not obligated to hire me when making a game that draws overwhelmingly from the same design language I have refined for the last decade, but clearly my work was good enough to pillage for ideas and plaster all over their game without pay or attribution,” wrote Antireal. “I don’t have the resources nor the energy to spare to pursue this legally but I have lost count of the number of times a major company has deemed it easier to pay a designer to imitate or steal my work than to write me an email.” “In 10 years I have never made a consistent income from this work and I am tired of designers from huge companies moodboarding and parasitising my designs while I struggle to make a living.” Antireal’s posts are accompanied by a host of images showcasing some of her work, which does bear a striking resemblance to the overall design language we’ve seen from the various trailers and artwork released for Marathon over the last couple of years. Some elements from Antireal’s art seem to be outright lifted and pasted into Marathon, including words like “Aleph” which feature prominently in the artist’s work. In response, Bungie took to X to confirm that Antireal’s work was indeed seemingly used during the development of Marathon. However, the studio notes that this issue was unknown for its art team, and that it is taking investigating how this kind of slip up could happen. Bungie has referred to the use of Antireal’s work in Marathon’s textures an “unauthorised use of artist decals.” “This issue was unknown by our existing art team, and we are still reviewing how this oversight occurred,” wrote the studio. “We take matters like this very seriously. We have reached out to [Antireal] to discuss this issue and are committed to do right by the artist.” “As a matter of policy, we do not use the work of artists without their permission.” Bungie has also said that, moving forward, it will be conducting a thorough review of its in-game assets to ensure that there are stricter checks to document artist contributions. “We value the creativity and dedication of all artists who contribute to our games, and we are committed to doing right by them,” it wrote. “Thank you for bringing this to our attention.” Marathon is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and is currently undergoing playtests. Tagged With: Elden Ring: Nightreign Publisher:Bandai Namco Developer:FromSoftware Platforms:PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, PCView More DOOM: The Dark Ages Publisher:Bethesda Softworks Developer:id Software Platforms:Xbox Series X, PS5, PCView More Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Publisher:Sony Developer:Kojima Productions Platforms:PS5View More Amazing Articles You Might Want To Check Out! Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Trailer Showcases Opening Cutscene Remade in 3D Watch the first meeting between Joshua and Estelle with full animations and facial expressions before the rema... Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon – Everything You Need to Know The new indie 'scrolls-like' is now feature complete and looks stunning. Grand Theft Auto 6 Development Began “In Earnest” in 2020 – Take-Two Interactive The statement indicates that work had already begun on GTA 6 prior to 2020, which would back a former dev sayi... Mario Kart World – Everything You Need to Know [drop-cap]A[/drop-cap]fter what felt like an eternity of waiting, the next Mario Kart is finally almost upon... Read More Marathon Uses Decals and Visual Style Stolen From Independent Artist, Confirms Bungie Bungie said that it will be implementing stricter checks to ensure that all artwork used in its assets are att... Avowed to Receive New Game Plus, Photo Mode, and New Weapons This Year The next update due this Summer includes additional NPC abilities and behaviors, new Unique weapons and armor,... View More