New Content, New Battles, and New Rewards Are Yours in Battlefield V
Ready to face intense challenges in Battlefield V? Today’s your lucky day, Tides of War Chapter 2: Lightning Strikes has arrived. What is the Tides of War? It’s the grand journey you and your Company of customized soldiers, weapons, and vehicles take through World War II. Each Chapter introduces additional gameplay, improvements, and battlefields – all entirely free for Battlefield V players. Want to find out more? Read on.
What You Can Play Now
Dive right into weekly events and challenges starting today. They’re a great way to rank up, skill up, and earn rewards. Hit the battlefield regularly to get XP and work towards a unique Chapter rank, then unlock weapons, skins, Company Coin (Battlefield V’s in-game currency), and more. There’s something new to do every week, so don’t miss out.
Next, we’re introducing a more intense and fast-paced version of the iconic Conquest mode, called Squad Conquest. This mode will only be available during Chapter 2, so don’t miss out. Two squads per team (16 players total) fight for map domination – defenders must maintain control of all the flags; otherwise, they’ll lose the ability to respawn and risk having their entire team wiped out. Join the battle and discover if you can survive this frenzied experience.
What’s Coming Soon
Looking for a great way to get the hang of Battlefield V combat while your buddies watch your six? The new co-op mode, Combined Arms, lets you squad up with three friends to take on a series of Combat Strike missions across several maps. Set your difficulty level as you attempt a surgical strike on a single objective against a variety of challenging AI opponents. It’s an excellent way for new players to work on their skills and learn how to play each of the Classes, or for vets to challenge themselves on hardcore mode.
Then, the ultimate multiplayer experience expands with a historic new Grand Operation. Grand Operations let players join in massive battles across multiple modes, in-game days, and maps. In Chapter 2, it’s May of 1940, and Axis forces are rumbling toward the city of Hannut in Belgium. The might of the fierce Panzer divisions will test the strength and courage of Allied defenses as they attempt to hold their ground. In the end, only one team will be left standing.
What’s Next
Tank drivers may have had the upper hand so far, but Chapter 2 introduces Tank Hunter vehicles like the Mosquito, the Archer Tank, and the Sturmgeschütz. These deadly vehicles will change the balance of power on the battlefield. The hunter will soon become the prey.
And Battlefield veterans will be excited to see the return of a classic 16 vs. 16 mode, first introduced in Battlefield: Bad Company. Rush mode is back, but only for a limited time during Lightning Strikes. Attackers must arm bombs with limited respawns to accomplish their mission; meanwhile, defenders have unlimited respawns to try and stop them. It’s challenging, intense, and coming soon to a battlefield near you.
The War Goes On
Chapter 2: Lightning Strikes isn’t the end of your World War II journey, not by a long shot. Your battlefield will continue to evolve over time, introducing new gameplay, new experiences, an expanding world, and game improvements. Don’t miss a single challenge, unlock, or incredible mode – enlist today and start building your Company and leading your squad to victory.
For all the latest Battlefield V news on Xbox One, keep it tuned here to Xbox Wire.
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region.As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Nintendo Switch retail
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy(THQ Nordic, Tue 29th January, $29.99) Sphinx and The Cursed Mummy is an original 3rd person action-adventure inspired by the mythology of ancient Egypt. Travelling the world via magical portals to foil the evil plans of Set. Sphinx’s Journey will require all his wits, agility, and special powers.
Switch eShop
SMITE(Hi-Rez Studios, Today) SMITE is the multiplayer online battle arena that puts the power of the Gods in your hands.
Pikuniku(Devolver Digital, Today, $12.99) Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a fun little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure! Read our Pikuniku review.
Unruly Heroes(Magic Design Studios, Wed 23rd January, $19.99) The sacred scroll preserving harmony in our world has been torn up and scattered to the winds. Now, strange and terrifying creatures are sowing discord and chaos throughout the land.
Goat Simulator: The GOATY(Coffee Stain Studios, Wed 23rd January, $29.99) Goat Simulator is the latest in goat simulation technology, bringing next-gen goat simulation to YOU. You no longer have to fantasize about being a goat your dreams have finally come true! Goat Simulator is all about causing as much destruction as you possibly can as a goat. It has been compared to an old-school skating game, except instead of being a skater, you’re a goat, and instead of doing tricks, you wreck stuff.
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong(Curve Digital, Wed 23rd January, $14.99) It’s time to get carried away with the deliriously fun bloody physics-based construction puzzler packed full of creative challenges, sports and bloody disasters! In When Ski Lifts Go Wrong, you start in the rolling foothills and journey up to the jagged and exposed peaks.
#killallzombies(Beatshapers, Today, $19.99) In the distant future, #killallzombies is thrusting civilians into a sport of survival were a ravenous zombie population is unleashed in the name of sports entertainment.
ACA NEOGEO NINJA MASTER’S(D4 Enterprise, Thu 17th January, $7.99) “NINJA MASTER’S” is a fighting game released by SNK in 1996. Set in the world of Zipangu, where twelve fierce warriors known for being demons on the battlefield, both with and without weapons, clash spectacularly in a flurry of amazing combos and special attacks. Read our Ninja Master’s review.
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics(Ripstone, Today, $24.99) Led by Eric ‘Badger’ Harris, your team of allied warriors must battle behind enemy lines in the midst of World War II. Outmanned, outgunned, and up against an evil of mythic proportions, the battle has only just begun.
Asdivine Hearts II(KEMCO, Today, $12.99) Picking up two years after the events of their first adventure, Zack and friends find themselves off on another quest, but this time to save the parallel world of Archelio, which is on the verge of being frozen in ice.
Bad Dream: Coma(Forever Entertainment, Today, $9.99) TIP OF THE ICEBERG The game is designed in the “action-reaction” way and there are no obvious choices. Beat the game once and then be curious “What if I would do it differently”. Sometimes it’s not so obvious but from time to time you’ll see huge differences. The smallest things can be the most rewarding.
Cinderella – An Interactive Fairytale(Golden Orb, Fri 18th January, $5.99) Explore the magical world she lives in, feed pigeons, bond with the castle’s watchdog (a noble Pomeranian) and save the prince in this little adventure for fairytale enthusiasts of all ages!
Color Zen Kids(Cypronia, Mon 21st January, $3.99) For your own Zen masters in training, Color Zen Kids is a fun new twist on the critically acclaimed puzzle game. With simpler puzzles, larger shapes, and a kid-friendly animal theme, it’s a great way to teach problem-solving with a game they won’t want to put down. Now everyone in the family can find their way, with Color Zen Kids!
Cursed Castilla EX(Abylight, Today, $13.99) The tears of a young witch have been turned into a key by a demon to open a gateway to hell. In Cursed Castilla, one takes the role of Don Ramiro, a knight appointed by King Alphonse VI, to fight and banish the evil invading the lands of Tolomera. Read our Cursed Castilla EX review.
Doodle God: Evolution(JoyBits, Today, $6.99) Doodle God: Evolution is a unique edition of the well-known game that includes not only the classic Doodle God, but Doodle Farm as well. And now, in this addicting all ages game, not only fire, earth, water and air but also plankton, mammals or birds will be at your disposal. Mix and match different combinations of elements to build an entire civilization and re-create the evolution of the animal world!
Dragon’s Lair Trilogy(Digital Leisure, Thu 17th January, $19.99) In Dragon’s Lair, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon! Space Ace will have you take control of Ace – Defender of justice, truth, and the planet Earth! Ace is being attacked by the evil Commander Borf. Struggle with Dexter to regain his manhood. Destroy the Infanto-Ray. Defeat the evil Borf! Be valiant space warrior, the fate of Earth is in your hands!
Drowning(Sometimes You, Wed 30th January, $2.99) Walk through a variety of beautiful low-poly environments as a story unfolds about how he learns to live with his inner demon. You will play in the eyes of a young boy starting out high school in year 7, and play through his following years, where he learns that living with depression is like living with someone trying to put you down all the time. Walk through all the beautiful environments with a lovely soundtrack that suits the current mood of the game, and find all the hidden endings.
Fishing Universe Simulator(Forever Entertainment, Today, $9.99) Fishing Universe Simulator is a comprehensive fishing simulator which allows using various techniques, in different places around the world! If you are bored of waiting for fish to take and falling asleep in front of the console, this means that you have played a bad game!
Flowlines VS(Baltoro Games, Fri 25th January, $4.99) We love the Switch. We love puzzle games. We love versus multiplayer modes! If you like classic puzzle video games for 1 or 2 players. . . we have a lot of stuff for you! Inspired by the very best in the genre, Flowlines Vs. aims at becoming one of the greatest party games out there. We want players to solve puzzles, to compete with others at it, and to play – everywhere and with everyone.
GetAmped Mobile(Cyberstep, Thu 17th January) A global cosplay battle! GetAmped, the global 3D action game with over 30 million users worldwide, is now on Nintendo Switch! Take to the 3D stages, equip styles like Ninja, Superman, Esper and more. Combine weapons, styles and accessories in hundreds of ways to blow your opponent’s away!
Heroes Trials(Ratalaika Games, Fri 25th January, $5.99) After the banishing of the previous defender of your island, the community needs new heroes. The long training of siblings Elia and Zoel takes them to the last trials deciding who is the best fit to become the new local guardians. In the finals, they will have to compete against a sleazy couple and the clock to prove their worth. Rising to the top will not be an easy feat!
Hyperide: Vector Raid(Arts Alliance, Wed 30th January, $3.99) This game puts a modern spin on obstacle-course style vertically scrolling arcade games, and is inspired by the all-time classics. The player controls an ultra-fast spaceship on a rescue mission and needs be mindful of the oncoming space debris, as well as the power level of the ship, which is resupplied by picking up special crystals.
Inops(ZRZStudio, Sat 26th January, $9.99) Explore the shadowy Mine, twisty Jungle and extra-terrestrial Elect-City but be careful of lurking dangers. Escape traps, solve puzzles and dodge enemies using the Inops ability to split into many little creatures or join into one big Inop whenever you wish. Use the environment to your advantage by using unique intractable components whilst guiding the Inops simultaneously. Get to the end of each level and save as many Inops as you can to avoid being lonesome.
JackQuest: Tale of the Sword(Blowfish Studios, Today, $9.99) One fateful night, when young Jack takes the beautiful Nara for a walk in the woods, his love is kidnapped by the villainous orc Korg. Forced to mount a rescue, Jack plunges into Korg’s underground base, where he happens upon a strange blade that becomes an unlikely ally.
Legrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebound(Another Indie, Today, $19.99) Welcome to Legrand, a beautifully hand-drawn world riddled with curious creatures, devastating wars, and intriguing tales of vengeance and redemption. Embark on an epic adventure through this sprawling fantasy universe and fight alongside the Fatebounds as they attempt to bring peace to Legrand!
Mages of Mystralia(Borealys Games, Tue 29th January, $19.99) In the kingdom of Mystralia, it takes more brains than brawn to succeed. You will face down giant, powerful creatures and navigate treacherous terrain. You will encounter puzzles that confound even the wisest of the old sages. And you must overcome obstacles put in place by people who do not want you to succeed. Your path will not be easy.
My Exotic Farm 2018(Plug In Digital, Thu 17th January, $9.99) At the beginning of the game, all you own is an empty field, a few pennies and a single little ostrich… You need to feed your ostrich, take care of it and improve its lifestyle.
My Memory of Us(Crunching Koalas, Today, $14.99) The Evil King plunders the city and his robot soldiers are everywhere. Citizens are segregated, forced to move out of their homes, and live in a place separated from the rest of the city. As usually during war – the tragedy affects everyone, even the smallest ones…
Swords & Soldiers(Two Tribes Publishing, Fri 25th January, $7.49) Prepare for war on Swords & Soldiers’ side-scrolling battlefields. Build your forces, engage in a tug-of-war for gold and energy, and defeat your foes with a huge grin on your face! Pick from 4 totally different factions: the brutal Vikings, devious Aztecs, crafty Chinese, as well as Chief Meat’s army. Each faction has its own reason to go to battle and its own campaign to play, adding up to many hours of side-splitting action-strategy.
Unworthy(AK Games, Tue 29th January, $14.99) UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused platformer without jumping. Play as a warrior, risen from the grave. Equipped with sword and shield, you must traverse a bleak and hostile world swarming with creatures of nightmare. Your patience, determination and skill will be put to the test, as you fight against epic bosses, uncover powerful weapons and abilities, and attempt to prove your worth.
UTOPIA 9 – A Volatile Vacation(QubicGames, Sat 19th January, $9.99) Are you in need of a vacation to remember? Utopia 9 guarantees sunshine, entertainment…and bloodthirsty mutants! You play as the most recent guest of this scam resort. Can you survive the onslaught and sue the travel agency?
3DS eShop
Azure Snake(RandomSpin, Today, $0.99) Azure Snake is a beautiful snake in the world of light.
Dragon’s Wrath(Gamers Digital, Thu 17th January, $4.99) Dragon’s Wrath is 3D side-scroller game, designed in a unique papercraft model style. You play as Dragonio, the last of his kind whose family treasures have been stolen by a rogue group of medieval bandits. You must hunt them down and recover your inheritance before they escape with it forever.
Phasmophobia: Hall of Specters 3D(In-D Gaming, Thu 17th January, $2.99) Get ready for a new horrific experience. In Phasmophobia, you will need to navigate throughout the haunted halls to collect all the hidden pages in order to escape. But beware, for each page you collect, the game will increase in speed, and the spirits will be angered. Gather the pages and find the exit! Phasmophobia was originally part of an indie game jam in which developers had to remake a classic arcade game.
Wii U eShop
Azure Snake(RandomSpin, Today, $0.99) Azure Snake is a beautiful snake in the world of light.
Nintendo eShop sales
Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
So that’s your lot for this week’s North American Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!
Bash provides many important built-in commands, like ls, cd, and mv, as well as regular tools such as grep, awk, and sed. But, it is equally important to know the punctuation marks — the glue in the shape of dots, commas, brackets. and quotes — that allow you to transform and push data from one place to another. Take angle brackets (< >), for example.
Pushing Around
If you are familiar with other programming and scripting languages, you may have used < and > as logical operators to check in a condition whether one value is larger or smaller than another. If you have ever written HTML, you have used angle brackets to enclose tags.
In shell scripting, you can also use brackets to push data from place to place, for example, to a file:
ls > dir_content.txt
In this example, instead of showing the contents of the directory on the command line, > tells the shell to copy it into a file called dir_content.txt. If dir_content.txt doesn’t exist, Bash will create it for you, but if dir_content.txt already exists and is not empty, you will overwrite whatever it contained, so be careful!
You can avoid overwriting existing content by tacking the new stuff onto the end of the old stuff. For that you use >> (instead of >):
ls $HOME > dir_content.txt; wc -l dir_content.txt >> dir_content.txt
This line stores the list of contents of your home directory into dir_content.txt. You then count the number of lines in dir_content.txt (which gives you the number of items in the directory) with wc -l and you tack that value onto the end of the file.
After running the command line on my machine, this is what my dir_content.txt file looks like:
Applications bin cloud Desktop Documents Downloads Games ISOs lib logs Music OpenSCAD Pictures Public Templates test_dir Videos 17 dir_content.txt
The mnemonic here is to look at > and >> as arrows. In fact, the arrows can point the other way, too. Say you have a file called CBActors containing some names of actors and the number of films by the Coen brothers they have been in. Something like this:
John Goodman 5
John Turturro 3
George Clooney 2
Frances McDormand 6
Steve Buscemi 5
Jon Polito 4
Tony Shalhoub 3
James Gandolfini 1
Something like
sort < CBActors # Do this
Frances McDormand 6 # And you get this
George Clooney 2 James Gandolfini 1 John Goodman 5 John Turturro 3 Jon Polito 4 Steve Buscemi 5 Tony Shalhoub 3
Will sort the list alphabetically. But then again, you don’t need < here since sort already expects a file anyway, so sort CBActors will work just as well.
However, if you need to see who is the Coens’ favorite actor, you can check with :
while read name surname films; do echo $films $name $surname > filmsfirst.txt; done < CBActors
Or, to make that a bit more readable:
while read name surname films;\ do echo $films $name $surname >> filmsfirst;\ done < CBActors
Let’s break this down, shall we?
the while ...; do ... done structure is a loop. The instructions between do and done are repeatedly executed while a condition is met, in this case…
… the read instruction has lines to read. read reads from the standard input and will continue reading until there is nothing more to read…
… And as standard input is fed in via < and comes from CBActors, that means the while loop will loop until the last line of CBActors is piped into the loop.
Getting back to read for a sec, the tool is clever enough to see that there are three distinct fields separated by spaces on each line of the file. That allows you to put the first field from each line in the name variable, the second in surname and the third in films. This comes in handy later, on the line that says echo $films $name $surname >> filmsfirst;\, allowing you to reorder the fields and push them into a file called filmsfirst.
At the end of all that, you have a file called filmsfirst that looks like this:
5 John Goodman 3 John Turturro 2 George Clooney 6 Frances McDormand 5 Steve Buscemi 4 Jon Polito 3 Tony Shalhoub 1 James Gandolfini
which you can now use with sort:
sort -r filmsfirst
to see who is the Coens’ favorite actor. Yes, it is Frances McDormand. (The -r option reverses the sort, so McDormand ends up on top).
We’ll look at more angles on this topic next time!
Dead Or Alive 6 Devs Want To Make The Jump To The Larger Esports Stage
Though the Dead or Alive series hasn't reached the same heights as Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, it's still a fighting game series that's carved out a place for itself alongside the others since its debut nearly 23 years ago. With Dead or Alive 6 slowly approaching its March 1 launch--releasing on PC, PS4, and Xbox One--the developers at Team Ninja plan for the next game to offer more single-player and online content, with the aim that this will attract greater interest for large-scale competitive play.
While attending a recent hands-on session for the soon-to-be-released fighter, we talked with game director Yohei Shimbori, who spoke about the lessons learned from the free-to-play experiment with DOA5, and what the series hopes to accomplish in 2019.
"There's many different kinds of fans for fighting games," said the director. "Some play it for the story, some play it for esports. We saw that when Street Fighter 5 came out, it didn't have a story mode, and there was a lot of controversy around that. Once we saw that, we knew that people really wanted a story mode in their fighting games. There are also a lot of fans who really gravitate to certain characters. We focused more on that in DOA5 and the free-to-play versions, and with the expanded customization in DOA6, we wanted the fans to create their own personal versions of that character."
Recently, the game's launch was delayed till March 1, away from its original release on February 15. According to the developers, this was to ensure that the game would be in stable shape for its debut. While the DOA series has had a particular reputation for blending fast, fighting action with characters that leaned heavily into fan-service territory, the developers want the series to be taken more seriously as a contender with DOA6, which they hope will push the franchise further into the spotlight.
"I'm very proud of how we're able to release this game after DOA5, as there was a pretty long gap when that game launched," Shimbori said. "Also, I'm very happy to see that the esports movement has gotten bigger in recent years. I really want to work with fans to help DOA expand and reach that type of stage. My dream is for the DOA fanbase is for it to grow even larger than from what it is today."
For more on Dead or Alive 6, such as the current roster and what to expect from the comprehensive customization options, be sure to check back with GameSpot.
That’s right, everyone’s favourite game about possessing the body of a goat, exploring an open, suburban world, bashing into everything in sight, and occasionally giving things a good lick is now on Switch. As the small clip from the presentation states, it’s bringing “next-gen goat simulation” to a console near you.
The trailer shows you the exact kind of madness you can expect to find in the game, and the Switch version includes all DLC released for the title on other platforms.
You can pick the bundle up right now from the Switch eShop for £26.99 / $29.99.
Are you snapping this one up immediately? Is Goat Simulator perhaps not your thing? Tell us below.
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Scientists discover how bacteria use noise to survive stress
January 22, 2019 | By Microsoft blog editor
Noisy expression of stress response in microcolony of E. coli.
Mutations in the genome of an organism give rise to variations in its form and function—its phenotype. However, phenotypic variations can also arise in other ways. The random collisions of molecules constituting an organism—including its DNA and the proteins that transcribe the DNA to RNA—result in noisy gene expression that can lead to variations in behavior even in the absence of mutations. In a research paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Cambridge have discovered how bacteria can couple noisy gene expression with noisy growth to survive rapidly changing environments.
“We have taken advantage of advances in microfluidics technology, time-lapse microscopy, and the availability of libraries of genetically modified bacteria that have happened in the past decade or so to provide unprecedented detail of how single cells survive stress,” says Microsoft PhD Scholar Om Patange. “We hope this will help fellow researchers see that studies of bacteria at the single-cell level can reveal important aspects of how these organisms live and contend with their environment.”
Cells stochastically turn on their stress response and slow down growth to survive future stressful times. A montage of E. coli grown in a microfluidics device illustrates this phenomenon.
Using a microfluidic device, Patange—together with colleagues and cosupervisors Andrew Phillips, head of Microsoft Research’s Biological Computation group, and James Locke, research group leader at Cambridge’s Sainsbury Laboratory—observed single Escherichiacoli cells grow and divide over many generations. They found that a key regulator of stress response called RpoS pulsed on and off. When these happily growing cells were exposed to a sudden chemical stress, the few cells ready for the stress survived. This is a striking example of a microbial population partitioning into two populations despite being of the same genetic makeup. The researchers further discovered that the surviving population was paying a cost to survive: They grew slower than their neighbors.
To uncover the mechanism causing the cells to grow slowly and turn on their stress response, the researchers developed a stochastic simulation of biological reactions inside single cells. They found that a simple mutual inhibitory coupling of noisy stress response and noisy growth caused the pulses observed and also captured more subtle observations.
This study, for which single-cell datasets are available on GitLab, has both pure and applied implications. The stress response phenomenon may be related to persistence, a strategy used by bacteria to evade antibiotics without mutations. Understanding the connection between persistence and stress response may lead to more nuanced approaches to antibiotic treatments. The idea that bacteria have evolved a population-level phenotype governed by single-cell actions is also intriguing. Understanding the benefit gained by the population at the expense of single bacteria may yield insights into the evolution of cooperative strategies.
“The bacteria might teach us about cooperative strategies we haven’t already come up with,” says Patange. “We might also learn how to use and defend against bacteria better if we can see the world from their perspective.”
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Open-source effort is helping map at-risk areas in the developing world
When disaster hits, be it a natural disaster, epidemic, poverty or other crisis, first responders rely on GIS data to access the areas impacted.
Missing Maps is an open-source collaborative effort founded by the American Red Cross, British Red Cross, Medicine Sans Frontiers, and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team where volunteers help to map areas in an effort to ensure that many of the places previously missing from maps can be located and reached.
Millions of edits are made to OpenStreetMap by thousands of volunteers and members of the OpenStreetMap community.
Moved by the Missing Maps objective, “To map the most vulnerable places in the developing world, in order that international and local NGOs and individuals can use the maps and data to better respond to crises affecting the areas,” teams at Microsoft are contributing time, resources and technical expertise to the project.
Since initiating the program at Microsoft, over four thousand employees have been trained in contributing to OpenStreetMap at hundreds of mapathons across the company. With the goal to “put 200 million people ‘on the map’ by 2021,” we hope you are inspired to get involved too!
To learn more about Missing Maps and to start mapping, go to www.missingmaps.org.
A musical adventure where you use singing to save the world! Play as a silly bard who embarks on a globe-trotting journey to learn about the mysterious Earthsong, said to prevent the universe?s imminent end. It?s up to you to sing your songs, unlock the world?s secrets and make new friends.