Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-07-2020, 12:38 AM - Forum: Windows
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Microsoft 2020 intern program will be virtual
At Microsoft, we’re embracing the “new normal” for how we work and live as the world comes together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The health and safety of our employees, interns, and their families is our highest priority, which means shifting in-person experiences online and working together to find creative solutions to new challenges.
For more than 30 years, Microsoft has hosted students from around the world as part of our summer internship program. This year, more than 4,000 students had plans to join us — the largest and most diverse class in our history — taking on roles spanning all our functions. And while we’re incredibly disappointed that we won’t be with them on our campuses, we’re committed to creating a meaningful and fun virtual internship experience for each one of them, and remain eager to absorb their energy and learn from them as we always do.
As we prepare to welcome our incoming interns, we’re working to set them up for a remote experience that will provide a rewarding professional development opportunity as well as meaningful connections. We’re fortunate to have the infrastructure and support needed to deliver a world-class remote internship program through onboarding tools like Microsoft Dynamics 365, and collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams. We also recognize that some individuals may be unable to participate in the virtual internship, so we’re providing an opportunity to defer their internship to next year, if needed.
In short order, the program team will begin hosting remote events that focus on building connections, fostering learning, and empowering interns to achieve their goals and uncover their passions. Participants in the program will connect with one another, build community within their teams, and engage with senior leaders across the company through a variety of virtual events. And we’ll empower our interns to co-create their summer experience with us. In the past, they’ve done everything from hosting their own volunteer projects and sharing TED-style talks to creating a musical.
While this experience is not what anyone expected, we’re embracing this opportunity together with our interns to learn from one another and grow. After all, the power of a growth mindset is that every obstacle is an opportunity to succeed. Adversity often creates some of the biggest leaps in innovation, and I predict that this year’s intern class will not only help us shape our virtual experience, they will have a lasting influence on our program for years to come.
Welcome to our upcoming class of 2020 interns, and thank you in advance for your hard work, creative thinking, and won’t-be-stopped attitude.
Below, you can see a list of the 20 best-selling games on the Switch eShop in Japan throughout the month of March, 2020. Also included are each game’s release date and, where applicable, information on any title’s adjusted pricing over the data’s time period (thanks, Perfectly Nintendo).
It’s no surprise to see Animal Crossing: New Horizons at the top of the list; the game has been performing ridiculously well in our regular weekly Japanese chart updates.
Random: A New Ice Climber Game From SteamWorld Dev Image & Form? We Wish
Despite appearing in a number of other titles over the years like Super Smash Bros., Popo and Nana have only ever had the one game under the ‘Ice Climber‘ name (well, two if you count the Vs version). So when should this IP be revisited? And why hasn’t that happened already?
Sadly, as with other series like F-Zero, Ice Climber doesn’t seem to be all that high on Nintendo’s list of priorities at present. Still, the gaming giant hasn’t been as controlling over its characters in recent years – Ubisoft has been given access to Mario and Star Fox for Mario + Rabbids and Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Next Level Games has Luigi’s Mansion covered – so what about giving the Ice Climber property to another trusted studio?
Well, developer of the much-loved SteamWorld series of games, Image & Form, has pondered the possibility on social media today. Before anyone gets too excited, we’re sure this is simply an innocent tweet to spark conversation, but the replies are overwhelmingly in favour of the idea. A SteamWorld Dig-type game, but travelling up rather than down and with the Ice Climber brand in full force, sounds pretty perfect to us.
The SteamWorld series has almost always been a multiplatform affair, but Image & Form is a studio that would rank highly on any Nintendo fan’s list of ‘Nindie’ favourites. We can’t really think of anyone better to take on a name like Ice Climber, so here’s hoping this wonderful theory becomes reality one day.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-07-2020, 12:37 AM - Forum: Lounge
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Quibi's Horror Anthology 50 States Of Fright Gets Frantic, Frightening Trailer
The streaming service Quibi has launched today, April 6, with a variety of original shows making use of its short-form video format. All videos and episodes will be no longer than 10 minutes, making it perfect for things like sketch comedy and anthology shows. The horror anthology 50 States of Fright releases next week, and the full trailer has been released.
As the title suggests, the show revolves around urban legends from all over the US. The trailer is basically just a quickly cut montage of scary moments, and it's hard to know what these actual stories will be about. But if you like ghosts, zombies, torch-carrying cultists, axe-wielding maniacs, and haunted hay bales, then this is definitely the show for you. Check it out below:
50 States of Fright launches on Monday, April 13, and new episodes will be released each day. The show is executively produced by Evil Dead director and genre veteran Sam Raimi, and the cast includes Taissa Farmiga (The Nun), Christina Ricci (Black Snake Moan), Ming-Na Wen (Mulan), Ron Livingston (Office Space), and Rory Culkin (Signs).
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There is a limited supply of keys on Days of War, you need an IGN account to claim a key. Creating or log in your account might not work properly, try out different methods like in incognito or disabling adblock. IGN's site has traffic issues so it might be difficult to claim one.
We are welcoming everyone to join our discord server (link below). We are more active there on finding giveaways, small or large.
Today we are taking a look at PixaFlux, an interesting free Windows based image creation and manipulation tool capable of creating PBR textures. The entire process is node based and PixaFlux ships with an absolute ton of nodes to work with. PixaFlux isn’t really easily described and is better seen or experienced, as you can in the video below.
PixaFlux is free to download for Windows, the download link is available here.
There is plenty of documentation to get you started. There is a complete Wiki with step by step text tutorials available here. There are additionally dozens of video tutorials available here.
The best way to get started with PixaFlux though is to see it in action in this video.
Riot Games has announced that Legends of Runeterra, the upcoming League of Legends card game, will officially launch on mobile on April 30. That’s a simultaneous launch with the PC version, which is just rather lovely. If you’re not sure what this is, it’s a brand new card game by League of Legends creator Riot, who is clearly on a mission to beat Blizzard at its own game. Literally. It draws a lot of inspiration from Hearthstone, you see.
It’s free-to-play and you can earn cards by simply playing or purchasing them from the store. You’ll be able to directly purchase the cards you want, as well rather than rely on whatever you can get out of card packs. The ability to have that much more control over your decks will likely appeal to fans who are tired of bad luck.
Aside from that, though, it’s all very business as usual. You’ll craft a deck out of a wide variety of cards, each of which comes from one of six different regions. Regions behave similarly to classes in Hearthstone, providing a variety of different play styles. You can combine cards from different regions to create your own strategy.
You can also pick a champion, which is a powerful card that you’ll likely build your deck around. There are six champions in total, with each one hailing from one of the different regions available in the game.
Legends of Runeterra is currently available in open beta on PC, and you can still earn a limited-time Moonstruck Poro at launch if you check it out ahead of the full launch. That’s on April 30, when it will launch across PC, iOS, and Android simultaneously. You can pre-register right now on Android via Google Play, but will have to wait until the official launch to grab it on iOS.
