Tag: 2025
Highly anticipated indie Sims 4 rival Paralives sets early access release window for 2025
Paralives, the independently-developed life simulation game suspected to be coming for The Sims 4‘s crown, has received a long-awaited news update on when we might really get to play it. The development team led by Alex Massé released a seven-minute gameplay video and accompanying blog post last night, which also addressed their plans for DLC (the elephant in the simulated living room), and ended with the announcement that an early access release is planned for an as-yet-unspecified date in 2025.
Paralives was announced back in 2019 and currently pulls in £27.5K/$33K monthly via Massé’s Patreon, which is amazing when you consider that these seven minutes are the most footage we’ve ever seen in one go of the game’s all-important Live Mode; to say nothing of the fact that this is the first time the team have let slip a hint of a release window for the game. Clearly there’s plenty of appetite among players for a serious challenger to go toe-to-toe with EA’s behemoth Sims franchise.
In case there was any doubt remaining, Paralives is clearly squaring up to The Sims with yesterday’s announcement that all updates and expansions will be free, including those released after the game’s eventual V1.0 launch out of early access, and that the game will never branch out into paid DLC. (Quick reminder that a full complement of The Sims 4’s DLC would currently set you back over a grand, with no signs of new content releases slowing down; while collecting every little add-on available for The Sims 3 honest-to-goodness costs as much as outright purchasing a family home in some parts of Wales.)
The Sims-like Life Simulator Paralives Gets a 2025 Release Window
ESPN Streaming Service Expected to Launch by Fall 2025 – CNET
ESPN’s standalone streaming service will launch by fall 2025
On the company’s quarterly earnings call today, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the previously-announced standalone ESPN streaming service will arrive by the fall of 2025. The company had already tipped the service, which Iger explained will offer “the full suite” of ESPN networks as a streaming option, but a general launch date or any additional details hadn’t been revealed.
Iger said that the standalone ESPN offering will serve up the live games and studio programming that’s currently available on a host of cable channels. What’s more, the service will provide access to ESPN Bet and fantasy sports alongside detailed stats and shopping. Of course, all of that will also include “robust personalization,” according to Iger.
These new details come a day after Disney announced it would team up with Fox and Warner Brothers Discovery on a combined sports streaming service this fall. The yet-to-be-named option will include games from NFL, MLB, NHL and the NBA via channels including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV and ESPN. There’s no word on pricing yet, but subscribers will be able to bundle it with their existing Disney+, Hulu, and Max subscriptions. This means that you’ll actually be able to stream ESPN networks without a cable or other live TV subscription before Disney’s own standalone service launches. However, the combo effort is sure to be more expensive as it mashes up all of those additional channels from Fox and Warner Brothers Discovery.
Disney already offers ESPN+ as an alternative to cable. The service makes live games available for streaming, but it doesn’t provide access to action as it airs on ESPN networks. For that reason ESPN+ has been complement to the cable channels, but Disney hasn’t yet said how its services will exist after fall of next year.
Standalone ESPN will also be available on Disney+ for bundle subscribers, just like the company has done with Hulu. No word on pricing for the new iteration of ESPN yet either, but there’s also plenty of time for Disney to hype the service between now and fall 2025. Iger did say that the the price “would be more attractive” than the typical cable bundle.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/espns-standalone-streaming-service-will-launch-by-fall-2025-220624127.html?src=rss
ESPN will be available as a standalone streaming service in fall 2025
Paralives heats up the race to be the next Sims with early access release in 2025, confirms no paid DLC
After years without a new The Sims game, it seems like three are likely to land in fairly close proximity – sort of, anyway. We know that Paradox’s ambitious competitor Life By You will arrive this June (assuming no more delays), while EA’s own free-to-play evolution of the OG life-sim series – currently codenamed Project Rene rather than The Sims 5 – is probably still a while off yet. Dropping somewhere in the middle will be Paralives, the promising Patreon-funded up-and-comer led by indie dev Alex Massé, which has been given a fresh look and confirmation of a release date sometime next year.
Tesla’s new Texas lithium refinery to support 1M electric vehicles by 2025
Tesla officially broke ground Monday on a Texas lithium refinery, making it the only U.S. automaker to refine its own lithium. CEO Elon Musk said the refinery will produce enough battery grade lithium for 1 million electric vehicles by 2025, which would make Tesla the largest processor of lithium in North America. Tesla will continue […]
Tesla’s new Texas lithium refinery to support 1M electric vehicles by 2025 by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
NASA Chief Still Confident SpaceX’s Starship Can Land Astronauts on the Moon in 2025
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson downplayed concerns regarding Starship’s ability to deliver astronauts to the surface of the Moon in two years in light of the SpaceX launch vehicle exploding minutes into its first test flight.
Aang and the Avatar gang will be your age when the new animated movie finally comes out in 2025
The gaang’s all grown up!