Tag: 25th
Perishers – 25th April 2023
Joe Biden in Belfast to mark 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement
Arab Strap announce Philophobia 25th anniversary tour
‘Lord of the Rings: Gollum’ will finally arrive on May 25th
After a particularly long incubation process, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is almost ready to ship. Daedalic has revealed that its stealth action take on JRR Tolkien’s fantasy world will be available May 25th on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. A Switch version is due later in the year. While the mechanics of the game are by now familiar, this still promises to be a fresh take if you weren’t enthused with the hack-and-slash of Monolith’s Middle-earth games.
You play Gollum in a previously unrecorded story of his search for (what else?) the Precious during the first few chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring. He’s clearly not a brawler, so he has to sneak and climb to survive. And crucially, the battle inside his corrupted mind plays a key role. You have to choose between giving into Gollum’s darker impulses or hanging on to the shreds of kindness from Smeagol. While this is an original tale based on the books, you’ll run into familiar characters and navigate a world heavily inspired by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies.
To say Gollum has taken a while to finish would be an understatement. It was originally unveiled in 2019, and even then wasn’t expected to arrive until 2021. That year came and went (the pandemic didn’t help speed development), and even a tentative September 2022 release didn’t happen after a delay that was only supposed to last “a few months” as Daedalic took extra time to polish the title.
The timing might work in the game’s favor. In 2019, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series was still in its infancy, and the last big Tolkien game (Middle-earth: Shadow of War) was old news. Flash forward to 2023 and it’s another story. Amazon’s The Rings of Power show is a major success, and movie effects house Weta Workshop is making its own game set in the franchise. There’s a renewed interest in hobbits and orcs, and Gollum might benefit from that demand.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/lord-of-the-rings-gollum-will-finally-arrive-on-may-25th-193755108.html?src=rss
Good Friday Agreement: PM to invite Joe Biden to NI for 25th anniversary
cURL, the Omnipresent Data Tool, Is Getting a 25th Birthday Party This Month
The cURL tool started as a way for programmer Daniel Stenberg to let Internet Chat Relay users quickly fetch currency exchange rates while still inside their chat window. As detailed in an archived history of the project, it was originally built off an existing command-line tool, httpget, built by Rafael Sagula. A 1.0 version was released in 1997, then changed names to urlget by 2.0, as it had added in GOPHER, FTP, and other protocols. By 1998, the tool could upload as well as download, and so version 4.0 was named cURL. Over the next few years, cURL grew to encompass nearly every Internet protocol, work with certificates and encryption, offer bindings for more than 50 languages, and be included in most Linux distributions and other systems. The cURL project now encompasses both the command-line command itself and the libcurl library. In 2020, the project’s history estimated the command and library had been installed in more than 10 billion instances worldwide.
How do you celebrate a piece of indispensable Internet architecture turning 25? Stenberg plans to host a “Zoom birthday party” at 17:00 UTC time on March 20. Double-check that time in your area: “It is within this weird period between [when] the US has switched to daylight saving time while Europe has not yet switched,” Stenberg writes on his blog. Stenberg plans to sip on a 25-year Bowmore Islay single-malt Scotch, while presenting the project’s history and future plans while taking questions. (A link to the Zoom call will be added to Stenberg’s blog post closer to March 20.)
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
S Club 7 Announces 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour
It’s been nearly 25 years since British Pop group S Club 7 burst on the scene with their 1999 debut album, ‘S Club’ (famous for its housed cuts ‘You’re My Number One,’ ‘S Club Party,’ ‘Bring It All Back,’ and ‘Two in a Million’), but now the septuplet is ready to bring their greatest hits to a new generation courtesy of a recently announced reunion tour.
» Read more about: S Club 7 Announces 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour »
The post S Club 7 Announces 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour appeared first on ..::That Grape Juice.net::.. – Thirsty?.
Air announce 25th anniversary vinyl reissue of Moon Safari
It follows a 20th anniversary celebration of the duo’s 10 000Hz Legend LP in 2021
The post Air announce 25th anniversary vinyl reissue of Moon Safari appeared first on UNCUT.
Microsoft are indeed showing off Redfall, not Starfield, on January 25th
The rumours were true: Microsoft will indeed be showing off Arkane’s co-op zombie shooter Redfall on January 25th, while saving Starfield for a presentation all of its own at a later date.
All the other details were spot on, too. The show’s called Developer_Direct, and will also include a peek at new regions in The Elder Scrolls Online, along with fresh footage from Forza Motorsport and Minecraft Legends.