Archer Maclean has passed away, aged 60
Archer Maclean, the developer of several classic games for early home computers, has passed away. Maclean was 60 years old.
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Archer Maclean, the developer of several classic games for early home computers, has passed away. Maclean was 60 years old.
In a report released on Thursday entitled “Apps at Risk: Apple’s censorship and compromises in Hong Kong,” AppleCensorship found that more apps were unavailable in Hong Kong’s than in most of the 173 App Stores it monitored. According to AppleCensorship’s latest statistics from last month, 2,370 or 16 per cent of the 14,782 apps it tested were unavailable in Hong Kong’s App Store. The watchdog said only stores in Russia and China had more unavailable apps than their Hong Kong counterpart — Russia had 2,754 and China had 10,837.
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Richard Miller, a sculptor at Industrial Light & Magic, died earlier in the week at the age of 80, a handful of days after his birthday. Per the Hollywood Reporter, he passed after an extended stay in hospice care. Fon H. Davis, one of Miller’s colleagues, later confirmed the news on Instagram, writing that he was “…
Filmmaker Albert Pyun passed away on Saturday in Las Vegas at the age of 69, reports Variety. The news was confirmed by his wife and producer Cynthia Curnan on Facebook, and comes years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia.
Jason David Frank has passed away at the age of 49. The news was initially broke by his personal trainer and close friend, Mike Bronzoulis, and later corroborated by TMZ (via Frank’s representative), along with fellow Rangers actors Walter Jones and Blake Foster.
Author Greg Bear has passed away, reports his wife Astrid. The 71-year-old novelist underwent surgery earlier in the month, and following the successful process, doctors discovered he’d had a stroke from clots that had been building in his body since surgery he had in 2014. He remained unconscious until November 18,…
For the two years since it first released, Genshin Impact has been console exclusive to PlayStation, with a new report saying Xbox failed to reach a deal with developer MiHoYo while it was still in development.
A recent Reuters report looks into Microsoft’s focus on the Chinese game industry, citing missing out on Genshin Impact as one of the reasons behind its increased interest in the region. The game has earned billions just on mobile platforms, and presumably has made a lot of money for Sony across PlayStation 4 and 5 as well.
An anonymous source quoted by Reuters claims that Xbox spoke to MiHoYo (now HoYoverse) when Genshin Impact was early in development but didn’t reach a deal, something Microsoft now has regrets about. Another source claims that this experience is driving Microsoft’s current search to recruit Chinese developers. They added that Genshin Impact has made a lot of money for Sony, though just how much is unclear, as there is no publicly available data for the game’s revenue on PlayStation.
There’s surely only so far the Next share price can fall, isn’t there? Things could change when we see the next update in November.
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