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Time of India
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
All trophies in Revenge of the Savage Planet and how to get them
Navigating the Revenge of the Savage Planet's chaotic alien world is not just about survival. It is also about mastering the quirky challenges of snagging every trophy. The game is a mix of combat, exploration, and some quirky challenges, with each of these tied to the unique gaming trophies . Tired of too many ads? go ad free now From capturing the creatures to uncovering some hidden secrets, here is the breakdown of all your achievements and how you can earn them. Complete Revenge of the Savage Planet trophies and how to get them Revenge of the Savage Planet - Slide of Death Achievement ALTA BUCKS FOR ALTA PEOPLE- find all the 25 Alta Coupon crates. BUCKS FOR ALTA PEOPLE- find all the 25 Alta Coupon crates. ALTA CARES- open Alta Bucks undamaged crate. BAD DATA- scan all the abandoned Alta Data Pods. CANNONBALL- dive from 50m+ into the water. CHARACTER, CAMERA, CONTROL- chain the sprint and slide. Boost jump and then grapple in one of the fluid motions. CLEAN IT UP- delete all trash in the new Habitat. CRASH PAD- buy and then place 20 furniture items in the Habitat. CRUSHED- defeat Clawbarella . . CYBER CORRUPTION- defeat Cyber Wardrill. ELECTRIFIED!- defeat boss Wormzilla . . ENTERTAINED… TO DEATH- defeat SLAPPI boss. FEATURE WALL- kill the Brainard, kicking it off the cliff. FOR MOAR CHALLENGE!- complete all the Challenge Groups. FOR THE CHALLENGE!- complete 1 Challenge Group. FUNGEON ONE- complete 1 Shrine. GOOOOAL- knee-slide for approx. 40 metres, without stopping. HASTA LA VISTA- launch Javelin and then return to Earth (Story-related). HAMSTER WHEEL- interact with the 3 habit objects. They must all be different. HIDDEN TROPHY- continue playing to unlock it. There are many such hidden gaming trophies. HOMEMAKER- place the object in the Habitat that you bought from the Alta Store using Alta Bucks. HOMEWARD BOUND?- locate a lost Javelin hidden within the world. IN THE ABG- capture Hognork! INTELLIGENT LIFE?- enter Shrine. IT'S NEEDLESSLY COMPLEX - stagger and then capture either of the creatures. IT'S A MACGUFFIN- research the Pentaforce piece. IT'S ALIVE!- reassemble Pentaforce! KICK ITS FACE OFF- fly-kick the flying enemy in mid-air. LAUNCH IT- use the bounce seed to launch the Arffalo somewhere that's interesting. OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE- collect all the other gaming trophies! ONE MORE THAN LAST TIME FTW- collect all the Ball of Goo. POWER TOOL- unlock 100% of the upgrades. PRESS X TO PET RESPECTS- interact with the 5 captured animals. REVENGE IS BEST SERVED VIA THE INTERNET- gather all the evidence of the Alta's crimes before you leave. SIDE NOTES- discover and then complete all the side quests (core). SLAP HAPPY- complete 4 Shrines. SLIDE OF DEATH- knee-slide through the 3 enemies in just one move. THREE PIECE SUIT- complete 3 Shrines. TOOL- will unlock 50% of the upgrades. TOXIC POSITIVITY- find all the Alta Toxic Employee Cry-o-Pod. TRASH KINGS- find the trash mountain of Alta. TWO POTATO- complete 2 Shrines. YOU'RE FIRED!- read and then accept the Termination agreement on the Habitat PC. ZOOLOGIST- capture the creature and then pet it in the pen. There are some gaming trophies that need thorough exploration. The others, on the other hand, test a player's combat skills. Make sure to focus on the side quests and upgrades and, of course, scan everything to maximize the progress. Happy hunting!
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Alta Resource Technologies Expands Series Seed Funding to $10M to Scale Protein-Based Critical Minerals Technology
DCVC and Voyager co-lead with support from In-Q-Tel and Orion to commercialize Alta's advanced biochemistry platform for mineral separation BOULDER, Colo., May 05, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alta Resource Technologies, a pioneer in using advanced biochemistry to transform mineral separation, today announced that it has expanded its Series Seed funding to $10 million with the close of an additional $4.4 million investment. The Seed 2 investment was co-led by DCVC and Voyager Ventures with participation from Orion Industrial Ventures and In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor for the U.S. national security community and America's allies. The new capital will accelerate development and commercialization of Alta's breakthrough platform, which uses engineered proteins to selectively bind to and separate critical minerals—including rare earth elements like neodymium and dysprosium—from low-grade ores and complex waste streams. The approach promises to dramatically reduce the environmental impact of mineral extraction while helping to secure domestic supply chains for essential materials used in advanced electronics, clean energy technologies, and modern defense systems. The investment comes at a pivotal moment for critical-mineral supply chains, many of which are dominated by China. This concentration of control has raised alarms about economic and national security. Responding to the growing urgency around supply chain resilience, the White House issued an executive order in March 2025 aimed at boosting domestic mineral production and reducing U.S. reliance on fragile foreign supply chains. Alta's technology offers a timely and scalable solution: a low-impact way to extract high-purity critical minerals from unconventional and previously uneconomic sources. "Securing resilient, low-impact sources of critical minerals is no longer optional for America and its allies—it's a strategic imperative," said Nathan Ratledge, PhD, Alta's Co-Founder and CEO. "Washington is beginning to respond with the kind of wartime urgency this moment demands, and Alta's technology is uniquely positioned to deliver. Our protein-based platform gives the U.S. a scalable way to tap into unconventional mineral resources right here at home, while slashing both costs and environmental impact." Alta's platform is based on protein engineering breakthroughs developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and researchers at Pennsylvania State University. By customizing proteins to bind selectively to individual elements—even at low concentrations in complex mixtures—Alta's solution offers far greater precision than conventional separation methods. The result is a step-change in the efficiency, sustainability, and economics of processing rare earths and other critical materials. The company will use the new funding to expand its technical team, advance commercial pilots, and extend its technology to a broader range of metal targets and feedstocks, including mine tailings, waste streams, and end-of-life products. "Alta exemplifies how deep technology can address critical global challenges while creating enormous commercial value," said James Hardiman, General Partner at DCVC. "We're increasing our investment because Alta has assembled an exceptional team and demonstrated remarkable progress in developing a revolutionary platform for critical mineral separation that can help secure America's technological future." "Alta's protein-based platform demonstrates the promise of engineering biology to address significant national security challenges. We are excited about supporting Alta's technological innovation to diversify the nation's sources of critical minerals and advance domestic processing capabilities," said Dr. Jessica Dymond, VP, Technology at IQT. The new funding brings Alta's total Series Seed investment to $10 million, building on the initial funding announced earlier this year. In addition to private capital, Alta has received grant support from federal partners and the State of Colorado. About Alta Resource Technologies Alta Resource Technologies is on a mission to reinvent mining by using advanced biochemistry to cost-effectively source the critical raw materials needed to power next-generation technology and bolster economic security. By leveraging customizable proteins to separate high-purity rare earth elements and other essential minerals from previously untapped sources with unprecedented selectivity, Alta is expanding access to vital resources while dramatically reducing the environmental impact of mining. With support from top investors, research partners, and federal and state government, Alta is poised to catalyze a long-overdue revolution in mining technology and secure the domestic supply of critical resources for the 21st century economy. For more information, visit About DCVC DCVC is deep tech venture capital. Over more than a dozen years, the firm has backed brilliant entrepreneurs using computational approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across a broad set of industries, especially those that haven't seen material progress in decades. With billions of dollars of assets under management, DCVC builds long-term relationships with the founders it backs. The firm has been with many of its companies from their very start — and through to their recognition by the public markets as category-defining businesses. For more information, please visit or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter @DCVC. About Voyager Ventures Built on three decades of climate technology expertise, Voyager Ventures invests in exceptional technology companies creating the foundations of a new, decarbonized economy. The VC firm is led by experienced climate technology investors, founders, company-builders and policymakers who know how to invest and build for scale. Voyager brings its expertise, experience and networks to accelerate the success of ambitious early-stage founding teams in North America and Europe, investing in both hardware and software companies driving decarbonization worldwide. For more information, please visit View source version on Contacts Media Contact:Greg Frost, Privateer Communicationsgreg@ Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Wire
05-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Alta Resource Technologies Expands Series Seed Funding to $10M to Scale Protein-Based Critical Minerals Technology
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alta Resource Technologies, a pioneer in using advanced biochemistry to transform mineral separation, today announced that it has expanded its Series Seed funding to $10 million with the close of an additional $4.4 million investment. The Seed 2 investment was co-led by DCVC and Voyager Ventures with participation from Orion Industrial Ventures and In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor for the U.S. national security community and America's allies. Securing resilient, low-impact sources of critical minerals is no longer optional for America and its allies—it's a strategic imperative. The new capital will accelerate development and commercialization of Alta's breakthrough platform, which uses engineered proteins to selectively bind to and separate critical minerals—including rare earth elements like neodymium and dysprosium—from low-grade ores and complex waste streams. The approach promises to dramatically reduce the environmental impact of mineral extraction while helping to secure domestic supply chains for essential materials used in advanced electronics, clean energy technologies, and modern defense systems. The investment comes at a pivotal moment for critical-mineral supply chains, many of which are dominated by China. This concentration of control has raised alarms about economic and national security. Responding to the growing urgency around supply chain resilience, the White House issued an executive order in March 2025 aimed at boosting domestic mineral production and reducing U.S. reliance on fragile foreign supply chains. Alta's technology offers a timely and scalable solution: a low-impact way to extract high-purity critical minerals from unconventional and previously uneconomic sources. 'Securing resilient, low-impact sources of critical minerals is no longer optional for America and its allies—it's a strategic imperative,' said Nathan Ratledge, PhD, Alta's Co-Founder and CEO. 'Washington is beginning to respond with the kind of wartime urgency this moment demands, and Alta's technology is uniquely positioned to deliver. Our protein-based platform gives the U.S. a scalable way to tap into unconventional mineral resources right here at home, while slashing both costs and environmental impact.' Alta's platform is based on protein engineering breakthroughs developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and researchers at Pennsylvania State University. By customizing proteins to bind selectively to individual elements—even at low concentrations in complex mixtures—Alta's solution offers far greater precision than conventional separation methods. The result is a step-change in the efficiency, sustainability, and economics of processing rare earths and other critical materials. The company will use the new funding to expand its technical team, advance commercial pilots, and extend its technology to a broader range of metal targets and feedstocks, including mine tailings, waste streams, and end-of-life products. 'Alta exemplifies how deep technology can address critical global challenges while creating enormous commercial value,' said James Hardiman, General Partner at DCVC. 'We're increasing our investment because Alta has assembled an exceptional team and demonstrated remarkable progress in developing a revolutionary platform for critical mineral separation that can help secure America's technological future.' 'Alta's protein-based platform demonstrates the promise of engineering biology to address significant national security challenges. We are excited about supporting Alta's technological innovation to diversify the nation's sources of critical minerals and advance domestic processing capabilities,' said Dr. Jessica Dymond, VP, Technology at IQT. The new funding brings Alta's total Series Seed investment to $10 million, building on the initial funding announced earlier this year. In addition to private capital, Alta has received grant support from federal partners and the State of Colorado. About Alta Resource Technologies Alta Resource Technologies is on a mission to reinvent mining by using advanced biochemistry to cost-effectively source the critical raw materials needed to power next-generation technology and bolster economic security. By leveraging customizable proteins to separate high-purity rare earth elements and other essential minerals from previously untapped sources with unprecedented selectivity, Alta is expanding access to vital resources while dramatically reducing the environmental impact of mining. With support from top investors, research partners, and federal and state government, Alta is poised to catalyze a long-overdue revolution in mining technology and secure the domestic supply of critical resources for the 21st century economy. For more information, visit About DCVC DCVC is deep tech venture capital. Over more than a dozen years, the firm has backed brilliant entrepreneurs using computational approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across a broad set of industries, especially those that haven't seen material progress in decades. With billions of dollars of assets under management, DCVC builds long-term relationships with the founders it backs. The firm has been with many of its companies from their very start — and through to their recognition by the public markets as category-defining businesses. For more information, please visit or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter @DCVC. About Voyager Ventures Built on three decades of climate technology expertise, Voyager Ventures invests in exceptional technology companies creating the foundations of a new, decarbonized economy. The VC firm is led by experienced climate technology investors, founders, company-builders and policymakers who know how to invest and build for scale. Voyager brings its expertise, experience and networks to accelerate the success of ambitious early-stage founding teams in North America and Europe, investing in both hardware and software companies driving decarbonization worldwide. For more information, please visit
Digital Trends
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Revenge of the Savage Planet review: corporate incompetence becomes slapstick sci-fi
Revenge of the Savage Planet MSRP $50.00 Score Details 'Revenge of the Savage Planet plays its open-world formula safe, but it shows its teeth where it matters.' Pros Sharp satire Enjoyable exploration Clever environmental puzzling Co-op play is a plus Cons Story peters out by the end By the books structure Dull combat Table of Contents Table of Contents Sound familiar? Colonialist mayhem To make it in today's cutthroat world, sometimes it feels like you have to be a taker to survive. It's a ruthless mentality that makes the rich richer, crooked politicians more powerful, and countries more bloodthirsty. They take, take, and take until there's nothing left for the rest of us, hoarding money, eliminating jobs, and destroying homes in the name of self preservation. Perhaps that's what makes your typical video game so appealing. In something like Red Dead Redemption 2, players get to live out a true power fantasy: one where a world is theirs to take. Animals exist to be skinned, plants to be plucked, and corpses to be looted. Even in games where we're meant to be the 'good guy,' we're often embodying the world of the worst. We become natural disasters that ravage worlds until we choose to stop playing. Recommended Videos Revenge of the Savage Planet takes that subtext and mines it for satirical gold, just as its hero smashes every rock in sight in search of precious metals. Building on the sci-fi comedy of 2020's Journey to the Savage Planet, developer Raccoon Logic only gets more explicit about its targets while moving the series from a Metroid Prime homage to a third-person adventure game that hides righteous anger behind irreverence. When you don't have the power to be a true taker, you can at least take no prisoners. Though its story ultimately feels unfocused and its one-note action leaves it lacking in identity, Revenge of the Savage Planet succeeds as a sci-fi romp. It lets players loose into a series of interplanetary playgrounds designed to be sucked dry by a corporate drone tasked with becoming a bully. It's a charming slice of dark comedy that's perhaps not mean enough to totally land its point. Sound familiar? It doesn't take long for Revenge of the Savage Planet to show its teeth. Upon starting my adventure, I'm greeted by a corporate orientation video. A peppy vice president tells me that I am now a member of Alta Interglobal, a holdings company that has acquired my previous employer, Kindred Aerospace. As part of the new family, my job is to be part of an intergalactic colonization mission. Once I unfreeze from my cryopod after a century of sleep, I'll be dropped on a planet with a habitat and tasked with creating a livable community that Alta can later fill with inhabitants. That's followed immediately by a second video informing me that I've been fired while asleep, as Alta has axed the entirety of the Kindred staff post-acquisition. Revenge of the Savage Planet ultimately aims for the irreverence of an Adult Swim show. That setup will likely sound familiar to you in any number of contexts. Most recently, it's the story of media holdings company Valnet acquiring gaming website Polygon, only to immediately gut the majority of its staff. If you know anything about the Savage Planet series' developer, though, you'll recognize a more personal target for Racoon Logic. Following the release of Journey to the Savage Planet, the studio was bought by Google as part of its short-lived Stadia initiative. Google would shut down Racoon Logic (then known as Typhoon Studios) just a few years later before it could even produce a game. That trauma is very clearly at the center of this sequel, with Alta standing in as the face of corporate incompetence. The story is at its best when it tugs on that thread. One running sidequest has me uncovering Alta's dirty laundry, taking what I imagine are thinly veiled shots at Google's own issues behind the scenes. Less successful is where the narrative ultimately ends up. The stretch up to the final battle takes a left-turn into a meta-commentary about game design that feels entirely disconnected from the Alta story. It's an underwhelming conclusion that leaves me wondering if all the corporate satire before it is there primarily as an inside joke for the developers (I can't fully blame them; I'd jump at the opportunity to get my just desserts against my worst bosses too). Don't take any of it too seriously. Revenge of the Savage Planet ultimately aims for the irreverence of an Adult Swim show. ultimately aims for the irreverence of an Adult Swim show. There's a world called Nuflorida. My habitat is filled with over the top commercials that feel like they were pulled out of a Tim and Eric episode. It features an original song about pissing on the company dime. As light as its jabs may feel at times, it still lands plenty of little hits that got some consistent chuckles out of me. Colonialist mayhem If you're still looking for more depth, Revenge of the Savage Planet is most functional as a broad satire on the world's worst C-words: colonialism and consumerism. As a stranded Kindred employee trained to suck planets dry, each open-world area I visit is a candy shop that's mine for the taking. The premise isn't anything new: Each planet is filled with resources to mine, map activities to check off my list until there are none left, and animals to research — or kick until they explode into a green mist. Everything I gather can be brought back to the computer at my habitat and run through a 3D printer to get new upgrades for my gun, jump pack, and more. The more of a jerk I am, the more efficiently I can bully the local wildlife and hoard resources. If the first Savage Planet game was a spoof of Metroid Prime, imagining Samus Aran as a total dick out to disrupt Tallon IV's peace, the sequel is more of a riff on Subnautica. It's not a survival game, but it does play with some similar ideas. I need to gather up resources and safely return them to my base to 3D print new gear, craft outfits, or make furniture to decorate my habitat. If I die before I get home, I'll need to go back out and pick it all up again. Is it right to shoot an adorable little alien racoon just so I can have a pool table? That's what Revenge of the Savage Planet asks through its gleeful cartoon mischief. My little space man sure doesn't seem too upset about it, as he joyfully wobbles around and punts critters like soccer balls. A a delightful sequel that perhaps could have benefitted from being a little meaner. Naturally, Raccoon Logic gets to have its cake and eat it too. Even if it's classifiable as parody, it still plays its open-world exploration straight much of the time. I get new gizmos that allow me to grapple up to cliffs, grind on rails, swim underwater, and more. I eventually gain the power to melt amber blockades with goo bombs so I can get chow down on an egg and get a health upgrade. It's a serviceable, if a little boilerplate, Metroid-adjacent hook, but it still ultimately aims to be a slice of lighthearted fun that can be enjoyed or with a friend in co-op play. Maybe that's why the story stops short of really pulling the big guns out: Raccoon Logic is still interested in making the kind of game it's poking fun at. I don't mean that as much of a knock here; that's just the language of this type of genre video game. If anything, the power fantasy isn't strong enough to intoxicate and poison me. Combat is particularly weak, as my primary weapon is a dinky pea shooter laser. Most enemies just need to be taken down by peppering them with dinky shots, and upgrades like dodge rolls barely charge that. I can scan critters to find their weak spots and attack for extra stun damage, but even its by the books boss battles never feel all too exciting. If you're going to make me feel like a power hungry prick, at least dial up the absurdity to tempt me down the path of violence. Sometimes Raccoon Logic's heart feels like its more in crafting fun little environmental puzzles than colonialist destruction. My favorite gameplay moments have me using conductive goo to carry an electrified mushroom's charge to a closed door, or navigating an invisible maze by spraying green goop to reveal where the walls are. There's a sincere joy in figuring out how the handful of alien planets work, from a worm-filled desert to a multi-level mountain. Journey to the Savage Planet's Metroid Prime-inspired scan visor returns too and remains a highlight, allowing me to catalogue every plant and critter I find. I'm torn between being a researcher and a menace; the former is more enticing, but the latter drives the satire. I'm left with a delightful sequel that perhaps could have benefitted from being a little meaner. In both Savage Planet games, I find myself wishing that Raccoon Logic would really let me have it. Allow me to really screw these alien worlds up and punt me into the stratosphere once I've crossed too many lines. But then, I'd be a scapegoat, wouldn't I? It's like when The Last of Us scolds players for carrying out acts of scripted violence that they can't avoid. I'm no taker; I'm just trying to survive in the kill or be killed environment that the developers have placed me in. I can empathize with my little spaceman through that lens. He's just a jester in Alta's corporate circus, just as Raccoon Logic was a cute plaything to Google. Perhaps we're all a little blameless for playing into a world that's designed as a slapstick colosseum that we're forced to compete in. And if we're all clowns to the world's most powerful forces, maybe it's time to change which butts we're punting into the sun. Revenge of the Savage Planet was tested on PC and Steam Deck OLED.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Alta Equipment Group Announces Date of First Quarter 2025 Financial Results Release, Conference Call and Webcast
LIVONIA, Mich., April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alta Equipment Group Inc. (NYSE: ALTG) ('Alta' or 'the Company'), a leading provider of premium material handling, construction and environmental processing equipment and related services, today announced that it will report its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025, after the U.S. markets close on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. In conjunction with this announcement, Alta management will host a conference call and webcast that afternoon at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss and answer questions about the Company's financial results. Prior to the conference call and webcast, Alta will issue a press release and supplementary presentation slides reporting these results on the Investors portion of the Company's website, Conference Call Details:What: Alta Equipment Group First Quarter 2025 Earnings Call and WebcastDate: Wednesday, May 7, 2025Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern TimeLive call: (833) 470-1428International: Global Dial-In Number: (404) 975-4839Live call access code: 894785Audio Replay: (866) 813-9403Replay access code: 467580Webcast: The audio replay will be archived through May 21, 2025. About Alta Equipment Group owns and operates one of the largest integrated equipment dealership platforms in North America. Through our branch network, the Company sells, rents, and provides parts and service support for several categories of specialized equipment, including lift trucks and other material handling equipment, heavy and compact earthmoving equipment, crushing and screening equipment, environmental processing equipment, cranes and aerial work platforms, paving and asphalt equipment, other construction equipment and allied products. Alta has operated as an equipment dealership for 41 years and has developed a branch network that includes over 85 total locations across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, Virginia, Nevada and Florida and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Alta offers its customers a one-stop-shop for their equipment needs through its broad, industry-leading product portfolio. More information can be found at Contacts Investors:Kevin Inda SCR Partners, LLCkevin@ (225) 772-0254 Media:Glenn MooreAlta Equipment 305-2134Sign in to access your portfolio
