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Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Best Jurassic Park Game Is Only $3 Right Now On Steam
Since the first Jurassic Park movie, we've received many video games inspired by the original film and its sequels. Most were bad. Some were fine. And a few were really good. And the best of them all, the excellent dinosaur park builder Jurassic World Evolution 2, is only $3 on Steam right now. Bad news, folks: With a new Jurassic World movie in theaters and a new Jurassic World game landing later this year, I've officially contracted dino fever. Please call my family and tell them I love 'em all very much, but I can't talk right now because of all the dinosaurs. And luckily, over on Steam, there is a big Jurassic World Evolution 1 and 2 sale happening so other folks suffering from dino fever can find some relief. (In this scenario, dino fever is cured by seeing dinos, I think.) From today until July 17, you can pick up both Jurassic World 1 and 2 as well as all the DLC for each game at a discounted price on PC. The best deal is definitely Jurassic World Evolution 2, which is normally $60 but is currently on sale for just $3. At that price, you'd be silly not to pick it up! I've put a lot of hours into JWE2, and it's great. If you like building out pathways and fences in the most efficient way possible, this is your game. But if you hate that stuff, well, don't worry, you can also just create a giant T-Rex and let her devour all the helpless parkgoers who were stupid enough to visit your fenceless park! And if you already own Jurassic World Evolution 2, you can pick up some or all of the game's DLC at a discounted price, too. These DLC packs add new dinosaur species, locations, and missions to the already large park sim. The original, not-as-good-but-still-fun Jurassic World Evolution is also on sale on Steam until July 17 if you want to revisit it. There's also a bundle that includes both 1 and 2 as well as the upcoming Jurassic World Evolution 3, which looks to be a bigger and better sequel in every way, featuring more terrain options, dinosaur breeding, baby dinos, and much more. WOW!! I love dinosaurs!! ROAR! Sorry, as you can tell, my dino fever is getting worse. So if you'll excuse me, I have to go look at some digital velociraptors. .For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 3 Removes Generative AI From Game After Fan Backlash
Could it be… Good news? I know, I know, it's hard to imagine in this economy. But it seems like, even in the most minor of ways, good has won out over evil. Or, in this case, humanity has won out over AI. AI is here and it's probably not going anywhere, but that doesn't mean we have to let it replace the most creative among us. Jurassic World Evolution 3, a long-awaited dinosaur strategy simulation, triggered its fans' teeth when its developer, Frontier Developments, announced it had used generative AI to create in-game portraits of scientists. This Jurassic World Evolution 3 news garnered an uproar among fans, which is honestly amazing to see, because more and more, there seems to be a push for people to simply accept generative AI as part of our reality. But no, fans took to the internet to demand that the generative AI elements and portraits be removed from the game in favor of actual art created by actual humans. And LO, Frontier Developments listened, removing the generative elements from the game. Incredible! In a post on Steam, the company responded to the AI backlash, saying 'Thanks for your feedback on this topic. We have opted to remove the use of generative AI for scientist portraits within Jurassic World Evolution 3.' In a statement, Frontier confirmed that despite these pivots away from generative AI, Jurassic World Evolution 3 will maintain its release date of October 21, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. This may not seem like a huge victory, but it is. Generative AI will creep into our games and fictions not in huge waves, but in small piece after small piece. Insisting that the properties we love employ only humans, who do real, creative, and passion-filled work, will help keep the soul of our art whole a little longer. Huge round of applause to you, Jurassic World Evolution 3 fans.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jurassic World Rebirth Will Honor The Series' Canon So Far, And New Franchise Details Make Me Hopeful The Video Games Will Be Part Of That Promise
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. We're mere weeks away from a new Jurassic World movie heading into theaters, and I'm still in awe that we've reached this point. As the 2025 movie schedule promises mutant dinosaur mayhem, there's another title arriving later this year that's going to help branch out the story inspired by Michael Crichton's legendary 1990 novel. Since the ties between past and future Jurassic canon are stronger than ever, I really hope that a new video game could help shape the future of Universal's legacy franchise. That desire is especially strong considering what we know about Jurassic World Rebirth feels tailor-made to lock into a brand-new video game on the way. Publisher Frontier Developments released both the Announcement and Gameplay trailers for Jurassic World Evolution 3. The third outing in the long running park simulator series, players will be pushing their abilities to the limit with a lot of new features. You can thank a new organization introduced in this adventure for being able to grow your own baby dinosaur, the Dinosaur Integration Network (also known as D.I.N.) But as you can see in the Gameplay trailer for the latest Jurassic World video game, it's not all petting zoos and the return of Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm: While they aren't named, this new activist group wants to disrupt D.I.N.'s 'groundbreaking sustainable breeding programs,' which it offers to park owners around the world. Some of you deep cut Jurassic World fans are probably ready to run to your Netflix subscription after reading that last bit, and I can't blame you. Seeing as those themes have been presented in the animated series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, this feels like it could be another knot that ties the characters of that animated series in with the live-action adventures. That very scenario is what has me thinking about how Jurassic World Rebirth might be able to take advantage of this digital extension of this cautionary tale in playing God. As stated in Jurassic World Rebirth writer David Koepp's previous remarks, the canon that currently exists isn't going to be altered in the Scarlett Johansson-led ensemble legacy-quel. Seeing as Evolution 3's gameplay takes place in a post-Dominion timeframe, but presumably before Rebirth's mass dinosaur deaths, this is something that could be useful to the series overall. If there are sequels to this seventh Jurassic adventure, then there's a chance that this unnamed activist collective could try to sabotage the work that Parker-Genix Pharmaceutical Engineering is trying to achieve. Perhaps Jurassic World Rebirth will see that sort of sabotage coming from a member of the team assembled by Johansson's Zora Bennett? Or, if the film canon won't touch this new information from Jurassic World Evolution 3, then perhaps the animated TV series will. As we saw in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory's first trailer, executive producer Scott Kreamer's follow-up to Camp Cretaceous has been playing out in a timeline shortly before/during Dominion's events. Now seeing as the Camp Fam has been getting involved in their own activist activities against Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman) and the forces of BioSyn, it'd be very easy to tie that series into Evolution 3's events. Plus, since Kreamer admitted in a previous interview with CinemaBlend that there have been some early thoughts on a new series taking place closer to Jurassic World Rebirth, this rogue organization could be connected to the people Brooklynn (Kiersten Kelly) and Ben Pinkus (Sean Giambrone) have been running with on the dark web. Of course, this is all massive speculation for the moment. But what I do know is that Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on July 3rd, in all of its explosive cinematic glory! For those of you looking to build a petting zoo of your own, Jurassic World Evolution 3 hits shelves on October 21st. How these two titles will connect is something that life, and time, will find a way to explain.
BBC News
04-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Games industry welcomes first generation of pensioner gamers
Companies in the East of England are preparing to welcome the first generation of pensioner gamers, more than half a century after the first home video game hit the market. People who have grown up playing games are hungry for new, more sophisticated games, which has prompted start-ups in places including Norwich to compete with more established companies like Jagex, Ninja Theory and Frontier Developments, all based in Poole, chief executive of Ukie, the trade body representing the UK's gaming industry, said: "It's been the most incredible 50 years."We're about to see the first-ever generation of pensioner gamers.. it's amazing." Part of the recent success is down to what he describes as the "crossover" phenomenon, with TV and film adapting video games like The Last of Us and Fallout."The transformation of the role of games in people's lives as a form of entertainment has been beyond anything we could have imagined 40 years ago," he said."I think the reason is if you love the world and you enjoyed playing it in-game, then you want to spend time watching and living it in other media as well." Rich Newbold is a game director at one of the country's biggest gaming companies, Frontier Developments in began working in the industry in the early 2000s."We've been around for 30 years, growing from a team of people working on a farm in Ely to where we are now," he said."When I joined the company there were only 70 of us. Now, there are about 600."Frontier makes several different types of games including Planet Coaster 2 and Planet Zoo, where players can run their own F1 team, explore space, and build theme parks and his time in the gaming business, he has seen demand grow cites the Covid pandemic as a turning point."Appetites have grown. Video games can bring joy but more than that, they fulfil a need as people prioritise leisure time," he said. Figures from Ukie reflect the boom in estimates 2,400 people worked in the games industry in the East of England in there are more than 3,105, across 160 games industry in the East contributes about £212m to the economy, up from £122m in 2016. Iz Head, 23, is one of those who has entered the competitive industry in that co-founded Moss Monkey in their final year at Norwich University of the Arts, after their mother suggested gaming as a career."The gaming scene is growing massively in Norwich at the moment," they said."I absolutely love it. We're at a point where tonnes of new studios are coming through; tonnes of new games."Their current game, Outclaw, features a spirit cat called Giblet which travels around the world, causing chaos wherever it goes."It's been brilliant to work on, but a lot of hours have been put in applying for grants," they added that there had been periods where they had considered other sources of income such as part-time jobs, but then it would take twice as long to get the game out there. Their story chimes with Mark Backler, founder of Sketchbook Games, also based in Norwich."Gaming can give you a broad, diverse career and while there's a good degree of support for start-ups, more could be done," he said."France and Canada have world-class support and tax relief for the games industry. Any more that could be done would make a huge difference, especially against our main competitors in the US and Japan."His current video game, Lost Words, is based on a book written by Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Discworld series author Terry Pratchett, and is about a character who uses the fantasy world to deal with Backler believes the growth of the industry could explode as games become more sophisticated."There are lots of different roles that you can do within games," he said."It's not just programming. There's composing the music and making the sound effects."There's writing the story, there's production, there's marketing and as games evolve, you never know, economists might play a part, or even architects." Follow East of England news on X, Instagram and Facebook: BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Norfolk, BBC Northamptonshire or BBC Suffolk.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Frontier Developments plc's (LON:FDEV) Fundamentals Look Pretty Strong: Could The Market Be Wrong About The Stock?
With its stock down 12% over the past three months, it is easy to disregard Frontier Developments (LON:FDEV). However, stock prices are usually driven by a company's financials over the long term, which in this case look pretty respectable. In this article, we decided to focus on Frontier Developments' ROE. Return on equity or ROE is an important factor to be considered by a shareholder because it tells them how effectively their capital is being reinvested. In short, ROE shows the profit each dollar generates with respect to its shareholder investments. Trump has pledged to "unleash" American oil and gas and these 15 US stocks have developments that are poised to benefit. The formula for return on equity is: Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Frontier Developments is: 19% = UK£16m ÷ UK£82m (Based on the trailing twelve months to November 2024). The 'return' is the amount earned after tax over the last twelve months. Another way to think of that is that for every £1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn £0.19 in profit. Check out our latest analysis for Frontier Developments We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company's future earnings. Depending on how much of these profits the company reinvests or "retains", and how effectively it does so, we are then able to assess a company's earnings growth potential. Generally speaking, other things being equal, firms with a high return on equity and profit retention, have a higher growth rate than firms that don't share these attributes. To begin with, Frontier Developments seems to have a respectable ROE. Further, the company's ROE compares quite favorably to the industry average of 13%. As you might expect, the 47% net income decline reported by Frontier Developments is a bit of a surprise. Therefore, there might be some other aspects that could explain this. Such as, the company pays out a huge portion of its earnings as dividends, or is faced with competitive pressures. So, as a next step, we compared Frontier Developments' performance against the industry and were disappointed to discover that while the company has been shrinking its earnings, the industry has been growing its earnings at a rate of 28% over the last few years. Earnings growth is a huge factor in stock valuation. What investors need to determine next is if the expected earnings growth, or the lack of it, is already built into the share price. Doing so will help them establish if the stock's future looks promising or ominous. If you're wondering about Frontier Developments''s valuation, check out this gauge of its price-to-earnings ratio, as compared to its industry. Frontier Developments doesn't pay any regular dividends, meaning that potentially all of its profits are being reinvested in the business, which doesn't explain why the company's earnings have shrunk if it is retaining all of its profits. It looks like there might be some other reasons to explain the lack in that respect. For example, the business could be in decline. On the whole, we do feel that Frontier Developments has some positive attributes. Yet, the low earnings growth is a bit concerning, especially given that the company has a high rate of return and is reinvesting ma huge portion of its profits. By the looks of it, there could be some other factors, not necessarily in control of the business, that's preventing growth. In addition, on studying the latest analyst forecasts, we found that the company's earnings are expected to continue to shrink. Are these analysts expectations based on the broad expectations for the industry, or on the company's fundamentals? Click here to be taken to our analyst's forecasts page for the company. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team (at) article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.
