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Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Indiana Jones dev working on multiple games but is it Wolfenstein 3 and Quake?
Some suspect the studio's already working on an Indiana Jones sequel (Bethesda) MachineGames' latest financial report mentions plans for multiple projects and what might just be Wolfenstein 3. It's difficult to be enthusiastic about Xbox's gaming prospects after another brutal wave of layoffs has seen hundreds of its employees out of work and several projects cancelled. Some of Microsoft's internal studios have escaped relatively unscathed, though. Case in point: MachineGames, the Swedish studio responsible for Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. The lack of official information about the layoffs means there's no telling how badly MachineGames was impacted, if it was at all, but a recent financials report from the studio suggests it has more than one game currently in development. Spotted and shared by Timur222 on Bluesky, the report covers MachineGames' 2024 fiscal year, which runs from January 2024 to December 2024, and by all accounts it seems to have been a successful one. Net sales were higher than the year before, with MachineGames generating roughly 428 million SEK (about £33 million) compared to the approximately 350 million SEK in 2023. As a result, the studio turned higher profits than both its 2023 and 2022 financial years, with a net profit of about 26 million SEK (about £2 million). You can view the results here and on the surface, they sound good – although who knows whether the higher-ups at Microsoft see it that way. Expert, exclusive gaming analysis Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. MachineGames's financial statements for 2024 are outFuture Development:With new exciting projects in development, MachineGames is optimistic about the future for both the company and the industry as a wholeOther info — Timur222 (@ 2025-07-20T14:08:09.587Z In an attached management report, MachineGames says: 'With new exciting projects in development, MachineGames is optimistic about the future for both the company and the industry as a whole.' You'll note they say projects, in the plural, which would seem to mean at least two, even though there's no official word on what any of them are – but there are plenty of theories. The most likely is a Quake reboot, which MachineGames has been hinting about for years and even seemed to be teased during the marketing for The Great Circle. Not only have MachineGames staff openly talked about wanting to reboot the Quake series, which was originally created by id Software, but they've already contributed new expansions to the remasters of Quake 1 and Quake 2. There's been less hints about another Wolfenstein game but the original plan was for a trilogy. However, the limited commerical success of Wolfenstein 2 seemed to put a stop to that – or at least delay it significantly. Back in 2018, Pete Hines – the then vice president of PR and marketing, at publisher and owner Bethesda – confirmed a Wolfenstein 3 was on the table. Hines retired from the company in 2023, but that doesn't necessarily mean plans have changed and that same year MachineGames posted a new job listing for someone with a passion for 'first person immersive games' and a 'strong familiarity with MachineGames' titles.' Considering the more recent success of the Indiana Jones game, MachineGames is more likely to be preparing for a sequel. Some believe this has already been hinted at by a recent job listing for a senior concept artist at the studio. However, the listing makes no mention of working with the Indiana Jones brand, with the only hint being that applicants need 'experience working in the game and/or film industry.' Aside from being optional, the studio's request for film industry experience doesn't necessarily mean it's for another Indy project and could just as easily apply to any other game with cinematic style presentation. It may also be too early for MachineGames to have started development on a second Indiana Jones game, as it's yet to release The Great Circle's DLC story expansion. As a reminder, the expansion is dubbed The Order Of The Giants and is scheduled to launch across all platforms on September 4. How about we wait till the DLC's come and gone before asking for new Indy game (Bethesda) Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. Arrow MORE: Indiana Jones And The Great Circle PS5 review – Indy gaming goes multiformat Arrow MORE: PS6 and next gen Xbox could cost over £1,000 based on AMD chip leak Arrow MORE: Xbox is being set up to fail by Microsoft bosses, claims insider
USA Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
San Diego Comic Con 2025 kicks off this week: Dates, tickets and celebrity panels
San Diego Comic-Con kicks off this week and a slew of celebrities have already been announced for popularly attended panels, including "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" creator George Lucas. What may come as a surprise to many, this year's San Diego Comic-Con will be Lucas' first convention panel. He will be joined by director Guillermo del Toro and artist Doug Chiang to discuss the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The Los Angeles museum, dedicated to Lucas' work, is expected to open in 2026. The panel, held from 11 a.m. to noon PT on Sunday, July 27, will be moderated by actress Queen Latifah. This year's San Diego Comic Con is July 24-27 at the San Diego Convention Center. Attendee badges have already sold out for the event, but if you missed out on grabbing a spot this year, you can still watch the convention from the comfort of your home. Here's what to know about San Diego Comic-Con 2025. When is San Diego Comic-Con? San Diego Comic Con 2025 is Thursday, July 24 through Sunday, July 27. Where is San Diego Comic-Con? The convention is held at the San Diego Convention Center. What celebrities will be at San Diego Comic-Con? An array of actors, actress, filmmakers and comic book artists will be heading up panels during this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Here's a look at the highlights: The full convention schedule is available at Are tickets still available for San Diego Comic-Con? No, "badges," what the convention calls its tickets, are no longer available for this year, according to the San Diego Comic-Con website. Badges for new and returning attendees open the fall before the upcoming year's convention. How to watch San Diego-Comic Con panels from home San Diego Comic-Con itself doesn't livestream its panels but several outlets will provide livestreams or video recordings throughout the weekend. IGN, an online video game outlet, is hosting livestreams of the convention on Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26. The livestreams, which will include announcements and interviews, can be watched on the IGN website, mobile apps and social media channels. Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at USA TODAY. Story idea? Email her at gcross@
Telegraph
3 days ago
- Science
- Telegraph
The bizarre trees that ‘milk' clouds and start lightning storms
Thanks to Harriet Rix and her sublime book, The Genius of Trees, I have seen and relished the world the day before the Chicxulub asteroid hit. I have smelled its perfumes, and squelched through its hot boggy litters, and dodged its foot-long dragonflies. And I have seen the day after, too, 'when all was darkness and confusion, mushrooms and rot'. Rix's book explains how over millennia, trees have shaped the earth and been shaped by it. (They allowed for the existence of those monster dragonflies by saturating the atmosphere with oxygen, for starters.) Trees thrived before Chicxulub, Rix tells us, but afterwards, their 'green shade became a grey gloom' as a dust cloud blotted out the sun for two years. The Amazon became a death zone. Gymnosperms – meaning pines and monkey puzzles – were utterly outmanoeuvred by flowers, which could survive by bouncing light about themselves between water droplets. (Through Rix's luminous descriptions, I pictured this as a microscopic pinball game played with light, where the winner inherits the Earth.) Her book is a dazzling series of lectures which explore how trees shape water, soil, fire, air, fungi, animals and people. Like an early Robert MacFaralane narrator, Rix refuses to put herself much in the picture, but through the scenes we glimpse an Indiana Jones figure who is both an eminent, travelling scientist and a born writer. She describes the 'stately galliards' of coniferous trees taking over after the asteroid's destruction. To Rix, they arrive in 'a mass tango, angular and fluid'. On the Canary island of La Gomera, we encounter trees that not only make clouds, but farm and milk them, seeding the air with compounds which cause water molecules to cluster around them, 'until like a small planet, it falls as rain'. She also travels to the environs of Quetta to look at the Ziarat junipers, guarded by Balochi rangers in one of the world's deadliest zones of human conflict. Here, wild ephedra is easily and popularly synthesised into methamphetamine (do you prefer your Taliban on opium or speed?) Rix is completing a spreadsheet on juniper carbon capture when she's reassured that she won't be kidnapped, as long as she visits their food market twice. And by the time we have watched the beautiful Zelkova abelicea on Crete turn red when the first frosts fall, and have paddled up the Curicuriari, an Amazon river, to meet a rare duraka tree, it becomes clear that Rix's world is astounding. There are some mountains in deep, rural China where 18 species of tree are currently in a pitched brawl, using poison, shade, theft, disease, fire, misdirection, brute force and lighting on each other. This is normal tree behaviour, and it's a salutary experience, having been near woods most days of my life, to realise that I had little idea what I have been looking at. In their battles, trees lace the air with flammable gases, strew kindling, douse everything in the pyromaniac's molecule, oxygen, and gather clouds to encourage lightning strikes, which they have put up conductors to catch. Then, whoosh: their competition is vaporised, their insect pests barbecued, their fungi put in their place, their seed children pre-fertilised (lovely ash) and suddenly, there's a lot more sunlight to eat. When you see Greek islands scorched, know there is a pine or eucalyptus somewhere rubbing its roots together. Trees can change 'their entire habit of growing in one or two generations'. We know when the land-bridge between Britain and Ireland went (the sunken kingdom of Cantre'r Gwaelod under Cardigan bay) because lime trees, spreading slower than pioneer species, did not make it out of Wales. The climate in Ireland tipped from Arctic to temperate in just 10 years. The book is often alarming but Rix is also funny. Oak die-back happens, in Rix's eyes, when the trees' 'farthest fungi' have 'lost their love of adventure, their passion for the quest'. You feel delightedly child-like, and not just while being shown how a member of the avocado family seeds a cloud with a hexagonal ring of carbon. The mysteries stalking science and Rix's pages are telling. We still do not know how trees' roots appear to be able to 'hear' or sense water. It might be vibration. What's the real evolutionary relationship between the Joshua Tree of the Mojave Desert, the giant sloth with the mushroom-alcohol body odour, and the sloth's on-board moth? Only time, and Harriet Rix, can tell. Non-fiction rarely sees a debut like The Genius of Trees. It is a true masterpiece.
Irish Independent
4 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
John Daly: Frenzied quest for All-Ireland final tickets requires guile, craft and outright bribery
The hunt for a spot in Croke Park is an Irish rite of passage up there with scoring big in the Leaving Cert Right around now the heart rate of 164,000 people in four different counties will probably be nudging the needle into the danger zone. With the hurling and football All-Ireland finals almost upon us, the treasure-hunting expertise of Indiana Jones would be very welcome in Cork, Tipperary, Donegal and Kerry.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
George Lucas, father of 'Star Wars,' to head panel at San Diego Comic-Con
George Lucas, the mastermind behind "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" will make his first ever San Diego Comic-Con appearance this summer. Lucas will sit on a panel alongside director Guillermo del Toro and artist Doug Chiang at San Diego Comic-Con on Sunday, July 27. The trio will discuss illustrated storytelling and offer a sneak peek of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, according to the San Diego Comic-Con website. The panel will be moderated by musician and actress Queen Latifah. David Glanzer, San Diego Comic-Con chief communications and strategy officer, said the convention is thrilled to host Lucas this month. "Nearly five decades ago, 'Star Wars' made one of its earliest public appearances at our convention, along with a booth featuring Howard Chaykin's now legendary 'Star Wars' poster as a promotional item," Glanzer said in a news release. "Now, to have Mr. Lucas return – this time to debut the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art – is a true full-circle moment. His lifelong dedication to visual storytelling and world-building resonates deeply with us and our community, and the museum's mission to celebrate narrative art in all its forms perfectly reflects what Comic-Con has championed from the very beginning." "Star Wars" made its San Diego Comic-Con debut in 1976, when comic book artists Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin sports shaggy hair and bell bottoms, told a less-than-packed crowd about the new movie. The panel was the second to last event of the entire convention. Roy Thomas and Howard Chakin tell a less than packed audience about a film called Star Wars at @Comic_Con in 1976. #ThrowbackThursday #SDCC — Star Wars (@starwars) July 20, 2017 When will George Lucas be at San Diego Comic-Con? The filmmaker will appear on the "Sneak Peek: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art" panel between 11 a.m. and noon PT on Sunday, July 27. Who can attend George Lucas' panel at San Diego Comic-Con? San Diego Comic-Con badge-holders may attend any panel at the convention. Badges for this year's convention are sold out. Will fans be able to meet George Lucas at San Diego Comic-Con? San Diego Comic-Con, unlike other comic conventions, does not host meet-and-greet experiences. The convention does not have any scheduled events for Lucas to meet one-on-one with attendees. Can you watch George Lucas' panel at home? San Diego Comic-Con does not livestream its panels, but audience members may share photos and videos during and after the panel. Fans hope for something bigger The San Diego Comic-Con website states that the panel will discuss illustrative storytelling and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, but "Star Wars" superfans are hoping Lucas' appearance may be part of a bigger announcement. "He's gotta be dropping some huge news! Surely," one TikTok user commented on Dino Joe Reviews' video outlining the panel. "Apparently he's there to talk about his museum that's open, which is super cool, but there's gotta be more than that, right? Maybe we're finally getting our Midi-chlorian movie," TikTok user I Am Jessica says with a laugh in a video. In "Star Wars," midi-chlorians are microscopic lifeforms that reside in the cells of all living life forms, according to "Star Wars" blog Wookieepedia. The Force speaks through midi-chlorians and those with more midi-chlorians are able to better tap into The Force. Anakin Skywalker possessed the highest known count of midi-chlorians, even surpassing Yoda. "Imagine being in the same room as this guy as he discusses about the future of 'Star Wars.' Oh my gosh, that's like a once in a lifetime thing, I think," TikTok user Fry4guy said in a video. What is the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art? Expected to open in 2026, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art was co-founded by Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson. The 300,000-square-foot, spaceship-like museum will sit on 11 acres in Los Angeles's Exposition Park. The five-story museum, designed by Ma Yansong, will feature galleries, two movie theaters and spaces for educational programming, retail, dining and events. Ground was broken on the museum in March 2018. Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at USA TODAY. Story idea? Email her at gcross@ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: George Lucas to sit on first ever panel at San Diego Comic-Con
