Anillo de Elden: Sombra de Erdtree Está previsto que llegue el 21 de junio, pero las revisiones de la expansión ya han concluido. Como era de esperar, el DLC recibió elogios generalizados, al igual que el juego base. De hecho, según una puntuación de Metacritic, Shadow of the Erdtree es ahora el DLC mejor valorado jamás lanzado. versión de PS5 de Anillo de Fuego La expansión tiene actualmente una puntuación de 95 en el sitio web del agregador de reseñas, lo que lo convierte en uno de los juegos mejor valorados de todos los tiempos.
Puntuación de Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Metacritic
Anillo de Elden: Sombra de Erdtree de programas La expansión más grande y ambiciosa hasta el momento, que presenta un mapa mundial completamente nuevo, una nueva historia, batallas contra jefes, clases de armas, hechizos y más, agregando docenas de horas de contenido sobre el juego base.
Ya se han publicado reseñas para la próxima expansión, que se lanzará el 21 de junio en PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One y Xbox Series S/X, con puntuaciones altas en todas partes. con 95 Puntuación metacríticaSegún 56 reseñas al momento de escribir este artículo, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree es ahora la expansión mejor calificada de todos los tiempos. Como se vio VGC, la puntuación sitúa la expansión en el puesto 36 de la lista completa de Metacritic de los juegos mejor valorados de todos los tiempos. El DLC está sólo un punto por detrás del juego base; Anillo Elden Puntuación metacrítica Se sitúa en 96 según 93 reseñas.
Cuando se trata de expansiones, Shadow of the Erdtree ahora encabeza la lista. Antes de las expansiones de Elden Ring, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Sangre y vino El DLC fue el mejor calificado en Metacritic con una puntuación de 92. Tenga en cuenta que la puntuación de revisión puede cambiar a medida que llegan más revisiones de la expansión.
Venta de barricas de anillos
La semana pasada, el desarrollador FromSoftware Cierto Elden Ring ha vendido 25 millones de copias en todo el mundo. El juego de rol de acción, lanzado en 2022, es el juego más vendido de FromSoftware, superando cómodamente a otros juegos populares del desarrollador como Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice y Dark Souls III, los cuales han vendido más de 10 millones de unidades.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree requiere que el juego base sea jugable. Se centrará en la historia de Mikaela, el hermano de Malenia, y tendrá lugar en el Mundo de las Sombras, una zona completamente nueva en el universo de Elden Ring. La expansión también presenta un nuevo y peligroso oponente, Messmer the Empaler. Shadow of the Erdtree se lanzará en PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One y Xbox Series S/X el 21 de junio.
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Anillo de Elden Sombra del Erdtree, la tan esperada expansión del popular juego de rol, recibió un nuevo avance el martes, que detalla la historia del juego y emocionantes fragmentos de la historia. El tráiler de la historia profundizó más en la historia de fondo del hermano de Mikaela, Malinia, y brindó otra mirada a su principal antagonista, Messmer the Empaler. La sombra de Erdtree Se lanzará el 21 de junio en PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One y Xbox Series S/X.
El tráiler cinematográfico de tres minutos profundiza en la historia del Reino de las Sombras, la nueva ubicación en la que se desarrolla la expansión. El tráiler menciona una traición que llevó al nacimiento de Gold y Shadow. Luego, el tráiler habla de la feroz guerra en la Tierra de las Sombras, “una purificación sin piedad ni honor”. Recibimos otra aparición de Messmer y sus llamas destructivas que han dejado la Tierra en ruinas.
El misterioso tráiler no revela mucho, pero establece partes de su historia y muestra una nueva aventura en la Tierra de las Sombras, un mundo completamente nuevo dentro de Elden Ring. Se dice que la Sombra del Erdtree es tan de programas La mayor expansión hasta el momento. El mapa DLC será grande y habrá muchas cosas que hacer. El director de Elden Ring fue Hidetaka Miyazaki Pista Expansión del volumen en febrero. “Es difícil responder sin revelar demasiado y con un alto grado de precisión, pero si piensas en el tamaño o el tamaño, probablemente sea comparable, si no más grande, al espacio Limgrave en el juego base”, dijo. IGN en ese momento.
La primera gran expansión de Elden Ring fue Anunciar En febrero de 2023, para emocionar a los fans ansiosos con una foto. Sombra del Erdtree recibida Primer tráiler En febrero de 2024, se detallarán nuevas características de juego, historia y mundo. El primer tráiler también confirmó la fecha de lanzamiento de la expansión.
Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree está actualmente disponible para pedidos anticipados a través de las tiendas Steam, PlayStation y Xbox, con un lanzamiento programado para el 21 de junio. Vale la pena señalar que será necesario el juego base para jugar la expansión.
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FromSoftware ha lanzado un nuevo tráiler de la historia Anillo Al-Din: Sombra de Erdtree Antes del lanzamiento de la expansión el próximo mes.
Finalmente, la cinemática de tres minutos, que puedes ver a continuación, brinda una mirada más profunda a la historia y al mismo tiempo brinda mucha historia para que los fanáticos puedan hincarle el diente.
También tenemos un avance oficial del DLC, que dice: “Ahora se puede contar la historia de Shadow. Conozca la historia del Mundo de las Sombras, la Tierra Invisible que se revelará el 21 de junio de 2024”.
El tráiler es impresionante y muestra al principal antagonista del DLC, Messmer the Empaler, en todo su ardiente esplendor mientras desata la tiranía en las Tierras de las Sombras. También podemos vislumbrar algunas criaturas nuevas y aterradoras, una toma de un grupo de Tarnished con armaduras únicas, así como fragmentos que muestran lo que parecen ser Marika y Michaela en ciertos momentos de la historia.
Él también parece estar a cargo. Anillo Al-Dinsitio web Se ha actualizado para proporcionar una descripción más profunda de La sombra de Erdtree.
“La Tierra de las Sombras. Un lugar oscurecido por la familia Erdtree”, decía el mensaje. “¿Dónde está la Diosa Marika?Primer set presentado. Un terreno despejado en una batalla desconocida. Prende fuego a la llama Messmer.
“Esta era la tierra de MikaelaEl tardío. Se despoja de su carne, de su fuerza y de su linaje. De todo lo dorado. Y ahora michaelEspera el prometido regreso de su Señor”.
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FromSoftware confirmó previamente que el DLC será “la expansión más grande hasta el momento, ya que los jugadores deberán descubrir los misterios ocultos del mundo del aclamado juego de rol de fantasía”.
También agregará nuevas armas, equipos, habilidades y magia, junto con encuentros con nuevos jefes que se pueden encontrar en un mapa completamente nuevo en el que los jugadores pueden “viajar fácilmente de un lado a otro”.
HMD is breaking into new territory by launching its first smartphone line under an original name. It’ll no longer be known as just a manufacturer of Nokia phones. In total, there are three mid-range devices in the series: the HMD Pulse, Pulse Plus, and Pulse Pro. The third model is meant to be the leader of the pack, although if you look at their respective specifications, you’ll notice they are all very similar to one another with a few differences.
The HMD Pulse Pro houses a Unisoc T606 processor running on a 5,000mAh battery capable of lasting up to 59 hours on a single charge. Buyers can equip the phone with up to 8GB of RAM. Storage capacity peaks at 128Gb although you can expand it up to 256GB with an SD card. On the front, you have a 6.65-inch HD Plus touchscreen with an image resolution of 1,612 x 720 pixels. Up top is a 50 MP selfie camera supported by multiple features. Gesture Navigation, for example, lets you use hand gestures like a finger heart or a thumbs up to instruct the selfie lens to take a photo. And pictures taken at night are, the company claims, “clear as day” thanks to AI Super Portrait boosting the luminosity.
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Around the back is a two-camera setup consisting of another 50MP lens and a 2MP depth option. They too have their own set of supporting features. Skin tone optimization ensures people of different skin complexions look good in photographs no matter what. You also have Flash Shot for taking multiple pictures in quick succession.
Performance gap
When it comes to the other two models, they have nearly identical configurations. The same chipset, the same battery, the same display, and so on. Differences among the trio are centered around their camera system. HMD states the Pulse Plus has a 50MP rear camera (even though you see two lenses) and an 8MP selfie. The standard Pulse phone bumps the rear lens down to just 13MP. Some of the Pulse Pro’s image-enhancing software is found on the pair, like the skin tone optimization, but the hand gestures aren’t.
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It’s also important to mention that all three are repairable. HMD is partnering up with iFixit in providing spare parts. Users will be able to replace cracked screens, bent charging ports, or a completely dead battery. No word on when the repair kits and parts will launch. They’re not available on iFixit’s website at the time of this writing.
Availability
The standard Pulse phone is available for purchase in the UK for £99.99 on HMD’s website in Meteor Black. The Dreamy Pink variant is out of stock at the moment. Both the Pulse Plus and Pulse Pro will roll out in the United Kingdom soon, however an exact date was not given.
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There are plans to launch an independent phone in the United States known as the HMD Vibe. It’ll be similar to the others in that it’ll have a two-day battery life, 4GB of memory, and a dual camera setup. However, the Vibe will house a Snapdragon chipset rather than the Unisoc processor.
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There are also plans to release the trio in the EU. But if you try to buy any of them on the international page, you’ll just run into an error message. We reached out to the brand for more information.
In the last few decades, technology has created a modern digital workforce that is technically skilled and adept at finding innovative solutions that would help them succeed at work. However, with 95% of employees struggling with digital friction in the workplace – including a lack of access to the right tools – ambitious employees who are hungry for results have often needed to explore fixes outside the scope of existing systems provided by their employers.
On top of that, the popularity of cloud-based apps has resulted in business processes often ending up fragmented across various systems, requiring workers to devote time to manual maintenance. This has accelerated the spread of (the unnecessarily ominous sounding) ‘shadow IT’, or applications that savvy workers use without official authorization to help them bypass limitations and get work done. In a perfect world, a balance can be struck between giving these technically skilled workers freedom to integrate and optimize processes while ensuring IT remains in charge of technology at the architectural level.
The traditional approach of tightly controlled IT landscapes within organizations doesn’t work as well as it once did given the proliferation of systems for just about every task, which has made it unsustainable for IT to do it all in many cases. Shadow IT is a natural evolution born from workers growing more comfortable with digital tools and looks like it’s here to stay, with Gartner finding it makes up 30-40% of all IT spending across large enterprises even though research shows nearly seven in ten organizations have been compromised as a result of it.
That said, there is ample opportunity to take advantage of and nurture a new generation of strategic business technologists. Organizations that can master this shift will benefit in a bevvy of ways en route to better business outcomes and positive impact on customer and employee experience.
Gert-Jan Wijman
Flipping the narrative
For tech and business leaders, shadow IT is not only a risk, but also an opportunity to take off the strain of IT departments. The possibility of adept workers identifying and resolving application issues relieves IT of the need to develop solutions and integrate them on an organizational level. Rather than bearing the burden of finding or building new solutions on their own, tech leaders can instead take a more strategic, supervisory role by overseeing how applications recommended by workers are integrated with existing enterprise architectures.
This is especially critical to take into account the generational differences emerging within the modern workforce, given that digital natives (those who have grown up in a tech-led world) are starting to play a larger role. Business leaders can empower these younger workers to be part of decisions about the technology business uses and help upskill less technically adept colleagues. This also helps in addressing skills gaps that the IT industry is facing.
A transparent approach, where employees aren’t secretly leaning on unauthorized applications out of sight, will help shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities while also providing these de facto business technologists (those who sit outside IT but have the skills to ensure their organization gets the most value from its technology investments), the freedom to find and implement solutions that truly work.
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Creating an integration-first culture
As a next step, business leaders need to focus on uncovering the underlying motivations behind the use of shadow IT. Often, it’s about effectively finding workarounds to common data integration problems, like systems not being updated in real-time and needing manual inputs. Companies should work on developing a cohesive plan for recommending, testing, and finally adopting IT applications that align with their strategy, goals and existing application portfolio.
The repercussions of imprecise and mismatched data can be significant, with The Alan Turing Institute estimating that poor data quality costs the UK economy £10-20 billion annually. Organizations will increasingly rely on data to inform decision-making, particularly as they scale, however, data silos create barriers that hinder collaboration, creativity, and progress. Once, as a result of great transparency, IT teams become aware of applications being used and their purposes, they can work on integrating them more efficiently.
This enhances the speed and precision with which business decisions can be made, owing to better availability and timeliness of data.
Emerging from the shadows
Taming shadow IT will increase in importance as it becomes more widespread: Gartner predicts 75% of all employees will use some form of it by 2027.
Leveraging business technologists is an essential way for companies looking to stay ahead of the curve. With many already adept at automating workflows, they have the potential to fill the tech skill gaps so many businesses are struggling to address. While they may not possess all the necessary abilities, considering a lack of options on the market an effective middle-ground would be to pair these technically proficient employees with low- or no-code platforms, easing the burden on stretched IT teams. IT teams will stay at the helm of wider tech strategy, but as business technologists will ultimately have the most hands-on experience and will know where gaps in technology lie within the business, they will be invaluable in finding solutions if their skills are nurtured correctly.
As businesses adopt more and more cloud-based applications, the biggest winners will be those that can stay ahead of the curve and look at shadow IT as a fast-track to a more innovative and integrated approach to business technology
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Music and photography appear to big big jobs for this powerful Mac Pro setup. Note the iMac G4 as well as Wall-E and Eve above the cheese grater. Photo: [email protected]
It’s somewhat rare that we come across a Mac Pro setup on social media for the obvious reason that Apple’s top desktop computer costs a fortune. And the ones we see are often older than 2019’s cheese grater design. But today’s Mac Pro and smart TV setup is a welcome exception to that rule.
It sports a powerful cheese-grater Mac Pro driving a gargantuan smart TV as an external display.
And what’s more, a classic iMac G4 that still works and Wall-E and Eve toys from the Pixar movie look on from a shelf!
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iMac G4 looks on in Mac Pro and smart TV setup
Photographer and Redditor johnnyphotog showcased the impressive setup in a post entitled, “Mac Pro Creation Station.” John’s Mac Pro (96GB memory, 2TB plus 16GB fast internal storage, dual 6900XT graphics with afterburner) drives a massive 42-inch LG C2 Series OLED smart TV.
We don’t know the year of John’s Mac Pro. But we included a new one in the gear list below that will set you back a mere $12,199. So go ahead and crack open that wallet if it hasn’t run off and hidden somewhere out of sheer terror.
Here’s what you get for that immodest price:
Apple M2 Ultra 24-Core CPU
192GB of Unified RAM | 8TB SSD
76-Core GPU | 32-Core Neural Engine
2 x PCIe 4 x16 | 4 x PCIe 4 x8 Slots
8 x Thunderbolt 4 Ports
2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) | Bluetooth 5.3
Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Keypad
Magic Mouse
Full-sized MIDI keyboard controller
Some commenters showed more interest in the Arturia KeyLab 88 MIDI keyboard controller in front of the big display than in the Mac Pro.
“How do you find the Arturia 88?” asked another person about the MIDI keyboard controller. “Does it work well with Logic Pro?”
“Works great with Logic Pro!” John replied.
You can find all the gear in our list, below, under this helpful graphic.
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April’s new Xbox Game Pass arrivals give you Lego racing, Lara Croft and a Lil Gator. Subscribers can play the Mario Kart-like Lego 2K Drive starting on Wednesday, the trilogy-wrapping Shadow of the Tomb Raider on April 11 and the charming stop-motion adventure game Harold Halibut on April 16.
Lego 2K Drive, launched in May 2023, lets developer Vision Concepts (known for the NBA 2K and WWE 2K series) take the reins from Travelers’ Tales to create its first Lego game. We were quickly pulled in by its charming vehicle transformations and quirky fun in a game that draws equally from Mario Kart and Forza Horizon 5.
Our gripes (no quick way to restart races and a suspicious nudge toward microtransactions) will be easier to see past when you can download it for free with your Game Pass subscription. Lego 2K Drive will be available to Game Pass members on April 3 for cloud and Xbox consoles.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition wraps up Lara Croft’s Survivor Trilogy origin story, which rebooted the series as an Uncharted-esque cinematic epic. Help Croft traverse jungles, caverns and ruins (with tombs!) as she battles the mysterious and all-powerful organization Trinity and completes her transformation into the character known and loved from previous iterations. You can play it on April 11 on cloud, Xbox consoles and PCs.
Slow Bros.
Harold Halibut is a quirky adventure game made in the spirit of old-school Sierra or LucasArts games — with a unique visual twist. Harold works as a lab assistant in a sunken spaceship trapped underwater 250 years after fleeing a doomed Earth. But the game’s stop-motion digital animation steals the show, appropriately illustrating the story’s captivatingly gloomy sci-fi premise.
Developer Slow Bros. created handmade characters, environments and objects, which were scanned and animated digitally, leading to a stand-out old-school motif. Harold Halibut will be available on April 16 on cloud, PC and Xbox Series X/S.
Also available for Game Pass members in April are the time-slowing action-puzzler Superhot: Mind Control Delete (available Tuesday for cloud, console and PC), the innocently family-friendly open-world adventure Lil Gator Game (April 4: cloud / console / PC), EA Sports PGA Tour (April 4: cloud / PC / Xbox Series X/S) and surreal detective game Kona (April 9: cloud / console).
Leaving Xbox Game Pass this month are Amnesia Collection, Amnesia: Rebirth, Back 4 Blood, Phantom Abyss, Research and Destroy and Soma. They’re available until April 15.
