Hi everyone. Woo boy. We're all still a bit worn out from PAX East 2016, but there's plenty of content to help push us through that post-con fatigue. No worries, you'll get all the goodness from PAX in the very near future! In the meantime, let's get down to the Week in Geekdom.
Comics
DC has fired Shelly Bond, executive editor of Vertigo, and announces a not-yet-detailed 'restructuring of the label.
Games
Blizzard comes clean about their cancelled successor to World of Warcraft.
Video games are estimated to garner nearly $100 billion USD this year.
Meet Project Nova, the first-person shooter by CCP that's trying to establish a solid foundation for itself. Oh, and, by the way, it's an Eve game.
Sony hasn't come right out and said as much, but it has dropped some strong hints that the PS4 may be the last console it ever produces.
The Xbox 360 received its official death notice from Microsoft this past Thursday.
Kerbal Space Program gets 'Turbo Charged' in the first large-scale update since the game's release.
Red Dead 2 seems as though it is a very, very real (eventually playable) possibility.
Movies/TV
Somewhere on this planet there exists 39 episodes of a Star Wars-based animated series that we may never get to see.
The showrunners have confirmed that they are approaching the end of the narrative for Game of Thrones.
Science/Technology
Is it possible that the entirety of the known and unknown universe is actually just an elaborate computer simulation? Neil deGrasse Tyson and some of the other brightest minds in science concede that there's a chance this could be the case.
On a similar note: is it possible for scientists to prove that a multiverse exists?
The potential physical states of water are some of the best known in science, but, given the results of this study in the latest edition of Physical Review Letters, there may be a whole lot more to the molecule than previously believed.
While we're on the subject of water and the amazing things that we're just discovering it can do, researchers at Kyoto University have managed to isolate a dimer of the substance using a technique called molecular surgery.
A robot monk? China's Longquan Temple now counts a mechanical member among its monastical ranks.
Vulcanologists are adopting a new type of statistical analysis in their studies, one typically employed by economists.
Need a few moments of beauty? NASA has you covered with these videos of the Aurora Borealis as seen from space.
Obi-Wan may have believed them to be an elegant weapon, but lightsabers would actually be far more dangerous in real life than their cinematic depiction would have you believe them to be.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are producing AI Squared: an AI protocol capable of stopping cyberattacks.
As always, best wishes for an excellent week ahead!
As always, best wishes for an excellent week ahead!
