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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Arrest of a Stone Buddha’, ‘What The Golf?’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 21st, 2020. As we approach the end of the month, we’re seeing more releases arriving. There are a lot of new games to check out today, and that’s how we’ll be spending most of our time here. There are also the usual lists of sales information, and that’s about the lot. Let’s check it out! New Releases Arrest of a Stone Buddha ($14.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! One of the coolest surprises of last year was The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

Virtually reality: why isn’t VR more popular?

VR is impressive to watch — but it is less impressive to purchaseMany people probably have experience of VR second-hand, rather than from the comfort of their own home. A casual demo in a gaming convention here, or a half hour spent on someone else’s setup there — the interest exists, but the demand does not.The titles already coming out for it are getting better and better, and have already contributed to a branch of Youtubers focusing on VR content. VRChat, Beat Saber and Half Life: Alyx have been raising

Chainlink Introduces VRF Tool to Help Smart Contracts Achieve On-Chain Randomness

Chainlink is best known for its pioneering work around decentralized oracles, but the project’s experts have also gone expansive with work on Mixicles, meta oracles, and beyond. The Link Marines are buzzing anew, then, as Chainlink has rolled out yet another major contribution to the smart contracts ecosystem this week, the Chainlink VRF. The “VRF” in that stands for verifiable random function, a cryptographic primitive that can generate random numbers in verifiable and unbiasable fashion. Why’s this important? There are no shortage of use cases in which blockchain projects could

Top New Games Out On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC This Week – May 10-16, 2020

There are plenty of games on the horizon as we near the halfway mark of May. This episode of New Releases is great for Nintendo Switch owners, with the sharp turns of Star Wars Episode I: Racer and the smooth sounds of Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix. Meanwhile, Deep Rock Galactic leaves early access, and Ion Fury gets its console release. Finally, sports fans can take a swing with Super Mega Baseball 3.Star Wars Episode I: Racer -- May 12Available on: SwitchThe racing game you might have played a

Roundguard on Apple Arcade Game Designer Andrea Roberts interview

When it comes to the idea of a peggle-style game, it doesn’t have to be a simple level-by-level design. It can be an adventure! That’s the idea behind Wonderbelly Games’ Roundguard - a game that asks you to clear boards of monsters, treasure, potions, and other goodies with bouncy RPG heroes, and recently launched on the Apple Arcade. Roundguard describes itself as a “bouncy dungeon crawler” in which you’ll use characters like warriors, mages, rogues, and more, each with their own unique abilities, to launch and bounce around boards populated

Wanted: Gravetide Summoner – Destiny 2

The Gravetide Summoner is doing unspeakable rituals in Destiny 2 and the Spider wants you to stop it. The Gravetide Summoner is a major threat to Guardians in Destiny 2. This enemy is one of Spider’s Wanted targets, but it’s not just some lowly enemy, it’s one of the few actual boss fights offered. Due to the challenge players might face, it’s a good idea to bring a Fireteam with you to take down the Gravetide Summoner. Wanted: Gravetide Summoner The Gravetide Summoner is one of Spider’s big, weekly bounties.

UPDATE – WATCH: PlayStation 5 Get’s Infused

Plat Station 5 gets Infused on Press X To Get HighOn March 18th, Sony PlayStation made announcements surrounding the much anticipated, Playstation 5. That same day, Higher Mentality’s own Press X to Get High (PXTGH) went live reporting on these announcements while extremely high. If you haven’t been paying attention to Higher Mentality’s TWITCH channel, dare we say you’ve been missing out. Every Wednesday Press X To Get High, hosts loveable stoners Jake Reimer (also known as Snake the Jake), Ben 64, and Logan get super high and review, play

Swarm Intelligence could be the Key to More Accurate Sports Betting

Share... Facebook Twitter Linkedin Reddit StumbleUpon Tumblr Print email You don’t see many traffic jams in the bee worldPhoto by Jordan Schwartz Artificial intelligence has been shown to have tremendous predictive power in all sorts of areas. Sports is one area in which data plays a key role, whether it’s statistics about a team’s form and overall performance, or data for individual players and their strengths. Collecting this data and analyzing it using algorithms can lead to more accurate predictions. This type of AI doesn’t have to involve any human

P.S.: I love you. When gamers break up with you.

Quick disclaimer: I am not a gamer.But there was this one time, a few years ago, when I came home to find a borrowed PlayStation with a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas case right next to it in the living room. It was my girlfriend who had left it there.She had been playing it all afternoon and as soon as I got home she told me all about her plan. The idea was for us to spend a different kind of weekend together, just the two of us, playing GTA.Little