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Footage of Hideo Kojima's next game may have leaked in bizarre fashion
We may get more clarity about the 'Death Stranding' creator's next project at The Game Awards next month.
Smartphone app could help doctors detect opioid overdoses
A new mobile app could alert doctors to people who have overdosed on opioids by tapping into a smartphone's speaker and microphone. The "Second Chance" app, developed by a team of researchers from the University of Washington, turns your phone into a sonar device for measuring breathing. Though still in the trial stages, its creators say it detected early signs of overdose in the minutes after people injected heroin.
Wearable sensor can detect imminent opioid overdose
The number of drug overdose deaths in the US more than tripled between 1999 and 2016, with opioids accounting for the majority -- in 2018, more than 115 people died from opioid overdose every day. Now, students from Carnegie Mellon University have created a wearable device that could alert the wearer to a possible overdose, giving them enough time to administer naloxone to reverse the situation.
HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll dies of apparent overdose
One of the mobile app world's more influential and controversial executives has passed away. TMZ has learned that Colin Kroll, the co-founder of both HQ Trivia and Vine, has died of an apparent drug overdose in Manhattan at the age of 34. Kroll had been the CEO of the company for just three months following a change in role for fellow founder Rus Yusupov, and it's not clear what will happen next for the startup. HQ Trivia isn't commenting at this stage.
Recommended Reading: The Black Panther returns
The Return of the Black Panther Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the most important voices of our time, and he went to work on a new Black Panther series of comic books for Marvel. Coates previews the first issue in the series of 11 chronicling adventures of what was the first black superhero portrayed in US mainstream comics when it debuted in the 1960s. Details on the making of the new comics alongside a collection of panels for the first issue make this piece a must-read.
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: OverDose
Being a giant, beloved video game site has its downsides. For example, we sometimes neglect to give independent developers our coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as we get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A titles. To remedy that, we're giving indies the chance to create their own loverage and sell you, the fans, on their studios and products. This week we talk Gavin Stevens, lead designer of Team Blur Games. How did you or your company get started? Back in the Quake 2/3 modding scene, I created a high resolution replacement pack for Quake 2 which (in those days at least) bumped up the detail of the stock enemy textures quite a lot. Another regular I used to chat with saw it and said "Well wouldn't it be just awesome if somebody made the entire game that way?" That other person was Nicolas, Team Blur Games' best (and only, at the moment) coder. Together, we hit upon the idea of Quake II Evolved: OverDose. It would be a single player and multi player game based on the Quake 2 universe, and ... and that's where it got complicated, because again we would be dealing with somebody else's IP, and it would never really be our own baby. So, we went away to think. Many beers were downed. Many pizzas consumed ... and thus, Team Blur Games' "OverDose" was born.
Worst gaming hubby - ever
If you find this news item about the Chinese gaming husband who drove his wife to attempt suicide boring... blame the holiday furor for the lack of any Earth shattering MMOG news this week. That, or you're not married at the moment and could care less. But if you ever have plans to tie the knot, pay attention, and don't do what this guy did.See, I am a gaming husband, so I found the bit about it over on PlayNoEvil to be quite humorous. Well, sort of - since it had an upbeat ending (no one died). Whenever these stories (almost always coming from overseas) involving people playing until they drop dead from lack of eating, or in this case doing something equally stupid, ya gotta go... WTF? This latest off the wall news involves a newlywed husband. Guy just got married and he's more intimately involved with a video game than he is with his new wife (Bad Move #1). The new hubby goes on a gaming bender for two months (Bad Move #2) and racks up online fees to the tune of $2,700 (20,000 yuan in China) - of his new wife's money (Bad Moves #3 and #4). When the well runs dry he goes and asks for more (Bad Move #5)! She of course balks at the absurd request, a fight ensues (I wonder if he ever contemplated going the route of his fellow countryman and use WoW as an excuse for some supernatural powers). The wife goes and takes a bunch of sleeping pills in an attempt to kill herself, which fails due to the timely arrival of a healing mage, er... paramedics. As the Gaming World Turns...Do you have an equally bizzaro tale? If so, let us hear it!
