DIGI SWAP gives your old film camera a new lease in life as an upcycled digital camera
You can now continue enjoying the unique analog experience of a film camera without giving up the conveniences of your smartphone.
Although the market for cameras continues to thrive and survive despite all the competition, there is one kind of photographer that has nearly disappeared. The majority of film cameras are forgotten, except for the pros and amateurs who attempt to recreate the imperfections and intricacies of the medium. These cameras are often kept as memorabilia from a past time, when the excitement of taking photos was high. This clever system combines analog shooting with smartphone conveniences to allow you to relive these moments.
DIGI SWAP is actually made up of two parts, two sides of the same coin. You have the adapter, which attaches on the back of the film camera. It acts as an iPhone mount. The adapter project the film image through your film camera’s lens onto the iPhone’s camera. This transforms the phone into the equivalent roll of film. The experience is not complete without the DIGI SWAP application.
That app is almost magical in the way that it seemingly syncs with what you do on the film camera without actually connecting physically with those controls. Except for the ability to adjust some settings, such as the ISO sensitivity or aperture, all of the actions happen automatically. The film camera controls are used to adjust the aperture, shutter speed and focus. However, the iPhone automatically saves the image to its gallery as soon as you push the physical shutter button.
Samples were taken with DIGI SWAP.
This has the effect to recreate both the feel and the visual style old-school film cameras that often had a blurry quality. You can pull the wind-up lever just before you shoot your picture, just like in the old days. In fact, the app even has a “Film Empty” screen that shows up after taking 36 shots. It’s an artificial limit, so you can continue shooting by taping the “Film Replacement” button. However, the app faithfully reproduces those emotions when film runs out.
More importantly, DIGI SWAP offers shutterbugs a fun and useful way to upcycle their old faithful companions. Rather than just letting them gather dust or, worse, throwing them away, they can now use that very same film camera in a new way that lets you relive the feelings that even digital cameras today don’t provide. It can even become a way for different generations to connect, where the young and the old meet halfway with a loving and nostalgic blend of the past and the present.
Oppo Reno7 Lite 5G gets official as a rebranded Reno7 Z 5G
Today at an event in Prague Oppo unveiled the Reno7 Lite 5G for markets in Central and Eastern Europe. Although rumored to be in production, the device has not been launched anywhere else. Don’t let that fool you though, for we have seen it before, albeit under a different name. It turns out that the Reno7 Lite 5G is actually just a Reno7 Z 5G by another name.
It has the exact same specifications. You get a 6. 43″ 1080×2400 OLED screen, a triple rear camera setup with a 64 MP main, 2 MP macro shooter, and 2 MP depth sensor, a 16 MP selfie snapper, the Snapdragon 695 SoC at the helm, 8GB of storage, 128GB of expandable storage, and a 4,500 mAh battery with 33W fast charging. It runs ColorOS 12, and will be available in two color versions: Rainbow Spectrum and Cosmic Black.
The former uses two-layer coating with a base layer containing a reflecting indium coating and a top color gradient coating comprising of red, yellow, and green, for a rainbow shimmer effect that’s true to the colorway’s name. The back of this smartphone has six color transitions. It looks great!
The Reno7 Lite 5G also has Dual Orbit Lights, which are integrated behind the two primary cameras, lighting up or blinking in a variety of colors depending on different scenarios. The phone is very thin at 7. 5mm and weighs only 173g.
The Reno7 Lite 5G will be available in Central and Eastern Europe soon, with pricing to be announced on a country-by-country basis.
The Autel EVO Nano+ is a US-made pocket-sized consumer drone with a cinematic 4K camera
There’s a new sheriff in town. The homegrown American robotics brand released a tiny 4K drone that directly fires shots at DJI.
The EVO Nano+ from Autel is impressive for a lot of reasons – its most significant one being that it’s a stellar 4K drone that proudly says ‘Made in USA’ on its label. The award-winning drone also weighs under 250 grams but still packs a 48 Megapixel camera that comes with a 1/1. 28-inch sensor. The camera, capable of HDR 4K video, sits on a 3-axis gimbal for smooth stabilized footage. It’s also equipped with object detection and collision avoidance protocols, can track subjects and shoot them in a variety of styles, and simultaneously beam footage to your smartphone from as far away as 6. 2 miles… and when you’re done, the Autel EVO Nano+ folds down and slides right into your pocket.
The tiny pocket-sized drone takes on its China-based rival by being well under 250 grams but still packing a tonne of features, along with a one-of-its-kind 3-way collision detection system. Its 1/1. 28” CMOS sensor has a modest 86deg FOV and is capable of shooting 4K at 30fps or 1080p at 60fps. This camera can track animals, people, and cars with remarkable precision using PDAF + CDAF autofocus. It also has the capability to retroactively blur faces.
The EVO Nano+ comes with a unique 3-way sensor array that helps it maneuver around obstacles and even air-brake to avoid collisions. It can either be controlled via the remote controller that comes along with the bundle, or even through Autel’s own Autel Sky app. The app lets you program the drone, set subjects, flight paths, and even edit the footage your drone captures. The EVO Nano+ has a max flight distance of a whopping 16. 8 kilometers (10 miles), although the remote controller has a transmission distance of 10 kilometers or 6. 2 miles. Data captured by the EVO Nano+ can be transmitted to the app over a distance of 6. 2 miles too, and once you’ve captured footage, the drone can automatically do a video dump to your phone simply by bringing the two of them close together. This app can be used on Android and iOS smartphones.
The EVO Nano+ can fly continuously for nearly 30 minutes, which means plenty of time to experiment with creative angles and dream up inventive shots. The drone has a USB-C connector that allows you to charge it.
Elden Ring bosses fight each other in this YouTube series
Elden Ringbosses are terrifying. I say this as someone whose gotten chewed out by Tree Sentinel dozens of times, and who had to rune farm a full 10 extra levels to be able to face Margit the Fell Omen. These are only the foes in early games. But how might these enemies stack up against each other? If you’ve been curious about this — or if you’d just like the experience the sweet, sweet justice of seeing them fight each other for a change — you’re in luck. YouTuber and modder Garden of Eyes made a series of videos showcasing Elden Ring bosses fighting one another, in a series entitled “Boss VS Boss.”
These matchups pit bosses from later games against each other and are both entertaining and informative. There’s something rewarding about seeing other powerful entities fumbling with some of these boss attacks — and if these are bosses you’ve manage to slain, dear Tarnished, it puts into perspective just how intimidating you must be.
[Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for a number of Elden Ring’s major bosses.]
Each video follows the same format, and each one includes an introduction card which lists how many HP each boss has. They then battle it out over a series three-to four matches. This is a great touch, and shows how even-matched these rivals can be despite the wide range of HP differences between them.
There’s the highly requested Malenia Vs Maliketh matchup, which puts these two Shardbearers head-to-head.
Here is a matchup that has a royal twist: Morgott the Omen King, Rennala the Queen of the Full Moon.
There are plenty more matchups, like Godfrey fighting Radagon, and Malenia fighting Starscourge Radahn. Garden of Eyes has made similar boss fight videos for BloodBorne — and the work required to mod these games sounds labor intensive. “Creating these videos requires modding and digging inside the PS4 files, which involves deep understanding and working with the different formats and tools used to properly get these boss fights to work,” reads Garden of Eyes’ Patreon.
This hard work is rewarded in the form of a series videos that are both entertaining and frightening.
Dark Souls tabletop RPG is full of problems, according to early players
Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game, a new tabletop RPG designed and published by Steamforged Games, isn’t even out in the U.S. yet and it’s already steeped in criticism. The collector’s edition rulebook was released late last month in Europe and the United Kingdom, and players are already finding a lot of errors — everything from basic spelling mistakes to much larger, more game-breaking issues. These issues were first reported on by Dicebreaker.
Players on Reddit are pointing out all kinds of major inconsistencies with the ruleset, which is based on an open source version of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons. Some classes, such as the Knight, don’t have sufficient strength to be able to use their starting armor ,. However, the Caster’s starting stats will not allow them to choose one of the recommended weapons. Meanwhile, no one is even totally sure how death is supposed to work.
In an interview with Polygon, Steamforged stated that while it does not believe these issues will impact the game’s playability, it takes feedback seriously:
At Steamforged, our primary goal is always to create compelling tabletop experiences that capture the hearts and imaginations of our fans, immersing them in vivid worlds they can get lost in time and time again. While we feel we’ve achieved that with Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game in light of the overwhelming positive reviews, we acknowledge the concerns some have raised and take all feedback seriously. Although these concerns shouldn’t affect the playability of the game, we’re always striving to strengthen our processes to ensure our loyal fans continue to enjoy the games we release.
While these few copies have gone out to those who have pre-ordered the collector’s edition in Europe, the rulebook won’t be released in the United States until May 16, which left players with some questions about what might be changed before then.
This isn’t Steamforged games’ first attempt at bringing a popular video game title to tabletop audiences. The developer has also created successful board games based on Monster Hunter: World, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Resident Evil 2. Steamforged is also currently working on a Runescape game, which is due out sometime later this year.
Atlus runs Nintendo 3DS sale before eShop shut down next year
Developer and publisher Atlus is running a series of deep discounts on many of their titles for the Nintendo 3DS, as well as a few sales on Nintendo Switch titles. In February, Nintendo announced that it would no longer support the WiiU and 3DS eShops and they would be closed in the spring of 2023. Nintendo stated that it was part of the “natural lifecycle” for any product. It is when it gets less used over time .”
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When the Nintendo eShop shuts down next year, players will no longer be able to purchase games for their 3DS; game demos and other free content will also no longer be able to download.
The Wii U and 3DS eShops’ closure also means that game demos and other free content will no longer be available to download as of March 2023. However, it will be possible to redownload games, receive software updates, and play games online on both 3DS and WiiU “for the foreseeable future.”
The following titles are on sale, with some titles up to 75% off. This will likely be the best opportunity to grab these titles for the Nintendo 3DS before they cannot be purchased from the eShop anymore.
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga: 64 Easter eggs and deep cuts
In LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, the Star Wars galaxy is yours to explore, smash apart, and rebuild. You can play through abbreviated, kid-friendly comedy versions of all nine of the numbered Star Wars films, run wild across two dozen planets, and cycle through about 400 playable characters and costume variants. The Skywalker Saga might be the most complete and accessible Star Wars video game experience to date.
The game is also overflowing with jokes, references, and background gags for attentive players, particularly if you’re a chapter-and-verse Star Wars fan with one foot in its expanded universe of comics, novels, and video games. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best hidden treats we found during our playthrough.
Environmental Storytelling
While many recognizable Star Wars landmarks from the nine episodes are incorporated into the game via puzzles and side missions, there are a few artifacts — plus some foreign objects — hidden away in nooks and crannies:
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At Lars Homestead on Tatooine, you’ll find a T-16 Skyhopper parked outside Luke’s garage. You can unlock a T-16 elsewhere in the game, but this one’s just a piece of scenery.
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On Dagobah, if you wander up to the clearing in the northwest of Dragonsnake Bog, you’ll find a tripedal artificial structure. That’s an E3-standard starship lifeboat, the craft that Yoda took to Dagobah to escape the Jedi purge.
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While sneaking around Starkiller Base during The Force Awakens, if you disguise yourself as a Stormtrooper and unlock the door directly across from the interrogation room, you’ll find the janitor’s closet, with a cleaning cart and a holographic blueprint for a motorized floor-buffer. Presumably, this used to be Finn’s workspace.
Aurebesh You Didn’t Catch All of These
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Like most visual media in the Star Wars universe, The Skywalker Saga makes liberal use of Aurebesh, which is the written form of Basic, the language spoken by most of the main characters. And since every letter in our Latin-script alphabet has a corresponding letter in Aurebesh, the latter can easily be translated into English. As such, you can stop on any street in the Uscru District on Coruscant and translate the name of every storefront and find a few inside jokes. Some shop names include:
Arm and a Leg
Hutt’s Headgear
Corellian Cantina
Crispy Fried Dewback
A New Home
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There’s also Aurebesh aplenty in the game’s cinematics, most of which go by too quickly to translate without grabbing a screenshot. (Unless you’re actually fluent. We know you’re out there and we salute you.) For instance, each boss in the game gets an introductory name card, featuring their name in English (or localized language) and then a subtitle in Aurebesh. Here’s the full name card for every boss in the main story campaign:
Anakin Skywalker: Ex-Podracer and Current Sith Apprentice
BB-9E: First Order BB-Series Astromech Droid
BB-Boss: BB-9E’s Big Brother
Boba Fett: The Galaxy’s Most Infamous Bounty Hunter
Outside of the bosses, there are a ton of other little extras hidden in Aurebesh throughout the game. Here are a few of our favorites:
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Revenge of the Sith contains the game’s most brilliant background gag, which begins during the opening cinematic when Anakin and Obi-Wan’s Jedi Interceptors blast through a battle droid’s retirement party on the hull of a Trade Federation cruiser. Several missions later, Obi-Wan arrives on Utapau in search of General Grievous. He speaks with Pau’an leader Tion Medon, who shows him a tablet computer displaying an intercepted text message thread between Grievous and a battle droid. The messages are only visible for about a second, but the enclosed conversation is actually about planning the surprise retirement party that Obi-Wan crashed earlier.
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During the opening mission of A New Hope, R2-D2 and C-3PO hurry to an escape pod aboard the Tantive IV. The outer door of the escape pod reads “Droid-O-Matic.”
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At the Imperial security checkpoint in Mos Eisley, a Stormtrooper is reading a newspaper with the headline “Blue milk sales up!”
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While on Dagobah during The Empire Strikes Back, Luke carries a photo of himself, Han, and Leia as they appeared in A New Hope. The caption on the photo is “Family.”
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During the Endor mission briefing aboard Home One in Return of the Jedi, Mon Mothma presses a button and knocks a two-digit counter back to zero. The text above it reads “Days Since Bothan Incident.”
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In Maz Canata’s castle on Takodana, there are three posters hanging up featuring images of musicians. We’re stumped on the first two, but the poster on the right, reads “Jazz Hallikset” and features a character playing a guitar-like instrument from Naboo called — you guessed it — a hallikset. The hallikset is first seen as a background prop in The Force Awakens, and has since shown up in a handful of expanded universe works, such as Jedi: Fallen Order. (The instrument is almost certainly named after the balliset from Frank Herbert’s Dune.) The game makes a rare error here, though — “Jazz” is not a genre of music in the current Star Wars canon. The swingin’ tunes heard in places like Jabba’s Palace and the Mos Eisley Cantina are more properly (and very unfortunately) categorized as “jizz music.”
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At the end of The Last Jedi, Chewbacca sits at the wounded Rose Tico’s bedside reading a book. After a moment, he throws that book away and picks up a new one, entitled “Among Clouds.” The cover features a young Lando Calrissian offering a bouquet of flowers to the droid L3-37, referencing their romance subplot from Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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While sneaking through the streets of Kijimi during The Rise of Skywalker, one member of your party will hide under a crate labeled “jogans.” While they never appear in the core films, jogans are a popular fruit introduced in 2008 in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. They’ve been referenced in numerous novels and animated episodes since.
Expanded Universe Deep Cuts
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The Skywalker Saga’s roster is incredibly deep, with 384 playable minifigs available to unlock at launch, including background characters like Willrow Hood (a.k.a. Ice Cream Maker Guy) and every single astromech shot off the hull of Queen Amidala’s ship during the escape from Naboo. Since the game is already pretty crowded with obscure references to all nine numbered episodes, this doesn’t leave much room for nods to the wider expanded universe from the comics, novels, TV shows, and video games — but we’ve cataloged as many as we could find:
Mama the Hutt, mother of the infamous Jabba Desilijic Tiure, is a quest giver who hires the player to capture and retrieve the lounge singer Sy Snootles. Mama first appeared in “Hunt for Ziro,” a 2010 episode of The Clone Wars. In The Skywalker Saga, Mama is seeking revenge for the death of her son (Ziro), whom Snootles murdered in that very same Clone Wars episode. Mama becomes available in the character store after completing her side mission, “Silencing Snootles.”
Mister Bones, a modified B1 battle droid rebuilt by a young Temmin “Snap” Wexley in Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath novel trilogy, is a playable character. Bones is gleefully violent, but also fiercely protective of Snap and his allies. You can unlock Mister Bones as a playable character by entering the code “BAC1CKP” in the Extras menu.
“Rebel Friend,” a trooper dressed like all the other non-descript helmeted Rebel officers in the opening of A New Hope, except for his bright red shirt, originates in the 2006 Traveller’s Tales game LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. “Rebel Friend” becomes available in the character store after completing “The Healing Power of Crystals” side-mission on Hoth.
Roger (or RO-GR) is a friendly, modified B1 battle droid who is original to the animated series LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures. Roger becomes available in the character store after completing “A Search for Knowledge,” a side-mission on Naboo.
The penultimate boss battle of Attack of the Clones pits your party — consisting of Mace Windu, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Kit Fisto — against Jango Fett. In frustration, Fett calls his opponents “Jedi dogs,” to which Fisto replies that, since his planet has no dogs, it would be a more fitting insult to call him a “wooriid.” Wooriids are beasts from Fisto’s as-yet-unseen home planet of Glee Anselm.
One civilian in Mos Eisley (who you’ll encounter either during A New Hope or Free Play mode) expresses concern about two locals, Ponda Baba and Doctor Evazan. These are the two tough guys who pick a fight with Luke at the Cantina in A New Hope, which ends when Obi-Wan slices off Baba’s hand. The game’s unnamed civilian remarks, “Man, that Doctor Evazan is a real kook! Can’t believe Ponda let him try and fix his arm. I knew it wouldn’t work. Evazan ain’t fixing anything on his own.” According to the 2016 edition of Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, Dr. Evazan does indeed attempt to reattach Baba’s arm himself, and it doesn’t go well. Their subsequent appearances in the Doctor Aphra comics see Evazan try again with a prosthetic arm, but that doesn’t really work, either.
During the Death Star infiltration mission in A New Hope, an Imperial Officer rants to his troops over the intercom about the inconvenience of the Rebel incursion on the detention level. Among his complaints: the emergency is keeping him from visiting the Hard Heart Cantina. The Hard Heart is a bar aboard the Death Star which first appears in the 2007 novel Death Star by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry.
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The role of Admiral Holdo in The Last Jedi is played by not one but three LEGO minifigs, each with a different vibrant hair color. This might be a reference to Holdo’s habit of changing her hair color in the expanded universe.
While walking the hallways of the First Order Star Destroyer early in The Force Awakens, two Stormtroopers discuss a recent mission to Benathy in which Kylo Ren dove into the mouth of a Zillo Beast. These events are depicted in the 2019 comics one-shot Age of Resistance: Kylo Ren by Tom Taylor and Leonard Kirk.
During that same mission, Poe Dameron must disguise himself in the uniform of a First Order officer. After changing outfits, he says, “If my mother could see me now …” Though never mentioned in the films, Poe’s mother is Lt. Shara Bey, a Rebel A-Wing pilot who first appears in the 2015 comics series Shattered Empire and is now a regular presence in the pages of the core Star Wars comics title.
When Rey first sits at the helm of the Millennium Falcon in The Force Awakens, she can be seen reading the ship’s Haynes Owner’s Workshop Manual, an actual book which was published by the makers of real-life automotive technical guides in 2011.
At the Festival of Ancestors on Pasaana in The Rise of Skywalker, one tourist says that the event is one of the weirdest collections of folks he’s ever seen, “and [he] witnessed the Ewok-Dulok wars!” The Ewok-Dulok wars were the subject of the animated series Ewoks, which aired on ABC in 1985 and 1986.
Behind-the-Scenes
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The Skywalker Saga also includes a few inside jokes about the behind-the-scenes history of the Star Wars franchise, movies that inspired the space opera, and pop-cultural spoofs:
When we first cut to R2-D2 and C-3PO on Tatooine early in Return of the Jedi, there are two skeletons sitting on a cliff next to a banner that reads “Hidden Fortress” in Aurebesh. This is a reference to the 1958 Akira Kurosawa film The Hidden Fortress, one of the major influences on Star Wars. George Lucas originally patterned Artoo and Threepio after Hidden Fortress characters Tahei and Matashichi — that’s probably their bones up on the hill.
In Mos Eisley, there’s a side-mission, “Ma Klounkey Most Foul,” in which Stormtroopers ask you to interrogate witnesses to the Han Solo/Greedo shootout and determine which of the two scoundrels fired their weapons first. This refers to the way that this scene has been re-edited to alter the events of the shoot-out nearly every single time that A New Hope has been re-released. When A New Hope first arrived on Disney+ in 2019, the scene was changed yet again so that Greedo says the Huttese phrase “Ma klounkey!” to Solo just before he fires. It immediately became a meme.
The side-mission to track down Malakili, Jabba’s runaway rancor trainer, is entitled “Green Harvest.” “Blue Harvest” was the secret production codename for Return of the Jedi.
While infiltrating the Star Destroyer in The Rise of Skywalker, Rey has to mind trick a Stormtrooper to open a door. Poe wonders aloud, “Can she do that to us?” In Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connelly’s discarded Episode IX script, Duel of the Fates, Rey does exactly that, using her powers to force Poe to leave her behind so that she can complete her dangerous final mission alone.
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During the final duel on Exegol in The Rise of Skywalker, Palpatine exclaims “Rey. Pah! I wanted them to call you ‘Kira.’ Sounds so much cooler.” Kira is the name of Rey’s closest counterpart in George Lucas’ unused outline for Star Wars: Episode VII.
In the Southeast corner of Lake Paonga on Naboo, and you’ll find what appears to be a copy of the original LEGO Star Wars video game floating in a box on the water. (You can’t pick it up, unfortunately.)
In the middle of the chase through the asteroid field in The Empire Strikes Back, there’s a gag in which we can see the Millennium Falcon from above as it spins around, firing projectiles in all directions, like in the classic arcade game Asteroids.
After the boss battle against First Order Stormtrooper FN-2199 in The Force Awakens, the trooper gets back up and attempts to dazzle Finn and Han Solo by waving his shock baton around theatrically. Solo responds with a shrug and lazily aims his pistol back at the trooper. This scene is staged to echo the famous gag from Raiders of the Lost Ark in which Indiana Jones (also co-created by George Lucas and played by Harrison Ford) brings a gun to a swordfight.
Clairvoyant Call-Forwards
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The Skywalker Saga also offers its storytellers the opportunity to add jokes to the original trilogy that call forward to stories that were created much later:
While installing the Falcon’s sensor dish at Docking Bay 94 in A New Hope, Han remarks, “Do you know how hard it is to find a round dish? Quit shooting it!” After the Falcon’s round sensor dish is lost during the Battle of Endor, it’s replaced with the rectangular one seen in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
In The Empire Strikes Back, during the mission to reconfigure the signal towers to boost the missing Luke’s signal, Han asks General Rieekan why the Rebels haven’t thawed out the bridges to the third tower yet. Rieekan replies: “In his climate? That’d be about as fruitful as herding rathtars.” That’s exactly what Han and Chewie are up to at the beginning of The Force Awakens.
When Lando Calrissian comes to greet the crew of the Millennium Falcon at Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back, a wig falls onto C-3PO’s head. Instead of coming on to Leia (as Calrissian did in the film), Lando delivers the same flirtatious dialogue to C-3PO, again alluding to his romantic relationship with L3-37 in Solo.
Final Reward
These are the highlights we’ve discovered after one playthrough of the full story mode, and completing a mere 36% of the game’s puzzles and mini-games. We’ve yet to experience it ourselves, but a Rebel trooper on Yavin 4 teases that there’s a special reward awaiting players who reach 100% game completion. Once you’ve collected everything there is to collect in The Skywalker Saga, make your way to the throne room near the top of the Temple on Yavin 4 (where Luke and Han receive their medals at the end of A New Hope). There, you’ll find the main cast of the series standing around a single switch giving you a round of applause. Throw the switch, and enjoy a dance remix of the saga’s musical themes and an endless fountain of studs to spend on … well, nothing. You’ve already bought everything.
Bell & Ross RR 03-94 Multimeter Watch is designed for runners, cyclists, and drivers
Bell & Ross is a name known for luxury timepieces. Every piece is highly sought-after because of its uniqueness. We have already seen watches with industrial chic style from the brand and those aviation-themed pieces.
A new model is ready to make waves this coming June, but only 500 limited edition pieces will be available. The Bell & Ross RR 03-94 MULTIMETER will make an impression with both its form and function. The distinctive square-faced watch is a hallmark of Bell & Ross. It’s complemented with a vibrant dial.
The BR 03-94 Multimeter is mainly for sports enthusiasts and athletes. You can say it’s a health and fitness watch, ideal for the active modern man. You can track your progress as a driver or cyclist. This unique chronograph is very modern and sporty. Its dial design shows an infinite number of options. This dial’s iconic “circle inside a square” design is back. It looks like a cockpit clock with its 42mm diameter goodness and the multicolored dial graphic design.
The Bell & Ross BR 03-94 Multimeter can be an everyday watch. Although it is a beautiful watch, it doesn’t seem overwhelming. It is from a luxury brand but this particular watch appears ready for rough and rugged use. However, only 500 pieces of the Bell & Ross BR 03-94 Multimeter will be sold.
The watch boasts a matte black ceramic material. The case is 42mm in width and is 12. 8mm thick. It tells the hours, minutes, and small seconds plus the date at 3 o’clock. At 9 o’clock, you will see a 30-minute counter.The chronograph includes central chronograph seconds, asthmometer, pulsometer, and a tachymeter.
The black dial shows indicators for three tachymeter zones, one asthmometer zone, and one pulsometer zone. The Pulsometer is used to measure a person’s pulse, while the Asthmometer measures the number of breaths per minute. White is the minute track, while Super-LumiNova has painted the hour and minute hands. The crystal is sapphire with an anti-reflective coating which reminds us of the BR 01 Cyber Skull Sapphire from last year.
The watch is already water-resistant up to 100 meters. The watch straps are made of perforated black rubber combined with ultra-resilient black synthetic fabric. It makes use of B&R’s very own steel pin buckle with a matte black PVD finish.
The watch’s movement is Calibre BR-CAL. 301 automatic mechanical. As with other Bell & Ross watches, this one also comes with short and thick lugs plus the four functional screws on the front that have become a trademark already. The right side has a screw-down crown with pushers. The caseback is solid so you know this watch is ready with its solid build.
The Bell & Ross BR 03-94 Multimeter is listed with a PS4,900 price tag which is around $6,383 (EUR 5,600). You may need to order quickly as this is a limited edition item. The newest chronograph from Bell & Ross joins the previous watch models we’ve featured, like the Bell & Ross BR-X1 Skeleton Tourbillion Sapphire Watch and the Bell & Ross Red Radar Ceramic.
Deep Rock Galactic has a new season with a robot nemesis
Deep Rock Galactic takes the frantic action of a four-player co-op shooter like Left 4 Dead, and then adds a ton of sci-fi gadgets to the mix. Players are part of a group made up of space miners from late capitalism. It takes a team to overcome the challenges they face. The game’s next season, called Rival Escalation, adds a terrifying new murder robot, new secondary weapons for each class, and an update to the game’s cosmetic system.
The action of Deep Rock Galactic takes place on Hoxxes IV, a planet loaded with valuable minerals and other loot. Unfortunately for the players, it’s also full of hordes of hostile bugs and deadly robots. Rival Escalation introduces Rival Escalation, a lethal new nemesis robotic that will appear to hunt down the Dwarves. If you approach too closely, it can snatch you by the claws.
The dwarven miners, who can pick one of four classes with their own abilities and duties, have some additional firepower on their side to diversify their play styles. Every class gets a new tool; for instance, Gunners have a new coil gun that can blast through solid rock, while Drillers have a wave cooker that literally microwaves the enemies in its path. The weapons can be upgraded with cosmetics and upgrade trees so that players have the ability to mix and match and customize their combat kits.
Developer Ghost Ship Games carefully designed DLC and cosmetics for the game to make it enjoyable and minimize FOMO. Players can purchase the Robot Rebellion DLC pack to wear a bunch of armor scavenged from the enemies of season 1, and the shop is being updated to accept a new currency called Phazyonite that can be found in the mines or via advancing in Cosmetic Mastery levels.
There’s also a season pass; players can take part in any mission to level up the season pass and unlock special cosmetics or bonus items. Players who missed out on season 1 can obtain those items through cargo crates and packs hidden in the mines, as well as the shop at a later date. Season 2: Rival Escalation will launch April 28 on Steam, and May 5 for Xbox and PlayStation players.
Witcher 3’s next-gen update for PS5, Xbox Series X delayed indefinitely
An enhanced version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X won’t make its release window in the first half of 2022, CD Projekt Red said Wednesday. The company made the announcement on Twitter, saying that it was bringing the project in house. CD Projekt didn’t set a new release window.
“We have decided to have our in-house development team conduct the remaining work on the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” CD Projekt said. “We are currently evaluating the scope of work to be done and thus have to postpone Q2 release until further notice. We’ll update you as soon as we can. Thank you for understanding.”
Saber Interactive, the developers behind the excellent version of Wild Hunt for Nintendo Switch, had previously been working on the project.
Released in 2015, Wild Hunt is the most critically-acclaimed game in the franchise’s history. Its visual fidelity and mechanical complexity have earned it a place among the best modern PC games, including here at Polygon.
The goodwill earned by the commercial and critical success of Wild Hunt helped to spur on consumer interest in Cyberpunk 2077, an ambitious title based on a universe created by R. Talsorian Games. Unfortunately, that product was delayed multiple times before being released in an extremely buggy state. The fallout from that botched release led to a personal apology by the company’s CEO. It took a lot of work to get the game through.
News of Wild Hunt‘s delay comes one month after the company announced that the next title in the Witcher franchise was in development, and that it would use Unreal Engine 5 as part of a “multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games.”
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