I increasingly judge Souls-style games not by the size of their bosses or the depth of their dungeons, but by the cleverness of their shortcuts, and Flintlock: Siege Of Dawn has my favorite shortcuts in a while. Rather than simply routes to the other side of a barred door – though there are plenty of such Lordrannish loops in this game – they consist of aerial chains of magical purple triangles that suck you in when you hold down a button. They lend force to a branching, faux-Napoleonic world that would otherwise be a collection of atmospheric strolls between campfire equivalents and battles defined by tight resourcing systems. They’re idiot-proof grappling points from which you can launch yourself toward another triangle, a ledge full of upgrade materials, or a loitering musketeer in dire need of a ground slam.
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Review: Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn (Xbox) – New Game Pass RPG Harmed By Its Own Ambition
Subscribe to Pure Xbox on YouTube25k In December 2018, A44 Games released Ashen . With a striking art style, beautiful atmosphere and great combat, it remains an indie gem of the soulslike genre. Now, five and a half years later, the team is back with Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn , a soulslike that is … Read more
Rocket Report: Firefly Delivers for NASA; Polaris Dawn Launches This Month
Enlarge / Four kerosene-fueled Reaver engines power the Firefly Alpha rocket from the launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Welcome to Issue 7.01 of the Rocket Report! We’re putting this week’s report together a day later than usual because of the Independence Day holiday. Ars is entering its seventh year of publishing … Read more
Webb Telescope Discovers Mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ at Cosmic Dawn – Debrief
One of the surprising discoveries of the Webb telescope is an early population of compact red galaxies at redshifts above 7, a time when the universe was 20 times younger than it is today. The galaxies are redder than expected based on their cosmological redshift, suggesting additional reddening by a layer of dust. Some of … Read more
Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe stun scientists
Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, compiled from three NIRCam filter bands aboard the James Webb Space Telescope. They are remarkably compact at red wavelengths (giving them the name “little red dots”), with some evidence of spatial structure at blue wavelengths. Credit: Bingjie Wang/Penn State; JWST/NIRSpec. … Read more
‘The early universe is nothing like what we expected’: James Webb telescope reveals ‘new understanding’ of how galaxies formed at cosmic dawn
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what could be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST discovered the five proto-globular clusters – swarms of millions of stars held together by gravity – within the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after the Sun’s birth. Big bang. The … Read more
A black hole of unexplained mass: JWST observations reveal a mature quasar at cosmic dawn
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Artist’s impression of the bright core region of a quasar, an active galaxy. The supermassive black hole at the center is surrounded by a bright disk of gas and dust. The dust component further out can obscure the view of … Read more
A black hole of unexplained mass: JWST observations reveal a mature quasar at cosmic dawn
Artist’s impression of the bright core region of a quasar, an active galaxy. The supermassive black hole at the center is surrounded by a bright disk of gas and dust. The dust component further out can obscure the view of the interior and shines mainly in the mid-infrared region, light that can be analyzed by … Read more
For the first time, two colossal black holes have collided in the cosmic dawn
We’ve just seen concrete confirmation that galaxies could collide and grow in the early universe. Scientists have finally discovered two blazing quasars – galaxies powered by supermassive black holes – that merged into the Cosmic Dawn just 900 million years after the Big Bang. It is the first colliding quasar pair we have found in … Read more
Astronomers discover the very first pair of merging quasars at Cosmic Dawn
This illustration shows two quasars in the process of merging. Using both the Gemini North Telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, which is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by NSF NOIRLAb, and the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers has observed a pair of merging quasars discovered … Read more