From Zenless Zone Zero to The First Descendant, we seem to be experiencing a free-to-play explosion. Despair, all you time-strapped adults, as your carefully crafted lack of pocket money offers no protection against the onslaught of games that want a piece of your evening or weekend. Today’s big release, Once Human, does at least include a giant school bus on monster legs, along with a less exciting but customizable bus that only has wheels. In this open-world survival shooter, you are a “Meta-Human” making your way through a landscape tainted by Stardust, which has warped the landscape and slowly drives you insane.
Rewriting Human History: New Discoveries Reveal Ancient Human-Neanderthal Connections
Modern humans have been interbreeding with Neanderthals for more than 200,000 years, an international team led by Josh Akey of Princeton University and Liming Li of Southeast University reports. Akey and Li identified an initial wave of contact around 200-250,000 years ago, another wave 100-120,000 years ago, and the largest one around 50-60,000 years ago. … Read more
