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Nintendo had a rough start to this decade. The follow up to the wildly successful Wii, the Wii U, failed to capture the public’s attention the way its predecessor did, selling only a fraction of the units. They managed to make up for it in a big way in 2017 with the release of the Nintendo Switch. The hybrid console was a revelation for gamers, who could now enjoy games in the comfort of their home or on the go without having to buy two pieces of hardware or two copies of the same game....

What Does Alternative SQL Query Mean? Alternative SQL queries are a family of query languages that allow developers to specify queries to SQL databases with languages other than the standard SQL. They are typically implemented for specific languages, such as for Scala, Scheme, Ruby and Haskell. The goal is to let developers create queries in languages they are more comfortable in. Techopedia Explains Alternative SQL Query Alternative SQL query languages serve as front ends to the query languages of the popular SQL servers, such as MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server....

What is Strava? Who uses Strava? Strava main features Activity feed Groups Mapping and routing in Strava In the smartphone app On the Strava website Segments: Where Strava really shines Data, data, data: Performance tracking What does a subscription get you and is it worth it? Routes, planning and recommendations Matches rides and runs with performance analysis Training log Segment leaderboards, local legends Live Segments on compatible devices Monthly activity trends and comparisons Goal setting Heatmaps Training plans Power curve - if you have a power meter Fitness and freshness analysis Year in Sport What devices are compatible with Strava?...

Since its release last December, Immortals Fenyx Rising received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics due to its vast open-world environment, exciting gameplay, and a narrative inspired by Greek mythology. Although Immortals Fenyx Rising is not as popular as Ubisoft’s other franchises, the game still amassed a loyal fanbase, and with the start of the new year, many are probably wondering what’s in store for the game. Luckily for fans, Ubisoft has laid out its post-content plans for Immortals Fenyx Rising, and players should expect three DLC expansions to roll out this year....

Fiction has been obsessed with religion for as long as literature has existed. From didactic children’s tales designed to strike the fear of God into the young and unassuming, to scathing critiques of everything wrong with contemporary institutional religious structures, it’s easy to see why religion — and, more specifically, religious fundamentalism — is a de facto constituent of fictional worldbuilding. For video games in particular, though, the reason for this is not only visible — it actively makes sense....

Last week, the video game industry gathered to celebrate this year’s The Game Awards, which handed out accolades to some of the biggest games released this year. Although Ghost of Tsushima took home the fan-voted Player’s Voice award, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us 2 won the coveted Game of The Year accolade. Aside from all the awards handed to several video games, The Game Awards also revealed trailers for upcoming games, including Dragon Age 4....

In Mass Effect, there is an optional assignment called Scan the Keepers that you can undertake that involves scanning all of the Keepers found in the Citadel. Each time you scan a Keeper you earn experience points and credits, so it’s well worth doing. Additionally, completing this assignment will add a small reference in Mass Effect 2. This assignment can be started in one of two ways, speaking to Jaheed and beginning the Jaheed’s Fears assignment will guide you to Chorban....

The late Chadwick Boseman made just 15 films before his shocking, devastating death last week from colon cancer. But many of those 15 movies (one, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, is coming soon from Netflix) had already left an undeniable and in some cases massive impact on cinema, even before becoming the permanent legacy of an incredible actor taken from us far too soon. Not only did his portrayal of King T’Challa in Marvel’s Black Panther and three other Marvel Cinematic Universe entries change film history itself, but he brought some of the most important figures in both Black and American culture to the screen....

Is it strange to admit that it’s nice to feel lonely sometimes? The feeling of knowing that nobody is around you, and the world that stretches onward is bereft of life with the exception of small pockets of wildlife that call the horizon home. All of Fumito Ueda’s games are drenched in such an atmosphere, making you feel like one of the only living things in a vast, endless place. It’s comfortingly magical in how it draws you in, naturally piecing together a mystery from the remnants of life left behind long before you appeared....

I love arcade racing games. I’m not the biggest fan of racing simulators, as I find most of the joy I get from the genre comes from personalising my own car and crashing ones that don’t belong to me, like in Motorstorm or Burnout. However, since I’m a Need For Speed fan anyway, I decided to give 2009’s Shift a shot. I remember enjoying it when I first played it back in the day, so I wanted to start again and see if it still held up after 12 years in the garage....

Being stuck on a low population server in any MMO can be a serious problem, and individually transferring to another server isn’t always an adequate - or affordable - solution for those playing there. Thankfully, World of Warcraft fans shouldn’t have to worry about this issue much longer. Blizzard has revealed that players who are on low-population World of Warcraft realms will be combined with ‘other existing realms’ in the near future....

Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Phase 2 of Wrath of the Lich King Classic is here. With it comes the much-anticipated Ulduar raid, a few new pieces of world content, and new power rankings for WoW‘s DPS, Healer, and Tank Classes. These class rankings are primarily based on each class’ viability in the Uduar raid as that is the main piece of Phase 2 content....

November 22 is less than two weeks away, which means that many Xbox One pre-orderers are incredibly close to unboxing their next generation consoles. Lots of consumers are still debating which console to purchase, but fans that want to get in on the ground floor will need to make a decision very soon. As the official Xbox One release date approaches, Microsoft continues to reveal more details about what consumers can expect when they fire up their new consoles for the first time....

In a surprise announcement at the Halo 5 launch event, Phil Spencer revealed that the Xbox One Experience update and backwards compatibility will launch on Nov. 12. No one particularly expected news to break during tonight’s Halo 5: Guardians launch event. Sure, the Xbox One PR team would throw a huge party and Halo’s biggest fans would get punch drunk on hype, but everyone’s used to that by now. Phil Spencer, Xbox boss, decided to mix things up a little bit while speaking at the launch event....

The next-gen Xbox consoles are going to be the first to ever feature both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos support. If you don’t know why that’s a big deal, you may want to check out that 4K-TV that a lot of you have been buying in anticipation of the next-gen consoles. If you have Dolby Vision on your TV, you may have unintentionally set yourself up perfectly for next-gen gaming....

Terraria is now out on the Nintendo Switch, the last console that had yet to fall to its 16-bit might. If you’re a gamer, you probably already know about Terraria, the 2D Minecraft-like sandbox game that lets you hunt down unicorns, build magic castles, and battle terrifying floating eyeballs. The core of Terraria is exploration, either by digging downward in a series of tunnels that would make one of Tolkien’s dwarves jealous, exploring the world horizontally by simply clicking left or right and holding the stick in that direction, or by exploring its byzantine crafting system with over 3,500 unique items to discover....

In the world of Let’s Players, PewDiePie is king. The YouTube star, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, has amassed an incredible 37 million subscribers for his video game-focused channel, and with that has come great commercial success. PewDiePie reportedly earned $4 million from his gameplay videos last year, and has been named as one of the most influential people on the internet this year. As it stands, however, it looks unlikely that the divisive star’s popularity is going to slow down any time soon....

What Does Affinity Analysis Mean? Affinity analysis is a technique for the purpose of data mining and analysis that is meant to discover co-occurrence relationships among activities that are carried out by certain groups or individuals. As such, affinity analysis can be applied to processes where identification of agents is unique and information about activities can be recorded. In reality, affinity analysis is mainly used for market basket analysis, whereby retailers learn about the behavior of customers with regard to purchases they make....

What Does Autocomplete Mean? Autocomplete technology is a design where a given autocomplete feature takes partial user input and predicts the final result. This allows for various kinds of efficiency and speedier use of various technologies. Techopedia Explains Autocomplete Perhaps the most common and prominent example of autocomplete is in text messaging or smartphone messaging apps. These autocomplete features help with the inherent problem of putting together words and sentences through a touchscreen keypad, which is a labor-intensive task....

What Does Empowered Edge Mean? Empowered edge is a term in IT that is used to talk about empowering computing centralization that is distributed toward the edge of a network, toward the end user and the end user device. It is a key concept in device management in the cloud and big data age. Techopedia Explains Empowered Edge The idea of empowered edge is that engineers and enterprises are putting more computing transactions and significant data transfers at the edge of an increasingly complex system of network nodes....