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Unity’s Amazing ‘Adam’ Demo Has New Episodes, Directed By District 9’s Neill Blomkamp
Remember “Adam”? The demo Unity used to show off the visual and cinematic improvements to the company’s game engine? Like all such demos, we were left wanting more, though we knew it was unlikely anything else would come of it. Not so in Adam’s case: turns out Neill Blomkamp’s Oat Studios picked it up and…
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This Video Series Asks, What Sort Of Hero Is Batman, Anyway?
The tradition of the hero in fiction is long and complicated. The first type of “hero” we find in literature, the Classical Hero of old epics, weren’t good, exactly: they were just big. They did great deeds, but they were also fatally flawed, and sometimes monstrous. Only later, during the Middle Ages and the Romantic…
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We Could Watch This Mesmerising Video Of Leia Slapping Poe In The Last Jedi All Day Long
Poe Dameron deserved so much more than a light slap on the face in response to his gross insubordination during Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which is part of what makes this blooper supercut of the multiple times Carrie Fisher had to dramatically hit Oscar Isaac while filming so satisfying. Clearly, they were both having…
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Flying A Tiny Drone To A Staggering 10,000m Gives You The Ultimate Bird’s-Eye View
In the US, to ensure the safety of larger aircraft carrying pilots and passengers, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can’t be flown higher than 122m so they don’t enter national airspace. Regulations in Russia, however, aren’t as strict, enabling drone pilot Denis Koryakin to fly his homebuilt, 1kg craft to a staggering height of over…