In the character’s long 82-year history, we’ve seen Batman interpreted in several ways across various mediums. The world of videogames in particular has enjoyed a number of particularly memorable iterations of the Caped Crusader, ranging from the blocky tongue-in-cheek humour of the LEGO Batman games, through to the gritty gameplay of the Arkham series. If you’re one of the many people looking for the best superhero games at a great price, you may be happy to hear that for a limited time, Humble’s offering eight of these great titles in the form of The WB Batman Collection for a mere $10 . If you’re unfamiliar with the Humble Bundle model, let us break it down for you. There’s a minimum price (in this case, $10), but otherwise you’re given the choice of how much money you want to spend. Humble works with various charity partners and these bundles help to raise money for them. In this instance, the bundle helps raise funds for SpecialEffect, a charity dedicated to making video games more accessible so that they can be enjoyed by children living with disabilities. Whether you missed out on the earlier Arkham games, or you’re looking to give a Bat fan great gifts for Christmas, this offer gets you a whole lot of action and adventure for an absolute steal. LEGO Batman: The Video Game (2008): this was one of the first games to follow the path set by Travellers Tales’ fantastic LEGO Star Wars games, giving a fun and addictive game, full of iconic characters and a great sense of humour. Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009): this Rocksteady Studios game was the beginning of the Batman: Arkham series and featured many actors from Batman: The Animated Series resuming their roles for a new medium. Buying this nets you the GOTY edition of the game, including its DLC. Batman: Arkham City (2011): after the success of Arkham Asylum, Rocksteady Studios created a sequel to open the world up and give you the opportunity to explore a new version of Arkham as Batman. The GOTY edition is included in the bundle, encompassing its DLC. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (2012): upping the ante from the first game in the series, DC Super Heroes sees Batman joined by LEGO iterations of many other DC heroes as they work together to stop Lex Luthor becoming President of the United States. Batman: Arkham Origins (2013): this game is a prequel to Arkham Asylum made by Warner Bros Montreal that puts you into the shoes of a younger Batman who’s being hunted down by assassins. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (2014): this game takes the winning formula of the first two games and runs with it, going so far as to include 150 playable DC heroes. Batman: Arkham Knight (2015): in the third game of Rocksteady Studios’ Arkham series, Gotham is under attack from the Scarecrow and a mysterious figure known as the Arkham Knight. As with the others, you get the GOTY edition in this bundle. Batman: Arkham VR (2017): with VR technology getting better all the time, Rocksteady Studios took the winning formula of their earlier games and gave it a VR spin, creating an innovative first-person adventure.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59647065 The US has said no American troops or officials will be held accountable for a drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan in August. The attack took place during the final days of the US-led evacuation of Kabul after the Taliban seized control. An aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the strike. American intelligence had believed the aid worker's car was linked to IS-K, a local branch of Islamic State. But in the aftermath, US Central Command's Gen Kenneth McKenzie described the strike on 29 August as a "tragic mistake". Who are IS-K? Interpreter who helped rescue Biden leaves Afghanistan A high-level internal review published last month, concluded that that there was no need for disciplinary action, since no law had been broken, and there was no evidence of misconduct or negligence. Several US media outlets reported that the review was approved on Monday by Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. The strike happened days after a suicide bomber killed up to 170 civilians and 13 US troops outside Kabul airport. US forces had targeted a car belonging to aid worker Zamairi Ahmadi, and the strike was launched as he pulled into the driveway of his home, 3km (1.8 miles) from the airport. The vehicle had been seen at a compound associated with IS-K, and its movements aligned with other intelligence about the terror group's plans for another attack. The explosion set off a secondary blast, which US officials initially said was proof that the car was indeed carrying explosives. However, an investigation found it was most likely caused by a propane tank in the driveway.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59646877 More than half a million people booked their Covid booster jabs on Monday - despite the NHS website crashing as thousands sought top-up doses. Boris Johnson revealed the figure a day after pledging that boosters would be offered to all over-18s by 31 December. Long queues formed at walk-up vaccination sites on Monday, with some people waiting five hours to get jabs. The PM and the NHS are now appealing for volunteers to help get jabs into arms and run vaccination centres. No 10 said in the next week, "hundreds more sites, mobile units and pop-ups will be springing up across the country" - including at football stadiums, shopping centres and racecourses. Meanwhile from Tuesday, fully-vaccinated people in England who come into contact with any Covid case should take daily lateral flow tests for seven days. Until now, contacts of Omicron cases had to isolate for 10 days. Most unvaccinated adults will still have to isolate if they are contacts of any Covid cases, Omicron or not. On Monday, ordering lateral flow kits from the government website was temporarily suspended amid high demand. By the early hours of Tuesday morning, it appeared the tests could once more be ordered from the government website. Monday saw online booster jab bookings open for people aged 30 and over - a day after the prime minister announced an expansion to the rollout amid the "Omicron emergency". People aged 18 to 29 will be able to book their booster jabs online from Wednesday. Senior health sources have said the end-of-year target is highly ambitious and delivery may take longer, BBC health editor Hugh Pym said. To reach the government's goal, one million doses would have to be administered daily. The prime minister and NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard are appealing for "tens of thousands" of volunteers - from trained vaccinators to stewards - to join the "national mission" and help achieve the accelerated booster rollout. Mr Johnson said: "Many thousands have already given their time but we need you to come forward again, to work alongside our brilliant GPs, doctors, nurses and pharmacists, to deliver jabs and save lives. "So please come forward if you can." At the moment there are nearly 3,000 vaccine sites across the country run by more than 90,000 volunteers. After last week's NHS recruitment drive for 10,000 paid vaccinators, 4,500 people have registered their interest while 13,000 have come forward as volunteer stewards. Modelling by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) estimates the current number of daily Omicron infections is around 200,000, according to Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid. Omicron has risen to more than 44% of cases in London and is expected to become the dominant variant in the city in the next 48 hours, he said. There are 4,713 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant, with 10 people, aged between 18 and 85, hospitalised with the variant in England, according to UKHSA. It added all were diagnosed on or before admission to hospital and the majority had received two doses of a vaccine. At least one person in the UK has died with Omicron, Mr Johnson confirmed on Monday. The UK confirmed 54,661 new coronavirus cases on Monday, as well as 38 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.

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Why it matters: At the 2021 Game Awards this week, Intel dropped a 30-second teaser for its upcoming Arc dedicated graphics cards. The video covers nothing the company hasn’t revealed before, but it might be Arc’s most public showing yet. The teaser shows a few games running on an unspecified Arc GPU, including Hitman, Age of Empires IV, and Back 4 Blood. Of course, Intel didn't bother to compare Arc to an Nvidia or AMD GPU. The only clue that hints at performance is that the YouTube upload is 1440p and 30 frames per second. Recent Arc benchmarks haven’t been too impressive, but those cards were likely downclocked, so we don’t have accurate performance metrics yet. On top of the footage, Intel mentions already-confirmed features like ray tracing and AI-powered image upscaling but doesn’t say whether the clips in the teaser are using those features. The video ends with a launch window in the second half of 2022, which we already expected. None of what Intel showed was technically new, but many viewers of the Game Awards likely didn’t know Intel was working on its own graphics cards. The company has held presentations showing off their features, and rumors have hinted at other details, but there hasn’t been a lot of advertising. The teaser could be the beginning of a real PR debut for the Arc cards.

In brief: Earlier this year, one of the documents used in the Epic vs. Apple trial revealed that Google has been secretly working on a vision for a cross-platform Android gaming service. Now the company has confirmed as much, but we’ll have to wait until next year to find out what it’s all about. When Microsoft first announced Windows 11, it made a big selling point that it would open the Microsoft Store to apps built using a variety of desktop and web technologies. At the same time, it also promised to bring Android apps to Windows 11 users via Amazon’s Appstore. As of writing, you can only install Amazon’s Appstore if you’re enrolled in the Windows Insider Program (beta channel). The feature that allows you to install and run Android apps is called the Windows Subsystem for Android, which is similar in many ways to the Windows Subsystem for Linux that has been available in Windows 10 for a while. The experience is somewhat similar to running Android apps on Chrome OS, with the caveat that you’re limited to the few apps available on Amazon’s Appstore. However, that may change in the near future as Google, too, wants a piece of the Android action on Windows. The company made a surprise announcement at The Game Awards where it revealed it will bring Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs. The functionality will arrive through a desktop Play Games app, and Google says you’ll be able to sync game data like progress and achievements between Android, Windows, and Chrome OS. The new app wasn’t developed in partnership with Microsoft, and doesn’t rely on the same integration as the Amazon Appstore in order to work. Google didn’t offer any details about the technology behind it, but it’s safe to assume it will use some kind of emulation to enable Android games to run under a Windows environment. The company only confirmed the games will run locally instead of being streamed from the cloud. Google says Play Games for Windows will be available next year and that a more in-depth reveal is coming “soon.”

Xiaomi 12 Ultra, the rumoured high-end handset from the Chinese smartphone brand, is reportedly making its way to the market soon along with other Xiaomi 12 series phones. The handset is yet to be officially confirmed by the company, but some 3D concept renders of the phone have now surfaced online. The renders show a completely redesigned camera system. Xiaomi 12 Ultra is likely to feature 120Hz refresh rate and a 20-megapixel under-display selfie camera. The upcoming handset is expected to succeed Mi 11 Ultra. The 3D concept renders of the alleged Xiaomi 12 Ultra is shared by tipster Parvez Khan (aka Technizo Concept) in collaboration with LetsGoDigital (in Dutch). As per the report, the upcoming Xiaomi phone will feature a round-shaped camera module. The handset is expected to feature a quad rear camera unit. If true, this would be an upgrade to its predecessor's triple rear camera setup. The new camera module is likely to include a 48-megapixel primary sensor, with an ultra-wide-angle camera and a periscopic telephoto zoom camera. The sensors are expected to carry support for 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom, and 120x digital zoom. In the concept images, two main sensors are seen arranged in the centre and on the left while one camera is appeared to be on the top of the circle. A triple LED flash is seen placed at the bottom. As per the report, Xiaomi 12 Ultra could sport a 6.8-inch QHD+ AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. It is likely to come with a hole-punch display. Inbuilt under-display fingerprint sensor, 2D face unlock, stereo speakers, IP68 certification for dust and water resistance are the other expected features of the upcoming Xiaomi 12 Ultra. The handset is said to be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. It is expected to pack a 5,000mAh battery as well. However, Xiaomi is yet to reveal any details about the handset, so all these details should be considered with a pinch of salt. Why does Redmi refresh its phones so soon? We discuss this on Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.

With 2022’s League of Legends season 12 coming up fast, and League of Legends patch 12.1 already on the PBE for testing, it’s a great time to look ahead at what a whole new year of content will bring to Riot Games’ flagship MOBA game. While there are no details of the balance changes coming to the Rift next just yet, it seems Riot is planning to roll out some significant changes to assassin champion Rengar at some point soon. Game designer Kevin ‘Captain Gameplay’ Huang has shared a tooltip teaser on Twitter that gives us a snapshot of changes headed to Rengar’s ultimate ability, Thrill of the Hunt. While it’s likely that these proposed updates aren’t in their final form – they haven’t even hit the PBE for a round of testing yet, after all – they do indicate some key adjustments to how his R works. The new-look ability’s passive would let the champ “also leap attack when camouflaged”, which could have a potential knock-on effect for his passive ability, Unseen Predator, which is of course tied to Rengar’s leaping attack. On Twitter, game designer Riot Phlox describes the ultimate tweak as a “sweet change that should make chem map not feel bad for Rengar!” and adds that “the other stuff is still in the works dw”, so it does seem like this won’t be the only change we see to his abilities. As for Rengar’s active ultimate, the tooltip now notes that “Rengar gains 60% move speed and true sight of the nearest enemy champion for 20 seconds. After one second, Rengar becomes camouflaged and can leap without being in brush. Leaping to the nearest champion deals an additional [62] physical damage, shreds [24] armour for four seconds, and ends this ability”. This halves the time after which he camouflages – it’s currently two seconds in the live game – and bolsters his assassination skills, giving him the option to spot hidden enemies and take them out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-59628666 New restrictions are likely "in the next few weeks" in Wales to deal with the new Omicron coronavirus variant, according to the health minister. Eluned Morgan said the Welsh government wanted "to act proportionately", but a spike in cases of the variant was expected "quickly." She said there "will come a point" where ministers could advise people against attending Christmas parties. The Welsh Tories want vaccine boosters ramped up "to a war-like footing". Speaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme, Ms Morgan said with 15 Omicron cases currently identified in Wales, she expected the number to "change very quickly in a very short space of time". "We are still learning about this new variant," she added. Loneliness fears over Christmas rule uncertainty Wales' coronavirus rules are now being reviewed weekly instead of every three weeks in response to the new variant. On Saturday, officials at Cardiff and Vale health board said they "strongly discourage attending Christmas parties" in light of the variant and "increasing pressures". Meanwhile, the Welsh government has urged people to take a lateral flow test before going out. Asked whether that advice might change in light of the call from NHS bosses, Ms Morgan said: "I think there will come a point where that may be likely to happen. "The last thing we want to do is to impose the kind of restrictions that we saw last Christmas unless we absolutely have to. "We know that last Christmas was really disappointing for so many people. That's not where we want to be. "But we will always act in the best interests of the people of Wales." Earlier in the week, she warned that the current modelling suggest a wave of Omicron cases "will reach its peak by around the end of January". Asked if stricter restrictions like closing businesses would be possible without UK government financial support, Ms Morgan said: "It will be much more difficult unless we're given the kind of cover that we were given economically by the UK government last time in terms of furlough." Meanwhile, analysis by the UK Health Security Agency has showed a dramatic drop in effectiveness for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and a significant drop-off for two doses of Pfizer against Omicron. But a third booster vaccine dose was analysed to prevent about 75% of people from getting any Covid symptoms. The Welsh government has previously said all adults in Wales will be offered a booster vaccine by the end of January. "We are slightly concerned about people actually not prioritising the booster vaccination," said Ms Morgan. "They need to turn up when they are asked." Welsh Conservative health spokesman Russell George MS said the party has been "demanding walk-in centres for months to improve take-up rates". "We know vaccinations are the key to a society living with coronavirus and free from restrictions," he said. "These are beginning to materialise but, again, we need to see more urgency. "We understand that there is more to learn about Omicron with more data to be published in the coming days. "It's important that ministers get evidence to justify any restrictions rather than use the absence of evidence, such as on vaccine passports, to make decisions," he added.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/behind-closed-doors-ferrari-finali-mondiali The privileged few who live cosseted in their own sumptuous little world? That’s not fair. More accurately, those who can afford to buy and race Ferraris have their own universe in which to play and indulge, judging by the astonishing scale of the company’s end of season Finali Mondiali extravaganza, held last month. A voyeuristic dip into the World Finals, run this year at Ferrari-owned Mugello in the tranquil hills of Tuscany, revealed an insular motorsport dimension that tends to sweep straight past our general consciousness – because it doesn’t exist for our benefit. It’s a creation for those who continue to feed and breathe life into the most famous car maker in existence: the precious Ferrari customers without whom the prancing horse would have been put out to grass years ago. To be fair, it’s only the ongoing effects of Covid-19 that thwarted Ferrari from opening the green banks and grandstands of Mugello to those who dwell in the real world: the fans who, even all these years on, are still swept up by the old mystique. Finali Mondiali is usually mobbed. But this time, attendance was limited to Ferrari employees and those deep-of-pocket customers, plus members of the Scuderia Ferrari Club, which is open to those who don’t own one of the cars. Still, there’s enough of a throng to ensure the place is dripping in a crisp atmosphere of anticipation, excitement and awe – because that’s what Ferrari creates when it gathers its greatest hits en masse. No other car maker comes close to successfully feeding its own legend, and while it’s easy to dismiss a commercial cynicism that glares through the scarlet haze, somehow you can’t help finding yourself caught up in the moment – simply because, well, it’s Ferrari. I arrive by bus the day after the latest Icona model, the £1.7 million Daytona SP3, has been unveiled to the media in Florence and here at Mugello to those who might buy one. Suitably, it’s a car that’s preaching to the converted, limited to a run of just 599, most of which will head into the collections of those already fully immersed in the Ferrari myth. Giant red structures give the paddock a theme-park air for the rich and gauche as we head to the main grandstand and its views of both the start/finish and back section of Mugello’s sweeping contours. First, there’s the business of Ferrari Challenge one-make racing to conclude. Unless you’re invested, either literally or figuratively as a watching family member, it’s hard to care too much about the Ferrari Challenge. But its scale is still impressive. Regional series run in mainland Europe, North America, the Asia-Pacific and the UK, and here at Finali Mondiali, they all come together. There was even a bit of history made on the opening day when Dane Michelle Gatting became the first woman to win a Ferrari series, the Pirelli Trofeo for 488 Challenge cars. On the Saturday, the main European series concluded and now a pair of bumper races finish the season, the winners of which are ostentatiously titled as FIA-endorsed world champions. For the record, Finland’s Luka Nurmi becomes the youngest Ferrari ‘world champion’ in the Trofeo Pirelli. He’s just 17, which at least breaks the perception that such racing is just for paunchy, ‘mature’ businessmen – while Ernst Kirchmayr completes a double in the Coppa Shell series, adding the world title to the European crown he had clinched the day before. The racing is spirited but peppered by too many safety-car periods as drivers, perhaps out of their depth, keep burying themselves in Mugello’s old-school gravel traps. Of far more interest is the Ferrari Show that follows the racing, capping what has been a successful year for the company’s wares on the race track. You scoff… Yes, on a day when Carlos Sainz Jr and Charles Leclerc will toil to a forgettable seveneight finish in the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix, it’s impossible to ignore Ferrari’s current lethargy in Formula 1 – and for most of us, that counts far beyond anything else. It has been a strange season for the Scuderia: ahead of the final two races, it has risen back to third in the constructors’ standings this year, comfortably outscoring McLaren. But there hasn’t been a sniff of a win, the gap to Mercedes-AMG and Red Bull-Honda is a chasm and Leclerc in particular continues to be wasted in a car operating far below his significant potential.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59610019 The world was preoccupied with the immediate aftermath of 9/11. But exactly three months later, on 11 December, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was at the centre of an event that was to cast as strong a shadow over the 21st century, changing more people's lives and livelihoods around the world than the attacks on America. Yet few know it even happened, let alone its date. China's admission to the World Trade Organization changed the game for America, Europe and most of Asia, and indeed for any country in possession of industrially valuable resources, such as oil and metals. It was a largely unnoticed event of epic geopolitical and economic importance. It was the root imbalance behind the global financial crisis. The domestic political backlash against the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to China has reverberated around the western G7 nations. The promise, suggested by the likes of former US President Bill Clinton, was that "importing one of democracy's most cherished values, economic freedom", would enable the world's most populous nation to follow the path of political freedom too. "When individuals have the power not just to dream, but to realise their dreams, they will demand a greater say," he said. But that strategy failed. China began its ascent to its current status as the world's second biggest economy - and is on a seemingly inevitable path to becoming the world's biggest. Indeed the US trade representative responsible for negotiating China's WTO deal, Charlene Barshefsky, told a Washington International Trade Association panel this week that China's economic model "somewhat disproved" the Western view that "you can't have an innovative society, and political control" "It's not to say that China's innovative capacity is enhanced by its economic model," she added. "But it is to say that what the West thought were incompatible systems may not be necessarily incompatible systems." Up until 2000 China's global economic role had been principally as one of the world's biggest manufacturers of plastic gubbins and cheap tat. Important, yes, but neither world-beating nor world-changing. China's accession to the top table of world trade heralded a massive global transformation. A powerful combination of China's willing workforce, its super-high-tech factories, and the special relationship between the Chinese government and Western multinational corporations changed the face of the planet. An army of cheap Chinese labour began to produce the goods that underpin Western living standards, as China seamlessly inserted itself into the supply chains of the world's biggest companies. Economists call it a "supply shock", and its impact certainly was shocking. Its effects are still reverberating around the world. China's integration into the world economy has seen significant economic achievements, including the eradication of extreme poverty, which stood at 500 million before WTO membership and is now basically zero as the value of the economy, in dollar terms, increased 12-fold. Foreign exchange reserves increased 16-fold to $2.3 trillion, as the world's purchases from China's workshops were banked by the Chinese state. In 2000, China was the seventh-largest goods exporter in the world, but it quickly reached the number one spot. China's annual growth rate, already at 8%, went stratospheric at the height of the world boom, peaking at 14%, and stabilised at 15% last year. Container ships are the juggernauts of global trade. In the five years after China joined the WTO, the number of containers on ships coming in and out of China doubled from 40 million to more than 80 million. By 2011, a decade after the country became a WTO member, the number of containers going in and out of China had more than trebled to 129 million. Last year it was 245 million, and while about half of the containers going into China were empty, nearly all those leaving China were full of exports. There has also been a massive expansion in China's highway network, which increased from 4,700km in 1997 to 161,000km by 2020, making it the largest network in the world, connecting 99% of cities with po[CENSORED]tions of over 200,000. In addition to its state-of-the-art freight infrastructure, China also needs materials such as metals, minerals and fossil fuels to support its manufacturing boom. One material essential to China's burgeoning automotive and electrical appliance industries is steel. In 2005 China became, for the first time, a net exporter of steel, and has since become the world's largest exporter. Through the 1990s, China's production of steel hovered at around 100 million tonnes per year. After WTO membership, it exploded to around 700 million tonnes by 2012 and exceeded one billion tonnes in 2020. China now accounts for 57% of world production and produces significantly more steel on its own than the rest of the globe managed together back in 2001. The same goes for ceramic tiles, and plenty of other ingredients of industry. In electronics, clothing, toys and furniture, China became the dominant source of supply, forcing down export prices all around the world. Economists noticed a "once-for-all" shock in global prices following China's WTO entry. China's clothing exports doubled between 2000 and 2005, and its share of the value of global trade went from one fifth to one third. After 2005, production quotas in the textile industry were also lifted, leading to an even bigger production shift to China. However, as production in China became more expensive and production has shifted to developing countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam, this has fallen back to 32% of clothes last year. The Chinese minister responsible for WTO accession, Long Yongtu, made an admission reflecting on the past two decades. "I don't believe China's WTO accession was a historic job-killing mistake [for the US and the West]," he said. "However I recognise the allocation or the benefit is uneven. The complete picture is that when China got his own development, it also provided the rest of the world with a huge export market." But there was a sting in the tail - that it was US politics that failed to account for the inevitable impact of Chinese competition on some sectors. "When the uneven distribution of wealth happens, a government should take measures to adjust that distribution through domestic policies, but it's not easy to do that," said Long Yongtu. "Maybe blaming others much easier, but I don't think blaming others can help to solve the problem. In China's absence, the US manufacturing industry would move to Mexico." He then relayed an anecdote of a Chinese glass manufacturer who struggled with opening a factory in the USA: "It's very difficult for him to find competitive workers there. He told me American workers' bellies are bigger than his," said the minister. So right now we have come full circle. China has had significant economic success within the WTO. Right now the Biden administration seems in no hurry to change the obstructive policies of his predecessor there. The trade scepticism is very real. China has used WTO membership to go well beyond its earmarked role as workshop to the West. It has, for example, strategically planned alliances to get access to significant amounts of the rare earth materials that should power the net zero climate change economic revolution. It has deployed the state behind industrial expansion around the world. The US is looking to contain China diplomatically and economically, and seeking allies in this endeavour in Europe and Asia. As former US trade representative Barshefsky puts it, China has been "on this very divergent course for some time. What does that mean? A strengthening of a state-centric economic model fuelled by massive subsidisation to designated industries… the re-emergence of China as a great power, and the leader of what it calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is a lot to handle. The WTO can't handle it." So, 20 years on - the world transformed by a little-noticed decision. It's been a huge success for China. The intended geopolitical strategy of the West failed. Indeed, rather than China becoming more like the West politically, as a result of this decision, the West economically speaking is becoming a bit more like China.

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Why it matters: At the 2021 Game Awards this week, Intel dropped a 30-second teaser for its upcoming Arc dedicated graphics cards. The video covers nothing the company hasn’t revealed before, but it might be Arc’s most public showing yet. The teaser shows a few games running on an unspecified Arc GPU, including Hitman, Age of Empires IV, and Back 4 Blood. Of course, Intel didn't bother to compare Arc to an Nvidia or AMD GPU. The only clue that hints at performance is that the YouTube upload is 1440p and 30 frames per second. Recent Arc benchmarks haven’t been too impressive, but those cards were likely downclocked, so we don’t have accurate performance metrics yet. On top of the footage, Intel mentions already-confirmed features like ray tracing and AI-powered image upscaling but doesn’t say whether the clips in the teaser are using those features. The video ends with a launch window in the second half of 2022, which we already expected. None of what Intel showed was technically new, but many viewers of the Game Awards likely didn’t know Intel was working on its own graphics cards. The company has held presentations showing off their features, and rumors have hinted at other details, but there hasn’t been a lot of advertising. The teaser could be the beginning of a real PR debut for the Arc cards.

It’s been over a year since the release of Serious Sam 4 and publisher Devolver Digital is now teasing a wintery DLC expansion of some sort, which looks like it’ll either drop later this month or sometime next year – which may be connected to the surprise launch of the Serious Sam 4 Game Pass release earlier this week. Serious Sam 4 released in September 2020 to pretty good reviews for the most part, with our own reviewer calling it “a ridiculously enjoyable experience” despite the flaws. There have been a few updates since then, including some big changes to the France level, but there hasn’t been a major posting since the Steam Workshop release in March. There certainly hasn’t been any word about DLC or expansions by developer Croteam or Devolver Digital, but that’s now changed thanks to the teaser trailer posted today – which you can see below. It shows Sam travelling by boat to an icy land and complaining that it’s cold, then the Serious Sam logo appears and freezes up. It certainly seems to be teasing a new DLC of some sort. Since Serious Sam 4 is about fighting over different parts of Europe it could be set in somewhere northern like Norway. Regardless, fans immediately spotted the “22” on the buoy that intros the teaser – which most likely is about the expansion releasing in 2022, although an appearance on December 22 would be a nice surprise. The Serious Sam series has never quite hit the best FPSs on PC but they’re always lots of old-school fun, particularly in co-op, so more Serious Sam 4 is welcome news. Let’s hope it’s out sooner rather than later, then. Thanks to the consistent updates from Gaijin Entertainment, War Thunder fans are rarely left wanting for new content. This time around, fans can enjoy the Ground Breaking update, which adds a huge array of new content to the game. Here are the key additions. DESTRUCTIBLE TERRAIN It wouldn’t be a Ground Breaking update if you weren’t actually able to break some ground. The new update will allow you to mani[CENSORED]te the very earth beneath your feet, creating new strategic possibilities for ground troops. Bombs and large calibre guns will now leave craters in the ground for units to hide in, while certain tanks equipped with dozer blades can push the earth around to dig out trenches for their allies to hide behind. This new change will add a whole new layer of strategy to every match, so start planning your terrain tactics now. BATTLE PASS SEASON 5 Completionists will be thrilled to learn that a new battle season has begun. As always, players can work their way through stages of rewards, from new vehicles to exciting bonuses like decals and 3D decorations. This season, fans can look forward to adding the light amphibious tank, the LVT-4/40, to their fleet, as well as the nimble and heavily armed boat, the PT-658, and plenty of other vehicles and trinkets. The main attraction for this Battle Pass is the USSR light tank, the PT-76-57, a strong and compact vehicle fitted with an automatic cannon. PLAY FOR FREE NEW GUIDED AIRCRAFT BOMBS Fans who’ve been paying attention will know that the last update, Direct Hit, added the first guided aerial bombs to the game, and this month that arsenal grows with new guided bombs for aircraft. New additions to the guided bomb armoury include the US-made AGM-62 Walleye I ER and French BGL-400 and BGL-1000. NEW NATION – ISRAEL A new playable nation has arrived in War Thunder, the Middle Eastern country of Israel. The Israeli armed forces are considered one of the most combat-ready armies in the world, with an armoury of foreign vehicles and advanced domestic machines. This nation comes with a new aviation tech tree, featuring aircraft including the Spitfire LF Mk IXe, the personal aircraft of Ezer Weizman, an RAF veteran pilot who later became the commander of the Israeli Air Force. You can also look forward to piloting the A-4E Skyhawk, a late Isreali modification of one of the best strike aircraft in the game. WIESEL ARMOURED VEHICLES Fans of German armour will be pleased to note that the Ground Breaking update adds three vehicles from the highly-anticipated Wiesel series. Nicknamed ‘cockroaches’, these ultra-compact tanks come equipped with powerful cannons, capable of taking down helicopters and low-flying aircraft. There are three models on the way: the Wiesel 1A4, the Wiesel 1A2, and the Ozelot.

In brief: Microsoft announced this week that it added a new API to DirectX 12 that will support video encoding. The new set of interfaces will give Windows users a consistent framework for encoding videos. Microsoft explained the new API’s features and requirements on Wednesday. Video encoding joins APIs for features like video decoding, video processing, and motion estimation, which Microsoft had previously implemented. The video encoding API supports H.264 and HEVC (H.265) codecs. Due to driver requirements, users will have to query for each codec and its encoding tools with ID3D12VideoDevice::CheckFeatureSupport. It’s also up to users to handle the other bitstream codec headers like SEI, VUI, VPS, SPS, or PPS. Microsoft provides plenty of documentation for using the API in its explanation, including detailed interface definitions and design details. The API comes with Windows 11, but you can also get it from the DirectX 12 Agility SDK with version 1.700.10-preview or newer. It supports CPUs going back to Tiger Lake and Ryzeon 2000 and GPUs starting with the Ryzen RX 5000s and the GTX 10 series (including the Quadro RTX). Users will need to have either Intel video driver version 30.0.100.9955 or Nvidia driver version 471.41. The required AMD driver is still in development but is expected to arrive in the second quarter of next year.

Masayuki Uemura, the lead architect for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and the Super NES, has died, local media reported. He was 78, a Japanese newspaper Nikkei Asia reported. Uemura, a native of Tokyo, was a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. In 197Os, Uemura was in charge of developing the NES and its successor, the SNES. These consoles became huge hits with combined sales of 100 million units worldwide. Uemura is known as one of the main architects of po[CENSORED]r systems in video games died on Monday, according to the Japanese newspaper. This propelled Nintendo to become one of the world's leading video game companies. Uemura, an electronic engineering graduate of Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology, started teaching at Kyoto University in 2004. In 1983, Disk System hit the Japanese market as Nintendo's first cartridge-based console. This enabled users to play an expanding range of video games Can PUBG: New State rival BGMI and PUBG Mobile in the battle royale space? We discuss this on Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.

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