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90% of Gamers Have Played a Remake or Remaster, Finds New Report

According to MTM, many respondents said that they find remakes and remasters “help them reconnect with positive, comforting feelings and memories that they had when they first played the game.”

However, the firm noted that others raised concerns about studios “taking an easy, repetitive route to market” and that these remakes come at the cost of “sacrificing innovative, new experiences that could redefine the industry.”

“Our report shows that there is a strong appeal for remakes and remasters, but it’s a tight balancing act for studios to get right,” said Martin Bradley, head of gaming at MTM.” Many of these games are far out-selling their original release.

New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

It would take nearly a century for mathematicians to prove him right. In the early 1930s, Jesse Douglas and Tibor Radó independently showed that the answer to the “Plateau problem” is yes: For any closed curve (your wire frame) in three-dimensional space, you can always find a minimizing two-dimensional surface (your soap film) that has the same boundary. The proof later earned Douglas the first-ever Fields Medal.

Since then, mathematicians have expanded on the Plateau problem in hopes of learning more about minimizing surfaces. These surfaces appear throughout math and science — in proofs of important conjectures in geometry and topology, in the study of cells and black holes, and even in the design of biomolecules. “They’re very beautiful objects to study,” said Otis Chodosh (opens a new tab) of Stanford University. “Very natural, appealing and intriguing.”

Mathematicians now know that Plateau’s prediction is categorically true up through dimension seven. But in higher dimensions, there’s a caveat: The minimizing surfaces that form might not always be nice and smooth, like the disk or hourglass. Instead, they might fold, pinch or intersect themselves in places, forming what are known as singularities. When minimizing surfaces have singularities, it becomes much harder to understand and work with them.

THE FOREST KING | Red Iron Road | Full Episode

Set in a suffocating, over-commercialized future, a young boy’s desire for success and status leads him into a terrifying and deadly new reality through the lens of a mysterious VR game.
His desperate father must now race against both time and technology to save his dying son.
But the boy is the only one who can save himself — before becoming another faceless pawn of the Forest King.

Adapted from the poem “The Forest Tsar” (1818) by Vasiliy Zhukovsky.

🎬 THE FOREST KING
The second installment of the animated horror anthology RED IRON ROAD.
Each episode is a standalone short film (10–20 minutes) inspired by European literature, produced with unique creative partners in distinctive visual styles.

🏆 Festival Highlights.
• World Premiere – Nightmares Film Festival (Ohio, USA, 2022)
• Nominations – FilmQuest, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Animaze.

🌐 Official Sites:
https://www.lakesideanimation.com/for… 🎥 Credits Directed & Written By: Lubomir Arsov Produced By: Lakeside Animation Animation By: Art Light & Riki Group (Petersburg Animation Studio) Musical Score By: Lars Korb Starring: Carlo Rota, Tom Rooney, Jaiden Cannatelli 📖 Full Cast & Crew: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23845934… 📺 Where to Watch Season 1 of Red Iron Road: Amazon Prime Video (subscription required): https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0PB… TubiTV (free streaming): https://tubitv.com/movies/100014990/r… Plex (free streaming): https://tubitv.com/movies/100014990/r… Hoopla Digital (free with library card): https://www.hoopladigital.com/televis… Kanopy (free via library or university): https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/140… Apple TV (subscription to Prime Video required): https://tv.apple.com 🔔 Subscribe for new animated horror shorts and exclusive content! Follow Red Iron Road & Lakeside Animation: Facebook: / redironroadseries Instagram: / redironroadseries TikTok: / lakesideanimation LinkedIn: / lakeside-animation 🔖 Hashtags: #RedIronRoad #AdultAnimation #Games #Anthology #Animation #AnimatedAnthology #HorrorAnimation #SlavicMythology #AnimatedShortFilm #LakesideAnimation #EuropeanHorror #AnimationStudio #FolkHorror #AnimatedHorror #CreepyTales #ClassicLiterature #AnimationForAdults © 2022 Ghost Train Productions Inc.

Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters with Mechanoluminescence for Mechanical Energy Harvesting and Stress Visualization Sensing

Flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters (FPEHs) have wide applications in mechanical energy harvesting, portable device driving, and piezoelectric sensors. However, the poor output performance of piezoelectric energy harvesters and the intrinsic shortcoming of piezoelectric sensors that can only detect dynamic pressure limit their further applications. BaTiO3 (BT) and PVDF are deposited on the glass fiber electronic cloth (GFEC) by impregnation and spin-coating methods, respectively, to form BT-GFEC/PVDF piezoelectric composite films. A mixed solution of mechanoluminescence (ML) particles ZnS: Cu and PDMS are used as the encapsulation layer to construct a high-performance ML-FPEH with self-powered electrical and optical dual-mode response characteristics. Due to the interconnection structure of the piezoelectric films, the prepared ML-FPEH illustrates a high effective energy harvesting performance (≈58 V, ≈43.56 µW cm−2). It can also effectively harvest mechanical energy from human activities. More importantly, ML-FPEH can sense stress distribution of hand-writing via ML to achieve stress visualization, making up for the shortcomings of piezoelectric sensors. This work provides a new strategy for endowing FPEH with dual-mode sensing and energy harvesting.

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