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Hello tech fans! Today, we bring you another Showmetech TRIO in text, our selection of the latest three big news from the tech world, summarized for you every Monday. 46194m
This week we talk about the canceled game of Superman called Blue Steel, from 2007/2008, which disappeared from the map along with the closing of its developer 5 factor, and which won prototype videos showing its gameplay — posted by a former developer. There is also a channel on YouTube — upscale — which is remastering scenes from old games to 8K, mainly intros and cutscenes (cinematic scenes rendered from games) with artificial intelligence algorithms. Finally, we talk about the lagoon Corfo na Patagonia, south of Argentina, which remains tinged pink after antibacterial preservatives used to preserve shrimp were dumped there untreated, angering the population. and local environmentalists.
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Details about a canceled game from Superman, famous DC hero, appeared on the internet recently, including videos of what would be a prototype of the game's gameplay. called Blue Steel, the title began to be developed by the studio 5 factor in 2007. The developer Salvatrix, who worked at the company, comments that the 2008 economic crisis was the primary reason the developer closed its doors, taking the game with it to the grave. The former employee also released videos revealing what the game mechanics would look like, where we can see Superman fighting the villain Apocalypse and other henchmen, destroying the scenery in the process. quick time events, sequences where the player needs to press buttons correctly to perform actions, are shown in the video.
Salvatrix, in her thread on Twitter, says the game would be released alongside the movie Superman Returns, Bryan Singer, which also never saw the light of day. The developer emphasized how the game would be innovative, such as the large presence of destructible environments that were new at the time - the bluebird drags villains through the interior of buildings to rip their life points, in addition to the punches, laser beams and ice blows that characterize the hero's powers. The game would be released for PlayStation 3 e Xbox 360, and 13 years later, we still don't have any games starring the Kryptonian hero, although he's appeared as a ing player in titles since then like Injustice e LEGO DC: Supervillains.
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The YouTube called upscale is remastering cutscenes of games, that is, cinematic scenes used to tell the story between gameplay sequences. While the 3D scenes were very innovative and looked amazing at the time the games were released, the resolution leaves something to be desired these days, which has generated interest in improving video sequences up to 8K — considering, it's of course, that we are talking about games of PlayStation 1 e 2 or old PC titles.
A software called Topaz Video Enhance AI (“Video Enhancement Artificial Intelligence”, in free translation) is in charge of the brute force of the remaster in question, called Upscaling, as it uses artificial intelligence algorithms to fill in the information lost by low resolution. The technology predicts the supposed details and generates new pixels to take the place — in many cases, improving the resolution, but sometimes also blurring the images a little. Also known as Gigapixel topaz, the app in question costs US$ 299, or about R$1.550 in the current conversion.
The channel upscale focuses on improving cinematic scenes from older video game classics, as we've already mentioned. Among them we have Final Fantasy X, with Yuna's dance scene, the overtures of Kingdom Hearts 1 e 2, World of Warcraft, omnimusha 3, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Chrono cross e Chrono Trigger, Dirge of Cerberus and many more.
Some modders, enthusiasts of game modification, use the technology to improve gameplay sequences as well, even managing to generate new versions of the games, in an unofficial way. Games like the first Doom, Half-Life 2, Metroid Prime 2, Final Fantasy VII, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City e The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind received this treatment.
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Last weekend, a rosy color still persisted in the lagoon of Corfo, and on Patagonia, south of Argentina, after dumping chemicals from the fishing industry. Environmentalists like Pablo Lada, who lives 30km from the lagoon, in the city of Trelew, accuse the local government of negligence. Sodium sulfite, a solution against bacteria that preserves shrimp for export, is to blame for the pink color. The bad smell and the appearance of insects had already bothered the neighboring city of rawson, in the same province, called Chubut. In protest, local residents blocked trucks transporting industrial waste. The local environmental authorities then authorized the dumping of the waste into the lagoon of Corfo.
The provincial environmental control chief, Juan Micheloud, stated that the color does not damage the pond and should disappear soon. the environmentalist Pablo Lada, however, recognizes that fishing processing generates jobs, but questions the fact that super profitable companies do not pay for the transport and proper treatment of waste, which could be done 60km away, in Puerto Madryn — or alternatively, build a treatment plant somewhere closer. In Chubut, it is mandatory by law that companies process fish for export in the same provincial territory. THE Rawson Environmental (RASA) is the company responsible for treating and transporting the water.
The lagoon occupies an area between 10 and 15 hectares, and has never been used for leisure or tourist purposes. It is located in the Industrial Park of Trelew, a city founded at the time of immigration, to the Argentina, from populations of Wales, in the 19th century.
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