![]() Perfect for when you’re hosting a large group, and the reasonably long list of potential questions ensures it stays interesting even after hours of play.Ah, the classic superhero. This one is probably the best party game on the list, as it requires zero gaming skill or knowledge. “What did Adam think the first time he saw Eve?”) then at the end of the round the answers are revealed and everyone votes on the funniest one. The game works sort of like Cards against Humanity for your TV each round, people anonymously submit answers to questions (e.g. Instead, up to eight people can connect through a browser on their phone or mobile device. Quiplash is very different to the other titles on this list for one, you don’t use a controller to play it. Rarely do you come across a game that’s almost as fun to watch as it is to play but with its guaranteed laughs and short, fast-paced games, Gang Beasts is definitely one of them. Whether it’s icy water, meat grinders, or a pit of fire, there’s always something to comically throw your opponents into. The game offers some amusing combat across a variety of memorable levels ranging from a cluster of icebergs to the top of speeding trucks. Gang Beasts is a silly beat-em-up game with a very simple premise: be the last person standing. Towerfall boasts the accessibility and immediacy of an arcade game, yet manages to retain an impressive level of depth to its gameplay - a must buy for any local-multiplayer enthusiast. With enough practice, your battles evolve to have more thrill and intricacy than you’d think possible with 8-bit graphics - you can catch your enemy’s arrows from the air, or even steal them right out of their quiver if you can get close enough. It sports a great co-op campaign mode, but for us, the fun was always in the competitive deathmatches, in which up to four players compete in a bow and arrow battle royale. ![]() Towerfall is a retro-looking indie game designed specifically for local multiplayer. This is truer of Towerfall: Ascension than any other title I can recall - a game which, over the two year period it reigned over my student house, wreaked havoc on our housemate relations. One hallmark of a great local-multiplayer game is its ability to take a group of people who very much like each other and reduce them to red-faced children, bitter in defeat and undignified in victory. Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch The races are always incredibly fun, made twice as enjoyable by the fact you can mess with your opponents using a variety of Mario Kart-esque power-ups such as rockets, grappling hooks and freeze-rays.Ĭouple this with the nail-biting sudden death mode, which sees the last two remaining players of every round race remaining inside an increasingly-small screen, and you have a local multiplayer experience that’s packed with memorable moments. The difference is that instead of bikers, SpeedRunners sees you play as superheroes who swing and slide across a variety of cityscape obstacle courses. SpeedRunners is, in essence, the same concept as Trials: players race against each other, attempting to gain a lead big enough to force your opponents off of the screen. The dirtbike-based gameplay is delightfully intuitive, and the way the scoring system is set up - players lose points if they lag behind enough to fall offscreen - leads to plenty of intensely competitive moments. The base game offers a decent selection of multiplayer tracks for you to play, but thanks to Trials’ support of user-generated content, there is a vast library of fan-made tracks to keep things fresh. Trials: Fusion is a platform racing game which supports up to four players locally, and, like all of the games on this list, uses same-screen multiplayer - so there’s no need to worry about those annoyingly small split-screen windows. In no particular order, here are five of the best: ![]() This doesn’t mean the feature is dead dominating the competition online is all very well and good, but nothing quite beats seeing the look of hopelessness on your friend’s face in real-time as you get your 7th win in a row on FIFA.Īfter three years in student accommodation, and more time playing video games with my housemates than I’d care to mention, I’ve acquired a pretty good library of local multiplayer games. Sadly, including a split-screen or same-screen mode simply isn’t as worthwhile to developers as it used to be - why bother with letting multiple people enjoy a copy of your game when online multiplayer ensures many will buy their own? ![]() Ever since online multiplayer developed to become a staple of big-budget games, local multiplayer has become somewhat of a rarity.
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![]() News Galactic Civilizations III v4.52 Fixes Issues and Updates Balance NOW ON STEAM: WindowBlinds 11 NOW AVAILABLE: Sins of a Solar Empire II - Tech Preview 3, Multiplayer Update WindowBlinds 11 is headed to Steam NOW AVAILABLE - Star Control: Origins v1.62! All News > Blog Releasing Start11 1. Here you can select the option that reads Select which icons appear on the taskbar. Wikis Immerse yourself in game lore, tutorials, and more. Step 2 In the SYSTEM window, select Notifications & actions. Metaverse See how you rank against other players in your favorite games. In the Properties window, click the General tab and then locate the Attributes section near the bottom of the window. How to show hidden icons on taskbar in windows 11 or 10 In the Task Manager window, click on the Hide tasks button (the one with a white cross). Community Stay up-to-date with game news and dev journals. Go to your desktop and find the icon that you want to hide. All Games Check out our complete catalog of award-winning games. ![]() Ashes of the Singularity Massive-scale warfare in an epic RTS. The Political Machine 2020 Win the hearts and minds of America's voters. You need to enable the 'Hide the Notification Area' setting under: User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesStart Menu and TaskbarHide the Notification Area From the GP Management console explanation for the setting: This setting affects the notification area (previously called the 'system tray') on the taskbar. In the new window, click the down arrow next to each item and select Hide when inactive, Always hide, or Always show. In the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window, click the Customize button in the windows lower-right corner. Star Control The space action/adventure classic returns. Open the Taskbar settings window and turn on the option Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the Show Desktop button at the end of the Taskbar. Right-click the taskbar and select Properties from the drop-down menu that appears. Games Galactic Civilizations How will you rule your galaxy? Sins of a Solar Empire II Real-time strategy. Corporate Software Solutions Increase productivity, design intelligent controls and reinforce branding with our enterprise products. View All Software Products Discover our productivity and customization tools. Finally, click the OK button to display all icons at once. WindowBlinds 11 Customize the look and feel of your taskbar, window frames, and more. First, open the Notification Area Icons panel on your computer and tick the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar checkbox. Curtains Easily create and add additional style modes to Windows 10. ![]() CursorFX Customize your Windows cursor and create your own. Groupy Organize multiple applications into grouped tabs on your Windows desktop. Multiplicity Connect multiple PCs with one keyboard and mouse. DeskScapes Personalize your desktop background with animated pictures and video. Fences 4 Automatically organize your desktop apps, files, and folders on Windows 10 and 11. Click toggles to On for icons you want to show, and Off for icons you want to hide. Start11 Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11. Click Select which icons appear on the taskbar. Navigation Software Object Desktop Your complete Windows customization suite. ![]() It managed to bring my sync-1 repository in sync between 4 nodes in no time at all. I downgraded to 1.3.109, and all was fantastic. ![]() This was quite frustrating, to say the least. However, I after upgrading to 1.4 I soon ran into theītsync-simply-refuses-to-sync-and-there’s-nothing-you-can-do-about-it problem Multiple gigabytes of files can be spread really really quickly through your mesh network. I only have experience with pre-2.0 btsync.ītsync is really fantastically fast. ![]() Touted as a great dropbox replacement, and is also the one I started using This peer-to-peer personal syncing solution, also called btsync, is often This means that I want to work on some source code in a git repo, then go home without having to commit and push just because I’m going home, and continue working at home on a different computer, perhaps committing and pushing from there when I’m good and ready with my changes. Importantly, it should be relatively easy to roll-back inadvertent changes and deletions.įinally, an important use case for me is syncing git repos that I’m working on. Preferably, the tool should support delta-syncing (owncloud does not do this, for example), deduplication and LAN sync, because I live an a bandwidth-starved part of the world. The client software should support Linux, because that’s what I mostly use. I should be able to close one laptop, and continue working on my desktop on the same files, without having to think too much about it. sync-2: 35 gigabytes spread over 80 thousand files.(At the start of the adventures described below, this repo was 15G spread over 150 thousand files.) ![]()
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![]() Combining legendary characters from all of our universes, it naturally brought players together into a truly unique experience. Over 6,000 wild animals were lost to drought in Kenya alone by mid-February, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service, including elephants, giraffes and wildebeests.This June marks the seven-year anniversary of Heroes of the Storm. Authorities say 11 million livestock and iconic wildlife species have died due to the drought, leaving pastoralist families in abject poverty. Meanwhile in the east and Horn of Africa, now in its sixth straight dry season, communities are counting huge losses. A scientific analysis of the cyclones in the region last year found that climate change made the tropical storms more damaging and intense. Since 2019, the region has borne the brunt of 20 cyclones. Southern Africa is still in the throes of its cyclone season, with heavy flooding killing dozens, destroying homes and uprooting communities. 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La Nina means east Africa “would be primed for drier conditions while southern Africa would be more primed to experience wetter and more humid conditions.” “There is a connection between the El Nino Southern Oscillation, rainfall patterns and drought in east and southern Africa,” said climate scientist Marjahn Finlayson. ![]() These events have the largest natural effects on climate and can dampen or juice up the effects of human-caused climate change. La Nina, together with El Nino and the neutral condition are called ENSO, which stands for El Nino Southern Oscillation. Meteorologists traced the lack of rain to the start of La Nina in late summer of the same year, the natural and cyclical weather event that cools sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, with knock-on effects for the African continent and the rest of the world. The current drought in the region began in late 2020, when the region’s short rains season failed. “Intensified cyclones in the southern Africa region translates into drought on the eastern side including Horn of Africa.” “The trend has always been two contrasting weather systems,” said Evans Mukolwe, the former head of Kenya’s meteorological department. Meteorologists told The Associated Press the uneven and devastating water distribution across Africa’s east coast states is caused by natural weather systems and exacerbated by human-made climate change with cyclones sucking up water that would otherwise be destined for nations further north. The nation is already suffering from Freddy’s first battering last month and severe flooding before that. Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which has already caused 21 deaths and displaced thousands of others in Madagascar and Mozambique, is set to make landfall in Mozambique once more on Friday. “We are praying hard for the rains.”īut a few thousand miles south, communities are facing the opposite problem. “If this drought persists, I will have no livelihood and nothing for my family,” Lepaine mourned. The rest are on the verge of starvation as rain continues to fail. Dozens of his goats in Ngong, a town in southern Kenya, have died after three years of harrowing drought in the east and Horn of Africa. MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) - Surrounded by miles of dried land and what remains of his famished livestock, Daniel Lepaine is a worried man. ![]() The new material was premiered at The Dome in Brighton, on 20 January 1972, and after the commercial failure of Medicine Head's album the title was changed back to the band's original preference. After discovering that title had already been used by another band, Medicine Head, it was temporarily changed to Eclipse. ![]() The album had been given the provisional title of Dark Side of the Moon (an allusion to lunacy, rather than astronomy). This would be the first time the band had taken an entire album on tour. Nine tonnes of kit was transported in three lorries. They also purchased extra equipment, which included new speakers, a PA system, a 28-track mixing desk with a four channel quadraphonic output, and a custom-built lighting rig. The band rehearsed at a warehouse in London owned by the Rolling Stones and at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London. Parts of the album were taken from previously unused material the opening line of " Breathe" came from an earlier work by Waters and Ron Geesin, written for the soundtrack of The Body, and the basic structure of " Us and Them" was borrowed from an original composition, "The Violent Sequence" by Wright for Zabriskie Point. Waters, Gilmour, Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright participated in the writing and production of the new material, and Waters created the early demo tracks at his Islington home in a small studio built in his garden shed. Problems playing this file? See media help.įor the most part, the whole band approved of Waters' concept for an album unified by a single theme. There was definitely a feeling that the words were going to be very clear and specific." In an interview for Rolling Stone, guitarist David Gilmour said: "I think we all thought – and Roger definitely thought – that a lot of the lyrics that we had been using were a little too indirect. The band had explored a similar idea with the 1969 concert suite The Man and The Journey. Waters conceived an album that dealt with things that "make people mad", focusing on the pressures associated with the band's arduous lifestyle, and dealing with the mental health problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett. In a band meeting at drummer Nick Mason's home in Camden, bassist Roger Waters proposed that a new album could form part of the tour. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the US National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".įollowing Meddle in 1971, Pink Floyd assembled for a tour of Britain, Japan and the United States in December of that year. As of 2013, The Dark Side of the Moon has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling album of the 1970s and the fourth-best-selling album in history. The Dark Side of the Moon is certified 14 times platinum in the United Kingdom, and topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, where it has charted for 974 weeks. A blockbuster release of the album era, it also propelled record sales throughout the music industry during the 1970s. It brought Pink Floyd international fame, bringing wealth and plaudits to all four band members. The Dark Side of the Moon is among the most critically acclaimed albums and often features in professional listings of the greatest albums. The album was promoted with two singles, " Money" and " Us and Them". The sleeve, which depicts a prismatic spectrum, was designed by Storm Thorgerson in response to keyboardist Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design which would represent the band's lighting and the album's themes. Snippets from interviews with the band's road crew and others are featured alongside philosophical quotations. The Dark Side of the Moon explores themes such as conflict, greed, time, death and mental illness. Engineer Alan Parsons was responsible for many of the sonic aspects of the recording, and for the recruitment of session singer Clare Torry, who appears on " The Great Gig in the Sky". The group employed multitrack recording, tape loops, and analogue synthesisers, including experimentation with the EMS VCS 3 and a Synthi A. The record builds on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, while omitting the extended instrumentals that characterised the band's earlier work. New material was recorded in two sessions in 19 at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London. Developed during live performances before recording began, it was conceived as a concept album that would focus on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle, and also deal with the mental health problems of former band member Syd Barrett, who departed the group in 1968. The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records.
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