E3 2019 Games

Here is the list of more interesting games presented during this year E3:

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• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Apex Legends
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Baldurs Gate 3
• Battlefield V
• Battletoads
• Blair Witch
• Bleeding Edge
• Borderlands 3
• Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Ft. The Legend of Zelda
• Control
• CrossfireX
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Daemon X Machina
• Deathloop
• Doom Eternal
• Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
• Elden Ring
• FIFA 20
• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Forza Horizon 4: Lego Speed Champions
• Gears POP!
• Ghost Recon Breakpoint
• GhostWire: Tokyo
• Gods & Monsters
• Halo Infinite
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Luigi’s Mansion 3
• Madden NFL 20
• Marvel's Avengers
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Minecraft Dungeons
• No More Heroes 3
• Ori and the Will of the Wisp
• Outriders
• Phantasy Star Online 2
• Psychonauts 2
• Rage 2
• Rainbow Six Quarantine
• The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance Tactics
• The sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• The Sims 4 Island Living
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition for Nintendo Switch
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Gameplay
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Trailer
• Tales of Arise
• The Outer Worlds
• Watch Dogs Legion
• Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Next Generation Xbox

Next gen Xbox, called Project Scarlett, will debut fall next year. It has been designed by the Scorpio team and it looks like the Xbox One X was a foundation for a next console. This is what we know so far about the hardware:

• Custom CPU based on AMD’s Zen 2 architecture,
• Radeon RDNA GPU,
• GDDR6 RAM,
• SSD for storage,
• Native 4K at 60 FPS, up to 120 FPS,
• Support for 8K gaming,
• Hardware accelerated ray tracing.

This is not much, but at least we know that next console will be available next year alongside PS5. 2020 will be a good year for gamers 😀

Google Stadia

Google has also announced more details about upcoming Stadia projekt:

• Google Stadia will launch in November in 14 countries (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland),
• At the launch it will support at least 31 games,
• The Basic version will be available for free,
• The Pro version will cost $9.99 per month,
• At the beginning there will be also "Founder’s Edition", for $130, with limited controller, Chromecast Ultra and 3 months of Pro subscription,
• Stadia is not primarily a subscription service. Although some games will be included in a subscription, we will have to buy games separately. That's why the Basic version is free.
• It will require at least 10Mbps connection for 720p 60fps streaming with stereo audio,
• For 4K streaming at 60fps with  5.1 surround sound we will need connection capable, at least, 35Mbps.

Google Stadia looks promising and I would love to try it. Unfortunately it will not be available in Poland, and looking at status of Google Store in Poland I might have to wait for a while 😔

Interesting links

• The Swift 5.1 features that power SwiftUI’s API
• SwiftUI: Getting Started
• Ethereum for web developers
• Ethereum in Depth: Smart Contracts - Part 1: What is a Smart Contract?
• Ethereum in Depth: Smart Contracts - Part 2: How to Create and Publish a Smart Contract
• CQRS with MediatR (for Commands) and Odata (for Queries)
• How did Apple DO this?? - MacBook Pro 2019

Image credits: E3

This week I didn't have time to prepare the news part, so I've only gathered the list of interesting things.

Polish Powerhouse

The Origins of CD Projekt Red

How The Witcher Took Over The World

Creating Cyberpunk 2077

Safely supporting new versions of Swift

Dependency Injection in Swift with Protocols

Emoji in SQL - SELECT 🗣 FROM 👤

Vue + TypeScript Cookbook

Famous Laws Of Software Development

The Growth Stacks of 2019

My Descent Into YouTube Addiction

PCjs Machines

During this week I looked back on what happened this year and I decided to pick my top 3 news from each month. Here are my picks.

January

1. Bitcoin bubble burst,
2. Meltdown and Spectre discovered,
3. EA became scared of YouTubers.

February

1. SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy into space,
2. Elon Musk started selling not a Flamethrowers,
3. Apple started selling HomePods.

March

1. Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal,
2. Apple fixed buggy iPhone X ad before fixing the actual iOS 11 bug,
3. Current frequency deviations in Central Europe.

April

1. Mark Zuckerberg testified before members of Congress,
2. SpaceX reached the promised land of launching every two weeks,
3. GTA V has become the most profitable entertainment product of all time.

May

1. Google Duplex has been announced,
2. GDPR has become effective,
3. Premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

June

1. Microsoft bought GitHub,
2. Apple held WWDC,
3. Apple Pay became available in Poland.

July

1. Apple updated MacBook Pros,
2. New MacBook Pros fixed keyboard but overheats,
3. Clone Wars TV series has been renewed.

August

1. Apple became first IT company to be worth 1 trillion dollars,
2. Twitter limited access to the APIs,
3. CD Project released first gameplay of the Cyberpunk 2077.

September

1. Apple unveiled iPhone XS, XR and Apple Watch 4,
2. Google was celebrating its 20th birthday,
3. iOS 12 and macOS Mojave has been released.

October

1. LucasFilm shared details about first Star Wars tv series - The Mandalorian,
2. Apple shoved new iPad Pro,
3. Google unveiled Pixel 3, a tablet and HomeHub.

November

1. Disney announced new streaming service - Disney+,
2. Stan Lee has passed away,
3. Robert Kubica returned to F1.

December

1. Microsoft announced that it's working on a new browser,
2. YouTube Rewind 2018 became the most disliked video on YouTube,
3. Google’s Home Alone ad.

That's all folks. This was an incredible year. I hope next year will be event better.
Happy New year guys and see you soon!

Image credits: Annie Spratt.

This week CD Project Red publish 48-minutes long walkthrough of the Cyberpunk 2077.
I have to admit that after E3 trailer I was a little bit skeptical. The world seemed to be too bright, clean and sterile for cyberpunk world. I was expecting dark, brutal world. Now, after watching the walkthrough I know I was wrong. This game look phenomenal. CD Project took their on spin on cyberpunk genre and it works great. It looks like the trailer showed us only a glimpse of the "civilized" world, where the rest, that we could see in the walkthrough, is shady and dark. And what is more important, the world looks natural and alive.
The other concern I had was the RPG aspect of the game. Gameplay proves that we'll get not only multiple storyline options that probably affects entire game, but also a lot of options to customize your character. The way how we customize the character significantly affects the way we can solve the quest and our character's combat abilities.
Speaking of combat. I was really interested to see how company that for over 10 years was making a "sword simulator" switches to guns. And boy, it is incredible. Reds know what they doing.
They also know how to phase the storyline. I know we saw only the main quest, but one step led to another. And it didn't feel that I'm wasting time wandering around just to increase the gameplay hours.
Overall, the game looks phenomenal and if CD Project keeps this level of quality across entire game, we will not only get great game but maybe even one of the best games ever.
I know, you probably thinking that I'm to exited. Let's face it, all we have is early gameplay and a lot of things can change. But looking at CD Project's records of delivering high quality products, I'm quite confident this game will be awesome.

This it is. Finally, here is list of interesting things.

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The Amazing Life-size LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron that DRIVES! and how it was made

The art of designing accessible websites

How We Wrote a Self-Hacking Game in C++

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Image credits: CD Project Red.