What's new in the world of science and science fiction, eh?
CloudPunk is an upcoming video game set in the sprawling cyberpunk city of Nivalis. On your first night as a delivery driver for Cloudpunk, you will meet and interact with a diverse cast of humans, AI and androids, each with their own story to tell.
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Also in video-game news, Iron Maiden has shown how out of touch they are by suing 3D Realms for their upcoming game, Ion Maiden. Let's hope this gives the game free advertising and a massive surge in pre-release sales, because it looks like a fuckin' kickass throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters!
While Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison earned her codename defusing bombs for the Global Defense Force, when evil transhumanist mastermind Dr. Jadus Heskel unleashes the members of his cybernetic cult onto the streets of Neo DC, she knows it's time to start causing explosions instead of preventing them.
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And, courtesy of ScienceNews.org, red ice found on Pluto suggests the dwarf planet recently spewed fountains of water into space. And it hints at complex — and possibly organic — chemistry in Pluto's salty subsurface sea, researchers report May 29 in Science Advances.
"This was a huge surprise to all of us about Pluto," says planetary scientist Dale Cruikshank of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "It means there are lots of surprises waiting to be uncovered in that part of the solar system."
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