Citizen Sleeper developer praises Xbox Game Pass for ‘keeping a lot of indie studios going’

What you need to know Gareth Damian Martin, the developer behind indie title Citizen Sleeper, recently spoke with Edge magazine about the game’s inclusion in Xbox Game Pass.  Martin says that Citizen Sleeper being in Xbox Game Pass greatly aided its reception, exposing the game to an audience that might not have seen it otherwise.  […]

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Brace Yourself For the Comeback of Citizen Scientists

Richard Battarbee spent his entire life studying freshwater ecology as an academic at University College London—but it was only when he retired to Yorkshire that he found himself on the frontline of a battle to save a river. Fishermen in the town of Ilkley near where he lived started catching condoms, wet wipes and sanitary […]

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Citizen Zoo Is Rewilding the UK, One Grasshopper at a Time

The large marsh grasshopper was once ever-present across Eastern England’s wetlands. But after decades of habitat destruction, these handsome insects are now fragmented and locally extinct, holding out in the wettest fens, valleys, and peat bogs of the New Forest and Dorset. Now, London-based Citizen Zoo is trying to bring them back—and it’s planning to […]

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Les Citizen Developers largement plébiscités par les managers

67% des dirigeants militent pour une technologie toujours plus embarquée dans le business. “Et ce n’est pas le phénomène GenAI qui inversera la tendance”, commente en ouverture de la conférence IMA Low Code No Code Jean-Luc Couasnon, Senior Executive Partner de Gartner. Ce souhait est aussi partagé au sein des métiers, poursuit-il. Pour participer à […]

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Star Citizen, une vidéo de 24 minutes promet de montrer “l’avenir du jeu vidéo !”

Cloud Imperium Games a l’origine du développement de Star Citizen met en lumière le moteur StarEngine. Il permet au jeu de prendre vie grâce à ses capacités de rendus de premier plan. Pour tenter de le démontrer une vidéo de plus de 24 minutes a été publiée. Elle se nomme « L’avenir du jeu vidéo […]

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Star Citizen : la campagne solo Squad 42 se dévoile après des années d’attente

Les développeurs de Star Citizen viennent de surprendre la communauté des joueurs en dévoilant une importante présentation de la campagne solo, Squadron 42. Elle n’est pas une nouveauté mais son annonce officielle date de plusieurs années maintenant. Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre. Lors de la CitizenCon une présentation officielle de gameplay de […]

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Citizen Scientists Show Light Pollution Erases Stars From the Sky

Years ago, Christopher Kyba was skeptical about astronomy data collected by citizen scientists—after all, it relies on people making naked-eye assessments of the night sky. But when a student wrote to him with a question about measuring the sky’s brightness, he thought of the Globe at Night citizen science project, which launched in 2006 to let […]

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New Citizen CZ Smart brings NASA-built features and Wear OS 3

Citizen has unveiled its second generation CZ Smart smartwatch at CES 2023, and it’s packed with wellness features designed by NASA. We’ll be honest by saying we’d forgotten about the original CZ Smart, which launched in 2020 with Wear OS. It runs Wear OS 3, and is powered by the Snapdragon 4100+. It comes pre-loaded […]

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Citizen Developers: How to Get the Best Results

A citizen developer is a non-technical business user who has little or no coding experience. However, they are still able to use low-code and no-code (LC/NC) tools to create useful applications. As a result, they are able to participate in development processes that use LC/NC tools, which can save time and resources for organizations. “Most […]

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Minecraft’s ‘Active Citizen’ teaches kids how to build a better world

Source: Mojang Studios Minecraft being one of the most influential and successful video games of all time is an unassailable truth, but Mojang Studios has long asserted that its timeless creative survival sandbox game is more than just a video game. Minecraft: Education Edition, for example, takes the foundations of the game everyone knows and […]

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