Новости за 12.06.2018

When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress in April, the CEO faced a public grilling from lawmakers — and left them with several lingering questions. Now, Facebook has followed up with 500 of pages of answers to written questions from two Senate committees, although some of the responses may be cause for even more digging.

Valve plans to bring Steam to China in an official capacity, expanding the reach of its distribution service and games library to a huge additional audience. The plan was announced today in conjunction with Perfect World, a Shanghai-based company that Valve previously worked with to distribute local version of Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Today we got our first look at Neo Cab, the debut title from developer Chance Agency. Announced earlier this year, Neo Cab is an “emotional survival game” centered around a rideshare driver, where players balance their own needs with the responsibilities of their late-night customers.

Square has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a class-action lawsuit which claimed that the company collected tips from customers and didn’t hand them over to its Caviar food delivery drivers. Every customer in California who paid Caviar between January 20th, 2012 to August 31th, 2015 has been notified about the settlement, as TechCrunch reports.

One of the main knocks against Nest’s comprehensive smart home security system, the Nest Secure, has been its high cost. Today, that price is dropping by $100 from $499 to $399. It’s still not cheap by any means, but Nest is taking a nice chunk off of the original list price. The lower MSRP is now available from Nest, Best Buy, B&H, and other retailers.

Following a day of jam-packed press conferences from Microsoft and Bethesda yesterday, Ubisoft’s E3 2018 keynote this afternoon focused heavily on Assassin’s Creed and The Division 2, as well as a slew of announcements about upcoming games like Beyond Good & Evil 2, The Crew 2, and Starlink. Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of all the biggest news and new trailers you might’ve missed if you didn’t catch the event live.

Starlink: Battle for Atlas takes place in a large sci-fi universe, which spans seven explorable planets that you can seamlessly travel between. Each world has its own wildlife and ecosystem, and there are different factions battling among themselves, vying for control. The game is being helmed by some of the key artists and designers who have worked on Ubisoft’s biggest open-world games, like Splinter Cell, Far Cry, and Assassin’s Creed.

One of the biggest changes coming in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the newly added interactive dialogue system. Now, the game is introducing what might be the most important addition in the decade-plus history of the franchise: romance.

Assassin’s Creed is going full RPG. In the past, the long-running historical stabbing simulator has flirted with player choice systems, most notably in last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Origins. But with Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, the series is diving headfirst into role-playing. The game features fully voice-acted interactive dialogue, branching story paths, and — in a series first — multiple endings.

Ubisoft dropped a release date and confirmed setting yesterday for its upcoming sequel to online-only shooter-RPG hybrid The Division, with launch for The Division 2 slated for March 15th, 2019 and an open-world game environment set in Washington, DC. Beyond the few trailers for the game we’ve seen thus far, and yesterday’s extensive gameplay demo, we haven’t been told too much about how the game will differ from its predecessor and what fans of the first should expect.

Right now, NASA’s Opportunity rover is doing its best to weather an intense dust storm on the surface of Mars — one that could prevent the robot from ever phoning Earth again. The storm is so bad that the dust is blotting out the Sun, making it hard for Opportunity to get the light it needs on its solar panels, which generate power and charge the robot’s internal battery. Engineers at NASA are waiting to see if the rover can make it through the storm and still function once the dust has settled.

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is here and as teased last week, Ubisoft is taking players on a journey to ancient Greece in the next installment of the historically accurate stabbing simulator.

Ubisoft took to the stage at E3 to show off more of it’s open-world, toy-based space game Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and revealed that the Switch version of the game will have an exclusive addition: Fox McCloud from Nintendo’s Star Fox series will be a playable character.