Nerds Amalgamated

Gearbox, Garry's Mod Sequel, Golden Globes & Microbiota

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The infamous Gearbox, creator of many mediocre licensed games, has now been bought by the former THQ Nordic, now Embracer Group, owned by Deep Silver, the publisher owned by the Koch Brothers. Yeah, this is why it's so hard to track down the correct owners of game IP. Before Minecraft and Roblox, there was Garry's Mod. And Garry's back, with a fully overhauled sequel on the Source 2 engine, currently named S&box. Us old timers aren't done kicking yet. Last week Dev-i made a big deal about Wolfwalkers, and how there's no way it'll win awards because of Soul. Now both are in the running for a Golden Globe. Next time your stomach isn't agreeing with you, it could be your microbiota gut brain giving you advice. Rat mothers infected with specific E. Coli strains are worse parents than rats with unmodified gut biomes. What else could be controlled by your stomach? Hopefully not your video game preference. Gearbox now bought out - https://screenrant.com/borderlands-developer-gearbox-buyout-1-billion-embracer-group/ Garry’s Mod 2 : The Sequel - https://sbox.facepunch.com/news Golden Globes 2021 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_Golden_Globe_Awards#Nominees Microbiota controls rat maternal behaviour - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/5/eabe6563 Nerdful things DJ - EX-Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm Rating: 0/5 Professor - Return of the Obra Dinn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn Rating: 3/5 Dev-i-boy - The Cat Returns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Returns Rating: 4/5 Other topics discussed 8 Mile (a 2002 American drama film written by Scott Silver and directed by Curtis Hanson. It stars Eminem in his film debut, alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, and Kim Basinger.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Mile_(film) Australian universities plan to ramp up in-person learning in early 2021 - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/20/australian-universities-plan-to-ramp-up-in-person-learning-in-early-2021 Microsoft buying Bethesda and Zenimax for $7.5bn - https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-09-21-microsoft-buying-zenimax-parent-company-of-bethesda-id-software-and-more-report THQ Nordic (an Austrian video game publisher based in Vienna. Formed in 2011, it is the primary publishing subsidiary of Embracer Group.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THQ_Nordic Embracer Group (a Swedish video game holding company based in Karlstad. The company was established under the name Nordic Games in December 2008, forming the video game publishing subsidiary of game retailer Game Outlet Europe.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embracer_Group Aliens: Colonial Marines (a 2013 first-person shooter developed by Gearbox Software based on the Alien film series.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens:_Colonial_Marines Amidst legal battle, Gearbox CEO says he left USB stick of porn at Medieval Times - https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/gearbox-ceo-allegedly-kept-underage-porn-on-usb-stick-new-lawsuit-alleges/ Microsoft Already Made Back Cost Of Buying Bethesda Twice Over, Xbox To Allegedly Buy More Studios - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvyygvMa27A Blizzard Entertainment (an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment Activision (an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It currently serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision DICE (a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm. The company was founded in 1992 and has been a sub...