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Daily tech news & jokes to have a good start for 18/08/2022

Adam Gelencser
4 min readAug 18, 2022

Quote of the day:

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray

Jokes of the day:

I applied to be a doorman but didn’t get the job due to lack of experience. That surprised me, I thought it was an entry level position.

Debugging: Removing the needles from the haystack.

Top 10 news of the day:

‘Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed’ Haunts PC and Consoles October 18

Developer Illfonic has announced that their asymmetrical multiplayer game ‘Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed’ arrives October 18th.

I remember celebrating New Years Eve on December 31st, 2019 with high hopes and ambitions. A new decade! A fresh slate–a new start. Then the shit show that was 2020 ensued and you know the rest. However, before the horror of COVID-19 hit, I was serve… [5991 chars]

‘Get ready!’ Solar storm ‘active NOW’ as direct Earth hit imminent — locations pinpointed

SOLAR STORMS battering the Earth’s upper atmosphere are causing the aurora to brighten — and they should be visible tonight above the UK and much of Northern Europe.

Sweden: Powerful auroras spotted over Abisko National Park SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on o… [5176 chars]

Amazon leak says Tales from the Borderlands follow-up out this October

A fleeting Amazon listing has provided fresh details on New Tales from the Borderlands, the (newly monikered) Gearbox-d…

A fleeting Amazon listing has provided fresh details on New Tales from the Borderlands, the (newly monikered) Gearbox-developed follow-up to Telltale Games’ sublime 2014 episodic adventure of almost the same name, suggesting it’ll launch for Xbox One… [1928 chars]

Boyfriend Dungeon’s Secret Weapons DLC hits platforms in a surprise launch

Be a lover AND a fighter.

Dungeon crawling dating sim Boyfriend Dungeon dropped a bombshell (which probably has its own name and personality) today with the announcement of the surprise release of its Secret Weapons DLC. Just a few days past the game’s one-year anniversary, t… [1504 chars]

New Tales from the Borderlands Arrive on 21st October for PS5, PS4

Pandora’s box has been opened — The sequel to Telltale Games’ excellent episodic adventure will bring New Tales from the…

The sequel to Telltale Games’ excellent episodic adventure will bring New Tales from the Borderlands on 21st October. The game — discovered on Amazon by legendary tweeter Wario64 — will release on PS5 and PS4, and promises to “take a stand against ru… [1980 chars]

Disco Elysium Fans Should Keep an Eye on New PS5, PS4 Game Broken Roads

Out in 2023 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC06Oo9Pbzw&ab_channel=PlayStation Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is widel…

Subscribe to Push Square on Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is widely considered to be one of the best RPGs of the past few years — probably even more so when you dig into its sub-genre of computer RPGs. The problem is there aren’t too many games like i… [1501 chars]

Corsair Teases Next-Gen MP700 PCIe Gen 5 M.2 SSD, Up To 10,000 MB/s Read Speeds

Corsair has teased its next-gen MP700 PCIe Gen 5 M.2 SSD which will be fully compatible with the AMD AM5 platform.

Corsair has teased its next-gen MP700 PCIe Gen 5 M.2 SSD which will be fully compatible with the AMD AM5 platform. Corsair’s Next-Gen MP700 PCIe Gen 5 SSD To Offer Up To 10 GBps Read Speeds, Fully Compatibility With AMD AM5 Platform According to Cors… [1762 chars]

Pokémon Center plagued by queues despite pre-booking system

London’s latest Pokémon Center pop-up shop has been plagued by queues on its opening day — mirroring the messy s…

London’s latest Pokémon Center pop-up shop has been plagued by queues on its opening day — mirroring the messy situation faced by fans the last time round. Advice given to fans this afternoon — even those who previously pre-booked their slot to go sh… [3795 chars]

QUBE 10 years on: still a great puzzle game, and it’s about to get one heck of a glow-up

As its 10th Anniversary edition approaches, we revisit first person physics puzzler QUBE and discover a game that still has the ability to surprise even now.

Time has never been very kind to QUBE. The first-person puzzler first began life as a university project in the late 00s, but by the time it finally launched commercially in early 2012, it was almost universally written off as nothing but an okay Por… [8759 chars]

Hand Of Fate devs’ new tactics game is XCOM with superheroes

Superheroic tactics RPG Capes is a new game coming in 2023 from former members of the team behind the Hand Of Fate series of roguelike deckbuilding ARPGs.

If you were ever fond of roguelike deckbuilding ARPG Hand Of Fate and its sequel then you might be interested in the newly revealed superhero tactics RPG Capes. It’s in development at Spitfire Interactive, a freshly founded studio made up of former H… [1866 chars]

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Adam Gelencser

Tech enthusiast, currently entrepreneuring — regularly sharing content on tech news and irregularly on other topics. Founder of QMapper.co video AI tool.