Pandora | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:35:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Pandora | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is reportedly a bit too immersive https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/mustafa-mahmoud/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-is-reportedly-a-bit-too-immersive/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/mustafa-mahmoud/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-is-reportedly-a-bit-too-immersive/#respond Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:30:57 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=635911 First announced more than 6 years ago, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is set to finally release in just over a month. Ahead of its launch, previews for the open world game have now gone live – with the consensus being that the game seems to be a bit too immersive, causing many players to get …

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First announced more than 6 years ago, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is set to finally release in just over a month. Ahead of its launch, previews for the open world game have now gone live – with the consensus being that the game seems to be a bit too immersive, causing many players to get lost in the world of Pandora.

With Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora arriving on the 7th of December, the preview embargo for the game has now been lifted, allowing those who got an early look at the game to publish their thoughts.

Unsurprisingly, it seems as though much of the general gameplay loop evokes a strong sense of familiarity to the Far Cry franchise – with one core exception. According to many who got their hands on the game, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora eschews the typical open-world design principle of placing a bunch of objective markers all over the place. While this could in theory lead to an enhanced sense of immersion, a large number of those who did play the game claimed that they got lost, with little to no sense of where to go or what to do.

A world such as Avatar’s Pandora is rife for exploration and so getting lost in the lush greenery doesn’t sound like too big of a deal, but for those who have tried the game, this ‘overcorrection’ from Ubisoft’s typical technique of placing towers and checkbox objectives all over the place appears to have caused some frustration.

That said, with it being a preview, those who did get the chance to play were thrown into the world part-way through the game’s story, meaning they did not have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with Pandora and its layout.

Of course, this preview only gave a select number of people a mere slice of the game, and so we will have to wait for the title’s release in order to see what fans and general players think of the game and its design principles. Personally, getting lost in a land as lush as Pandora doesn’t sound like a problem, but we shall see when Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora arrives in just over a month.

KitGuru says: What do you think of all the previews? Do you agree with their sentiments? Would you rather a game have too much signposting or too little? Let us know down below.

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Apple plans to slash price of Beats Music subscription https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/apple-plans-to-slash-price-of-beats-music-subscription/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/apple-plans-to-slash-price-of-beats-music-subscription/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2014 00:55:40 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=215126 Streaming music is cheaper than buying all the tracks that you would like to hear. Modern streaming services charge from $7 to $10 per month, which may not be a lot for music fans, but which keeps a lot of people away from them. Apple wants to change that and is, reportedly, in talks with …

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Streaming music is cheaper than buying all the tracks that you would like to hear. Modern streaming services charge from $7 to $10 per month, which may not be a lot for music fans, but which keeps a lot of people away from them. Apple wants to change that and is, reportedly, in talks with music labels about a possibility to drop the price.

Apple is in negotiations with large music labels over reduction of their fees for music in a bid to cut-down the price of Beats Music's $10 monthly subscription fee, reports Re/code. Discussions are in their early stages, Apple is not planning on overhauling Beats Music until next year, according to the report.

Sales of download music have been decreasing for many quarters now. Apple needed a music streaming subscription service to offset its iTunes revenue drops. Now, Apple needs to boost its revenues associated with Beats Music somehow. A natural way to do this is to cut-down the price and sell the service to more people.

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Apple traditionally knows how to treat its large partners among content providers. It once persuaded them to throw away DRM copyright protection technologies from MP3s in order to sell more music, a plan that was a huge success. Perhaps, the company will manage to make streaming music services more affordable as well. One of the ways to lure labels to drop prices of music for a subscription service could be offering them to stream their video content as well, both via Beats Music and Apple TV services.

Apple did not comment on the news-story.

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KitGuru Says: Many services, including Beats Music, require a subscription by default, but provide a free trial for a limited amount of time. By contrast, there are services, such as, DI.fm, which provides free 96kb/s MP3 streams and require a monthly payment of $7 for 256kb/s MP3 streams. Perhaps, Apple is trying to make Beats Music both free (to lure music lovers) and more affordable at the same time?

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Get a free Borderlands Pre-Sequel with OCUK Nvidia cards https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jon-martindale/get-a-free-borderlands-pre-sequel-with-ocuk-nvidia-cards/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jon-martindale/get-a-free-borderlands-pre-sequel-with-ocuk-nvidia-cards/#respond Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:01:19 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=206967 Overclockers Uk announced today that it it would be running a joint promotion with both Gearbox and Nvidia to give away free copies of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with select Nvidia graphics cards, including: GTX 770, 780, 780 Ti and the monstrous Titan Black. Of course this will mean a sizeable investment on your behalf, as …

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Overclockers Uk announced today that it it would be running a joint promotion with both Gearbox and Nvidia to give away free copies of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with select Nvidia graphics cards, including: GTX 770, 780, 780 Ti and the monstrous Titan Black.

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Of course this will mean a sizeable investment on your behalf, as even the cheapest of the bunch, the 770, will set you back at least £230 and you can go all the way up to £1000 if you want the fanciest, most customised Titan Black. But you will get a free game out of it at least.

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“If you have a high-end Nvidia GPU, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel will offer higher-fidelity and higher-performance hardware-driven special effects, including awesome weapon impacts, moon-shatteringly cool cryo explosions and ice particles, and cloth and fluid simulation that blows me away every time I see it,” said Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox.

For more information on the promotion and links to the cards in question, head here.

KitGuru Says: So regardless of whether you buy an Nvidia GPU to add more particles and physics to your gaming experience, who's excited about the next Borderlands? 

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