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Role-playing hit “Baldur’s Gate 3”, based in the world of Dungeons and Dragons, was named video Game of the year at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles late on Thursday. Set in a fantasy realm of wizards, elves, barbarians and other characters, it is the latest instalment in the titular franchise, created by Larian Studios. THIS IS IT! @baldursgate3 is your 2023 Game of the Year! @larianstudios #GOTY #TheGameAwards pic.twitter.com/1u5hyGphbc — The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 8, 2023 “The team at Larian spent their hearts and souls for six years on this game, sometimes under very difficult circumstances,” studio founder and chief Swen Vincke said while accepting the award. “This was our Covid game; along the way we lost quite a few people,” he said. Vincke was dressed in armor, in keeping with a character from the Game which has won millions of fans since its release in early August. Other contenders for the title at ...

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is launching an early version of video and audio calling for some users, according to chief technology officer and owner Elon Musk, as the billionaire pushes for X to become an "everything app". Musk described a post on the platform instructing users on enabling the feature as an "Early version of video & audio calling on X". The latest functionality comes amid a series of new features and changes to the platform 's core experience under Musk, who acquired the social media company nearly a year ago. After rebranding Twitter as X, Musk signaled he would turn the platform into a super-app, offering a range of services from messaging and social networking to peer-to-peer payments. Teasing the feature in August, Musk had said users would not need a phone number for the features, which will be available on Apple's iOS, Google's Android and personal computers. Source: https://thef...

New body camera video shows a conversation between Minor high School band director Johnny Mims and a Birmingham Police Department (BPD) officer who shocked him. New body camera video obtained by ABC News shows a conversation between Johnny Mims, a band director at Minor High School in Alabama, and a Birmingham Police Department (BPD) officer who shocked him with a stun gun during an incident on Sept. 14 after Mims refused to comply with officer's orders to stop the music so they could clear the field. BPD released a nearly 8-minute clip of the incident last week that shows Mims refusing to comply and then being shocked three times by police, but Mims’ attorney, Juandalynn Givan, shared additional body camera footage of the incident with ABC News that shows the moments after Mims was arrested, including a conversation he had with the officer who shocked him during the incident. Mims accuses the officer of escalating the situation in the video . "You shouldn’t have escalated it,...