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Listen now on Apple, Spotify or YouTubeIn This Edition, Undead Labs’ Philip Holt on… Leaving XboxFinding finance and cutting staffState of Decay visionBeing irresponsibly transparentAt the start of July, Xbox announced that Undead Labs had a buyer. The State of Decay developer was one of five studios that Xbox was looking to offload. And we understand that UK developer Splash Damage was going to be picking it up. But, come September, and Undead Labs new owner was revealed to be… Undead Labs. The studio’s own employees had bought the company. Meanwhile, its upcoming open world horror game State of Decay 3 had a new, unnamed publisher. So, what went wrong? “I don’t know that anything went wrong,” answered studio boss Philip Holt in today’s The Game Business Show. “It was an accelerated period of time for Microsoft’s divestiture. We had a lot of interest. I also thought that because we were so close to being in revenue, the amount of capital that we needed to finish [State of Decay 3] was not an insurmountable amount that we couldn’t go raise it ourselves.

Mud from a fjord shows an Atlantic air pattern brought wetter, colder spells to southern Greenland, a clue to how its ice may fare. Greenland’s ice is shrinking as the planet warms. But in the island’s southwest, rainfall and snowfall have been influenced by the same North Atlantic air-pressure pattern for at least 5,000 years. When that pattern tipped one way, the region turned wetter and colder. The record comes from mud on the floor of a Greenland fjord, and it suggests snowfall, not only temperature, shaped how the area’s ice grew and shrank. It doesn’t yet show how glaciers there will respond to the warming ahead. Johan Faust, a researcher at MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in Germany, led the work with colleagues in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Canada. A seesaw in the airThe pattern is called the North Atlantic Oscillation. It’s the difference in air pressure between a low that sits near Iceland and a high near the Azores, and it’s strongest in winter. When that difference is large, the pattern is in its positive phase. Northwestern Europe and southwestern Greenland both get more rain and snow.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.

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