![]() This game puts Laura into conflict with an Alchemist from the past and various other powerful individuals in this mysterious setting.ĭuring the game, she is accused of murdering a mentor from the past and she is forced into becoming a fugitive because of it. However, they did manage to add going her hand to hand melee combat, a super jump, and army crawling to force Laura into situations that call for using them. This game focused on largely the same core game mechanics as the previous iteration. It released on the PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. It is said that this game took as many as 3 years of development prior to it getting released. This entrant in the Tomb Raider series was released in 2003 and it was made by the same developers and published by the same studio. It remains one of the worst-selling games in the Tomb Raider series. This particular game is shorter than it’s predecessors as well. This game is split into four different locations and it largely focuses on modern-day exploration much more than the previous iterations. It’s then when the people closest to her visit her estate and talk about all of her past exploits which have largely been clouded in mystery up until this point. In Chronicles, Laura Croft finds herself missing in Egypt and presumed dead. This game was originally released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, and Dreamcast. Throughout the journey, she is tasked with solving puzzles and dealing with everything that gets in her way. In this game, Laura was thrust into action by discovering a lost tomb and ends up unleashing the evil power that laid within it. Likewise, she was able to climb up and down these ropes.īecause the graphics improved so much in the newer engine, Laura didn’t look as ‘blocky’ which created a much more realistic looking appearance for greater immersion. This was the first game in the series that allowed Laura to swing from ropes hanging from the ceiling. For gameplay, they integrated a lot more new moves that could be used throughout the game. This is a game that was extremely successful largely because they took many more risks with this game. This was a game that was released in 1999 on PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, and the Dreamcast. This was the fourth game in the Tomb Raider series. This game required high-speed action combat, platforming, and puzzle-solving. The plot of this game had Laura Croft following clues which took her on an amazing journey to meet something that had never been seen before. In this engine, developers were able to utilize triangular polygons and colored lighting which allowed them to be able to create much better and more detailed character models and even level designs. While the previous games were developed on the same engine, this one was developed on a brand new engine that featured greater efficiency and better graphics. This game was published by Eidos Interactive and it was released on the Microsoft Windows and PlayStation platforms. The 3rd entrant into the series continued to follow the same foundation as the previous games released before it. Instead of forcing a player to have crystals to save the game on PlayStation, players were given the freedom to save the game pretty much throughout the entire game. Not only did it have new weapon varieties, but it gave Laura brand new moves and even a set of vehicles that she could use. It goes more into depth with its game mechanics and it was released for Microsoft Windows PC and PlayStation.Īs mentioned, this particular game featured a lot more mechanics than the previous iteration. The game itself holds a very similar premise as the first one. ![]() This entry in the Tomb Raider series continues to follow Laura Croft as she travels around the world in order to retrieve a valuable artifact (The Dagger of Xian) which is said to possess mythical powers prior to it falling into the hands of a villain. This game took place in 3D worlds and it was truly ahead of its time in various facets. Throughout the game, you are tasked with exploring tombs to find these ancient artifacts and platforming to avoid the various obstacles that get into your way.Īs mentioned, the gameplay elements found in this game rely heavily on platforming, puzzle-solving, and combat. It was released for PC, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation.ĭuring the course of this game, Laura Croft had been hired in order to recover various pieces of an ancient and invaluable artifact. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary (2007)Īs mentioned, the original Tomb Raider that started it all was released in 1996. ![]()
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![]() Stymie lived in east Los Angeles, where the “colored” neighborhoods were, while Dickie went home to the Westside, where racial covenants kept out blacks, Mexicans, Japanese, Jews, Italians, Russians-anyone who wasn’t “100 percent American.” ![]() Their playdate required crossing Los Angeles’s strict color line of the 1930s. Dickie fondly remembered being invited to Stymie’s house, where the two boys played on a tire swing and made ice cream. They also shared onscreen chemistry in films such as Free Wheeling (1932), where Stymie cures Dickie the rich kid’s stiff neck by taking him on a wild ride. Both were Depression kids, responsible for supporting their entire families at a time when one-quarter of the labor force was unemployed. What they shared was precocity and talent, as well as the loneliness and burden of being child stars. Stymie had started his career playing a nameless “pickaninny” in Hallellujah! In real life, Dickie had started his career playing an infant John Barrymore in The Beloved Rogue. They were an unlikely duo: Dickie usually played the rich kid while Stymie usually played the role of the urbane wise-guy. It turns out that Stymie’s best friend on the set was Dickie Moore, who was white. Was he friends with the other kids in the cast? Or were they simply performing a fantasy of integration on screen that ended the minute the cameras stopped rolling? ![]() ![]() As an adult, Stymie derided the series’ racist caricatures: “It was mammy this and mammy that in those days.” I had wondered what it was like for him as a child on the set. Years later, when I tried to understand what Little Rascals meant, I read a biography of the cast. Director Bob McGowan used to joke, “Well, boy, this kid’s beautiful, but he stymies me all the time.” On screen, Stymie was smart and resourceful, a heroic underdog able to outwit even adults. Stymie got his nickname (which he used the rest of his life) from his habit of getting underfoot on the set. One of my favorite Rascals was Matthew Beard, who played Stymie, a wisecracking black kid in a natty vest and a bowler hat, reportedly a gift from comedian Stan Laurel. They were a miniature melting pot, a slapstick version of democracy itself. The kids squabbled, sure, but they were also friends. Still, Our Gang was curiously ahead of its time in its celebration of diversity. Buckwheat, their 1930s successor, was best known for his incoherent speech and wild hair. Sunshine Sammy and Farina, Our Gang’s two original black members, were often depicted as comic “pickaninnies,” falling into barrels of flour and eating watermelon. Critics are still debating whether the show reinforced the racial stereotyping of the time or whether it actually challenged the status quo in the guise of something familiar. ![]() Our Gang was a child-like, idealized vision of America, one that offered an alternative to the racial strife going on outside the theater. With Woodrow Wilson as president and the return of soldiers from World War I, the years before 1921 had seen dozens of deadly attacks on blacks in American cities along with a resurgent Klu Klux Klan in rural areas. It was the age of Jim Crow, a term that originated in a 19th-century caricatured minstrel song and was soon applied to racial segregation laws that lasted through the 1960s. The success of Little Rascals was all the more surprising considering the racial climate of the time. Over the next 23 years, 220 films were produced. The films, which were originally shown in theaters nationwide and syndicated to television decades later, were an immediate hit-kids and adults loved the slapstick gags and the fiction of a kiddie society uniting to confound authority. The Little Rascals, originally known as Our Gang, was created by Hal Roach in 1921. By watching The Little Rascals, I was introduced to a powerful fantasy of America as racial utopia: Here was a group of kids of vastly different backgrounds who somehow managed to get along. I had no idea the series had been filmed 50 years earlier, that most of the stars were dead, and that it was once unusual for black and white kids to play together. My parents were Korean immigrants who had moved to the city in the 1970s, the first in a wave of Korean immigrants who would transform the city’s racial makeup. When I was a kid, I used to watch episodes of The Little Rascals on TV in our living room in Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe next summer PC players will get to experience the long-awaited remake too. One thing that seems certain with all of the “timed exclusivity” hints is that it is a question of when and not if. Perhaps a one-year exclusivity period? We know that Final Fantasy 7 Remake on PS5’s exclusivity extends until at least the end of 2021. ![]() June 1, 2022, makes that a one-year gap between versions. Final Fantasy 7 Remake was released on PS5 at the beginning of June this year. What we do know about Final Fantasy 7 Remake tends to lend a bit of weight to this potential release date. “ Bioshock 2022” was one of the obvious ones from the first leak. The problem with the data mined information is that there are also obvious placeholders in the leaks. However, at least one game, God Of War, was in the original leak and has now been announced. The first one only leaked back in September. It’s still too early to tell how accurate these GeForce Now leaks have been. It can be assumed that if this PC date is correct that the game would also be coming to Xbox consoles on the same date. This latest GeForce Now leak is the closest we’ve come to any details on when the game may finally see a release on PC. The GeForce Now date that leaked is June 1, 2022, fitting with what little we know about the timed exclusivity agreement for the game.įans of the Final Fantasy series have been clamoring for details on when Final Fantasy 7 Remake may come to other platforms. Included in the leak was the then unannounced Alan. Although the game hasn’t actually been announced for PC yet, we do know that it is a timed exclusive through 2021. First covered by VGC, an Epic Games Store leak from earlier this year suggested an incoming announcement for Final Fantasy 7 Remake coming to PC. ![]() It seems like GeForce Now has had another massive data leak and one of the tidbits in this one is a potential release date for Final Fantasy 7 Remake on PC. ![]() ![]() I actually did not have a date to my prom. I feel like there’s different kinds of evil and there’s different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives… it’s not me and it’s not my look. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there’s a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. Check out all known statistics in the table below! Body shape: Here is the body measurement information of Rachelle Lefevre. In 2014, Lefevre’s fans were lucky since she plazs one of the main characters on Under The Dome. 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![]() Only good for making clipart illustrations. Great user interface.Ĭons: Very basic, so cannot be considered as a complete alternative for Illustrator. Have a vast library of vector illustrations and images that can be edited and used for a small subscription fee. Pros: Easy to use, lightweight, and basic program for making clipart, icons, logos. The interface is very simple, easy to use, and understand and you can access their vector and image library to edit it on their editor for $9/year or $14/month. Vecteezy is a freemium online vector editor that can help you create very basic SVG designs that are less like complex illustrations and more like basic clipart that you find in those online logo generators. Try it (90-days free trial) and if you love it, go for it. At the time of writing this article, Gravit Pro costs $49/year. Our word of advice, use Gravit for basic illustration for digital use. The free version lacks in many departments and is only good for basic illustrations. Access to the program needs your email address for account creation so your data might be used. Easy to learn and gets more done in little time.Ĭons: Though it is free for basic work, you need to pay to get the pro features such as importing from Illustrator, Sketch, or EPS files. ![]() Can be used for professional work as well. Great for logo designing, web designing, or advertisement banner designing. Pros: Great, free SVG-editor to create basic illustrations. Gravit is great for designing mockups, interfaces, UI elements, social media banners, brochures, webpage layout, etc. Gravit is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. And most of it is free (but not open-source). Gravit DesignerĪ decently powerful vector-based graphic creation software that can be used both as a desktop app and as an in-browser editor. The low cost is the USP for this software and overshadows the minor shortcomings. You can try the program for free in the trial period. The software is still young and maturing. Illustrator has Adobe Fonts but that is lacking here. Affinity is also available for iPad at $19.99.Ĭons: The software can get buggy sometimes with unexpected program crashes. Affinity Designer comes with a one-time fee of $50 for both Mac and Windows. Pros: Great interface, easy to learn and the best thing is the price. The learning curve for Affinity is also shallow so pure beginners won’t strain their brain while learning the program. I have many people praise Affinity for the UI all the time and they are not wrong. The interface is very modern and pleasant to work with. This was also a mutual issue for other Draw users. CorelDraw gives a 15-day free trial for new users so you can check it out, see how it works and whether it is the right one for you or not (or can you spare $499).Ī great graphic designer that can create great flat illustrations. I also noticed some issues while working with text-files which for some reason CorelDraw cannot properly manage. The education version (for students) costs $109 and a year subscription costs $249. The one-time fee of buying the graphic suite (at the time of writing this article on Amazon US) is $499. CorelDraw also has great customer service.Ĭons: The biggest con here is the price. Pros: Powerful, easy to learn, and as capable as Adobe illustrator. Overall a capable and great graphics editor that can completely replace Adobe Illustrator. Tutorials are also available easily for beginners to learn. So if you are switching from Illustrator, learning Draw would be a piece of cake.ĬorelDraw is supported both for Mac and Windows and is perhaps one of the easiest graphic editors to learn. A very complex process involving too many paths can result in program crashes.ĬorelDraw is one of the most powerful Adobe Illustrator alternatives and in many ways, it works and feels almost like Illustrator. ![]() This makes the interface look and feels clunky and unintuitive. Help regarding the program is easily accessible.Ĭons: The UX/UX of the program is out-dated and poorly organized. Pros: Free software that works with multiple formats and is capable of doing complex tasks. ![]() Inkscape is supported on Mac, Windows, and Linux as well. Inkscape can convert raster images into vectors and gives a lot of options to work with the vector file. Inkscape is a very popular vector-based graphic designer that majorly works with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. In case you are in a hurry and don’t want to read about all the software in detail, here is the list of all the alternatives for Adobe Illustrator: If you don’t know the difference, the raster is Photoshop and the vector is Illustrator. These graphic editors are all vector-based and not raster-based. We will also mention some advantages of the alternative over Illustrator and some disadvantages as well (which will be in abundance). ![]() |
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