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State v. Fiorello
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36 N.J. 80 (1961)
174 A.2d 900
THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. ANTHONY JOSEPH FIORELLO, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Argued September 25, 1961.
Decided November 6, 1961.
*82 Mr. Michael R. Imbriani, Assistant Prosecutor of Somerset County, argued the cause for the appellant (Mr. Arthur S. Meredith, Somerset County Prosecutor, attorney).
Mr. John F. Ryan argued the cause for the respondent (Messrs. Ryan, Saros, Davis & Stone, attorneys; Mr. Bernard L. Davis, on the brief).
The opinion of the court was delivered by JACOBS, J.
The defendant was found guilty of bookmaking by a Somerset County jury and, after the denial of his motion for a new trial, was duly sentenced by Judge Halpern. The Appellate Division reversed and remanded the cause for further proceedings. We certified on the State's application. 34 N.J. 472 (1961).
On January 9, 1960, Investigator Martin and Detective Karkowski of the New Jersey State Police went to the defendant's gasoline service station in North Plainfield. They had a search warrant and made a search of the premises. In the course thereof, Investigator Martin searched the defendant and asked him to place everything in his pockets on a nearby cigarette machine. This was apparently done and the investigator testified that "there was nothing left" in the defendant's pockets. Included among the items from the defendant's pockets were two slips of paper which were marked as Exhibits S-1 and S-2. They were in the defendant's handwriting and contained lists of numbers preceded by letters. While the search of the premises was going on the telephone rang on two occasions and Investigator Martin answered the calls. The first caller asked for Tony and when he was told that Tony was not available, he said that if he *83 could not talk to Tony he did not want to talk to anyone. The second call, more than an hour later, was from a person who identified himself as Freddie, the brother-in-law of Tony. He said that if he could not talk to Tony, he did not want to talk to anyone. The defendant at the time told the investigator that he had no brother-in-law named Freddie.
The investigator testified that after he had answered the first telephone call and while he had his back to the defendant, he heard a crackling of paper. He turned around and saw that the defendant had his hands folded behind his back. He then "grabbed" the defendant's left hand and when the defendant's hand was opened "there was a slip of paper in his palm"; this was received in evidence and marked as Exhibit S-3. The slip was in the defendant's handwriting and contained information which the defendant said he had obtained from the Newark Star Ledger. When the investigator asked the defendant what the information on the slip represented, the defendant stated that the list of names on the slip represented teams, the numbers next to them represented point spreads and the next notations were the times that the games were to be played. When the investigator asked the defendant why he had not put S-3 on the cigarette machine along with S-1 and S-2, the defendant said that he "didn't know it was in his pocket at that time." On cross-examination the investigator repeated his earlier testimony that he had searched the defendant's pockets thoroughly and that S-3 was not there at the time. When the defendant's wallet was searched it was found to contain $164 in bills and $1 in change.
Detective Karkowski testified that since 1954 he had conducted numerous gambling investigations for the State Police and was familiar with the records, symbols and writings used in connection with bookmaking. He stated that Exhibits S-1 and S-2 could represent tally or record sheets and that Exhibit S-3 could represent "what is commonly known as a line sheet." He described a line sheet as a slip of paper or a prepared form which gives the names of "the *84 favorite teams or any teams playing in sporting contests" and "usually the names are followed by points which are the points that that particular team is favorite to win the contest by." When asked by counsel whether S-3 could represent anything other than a line sheet he said, "In my opinion, it's nothing but a line sheet with the added feature of having apparent time records made for each contest. That is the time those games were scheduled to be played, to begin to be played." In response to an inquiry from the court, the detective reasserted that in his opinion S-3 was a line sheet and could not represent anything else but a line sheet. The detective testified that he examined S-3 and checked it against the Newark Star Ledger; he found that the information in the Ledger did not correspond with the information on S-3 and that the newspaper did not carry most of the starting times. In response to an inquiry from the court as to whether S-1 and S-2 could represent anything other than tally or record sheets, the detective testified that they resembled tally sheets or records of gambling activities which he had seen in the past, but they could represent other records. When he was asked whether they could represent other records which have nothing at all to do with betting, he said, "It's a possibility, yes, sir."
After Investigator Martin and Detective Karkowski had testified, the State closed its case. Thereupon the defendant moved for acquittal of the offenses charged in the two counts set forth in the indictment. The court granted the defendant's motion as to the second count which charged the defendant with keeping a place to which persons might resort for gambling. It denied the motion as to the first count which charged that the defendant had, on January 9, 1960 and on other days, conducted the practice commonly known as bookmaking in violation of N.J.S. 2A:112-3. On his own case the defendant testified that he was not engaged in the practice of bookmaking. He stated on direct examination that the items listed on S-3 were "basketball odds" which he had taken from the newspaper and that he "was *85 going to see one of these games at either the Madison Square Garden or at Philadelphia." However, on cross-examination it was brought out that of the five games listed on S-3, one was played in Illinois, another in Ohio, another in Missouri, and another in the South. With respect to the fifth game, the evidence was silent as to where it was actually played, but there was proof that it could not have been played at Madison Square Garden. In response to an inquiry on direct examination as to what the figures on S-2 represented, the defendant testified that they were "figures of various things that I had taken down." He stated that he did not recall all of them but that he knew that "one here, S-67, could pertain to I owed somebody $67.00, the S & H Green Stamps, and I know that B-95 was money that I had given to somebody and I kept a notation of it, and things like that." However, on cross-examination he stated that he could not tell what the "B" stood for. The defendant testified that S-1 was merely a duplication of S-2 but on cross-examination he acknowledged that only one of the six numbers on the exhibits was the same. The many contradictions in the defendant's testimony indicated his lack of credibility and, in addition, he admitted that he had been convicted in Union County in 1949 for bookmaking and maintaining premises for gambling purposes, and in Somerset County in 1957 for bookmaking and keeping a gambling resort. At the close of all of the testimony the court delivered its charge and after due deliberation the jury returned its verdict of guilty.
In the Appellate Division the defendant attacked his conviction on various grounds which were passed upon in the court's opinion. It summarily rejected the defendant's contention that while N.J.S. 2A:112-3 prohibits the practice of bookmaking on horseraces, it does not prohibit the practice of bookmaking on other contests such as basketball games. The Appellate Division's ruling on this issue was clearly correct and is not now questioned by the defendant. See State v. Maranz, 18 N.J. Super. 478 (App. Div. *86 1952), certification denied 10 N.J. 309 (1952). The Appellate Division also rejected the defendant's contention that Judge Halpern committed prejudicial error when he charged the jury that it was not necessary that the defendant be a principal but that it was sufficient if the jury found "from all of the proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that the defendant "knowingly and intentionally aided, abetted or participated in the prohibited practice of bookmaking." The defendant now attacks the Appellate Division's ruling on this issue but we find no merit whatever in his attack. Bookmakers and those who aid and abet them are equally condemned by the policy of our law and are all dealt with as principals. See Paterson Publishing Co. v. N.J. Bell Telephone Co., 21 N.J. 460, 465 (1956); State v. Morano, 134 N.J.L. 295, 301 (E. & A. 1946). Under the proofs and under an entirely fair charge, the jury found that the defendant was guilty of engaging in the practice of bookmaking. Any involvement of others was immaterial and would not have constituted a defense; in this connection it may be noted that the trial court explicitly charged that a bettor as such was not guilty of any crime under N.J.S. 2A:112-3 and clearly the jury would not have found the defendant guilty of bookmaking if it had believed that he was simply a bettor. In any event, the reference to aiding and abetting did not prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant and was not reversible error. Cf. State v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 12 N.J. 468, 495 (1953), appeal dismissed, 346 U.S. 869, 74 S. Ct. 124, 98 L. Ed. 379 (1953).
The defendant contends that the evidence at the close of the State's case was insufficient to go to the jury and that his motion for acquittal at that time should have been granted by the trial judge. It is this contention which was accepted by the Appellate Division and led it to reverse the judgment of conviction. Our courts have held that the validity of the denial of a motion to acquit at the end of the State's case is to be tested in the light of the evidence at that time without reference to any corroborative evidence *87 introduced during the defendant's case. See State v. Fox, 12 N.J. Super. 132, 135 (App. Div. 1951); State v. Pincus, 41 N.J. Super. 454, 458 (App. Div. 1956); cf. State v. O'Shea, 28 N.J. Super. 374, 378 (App. Div. 1953), affirmed, 16 N.J. 1 (1954). Although there are many cases elsewhere which have in effect reached a different result (see, e.g., United States v. Calderon, 348 U.S. 160, 164, 75 S. Ct. 186, 99 L. Ed. 202, 207 (1954); United States v. Kenny, 236 F.2d 128, 131 (3 Cir. 1956), certiorari denied, 352 U.S. 894, 77 S. Ct. 133, 1 L. Ed. 2d 87 (1956); Annot., 17 A.L.R. 910, 925 (1922)), we may, for present purposes, assume the validity of the holdings in our courts, although we hasten to point out that under them the State is admittedly entitled to the benefit of all of its favorable testimony and the favorable inferences which a jury might reasonably draw therefrom. Cf. State v. Rhams, 14 N.J. 282, 285 (1954); State v. Cerce, 22 N.J. 236, 246 (1956); State v. Dancyger, 29 N.J. 76, 84 (1959), certiorari denied, 360 U.S. 903, 79 S. Ct. 1286, 3 L. Ed. 2d 1255 (1959).
Various expressions of the test to be applied in passing on a motion for acquittal may be found in the cases. In State v. Picciotti, 12 N.J. 205, 208-209 (1953), the test was stated to be "whether there is any legal evidence before the jury from which an inference of guilt can be legitimately drawn." See also State v. Smith, 32 N.J. 501, 521 (1960), certiorari denied, 364 U.S. 936, 81 S. Ct. 383, 5 L. Ed. 2d 367 (1961); State v. Kollarik, 22 N.J. 558, 564 (1956); State v. Rogers, 19 N.J. 218, 232 (1955); State v. Begyn, 58 N.J. Super. 185, 193 (App. Div. 1959), affirmed, 34 N.J. 35 (1961). The test has often been stated without any distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence. However, in State v. Donohue, 2 N.J. 381, 390 (1949), the court expressed the sweeping view that where the State's evidence is circumstantial, "all of the circumstances not only must concur to indicate a defendant's guilt but they must also be inconsistent with any other rational conclusion," and they must exclude "every other hypothesis except that *88 of guilt." Although this broad expression has been occasionally restated it has not been applied literally; if it were it would have unreasonably defeated many legitimate prosecutions based on circumstantial evidence where it was possible "to devise speculative hypotheses consistent with defendant's innocence." See People v. Sullivan, 22 Ill. 2d 122, 174 N.E.2d 860, 861 (1961). The formulation found in Donohue has been effectively criticized elsewhere (see United States v. Valenti, 134 F.2d 362, 364 (2 Cir. 1943), certiorari denied, 319 U.S. 761, 63 S. Ct. 1317, 87 L. Ed. 1712 (1943)), has been restrictively explained (State v. Bulna, 46 N.J. Super. 313, 317 (App. Div. 1957), affirmed, 27 N.J. 93 (1958))[1] and has been abandoned in recent opinions by our courts. See State v. Goodman, 9 N.J. 569, 581 (1952); State v. Dancyger, supra, 29 N.J., at p. 84; State v. Graziani, 60 N.J. Super. 1, 13 (App. Div. 1959), affirmed, 31 N.J. 538 (1960), certiorari denied, 363 U.S. 830, 80 S. Ct. 1601, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1524 (1960); State v. Hall, 55 N.J. Super. 441, 447 (App. Div. 1959).
In Goodman, supra, the defendants were convicted on a charge of conspiracy to extort and their appeal was heard *89 in this court. Their motion for acquittal at the close of the State's case had been denied, and this action was readily sustained though it was acknowledged that the evidence was circumstantial and certain of the defendants' actions which were relied upon by the State, when isolated from other circumstances, appeared innocent. In the course of its opinion this court, citing United States v. Valenti, supra, stated that the real question at the close of the State's case "was whether the evidence, viewed in its entirety, was such that the jury could properly find therefrom, beyond reasonable doubt, that the four defendants had corruptly agreed to extort." 9 N.J., at p. 581. In Dancyger, supra, the defendant was charged with theft of a ring. At the close of the State's case he moved for acquittal but his motion was denied and the jury later found him guilty. On appeal he urged that the evidence "did not exclude a reasonable hypothesis of innocence of the theft charge" and that he was therefore entitled to acquittal. In rejecting this contention Justice Proctor, writing for the entire court, pointed out that if the evidence was of sufficient quality to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt it did not matter that it was circumstantial; citing Goodman, he stated that the question before the trial court at the close of the State's case was "whether the evidence, viewed in its entirety and giving the State the benefit of all the legitimate inferences therefrom, was such that the jury could properly find beyond a reasonable doubt" that the defendant had stolen the ring. 29 N.J., at p. 84.
In State v. Hall, supra, the test set forth in Dancyger was applied to sustain the denial of a motion to acquit where charges of breaking and entering and larceny were supported by circumstantial evidence. In State v. Graziani, supra, the defendants were convicted of unlawfully conspiring to obtain money by false pretenses. They had moved for acquittal at the end of the State's case on the ground that the evidence against them was circumstantial and "did not exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt." In sustaining *90 the trial court's denial of their motion to acquit, the Appellate Division accurately set forth the now controlling approach:
"The issue for the trial court and for us is not whether the circumstantial evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt. State v. Bulna, 46 N.J. Super. 313, 317 (App. Div. 1957), affirmed 27 N.J. 93 (1958). The issue to be decided is instead whether the evidence before the trial court, viewed in its entirety, and giving the State the benefit of all legitimate inferences therefrom, was such that the jury could properly find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendants had corruptly agreed to obtain money by false pretenses from purchasers and prospective purchasers of motor vehicles. This is the accepted standard by which to test the propriety of the trial court's ruling on defendants' motions. State v. Goodman, 9 N.J. 569, 581 (1952); State v. Dancyger, 29 N.J. 76, 84 (1959); State v. Hall, 55 N.J. Super. 441, 447 (App. Div. 1959)." 60 N.J. Super., at p. 13
See United States v. Giuliano, 263 F.2d 582, 584 (3 Cir. 1959); White v. United States, 279 F.2d 740, 748 (4 Cir. 1960), certiorari denied, 364 U.S. 850, 81 S. Ct. 96, 5 L. Ed. 2d 74 (1960); cf. United States v. Costello, 221 F.2d 668, 671 (2 Cir. 1955), affirmed, 350 U.S. 359, 76 S. Ct. 406, 100 L. Ed. 397 (1956); but see Riggs v. United States, 280 F.2d 949, 953-955 (5 Cir. 1960). Compare Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121, 139-140, 75 S. Ct. 127, 99 L. Ed. 150, 166-167 (1954) with State v. Bulna, supra, 46 N.J. Super., at p. 317; see also Goldstein, "The State and the Accused: Balance of Advantage in Criminal Procedure," 69 Yale L.J. 1149, 1152-1163 (1960); Note, "Sufficiency of Circumstantial Evidence in a Criminal Case," 55 Colum. L. Rev. 549, 550 (1955).
When the trial court was called upon to determine whether the State, on its own case, had presented enough evidence to go to the jury, it was properly governed by the aforementioned standard. Its obligation was to view the State's evidence in its entirety, giving the State the benefit of all of its favorable testimony as well as all of the favorable inferences which reasonably could be drawn therefrom. Viewing the evidence in that light, the trial court was satisfied *91 that a reasonable jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the State had established that the defendant did conduct the practice of bookmaking as charged in the indictment. That being so, its duty was to deny the motion for acquittal and thereafter receive the testimony in support of the defense. We are convinced that its action in denying the motion was soundly taken. The State's expert witness testified that he was familiar with writings connected with bookmaking, that S-3 was a line sheet bearing the names, point spreads and starting times of basketball games, and that S-1 and S-2 could be tally or record sheets. It may fairly be inferred from the evidence, that during the search of the premises the defendant had concealed S-3, which was in his own handwriting, and was seeking to suppress it. Such attempt to suppress was an evidential circumstance which tended to establish guilt and negate any suggested inference that the possession of the line sheet was innocent. See State v. De Falco, 8 N.J. Super. 295, 299-300 (App. Div. 1950); State v. O'Shea, supra, 28 N.J. Super., at p. 377. In addition, the State's case contained evidence that the defendant had falsely stated at the time that S-3 merely contained information which had been copied from the Star Ledger. Cf. Commonwealth v. Lettrich, 346 Pa. 497, 31 A.2d 155, 156 (1943), where the court noted that an accused's fabrication "for the sake of diverting inquiry or casting off suspicion" is a circumstance "indicatory of guilt."
The State's expert witness testified that S-1 and S-2, which were also in the defendant's own handwriting, could be tally or record sheets, and that they resembled tally sheets or records found during gambling investigations he had conducted in the past. The defendant points out that the witness did not state that S-1 and S-2 were tally or record sheets, or were probably such, but simply stated that they could be such. He urges that this testimony should have been excluded by the trial court but we consider that under the circumstances the evidence was properly received. While the witness acknowledged the possibility that S-1 and S-2 *92 might be unrelated to gambling, his acknowledgment was simply an admission of something self-evident, for S-1 and S-2 merely contained an enumeration of letters and figures and no one could truthfully deny the possibility that they might be records of legitimate transactions. S-1 and S-2 were in themselves proper evidential items (cf. State v. Martinek, 12 N.J. Super. 320, 323-324 (App. Div. 1951)), they were not to be viewed in isolation (cf. State v. Rhams, supra, 14 N.J., at p. 285), and when coupled with all the other circumstances in the case and particularly with S-3, a jury could reasonably infer that they were tally or record sheets being used in a bookmaking operation. The ingenuity of bookmakers and the sparcity of their recorded indicia have been frequently noted, and while courts must be alert to avoid the lessening of the procedural safeguards to which persons accused of bookmaking are fairly entitled, they must be equally alert to avoid the frustration of bookmaking prosecutions legitimately based on inferences which may reasonably be drawn from furtive conduct and scanty records. Cf. State v. Kuznitz, 36 N.J. Super. 521, 530 (App. Div. 1955), certification denied, 20 N.J. 136 (1955).
We are satisfied that the trial court properly denied the defendant's motion for acquittal and that the Appellate Division's ruling to the contrary was erroneous. We are also satisfied that there is no merit to the defendant's present alternative contention that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence. The State's case was not at all weakened by anything introduced on the defendant's case; on the contrary it was strengthened by the incredibility of the defendant's explanatory testimony and the jury acted well within its province in reaching its verdict of guilty. In any event, the rule is well settled that this court will not set aside a jury verdict in the absence of a clear and convincing showing that the verdict was the result of mistake, partiality, prejudice or passion. No such showing has been made and we have no hesitancy in concluding that, within the aforementioned rule and on the basis of all of *93 the evidence in the case, the jury's verdict may not be disturbed. See State v. Goodman, supra, 9 N.J., at p. 582; cf. State v. Dunphy, 24 N.J. 10, 17 (1957); State v. Smith, supra, 32 N.J., at pp. 523-524.
The judgment of the Appellate Division is reversed and the judgment of conviction entered in the Somerset County Court is reinstated.
For reversal Chief Justice WEINTRAUB, and Justices JACOBS, FRANCIS, PROCTOR, HALL, SCHETTINO and HANEMAN 7.
For affirmance None.
[1] In Bulna, the court suggested that the Donohue formula may be a proper one for application by the jury. However, we consider the better approach to be that taken in Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121, 75 S. Ct. 127, 99 L. Ed. 150 (1954), where the court sustained a trial judge's refusal to instruct that where the government's evidence is circumstantial it must be such as to exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than that of guilt; after noting that where the jury is properly instructed on standards for reasonable doubt, such additional instruction on circumstantial evidence may be confusing, Justice Clark had this to say:
"Circumstantial evidence in this respect is intrinsically no different from testimonial evidence. Admittedly, circumstantial evidence may in some cases point to a wholly incorrect result. Yet this is equally true of testimonial evidence. In both instances, a jury is asked to weigh the chances that the evidence correctly points to guilt against the possibility of inaccuracy or ambiguous inference. In both, the jury must use its experience with people and events in weighing the probabilities. If the jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, we can require no more." 348 U.S., at p. 140, 75 S.Ct., at p. 137, 99 L.Ed., at pp. 166-167
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aFrom the Department of Interventional Neuroradiology (T.M.L.-M., M.H., H.N., M.S., A.V., P.J.M., R.C.) Alfried-Krupp-Krankenhaus, Essen, GermanycDepartment of Radiology and Neuroradiology (P.J.M.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
SUMMARY: Coil displacement during endovascular coiling procedures may require coil retrieval in the context of flow limitation or thromboembolic risk. No standard recommended method of coil retrieval exists. We present a consecutive series of 14 patients with displaced coil during aneurysm coiling in whom the complication was effectively managed with the use of a stent retriever system. Two illustrative cases from the 14 are described, and technical notes are detailed regarding use of the technique. The use of stent retrievers presents a simple, safe, and effective choice for removal of prolapsed coils during aneurysm coiling.
Endovascular occlusion of intracranial aneurysms is now widely practiced, with positive results in direct comparisons to open surgery.1 However, the occurrence of coil displacement and migration carries the risk for thromboembolic complications2 Therefore, if present during a case, coil displacement often requires either retrieval or fixation of the errant coil.
Stent retrievers have been introduced recently for the treatment of ischemic stroke, enabling rapid and reliable extraction of thrombus.3 We present a consecutive series of 14 cases in which off-label application of a stent retriever allowed retrieval of displaced intracranial aneurysm coils.
We reviewed our prospectively collected data base of combined symptomatic and incidental aneurysm coiling cases, from January 2009 to August 2012. A total of 1125 consecutive aneurysms were treated during this time in our institution. Technique was similar for all, involving dual antiplatelet therapy in unruptured aneurysms, anticoagulation with heparin, use of MicroVention, (Aliso Viejo, California) coils, and systematic balloon assistance when necessary. Thirteen consecutive cases were prospectively identified in which intraprocedural coil displacement or migration occurred that required intervention. In all cases, the intervention chosen was application of a stent retriever, either the Solitaire retrievable stent (Covidien, Dublin, Ireland), or the Catch Plus device (Balt Extrusion, Montmorency, France).
A total of 14 patients (12/14 women), ranging in age from 29–73 years, met inclusion criteria. Aneurysms were of various sizes (4–28 mm) in various locations (ICA, MCA M1, anterior cerebral artery [ACA] A2, and basilar artery). In every case, retrieval was successful, without a change in the stability of the aneurysm or in the patient's baseline neurologic examination. Six cases had retrieval with a single pass. One patient required a maximum of 7 passes, with a median of 2 and mean of 2.3 passes per patient.
A brief description of 2 illustrative cases follows.
A 2–3 HyperSoft coil (MicroVention) dislodged and migrated into the pericallosal artery during placement at the neck in a patient with a ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysm (Fig 1). A Rebar 18 microcatheter (ev3, Irvine, California) was navigated beyond the coil to enable a stent retriever (Solitaire 4 × 20, Covidien) to be delivered at the level of the coil. After partial resheathing of the stent retriever, the coil was trapped and the system progressively withdrawn, enabling retrieval of the coil.
Coil retrieval. A, Displaced coil is visible in the more distal ACA, distinct from the coil mass within the anterior communicating artery aneurysm. The coiling microcatheter has been removed. The stent retriever delivery catheter is seen traversing the aneurysm neck, and the stent retriever has been deployed adjacent to the errant coil. B, Retraction of the stent shows capture of the displaced coil. Note the conformational change to the displaced coil mass. C, The stent retriever is pulled from the intracranial circulation with coil engaged, past the existing coil mass. D, The coil is successfully removed, without disruption of the remaining coil within the aneurysm. Additional coils were subsequently placed in the aneurysm to complete the procedure.
A single loop of coil prolapsed into the main trunk of the MCA after coiling of an unruptured MCA aneurysm. Despite effective dual antiplatelet therapy, a TIA occurred 2 days later related to clot formation on, and subsequent embolization from, the prolapsed coil loop. A decision was made to attempt coil removal. A stent retriever (Solitaire 4 × 15, Covidien) was delivered in the region of the coil by use of the technique described below, and gently withdrawn while only partially resheathed. The coil was then retrieved without dislocation of the other coils (Fig 2). The patient's symptoms resolved.
Delayed coil retrieval. A, Final coiling result, with coil loop protruding into the postbifurcation M1 segment of the MCA. The initial intention was to manage this conservatively. However, the patient had subsequent embolic events and required definitive treatment of the prolapsed coil. B, Deployment of the stent retriever, starting immediately distal to the prolapsed coil. C, Engagement of the coil, as evidenced by the conformational change in the coil loop appearance. D, Subtracted image showing traction on the coil loop during extraction from the aneurysm lumen. E, Successful removal of the offending coil from the circulation. F, Final result, with the aneurysm secured and unchanged in morphologic features after the removal of the prolapsed coil. The ischemic events in this patient did not recur.
Aneurysm coiling seals the aneurysm from blood flow by inducing thrombosis within the lumen of the aneurysm.4 Thromboembolic complications remain the greatest risk in treatment of an endovascular aneurysm, with displaced coil material contributing significantly to this risk.2 In addition, the coil may migrate with blood flow into smaller-branch vessels or lodge at a vessel bifurcation, producing flow limitation. The risk for coil displacement and migration is influenced by a combination of anatomic and technical factors. Both undersized and/or unstable long coils can result in distal coil migration, especially in wide-neck aneurysms.5 Use of balloon or stent assistance minimizes the risks for coil displacement and migration; careful coil delivery to avoid prolapse of the catheter tip, and deployment of new coils within a stable coil basket additionally aim to minimize the risk for coil displacement.
In the absence of flow limitation or thrombus accumulation, many single loops of herniated coil are best left alone, and short infusions of intravenous glycoproteinIIb/IIIa antagonists provide protection from potential thrombus formation until fibrin coating makes the coil loops less thrombogenic. However, if displaced coil does require intervention, available options vary: broadly divisible into either stent placement to pin the coil down or active retrieval of the displaced coil loops. Fixation with a stent is an efficient technique6 that potentially avoids displacement of other coils during a retraction maneuver. Stent placement additionally requires less manipulation within the lumen of the affected vessel. However, as a salvage technique, it is often less attractive because of the concern of placing another thrombogenic intravascular implant, the need for dual antiplatelet therapy, and the possibility of multiple stents being required. The placement of a stent may also limit the ability to continue the definitive endovascular procedure. These concerns become particularly significant in the context of a ruptured aneurysm.
Hence, attempts at coil retrieval are often the primary strategy. Various methods to retrieve the loosened coil have been described. These include the use of microsnares,7,8 the Alligator retrieval device (Covidien),9 use of the Merci retriever (Concentric Medical, Mountain Veiw, California),10 microwire manipulation,11and even microsurgery in the event of acute parent artery occlusion without the possibility of endovascular coil retrieval.12 The use of a stent for this role was first reported by Wakhloo and Gounis,13 who used a retrievable closed-cell intracranial stent to successfully extract coil material in an in vivo aneurysm model. Our initial experience with this technique was an attempt to fix an errant coil with a Solitaire AB stent. During this maneuver, we noted that the coil was engaged in the stent during stent movement, and therefore proceeded to retract it until it was cleared from the circulation. This was previously published by our group.14 We have since used the technique with success in a variety of scenarios. Use of a stent retriever in this role, as with many of the other techniques proposed, represents an off-label indication for the device.
Always decide whether the herniated coil requires intervention. Single loops of coil are usually best left undisturbed. Longer or unstable coil loops require definitive therapy. It is clear that any evidence of embolic phenomena or thrombus aggregation related to the coil requires intervention.
On identification of the complication, the patient should receive a loading dose of antiplatelet medication (preferably IV glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists) if not already receiving these agents, and a heparin bolus should be administered if no strong contraindication exists. In the context of flow limitation, collateral augmentation should be pursued through fluid bolus and induced hypertension, if tolerated.
We have used stent retrievers comfortably in more proximal vessels, with coil retrieval from vessels the diameter of M2 MCA and A2 ACA vessels. In vessels < 2 mm, the combination of a small microcatheter (eg, 0.017 inner diameter) with dedicated distal access stent retrievers (eg, the Capture stent [MindFrame, Irvine, California] or the Catch Mini [Balt Extrusion]) may be preferred.
The intention should be unsheathing of the stent retriever immediately distal to the displaced coil (in our experience, within 5 mm of the distal coil). The stent retriever delivery catheter should be carefully navigated over a microwire until the tip is in the desired location for stent exposure. During this maneuver, minor movement of the displaced coil, including possible further distal migration, is not uncommon and should be expected. The ability to navigate the microcatheter distal to the coil may be a limiting factor, particularly when a significant coil mass is displaced and is potentially obstructive.
Delivery of the stent retriever is similar to the technique for thrombectomy in stroke. The stent retriever is partially unsheathed in the region of coil displacement, with just enough stent retriever exposed to completely cover the coil. This should be factored into catheter positioning before deployment. Coil-stent interaction should be maximized by slight forward pressure on the stent pusher wire to increase the potential for optimal stent deployment.
An attempt should then be made to resheath the stent retriever by advancing the microcatheter back over the device. Typically, this maneuver will trap the coil within the interstices of the stent retriever and pull the coil loops into the microcatheter with the stent retriever. Constant tension must be applied to the stent retriever to maintain the resheathed position, minimizing the likelihood of the coil working loose by securing it tightly in the retracted device.
Once the coil is successfully engaged, the system should be slowly withdrawn into the guide catheter with attention to potential movement of the rest of the coil mass. We had no patient in whom the coil mass within the aneurysm was displaced during this process. Anticipate that the coil will be extracted from the aneurysm intact.
Examine the coil retained within the stent retriever on removal. If the aneurysm and patient have remained stable, proceed with further coiling as indicated to complete the case.
Caution should be exercised in the context of previous placement of a stent, which may not prevent coils prolapse but inhibits the ability to safely remove coils with this method, as pulling a stent retriever through a pre-existing stent carries the risk for stent dislodgement. The main technical limitation is placement of the catheter tip distal to the coil, which may be especially challenging in smaller distal vessels (<2-mm diameter).
Previously, our preferred device for this clinical scenario was a microsnare, with 15 cases in the 13 years before January 2009 in which the snare-and-lasso technique was used. We were successful in 13 cases but failed to retrieve coils in 2 of the cases, and found the technical aspects significantly more challenging, with more vasospasm encountered and more attempts required to trap the coil. We also have experience with the Alligator retrieval device and have found that the progressive straightening of the teeth of the device limits the number of attempts that can be performed with each device (in our experience, no more than 2 or 3 attempts). In addition, the relative stiffness of the distal tip reduces the ability to orient the device well in a curved segment. Our experience with stent retrievers has proved much more consistent and reliable. Our current report includes consecutive patients, and it is noteworthy that the stent retriever device was successful in every case, with less technical manipulation than is required in many of the other techniques to retrieve stray coil. Despite prospective and consecutive collection of cases, it is important to note that our report had the limitations inherent in any limited, single-center case series. Although our findings relate to 2 specific stent retrievers, it seems reasonable, based on similar existing technology, that the principles described here would apply to any of the stent retrievers currently on the market. We cannot, however, comment on other systems with the data available at this time.
Stent retrievers are our first option in cases of coil displacement, presenting a simple, safe, and effective alternative for removal of a prolapsed coil during aneurysm coiling.
Disclosures: René Chapot—UNRELATED: Consultancy: ev3/Covidien,* MicroVention;* Payment for Lectures (including service on speaker bureaus): ev3,* MicroVention,* Balt.* *Money paid to institution.
. Endovascular coils: properties, technical complications and salvage techniques. J Neurointerv Surg 2013;5:104–09.
Accepted after revision January 6, 2013.


A lot of us here at MakeUseOf use Skype to get in touch with each other. Skype, for those who may not know, is a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) service which allows unlimited free calls between users using the desktop How To Make Skype a Portable App How To Make Skype a Portable App Read More , mobile 5 Cool Windows Mobile Apps To Have On Your Phone 5 Cool Windows Mobile Apps To Have On Your Phone Read More or iPhone application.
If you pay for Skype credit, you can call out from Skype on your computer to normal phones (wireless or landline) at a discounted rate. Also, for an additional cost, you may get a "Skype-In" phone number, which is essentially a Skype number disguised as a local land line, so that all calls to that number will be forwarded to your Skype account, allowing you to take the call anywhere and on any computer with Skype installed. This benefits the caller — if Skype is not available, he/she can always contact you simply by dialing a local number.
It's a cool thing to have, but outside of this site's staff I don't have much use for the service (many of my friends are still using AIM for goodness' sake). That changed today when I signed up for phone numbers to forward calls to my Skype account, and unlike the Skype-In service, they didn't cost me a thing.
So, how to get a Skype phone number?
If you don't have a Skype account, please be sure to set one up first. You'll need to provide your Skype ID when you register at Ring2Skype.com, which is where you get your free "Skype-In" numbers. There are a lot of countries to choose from, and you may register multiple numbers. For example, I've registered numbers in Windsor, Canada and London, UK as well as a US (New York City) number. My friend in Manhattan can call me up as if I lived there. Co-workers in London and Canada can now call me without ringing up international charges.
Here in the US, we have but a few choices as to our number's calling area. I could get a number (with a three-digit extension) in California, Florida, Maine or New York. Japan's numbers are limited to Tokyo, and Israel to Tel Aviv. It's going to be a bit odd giving friends in Louisville my Manhattan number, but these days when long-distance and local calling are often the same price, it shouldn't be too big a stretch.
There really is no catch. Call quality for me was as good as a regular Skype, Gizmo or Mobile Phone call. I plan on giving these numbers out to business contacts, and once Google Voice (which I hope to review for you soon) allows forwarding my GV number to extensions, I plan on using this service with friends and family as well.
Do you have s Skype-In number? Are you aware if any alternative way to get a Skype phone number? How do you plan on using your Ring2Skype numbers? Let us know in the comments.
It's not working!! It's not letting me choose which STATE I want the number from!
ring2skype.com just takes you to the Skype.com website. Fail.
I thought skype was free, but I just had the same result with the link for a free number. It is a fail.
It's an article from 2009 so I'm not too surprised.
Can it take incoming text as well? Or it only work for the voice calls.
Hello! Thank you for your article.. I'd like to try your service to compare it to my previous experience. I did 10 lessons by Skype with a native speaker fromhttp://preply.com/en/german-by-skype And I was pretty satisfied with the quality. But I want to try another option.
I want to confirm if I can have free UK number on my skype account to make and receive calls in Pakistan from my friends living in London, UK.
let's say I have a Google Voice number (I do) and I want it to ring my cell number and my Ring2Skype number.
How do we get it so that the Google Voice number will do that, given that the Ring2Skype has an extension which must be keyed in? (the commas don't seem to work).
I love you guys and have to say, if you get this one, I'll be VERY impressed!
ring2skype free service sux, no callerid no voicemail, i switch to the paid 10$ plan from http://www.onekingtelecom.com , they have more features including callfwd to cell anywhere us-canada for just 10 bucks a month.
Ring2skype is now charging people per minute to call in, so much for that crap.
I can't wait to try these features.
Could this be a way to rig getting SkypeIn calls on a Skypephone? I've been reading in the forums that SkypeIn doesn't work on the phones.
A more interesting feature would be how to get free Skype Out.
I use sipgate.co.uk, that gives me on screen phone, FREE UK phone number, FREE voice mail.
The .com site offers US numbers, .de German etc, not sure if a UK user could get a US number for example (I think it used to be an option).
I mostly use an IP phone with conventional dialling buttons and handset connected to my home router so my PC doesn't need to be switched on to make/receive calls but I use their free on-screen phone too.
I do pay for the equivalent of Skype Out (call prices are similar, some are slightly higher or lower compared with Skype). Sipgate credit doesn't expire (for various reasons I had some unused credit for over 3 years) whereas Skype wipe out your balance if you've not used any credit for 180 days - what a rip-off.
The (free) voice mail has the option of emailing me an audio recording of the missed calls but I can also log on the web, phone from SIP or PSTN phone to pick up voice mail.
It's great, all I use Skype for now is video calls and a few international calls where Skype is slightly cheaper.
SIP is an open standard whereas Skype is proprietary so wheres skype can only call other skype users free, SIP can work between different providers SIP networks.
Finally! In the Netherlands Skype still does not offer SkypeIn numbers, so this is a very welcome service (albeit with the handicap of having to use an extension number).
fyi: you get a system number plus a dial in extension--you don't get your own 10 digit US phone number; area code choices are also very limited as of now. May want to add that in, Tim!
But what about the reliability of the service? Can I be sure it'll be working 2 years from now?
Well, no, we can't be sure of how long the service will last. For now, it's still a nice free option over paid Skype-In.


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The 1550 University carved-wood frame armchair was first designed for the LBJ Library at the University of Texas. It is carved from solid blocks of wood, then meticulously joined and finished.
When Ward Bennett met Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ wanted either a saddle or a bar room chair to sit on - the mid century modern designer created a clever hybrid
Having suffered back problems for much of his life, the great mid-century modernist designer Ward Bennett had a particular interest in chairs. As our new book explains, he designed over 100 of the things over the course of his career. But among the most notable of these was for the Library and Museum of former President Lyndon Johnson in Austin, Texas.
Carved from solid blocks of wood that were then joined and finished, the chair had a traditional, dignified air of authority about it. However, with its graceful curves and lack of extraneous, gilded features it spoke of modernity also.
A technical drawing of the 1550 University chair, first designed by Ward Bennett for the LBJ Library
All of which seems apt for LBJ, very much an old school, deal-making President who seemed to cut a staid contrast to his ill-fated, youthful predecessor John F Kennedy. Domestically at least, however, Johnson managed to push through progressive policies in his Great Society programme which helped drag America out of the reactionary 1950s. Johnson himself, not always highfalutin' in his tastes, liked the chair. He said it resembled a cross between "a bar room chair and a courtroom chair, with a little bit of Western saddle."
Bennett did not disagree; it was elegant, distinctly modern, yet without undue pretentions, and it still - like many of the great designer's works - looks great today.
Ward Bennett
You can learn more about the life and work of this great relatively undiscovered mid-century modernist in our new book Ward Bennett here.
Ward Bennett Elizabeth Beer, Brian Janusiak, with an essay by Pilar Viladas
AUD$125.00 CAD$129.95 €75.00 £59.95 T95.00 USD$95.00
The first and only monograph to celebrate Ward Bennett, the leading American interior and furniture designer.
Ward Bennett (1917-2003) was a leading American designer whose career spanned more than five decades. Born in New York, he left home at thirteen and got his start in the city's garment district. He eventually left the fashion world and began to reinvent himself as the Ward Bennett we know today: designing architecture, interiors, furniture, textiles, and objects, all with his vision for simple form paired with elegant materials. His reputation earned him some of the day's most affluent clients: David Rockefeller and Chase Manhattan Bank, Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Tiffany & Co., and Rolling Stone magazine cofounders and publishers Jann and Jane Wenner, among others. Even after his death, his signature rich minimalism continues to be recognized and awarded. This, the first and only comprehensive monograph covering Bennett's career, brings to life his work through previously unpublished materials, including an interview with Bennett.
Elizabeth Beer and Brian Janusiak are principal partners of Various Projects, Inc., a multidisciplinary creative agency based in New York City.
Pilar Viladas writes about design and architecture. The former design editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, she is the author of several books, and has written for Architectural Digest, Town & Country, W, and Surface, among other publications.
"His belief in a sensual minimalism executed with elegance and a dash of industrial bravado has had a lasting impact on designers interested in achieving contemporary, understated luxury. He was one of the earliest American designers to introduce industrial materials into the home." —The New York Times
"I design interiors, and furniture and flatware, and so forth. But I think the way I live is maybe the most meaningful." —Ward Bennett
"[F]inally offer[s] a comprehensive look at the designer's career."—Architectural Digest
"The work of Ward Bennett, a giant of American 20th-Century design, finally gets a book."—The Cut
"Finally [...] Mr Bennett will get his book. His work, known for its modernism and measured aesthetic, is celebrated in a 280-page tome... Featuring photographs of apartments, penthouses and retreats in the Hamptons that Mr Bennett created for his clients, the book, simply titled Ward Bennett is a focus on the man whose work, according to The New York Times, "defined an era"... To capture all of Mr Bennett's design talents, the book is divided threefold into the following sections: architecture and interiors; furniture and textiles; and objects. Because Mr Bennett was so prolific in his work and applied his flair to multiple disciplines, there's a fair amount we can learn from him."—MrPorter.com
"[Ward Bennett] delighted in the art of living, the challenges of eliminating the unnecessary and the singularity of his own apparently boundless talents. Those talents have finally been chronicled, in a multifaceted monograph published by Phaidon this year, on the centenary of his birth."—1stdibs Introspective Magazine
"Remarkably, there has never before been a book about his work, but to celebrate his centennial this year, Phaidon, in collaboration with Herman Miller, is publishing a handsome monograph titled simply Ward Bennett."—PIN-UP
"Have you heard of Ward Bennett? Don't worry, you are not alone... He designed houses, most notably in The Hamptons, and was famous, back in the day, for regularly updating the interior of his apartment in New York's famous Dakota Building, as well as designing furniture for Brickel/Eppinger and later Herman Miller... By the late 1970s, he had designed over 150 chairs [and] produced some of the most significant developments in chair design of the period... [Ward Bennett's] appeal will be to the serious design student, academic, and design collector. It's taken a long time for Ward Bennett to be acknowledged, but it's a worthy start in acknowledging the contribution he made to American architecture, furniture and interior design."—IrishExaminer.com
"This first monograph on Bennett brings to life his little-archived work while an insightful text highlights how this pioneering figure of design is respected to this day... An insightful interview with Ward Bennett, conducted in 1973 by Paul Cumming for the Archives of American Art, provides fascinating insight into the esteemed designer's working practice, philosophy, unique outlook and eminent career... Offers the reader a unique and exclusive view into the designers' motivations and working methods."—New Design
"An almost forgotten talent finally has the book he deserves." —Tomas Maier, Esquire
"The first monograph on the American designer chronicles his distinctly rich minimalist aesthetic... Best prominently displayed on one of Bennett's sleek, modernist I-Beam tables." —Globe and Mail
"A long overdue monograph... Handsomely produced... Mixing historic images wish some specially commissioned photography, Phaidon's volume is admirably thorough in documenting Bennett's achievements." —Icon
"[A] well-documented testament to Ward Bennett's power as a designer." —Architectural Record
James Irvine
Ettore Sottsass (New Edition)
Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things
AUD$175.00 CAD$150.00 €125.00 £100.00 T150.00 USD$150.00
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Techzine / Blogs / Collaboration / Lucid takes collaboration to the next level with intelligent diagrams and whiteboards
December 6, 2021 11:32 December 6, 2021 11:32 6 min Berry Zwets	 Collaboration
Lucid takes collaboration to the next level with intelligent diagrams and whiteboards
Lucid Software offers a visual collaboration suite that more and more companies use. The vendor helps them by visually simplifying collaboration, so building products, services and processes run better. Yet, in Europe, Lucid is not known by most organizations. According to our conversation with CEO and co-founder Karl Sun, the company wants to change that.
Lucid is a company that saw a gap in the market in 2010 with intelligent diagramming software. Together with Ben Dilts, the other founder and current CTO of Lucid, Sun set out to reinvent an existing software category. "As far as we're concerned, the visual aspect is key to collaboration. We help teams see and build the future. That's our mission," said Sun. Simply put, Lucid wants to make collaboration visual with smart diagrams and virtual whiteboards to be clear and better compared to analogue sessions.
Lucid has now launched several core products for visual collaboration. Before we get into it, let's explain a little more about Lucid's vision.
What problem does it solve?
A software vendor with a mission generally tries to solve a problem of many companies. Sun is also aware of this when he thinks of the experience of Dilts. "Before founding Lucid, Dilts worked at a start-up on a complex healthcare product. It was a regulated product with specific data flows. The team that built the product tried to map the workflow and product with traditional software."
The team was using Microsoft Visio at the time but ran into limitations. "There was one person that was the designated software owner. This person had to update the diagrams and send updates via email. In addition, the owner received all printed documents with notes and lines on paper to enter into the system. It was inefficient and replicated work. Besides that, the software owner sometimes missed updates, so the overview of the diagrams was incomplete," explains Sun about Dilts' experiences. Too much time was spent maintaining and managing the software. This valuable time could have been used to build the intended product. Dilts thought there must be something better but couldn't find anything he liked.
Intelligent diagrams
Based on the experience Sun and Dilts felt something had to happen, and they built Lucidchart. It allows organizations to build all kinds of intelligent diagrams. "It can be a software architecture diagram or a network infrastructure diagram. But business processes, a mind map and an organizational structure can also be mapped visually. You can make any visual representation," explains Sun. Lucidchart is therefore widely applicable because of manually setting up diagrams. Employees can choose standard templates that are useful for their situation. It is possible to add all kinds of boxes and lines to map out how everything works. The visual representation can be viewed from a central location, and you can also zoom in on a detailed level to see how things are performing and add comments.
What makes Lucidchart unique, however, according to Sun, is its intelligence. In recent years, it has added options for connecting to data sources. The software can establish connections with commonly used business software. "Think of an HR system, marketing automation system and cloud infrastructure. We extract the information from the systems and automatically connect the relationships and dependencies. There is extra intelligence involved in automatically creating the diagrams. We let employees add information about the functioning of a system on top of the visualization," says Sun.
According to the CEO of Lucid, the automation step is beneficial to visualize existing complexity in application landscapes. Large organizations often use more than 1,000 applications for different purposes. For example, a sales associate uses CRM systems, lead generation tools, lead categorization software, and email programs. It faces a significant challenge if a sales team wants to map out their workflows, connections, and data flows. Lucidchart wants to simplify that with visual diagrams that automatically collect data and keep everything up-to-date.
The broad applicability of Lucidchart does raise some questions for us. How can the software deal with all kinds of data? Sun indicates that there are usually connectors for the widely used business applications. Salesforce, Asana and Jira are examples of popular supported apps, says Sun. However, sometimes connectors with commonly used software are also missing. In particular, Sun mentions Workday, the HR software Lucid currently explores. According to Sun, however, such integrations cannot simply be built from scratch since systems are sometimes closed and prefer to share little data.
On the other hand, the broad applicability of Lucidchart also means that data must be obtained from less used tools to support specific employees. Building connectors by Lucid is then not immediately profitable. To support such scenarios, Lucid gives developers options for building the connectors. According to Sun, this also happens regularly, as many Lucidchart users are already software developers by origin. For them, building connectors is relatively simple.
After diagramming software, Lucid focuses on whiteboards
Lucid became big with Lucidchart, and the company still gets the most business from it. Sun indicates that after the adoption of Lucidchart by the market, Lucid started looking for new products. The result is Lucidspark. "Suppose an organization is planning a brainstorming meeting about the strategy for the coming quarter. Then employees normally use sticky notes for their ideas. Each employee then has their coloured notes to map out the idea," says Sun about the, in his view inefficient, way of working.
With the virtual whiteboard Lucidspark, the company wants to remove some limitations. For example, the software no longer obliges employees to come to a physical location for brainstorming and explaining ideas. Lucidspark also needs to make the sessions more accessible for many people because hundreds of employees can share their ideas. To keep it clear, the shared ideas are labelled to be filtered. Think of viewing the ideas of the sales department and displaying ideas that employees appreciate.
Ultimately, Lucidspark wants to bring some efficiency back to the brainstorming sessions. "You can set up a voting system to bring out the best ideas for discussion in a meeting. Nobody wants to brainstorm endlessly to determine which ideas have to be further developed for a concrete plan. Prioritizing is, therefore, an important part of Lucidspark. For example, many scrum teams use the software to create a plan and prioritize ideas," said Sun.
Scaling has started, important time ahead
With Lucidchart and Lucidspark, Lucid has found the way up. The financial figures confirm this in any case. At the start of 2020, the company had a valuation of around 1 billion dollars (about 890 million euros); by mid-2021, there was already a value of 3 billion dollars due to an investment of half a billion. The revenue has also increased, Sun assures us.
The CEO sees that the upward trend is partly a result of staff working from home a lot. "People are often more productive when they work from home. At the same time, working from home leads to less visibility. Direct colleagues often know what coworkers are doing. However, you are not aware of the activities of indirect colleagues that you normally encounter at the coffee machine. They talk less with others, and there is less opportunity to brainstorm about new ideas. This while the employees are concerned about the next innovations and the creativity of their company," says Sun about the situation that has arisen. A favourable development for Lucid because it can offer that visibility and bring back collaboration. Lucid, therefore, fully capitalized on the new opportunities that lie ahead. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the company opened new offices and expanded the team significantly.
With the introduction of Lucidscale in October, Sun is convinced to have launched a third product that will ensure further growth. The solution visualizes the often complex cloud environments to make the thousands of components understandable. The software solution is built for the hybrid world we live in and can work with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Lucidscale automatically creates smart diagrams that organizations can build on and adjust to their preferences on a detailed level. For example, they can tailor the views to the position of employees. For example, security engineers need a specific view of the infrastructure, while an application engineer wants to oversee completely different things. Overall, Lucidscale seeks to provide employees with a foundation for infrastructure design and development, application deployment, and cloud troubleshooting.
Lucidscale adds to the growth plans of the existing position of Lucidchart and Lucidspark. Therefore, the ambition is to expand further and gain a foothold in Europe. We will see what the company has to offer to prove itself further in the coming time.
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1992.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

November 1992

1
Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (1970–1987).
Karl Deutsch, 80, Czech political scientist.
Tamara Lazakovich, 38, Soviet artistic gymnast, alcohol-related illnesses.
John H. Malmberg, 65, American plasma physicist.
Marianne Stewart, 70, German-American actress, cancer.
Hugh Taylor, 69, American football player and coach.

2
Anvar Arazov, 38, Azerbaijani colonel and war hero, killed in action.
Robert Carston Arneson, 62, American sculptor, cancer.
Vincenzo Balzamo, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.
Jeremias Chitunda, 50, Angolan politician, assassinated, homicide.
L. Roy Houck, 87, American rancher and politician.
Hal Roach, 100, American film and television producer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy), pneumonia.
Jack Whitney, 87, American sound engineer.

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Allah Jilai Bai, 90, Indian folk singer.
Boze Berger, 82, American baseball player.
Jack Davis, 78, American child actor (Our Gang), respiratory failure.
Allanah Harper, 87, English journalist.
Teofil Herineanu, 82, Romanian cleric.
Haydn Hill, 79, English amateur football player and Olympian.
Hanya Holm, 99, German-American dancer, choreographer, and dance educator.
Raimond Kolk, 68, Estonian writer.
Vladas Mikėnas, 82, Lithuanian chess player and journalist.
Prem Nath, 65, Indian actor and director.
Chris Van Cuyk, 65, American baseball player.

4
Raoul André, 76, French director and screenwriter.
Claude Aveline, 91, French writer, publisher, poet and French Resistance member during World War II.
Ludwik Benoit, 72, Polish film and theatre actor.
Regina Carrol, 49, American actress, cancer.
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 81, Spanish film director.
Carlos Eduardo Imperial, 56, Brazilian actor, myasthenia gravis.
George Klein, 88, Canadian inventor.
Csaba Körmöczi, 48, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1976).
Kuniko Miyake, 76, Japanese actress (Tokyo Story, Late Spring, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice).
Luisa Moreno, 85, Guatemalan labor leader.
Pierre Wissmer, 77, French composer.

5
Carlos Sanz de Santamaría, 87, Colombian diplomat and politician.
Arpad Elo, 89, Hungarian-American chess player.
Dick Hahn, 76, American baseball player.
Richard Hartshorne, 92, American geographer and academic.
Jan Hendrik Oort, 92, Dutch astronomer.
Carl Rodenburg, 98, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht general.
Rod Scurry, 36, American baseball player, cocaine-induced heart attack.
Vyacheslav Skomorokhov, 52, Ukrainian track and field athlete and Olympian.

6
Calvin Graham, 62, Youngest American serviceman to serve during World War II.
Sebastián Gualco, 80, Argentine football player.
Lev Orekhov, 78, Soviet and Russian painter.
Mark Rosenberg, 44, American film producer (Presumed Innocent, The Fabulous Baker Boys, White Palace), heart failure.

7
Alexander Dubček, 70, Slovak politician, traffic accident.
Fern Gauthier, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
René Hamel, 90, French cyclist.
Jack Kelly, 65, American actor (Maverick, Forbidden Planet, A Fever in the Blood) and politician, stroke.
Scott McPherson, 33, American playwright (Marvin's Room), complications from AIDS.
Robert Nay, 35, Australian swimmer and Olympian, traffic collision.
Jimmy Oakes, 90, English footballer.
Henri Temianka, 85, Scottish-American violinist.
Richard Yates, 66, American novelist (Revolutionary Road), pulmonary emphysema.

8
Kees Broekman, 65, Dutch Olympic speed skater (1952).
He Cheng, 90-91, Chinese lieutenant general.
Ian Griffith, 67, Australian politician.
Larry Levan, 38, American DJ, stroke.
Red Mitchell, 65, American jazz musician.
Felix Schnyder, 82, Swiss lawyer and diplomat.

9
Fritz Gunst, 84, German water polo player.
William Hillcourt, 92, Danish scouting pioneer.
Ivan Holovchenko, 74, Soviet and Ukrainian militsiya general.
Natalie Joyce, 90, American actress.
Sven Selånger, 85, Swedish nordic skier and Olympic medalist.
T. Sivasithamparam, 66, Sri Lankan politician.

10
Chuck Connors, 71, American actor (The Rifleman, Soylent Green, Old Yeller) and athlete, lung cancer.
Doc Guidry, 74, American fiddler.
Hilda Hölzl, 65, Slovenian dramatic soprano.
Eskil Lundahl, 87, Swedish swimmer and Olympian.
John Summerson, 87, English architectural historian.

11
Giles Bullard, 66, British diplomat.
John Samuel Forrest, 85, Scottish physicist.
Peter Gretton, 80, English naval admiral.
Earle Meadows, 79, American Olympic pole vaulter (1936).

12
Giulio Carlo Argan, 83, Italian politician and art historian, mayor of Rome (1976–1979).
Rafael Asadov, 40, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
Charles Coles, 81, American actor (Dirty Dancing, The Cotton Club) and tap dancer, cancer.
Dante Gianello, 80, Italian-French bicycle racer.
Stanisław Karpiel, 83, Polish cross-country skier and Olympian.
Muhammad Masihullah Khan, 81, Indian Islamic scholar.
Gregory Markopoulos, 64, American filmmaker.
Eddie Mayehoff, 83, American actor.
David Oliver, 30, American actor, AIDS.

13
Ronnie Bond, 52, English drummer (The Troggs).
Franco Calabrese, 69, Italian bass singer.
Waldemar Malak, 22, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.
Maurice Ohana, 79, French composer.
Johnny Ostrowski, 75, American baseball player.
St John Pike, 82, Irish anglican bishop.
Jim Zyntell, 82, American football player.

14
George Adams, 52, American jazz musician.
Byron Beams, 57, American football player.
Clem Beauchamp, 94, American film producer.
Greg Curnoe, 55, Canadian painter, bicycle accident.
Ernst Happel, 66, Austrian football player and manager, lung cancer.
Alan Jarman, 69, Australian politician.
Gregorio Prieto, 95, Spanish painter.
Joop van Nellen, 82, Dutch football player.
Keith Waller, 78, Australian diplomat.

15
Billy Hassett, 71, American basketball player.
Carl Hinkle, 75, American football player.
N. H. Keerthiratne, 90, Sri Lankan politician and philanthropist.
Toots Mondello, 81, American jazz musician.
Andrii Shtoharenko, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian composer and teacher.

16
Clancy Fernando, 54, Sri Lankan Navy admiral, murdered.
Bob Gillson, 87, American football player.
Harold Glasser, 86, American economist.
Phyllis Harding, 84, English backstroke and freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
Leslie Hotson, 95, Canadian literary historian and critic.
Max Huber, 73, Swiss graphic designer.
Sir Raman Osman, 90, Mauritian politician, governor-general (1972–1977).
Gene Schott, 79, American Major League Baseball player.

17
Todd Armstrong, 55, American actor (Jason and the Argonauts, Manhunt, King Rat), suicide.
Audre Lorde, 58, American poet and feminist, breast cancer.
Dzintars Lācis, 52, Latvian cyclist.
Lu Yao, 42, Chinese novelist, cancer.

18
Ed Franco, 77, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
Dorothy Kirsten, 82, American singer, complications from a stroke.
Herman Musaph, 77, Dutch dermatologist and sexologist.
John Skehan, 70, Irish journalist and broadcaster.
Radu Tudoran, 82, Romanian novelist.

19
Jeffery Lee Griffin, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Bobby Russell, 52, American singer, coronary artery disease.
Shinichi Sekizawa, 71, Japanese screenwriter (Godzilla).
René Tavernier, 78, Belgian geologist and academic.
Diane Varsi, 54, American actress (Peyton Place, Wild in the Streets, Ten North Frederick), respiratory failure.

20
William Fields, 63, American rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer.
John Foreman, 67, American film producer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Prizzi's Honor, The Man Who Would Be King).
Thomas Lefebvre, 65, Canadian politician.
Félix Marten, 73, German-French film actor, pulmonary embolism.

21
Vicente Arraya, 70, Bolivian football goalkeeper.
Severino Gazzelloni, 73, Italian flutist.
Swaroop Kishen, 62, Indian cricket player, cancer.
Shane A. Parker, 49, British-Australian museum curator and ornithologist, lymphoma.
Kaysone Phomvihane, 71, Laotian politician, president (since 1991) and prime minister (1975–1991).
Ricky Williams, 36, American musician.

22
Viktor Dubynin, 49, Soviet and Russian Chief of the General Staff, cancer.
Sterling Holloway, 87, American voice actor (Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book), heart attack.
Roberto Mouras, 44, Argentine racing driver, racing accident.
Ronald Sinclair, 68, New Zealand actor and film editor, respiratory failure.
Gerard Wall, 72, New Zealand politician.

23
Roy Acuff, 89, American country musician, congestive heart failure.
Mohamed Benhima, 68, Moroccan politician, prime minister (1967–1969).
Rita Corday, 72, American actress, complications from diabetes.
Parviz Dehdari, 59, Iranian football player and coach.
Colin Evans, 56, Welsh rugby player.
Ward Hermans, 95, Belgian Flemish nationalist politician and writer.
Manuel Pelegrina, 72, Argentine football player, pneumonia.
Jean Thiriart, 70, Belgian political theorist, heart attack.

24
Xavier Darasse, 58, French organist, cancer.
Hans de Koster, 78, Dutch politician.
Hewritt Dixon, 52, American gridiron football player, cancer.
Theodore Miller Edison, 94, American environmentalist and son of Thomas Edison, Parkinson's disease.
Frances A. Genter, 94, American racehorse owner and breeder.
Harold Preece, 86, American writer.
Henriette Puig-Roget, 82, French musician.
June Tyson, 56, American singer, violinist, and dancer.

25
Joseph Arthur Ankrah, 77, Ghanaian politician, military head of state (1966–1969).
Carlos Borja, 79, Mexican basketball player.
Piet Ikelaar, 96, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medalist.
Pearse Jordan, 22, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, shot.
Pete McCulley, 60, American football coach.
Charles Mott-Radclyffe, 80, British politician.
Mark Reizen, 97, Russian opera singer.
Dmitry Ukolov, 63, Russian ice hockey player.
Aslak Versto, 67, Norwegian politician.

26
Jon Baker, 69, American football player.
Ciccio Barbi, 73, Italian film actor.
Joby Blanshard, 73, English actor (Doomwatch).
Annie Skau Berntsen, 81, Norwegian missionary.
Marcel Cordes, 72, German operatic baritone.
Adrienne Dore, 85, American model and actress.
Leopold Mitrofanov, 60, Russian chess composer.
Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher, 42, Argentine poet, AIDS.
Kathleen Russell, 80, South African freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
John Sharp, 72, British actor (Barry Lyndon, The Wicker Man, All Creatures Great and Small).
John White, 90, American singer.

27
Ivan Generalić, 77, Croatian painter.
Billy Kearns, 69, American actor, lung cancer.
Daniel Santos, 76, Puerto Rican singer and composer of boleros, heart attack.
Walt Tauscher, 91, American baseball player.

28
Frank Armi, 74, American racing driver.
Wayne Bennett, 60, American blues guitarist.
Randall Duell, 89, American motion picture art director, stroke.
Ralph Hone, 96, British Army officer and colonial administrator.
Sidney Nolan, 75, Australian artist.
Stanley Joseph Ott, 65, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, liver cancer.
Ville Salminen, 84, Finnish film actor, director, writer and producer.

29
Jean Dieudonné, 86, French mathematician.
Raoul Ploquin, 92, French film producer.
Emilio Pucci, 78, Italian fashion designer and politician.
Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller, 83, American philanthropist and wife of John D. Rockefeller III
Paul Ryan, 44, English singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
Robert Shayne, 92, American actor, lung cancer.
Robert F. Simon, 83, American actor, heart attack.
Tuck Stainback, 81, American baseball player.
Grady Stiles, 55, American freak show performer and murderer, murdered.
Wally Voss, 34, American bass player, Hodgkin's lymphoma.

30
Peter Blume, 86, American artist.
Jorge Donn, 45, Argentine ballet dancer, AIDS.
Bernard Lefebvre, 86, French photographer.
Ancher Nelsen, 88, American politician.
Lawrence Picachy, 76, Indian Jesuit priest and archbishop of Calcutta (1969-1992).
Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, 82, Indian archeologist and historian.
Graham Vearncombe, 58, Wales football player.

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In conjunction with the Hollywood Costume exhibition, a month of films spotlighting costume designer Walter Plunkett, who won an Oscar (with Orry-Kelly and Irene Sharaff) for An American in Paris (1951).
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 | 1:00 P.M.
A gauche social climber falls for a wealthy young man.
1934, 99 minutes, black and white, 35mm | Directed by George Stevens; screenplay by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner and Jane Murfin, based on the novel by Booth Tarkington; with Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable, Frank Albertson, Ann Shoemaker, Charley Grapewin, Grady Sutton, Hedda Hopper.
A young woman in the Civil War South leaves a trail of men in her wake as she struggles to maintain the family home against all adversity.
1939, 220 minutes, color, DCP | Directed by Victor Fleming; screenplay by Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell; with Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford.
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ClockShot
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Samurai Shodown revival getting great reviews.
Although for some reason I can't fire it up on my PS4 until 1 this afternoon. That's when the timer ends unless it got fixed overnight.
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DAMN iNATOR
Effervescent rarity
Originally Posted by Fignuts
I mean I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but fuck.
I think 2K has to shoulder part of the blame here. I mean, they no doubt know about other similar allegations about Pitchford, so I have to wonder what the fuck they were thinking to allow him to handle the money personally as opposed to, oh, I don't know, maybe the person directly below him in the Gearbox chain-of-command?
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Emperor Smeat
Former TPWW Royalty
For those interested in Samurai Shodown, apparently SNK's free Season Pass offer isn't restricted to only those who buy the game before June 30th.
Originally Posted by Destuctoid
When writing about the upcoming characters for Samurai Shodown's season pass, I noticed something interesting. On PS4, you can actually add the season pass to your account regardless of owning the game. While my account has the game, I had a friend test it and it worked. It seems SNK is giving away the season pass for everyone until June 30 instead of limiting it to purchases of the game.
While I can find a link to the PlayStation Store version, there doesn't seem to be one active for Xbox One yet.
https://www.destructoid.com/psa-samu...e-558712.phtml
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Fignuts
Hey Mister!
That's fucking awesome.
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Mine was already bundled in when I purchased through the PS Store.
Yet, for some reason the Nakoruru retro outfit on the store was free through the season pass, but they wanted $2.99 for the Genjuro outfit.
Sony announced they have recently entered a partnership with Square Enix for the development of a live-action Final Fantasy XIV tv series.
Hivemind Entertainment studio was also announced to be working on this project. They are also currently working on live-action The Witcher series for Netflix.
Square Enix will be teaming up with Sony Pictures Television and production company Hivemind Entertainment to create a live-action Final Fantasy XIV TV series. Set in the world of Eorzea, the show's plotline will focus on a brand new narrative that will explore "the struggle between magic and technology in a quest to bring peace to a land in conflict." Details are mum because the show is still in the development phase with no cast planned as of yet. There are also no details on where this will air, though given Hivemind is working with both Netflix -- on The Witcher -- and Amazon -- on The Expanse -- it seems likely this will be a streaming show.
https://www.destructoid.com/square-e...s-558968.phtml
* Besides Tetris 99 on the Switch, The Tetris Company recently announced a new Tetris battle royale game called Tetris Royale is currently in development for mobile devices and arrives later this year.
https://tetris.com/article/213/n3two...r-mobile-devic
* Based on a recent job posting, Square Enix is currently working on a new Dragon Quest game for next gen consoles.
https://www.destructoid.com/square-e...e-559047.phtml
* For those holding some slim hope that games would be cheaper on Google Stadia than on consoles, Stadia boss Phil Harrison stated that likely will not be the case when the service launches. Harrison did mention that game prices are entirely in the hands of publishers and they feel the service will be worth the full price for games.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-google-stadia
https://www.destructoid.com/google-d...s-559081.phtml
* During a recent interview with Nikkei, Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan revealed that Sony is currently working on plans to purchase more gaming studios as a counter to Microsoft's recent studio purchasing spree.
https://www.destructoid.com/sony-int...n-559292.phtml
* Based on Remedy Entertainment's recent investor's meeting, the company has gained back the rights to the Alan Wake series from Microsoft. As part of the deal, Remedy was paid a one-time royalties fee of €2.5 million from Microsoft for all of 2019 and in return, the rights to the series reverted back to the studio's ownership.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...lishing-rights
Public service announcement to PS+ members.
Sony pulled a last minute switch with this month's free games. Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 got switched out with Detroit: Being Human.
Destor
I am the cheese
become human was real good
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Far cry from Omikron The Nomad Soul
Originally Posted by Destor
I'd heard it was pretty MEH.
Seems to be a love it or hate it game.
If the game was just the Hank-Connor stuff, it arguably would have been David Cage's best game ever. The other two stories are not as good overall and start to fall apart in quality around mid-way depending on your choices, especially the Markus "Moses" stuff.
* Marvel announced they will be revealing more details regarding Square Enix's Avengers game during their panel at the San Diego Comic-Con event later this month. Also will be revealing new details for Ultimate Alliance 3 and Iron Man VR games.
https://www.destructoid.com/marvel-w...n-559395.phtml
* Update on the recent Shenmue III Epic Games Store controversy news as both Deep Silver and developer Ys Net recently backed down from their stance on offering no refunds to those upset at the PC version being exclusive to Epic's store. They also updated the options available for game keys to include Steam for those willing to wait an extra year.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../posts/2553891
https://www.destructoid.com/after-ma...s-559387.phtml
* According to a recent report from Poland, CD Projekt Red is currently working on three Cyberpunk series projects with one being Cyberpunk 2077, the second as a standalone multiplayer game rumored to be launching close to Cyberpunk 2077's release, and a unannounced third game planned for a 2021 release date.
https://www.destructoid.com/oh-you-t...--559341.phtml
I mean, I'm thinking of giving it a chance, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if I just "nope" it right back off my PS4 out of boredom before I see the story wraps.
I'd also heard tell that one of the voice actors' performances is pretty flat, but like I said, I suppose I can give it at least a fair chance.
* Update on the recent CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk series news as the company clarified they are not actually working on multiple Cyberpunk series games but instead have multiple studios currently working on Cyberpunk 2077.
https://www.pcgamer.com/cd-projekt-s...berpunk-games/
* As part of the fallout from the recent Shenmue III PC version controversy, Epic Games announced going forward any crowdfunded game that later becomes an Epic Store exclusive will have all of its crowdfunded refunds fully covered by them.
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/s...332649985?s=20
https://www.destructoid.com/epic-gam...e-559500.phtml
* WayForward Studios recently released the debut trailer for their new River City Ransom inspired game called River City Girls.
River City Girls looks mint.
That's a sweet tribute for River City Ransom.
I know Arc System Works snatched up the Technos Japan IPs from Million. But if some of the key people still alive gave their blessing for this, then that's even better.
So Activision/Blizzard is hiring for the same positions they vacated when they laid off 800 employees following their most successful financial year ever.
Jesus man, this industry.
Didn't help that when the former community manager of Hearthstone brought this up on Twitter, she got blocked by the game's current community manager.
Her main issue was the lack of effort or care by Activision & Blizzard to first hire back as much of their old staff as possible and former employees only finding out about this via outside reports.
Cuphead was recently revealed to be the next video game IP getting the television series treatment.
The animated TV series is being produced by King Features studio for Netflix and plans for a potential 2020 release at the earliest.
https://www.destructoid.com/you-know...w-560137.phtml
Nintendo recently confirmed rumors of a Switch Lite model is currently in production.
Unlike the regular Switch, the Lite model is portable-only, has an actual d-pad, and has a smaller screen size (5.5 vs. 6.2 inches).
In terms of improvements, it weights around 1/4th less, has a stronger battery, and an upgraded chip design for performance boosts and less overheating.
In terms of pricing, it will be $199.99 and launches on September 20th.
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/compare/
https://www.destructoid.com/nintendo...s-560326.phtml
How about the WiFi chip? Cause the one on the regular switch is trash.
Joe Taslim playing Sub Zero in the Mortal Kombat movie. That's the protagonist from The Raid.
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Gives me hope that we finally get a fighting game movie with fight choreography that can rival first rate martial arts flicks.
Road House.
Originally Posted by DAMN iNATOR
...is not a fighting game.
In other news, the writer of Mortal Kombat's script said on twitter that it will be rated r, and feature fatalities.
* For those interested in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, the only way to get the game's DLC packs is by purchasing the game's Season Pass. It will cost $19.99 and covers 3 DLC packs with the first arriving this Fall.
https://www.destructoid.com/marvel-u...t-560496.phtml
* For those interested in Marvel's Avengers, Square Enix reportedly will not be releasing the game's debut gameplay trailer to the public and instead it will be a San Diego Comic Con exclusive for attendees.
https://www.dualshockers.com/marvels...lay-comic-con/
All of that news update fucking sucks.
Yesterday, 06:23 PM #13552
* Ubisoft recently revealed the entire list of games that will be available to play when their Uplay+ paid subscription service launches this September.
https://www.destructoid.com/these-ar...--560936.phtml
* Tetris Effect and Zombie Army 4 were recently announced as the next notable games to get Epic Game Store exclusivity for PC. In regards to Zombie Army 4, developer Rebellion Developments studio admitted it was only due to the ton of cash Epic gave them for this deal.
https://www.destructoid.com/surprise...h-560842.phtml
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...uild-its-store
* According to a report from Deadline, Warner Bros is actually working on two video game-based films with the one as the new Mortal Kombat film and the other based on Space Invaders. MK film lead writer Greg Russo is also working on the script for the Space Invaders film.
https://deadline.com/2019/07/space-i...at-1202645635/
Today, 08:12 PM #13553
* Streets of Rage 4 developer DotEmu studio announced they have recently hired original series composer Yūzō Koshiro to help work on the soundtrack for the game.
https://twitter.com/Dotemu/status/1151477958915317762
* For those interested in getting the PS4 version of Metal Wolf Chaos XD, publisher Developer Digital announced the physical version of the game will be GameStop and Special Reserve Games retailer exclusive.
https://www.destructoid.com/-update-...d-561004.phtml
* Besides the Switch Lite, Nintendo also recently announced a new Switch base model featuring improved battery life. This new base model is currently set to be released in late September.
https://www.destructoid.com/nintendo...l-561058.phtml
Going to assume no unless whatever is causing those problems are Tegra chip related.
The Lite and new base model are using upgraded Tegra X1 chip designs for improvements.
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