One of their most famous victories was in 2014 The famous win is set to be documented on film. Relevo has reported that a documentary about the 2013/14 Champions League campaign will be released in December It has been confirmed that Cristiano Ronaldo will feature in the documentary giving his insight and feelings about the tenth Champions League trophy for Los Blancos Other players from that season will also speak on the win but former players Angel Di Maria and Fabio Coentrao are names 🚨 Real Madrid will release a documentary in December to celebrate the 10th anniversary of La Décima. Cristiano Ronaldo will feature in the documentary. @relevo pic.twitter.com/X7LZiKRmQR Not only was the 2014 Champions League a historic win for Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos leaped highest to head home an equalizing goal to send the game to extra time MORE: Real Madrid Legend Sergio Ramos Teases Fans With Training Clips, Fueling Next Club Speculation ⌛️—90+3’ Real Madrid were a minute away from losing the 2014 Champions League final. Then Sergio Ramos did this 🔊 (🎥 @realmadrid) pic.twitter.com/9YzKSxjyhD Goals in extra time from Gareth Bale and Marcelo and a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo secured a 4-1 victory over rivals Atletico Madrid and their tenth European trophy They beat their Madrid rivals again in the 2016 final this time on penalties after the game finished 1-1 The documentary will attract considerable interest with players and coaches from the famous win speaking openly about the experience It will also bring back fond memories for fans Messi vs. Ronaldo: Paul Pogba Gives His Take On The Long-Running Debate Manchester United Legend Pinpoints Game That Changed Cristiano Ronaldo's Career Real Madrid's 10 Most Expensive Signings Ever JORDAN MERRITTJordan Merritt is a freelance soccer writer who covers Real Madrid CF On SI. He is an obsessive soccer fan and an Arsenal supporter. Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed “I’m not going to stop until La Decima is won,” Florentino Perez said in June 2011 That 2002 Champions League title was Madrid’s ninth in total and third in five seasons Thanks to six successes in its early days — Madrid won the European Cup’s first five editions between 1956 and 1960 as well as in 1966 — the Spanish giants were already the competition’s record holders But as Perez spoke at the event at the Bernabeu and La Decima — a 10th trophy — was proving problematic Madrid fans had been frustrated by several early exits, which were often quickly followed by coaches being sacked. European defeats could even bring about a change of president — Perez’s first term ended in February 2006, soon after a 1-0 home defeat by Arsenal in the last 16 GO DEEPER Real Madrid and Florentino Perez: A portrait of one man's ultimate power Ramon Calderon was elected to the position the following summer “I wouldn’t say (La Decima) was an obsession but it was a dream and an objective,” Calderon tells The Athletic have always considered the European Cup as ‘our competition’ but there’s an obligation to win it every year.” Perez returned that summer and Madrid spent more than €200million (£170m; $217.5m) on new players including Cristiano Ronaldo Kaka and Xabi Alonso — all Champions League winners at their previous clubs the longing for La Decima had become difficult to handle for everyone at the club Even big stars were affected by the pressure and tension Madrid lost their last-16 first leg 1-0 at Lyon but looked in control of the tie when Ronaldo made it 1-1 on aggregate after just six minutes of the return match Then nerves began to spread in the stands and on the pitch The visitors started to dominate and deservedly progressed thanks to Miralem Pjanic’s strike with 15 minutes left fantastic players and the final that year was at the Bernabeu,” ex-Lyon coach Claude Puel recalls “It was difficult for us as we went 1-0 down early and came back into the game with high intensity and good possession I was surprised to see this (Madrid) team losing their quality The following year, Madrid again made the last four, this time facing Bayern. Two Ronaldo goals in the first 14 minutes of the second leg put them 3-2 up on aggregate, with energy surging through the Bernabeu — yet nerves set in again. Arjen Robben equalised and Bayern won 3-1 on penalties, with Ronaldo, Kaka and Sergio Ramos missing their spot kicks Mourinho’s third campaign saw La Decima hype crank up again after a 3-2 aggregate win over Manchester United in the last 16, but a 4-1 semi-final first-leg shock defeat at Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund meant a 2-0 second-leg victory was not enough “It’s not easy in the Champions League,” ex-Madrid goalkeeper Diego Lopez says “The (Dortmund) tie left a bittersweet taste Mourinho had instilled a more competitive streak in the squad but he left that summer with his relationship with many players Since their ninth Champions League success in 2002 more than €1billion had been spent on players but La Decima seemed just as far away as ever Mourinho’s replacement was Carlo Ancelotti, who had won the Champions League twice as both a player and coach at AC Milan Ancelotti and his assistant Paul Clement were left in doubt of the importance of their new club’s European pedigree “I realised how big this was going to be when (we entered) the boardroom where, along one side of the walls, were nine European Cups, all lined up,” Clement told The Athletic in 2020 “They hadn’t lined up all the other trophies — the leagues or cups Also new that summer was Gareth Bale, signed from Tottenham Hotspur for a world-record €101million “I’ve already learned how to say ‘La Decima’,” Bale said at his presentation in front of a backdrop of photos of him as a kid wearing a Zidane-era Madrid kit Ancelotti’s side were top of La Liga and into the Copa del Rey final against Barca “I’d prefer to win La Decima,” Ramos said before that month’s La Liga Clasico Schalke were beaten 9-2 on aggregate in the Champions League last 16 Bale and Ronaldo scoring twice each in the second leg at a gleeful Bernabeu The quarter-final first leg was an easy 3-0 win at home to Dortmund but Madrid scraped nervously through the return There was more tension before the semi-final first leg The only goal came through a counter-attack finished by Benzema Nerves in the second leg fell away after Ramos scored two first-half headers and a Ronaldo brace completed an impressive 5-0 aggregate win Now the Decima hype was really mounting, especially as Atletico Madrid beat Mourinho’s Chelsea in the other semi-final Ancelotti’s team took just two points from their final three league games with everyone at the Bernabeu focused on the Champions League decider in Lisbon “We’ve spent years trying to win this trophy,” Ronaldo said ahead of the final “From the very first day we arrive at this club we feel positive pressure to win the Champions League with the opening stages stop-start and error-strewn Madrid only half-cleared an Atletico corner and Juanfran returned the ball towards the penalty spot Casillas decided to come for it but then started to backpedal furiously as Diego Godin’s header soared over the stranded goalkeeper the momentum was all with Ancelotti’s side Bale’s 100th-minute close-range header made it 2-1 Marcelo soon surged straight through an exhausted defence and finished triumphantly really,” Marcelo told The Athletic in 2022 everything that has happened since you were small Ronaldo won and converted a penalty to complete the scoring He celebrated bare-chested in front of a camera and the images later appeared in his personally financed biopic “This is so huge, even bigger than the World Cup,” said Casillas that night (and he knew, having captained Spain to the World Cup in 2010) “So long without having a final like this… La Decima “La Decima was an obsession for the club and the fans,” Modric said a few days later But mostly the same players won three more European titles with Zidane as coach from 2016 to 2018 “Nobody expected them to win three Champions Leagues in a row It’s a competition Madrid have always been good at but recently they’ve been more than good at it.” The mood when Madrid played in Europe had swung around completely fans and directors being frozen by the Champions League anthem Benzema and Bale generally reserved their best form for the competition raising their game as a gleeful Bernabeu crowd would chorus: “We are the kings of Europe.” Others who arrived along the way, such as right-back Dani Carvajal I’ve only had to experience success,” Carvajal told The Athletic this week GO DEEPER Real Madrid just know how to win the Champions League. Man City do not “Winning that trophy (La Decima) was very important to keep building the legend of a team that keeps looking for victory until the referee blows the final whistle,” Calderon says (But also) the team being made up of very good players has been the base for achieving all the success that followed.” During the long wait between 2002 and 2014 each Champions League season brought more pressure and more disappointment for Madrid everything changed for the club’s emotional connection to the competition bringing four more trophies in the following nine years “We’ve a very vivid memory of the 2014 final,” Ancelotti said in a recent press conference. “That’s where this generation began to win titles. Many of the same players are still there, along with youngsters who are stepping up. To make sure you never miss out on your favourite NEW stories, we're happy to send you some reminders Click 'OK' then 'Allow' to enable notifications Horizon Forbidden West is easily one of the most beautiful and visually impressive games out there It’s because of this that I’ve been praising Guerrilla’s Decima engine for years and while I’m certainly not unique in doing that it does now feel like more people are catching on The upcoming Death Stranding 2: On The Beach recently unveiled its release date dropping new gameplay footage alongside this What you may not be aware of is the fact that the Kojima Productions sequel is actually using Guerrilla’s engine Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is once again being made in Decima But what does this have to do with a Horizon Forbidden West sequel and Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is providing the most up to date look at what the engine is capable of The last title released that was created using Decima was the aforementioned Burning Shores DLC in 2023, so Guerrilla has had two years to refine and advance the engine with Death Stranding 2 evidencing the end result You can take a look at the new trailer for the game below the upcoming third and final horizon should share Death Stranding 2: On The Beach’s level of graphic fidelity - something which is garnering praise across social media “I hate Unreal Engine 5 more than most, with good reason. To me it's VRAM management and Nanite are the only redeeming qualities in current versions. Decima with DS2 manages to get great geometry here without having to use UE5 and Nanite, and I hope we see more of this,” wrote Twitter user mpr_reviews “Decima engine is not f**king around bro,” added medster101 Studderz_Savage tweeted “The Decima engine needs to be the standard instead of that s**t UE5.” I’ve been itching for Guerrilla to unveil its new Horizon entry for some time but Death Stranding 2’s graphics have only left me more hyped so too have they got me counting down to DS2’s release date Topics: Horizon Forbidden West, Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games, PlayStation, PlayStation 5, Death Stranding Tokyo-based Decima Fund hit the final close of its debut fund in December according to a top executive at the crypto venture firm Edited by: Joymitra Rai Interviews The LP View Venture Capital Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: , Chris Johnson & Nick Marinkovich launch a new Assassins Creed comic in Massive's September 2024 solicits Chris Johnson and Nick Marinkovich launch a new Assassins Creed: Visionaries comic book in Massive's September 2024 solicits and solicitations going further back in time than Assassin's Creed has gone before As well as the last remnants from Marcus Williams and Rodney Velchez  of Eye Lie Popeye before it all goes public domain. 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Marcelo laughing with his hands together and Sergio Ramos's goal behind | Real Madrid Confidencial FIRST TEAM Marcelo Heats up Real Madrid - Atlético With an Unforgettable Anecdote From La DécimaThe former Madridist shares an anecdote that will sting a lot among Atlético fans04/03/2025 15:50:00h by Borja Díaz Real Madrid and Atlético face each other this Tuesday in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 A duel in which many consider the Colchoneros as the big favorites the truth is that the Champions League is a very different competition Any detail can be key to tipping the balance one way or another The former captain of Real Madrid and legend of the white team has wanted to take part And he has done so by heating up the classic with a very painful anecdote for all the Colchoneros Marcelo crying with all his titles behind him | Real Madrid ConfidencialThe night before And Marcelo wanted to give him a very special gift "the jersey from the Champions League final against Atlético is ugly." Marcelo stated that he had doubts between the Tenth and the Eleventh and finally opted for the latter the one from Lisbon was "a double joy." Especially because of Sergio Ramos's goal and everything that was happening at that moment Marcelo was on the field and recounted that "I saw Sergio Ramos's goal in slow motion unbelievable." But the best was yet to come when he narrated what was happening at those moments Atlético's fans are going to be very affected after the anecdote he revealed Sergio Ramos heading the goal of La Décima | RealMadridConfidencialHe admitted that "I saw a lot of Atlético people opening champagne he reiterated that "it was a motivation to see them opening the champagne too early." They already saw themselves as champions but Ramos's goal brought them back to reality Broncano pointed out that he saw that in the audience but Marcelo replied that it wasn't in the stands and at the moment of opening the champagne was when Sergio scored in the 93rd minute," he indicated That's what happens when you celebrate something too early Whether that is with his on-field or off-field antics he will likely have you fuming if he is not wearing the jersey of the team you support The Spaniard has angered fans further with his last social media stunt regarding La Décima. Ramos is never bored of bringing up the famous moment, the year Los Blancos captured their tenth Champions League/European Cup Ramos scored the 90+3' minute equalizer to send the final into extra-time against rivals Atletico Ramos posted the famous image of his headed goal on Instagram A post shared by Sergio Ramos (@sergioramos) Ramos also posted a cartoon image of him with the FIFA World Cup Trophy rival fans targeted him for the image of him scoring against Atletico "This guy takes every opportunity to poke at the wound; it's mind-blowing." It comes a few months after Ramos chose the No.93 squad number when he joined Monterrey the minute when he scored in the famous Champions League final He also recently celebrated his 39th birthday he turned the numbered candles around to read 93 A post shared by Sergio Ramos (@sergioramos) with plenty of love shown underneath the social media posts There is no sign of him stopping the stunts Real Madrid vs Valencia La Liga Preview: Start Time, Date, Team News, How To Watch & Live Stream Arsenal Legend Gives One Reason Why Cristiano Ronaldo Has No Limits Despite Being 40 Real Madrid vs Valencia: 5 Classic La Liga Matches Arsenal Star Says They Don’t Fear Any Team Ahead of Real Madrid Champions League Clash Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Corea was the acting Director of Economic Planning for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. She has wide experience in macroeconomic planning and project management. 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Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Maria Shollenbarger selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter La Nave is a high plain that sits at 1,100m on the north-western slope of Mount Etna in Sicily Some locals say the name – “ship” in Italian – comes from its shape stretching like a prow towards the island’s interior Others claim it was christened by boatbuilders for the Duke of Bronte who supposedly sourced timber from its chestnut forests for his fleet where La Nave’s tall trees once stood today there’s a vineyard – a single hectare of ungrafted and very rare Grecanico Dorato and Albanello vines Enrico Buonacore’s Milanese power-dining destination Sonia Spadaro Mulone at Vigna Monte Ilice on the slopes of Mount Etna © Roselena Ramistella“What’s interesting about them is the obsessive research of piè franco [European rootstock], common on Etna due to the volcanic soil, but not necessarily a priority for other winemakers, and their use of Grecanico Dorato and Albanello, which are almost extinct,” says Marco Lami a consultant and sommelier who created the wine programmes at the Four Seasons Il Palagio and Cibrèo the altitude”: Grecanico Dorato is known to thrive best when planted above 1,000m “Sonia’s wines – in particular her whites – are such a reflection of her own purity and search for perfection,” adds Jon Moslet, a wine collector and co-owner of Rocca delle Tre Contrade the private Etna estate with a world-class cellar where Skye Gyngell and Merlin Labron-Johnson “She now represents a new young generation on Etna:  alchemists trying to capture the wild energy of the volcano and perfecting – or aiming to control – the transformation of rock into liquid gold.” Calì eventually invited Benanti himself to sample her 2014 vintage of Millesulmare “He said it was one of the best wines on Etna,” Spadaro Mulone tells me flushing with a blend of pride and embarrassment at Vigna Monte Ilice © Roselena RamistellaWe are at Monte Ilice climbing a steep path between rows wreathed in the fresh green of early summer They are predominantly Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio common red grapes here; minuscule bunches that will eventually turn a rich purple are just beginning to peek out from under leaves blurred in haze; ahead of us is an old palmento a traditional Etna farmhouse that the Mulones are restoring as an experience and tasting centre – an extension of the large sleek new canteen that has just been completed onsite Check your internet connection or browser settings “I really wanted to find another historic vineyard,” she says of Monte Ilice I wanted to do something with that same fil rouge of history and heritage but with a red wine Monte Ilice was owned by this wonderful farmer He had divided it into 11 parcel-like strips one intended for each of his 11 nephews.” Reconstituting the property was a delicate process developing land that’s inside the protected Etna national park Pre-phylloxera vines at the Mount Ilice vineyard © Roselena RamistellaBut the value was clear old vines – some of them are 170 to 180 years old,” she says as we veer off into a sparser section of the vineyard we call them.” She stoops to indicate classification labels that students from the University in Catania have attached here and there: Lucido Terribile (“because it was somehow a bit more resistant to the phylloxera infestation”) Spadaro Mulone is part of a newer generation of makers – and one of a handful of women – working in and around  Sicily’s oldest denomination: Etna DOC Etna is like no other wine region in Europe: its borders range from 400m to 1,000m depending on whereabouts on the volcano you’re standing The differences in soil composition from one contrada to another can be huge; likewise the thermal vagaries (Etna gets more rainfall than the rest of the island – anecdotally as much as six times the average Sicily-wide – is snow-capped in winter and often bakes in the 30s in July and August) great Tuscan superstar Andrea Franchetti; Angelo Gaja who partnered with Alberto Graci on Etna in 2016 Nor is Spadaro Mulone the only one making exceptional wines outside the confines of the DOC; here a days-long eruption spewed lava a thousand metres skyward from Voragine crater and tonnes of ash settled across Etna’s south and eastern flanks the flow didn’t go in our direction,” says Spadaro Mulone “And actually there’s an upside in that there’s a huge quantity of new was that the airport closure [at Catania] meant tourists weren’t able to reach parts of the island including us.” She’s referring to the new canteen at Monte Ilice complete with its organic native roof garden the palmento and another historic farmhouse for private tastings and dinners and an extraordinary mural along one long lava‑stone wall depicting the full spectrum of biodiversity on Etna which she commissioned the Peruvian artist and eco-activist Zelva to create Linguaglossa village, on the north side of Mount Etna © Roselena RamistellaBut she’s also talking about Casa Decima where the Mulones have introduced another thoughtful permutation of hospitality we drive for 45 minutes around the northern perimeter of the volcano passing through towns with tongue-confounding names – Passopisciaro past profusions of astracantha and soapwort and swaths of bright yellow broom a quick turn down a dirt drive opens onto Casa Decima: breathtaking vista The chef’s table at Casa Decima vineyard in Contrada Nave © Roselena RamistellaRecommended known for miles around both for the excellence of her cooking and for her encyclopedic knowledge of traditional recipes and all things edible on Etna A long table is beautifully set with local ceramics; menus written on parchment are rolled and tied with olive and rosemary sprigs crochette on a bed of nutty pesto and chickpea-flour flatbread a limited-edition sparkling white with the barest hint of dosage made from a tiny parcel of Casa Decima vines just visible through the picture-pane windows delicately smoky aubergine parmigiana; a pasta alla norma on herbed ricotta with a crown of crispy breadcrumbs; involtini di carne studded with grape leaves true to the land it’s held on and the winemaker hosting it: Etna the old vines flare green in fugitive sunlight Maria Shollenbarger stayed as a guest of Zash Country Boutique Hotel (zash.it) Visit santamarialanave.com for information on private tastings and hospitality experiences part-time Etna resident and owner of Rocca delle Tre contrade nominates four other female winemakers to know Winemaker Sonia Gambino in her vineyards near Maletto © Stefan WesselSonia Gambino Winemaker Alice Bonaccorsi of Valcerasa © CFAlice Bonaccorsi February 05: In a historic breakthrough for artificial intelligence India's Decima Technologies has emerged as the world’s first company to successfully achieve Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) surpassing global tech giants such as OpenAI who are still striving to reach Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) This pioneering achievement has propelled Decima Technologies to a staggering valuation of $700 billion solidifying its position as a dominant force in the AI landscape While AI leaders across the globe are racing to advance AGI Decima Technologies has taken a quantum leap by developing and deploying ASI-driven solutions that are already revolutionizing industries The company’s advancements are setting new benchmarks in aviation reinforcing India’s position as a global leader in cutting-edge AI technology Decima Technologies has unveiled a suite of groundbreaking ASI-powered platforms that redefine the future of automation and intelligence across multiple sectors including Aviation Northern Lights – The Future of Autonomous Airport Operations Decima Technologies has developed Northern Lights the world’s first ASI-based Total Airport Management (TAM ASI-DSS) platform This SaaS-powered solution provides fully autonomous operational capabilities for both airports and airlines With the world's first integrated Bomb Threat Detection and Reporting System (BTDRS) it ensures enhanced security and seamless coordination between airport authorities and airline operators The module can integrate with Social Media monitoring platforms The platform enables airports and airlines to function independently with minimal human intervention marking a new era of self-sustaining aviation operations with minimal errors MicroAID Rx – Revolutionizing Proactive Health Diagnostics The company’s MicroAID Rx is the world’s first ASI-based clinical decision support  (CDS) platform capable of conducting over 500 microscopic tests for humans and 450 veterinary tests—entirely through a microscope using fluids and tissue samples This SaaS-driven system can predict potential futuristic diseases in under 30 seconds with an accuracy of 99.99% for almost every type of microscopic test conducted through the platform providing unparalleled accuracy and efficiency in early diagnostics While not a replacement for traditional lab tests it significantly enhances early detection and precision in medical and veterinary fields redefining the future of proactive healthcare AeroVoice – The First ASI-Enabled Voice Assistant for Aviation Decima Technologies has launched AeroVoice the world’s first ASI-powered voice assistant designed specifically for airports and airlines offering proactive and predictive analytics AeroVoice transforms how aviation professionals interact with voice and data bringing real-time intelligence to the forefront of airport operations AeroGPT – The World’s First GPT Model for Aviation Decima Technologies has introduced the world’s first ASI-driven GPT model tailored for the aviation industry This model is designed to process vast amounts of aviation-specific data offering precise insights and predictions to enhance operational efficiency Over 1,000 ASI Models – A Global First Decima Technologies has successfully developed more than 1,000 ASI models setting a new global record for AI innovation These models are driving autonomous decision-making across multiple industries enabling solutions that surpass human cognitive capabilities in speed BharatwASI – India’s First ASI-Powered Chatbot As part of its commitment to AI advancement for India Decima Technologies has introduced BharatwASI Designed to rival global conversational AI models BharatwASI represents a monumental step in India’s AI ecosystem delivering unmatched capabilities in natural language processing and contextual intelligence The company said that it stands on its commitment to make India the ASI hub of the world The Power Behind ASI: A GPU and DPU-Less Revolution Unlike conventional AI models that rely on GPU and DPU-based computing Decima Technologies has pioneered a revolutionary GPU-less and DPU-less computing architecture enabling unprecedented efficiency and scalability Decima’s proprietary neuromorphic computing systems and memristor-based storage to dramatically enhance computing speeds and reduce energy consumption This novel approach allows for unparalleled efficiency far surpassing conventional deep learning models Decima’s ASI systems achieve computational performance exceeding 100 exaFLOPS scale (floating point operations per second) an order of magnitude higher than existing AGI research models Additionally, latency in decision-making has been reduced to less than 1 millisecond making real-time autonomous decision-making possible on an unprecedented scale and Decima is on the path to reaching zettaflop capability This unprecedented performance is made possible through a combination of silicon photonics ensuring real-time autonomous decision-making across multiple domains Decima’s ASI framework is powered by Decima Quantum ASI OS a next-generation ASI operating system designed to optimize deep learning computations and enhance self-learning capabilities through autonomous code evolution This software stack integrates seamlessly with edge AI networks allowing ASI-driven intelligence to function in decentralized environments thereby eliminating bottlenecks associated with traditional cloud-based AI This shift away from GPU-DPU reliance ensures scalability, eliminates memory bottlenecks and introduces self-learning neural acceleration systems which continuously evolve with minimal human intervention These innovations allow Decima’s ASI solutions to perform complex cognitive reasoning Declaring 2025 as the Year of Artificial Super Intelligence the Founder and CEO of Decima Technologies in AI and Quantum Computing and the world’s first Lawyer (LLB) in AI has officially declared 2025 as the Year of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) He envisions a future where ASI-driven solutions will revolutionize industries worldwide and decision-making at an unprecedented scale This landmark declaration marks a proud moment for India solidifying its role as the leader in next-generation AI innovation Decima Technologies proudly supports and puts forward its commitment towards Make in India Made in Bharat  initiatives of Government of India Redefining AI Leadership on a Global Scale Decima Technologies' ASI achievements are not only a milestone for India but also a paradigm shift in the global AI industry While other major technology firms remain focused on developing AGI Decima has leapfrogged into the era of ASI demonstrating the potential of fully autonomous and intelligent systems “Artificial Super Intelligence is no longer a concept of the future—it is a reality today and we are leading this revolution,” said a spokesperson for Decima Technologies “Our platforms are not just incremental improvements; they are transformative solutions that redefine the boundaries of AI We are proud to position India at the forefront of global AI innovation.” With its ASI-powered technologies rapidly gaining traction Decima Technologies is now engaging with industries worldwide to drive large-scale adoption including manufacturing 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Cookie Policy José Mourinho and his confession about Real Madrid's tenth Champions League. | Real Madrid Confidencial FIRST TEAM Mourinho's Confession about the Décima That Breaks the Heart He RegretsJosé Mourinho spoke about Real Madrid in an interview for Corriere dello Sport31/12/2024 22:00:00h by Sergio Iglesias José Mourinho's been one of the most prominent coaches in recent years at Real Madrid He might not have won as many titles as Zinedine Zidane or Carlo Ancelotti. However he was able to sow the seeds of success that the club continues to collect He won a record-breaking LaLiga with 100 points he was able to break the hegemony of an FC Barcelona that dominated Spanish soccer with an iron fist Mourinho brought out that character that was hidden in a historic club.  José Mourinho during his time as coach of Real Madrid | Real Madrid ConfidencialThe moment of his exitAfter spending three years at Real Madrid, Mourinho understood that his time had come and decided to return to Chelsea. A decision he still regrets today as he confessed in an interview with Corriere dello Sport The Portuguese coach has reviewed his entire career highlighting his best moments and those he would relive to change. That's when Real Madrid comes into play we always think we could've done it differently. And I lost many games" José Mourinho spoke about his next goals in the world of soccer in addition to mentioning those coaches who don't know how to win.  People with decision-making power who know as much about soccer as I do about atomic physics. soccer is the realm of superficiality and stereotypes José Mourinho regrets the day he decided to leave Real Madrid "I want to compete in a European or World Championship I want to unite a country around its national team. I want to do it for soccer For our ongoing series Fundamentals, we’re looking at different companies worldwide and the basic principles they were built on This time: video game developer Guerrilla Games Guerrilla Games’ picturesque canalside office was originally intended to house 190 people its technical director Michiel van der Leeuw tells me as he rushes through the building in search of an empty room But the Amsterdam-based game developer has grown rapidly over the past few years filling every nook and cranny of the place hopes to add another two-thirds of that number to its headcount launching its new sci-fi game Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017 to critical acclaim and selling well over seven million copies in its first twelve months it’s hard to remember how much of a risk Horizon seemed when it was first announced in 2015 Guerrilla had built their reputation on Killzone a series of first-person shooters where you slink through grim corridors full of rubble and shoot at enemy soldiers they were creatively tired of the universe Too much of its story and world had been explored and the excitement of creating something new from scratch loomed European tech superstars: Hear from Datasnipper investors and innovation champions at TNW Conference on June 19 & 20 speaking at the Game Developers Conference in 2018 establishing a specific purpose for these machines to exist at all helped them solidify what they would look like especially because open world design was so new to Guerrilla How much content would players need to avoid getting bored in such a vast world how much content could the designers even make Can you pull off making a theme park with technology that’s geared towards building rollercoasters according to technical director Michiel van der Leeuw The software suite they used to build Killzone The engine is the very foundation of any modern game: it’s a software environment rife with tools used to pull disparate elements together into a cohesive whole determining how what’s on screen looks when it gets rendered the engine can be used to pour it all into something end users can enjoy While many gaming companies turn to third-party jack-of-all-trades-style engines to fuel their games it’s not unusual for developers to build their own engines to fit the exact games they want to make But Guerrilla’s process is slightly different The company actively rebels against the urge to specialize too much allowing itself the space it needs to maneuver into new territory “Sometimes I look at someone else’s engine and I think: that does the exact thing you want it to do way more than ours does I wonder if we should’ve done it that way,” says Van der Leeuw “We tend to make things that can do more than just what we need in the moment because we’d already built this relatively complex engine we want to use our first-person shooter engine to make an open world game we were in a position to say: that’s a lot of work Ambition has always been a part of Guerrilla’s core the product of a fusion of three small Dutch game studios – Orange Games Digital Infinity and Lost Boys Games – who hoped to become more than the sum of their parts They adopted the name Guerrilla three years later: it fit their rebellious attitude “We were willful and cocky,” Van der Leeuw remembers “There was no games industry to speak of in the Netherlands at the time Yet we wanted to become a force to be reckoned with on the international stage.” He’d worked on the game Jazz Jackrabbit 2 with Dutch gaming pioneer Arjan Brussee When their Orange Games became a part of what would be Guerrilla Van der Leeuw came with it – and so did the engine code he had written for Jazz It’s hard to picture the zippy green rabbit with his too-cool-for-school red bandana and Killzone’s grim soldiers or Horizon’s viciously beautiful machines living in the same galaxy let alone as things made of the same stardust “I should check the current engine code sometime and see if there’s anything left over from Jazz Guerrilla redoes large swathes of its engine with every game and they often find a new purpose for old systems “Horizon and our last Killzone game Shadow Fall were essentially the same code but using a different folder of assets in the beginning,” Van der Leeuw notes can leave the large plains of the open world behind to explore underground caves Horizon Zero Dawn turns into a Killzone-esque corridor shooter Have they ever seriously considered using a third party engine our company attracts a lot of inventor types it’s important to feel like we’re in charge of what we’re going to do next.” Being dependent on a third party’s development trajectory for anything is something he finds difficult: “You think: this third-party service we’re using isn’t just going to disappear gets bought up by Zynga and Zynga pulls the plug It’s a reminder that sometimes it’s just better to make things yourself.” Guerrilla has shared it with several studios linked to their parent company Sony including Supermassive Games’ efforts for the PlayStation VR “Inventor types like us don’t just like to make things Sometimes you don’t get anything back but thanks – that’s also nice But sometimes you find someone who’s on the same track anyway: it’s the mindset of the maker that matters.” He credits that as one of the principal reasons why the company steadfastly refuses to limit its engine’s scope “It can be tough to discuss new insights in a company with an employee base that’s made up of extremely specialized people,” he says “Because there might be no one else who’s an expert in the same field.” Sharing with outsiders can help create sounding boards for new ideas Though when that outsider is legendary Metal Gear Solid-director Hideo Kojima When Kojima joined Guerrilla’s parent company Sony he and his team had no technology to work with: they’d had to leave it all behind It led them to Decima – Guerrilla named the previously nameless engine in honor of the partnership picking a name that referred to the Japanese island of Dejima once the focal point of Dutch trade relations with the Japanese “We gave them the engine as a show of good Sony citizenship it would have felt rude not to share,” Van der Leeuw says “But we didn’t expect to have this much chemistry with a studio from the other side of the globe.” Kojima’s upcoming Death Stranding —release date unknown — is set to be an open-world action game Its development has been shrouded in secrecy fueled by a series of mysterious trailers featuring Hollywood actors Cooperation between Kojima and Guerrilla has been “intense” says Van der Leeuw: both companies communicate daily as the Death Stranding team attempts to shape its own worlds with Decima in what order gameplay elements should go,” he says they think photorealism is far more important than we do.” The studio is always thinking ahead about what the next iteration of the engine will look like The quality of the code base is most important to us.” Willful ambition has been core to Guerrilla’s philosophy from the very beginning The company believes that the ability to change when necessary is vital: For two years Horizon’s concepting team tried out different things 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A novel system developed by MIT researchers automatically “learns” how to schedule data-processing operations across thousands of servers — a task traditionally reserved for imprecise Doing so could help today’s power-hungry data centers run far more efficiently Data centers can contain tens of thousands of servers which constantly run data-processing tasks from developers and users Cluster scheduling algorithms allocate the incoming tasks across the servers to efficiently utilize all available computing resources and get jobs done fast humans fine-tune those scheduling algorithms based on some basic guidelines (“policies”) and various tradeoffs code the algorithm to get certain jobs done quickly or split resource equally between jobs But workloads — meaning groups of combined tasks — come in all sizes it’s virtually impossible for humans to optimize their scheduling algorithms for specific workloads and they often fall short of their true efficiency potential The MIT researchers instead offloaded all of the manual coding to machines they describe a system that leverages “reinforcement learning” (RL) a trial-and-error machine-learning technique to tailor scheduling decisions to specific workloads in specific server clusters they built novel RL techniques that could train on complex workloads the system tries many possible ways to allocate incoming workloads across the servers eventually finding an optimal tradeoff in utilizing computation resources and quick processing speeds No human intervention is required beyond a simple instruction Compared to the best handwritten scheduling algorithms the researchers’ system completes jobs about 20 to 30 percent faster and twice as fast during high-traffic times the system learns how to compact workloads efficiently to leave little waste Results indicate the system could enable data centers to handle the same workload at higher speeds “If you have a way of doing trial and error using machines they can try different ways of scheduling jobs and automatically figure out which strategy is better than others,” says Hongzi Mao a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) “That can improve the system performance automatically can save millions of dollars and a lot of energy in data centers.” “There’s no one-size-fits-all to making scheduling decisions,” adds co-author Mohammad Alizadeh an EECS professor and researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) these are hard-coded parameters that you have to decide up front Our system instead learns to tune its schedule policy characteristics depending on the data center and workload.” Joining Mao and Alizadeh on the paper are: postdocs Malte Schwarzkopf and Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan data processing jobs come into data centers represented as graphs of “nodes” and “edges.” Each node represents some computation task that needs to be done The edges connecting the nodes link connected tasks together Scheduling algorithms assign nodes to servers But traditional RL systems are not accustomed to processing such dynamic graphs These systems use a software “agent” that makes decisions and receives a feedback signal as a reward it tries to maximize its rewards for any given action to learn an ideal behavior in a certain context help robots learn to perform a task like picking up an object by interacting with the environment but that involves processing video or images through an easier set grid of pixels the researchers had to develop a model that could process graph-structured jobs and scale to a large number of jobs and servers Their system’s “agent” is a scheduling algorithm that leverages a graph neural network commonly used to process graph-structured data To come up with a graph neural network suitable for scheduling they implemented a custom component that aggregates information across paths in the graph — such as quickly estimating how much computation is needed to complete a given part of the graph because “child” (lower) nodes cannot begin executing until their “parent” (upper) nodes finish so anticipating future work along different paths in the graph is central to making good scheduling decisions the researchers simulated many different graph sequences that mimic workloads coming into data centers The agent then makes decisions about how to allocate each node along the graph to each server a component computes a reward based on how well it did at a specific task — such as minimizing the average time it took to process a single job is that some workload sequences are more difficult than others to process because they have larger tasks or more complicated structures Those will always take longer to process — and the reward signal will always be lower — than simpler ones But that doesn’t necessarily mean the system performed poorly: It could make good time on a challenging workload but still be slower than an easier workload That variability in difficulty makes it challenging for the model to decide what actions are good or not the researchers adapted a technique called “baselining” in this context This technique takes averages of scenarios with a large number of variables and uses those averages as a baseline to compare future results they computed a baseline for every input sequence they let the scheduler train on each workload sequence multiple times the system took the average performance across all of the decisions made for the same input workload That average is the baseline against which the model could then compare its future decisions to determine if its decisions are good or bad They refer to this new technique as “input-dependent baselining.” is applicable to many different computer systems “This is general way to do reinforcement learning in environments where there’s this input process that effects environment and you want every training event to consider one sample of that input process,” he says “Almost all computer systems deal with environments where things are constantly changing.” a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison whose group has designed several high-performance schedulers found the MIT system could help further improve their own policies “Decima can go a step further and find opportunities for [scheduling] optimization that are simply too onerous to realize via manual design/tuning processes,” Akella says “The schedulers we designed achieved significant improvements over techniques used in production in terms of application performance and cluster efficiency but there was still a gap with the ideal improvements we could possibly achieve Decima shows that an RL-based approach can discover [policies] that help bridge the gap further Decima improved on our techniques by a [roughly] 30 percent their model is trained on simulations that try to recreate incoming online traffic in real-time the researchers hope to train the model on real-time traffic they’re currently developing a “safety net” that will stop their system when it’s about to cause a crash “We think of it as training wheels,” Alizadeh says “We want this system to continuously train but it has certain training wheels that if it goes too far we can ensure it doesn’t fall over.” This website is managed by the MIT News Office, part of the Institute Office of Communications Massachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts Avenue Comunicado Oficial: fallecimiento de Rafael Rullán Comunicado Oficial: fallecimiento de José Ángel de la Casa Segundo aniversario de la 20ª Copa del Rey Se cumplen 39 años de la 2ª Copa de la UEFA 3-2: El Madrid gana y continúa luchando por la Liga The youngest will not remember it, because they did not suffer from it, but Carlo Ancelotti began to make his mark in the history of Real Madrid in the spring of 1989 Carletto was then a struggling midfielder for Arrigo Sacchi's AC Milan and he opened the scoring in the greatest mockery suffered by Los Blancos in the European Cup: AC Milan's 5-0 win at Stadio San Siro in the 1988/89 season There were other defeats in the history of Real Madrid but that one was especially cruel because it buried the Quinta del Buitre a generation of footballers who skirted the seventh European Cup but failed several times although never in such a way raw like that night in Milan Ancelotti beat Francisco Buyo at the San Siro and opened a wound that took a decade to heal until Predrag Mijatovic scored past Angelo Peruzzi at the Amsterdam Arena in May 1998 but also the Decima: from Zinedine Zidane's volley in Glasgow to Sergio Ramos' unstoppable header in Lisbon Ancelotti was on Real Madrid's bench at the Estadio da Luz after coming to the club at the beginning of the season to facilitate the digestion of the intense Jose Mourinho era The Portuguese brought Real Madrid closer to the Champions League but it was the Italian who grabbed it by both ears with a Real Madrid so different from the current one that it is dizzying to remember a Gareth Bale who still prioritised the big ball over the golf ball a Sergio Ramos more aware of football than Yucatan with Marcelo and Isco (the ones who changed the flow of that final in the capital of Portugal) initiating the ascent to the peak of their careers preceded by the Copa del Rey after the derailment of Marc Bartra against the express train called Bale at Mestalla but Luka Modric got injured and left Real Madrid without a compass with the shock of Xabi Alonso's escape to Bayern Munich with Manchester United's blank cheque to Di Maria and Real Madrid lost their way in the fight for LaLiga Santander with two defeats at San Mames and Camp Nou after leading the table for 15 matchdays it was the European elimination that buried Carletto A surplus Real Madrid (that won 3-0 against Liverpool at Anfield and Chicharito's goal to eliminate Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals) was defeated by Juventus with two goals from Alvaro Morata and forever left the doubt of whether Real Madrid had been able to win five Champions League titles in a row because then Zidane's three successful Champions League runs arrived but Zidane is now the past and Carlo is the future of Real Madrid Now the question is to know if his 'soft hand' will serve to stiffen a team - and a club - that is more ready for a revolution than for good vibes © Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva Real Madrid History when they won the Champions League for the tenth time Twelve years and 93 long minutes had to be waited for "La Décima" to become "real" That's how long Atlético led in the final in Lisbon until Sergio Ramos equalized 92:48 in the legendary minute and then Gareth Bale (110th) Marcelo (118th) and Cristiano Ronaldo (120th) showed no mercy in the first final derby in history From highlights to fan cams to the documentary "En el corazón de La Décima" there are many videos of Real's tenth European Cup - REAL TOTAL shows them Real's documentary “En el heart de 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During an interview at Reboot Develop today Guerrilla Games co-founder Hermen Hulst talked a little bit about how the collaboration with Kojima Productions on Death Stranding came to be Death Stranding, of course, uses Guerrilla Games' proprietary Decima engine Hideo Kojima took a big trip to many development studios to study how they work Kojima's work has obviously only been on internally-developed engines, including the Fox engine created for Metal Gear Solid 5 The last stop on his trip was to The Netherlands It was initially intended to be a quick visit but Hulst says they ended up spending a couple of days together let's just give Kojima Productions our source code on a stick and offer it to them,'" recounted Hulst "They just couldn't believe that a studio like us would just hand that to them The honest reason was just for them to make a game The idea that we can enable a studio of that calibre to make a great game In fact, prior to offering the engine, Guerrilla Games didn't even have a name for the tech. Hulst and Kojima came up with the word Decima, which is the name of an artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki the Decima island (also called Dejima) was built in 1634 as a home for Portuguese traders; Japan's way of limiting their influence on the country The Dutch later moved to the island in 1641 making it Japan's only trade port with the rest of the world Hulst also revealed that a team from Guerrilla Games engineers would go on missions to Tokyo to help Kojima Productions with engine support sometimes embedded in teams at the Japanese studio Guerrilla was able to improve the engine based on regular conversations the Dutch team has with Kojima Productions No part of this website or its content may be reproduced without the copyright owner's permission VG247 is a registered trademark of Gamer Network Limited Winter Storms Caly and Decima blanketed generally the same regions with widespread accumulating snow in the first two full weeks of December allowing snow cover to steadily increase to its highest level since late January Much of the snow from those two storms fell from the mountain West to the upper Midwest and interior Northeast Arctic air filtering in behind Decima this past weekend led to light accumulations of snow even farther south than with Caly with less than a week between the two winter storms (MORE: How Winter Storms Are Named | Winter Storm Central) As of Sunday, Lower 48 snow cover was analyzed by NOAA as 54.8-percent coverage The last time snow cover has been this extensive in the Lower 48 states was after Winter Storm Jonas on Jan. 24, when snow cover was 56.5 percent (MORE: Winter Storm Jonas Was New York City's Heaviest Snowstorm on Record) This is 14.8 inches above average for mid-December just over a foot above average in that city Milwaukee is another city with above-average snowfall through mid-December This is 37.3 inches above average and more snow than they saw all last winter (32 inches) (MORE: Winter Storm Argos a Record Snowstorm For Binghamton, New York) Temperatures are expected to rebound closer to average in the week ahead so snow cover will wane with time as we get closer to Christmas Meteorologists define a white Christmas as one in which there is at least one inch of snow on the ground on Christmas morning It doesn't have to be snowing on the holiday for that to happen Below is our current white Christmas forecast If you like to see snowflakes falling from the sky as you exchange presents with your family and friends, some good news is ahead. A new winter storm is brewing for Christmas weekend which will add some fresh snowfall to a swath of the country We recognize our responsibility to use data and technology for good We may use or share your data with our data vendors The Weather Channel is the world's most accurate forecaster according to ForecastWatch, Global and Regional Weather Forecast Accuracy Overview Winter Storms Caly and Decima blanketed generally the same regions with widespread accumulating snow in the first two full weeks of December Arctic air filtering in behind Decima this past weekend led to light accumulations of snow even farther south than with Caly (MORE: How Winter Storms Are Named | Winter Storm Central) As of Sunday, Lower 48 snow cover was analyzed by NOAA as 54.8-percent coverage The last time snow cover has been this extensive in the Lower 48 states was after Winter Storm Jonas on Jan. 24, when snow cover was 56.5 percent (MORE: Winter Storm Jonas Was New York City's Heaviest Snowstorm on Record) (MORE: Winter Storm Argos a Record Snowstorm For Binghamton, New York) Meteorologists define a white Christmas as one in which there is at least one inch of snow on the ground on Christmas morning. It doesn't have to be snowing on the holiday for that to happen If you like to see snowflakes falling from the sky as you exchange presents with your family and friends, some good news is ahead. 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Sampaoli has compared Mbappe's mentality to Ronaldo Sign in Listen Decima GP Limited has completed a total funding round of approximately 4.5 billion yen for Decima Fund The Fund was established with the purpose of incubating domestic projects aiming for overseas expansion and overseas projects aiming to enter the Japanese market The Fund will be jointly managed with GPs that have expertise in the Web3 domain Decima will support the global expansion of Japanese Web3 ventures including the 10 investments already decided upon as well as assist global players in entering the Japanese market contributing to enhancing Japan’s presence in the Web3 domain Current investments of Decima FundYusaku Maezawa MZ Cryptos: “I have been given the opportunity to participate as an operating member in the Decima Fund which supports Japanese individuals active in the Web3 domain I will dedicate myself to revitalizing Japan’s Web3 industry!” SBI Holdings: “We have high expectations for the completion of the 4.5 billion yen funding round The SBI Group has positioned the Web3 domain as a priority area and is accelerating its entry into this space we will continue to contribute to the further development of the Web3 industry.” Animoca Brands: “The mission of the Decima Fund aligns with our company’s mission I am proud to join the Decima Fund as a member working alongside an experienced and trusted team to support the growth of Japan’s Web3 ecosystem and advance the Web3 industry.” gumi: “The Decima Fund is on a mission to contribute to the future of Web3 technology and the development of Japan’s Web3 industry With this funding and the launch of the Fund we aim to have a significant impact as a new starting point for Japan’s Web3 industry.” Japan FinTech Observer | Tontines | ex-Goldman & Barclays Tech MD | 👉 Individual articles have moved to: https://www.fintechobserver.com Help the motion that effectively ended the game breaking Atletico's weary spirits that had fought on while they physically fell away But the key to the game lay in Carlo Ancelotti's double substitution, just before the hour mark. who trailed Atletico 1-0 after Diego Godin's scruffy The centre-back nodded home after an Iker Casillas mistake and it looked like we were witnessing another standard Diego Simeone performance Madrid were playing in a disjointed fashion Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema disconnected from the midfield Sami Khedira replaced the suspended Xabi Alonso but was off the pace while Luka Modric had an uncharacteristically poor first half Angel di Maria did his best to link midfield and attack but struggled against the power and energy of Gabi But when Ancelotti hauled off Khedira and left-back Fabio Coentrao Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated PressBack in March at the Vicente Calderon He brought on Marcelo for Coentrao and then later introduced Isco and Daniel Carvajal It changed the momentum of the match and helped Cristiano Ronaldo score a last-minute equaliser to make the score 2-2 And once again Ancelotti's moves paid off with Sergio Ramos heading home in style to send the Champions League final into extra time with Isco pulling the strings alongside Modric in centre midfield and Marcelo providing extra width down the left The Brazilian's attacking thrust caught Atletico out and was useful when Simeone's side were forced to go for an equaliser Marcelo netted the third as Madrid eventually ran out 4-1 winners at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon Bale played as a right midfielder and Di Maria played on the left side Paulo Duarte/Associated PressDi Maria's effort from the left was saved by Courtois and the ball fell for Bale who just about managed to keep his header under the crossbar Di Maria was given the man of the match award after the game after he impressed at the stadium of his former side but Marcelo would also have been a worthy recipient for his impact Real Madrid also had other heroes on Saturday night who scored an incredible six goals in seven games to finish the season bagged the equaliser deep in stoppage time The player had spoken at a press conference on Friday and was clearly excited to be playing in his first Champions League final had a huge part to play in their eventual capture of La Decima The 12 years since their last triumph have been long who could so easily and unfairly have been disposed of had they not triumphed is the man who has brought the much-coveted 10th European Cup to Real Madrid The studio's Technical Director Michiel van der Leeuw shared a detailed post revealing some info regarding the future direction of Guerilla's proprietary engine Studio Technical Director at Guerrilla Games Michiel van der Leeuw who's been with the studio for almost the entirety of its 23 years of existence has recently published a detailed LinkedIn post revealing some interesting information regarding the developer's proprietary game engine Decima van der Leeuw announced his decision to step down from his position as Guerrilla's Studio Director intending to "wear one hat at work" and focus more on the development of Decima the studio's engine used for such titles as Killzone: Shadow Fall as well as Supermassive Games' Until Dawn and Kojima Productions' Death Stranding the developer revealed that the studio has "ambitious future plans" for the engine saying that "a studio roadmap and future direction for the Decima engine [are] so ambitious that combining both is more than one day job." van der Leeuw published a list of job positions for those interested in joining the Guerrilla team: 80 level 80LV logo are registered trademarks of 80LV LLC We use cookies on this website to make your browsing experience better. By using the site you agree to our use of cookies.Learn more by Allegra Frank LinkDeath Stranding’s engine could be called Decima, based on a logo spotted at the end of its newest trailer Although the logo’s significance has caused a debate among fans of director Hideo Kojima the man himself tweeted a video that suggests that Decima is nothing more than the engine Death Stranding is running on YongYea, a YouTuber who covers all kinds of games on his channel, uploaded the video above, recapping theories about the trailer. Alongside analyses of the posters Kojima Productions shared subsequent to Death Stranding’s trailer premiere at the Game Awards The name Decima comes from Greco-Roman mythology; she’s one of the three Fates Decima in particular measures a person’s “thread of life,” which YongYea notes is an appropriate choice for Death Stranding “Some of Death Stranding’s biggest themes include things like the rope and the stick and threads that connect all living things,” he says there’s nothing that connects us mortals more than the singular fact that we all die at the end.” Kojima has cited the philosophical concepts of the stick and the rope among Death Stranding’s key themes. He tweeted a discussion of these and other themes earlier this year explaining that “the stick helped ape evolve into man,” while “the rope helps us capture and bind important things to us.” the thread of life-measuring Decima is a perfect fit Both YongYea and journalist Michael Fortsch cite sources that the engine is customized for Death Stranding “Just got told that Decima is the name for the modified Sucker Punch Infamous: Second Son Engine Death Stranding is using,” Fortsch wrote Thursday night and Fortsch himself insisted that it was just a rumor We’ve reached out to Kojima Productions about the engine and will update when we hear back Either way, YongYea notes that the engine appears to be the same as the one powering the game in its debut E3 2016 trailer. After Death Stranding’s premiere at Sony’s press conference this past June, Kojima said that he had yet to settle on an engine It looks like Decima is it for the undated PlayStation 4 game On the bustling Death Stranding subreddit, theorists insist that “Decima isn’t just the engine.” “Thinking about Decima, my mind continues to harken back to the Moby Dick bait-and-switch back with [Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain] but I can’t think of a reason why Kojima would do that again ON HIS OWN GAME,” wrote calrissian69 This seems unlikely, but with Kojima, anything is possible. The director has given few concrete details about Death Stranding, including the name of its engine at this state in production. A panel hosted by the industry veteran and unannounced “special guests” at this weekend’s PlayStation Experience may be more illuminating. The best of Polygon in your inbox, every Friday. Boulez” Sunday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum wrapped up the three-part series with Debussy never before heard as we experienced it the series continued to be something of a rare bird and more hands came to together to laud both pianist and  gifted young violinist Corey Cerovsek and rightfully so Pierre Boulez’s Deuxième Sonate pour piano and Béla Bartók’s Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs 20 made for another astonishing round of three leaders out of the past century 20 be improvisations if all eight of them are written down Paavali Jumppanen helped answer that by rendering them as if they were just being pulled out of a magician’s hat Dissonances transformed by Jumppanen’s ever developing pianistic imagination contrasted remarkably with the pianist’s singing narratives of the highly varied Hungarian tunes on which Bartók based his extemporaneous musings Whereas last week Boulez’s Troisième Sonate pour piano reached for the stars and rocketed into galactic wonderment his Deuxième Sonate churned on lofty yet terrestrial surfaces both vertical and more especially horizontal was yet to become integral to the serialist’s mathematical penchant Although I must say that as the fourth movement that came with a bang and a whimper that latter passage left me experiencing desolation it remains somewhat incredible that given all the “destruction” of traditional forms and devices Boulez relied not infrequently on the crescendo and even decrescendo so typical of the Romantic Era seated at a lidless Steinway in the midst of Calderwood Hall All of some 30-plus minutes of extraordinary pianism and equally extraordinary genuineness rang out be it in a single isolated note or in handfuls of tone clusters some of the latter had notes pedaled into vanishing points Jumppanen truly furthered Boulez’s cause from super-delicacy to superpower take for example the first movement marked extremely rapid where his big sweeps conflated myriads of tonal rhythmic and dynamic detail giving a larger dimension so often missing in the realm of those mathematician-musician composers Comments from other listeners went along similar lines While meaning and emotion in the Boulez eluded us Jumppanen’s firm grasp of this sonata—one that for an overwhelming number of pianists is simply impossible to play—constituted a major feat unspooled as a verifiable masterpiece in the hands of Cerovsek and Jumppanen Cerovsek’s finely fixated violin along with Jumppanen’s captivating touch proved blockbusting Violin and piano spoke as if made for each other tenderness and many more moods shifted in a cocking of the ear They would have been gloriously on the same sheet had they not been playing from memory; their synchronicity sent us right over the edge this week brought multihued encounters with the human interiors of the third kind David Patterson, Professor of Music and former Chairman of the Performing Arts Department at UMass Boston, was recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award and the Chancellor’s Distinction in Teaching Award. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen in Paris and holds a PhD from Harvard University.  He is the author of 20 Little Piano Pieces from Around the World (G. Schirmer). www.notescape.net 3 Comments » Categories Reviews 3 Comments [leave a civil comment (others will be removed) and please disclose relevant affiliations]Once more David Patterson has hit the nail on its head with the review of Paavali Jumppanen and Corey Cerovsek To have all three Boulez sonatas in the fingers and mind in three weeks is an amazing task the Boulez sonatas can be difficult listening Jumppanen took us into these diffuse worlds as well as anyone I’m not sure I will ever hear a performance like this one I am not prone to “definitive” performances different approaches by excellent musicians are certainly valid The fact that both players were “off music” and in constant synch with the many moods of Debussy’s last work was an unusual and truly satisfying experience What wonderful concert series the Gardner has given us: Miriam Freed/Jonathan Biss in Bartók/Schumann isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov in the complete Beethoven violin/piano sonatas Comment by Leslie — March 6 After agreeing fully with Patterson’s praise of this concert I’d like to draw attention to the uncanny ensemble of Jumppanen and Cerovsek There were many passages in the Debussy that were highly rhythmic and accented; there was never the slightest difference between them I remarked to my wife that it was as if one brain had controlled the four hands RSS feed for comments on this post. If you would like to contribute articles or reviews to the Intelligencer, please familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines.  Subscribe to the Intelligencer. the debut game of Hideo Kojima’s new development studio Kojima Productions developed by Horizon Zero Dawn studio Guerrilla Games The news was announced earlier today at PlayStation Experience during an interview between Kojima and Geoff Keighley Since April 26, he has scored six goals—five of them coming in a four-game stretch and two of which put Bayern Munich to the sword in a 20-minute spell during Real Madrid’s 4-0 Champions League victory in the Bavarian capital. It was a win that put Los Blancos into the final of the European Cup for the first time since 2002, and you just knew that if the nine-time winners were to secure a 10th continental title—La Decima—it would be thanks, at least in part, to the heroics of the 28-year-old defender. and that he hit peak form late in the spring—and late in second-half stoppage time of Saturday’s Champions League final—only spoke to a sense for the dramatic that had long been associated with the Spain international after completing a €27 million move to the capital during Florentino Perez’s first stint as club president he set up Gonzalo Higuain for a last-minute winner away to Osasuna that clinched the Primera Division title In January 2009, he even struck a spectacular, volleyed goal that helped Madrid to a 3-0 win over Mallorca But on Saturday, when his club needed him desperately, he both remained on the pitch and delivered the blow that sent a feisty Atletico Madrid side wobbling With only a minute remaining on the referee’s watch and with Atletico about to celebrate a first-ever Champions League triumph Ramos popped up to head a Luka Modric delivery past goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for the equaliser Madrid never looked back, and at the final whistle, their 4-1 victory almost looked comfortable—the subsequent goals coming from Gareth Bale Squawka“What was most important was to get the equaliser,” Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti told reporters following the match “We didn’t have any space—Atletico defended very well—but we tried every way possible We managed to [equalise] and then the game changed completely.” It was he who made six interceptions and 13 clearances during extended spells of Atletico pressure who rose to the occasion with the European Cup—with La Decima—beckoning for Real Madrid That’s why Sergio Ramos is a favourite of the Madridistas followed by goals from Marcelo in the 118th and Cristiano Ronaldo in the 120th Sign in Listen the Web3 startup that aims to revolutionize work utilizing verified identities announced today that it has raised an undisclosed amount in a round led by Japan-based Decima Fund Decima Fund is a Web3 investment fund with a Japan angle — committed to bridging the Japanese market with the rest of the world The new funding announced today will be used to advance the project’s goal to build the infrastructure for the future of work earn on-chain reputation to experience new opportunities.” commented: “Marisa has shown an unwavering commitment to resolving challenges since the day I met her in 2018 We are proud to back Joba in its journey to help talent find the best opportunities to create value and truly believe Joba will have a substantial impact in advancing on-chain work forward.” Joba Network has made it possible for everyone to verify experiences and earn an on-chain reputation through a unified gateway and build borderless credit Their closed beta was launched in July 2023 and instantly received a significant amount of support from the Web3 community Japan FinTech Observer | Tontines | ex-Goldman & Barclays Tech MD | 👉 Individual articles have moved to: https://www.fintechobserver.com Help decided a reconstruction of the company's board room was the best way to show what the Kojima Productions version of Decima can do a well-dressed Guillermo del Toro holding a pod baby but I assume that's just what it looks like naturally: Kojima Production's meeting room reproduced by DECIMA engine that was introduced at PSX on 12/3. pic.twitter.com/vd3QxqzUr9December 12, 2016 This ones are the background shots from the teaser trailer running by DECIMA engine introduced at PSX. Only the lighting and the texture. pic.twitter.com/bpxgkyiEnyDecember 12, 2016 is the in-engine (but without texture) model of Mads Mikkelsen To Mads-fan,Here's Mads w/ lighting & w/o texture that only our dev team can see. He's so precious even w/o texture. I'll keep coming. pic.twitter.com/lJbSya9VDMDecember 12, 2016 Kojima likened his studio's collaboration with Guerrilla Games to the evolution of the space program and called the modified version of Decima a rocket that would take them farther than anything before: 4/4We decided to make the rocket by reforming their engine. And by doing so it enables us to go to the mars but even to the jupiter. pic.twitter.com/E5x8FHlVQDDecember 10, 2016 I'll take any Death Stranding info I can get even if it involves a man with a stitched together face standing in a virtual board room holding a pod baby that may or may not be from another dimension Seen something newsworthy? Tell us!  Sam PrellSocial Links NavigationSam is a former News Editor here at GamesRadar His expert words have appeared on many of the web's well-known gaming sites The Italian coach says he will never forget the historic European title conquered by Real Madrid five years ago Former Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti who conquered La Decima for Los Blancos five years ago has spoken about the historic European title “I remember it very well and I will ever remember it It’s something I just won’t be able to forget,” says the Italian manager We knew what was at stake and we were so motivated but we used the pressure we had and turned it in motivation to face the game,” he explained Real Madrid missed Xabi Alonso while Karim Benzema Sami Khedira and Pepe were all questionable hours before the game “We got there with Khedira, who had just recovered from a serious knee injury, Pepe, Benzema and Ronaldo all struggling. I remember very well what Pepe did for us. The day before the game he told me that he wasn’t ready to play because he would have needed to come off in the 15th minute as his knee was hurting so badly. It’s not easy for a player of his caliber to say good-bye to a unique chance of playing a Champions League Final but he proved he’s a true pro,” reveals the coach Ramos scored the equalizer on the 93rd minute but Ancelotti never lost his faith “I don’t think about what’s going to happen on a certain play but I had confidence that the goal was going to arrive It was our last chance but I trusted my players and I knew that they were going to take advantage We played until the very end and the very last second We looked for the equalizer playing good football and in the end Ramos and Modric showed up,” adds Ancelotti Until that very moment Atletico still had a chance but they kind of gave up after that goal,” concluded the Italian coach Bayern Munich midfielder Xabi Alonso says he decided the time was right to leave Real Madrid after last season's Champions League triumph Madrid's extra-time defeat of Atletico Madrid in last May's final saw them finally secure La Decima -- their 10th European Cup -- after 12 years of waiting believing it to be best to finish his five-year spell in the Spanish capital on a high "After beating Atletico in the Champions League final, it seemed as though the time had come to do something different again," AS quoted Alonso as telling FIFA. Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid last season to win the Champions League. Michael Regan/Getty Images"We had managed to win La Decima, Madrid's long-awaited 10th European Cup, and I thought it was right to try something new with one of the world's best teams and in one of Europe's top leagues. I was grateful to Real Madrid for letting me go even though I had a contract that was due to run until 2016." Now at Bayern, Alonso has the chance to achieve something only former Netherlands international Clarence Seedorf has ever done before -- winning the Champions League with three different clubs. The midfielder, who has also won the trophy at Liverpool as well as with Madrid, is aware he could achieve such a feat but would rather concentrate on playing well for his club. "Winning the Champions League with Bayern would be fantastic but my priority is to continue doing my job on a weekly basis and contribute to the collective success of the team in whatever way I can. But it appeals to me," Alonso said. "I have the most amazing memories from the 'Miracle of Istanbul' where [Rafa] Benitez led Liverpool back after going 3-0 down, to pull level at 3-3 then into extra time and penalties, which we ended up winning 3-2. "I was also delighted with the masterstroke [Carlo] Ancelotti pulled last year when we beat Atletico in extra time. Unfortunately I was suspended for that match after picking up my third booking in the second leg in Munich. But I still played my part in what, for the time being, is the most recent major success I've been able to celebrate in my career." It was Pep Guardiola who brought Alonso to Bayern from Madrid last summer, and the 33-year-old says the chance to work with the former Barcelona boss was something that appealed to him. "There were many good reasons to move to Bayern and Pep Guardiola was definitely one of them," he said. "I immediately realised how Guardiola's unique intensity has enabled him to achieve so much in his relatively short career. To be able to learn even more about football under his guidance is incredibly motivating and offers a great challenge. "He's a rigourous thinker and worker; he's very analytical, a great tactician and a methodical innovator. Pep understands everything about the game. He doesn't force his way of thinking on the players; instead, he convinces us about his ideas. If you manage that as a coach, you know that your players will push themselves even further and fight even harder for the team's shared goals." ‘La Decima’, the tenth, a dream, turned obsession to create history, to take a step further at being the club with the most glorious history in the entire continent. No one is alien to Real Madrid’s extravagant tenth European title win on May 24 For the first time in the history of the competition two sides from the same city met in the finals to decide the best club in Europe It was the Copa del Rey winners against the Spanish league champions All that only made the game much more anticipated as figuratively the whole city of Madrid was in Lisbon that night While the game’s every incident is frame-locked inside Madridista minds, what went behind reaching that all-important final win is what constitutes the story of La Decima The club’s last European title was 12 years back in 2002 a thunderous Zinedine Zidane volley and a classic three saves in a row from Iker Casillas that sealed La Novena (the ninth) It was evident that a lot had to be changed The club’s Champions League campaigns were limited to the Round of 16 stages six times in a row through 2004/05 – 2009/10 A range of iconic players either left the club or retired when Florentino Perez returned for his second spell as president something that remains the backbone of La Decima Two of the iconic signings, as we know today, were monumental goal-wise. Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema were brought into the club in the summer of 2009 and then began a mission whose management brought home the tenth European title It kick-started another fine spell of Madrid domination on European Football as the club would then go on to win another three titles in the next four seasons The match, as already stated needs no reminder. We remember Sami Khedira being called on to replace the injured Xabi Alonso, Casillas’s error in judgment to give Los Rojiblancos the lead in the 37th minute, and Sergio Ramos’s ’92:48’ towering header to equalize and then the Madrid Tsunami which followed The game ended in a comfortable 4-1 scoreline but little does that scoreline show how dangerously anxious the times were with that clock ticking down to full time and the team still trailing to that Diego Godin finish But as it was the night would end with Iker Casillas getting the first hand on the tenth European Cup for Los Blancos La Decima was a monumental win for Real Madrid It went on to challenge every single unwritten rule against obsession and prove that to be obsessed for the right reasons does take you a long way With the pressure of winning a tenth European title off the shoulders Los Merengues seemed much more comfortable in the seasons that followed They went on to excel under the management of former Madrid man As it is the obsession didn’t only limit itself to that win it helped the club bond a band of players into a band of brothers It kick-started the development of partnerships like that of BBC the very popular Madrid trio up front of Bale Things that served the club way beyond a tenth European win Today on the seventh anniversary of that historic La Decima win we can’t help but play the highlights video over and over again and hear the commentator close the evening perfectly saying © 2025 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Minute Media or its affiliates and related brands All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER While the game’s every incident is frame-locked inside Madridista minds, what went behind reaching that all-important final win is what constitutes the story of La Decima Two of the iconic signings, as we know today, were monumental goal-wise. Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema were brought into the club in the summer of 2009 and then began a mission The match, as already stated needs no reminder. We remember Sami Khedira being called on to replace the injured Xabi Alonso, Casillas’s error in judgment to give Los Rojiblancos the lead in the 37th minute, and Sergio Ramos’s ’92:48’ towering header to equalize and then the Madrid Tsunami which followed Ranking Iker Casillas's greatest Real Madrid moments Login | Sign Up Push Square Guest Login or Sign Up It sounds like that's far from the end for this engine. As part of a management shake-up at Guerrilla Games, technical director Michiel van der Leeuw has announced he will be working on Decima full-time. In a LinkedIn post van der Leeuw says he'll be focusing on "our ambitious future plans for our own Decima engine" He says the team has "crafted a studio roadmap and future direction for our Decima engine so ambitious" that it now requires his full attention Of course, we don't know what that future direction looks like, but we can hazard a guess that more PS Studios may move onto Decima going forward. It could also elude to developing tools that allow the engine to be used for online service games, which is obviously a strategy that's in the pipeline at PlayStation imagining how the engine could improve is pretty tough; the results are already incredibly strong having produced some of the most technically impressive open world games to date Assuming Guerrilla and PS Studios will be moving to PS5-only development in future it seems likely that Decima could be at the heart of some of the console's best-looking titles within a few years [source linkedin.com] Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date He's also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters The engine is clearly amazing so I'm taking this as good news I'm actually curious if it's usable in different kinds of games - both in terms of genre and aesthetic Just finishing off Death Stranding Directors Cut and that’s a damn pretty game Looking forward to seeing what they do with it Wasnt until dawn and shadowfall also on decima It would be smart for Sony to have one universal engine for all their studios I don't mind more studios using the Decima Engine but I hope it won't be a mandate like EA did with Frostbite if not let them choose what's best for their games @AinsleyE This While it's good to get the most out of a fantastic engine I don't want majority of AAA games to only rely on a handful of engines GoW uses its own propriety engine that Santa Monica developed and it looks and plays like a dream - with its distinct stylings - I wouldn't then want future titles moving over into Decima or UE5 We don't want games looking homogenised visually Sony Bend apparently using the Decima engine for they’re new game Sony seem to be learning from Capcom and getting a lot of they’re studios to use the same engine It's a great engine I would like to see in other games in terms of hiring and getting people up to speed quickly It makes more sense now why Angie Smets is taking a "head of development strategy" role From what's rumoured there's at least 4 Horizon projects in the works from either Guerilla or other studios.1 And Horizon 3.So it's likely that their on the Decima engine so having people who are familiar with the tech in upper management roles to liaise with the studios should help with the development pipeline Makes me think about how Kojima's "Fox Engine" would have looked like after so many years of learning to optimize & use the full potential Decima was also used for Until Dawn which also looks great @PSXDave Me too I feel like KJP managed to adapt Decima into something that even looks like it was made in the FOX engine If nobody told me it was actually Decima I would have thought they’d somehow licensed FOX from Konami I wasn't a huge fan of horizon: forbidden west when tried it on ps5 - the open world and story just didn't grab me the detail of character models and animations/presentation during conversations with NPC's This was made all the more impressive by the fact that the game was running at 60fps in performance mode The decima engine is absolutely fantastic and I would welcome it's use in more titles from PlayStation studios If the Zero Dawn remaster is a real thing that's pathetic I hope they can figure out a better solution for the in flight pop in issues It was very jarring in the burning shores dlc @Al3 GTA though is a game all about freedom and chaos with activities and wanted systems Horizon is telling a particular story in its characters and world if you had Aloy just randomly killing innocents and people reacting with horror then it doesn't fit with who she is or the story their telling Zero Dawn and Forbidden West are both among my favorite games They're exceptionally beautiful and the control over Aloy is fantastic I absolutely have my fingers crossed that we'll be able to see this engine used in a wide variety of other open world games in different settings just keep it fresh with new stories and characters Death Stranding sells the Decima engine to me I know it’s unpopular in some circles to say but Horizon does Ubisoft better than Ubisoft top to bottom but DS is totally unique though and a showcase that the engine is capable of making different styles of games It goes to show the engine could be used in all different capabilities for different genres Let’s see it used in a multiplayer experience or horror or any other genre and see what it can do but I also don't want to see too much homogenization But it's absolutely a fantastic looking engine with excellent performance to boot @KundaliniRising333 I agree about a remaster It looks better than GoW2018 thanks to the engine Looks better than a lot of "native" PS5 games There's absolutely no reason to "remaster" a game that's still for sale and still beautiful This min-max idea that a game only matters if it's newly launched with the current most state of the art graphics is bizarre @Americansamurai1 Not necessarily remember when EA tried to standardize on Frostbite and it caused more harm than good Capcom's been standardizing on REngine though and it's been going well It depends on what the engine really does well and what its weaknesses are @NEStalgia yeah true the engine would have to be very versatile Be curious to see if any new games will be announced using it You can say allot of things about the writing in Forbidden West but one thing that's not debatable is that is an absolutely gorgeous game as good as you're going to see on any platform let Studio decide what works best for their vision It is one more option for them - not shoehorned on everything Naughty Dog and Sony Santa Monica have their own engines and I'm not sure what Insomniac and Bungie use I'd like to think that between the options available in house that all PS Studios would be able to use what makes sense for the game and have the help available to make it work They are upgrading the engine to make better use of the PS5 hardware I expect?They've got to leave the PS4 hardware behind and I say that as a PS4 Pro with SSD owner 'cos at the moment @sanderson72 Burning Shores already introduced some of that and I'd definitely expect more new technical features in the future I think most of Sony's other recent titles would be a better basis for future output Horizon might be Sony's prettiest game but all of their other recent titles feel better to play don't have the same issues with bugs that Horizon has @Americansamurai1 No multiple engines really opens up a variety of projects to choose from and there are lots of learning opportunities @Infern0 I don't know about that Maintain separate engines requires more capital and time They should take the best of all of their internal engine and have one universal engine proves that with Horizon and its an open world game! @JB_Whiting that wouldn't be the case We're not going to see ND or Santa Monica ditch their proprietary engines and we're not gonna see Insomniac ditch theirs either They've come a long way and that's what makes owning a PS good the fact that their games mostly play different and you get differing high quality experiences PS studios will use what works best for them and this is not EA Frostbite was used for almost everything because it was already established was expensive and most importantly for the studio heads it wouldn't make sense to get their other studios to work on creating an engine as they usually release on a yearly or bi yearly basis Same reason why MLB has a sucky engine that looks like it's been barely updated since PS3 days Well considering that unreal 5 has come out and with the new technology within that surely they are taking notes and changing the engine to get the best outcome Plus has any first party studios released anything with Ray tracing apart from spiderman and rachet.We all have to remember no games from First party apart from rachet Not counting burning shores because I believe that was made for ps4 to begin with I'd rather there be a heterogeneous array of engines being explored rather than a single allow new engines to be built upon the foundations of the old it could get to be quite worrying if things like physics end up feeling almost identical across half a dozen games or more The water and under it is amazing in Horizon FW Would be so cool to see a Sony studio making a pirate game It's not a bad idea as gamers are starting to notice a distinct "unreal" look to games Having another engine around that can deliver a different look and specifically takes advantage of the PS5 architecture can only bring good things @JB_Whiting yeah they created an engine specifically for GoW 2018 and then refused for ragnorök obviously I wonder what the future holds for that franchise Naughty Dog also has their own engine so no I would be shocked if they required anyone to use Decima @Loamy I would hope all their studios engines are being updated Especially the way data is steamed because that ssd is fast It's kinda crazy when you consider that most of their studios have created in house engines and they all are tailored to what the studio goes best I loved the inFamous games but I did not see GoT coming They really improved that engine and created something truly fanatic the new uncharted game with the Decima Engine would be interesting i'm sure a lot of the new studios they bought will be using it as well @AinsleyE The biggest problem with frostbite is that it was good (and still is) only for one type of game Almost everything that was not meant for a first-person-shooter game had to be made by studios that were learning to use Frostbite the engine upgrades were not shared among the studios so if one studio made steps in adapting Frostbite for their game another studio would have to start all over even if mechanically their games would behave the same I'd love elden ring etc to use this engine moving forwards instead of the old creaky engine they currently employ I know the games are supposed to look old and decrepit but surely they can look beautiful at the same time 🤔 @sanderson72 The Demon Souls remake alone was a reason to update to the PS5 and if you look how stable it runs it's just a dream Ghost of Thushima looks and plays fantastic I still have a ton of games to play but with these 3 alone im so happy I am quite surprised we never got more games using the Decima engine @Americansamurai1 Killzone Shadow Fall was the first game to use Decima Built from the ground up to leverage the PS4 hardware I'm assuming they are now updating the engine to fully leverage the PS5 Very excited to see where the engine goes now it has been untethered from the limitations of PS4 @VRjunky yeah very curious to see what the first PS5 only game will look like from the decima engine most likely it will be death stranding 2 @Flaming_Kaiser Indeed I was one of the lucky few who scored a PS5 on launch day and I was absolutely floored by the Demons Souls Remake I was in awe of what Bluepoint had achieved especially considering it was a launch title The Flame Lurker boss fight in that new engine goes down as one of the most visually impressive set pieces I have ever witnessed I died quite a few times just because I was so distracted by the spectacle on show LoL @VRjunky I played through it 3,5 times for the Platinum it was a blast @Flaming_Kaiser I'm going to be honest and say it defeated me a second time on PS5 I got about halfway through on PS3 before giving up Went back a few times but never got much further I was one of the people who refused to watch any tutorials or guides I found much of the delight of Fromsoft games was figuring out the obscure gameplay and progression mechanics the next level boss after that (I've got no idea about either) but those ***** keep kicking my butt I have been meaning to go back and play another build but this working for a living nonsense takes up too much gaming time I was incredibly excited when they announced Demons Souls Remake as a launch game It's second only to Killzone Shadow Fall in regards to a launch title showing a true generation leap that completely dynamic global illumination system Show Comments Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment.. 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