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Friday, August 20, 2021

After the success of that previous album, Lorde returned home to Auckland, her own almost fictionally perfect oasis, and logged off

After the success of that previous album, Lorde returned home to Auckland, her own almost fictionally perfect oasis, and logged off, (“Can you reach me? No, you can’t” one lyric on Solar Power declares). The time spent away seems to have ushered her into a new era, one centered around the pursuit of eternal optimism. It’s a compelling transition, since she spent most of her adolescence soundtracking the blows of coming of age. On Solar Power, Lorde pauses to take a deep breath. Much of the tension that she’s built in her previous two albums finds release here. In a sigh of relief on “Stoned at the Nail Salon,” she sings, “Well, my hot blood’s been burnin’ for so many summers now, It’s time to cool it down, wherever that leads.”

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Last year, Lorde made a pilgrimage to Antarctica, eager, it seemed, to learn about the climate crisis firsthand.

Last year, Lorde made a pilgrimage to Antarctica, eager, it seemed, to learn about the climate crisis firsthand. Her journey led many to believe that the 24-year-old’s highly anticipated third album would arrive in the form of a real life Sick Sad World. Instead, Lorde appears sun-kissed and enlightened on Solar Power, released Friday. “Come on and let the bliss begin,” she signals to listeners, a sentiment that sounds like it should come from a SoulCycle instructor or new age cult leader rather than a pop star, on the album’s title track. Four years after 2017’s Melodrama, she’s returned: No shoes, no shirt, no impending doom.

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Ella Yelich-O'Connor, known to the world as Lorde, is embracing a sunnier and more analog sound, full of plucked acoustic guitars and brushed snares

Ella Yelich-O'Connor, known to the world as Lorde, is embracing a sunnier and more analog sound, full of plucked acoustic guitars and brushed snares. Since releasing her breakout single, "Royals," in 2013, she's made the most of hook-heavy pop songs constructed from a palette of overcast electronic sounds. "In the past," she says, "I'd hear an acoustic guitar and I'd say 'Oh, here we go. It's about to get painfully authentic!' " The title of her new album, Solar Power, belies the stylistic sea change; after years spent as a famous and famously melancholic artist, she's now singing of sun salutations and meditations. In a new video, above, she and friends frolic on a beach in her home of New Zealand – far from the late-night troublemaking of 2017's "Green Light." "I was feeling good, you know?" she says. "It felt like there was something in the air down there, and I really wanted to capture that. But I've sort of since been told that taken as a whole, the record has a lot more depth to it. It's sadder than people thought. There's always shades to my work."

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Activision and Sledgehammer Games are unveiling a well-known secret: Call of Duty

Activision and Sledgehammer Games are unveiling a well-known secret: Call of Duty: Vanguard. The game is the next installment of the Call of Duty series that has sold more than 400 million copies to date. It will take players back to World War II and weave a global story about the birth of the special forces. The narrative and gameplay will feel familiar to fans like me, who have played every single Call of Duty game since the franchise’s 2002 debut. It was exciting to see it revealed inside Call of Duty: Warzone, the ever-present battle royale mode. And I am a big history buff and so I’m happy to see the franchise return to a period that is so much more grounded in history. And I’m glad to see it zero in on lesser-known parts of the historical record that seem more important by today’s environment, as special forces has become so much more visible now.

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But while this kind of introduction happens every year, it’s a difficult one this time

But while this kind of introduction happens every year, it’s a difficult one this time because the parent company Activision Blizzard has been hit with a sex discrimination lawsuit by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. That lawsuit has rocked the executive ranks of Blizzard and soured many in the industry, to the point where gamers are considering boycotts of the company’s games. On top of that, Electronic Arts has emerged more competitive this year with the upcoming launch of the near-future modern warfare theme of Battlefield 2042, which features unparalleled destruction and the capability for players to create their own scenarios with Battlefield Portal.

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Sledgehammer’s developers are taking us back to World War II with a single-player campaign that focuses on the birth of the special forces

Sledgehammer’s developers are taking us back to World War II with a single-player campaign that focuses on the birth of the special forces, the soldiers in the vanguard who led the way into places like Normandy and defended Stalingrad from German assault. The story focuses on four soldiers of diverse origins who were selected to be among the first special soldiers. While fictional, each character and backstory has a basis in history, with guidance from Sledgehammer historian and World War II expert Marty Morgan. These characters will provide what Sledgehammer hopes is a unique window on the vast battlefields of the global war, and they will also focus on parts of the war that many people aren’t already familiar with — including people like me, who have played every single Call of Duty and Battlefield game. This is the first time since Sledgehammer’s 2017 game, Call of Duty: WWII, that the franchise has returned to the Second World War.

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As we talked to Marty Morgan, there was another aspect of the stories that he told that really caught our attention

“As we talked to Marty Morgan, there was another aspect of the stories that he told that really caught our attention,” said Dave Swenson, the campaign creative director at Sledgehammer. “And that was the human story. The story of these individuals who participated in World War Two, and they were often ordinary, but there was something about the war that sort of pulled extraordinary out of them. And these ordinary people became extraordinary as a result of their fighting in World War Two.” Sledgehammer’s leaders and game creators showed off snippets of the game, from the single-player campaign to multiplayer combat. But more detailed reveals of things, like multiplayer gameplay, are coming up. There will also be new reveals related to the coordination of the game with Warzone (yes, it’s getting a new map) and a Zombies mode as well.

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