Blizzard Releases 2024 Plan
Blizzard Entertainment recently announced their plans for 2024. The 2024 plan announced by Blizzard included four versions, with a total of 16 updates. Among them, the World of Warcraft nostalgic clothing would be divided into three versions, namely the regular nostalgic clothing (WLL version), the hardcore nostalgic clothing, and the exploration season (Level 60 Plus). In addition, Blizzard also announced the 2024 eSports plans for Hearthstone and Overwatch. Hearthstone would host three large-scale standard mode competitions, including two seasons of the Masters Tour and one global finals. As for Overwatch, it would be launching the Champions Series (OWCS), the first international competitive tournament. However, the search results did not provide any information about the specific update time and other details.
Blizzard Releases Warcraft 12
Blizzard announced that Warcraft 1 and 2 would be removed from GOG on December 13, 2024. This decision may be related to the release of the remakes of the two games during the 30th anniversary celebration of Warcraft. However, GOG stated that even if the games were taken down, the platform would continue to maintain the two games to ensure that they could be played normally in the system.
Blizzard Releases StarCraft New Game
Blizzard is developing a StarCraft derivative shooting game, which is an open world game. Earlier, Jason Schreier, a reporter from bloomberg, had revealed relevant information, and there was also a brief unannounced rating information for StarCraft on the rating website, further confirming Blizzard's development plan. ResetEra's Uzupedro revealed that Blizzard was hiring for the position of " creative deputy design director " for an unannounced open-world shooter game. Combined with other news reports, this game was likely to be an FPS derivative set in the StarCraft universe. The project was led by Dan Hay, the former head of the Far Cry series.
Blizzard Emergency Plan
The Blizzard Emergency Plan was that in the event of a blizzard, the unit or local government should immediately activate the emergency plan and take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of employees and the public. These measures may include increasing snow shoveling equipment and preparing temporary housing. In addition, when a blizzard seriously affects the normal production and work of the unit, production should be stopped immediately to ensure the safety of employees. The specific contents of the emergency plan may vary from region to region and unit to unit.
Tiangong Open Source Plan Releases
On November 11th, the National and Local Intelligent Robot Creation Center released the Tiangong Open Source Plan. The plan was to open up existing technological achievements to the industry, including the Tiangong humanoid robot body, data sets, motion control, and other technological achievements. The release of this plan had many important implications: - In terms of technology sharing, the innovation center had already opened up the Tiangong software development document and structural design document. By the end of the year, it would open up Tiangong structural drawings, software architecture, electrical systems, etc., as well as data sets, motion control training framework, etc., to provide the foundation for further development and application for universities, research institutes, and integrated companies around the world. - In terms of industrial development, it could shorten the research and development cycle of humanoid robots from more than half a year to one month, promote the development of the humanoid robot industry, and mark an important step in the wider application of humanoid robot technology. It could help accelerate the integration of humanoid robots into human daily life. - In terms of industry-university-research cooperation, Peking University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Youbixuan, etc. became the first batch of partners. They would cooperate and research through various forms such as subject application, laboratory co-construction, and announcement. With Tiangong as the basic platform, they would accelerate the exploration in many frontier directions such as noumenon development, embodied brain, intelligent cerebrum, etc. - In terms of standard setting, the innovation center was leading enterprises and scientific research institutions related to embodied intelligence to formulate an industry standard system. It had participated in the release of the national standard,"Legged Robot Performance and Test Method Standard", taking the lead in implementing the standard and building a test platform based on the test method. It also took the lead in establishing the industry standard of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,"Artificial Intelligence embodied intelligence data collection standard". In the future, it would also design a series of standards for data sets. - In terms of ecological construction, the innovation center aims to create an ecosystem of embodied intelligent robots, covering a variety of content to achieve a closed-loop of the embodied intelligent robot ecosystem. It will also cooperate with universities, research institutes, collectors and other institutions with humanoid robot secondary development capabilities to jointly create an open source community of embodied intelligent robots. If you want to know more about the follow-up, click on the link and read it!
Canada Releases Five-Year Aerospace Plan
On November 22, 2024, the CanadaAir Transport Safety Agency (Catsa) released its 2024 - 2029 strategic plan. The plan was the result of a multi-party collaboration, bringing together the expertise of the industry and community partners, as well as the Ministry of Transport of Canada. This strategic plan outlines four key principles, including investing in the labor force, using new processes and technologies to drive innovation, implementing process improvements for the integrated aviation ecosystem, and improving the passenger inspection experience. In terms of innovation, Catsa intends to develop plans to apply advanced analysis, artificial intelligence, and biomedicals to strengthen surveillance, security operations, and training programs. The agency will also develop a new security technology road map for passengers, luggage, and non-passengers, which will outline technological advancements for the next 10 to 15 years, including accessible checkpoints and conveniences that enhance the customer experience. Other planned moves include working with security screening contractor, airport authorities, carriers, industry associations, maintenance service suppliers, equipment manufacturers, and supervisors to improve security screening capabilities and performance. The novel "Hundred Years of Spaceship" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Blizzard responded to World of Warcraft 2's plan
Blizzard's gaming director said that although they might consider launching World of Warcraft 2 in the future, there were no plans for it at the moment. Senior Game Director Ion Hazzikostas also personally said that Blizzard had no plans to develop a continuation of World of Warcraft (including World of Warcraft 2). They already had a large and active player community, so they only needed to continuously introduce new systems to meet the needs of players. World of Warcraft would also continue to be upgraded in many ways.
Blizzard, Blizzard, Blizzard is online
Recently, there have been many blizzards or extremely heavy blizzards. For example, on the morning of November 25, the Central Meteorology Observatory issued a yellow warning of blizzard. Eastern Inner Mongolia, central and western Hebei, western Jiangsu, western Liaoning and northeast were affected by heavy blizzard. The snowfall in northeast Liaoning reached 20 - 25mm, which was considered as a heavy blizzard. The new snow depth may exceed 12cm. At 19:20 on November 16, Huashan issued a red warning of blizzard. The snowfall on the west peak of Huashan Mountain had reached more than 15mm in the past six hours. On November 26, the snowfall in Hegang, HeiLongjiang Province reached 40.7mm (the magnitude of the super blizzard). At 16:00, the snow depth reached 30cm, the snow in Huzhong, HeiLongjiang Province reached 43cm, and the snow in Mohe River reached 39cm. On November 25, there was a blizzard near the top of Mount Tai in Shandong Province, which almost reached the level of heavy snowstorm and formed deep snow. On November 25 - 26, there would be a large area of heavy snowstorm in the northeast, from partial heavy snowstorm to extreme blizzard. The observatory of Heilongjiang Province issued a red warning of blizzard in advance. The total snowfall in the Xiaoxing 'anling area in the north of Hei Longjiang and the Mudanjiang area in the east could reach 30 - 55mm, almost twice the standard of extreme blizzard, and the new snow depth could reach 15 - 40cm. In addition, heavy snowstorms are expected in parts of Xinjiang and Xizang. The novel "There's Snow in Kyokuboku" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Blizzard, blizzard
Blizzard, Big Blizzard, and Mega Blizzard were different levels of snowfall according to the amount of rainfall. According to the Bureau of Meteorology's standards, when the 24-hour rainfall reached 10.0 to 19.9 millimeters, it was called a blizzard; when the rainfall was between 20.0 to 29.9 millimeters, it was called a heavy blizzard; and when the rainfall reached or exceeded 30.0 millimeters, it was called a heavy blizzard. These levels were determined by the amount of rainfall, and different regions might have different perceptions of these levels.
Magical Beasts were novels that existed first. It was still Blizzard's plan. Did the Warcraft novels come from Blizzard?
Warcraft is a game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, while Warcraft novels are independent stories that have no direct connection to Blizzard Entertainment. Although some of the Warcraft novels were based on the game, they were not a derivative of the game itself, but an independent story. Therefore, the Warcraft novels were not related to Blizzard. The inspiration for the creation of Warcraft novels came from the imagination and creativity of the author, and it was not directly related to Blizzard. However, there were also some connections between Blizzard's games and novels because Blizzard was a pioneer in the game and novel industries. Its games and novels had a wide audience and influence.
Blizzard, blizzard, blizzard has broken into the south
[Yes, the blizzard and the heavy blizzard have already entered the southern region.] According to the warning issued by the observatory, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places would face blizzards. The scope of the blizzard was more unusual than usual, all appearing in the area south of the Yangtze River. The impact of the blizzard was wide and could affect transportation and power infrastructure.