Tag Archives: Dawn

Cicadas in southern India have been found to start their dawn chorus with remarkable accuracy, timing their song to a precise level of light during the pre-dawn hours. Researchers discovered that the insects begin singing when the sun is exactly 3.8 degrees below the horizon – a moment known as civil twilight. Recording cicada songs The study, published in the …

If you’re hoping to own a proper physical copy of Bloober Team’s third-person survival horror Cronos: The New Dawn, then PS5 will be your only option. Alongside its 5th September release date last week, the Polish developer announced a partnership with distributor Skybound Games to put the promising title on retail store shelves. But it’ll take advantage of Nintendo’s controversial …

Bloober Team’s twisted sci-fi nightmare, Cronos: The New Dawn, is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 with a release date of September 5, 2025. The studio revealed its release date plans during today’s July 2025 Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, narrowing its launch window down to a specific September date. It comes with the news that Cronos is coming to Switch 2 …

Sony’s recent lawsuit against Tencent’s Polaris Quest studio over the game Light of Motiram, for similarities to the Horizon franchise, reads like a bizarre déjà vu moment for me, and I think for many gamers. And it speaks to a deeper issue with games and creativity. The claim? That Tencent’s new open-world, but unreleased, adventure appears to have heavily borrowed …

After a few hours with Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake, it became clear to me that the oft-derided developer had made something special, and the conversation about the studio was about to change. After a few hours with Bloober Team’s next game, the sci-fi horror Cronos: The New Dawn, questions about the studio’s capabilities are virtually an afterthought for …

Sony is suing Tencent for copying nearly every aspect of its Horizon games for the upcoming Light of Motiram, an open-world hunting game with some obvious similarities to Sony’s franchise, as first reported by Reuters. Tencent first announced the new game in November 2024. The lawsuit goes into detail on the various ways Tencent’s new game appears to be unlawfully …

Due to decades of popularity, there’s always going to be new challengers stepping up to try and take the survival horror crown. Most fail, but when Bloober Team – fresh off the overwhelming success of their Silent Hill 2 remake – steps up with an original effort, you take notice. That’s why I was eager to try out Cronos: The …

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s superpowers is its ability to investigate the cosmic dawn, the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The telescope has once again lived up to its reputation, spotting light from a galaxy which existed only 280 million years after the Big Bang, the most distant ever detected. Known as MoM-z14, it …

Astronomers have spotted the earliest known signs of rocky planet formation around a young, sun-like star for the first time. The discovery offers an unprecedented glimpse into what may have happened at the dawn of our own solar system. What did the researchers see? Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA array in Chile, researchers …

One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn sky this weekend and will be joined by the moon on Monday morning. The star in question is Aldebaran, a first-magnitude star that shines with a distinct orange hue and marks the right eye of Taurus, …