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The Ford Taurus is alive and well and living in China
Continue reading The Ford Taurus is alive and well and living in China
The Ford Taurus is alive and well and living in China originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 21 May 2019 17:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | Comments2020 Land Rover Discovery Sport revealed on new platform, adds electrification
Filed under: Green,Land Rover,Crossover,SUV,Luxury,Off-Road
The little Disco gets a big update.Continue reading 2020 Land Rover Discovery Sport revealed on new platform, adds electrification
2020 Land Rover Discovery Sport revealed on new platform, adds electrification originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 21 May 2019 17:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Shoe giants urge Trump to end trade war
Fourth installment of GRID racing game series launches this September
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It guest-stars Fernando Alonso.Continue reading Fourth installment of GRID racing game series launches this September
Fourth installment of GRID racing game series launches this September originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 21 May 2019 16:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | CommentsChevy's new 'Buckle to Drive' system locks out shifter until you buckle up
Filed under: Chevrolet,Safety,Technology,Crossover,Sedan,Truck
It's part of the Chevy Teen Driver System.Continue reading Chevy's new 'Buckle to Drive' system locks out shifter until you buckle up
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Permalink | Email this | Comments9 ELLE.com Editors On the Summer Work Basics They're Buying from the Net-a-Porter Sale
2021 Ford F-150 Super Cab spied for the first time
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The Blue Oval is seen testing another version of its best-selling truck.Continue reading 2021 Ford F-150 Super Cab spied for the first time
2021 Ford F-150 Super Cab spied for the first time originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 21 May 2019 15:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | Comments1992 Subaru Libero | eBay Find of the Day
Filed under: Subaru,Auctions,Minivan/Van,Classics,Specialty
An imported van with four-wheel drive and a five-speed manual? Sign us up.Continue reading 1992 Subaru Libero | eBay Find of the Day
1992 Subaru Libero | eBay Find of the Day originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 21 May 2019 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | Comments2020 Porsche Cayenne Coupe First Drive Review | Less trunk is better
Filed under: Porsche,First Drives,Crossover,SUV,Luxury,Performance
It might be the most attractive SUV on the market now.Continue reading 2020 Porsche Cayenne Coupe First Drive Review | Less trunk is better
2020 Porsche Cayenne Coupe First Drive Review | Less trunk is better originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 21 May 2019 14:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | CommentsEntrepreneur: Study Finds Marijuana Users Have Better Chance of Surviving Heart Attack
Everybody's Golf VR Review - Bogey
The latest title in Sony's long-running golf series, Everybody's Golf VR is the first to bring the series to virtual reality. The transition isn't without its bumps, with the biggest being a lack of Everybody's Golf's traditional competitive modes. But the PSVR golf game does deliver a fairly realistic golfing experience that's both accessible to play and fairly challenging to master.
Everybody's Golf VR abandons the franchise's usual third-person view for a first-person perspective. The three-click swing mechanic (commonly seen in most of today's golf games) is also gone. Instead, you swing your clubs with a PlayStation Move or DualShock 4 controller, hopefully in one smooth motion. The direction of the ball is determined by the angle you hit it, and distance is calculated by how hard you swing. There are other factors to consider when you're on the course as well, such as wind direction and your elevation in relation to the hole.
Actually swinging your arms to hit the ball takes a bit to get used to, but the motion controls are remarkably responsive with a DualShock 4 controller. Once you've got the form down on your swing, you'll be able to reliably hit the ball the way you want to. The same can't be said for the PlayStation Move controller. Occasionally, the Move controller works fine, but I found myself more often than not being unable to even reach the ball with my club while swinging the Move. I ultimately just had to stop using it, as it became too frustrating to play a near-perfect hole only to be stopped short just because my club would not reach down far enough to hit the ball no matter how much I crouched.
In Everybody's Golf VR, the golf balls behave as they're expected to, obeying the laws of gravity when it comes to the arc of your shot or elevation of a slope, and their roll realistically heeds to changes in friction when terrain is affected by different weather patterns, like rain. As previously mentioned, the motion controls are pretty precise. The camera measures whether your swing misses the ball, glances off of it, or makes full contact, and then takes the angle and power of your swing into account. Shifting too much of your body weight to one side or curving your swing typically results in a lousy shot, while maintaining good form sends your ball flying straight as an arrow (provided there are no environmental factors to take into account as well). The game isn't an exact representation of reality--you don't have to swing nearly as aggressively as a professional golfer to achieve distances like one--but Everybody's Golf VR sells you on the experience that you're actually playing golf in your living room.
There's a welcome variety of customization options in Everybody's Golf VR, allowing players of all skill levels to enjoy time on the course. If you're having trouble putting, for example, you can turn on vacuum holes--which suck the ball in provided you get your shot close enough. For a more challenging experience, you can tee up on longer versions of the courses where it's harder to hit par. There are some nice accessibility options as well, such as the choice to play while standing up or sitting down, the option to change your dominant hand from right to left, and the freedom to choose between several sets of clubs--including one that makes it easier to hit the ball straight if you have limited mobility in your arms. There's plenty in Everybody's Golf VR to make the experience appealing to all types of players, and helpful tutorials give newcomers a chance to grasp the basics of the sport until they can get the swing of things.
Everybody's Golf VR's courses are populated with everything you'd expect to see in a golf game, like sand traps and trees, as well as a few things you might not, like dinosaurs. Occasionally, a bee flies in your face or the sound of a wave crashes onto a nearby beach. These sights and sounds are never distracting, but via a PSVR headset and headphones, they do make it feel like each golf course is full of life. Decide to look closely enough, however, and you'll notice the golf resort's reception area and each course is always eerily empty save for your character and either the receptionist or your caddie. It's a tad unsettling.
Though it runs out of steam quickly, Everybody's Golf VR is fun while it lasts, and there are satisfying goals to chase for a time.
Each distinct environment provides more than just a cosmetic change, as a course's aesthetic translates into different environmental hazards to deal with; the Seaside Course is very windy, for example, and its holes have a lot more sand and water traps for your ball to be blown into. A course's hazards aren't enough to force you to drastically change how you play, but they do provide just enough of a welcome challenge to encourage out-of-the-box thinking. It's fun learning about how a new course works, and satisfying to successfully deduce how to adapt to it. In the Seaside Course, for instance, you can risk timing your shot to a powerful gust of wind in hopes it will send your ball flying over an out-of-bounds area--which could save you an entire swing in the long run.
Unfortunately, there aren't many courses for you to play on. And other than Practice Range, the only game mode in Everybody's Golf VR is Course. In Course, you do have the choice of whether you play a random three holes from a course, the first nine, the last nine, or all 18. But with only three courses total, you'll end up replaying the same holes repeatedly in order to unlock all the in-game rewards. It gets tedious after a few hours.
The lack of additional modes in Everybody's Golf VR is a step back in comparison to previous titles in the series, many of which have one or two modes where you can face off against NPCs. As is, the only thing you can do in Everybody's Golf VR is play a course by yourself while your nearby caddie yells words of encouragement. Everybody's Golf VR does lessen some of its tedium with those caddies, though, as the eagerly helpful Riko and teasingly friendly Lucy help make your repeated trips out to the same collection of courses far less lonely.
Replaying courses allows you to unlock additional outfits for your caddie to wear, which is a fun cosmetic reward to chase after. You can also unlock a handful of Events by partnering with a caddie long enough. Some play out like romantically-charged mini dates, but most are just goofy distractions good for a laugh or two. Each caddie has her own unique set of four Events, and though their unlock rates are spread out enough that it will take you a few hours to see them all, once you do there's nothing compelling to work towards in the game.
Despite the lack of different activities in Everybody's Golf VR, the one thing it does do--provide a means of playing golf without actually having to go outside--is relatively enjoyable. Though it runs out of steam quickly, Everybody's Golf VR is fun while it lasts, and there are satisfying goals to chase for a time. Everybody's Golf VR's best feature is its assortment of customization and accessibility options, though, as they allow both golf newbies and veterans to curate their desired experience and just enjoy playing a round.
Audi Q5 plug-in hybrid revealed with more power than the SQ5
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It'll go approximately 26 miles on electric power.Continue reading Audi Q5 plug-in hybrid revealed with more power than the SQ5
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Permalink | Email this | CommentsEntrepreneur: How to Become More Mindful and Make Better Choices in Your Daily Life
'The Art of Racing in the Rain' stars Kevin Costner as a dog named Enzo
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His owner hopes to race in Formula OneContinue reading 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' stars Kevin Costner as a dog named Enzo
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Permalink | Email this | CommentsHere Are All The Ways I've Died In Outer Wilds (So Far)
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Developer: Mobius Digital Rating: Rating Pending Platform: PC
The release of the kooky space adventure The Outer Wilds is nearly upon us, with the game launching on both Xbox One and Epic Game Store on May 30. I've been spacefaring within the game in the meantime, discovering sights both awe-inspiring and bizarre, as well as meeting my demise. Uh, quite frequently, truth be told.
The Outer Wilds revels in its dark humor, often giving you more than enough tools for you to dig your own grave. Instead of being a source of frustration, it left me laughing at the memorable and grisly results of my own stupidity.
Come with me, reader, on a journey through the mangled, suffocated corpses of myself that I've left through time and space and in the belly of massive fishes.
1. I forgot to put on my spacesuit before I left the ship for the cold embrace of space. I promptly asphyxiated like a champ. Go me.
2. I flew into the sun by accident. It hurt.
3. I carefully navigated a series of asteroids only to find myself staring down the face of a literal angler fish the size of the moon. Reader, he ate me.
4. I was spelunking into the heart of a planet filled with many caverns. I miscalculated a jump and promptly fell to the bottom. The crack of my helmet and skull announced my doom.
5. I set my autopilot to lead me to a planet. It collided with another planet on the way there and bounced off, severely damaging my spaceship. I got out to fix my spaceship without turning off the autopilot only to watch my ship continue to zoom away, leaving me adrift in space. Crap.
6. I went in for a rough landing on a small moon. I got out before we came to a full stop but my spaceship kept going. It bounced around the moon, came back, and somehow knocked me out into the further reaches of space where, once again, I died.
7. I boarded a mysterious shuttle on an alien planet. Messing with some levers, I somehow initiated the shuttle's autopilot. With much ceremony, it lifted off the planet and into the stars... shortly before flying directly into the path of a flaming asteroid. Given I just straight up committed some interstellar grand theft auto, I probably deserved this.
8. While exploring the belly of a mysterious planet, I uncovered a big dark sphere. I got too close and it sucked me in and teleported me to the other side of the planetary system, where I floated helplessly until I smashed into some space debris and died.
9. While I was walking around a small cavern filled ancient stone texts to decipher, some insect things on the floor electrocuted me to death.
10. I found a volcano that my scanner said was hiding a secret within. I slammed into the side of it, damaging my landing gear and camera systems. I went to leave my ship to repair said systems only to find that my door was hovering above the abyss next to the volcano: my ship hadn't landed fully on the rim. I fell fast and far and soon was still and dead. R.I.P. me.
I've still got quite a bit more exploring to do before I'm anywhere near done with Outer Wilds. I'm sure that all of the above are just a grisly appetizer of what's to come for my poor space-faring fellow.
For more on The Outer Wilds, check out our preview here.
BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce cars recalled to replace faulty seat belts
'F1 2019' in-game trailer shows off beautiful graphics update
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The 'Legends Edition' grants early access.Continue reading 'F1 2019' in-game trailer shows off beautiful graphics update
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