Samsung's 72-year-old chairman Lee Kun-hee suffered a major heart attack over the weekend, though is now stable, breathing without assistance and undergoing surgery. Samsung insist that there "has been no disruption in the group's day-to-day operation."
Ultimate tip and trick guide to Dwarven Den: Mine smarter, collect items faster, and overcome obstacles easier than ever!
In Dwarven Den you are tasked with digging up the remnants of an ancient city that was lost long ago. You'll alternate playing different characters and be given different goals to meet. During game play you have to make lots of decisions such as what weapons and tools are the best to forge and what route to take without losing your life due to lack of energy crystals. Whether you're stuck on a specific level or just want general gameplay tips, we've got the tips, hints, and cheats you need to locate hidden treasures and get further, faster!
In Dwarven Den you'll have to mine your way through several different kinds of stone and rock. Knowing the differences between them is crucial. They all look slightly different which makes it relatively easy to decipher between them. Most kinds of dirt only takes one hit while some stone takes 4 our more hits to blast through it. It can quickly wear down on your energy so whenever you can take an easier path, do it. A good rule of thumb to remember is the lighter the stone or dirt, the easier it is to crack.
During gameplay you'll pick up many items in treasure chests. Some of them you'll need and some of them you'll accumulate more than you'll ever use or need. Just make sure you're only using gold to forge items you actually need.
While you don't want an excess of tools laying around, you also don't want to have to spend real cash buying them. Using your precious diamond and other commodities to buy weapons isn't a good use of in-game currency. Instead, just explore levels a little more and pick up the things you need to forge items. I've even went back to levels I had already beat in order to collect more of a specific tool. Ten minutes of my time is better than spending real cash for an axe.
Tech is one resource that you'll find readily available throughout Dwarven Den. Use it when you need to, especially for bombs and torches. Your goal should always be to not expend more energy than you have to. If you're facing a wall of rock that's 4 stones thick in every direction, use a bomb and save your energy. Since tech is found rather easily you can use it a little more freely than you can diamonds.
Knowing how your enemies move is the easiest way to quickly get around them without taking an energy hit. For example, spiders always move in straight lines until they run into something. Mummies can be passed relatively easily as long as they don't see you first. These are the little things you'll want to pay attention to in order to avoid enemies in the smartest way possible.
You can only place a bomb somewhere within your character's immediate vicinity so choosing where to lay it is important. Count stones and now where the impact will end. From there you should choose the best placement in order to maximize how much damage it'll do.
You can create and join other people's guilds in Dwarven Den in order to earn bonus crystals. A quick web search for Dwarven Den guilds yields tons of them and I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't want to earn free crystals from having to do pretty much nothing.
If you have a guild that earns you cool and unique stuff, be sure to let us know the guild name in the comments too!
Just like joining a guild can earn you free crystals, connecting your Facebook account can score you some free lives if you have other friends playing Dwarven Den. Just link it up and request lives. Then if you have a time where you run out of what the game allows, just accept a like from a Facebook friend. Just be sure to send them back in return.
If you're going to use in-game currency on anything, use it on increasing your energy or gold multiplier. I typically only use the energy boost if I'm stuck on a level that I just can't seem to get past. Having extra energy makes it easier to explore more without worrying about finding your next energy crystal. Gold is needed to forge items and if you have something in mind and you need more gold, using the gold multiplier can stack up your gold pile even faster.
This cheat has been working for a long time in several games. It appears to be the same with Dwarven Den as well. If you run out of lives and don't have any waiting from Facebook friends, just hop into your system settings and change the time forward a few hours. Open Dwarven Den again your lives should have fully replenished again. Even better, it looks like if you set the clock back again, it won't take them away.
If you have been enjoying playing Dwarven Den, what tips and tricks do you have that could be helpful to other players? If you're a member of a guild, which one? Be sure to let me know in the comments!
If you take public transit in a big city, especially New York City, you know the stresses of train delays. But in a perfect world, the flow of transportation is actually an elegantly coordinated system. A visualization called Travic, a collaboration between Geops and the University of Freiburg, lets you look down on the idealized patterns of transit systems worldwide.
Budding town planners and mini-architecture aficionados should enjoy sitting down to get handsy with these Blockitecture sets from Areaware. Lest you think they're easily stacked, the pine pieces aren't actually perfect squares; the different angles make for a fun, Jenga-like assembly of make-believe city-blocks.
Role-playing games are a dime a dozen on the App Store. How does a new RPG stand out? Slingshot braves from Japanese developer COLOPL does so by using a unique slingshot mechanic. Pull back on your hero, let go, and watch him or her fly into the enemy like a cue ball. It’s a different and surprisingly fun way to kill monsters on your iPhone or iPad.
Read on to learn about more features like online co-op that make this free to play RPG worth a download.
After engaging in one of those climactic teaser battles that shows you what the game is going to be like, players awaken in the building of a heroes’ guild. The first thing you’ll do is customize your anime-style character from a too-small assortment of pieces. Then comes the fun part: deciding on your slingshot.
Slingshot Braves initially offers three main types of slingshots, each of which affects the mechanics of a character’s attacks (two more types unlock later). All can be aimed simply by pulling back on a character and then releasing.
Attacks with the blade cause a character to ricochet around until he or she stops hitting targets, not unlike a pinball. The lance pierces through multiple enemies in a straight line, usually reflecting off the wall for extra hits. The hammer strikes all enemies within a certain radius, usually producing massive combos as a result.
The choice of weapon for your main character won’t lock you down too tightly, as the other two weapons are shared by your second and third party members. Players only control two characters at a time during battle, but either one can be swapped out for the third in order to recharge health or mix up combat strategies. Team combos are easy to set up and add extra damage to each character’s assaults.
Another cool aspect of the game beyond the great combat system is the co-op mode. These can be played either by local Wi-Fi or online. The matchmaking system and menus are extremely clunky, but you should be able to find a partner eventually. Or you could add me as a friend! Go to Friends, pick Find Friend, and then enter PACEVEDO to send a friend request.
During co-op missions, each player takes only two characters into a battle – no third wheels allowed. Both human partners will take turns attacking the enemies and can even combo off of each other. If one person gets disconnected, the AI will automatically fill in for the other player. Even if you die, your partner can go on to win the mission and earn rewards for you both!
Slingshot Braves uses the common stamina system to encourage in-app purchases. Each mission players go on will drain a little stamina. Your stamina bar increases as you level up, but you’re bound to run out if you play a lot. Stamina refills cost gems, the premium currency. Other uses for gems include expanding your storage, changing your character’s appearance, and playing the “Gacha” game to win random premium items.
Even the most dedicated Japanese RPG enthusiasts must admit that turn-based battles can get old after a while. Slingshot Braves flies right past that obstacle with its slingshot-based fights and optional co-op battles. Hopefully COLOPL continues to support Slingshot Braves with more content and special events in the future. Pull back and give this one a try!
There's a mysterious code hidden in an increasing number of films, shows, and videogames out there, from The Simpsons to South Park to Toy Story. The list goes forever, including live action features like Avengers, Star Wars, and Hunger Games. The code is the key to a secret society limited to a selected few.
Well, that's not how it's supposed to work. A guy cutting down a tree branch gets caught in a gnarly spill when the branch he was cutting down falls and takes him down with it. Nature isn't too kind when you're chopping her off, I guess.
The stark concrete inside of an out-of-service water tower might not spring to mind as a place to take in beautiful views. But Netherlands architecture firm Zecc created just that, using a naked wood stairway to draw viewers to the 150-foot-high observation deck overlooking De Wieden National Park. Check out photographer Stijn Poelstra's gorgeous images—they might be more beautiful than the park itself.
France will make quite a statement about feeding the world when it unveils its pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015. Not only will vegetables, herbs, and hops grow on the building's exterior, but that same food will also be served at a restaurant inside. In fact, the whole place is set up to be like a market from the future.
When comiXology announced they were being acquired by Amazon, many folks were wondering if any changes to how they use comiXology would come about. As it turns out, comiXology is making some changes to their iOS and Android apps with regards to the in-app purchase system and check out cart features.
For Android it's simple update of the app but for iOS, comiXology is retiring the old version for iPhone & iPad and users are required to download the new release that includes the update changes as noted on the company blog.
We have introduced a new comiXology iPhone and iPad Comics App and are retiring the old one. iPhone and iPad users will now buy comics on comixology.com and download to the app. All your purchased books will be readable in the new app once you've downloaded it and taken the following steps:
- If you don't have a comiXology account, go to comiXology.com to create one, or create one in the original Comics app!
- In the original Comics app, log into your comiXology account.
- Sync your in-app purchases to your comiXology account by tapping the Restore button on the Purchases tab.
- Download the new comiXology app. This will be your new home downloading and reading comics.
- Start shopping on comiXology.com. New web purchases will appear in the "In Cloud" tab in our new app.
- If you have comics downloaded in the old app, no problem! You can continue to read them there without re-downloading to the new app.
It seems as though comiXology does recognize how much of a hassle this is for folks though. They're proactively offering a $5 eGift Card credit to all those who have purchased through the comiXology platform in the past.
This credit will be automatically applied throughout the day to those accounts who are eligible and all of those eligible have 30 days to purchase books with that credit. That's not too bad but still, a hassle.
