PRIMARY school pupils can power on with their remote learning thanks to a donation of laptops from a Wrexham-based business. Riello UPS has provided Victoria CP School with ten refurbished laptops that children will use to keep up with lessons at home during ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Leo Craig, managing director of Riello UPS, explained: “Schools and parents have been doing a brilliant job delivering remote learning during the pandemic, even though it’s been a huge challenge. We’ve experienced something similar too, with many of our staff adjusting to working from home. “As part of our business continuity planning, we regularly review our supplies of IT equipment. Our latest review found we had 10 spare laptops, all less than a year old, so almost as good as brand new.
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Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. That should come as no surprise to folks who already know that the game was directed by Yuji Naka, who worked on both series during his time with Sega. That said, most of the similarities between
Balan Wonderworld and Naka’s other works exist on a superficial layer. There is some shared DNA, sure, and the sense of whimsy is admittedly familiar, but
Balan Wonderworld has a clear and unmistakable identity of its own. This will be apparent from the earliest moments in the demo.
In
Balan Wonderworld, players choose between playing as Leo Craig or Emma Cole. These characters are unfulfilled children who are lured into the fantastical realm of Wonderworld by a theatrical being called Balan and told that they will be able to locate a missing part of their heart. There is nothing inherently extraordinary about either of these characters, at least not at a glance, but they have the strength to potentially save this imperiled land thanks t
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Want to spend an hour or so wandering colorful cartoon dreamscapes crafted by the creators of
Sonic the Hedgehog? Do you enjoy the sensation of being pleasantly bewildered? If you answered yes to either of those questions you’re going to want to play the demo for
Balan Wonderworld. It’s something else.
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That something else is a dreamlike platformer in which a pair of your heroes, Leo Craig and Emma Cole, are sent by the mysterious maestro Balan on a journey through imaginary worlds created from other people’s dreams. In the demo, releasing tomorrow for PlayStations, Xboxes, Switches, and Steam, we explore the dreams of a farmer who’s had crop trouble, a boy who dreams of flying, and a girl who met a kitten.