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2019 Ford Endura Trend FWD review
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The 2019 Ford Endura Trend has some pretty big Territory-sized shoes to fill. But with no third-row seating, can the Endura endure in a competitive segment?
Plenty of interior space... For five
Sync 3 infotainment impresses
Nice road manners
Powertrain willing enough at highway speeds
The elephant in the room – no third row
Lack of cargo blind
Misses out on blind spot and rear cross-traffic alerts
Want AWD? That'll be another $4K, thanks
It was always going to be a tough act to follow for Ford. Australia's love affair over the years with our own locally designed and built Ford Territory translated to a boon in sales of the mid- to large-size SUV. From 2004 to 2018, Ford Australia shifted nearly 180,000 locally built Territories, the last four examples as recently as 2018, long after production ceased in October, 2016.
As an aside, a quick scan of VFACTS reveals the Territory is still listed in the large-SUV segment (zero sales in 2019), a line entry right under Ford's Everest and Endura.
Which brings us neatly to this SUV on test, the Ford Endura. While not explicitly billed as a replacement for the once-popular Ford Territory, the Endura is, in (almost) every way, a replacement for the Ford Territory.
There are six Enduras in the range, in three trim levels with either AWD or front-wheel-drive underpinnings. The range kicks off with the FWD Trend at $44,990 plus on-road costs and maxes out with the Titanium AWD at $67,990.
Tested here is the entry-level 2019 Ford Endura Trend FWD ($44,990), which places it smack-bang in the middle of an all-in brawl in the segment. With a price spread of just $5K ($42,490–$47,490), potential buyers have a choice of 24 SUVs from 14 manufacturers. That number jumps to 31 if we add in those coming in below my arbitrary $42,490 cut-off. There's a plethora of variety, too, within that spread, with AWD, FWD, diesel, petrol and even a hybrid option on the table.
What that all means is the Endura needs to mount a compelling case in Blue Oval dealerships or risk having potential buyers wander down the street to their local Toyota dealer. Or Mazda. Maybe Kia. Or Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Holden, Nissan, Peugeot et cetera, et cetera.
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So, how does the Endura stack up in a market flooded with options? That depends entirely on your needs. More on that later.
The Endura is powered by 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo diesel pumping out 140kW of power (at 3500rpm) and a healthy 400Nm of torque at a very user-friendly (2000–3000rpm). Those outputs are sent to the front wheels via an eight-speed auto transmission. If you prefer all-wheel-drive motivation, you'll need to stump up an extra $4000.
And if you want petrol power, you can't have it. Despite not wanting to make comparisons to the Territory, Ford's local arm has admitted the diesel/petrol split on the Territory was skewed 70:30 in favour of the oiler. Diesel only it is, then.
And that's no bad thing, because this 2.0-litre unit is at once quiet and refined. There's a bit of the ol' diesel clatter at idle and down low, but once the Endura is up to speed, there's little more than a hum inside the cabin.
Performance is spritely enough, although it's no 'sports' utility vehicle, even with a Sport mode at hand that improves throttle response and lifts the revs into the torque sweet spot.
Acceleration from standstill is fine, if not breathtaking, but then it doesn't need to be. Rolling acceleration is good, though, the Endura getting its mumbo on in a smart fashion. The steering is nice and direct, with decent feedback. Leather-wrapped, too. There's a nice heft to its weighting and it's precise.
Around town, the Endura behaves exactly as most buyers will want. The ride remains unflustered by even the worst of Sydney's tragicomedy road surfaces. It's comfortable and forgiving, the Endura settling quickly and nicely over larger obstacles such as speed humps, while the usual accoutrements of patchwork repairs, road joins, corrugations and other minor blemishes are barely felt – or heard – inside the cabin. That refinement transfers nicely to highway cruising, as well, the Ford humming along smoothly and quietly.
That becomes a pleasant memory on rural back roads, though, where the Endura does become a little jiggly. It's not terrible, by any stretch, but it's worth noting. So, too, its behaviour on those same country roads. You'd expect a large SUV to feel a little cumbersome, unwieldly, when faced with a succession of bends and twists. Instead, the Endura remains composed and assured. It's no corner-carver, naturally, but there is a surprising amount of precision and confidence in the way it handles itself. Body roll? Sure, but not enough to cause alarm.
Of course, practicality is a major selling point in this segment, any large SUV needing to be capable of carrying the family and their stuff in comfort, if not style. And here, a few cracks begin to appear in the Endura's armour. Let's start with the big one. There's no third row, making this strictly a five-seater. And that's a rarity in this segment, with only the Jeep twins, Grand Cherokee and Wrangler, joining the Endura in the two-row club.
Want seven seats from a Ford? You'll need to climb into an Everest, which will set you back an additional $5200 (before on-road costs) for that third row. It seems buyers are prepared to stump that extra cash, though, with the Everest outselling the Endura by a healthy margin (1615 against 635 to the end of April). A far cry from the segment-leading Toyota Prado, which has found over 6000 new homes in the same period.
For comparison, the much-loved local Territory regularly sold 10,000–15,000 per year with a peak of almost 24,000 in 2005. A meaningful comparison? Not really, but it does reflect changing tastes and the sheer array of choice consumers now have in the segment.
Inside, the Endura presents nicely, if not class-leading. The quality of materials is about par for the pricepoint, with plenty of harder plastics making their presence known. And felt. Soft-touch surfaces are reserved for key line-of-sight points, which is standard practice at this end of the price spectrum.
The rotary dialler serving as a gear selector is a nice touch, adding a hint of premiumness and a neat endpoint to what is a pretty elegant centre console arrangement, topped by an 8.0-inch colour touchscreen running Ford's excellent Sync 3 infotainment system. Sync 3 is not the last word in graphic design, but the user experience is easy and intuitive.
Standard features include satellite navigation with traffic alerts, Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, DAB+ digital radio, a CD player, and Bluetooth connectivity. Responses to inputs are razor sharp, as is connecting your smartphone, either via mirroring or Bluetooth. There are plenty of more premium brands that could take a leaf out of Ford's book in this regard. Surely, it can't be that hard to engineer snappy responses to user inputs. Well done, Ford.
There's a large – and deep – storage bin in the centre console, while a dashtop cubby, with lid, is the perfect place for your smartphone, thanks to the two USB points lurking within.
Creature comforts are not so prevalent in the second row, with no USB points. There is a 12V outlet and 230V inverter socket, though. The seats themselves are comfortable, and there's enough room for three adults to travel in comfort. Toe, knee and leg room are excellent, too, as is head room. A fold-down centre armrest reveals a pair of cupholders, while the seatbacks offer some recline, should those travelling in the back want to lounge around in a more relaxed pose. Two ISOFIX points on the outboard seats are matched by three top-tether hooks, for those needing to transport little ones securely.
The Endura's boot, with manual tailgate, errs on the side of large, with 800L to play with. That expands to 1847L with the second row folded (60:40), which can be done via a couple of levers located in the boot. Handy.
There are a couple of hooks, too, to hang your bags, while a pair of cubbies are useful for holding smaller items. There's an additional 12V outlet in the boot, while under the floor hides a space-saver spare wheel.
It's shame, then, there's no cargo blind to hide your goodies, not even as an option. It's standard on the ST-Line, as is a cargo net, but no such luck for the Trend, which offers a vast and exposed area that also serves as a reminder there's no third row of seating.
For those looking to haul a load behind the Endura, towing capacity is listed at 2000kg braked, and 750kg unbraked, on par for the segment. That's a way behind the old Territory's AWD diesel's 2700kg capability.
There's a five-star ANCAP score (awarded in 2016) for the Endura which has, as standard, a decent amount of safety kit. There are seven airbags covering both rows, autonomous emergency braking, evasive steering assist, lane-keep assist, traffic sign recognition and adaptive cruise control. Throw in front and rear parking sensors, hill start assist and a tyre pressure monitoring, and the Endura is on a par with its main rivals.
The only glaring omissions are blind-spot detection and rear cross-traffic alert, neither even available as an option. Those technologies are reserved for the top-of-the-range Titanium.
Ford covers the Endura with its five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty and caps servicing at $299 per visit for the first four years or 60,000km, whichever occurs first. There's also free roadside assistance over that period, provided servicing is carried out at authorised Ford dealers.
The Endura proved reasonably frugal on fuel, too, showing an indicated 7.7L/100km after a week of urban and highway driving against the company's claim of 6.7L.
The reality is, while seven-seater SUVs have become increasingly popular and prevalent, not everyone needs seats for persons six and seven, and for those who don't, the Endura presents as a decent proposition in the segment. With a well-resolved ride and decent enough, if not thrilling, performance married to a handsome visage, the Endura fills a neat gap in Ford's local SUV line-up.
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The Charles Koch Institute's senior research fellow Dana Wade hosted a conversation with author and historian Amity Shlaes at CPAC.
On February 23, 2017, the Charles Koch Institute hosted a CPAC panel with bestselling author and historian Amity Shlaes for a discussion about the rise of cronyism in America.
Shlaes, the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including The Forgotten Man: A History of the Great Depression, then provided the historical context for the term "forgotten man," drawing a distinction between two competing definitions.
During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified "the forgotten man" as an economic class: "the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid." Roosevelt's understanding of the term informed the policies of the New Deal, which, according to Shlaes, amounted to "targeted rewards to various constituencies," including agricultural subsidies, heightened power for labor unions under the Wagner Act, and protectionism. Shlaes contends that these policies made the economy worse, not better, noting that the stock market did not fully recover until the 1950s.
Alternatively, the phrase "the forgotten man" was used decades before Roosevelt's presidency by Yale professor William Graham Sumner. Sumner defined "the forgotten man" as "the man who pays, the man who prays, the man who is not thought of." Shlaes noted that Sumner was referring to the injustice of cronyism: "A and B get together and force C to subsidize the perhaps good, perhaps dubious, project for X." For Shlaes, "the forgotten man" is "the one who pays" ("C" in the above example) for corporate welfare that benefits only the well-connected few.
With this rise in cronyism came a decline in trust, said Shlaes. According to the Financial Trust Index, a measurement tool created by Professor Paola Sapienza of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Professor Luigi Zingales of The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Americans' trust in private financial institutions has eroded since the 2008 crisis and subsequent bailouts.
However, Shlaes still sees room for optimism. She pointed to disruptive entrepreneurs and firms such as Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and eBay that have "overcome cronyism" and rely instead on trust as an integral part of their business models.


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Higher wages cure labor shortages - Michigan Future Inc.
Corporate and political leadership continue to complain about the inability to find workers in the skilled trades/mid-skill jobs. Their solution is to go back to tracking kids––almost certainly others, not theirs––into vocational programs.
One problem: if there are labor shortages, and many doubt there is, the prime cause is not an education system that over emphasizes four year degrees, but employers unwillingness to raise wages. As we have explored previously, in market economies––which we all claim to believe in––price is what brings supply and demand into equilibrium. In labor markets price is wages.
So if there is more demand for workers in an occupation than supply, the way you get more supply is by raising wages. (And other ways to make the job more attractive to job seekers: better work conditions, better benefits, not hiring through temporary agencies, more job security. etc.) Yet in most of the occupations where politicians and employers are complaining about labor shortages wages are not going up.
We have written previously about a Manufacturing & Technology News article entitled "MIT Drills Into The Manufacturing Skills Shortage And Finds That It Doesn't Really Exist." Bloomberg Businessweek recently published an article on the tech industry entitled "The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist". Both articles cite the absence of rising wages as evidence of the non existence of labor shortages.
Businessweek writes: "There's no evidence of any way, shape, or form that there's a shortage in the conventional sense," says Hal Salzman, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. "They may not be able to find them at the price they want. But I'm not sure that qualifies as a shortage, any more than my not being able to find a half-priced TV." For a real-life example of an actual worker shortage, Salzman points to the case of petroleum engineers, where the supply of workers has failed to keep up with the growth in oil exploration. The result, says Salzman, was just what economists would have predicted: Employers started offering more money, more people started becoming petroleum engineers, and the shortage was solved. In contrast, Salzman concluded in a paper released last year by the liberal Economic Policy Institute, real IT wages are about the same as they were in 1999.
Two recent articles on labor shortages in West Michigan make the same point. The first from MiBiz entitled "Manufacturers struggle to find talent, yet resist push to raise worker pay". They write: Although many companies have developed innovative training programs and established relationships with community colleges, they still have trouble finding qualified workers to fill positions ranging from assembly to engineering. One reason, according to experts: stagnant low wages. While the boom and bust cycle of manufacturing has dissuaded some employees from entering the field, low wages remain one of the main causes for manufacturers' talent woes — particularly when it comes to worker retention, said George Erickcek, senior regional analyst at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo.
But not all manufacturers have experienced the same challenges when it comes to sourcing and retaining talent in West Michigan. When California-based SolarBOS Inc. launched production in Walker earlier this year, it opted to pay its Michigan workers the same wages that it offered its workers in its home state, which traditionally has a higher wage structure than West Michigan, as MiBiz previously reported.
The manufacturer of power management systems for photovoltaic solar arrays and other electrical systems starts temporary assembly workers at $17.50 per hour, while assembly workers can earn close to $23 an hour as they move up within the company. That compares to a rate of $13 per hour suggested by local staffing agencies when the company first moved to the area.
I am a strong supporter of your idea that an increasing portion of our labor force needs to obtain a college education. My entire work life has been spent in a knowledge based career, and now during retirement I teach and tutor part time at a local university. However, my contacts with many college students and workers have convinced me that some people are not academic, but they do have skills and are successful in skilled trades areas. My wife and I are very thankful that we have a good relationship with a very good automobile mechanic and a highly skilled carpenter. They help us beep our cars and house in good shape. They both love what they do, are very skilled at their jobs and make a good income. I do know we need more college educated workers, but we also need people in skilled trades. By the way, both our mechanic friend and carpenter friend have put kids through college. I know another carpenter who has his own contractor business. He put his son through an expensive private college. The son has been unable to fin a job using his education, so he has become a carpenter, working for his dad.


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In life, giving people a wide variety of choices is a good thing. However, when it comes to daily valued 401(k) plans, too many choices isn't a good thing. It sounds counter-intuitive, but too many choices offered to plan participants is usually a mistake.
Offering participants the right to self direct their own 401(k) account sounds like a great idea because plan sponsors are giving a plan participant a choice in shaping their retirement. The problem with these choices is that plan participants get paralyzed by being offered too many choices; they tend to get overwhelmed. For example, people assume offering so many different mutual funds on a plan's investment menu is the way to goo. However, studies have shown that the more investment options offered under the plan, it tends to actually depress the deferral rate of plan participants. Offering 57 mutual funds on a lineup sounds like a good idea on paper, but it overwhelms plan participants to the point that they don't want to participate and defer their income.
The same can be said by offering participants a self-directed brokerage account. Allowing plan participants the right to a brokerage window within the 401(k) plan allows them to purchase stocks and other investments apart from the typical mutual fund menu offered under a 401(k) plan. Again, a study has shown that plan participants who use a brokerage window tend to have a worse rate of return on their 401(k) account than those participants who stick to the core fund lineup.
Offering 25+ versions of Tide detergent probably has done well in selling detergent, offering too many choices within a 401(k) plan isn't a great thing.


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Dan is a facilitator, who provides sound advice and strategies to address clients' legal and business concerns in the areas of public, real estate and commercial finance.
Dan advises lenders and borrowers on public financing matters, such as industrial development revenue bonds, tax increment financing, construction financing, multistate real estate loans, asset-based lending and leveraged leasing transactions. He also represents owners, developers, buyers, sellers, and commercial landlords and tenants in transactions such as asset purchases involving real estate; corporate real estate holdings; manufacturing, retail and healthcare development; sale-leaseback transactions; and developments supported by tax increment financing.
Dan also counsels construction services clients on negotiation, performance and enforcement of contract documents for new construction, office build-outs, manufacturing facility expansions, environmental remediation and marine construction projects, and healthcare development.
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A former industrial district in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, was being redeveloped with new offices, retail space, a hotel and multifamily housing. A financial services company sought the firm's guidance in negotiating and documenting permanent loan financing. Dan led the lender's legal counsel team in negotiating, documenting and closing the takeout financing for the project, including oversight of due diligence for the client. By keeping the deal moving and parties on track, Husch Blackwell helped close takeout financing for this significant piece of a large mixed-use redevelopment project.
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Represented bank purchasers and borrowers in multiple tax-exempt bond issues for manufacturing, exempt facility and charitable organization projects.
Advised financial services company on refinancing involving multiple credit facilities, including bonds, as part of corporate restructuring.
Represented multinational consumer products packaging manufacturer in negotiating and documenting subordinated credit facility for its raw materials supplier, in connection with bond financing for supplier's manufacturing facility.
Represented multiple physician groups in planning, development, financing and construction of multispecialty outpatient surgery, imaging and medical office spaces.
Represented national shopping center real estate investment trust (REIT) in negotiating and implementing municipal development agreements for redevelopment of regional shopping center in southeast Wisconsin.
Counseled private university on obtaining municipal approval for development, construction and use of new campus student center.
Advised natural gas transmission pipeline company on negotiation of relocation arrangements for pipeline facilities in connection with development of intermodal facility near Joliet, Illinois.
Represented multinational manufacturer of consumer products packaging materials in acquisition and divestiture of several U.S. facilities.
Advised national healthcare development firm on negotiation of development agreement and financing documents for $50 million hospital expansion.
Counseled national healthcare development firm on preparing master building lease for hospital-owned outpatient surgery center.
Advised acquisition target and acquiring entity on senior secured loan financing for $750 million corporate acquisition.
Advised national banks on negotiating and documenting construction equipment and commercial truck dealer financing arrangements as both single bank and syndicated/club transactions.
Advised national and state chartered banks on asset-based financing arrangements, both as single bank and syndicated/club deal transactions.
Represented Milwaukee-based investment management firms in negotiating and structuring multiple repurchase transaction arrangements with broker-dealer counterparties, which involved government-guaranteed loan program assets including SBA Section 7(a) loan assets, SBA Section 504 first mortgage loan assets, and USDA loan assets.
Advised marine construction and environmental dredging firm on negotiation and documentation of general contracts, subcontracts, teaming agreements and joint venture agreements for multiple environmental remediation and marine construction projects throughout the United States, including the approximately $750 million environmental cleanup of Lower Fox River in Wisconsin and participation in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's implementation of $150 million Great Lakes Legacy Act program.
Represented multinational manufacturing companies in negotiation and documentation of construction and design-build contracts for new construction and for expansion of existing facilities.
Represented developer entity for Fortune 500 corporation in negotiating and documenting architectural services, construction management and general construction contracts for design, development and construction of $11 million corporate headquarters and $50 million expansion of electrical transformer manufacturing facility.
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Once a year, Dan assumes the role of travel planner/mission control, as he organizes a golf vacation for friends and family.
The annual trip started in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with a group of six, and has since expanded to as many as 24 participants and to the home of golf. Dan picks the site each year, and coordinates hotel reservations, tee times and transportation. Among their destinations, his group has visited: Scotland, Ireland, Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, both coasts of Florida, and the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama.
Dan serves on the board of the Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA), a charter school in Milwaukee.
A college preparatory school, HAPA empowers students as peace builders and instills cultural pride among the Hmong, a minority ethnic group in Laos and Vietnam.
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A horse show vendor was arrested at HITS Post Time Farm as the last week of the Ocala Circuit wrapped up.
Judy Mielenz, owner of Judy's Tack was nabbed Friday for grand theft. Officials say she is facing felony charges of dealing in stolen property and evidence tampering.
Director of Marketing and Public Relations for HITS, Inc. Danette Kadlic, based in New York, was not aware of the arrest when we spoke with her. She said it's not something they're worried about and that they are there to "run horse shows".
According to a police report, an Antarès representative reported two saddles stolen from the HITS Horse Show office in February 2011 after a package was signed for by a HITS staff member. The saddles valued at more than $8,000 were entered into a national database as being stolen. Antarès Sellier did not return our call.
Rate My Horse PRO spoke with Mielenz who said she believed the matter involved only one saddle, "I had a stolen saddle sent to me to sell, but I didn't sell it. I returned it to the people it was stolen from." Mielenz says she is in the process of finding an attorney to speak with since charges have been filed.
One of the stolen saddles was found by an Antarès representative in September 2011 at an Iowa horse show. Judy's Tack was consigning the new saddle for a customer, but without her company's normal paperwork and tags because they were "lost," according to officials.
Mielenz posted bond Friday night and was released from jail. A court date has not been scheduled.


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"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." – Book of Revelation
On Thursdays, Gil Chambers left his place of employment five minutes early. Typically, these extra five minutes would allow him to narrowly avoid the outpouring of traffic from the Radaxion plant that was located between Gil's workplace, Spearhead Logistics and Fulfillment, and the downtown square of the mid-sized suburban city that Gil called home.
Avoiding said traffic, Gil would be more likely to find a parking place right on the square, and possibly right between his two favorite pubs, rather than at a lot two blocks away. In addition to this convenience, his arrival at the first pub of the evening would occur prior to the arrival of several regulars and would guarantee his choice of seating at the bar. Gil had his favorite spot at both locations, and would become invisibly frustrated when those spots were taken. At St. Pete's Pub on the east side of the square, his favorite spot was at the corner of the L-shaped bar, next to the column. At Goodman's Pub on the west side of the square, Gil preferred one of the middle seats at the main strip. The number of stools always varied, so the exact center spot depended on either even or odd counts. In the case of an even number of stools, Gil always chose the right-center stool.
Gil preferred Thursdays over Fridays because the Friday crowd sometimes irritated him. At Goodman's Pub, he knew the Friday crowd would always include Cale Blackwell, a local real estate investor and tremendous ass. Cale rarely patronized St. Pete's, but while Gil could always just leave Goodman's when Cale arrived, St. Pete's on a Friday was a guaranteed music venue. Nine times out of ten, the local bands hired to play would be decent cover bands, but on that tenth time there would be Irish music, and Gil had a special dislike of fiddles.
Gil was not an alcoholic. He would just as soon sit at the bar with a glass of sparkling water, but while he felt that patronizing bar should not necessarily preclude the inevitable consumption of liquids other than alcohol, he felt awkward occupying a bar stool without alcohol in front of him.
Gil Chambers told the few persons he held regular conversations with outside of the pub that he spent time at his two favorite pubs because he enjoyed the atmosphere, but in reality Gil was always there just in case one of the myriad "woman of his dreams" happened by.
In his late twenties, Gil had been a regular at a small hole-in-the-wall sports bar, and actually began a serious relationship with a young woman he had met there. She had been an odd one, seemingly content to do the same thing as Gil: sit at the bar, speak only when spoken to, stare awkwardly in succession at glass, bar top, bartender, barback, bottles, servers, and then attempt telepathy on unsuspecting patrons that seemed interesting or attractive, and then repeat. The telepathy worked one night between them, though it was never clear who was successful in the attempt. The relationship lasted less than a year, but it was a liberating experience for Gil. The woman let him be himself when they were together, and let him be a porn star in the bedroom. Later, Gil discovered the woman was doing this very thing with several other quiet men across the greater Dallas Metroplex and he quickly severed ties.
Gil was writing all of this down in his Moleskin, every detail of his little pub habit, when a man next to him spoke:
"I'm not going to ask if you're a writer," the voice said.
Gil looked up from his scribbling and turned his head to see who had broken his invisible fortifications. He didn't recognize the man immediately, but there was something familiar about him. Before Gil could answer, the stranger pulled out the stool next to Gil's – the one at the corner of the L-shaped bar next to the column – and sat down.
"You want people to ask if you're a writer," the man continued. "That's why you sit there scribbling away. You think people are looking at you and thinking 'Hey, that guy must be a writer. Look at him writing.' And even though they aren't thinking that at all, you sell yourself on the idea that they are to legitimize your scribbling even though it will lead to nothing in the end."
"I'm not a writer," Gil said quietly as he closed his Moleskin and tucked it away.
"Suit yourself, Hemingway," the man said. "Carlsberg," he then commanded the bartender.
The bartender replied that they were out of Carlsberg, and the stranger sitting next to Gil and making him feel uncomfortable let out a long sigh.
Gil knew exactly what was coming. Without letting the man ask the question, he said, "Rockman IPA. It's hoppy, it's local, good price." He then drained the last of the Rockman IPA from the glass in front of him and proceeded to cast his eyes about for the server he fancied.
The man might have known Gil's game with the Moleskin, but Gil was more than familiar with this particular flavor of bar patron. It was too early to close tab and make the trek to Goodman's, so Gil pulled out his phone and began sending texts to people he normally wouldn't bother texting. He managed a few 'sup' texts before feeling stupid. He didn't want a response to any of them. It was a desperation move. Gil hoped the stranger would take his Rockman and wander over to the sofas near the fireplace.
"I just moved here a couple of weeks ago," the man said without prompting as he took the glass of Rockman from the bartender. He took a sip and then licked the foam from his upper lip. "I'm a physics teacher over at Hutchinson Middle School. Is this a pretty good bar?"
Gil's inner dialogue was in full hipster mode: It's a pub, you withered git.
"I was just at the other end of the square," the stranger went on without waiting for Gil's appraisal of St. Pete's, "Goodman's?"
"Yeah," Gil replied automatically.
"Nice place, but there was this real douche-bag kept pontificating. Real estate investor, he said. Having a little pride party for himself."
Gil's ears perked up. "Was his name Cale Blackwell?"
"That's the guy," the man said nodding his head. "I take it he's a regular."
"Not usually on Thursdays," Gil answered. That ruined everything. He'd have to stay at St. Pete's and risk a long conversation with this stranger. He semi-smiled as he caught the server's eyes from across the room, but she didn't return the pathetic effort.
"Well, he had a gaggle of followers singing his praises," the man explained. "Damn near taking up the entire bar."
Jesus, Gil thought to himself. That irritates me even more.
"That probably irritates you even more, huh?" the man said with a chuckle.
"Yeah," Gil replied.
"You don't like the guy," the man stated.
"Nope," Gil replied.
When the bartender raised an eyebrow at Gil and looked at the empty glass in front of him, Gil responded by pointing upward.
"He's going high, ladies and gentlemen," the bartender responded with a knowing smile, and then overpoured a neat scotch for Gil from the rack.
Gil was still off-gazing the server when the scotch was set in front of him. He went through the motions, swirling the liquid, sniffing it, sipping it, airing it, swishing it.
When he swallowed and turned to answer the question about scotch that he was sure was going to come from the stranger next to him, he was shocked as the stool was empty. The glass of Rockman was equally as empty and a ten dollar bill lay under the empty glass.
The stranger was nowhere to be seen, though Gil's eyes lingered more around the server than they did actually search for the stranger.
On some occasions, especially in the summer months, Gil allowed himself to accept invitations to the home of another of the square regulars. The bachelor that extended the invitations was a wealthy robotics magnate who had semi-retired at twenty-eight and did consultation work at the Radaxion plant in town. His name was Fenton Rodgers, and Gil liked him mostly because he hated and regularly humiliated Cale Blackwell in public.
Now in his late thirties, Fenton spent most of his time gathering an eclectic mix of interesting people from the area at his spacious semi-mansion on the outskirts of town. It was the one place other than his own apartment, or his two chosen seats at his pubs, that Gil felt comfortable and somewhat accepted and expected.
Fenton never condescended, and always highly praised Gil's intelligence. On occasion, Gil and Fenton would form a formidable trivia team to go up against Cale's Sharks at the monthly Trivia Bowl held at Goodman's.
Fenton's pool-side parties were a reason for Gil to keep up his fitness routine as most of the regulars there had beer guts and pasty skin. Though the single female attendee was rare, Gil never knew when the opportunity to try telepathy on an unsuspecting hottie would present itself, so he kept himself trim and fit.
Gil allowed himself the pleasures of marijuana on these occasions, as it was offered, and Fenton's parties were always of the more cerebral flavor of affairs.
It was in mid-toke at one of these parties that Gil's eyes fell on the stranger again, some three weeks from when he had mysteriously appeared at and disappeared from St. Pete's.
The stranger was smiling at him from across the pool, and quickly moved to intercept Gil.
Gil nearly choked on the smoke and quickly blew it sideways out of his mouth before hastily passing the joint to someone else.
"I'm Hank," the stranger said as he stalked up to Gil, hand out, smile wide.
Gil shook the hand and sheepishly reciprocated the introduction.
"Sorry I took off without saying anything the other day," Hank explained. "Got a call from another teacher that I run tutoring with and had to leave."
"You guys know each other?" Fenton asked walking up between the two and handing Gil a glass of scotch.
Gil spoke first for once, "Yeah, met him at St. Pete's briefly a couple of weeks ago. Didn't catch his name until now."
"Hank's a real character," Fenton explained, slapping the subject of his statement on the shoulder before pulling both Hank and Gil in conspiratorially. "Hank actually punched Cale in the face the other night."
"What?" Gil was shocked. He would be surprised that he hadn't heard about that, but Gil had been avoiding the square the last two weeks after Hank's bold assessment of Gil's theatrical "I'm a Writer, look at me" performance.
"Yeah, well," Hank shrugged. "He was getting handsy and mouthed off at me. The asshole is as corrupt as a floppy on a fridge."
Gil actually guffawed at this.
"I did some research on some of his acquisitions a couple of towns over and the shitface is definitely a land-grabbing piece of shit with a black streak a mile wide. Called him on it, and then called the feds on him. Now's he getting sued by several organizations and two municipalities."
Gil instantly had a new friend.
"Fenton," Gil said, grinning ear to ear. "We need some more fucking scotch."
Months passed, Hank became a regular fixture at Fenton's, and he and Gil became fast friends. From comic books to They Might Be Giants, it seemed that there was nothing the two did not have in common.
Gil thought to himself regularly how ridiculous it was that he had been so stand-offish the first time they had met.
"FUMBLE!" Hank cried as Marion Butts once again blew the game for Gil. Fenton's living room erupted with shouts from the crowd watching Gil and Hank play Tecmo Super Bowl on Fenton's 75″ 4K.
Weekends at that point always descended into a Steelers vs. Chargers matchup between the two friends. Gil won regularly, but everyone once in while…
"Goddammit!" Gil exclaimed, desperately pressing buttons to try and stop Woodson from running the ball back eighty yards for a damning touchdown.
Gil was unsuccessful and the game soon ended with Hank's opportunistic fumble recovery and touchdown putting him up by four points. The crowd cheered and the living room emptied out not long after.
"Good game, partner," Hank jabbed good-naturedly. "AI screwed you that time."
"Yeah, well, fuck Butts," Gil replied, rising from his chair and heading to the fridge for a beer.
"Hey, I've been meaning to ask you something," Hank said as the entered Fenton's kitchen together.
"My folks have rented out a lodge up in Colorado for a couple of weeks a month from now, and found out yesterday that they are only going to be able to stay for a week. You want to road-trip it up there for a paid-for lodge and all the Rockies and edibles you can take?"
"Who is on the list so far?" Gil asked, cracking open a Rockman.
"Just you and me, man," Hank replied. "They're about five miles up from a little touristy place that has a couple of bars. Lots and lots of snow bunnies, if you know what I mean."
Colorado was Gil's favorite place in the world. He never seemed to be able to get there, and here was his opportunity. In fact, he had even been considering taking a week off in a month anyway. It was perfect timing.
"Yeah, let's do it," Gil answered. "Cheers!"
They clanked their beer cans together. "Cheers," Hank said to his friend.
"I can't believe she's here," Gil laughed, not believing the series of events that had led to this particular moment. It was the second time in as many years that he and Hank had scored the lodge in Colorado, and now this.
"You've been eyeballing her for at least a year since I've known you," Hank pressed, coaxing his friend to follow through. "Go buy her a drink. I know she likes you, she's asked me about you several times at St. Pete's."
"Really?" Gil inquired. "She knows who I am?"
"Gil, the first night I met you I noticed her watching you when you were watching that other server. It was a little sad, to tell you the truth."
Gil and Hank were at one of the three bars in the little tourist haven five miles from lodge they were staying at for the week. The server, Olivia, who Gil had been secretly lusting after since he met her, was visiting a ski resort not ten miles away.
"It's like it's all been planned out this way," Gil remarked. "It's weird. You. Her. The lodge. If I actually believed half the sci-fi shit I write, I might be nervous."
"What do you mean?" Hank inquired, his brow furrowing slightly.
"I don't know. It's stupid," Gil replied, dismissing the thought at the forefront of his musings.
"No, tell me," Hank pushed. "What's stopping you from just enjoying this?"
Gil relented, and turned in his bar stool away from his view of Olivia across the room. "When I met you, I felt something strange. Like, I almost expected you, and didn't want to meet you."
Hank was silent, regarding him with interest.
"It's nothing personal, you know. I just … felt something. And then, there was that deal with Cale committing suicide after the corruption stuff went public. That was essentially you. I didn't want Cale to die, you know, but it's like, I felt a sense of revenge."
"You never explained to me why you hated him so much," Hank said evenly. "Everyone did, but you had a special grudge."
"It doesn't matter. I wished something bad would happen to him because I thought he deserved it. Well, it happened. And then, you helping me get that new car happened. And you just happened to know a guy at Radaxion who needed a project manager."
Hank looked away for a moment, his face unreadable.
"And then this whole Colorado trip happening a second time," Gil shook his head. "It's ridiculous. I should just enjoy it."
Hank turned back to him with a smile. "You're damned right, Gil. Let's just enjoy it.
Turning to the bartender, Hank barked out, "Garçon! We need more fucking scotch!"
Gil opened his eyes to the morning light coming through the window. After a few moments, he carefully slid his arm out from under Olivia's head. She protested only briefly before kissing his shoulder and rolling over to sleep some more.
Rising from bed, Gil grabbed his shorts from nearby and slipped them on.
Smiling to himself, he made his way to the kitchen and brewed himself some coffee. He replayed the night's festivities in his head over and over again in his head as he stood looking out at the mountains in the distance through the window.
"Best night of your life?" Hank asked from the living room.
Gil turned around and smiled at his friend who had just read his thoughts.
"You have no idea," Gil answered.
"Walls are thin. I have some idea." Hank was seated on the sofa, facing the fireplace away from the kitchen. His voice was even, almost monotone.
Gil chuckled and waited for his coffee to finish. Hank said nothing further and remained in the living room, quiet. Gil poured himself a mug once the coffee was ready and made his way to the living room. As he collapsed into the recliner to the right of the sofa where Hank was sitting, he noticed a small leather case on the coffee table in front of his friend.
"Please tell me you've got a vaporizer in that," Gil said hopefully.
"Do you believe in the science fiction you write?" Hank asked. His eyes were on the fireplace.
Gil stopped mid-sip, and swallowed. He cocked his head slightly at the unusual question.
"Maybe," Gil replied. "I don't know. I tell myself I do, but I don't live my life by it necessarily."
"I've read a few of your short stories now," Hank said, still in that almost monotone voice. "The common thread among all of them is that there is no such thing as nothing. That the universe is one of infinite universes, all tied together, all slightly mirrored, a vast tangled tapestry of events paralleling each other in a Möbius strip of effect and cause."
Gil laughed. "Dude, you've been waking and baking already, huh?"
"Gil," Hank said evenly, turning to look at him. "I'm going to have to end your existence in this universe."
Gil choked on his gulp of coffee, more out of amusement than alarm. Recovering quickly, he set the mug down on the coffee table and leaned back in the recliner.
"Is that right?" Gil played along. "And for what heinous act against the universe do I deserve this punishment?"
"Damnatio memoriae," Hank answered. "You are to be erased from existence in this and as many other universes as the anomaly is detected. I was sent here to erase you."
"Damnation what?" Gil asked, chuckling less.
"It's a common idea among many versions of this planet," Hank explained, still regarding Gil with a stony gaze. "There are several examples of people's names having been removed from history for their crimes. Herostratus, Ivan VI, Benedict Arnold, the 1952 Yugoslavian national football team. The multiverse has it's version, as well."
"Of the Yugoslavian football team? Right, so what did I do in some other parallel universe?" Gil asked.
"Not just one, but several," Hank corrected. "The details always vary, but the series of events is typically the same. You get something right about the universe, and knowledge of its true nature corrupts you, and then in turn you corrupt the universe. It always ends in oblivion for all existence in that universe. Here, you're a writer. Sometimes you're scientist, sometimes a military leader, it doesn't matter. You always find something that opens the door to the truth."
"How would you know that if you weren't from some other universe where it had happened?" Gil challenged, leaning forward in his recliner. "Are you a traveler from another reality? Some bounty hunter sent to stop the future from happening? A bit tropey isn't it?"
"In that case is a device that will simply vaporize you," Hank said, nodding towards the leather case on the coffee table. "So, yes, I do have a vaporizer in that case. I had that same case the night you met me. I was meant to erase you that very night, but I'm something of an eccentric."
"Oh, nice twist," Gil said, pointing at him and nodding.
"Most versions of the anomaly are–"
"Wait, that's what the other universes call me? The Anomaly?" Gil interrupted.
"Most," Hank replied before continuing on. "Most versions are just simple men before the change. Once I found you, I couldn't help but notice your life was just a series of almosts. Half the time you don't allow yourself to walk through the doors that are wide open to you. I just wanted to give you some little bit of happiness. It's kind of my thing."
"So you've killed other versions of me already?"
"No, you're my first, but it's my job to erase patterns. I work for a multiversal temporal defense initiative. I track down and eliminate paradoxes, events and entities," Hank explained casually. "But, it gets boring. I'm not the only one that has a little fun doing it. I guess it kind of balances things out. I give before I take."
Gil laughed genuinely, rocking back and forth in the recliner. "Oh shit, man. This is pretty good. I should write this."
"I'll make it look like an accident," Hank said with a sigh, getting down to business. "I can clone your body with a reasonable facsimile and simulate any sort of trauma or misadventure. I'll wipe Olivia's memory, too. No need for her to suffer. She'll just think she passed out back at the resort."
Something clicked in Gil just then. Something really heavy clicked in his mind, like a giant monolith sliding into a giant recess in the ground, and Gil's world shook with the impact.
Hank was telling the truth.
You always find something that opens the door to the truth.
Gil realized in that moment that all things in all multiverses connected back to this one tiny moment, this infinitesimally insignificant mote of time and reality in all of everything. Gil realized that Hank had no idea of his own complicity in the anomaly as it would pan out. Hank was just as much a part of the paradox as anything else in all multiverses.
Hank should have erased Gil when he had the chance.
Gil lunged out of the recliner with speed unknown to him. In his mind, infinite versions of himself were lending their energy to him as he grappled with the bounty hunter sent to claim his existence.
Gil felt all the vengeance of all his versions course through his soul as he twisted Hank's head mightily and ended the bounty hunter's life by breaking his neck.
Without a second thought, Gil rose from the fading lifeforce of Hank, if that was his real name, and picked up the case holding the vaporizer. Opening it, he regarded the device for a moment. Simple enough, it looked like a flashlight. There was a red button on the shaft.
Gil pressed it, and Hank vanished.
A small red light lit up on Afamn Hsilbitz's console. It indicated, in no uncertain terms, that one of his bounty hunter's had completed their contract.
Hsilbitz had been tracking this one closely as the target in this particular case was a Level Five Anomaly, and the bounty hunter in question was eccentric in that he tended to play with target before eliminating it. Even further, he also tended to report a completion of his mission before actually completing it, thus securing payment sooner.
If the monitor assigned to watch this particular bounty hunter would have been anyone other than Afamn Hsilbitz, they would have sent a second agent to that universe to verify that the paradoxical entity or event was truly eliminated.
Unfortunately for most of existence, Afamn Hsilbitz was slightly eccentric.
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That is only true if your program is so poorly designed without fault tolerance and control. This is often a cause of bugs and security holes which AutoHotkey's uniquely simplistic syntax aims to prevent in the first place. It's ironic how you find the need to replace a single \E so mundane and 'ugly' knowing the overheads of a machine code function.
It is not about replacing a single \E, but possibly many of them. If you have a function, which accepts a binary search string S, in where you have to replace each "\E" with something like "\E\E\Q", you face serious difficulties coding in AHK, because S might contain \0's, RegEx control sequences, AHK escape sequences, %...% look-like references, etc. The resulting function should work with any combination of these special cases, which could make it long, complicated and "ugly". It has nothing to do with "if your program is so poorly designed without fault tolerance and control": but working correctly with all possible input. A "\E" might not cause errors, but faulty results.
I never expected that you would be so adamant to suppress alternatives techniques. Raw buffer searching and regex have their trade-offs and either are suited for different applications.
It is not clear that there are no other restrictions, so we have to keep on looking.
Everything is documented on the pcre site. It's also open source, no confusing and ambiguous bytecode to run.
The only real limitation of regex is having to escape \E when using raw binary patterns. It's a bug in AutoHotkey that prevents the correct length being passed to the functions; if you post a bug report I'm sure Chris will take it into consideration and make amends. Despite this you can do tremendously more than primitive searching and replacing, with remarkable efficiency. In my opinion the benefit to cost ratio turns out in overwhelming favour of regex.
The only real limitation of regex is having to escape \E when using raw binary patterns.
This is an important statement. It would be too much for an average AHK user to read the full PCRE documentation and the source code to find it out.
It is not a bug, but the basic design of AHK, based on \0 terminated strings. Function parameters passing, string expressions involve the string copy function of Windows, which terminates at the first \0. Handling binary data (also Unicode) has been on the wish list for a long time, but there seems to be no more AHK development (Chris has no posts since Nov 22), so we have to live with what is already available.
Knowing the AHK design, it is obvious that complicated workarounds are necessary to work with binary data.
Despite this you can do tremendously more than primitive searching and replacing, with remarkable efficiency.
No argument about that. However, to get a failsafe binary RegEx we need wOxxOm's original binary search-and-replace function to first remove the \E limitation, than some tricks to set the right StrLen. These are beyond the skills of regular AHK users, so someone ought to write a wrapper.
Is there a strong need for binary RegEx? I often needed simple binary replace functionality (used a hex editor), and complex RegExReplace on text strings, but never on binary data. Do you know a good application where the full RegEx power is needed on binary data?
It would be too much for an average AHK user to read the full PCRE documentation and the source code to find it out.
There are numerous resources on the internet not to mention AutoHotkey's quick reference, which give an overview on control chars and escape sequences in regex. One could argue that using functions and checking processor architecture for compatibility is also too much to ask from the average user.
It is not a bug, but the basic design of AHK, based on \0 terminated strings. Function parameters passing, string expressions involve the string copy function of Windows, which terminates at the first \0.
Why does it work with RtlMoveMemory? VarSetCapacity with -1 should update the internal length yet it makes no difference.
You could also use WinAPI functions to convert the binary data to a hex stream as shown in RegionWaitChange. After regex compiles and caches the expression it will under most circumstances work faster than this machine code.
Do you know a good application where the full RegEx power is needed on binary data?
Virtually anywhere you need to search and replace with complex clauses, such as inspecting binary markups (already used in AHK for bencoded/torrent files), parsing magic identifiers, etc.
AHK has another strange, but very useful peculiarity: it copies over the full result of RegExReplace to an AHK variable, regardless of any nulls inside. Because of this undocumented behavior RegEx search for a binary needle (~search string) in a binary haystack (~buffer) is not that complicated, after all.
We have to make the needle a quoted RegEx literal: enclose it between \Q and \E, and replace all internal "\E" (0x5c, 0x45) with "\E\E\Q". We can use RegExReplace also in this preparation phase. Care must be taken never to allow AHK to apply its string manipulations (function parameters, concatenation...) on these binary data, because they will truncate them at the first null.
Actually it would be nice if Chris has some binary-in-binary search function incorporated and if my simple asm looks unreliable then, hehe, then maybe there are more authoritative sources. This would eliminate DllCall overhead, and for simple byte-search it is more than enough.
- I intentionally avoided the use of Crypt32.dll, because it is not present in earlier Windows versions.
- As discussed here, the result of CryptBinaryToStringA depends on the dll version, so you don't get consistent results.
- I described the FileRead *c / RtlMoveMemory trick before, but it uses double the memory and longer running time than BinRead, which was presented here as an alternative.
It is well known, as it was already discussed in months earlier posts, possibly in other places, too.
btw, earlier I somewhat praised CreateFileMapping file contents searching approach, and since this function seems to be ignored generally by programmers, here's a little example of searching using my InBuf from the topic's first post, works with files *larger than 4GB*, accepts StartOffset that may be also larger than 4GB.
P.S. wouldn't it be nice if someone shows how to use such memory address with RegExMatch ?
Very nice! Thanks for figuring this out. Your code works lightning fast in my XP laptop.
I guess it fools applications by mapping SW pointers (memory addresses) to a few physical memory blocks, filled with the appropriate file content on demand. With complicated regular expressions the performance could be horrible, though, because the buffer is accessed in a highly non-sequential manner, requiring frequent re-read of file blocks.
Nevertheless, it should work with RegExMatch/Replace, too, if they are dllcall-ed. The built in version expects the buffer to be an AHK variable with the attached length information, which is quite complicated to hack. Maybe, one could recompile AutoHotKey.exe with the RegEx functions exported, making a dllcall("AutoHotkey.exe\RegExMatch",... possible. With explicit length parameters it would also simplify handling binary AHK buffers.
I need a case INsensitive search function, and InFile is very fast.
Any chance of an extended version, wOxxOm?
searching for 28001100 hex string should fail. Atleast according to my search using hexl-mode in emacs, but the regexp versions give wrong answer.
Titan's version gives wrong results also.
* 28001100 is a binary tag used in dicom images that i am doing some imageprocessing with.
Hi, nice work! Here are some slightly modified functions from Hutch's Masm package ( http://www.masm32.com ) Some works right away, some dont..
In the lib folders of masm32 is alot of more machine code to play with. I tried to debug with Olly but when using dllcall-method to execute machine code it doesnt work so good. Anyone has a solution? I will post some functions here if/when i get them done.


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During "Breakfast of Champions" at the 2015 NAMM Show, George Quinlan, president of Quinlan & Fabish, looked at a trend that's been hot for about 60 years: the school music business. He spoke with NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond about the nuances of this segment.
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AI: The Somnium Files, Spike Chunsoft – $59.99 (available Tuesday 17th September)
In a near-future Tokyo, Special Agent Kaname Date is on the case of a mysterious serial killer. Date must investigate crime scenes as well as dreams on the hunt for clues.
Akash: Path of the Five, Truant Pixel – $29.99 (available Monday 16th September)
Akash: Path of the Five is a visual novel in the otome style. Players will become Aurora, a member of a magical race of elementals. As the first elemental girl the village has seen in over 200 years, all eyes are on your fast-approaching coming of age ceremony. All is not as it seems, however, as tensions between Akash and a nearby human settlement threaten to erupt into an all-out war.
Arcade Archives Vigilante, Hamster Corporation – $7.99
Vigilante is an action game released by IREM in 1988. Play as a vigilante who sets out to rescue his beloved Madonna from the Rogue Gang, a group so out of hand even the police can't stop them. Punch, kick, and use your powerful nun-chucks to fight your way through 5 stages across the great city of New York!
Atomic Heist, Drageus Games – $7.99 (available Friday 13th September)
Sci-fi roguelike twin-stick shooter. The nuclear core you have to steal is leaking radiation. Fight your way out of the space station in your combat ship and pull off the Atomic Heist!
Battle Supremacy: Evolution, Atypical Games – $9.99
Experience the true power in Battle Supremacy: Evolution, a sci-fi transforming vehicles game with thrilling gameplay and showoff-worthy visuals. Act as a tank, a drone or an airplane, Battle it out in this riveting game, packed with lush landscapes and destructible environments. Drive or fly through futuristic cities with suspended highways and gigantic bridges.
Castle Crashers Remastered, The Behemoth – $14.99 (available Tuesday 17th September)
Hack, slash and smash your way to victory in this Remastered edition of the popular 2D arcade adventure game from The Behemoth. Up to four friends can play locally or online and save your princess, defend your kingdom and crash some castles.
CHOP, QubicGames – $9.99 (available Friday 13th September)
One hit to kill, respawn almost instantly. CHOP is meant to give a feeling close to what you can experience in fast FPS, mixed with platformer setting and influences from beloved titles. it speaks to those who like gore, comics, post-apo and are looking for a supercharged party game!
Daemon X Machina, Nintendo – $59.99
In this new action game from Kenichiro Tsukuda (Armored Core) and mech designer Shoji Kawamori,your environment is your ally. Collect and use Femto Energy on the field to boost your stats and create powerful mirages, or wield objects like cars and street signs as melee weapons and projectiles. For even more power, upgrade your physical combat abilities and learn new skills through body modification. It'll also come in handy when you eject from your Arsenal and fight on foot using special weapons and abilities.
Distraint: Deluxe Edition, Ratalaika Games – $5.99 (available Friday 13th September)
Distraint: Deluxe Edition is a 2D psychological horror adventure game that tells the story of Price, a young man who seizes an old woman's apartment. After seizing her home, his humanity is now gone. So begins his tale of regrets…
Ellen, JanduSoft – $7.99 (available Friday 13th September)
Help young investigator James uncover the dark truth behind the murder of the Smiths' and their missing daughter Ellen in this thrilling 2D pixel horror game. If you don't believe in paranormal events, meet the people from White Hill.
Hyperdrive Massacre, 34BigThings – $7.99
Hyperdrive Massacre is an 80s inspired arcade fragfest in Spacewar sauce designed around local multiplayer, focused on kinesthetics, tactical and shooting skills at a frenzied pace.
Jet Kave Adventure, 7Levels – $19.99 (available Tuesday 17th September)
Jet Kave Adventure brings everything you love about 2.5D platformers. Enjoy the skill-based action, challenging boss fights, clever secrets and thrilling set-pieces in a game where the Stone Age and science fiction collide.
Kaiju Khaos, Pocketmoneygames – $4.59
Unleash the beast! An endless runner where you must cause as much destruction as you can whilst you make your escape from the military containment facility.
LEGO Jurassic World, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment – $39.99 (available Tuesday 17th September)
Following the epic storylines of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, and Jurassic World, LEGO Jurassic World allows players to relive and experience all four Jurassic films. Reimagined in LEGO form and now available on the Nintendo Switch system, the thrilling adventure allows fans to play through key moments and explore Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna.
Molecats, Vidroid – $12.99
Molecats is a challenging indirect-control puzzle game that takes place in the quirky and beautiful world of… Molecats! Molecats are sort of cat-mole hybrids. They are a bunch of gawky fellows who like mushrooms, marching, and adventures of all kind! Molecats spend their time digging into nearby caves and gathering delicious 'shrooms and shiny relics, occasionally getting lost in the process.
Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure, Natsume – $29.99 (available Tuesday 17th September)
Grab your rod, reel, and adventurous spirit as you join three friends on a summer road trip to remember! Visit a variety of fishing spots, from deep-sea fishing to freshwater stream fishing as you and the gang track down and try to catch the elusive Legendary Fish.
Rest in Pieces, Itatake – $7.99 (available Friday 13th September)
Swing fragile porcelain figurines through horrid nightmares… Without breaking. Please save all the poor souls that have been trapped in the dream demons porcelain nightmares.
Ritual: Sorcerer Angel, Hexage – $9.99
Destroy all monsters! Equip your sorcerer with powerful combinations of Spells and Skills and blaze through horders of monsters in a unique spell-casting action RPG.
Star Wars Pinball, Zen Studios – $29.99 (available Friday 13th September)
Feel the power of the Force in Star Wars Pinball! 19 tables celebrating a galaxy far, far away – Movie Adaptations: Episodes IV – VIII; Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; Solo: A Star Wars Story. TV Adaptations: Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.
Super Dodgeball Beats, PlayStack – $12.99
You're invited to the craziest dodgeball contest ever! Get your groove on with Super Dodgeball Beats, the world's most intense rhythm-sports game!
Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan, CollectorVision Games – $19.99
Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan is an 8-bit action adventure platformer featuring thirteen stages, and is our love letter to the classics. You play as Sydney Hunter, an explorer who gets trapped inside a Maya pyramid while he is out exploring the region.
The Sinking City, Frogwares – $49.99
The Sinking City is an adventure and investigation game set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of Horror. The half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. You're a private investigator, and you have to uncover the truth of what has possessed the city … and the minds of its inhabitants.
The Tenth Line Special Edition, Sungazer Software – $12.99
In The Tenth Line, you'll guide the princess of the tiny nation of Easania, along with her unusual but reliable companions, and explore a vibrant world of humans, beasts, and dragons, while escaping the clutches of a mysterious cult in hot pursuit.
Space Intervention, Igor Gafton – $0.99
Save our galaxy from the invasion of an alien race.
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Alex Seedhouse September 12, 2019
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