tv Arts and Culture Deutsche Welle June 28, 2019 7:45pm-8:00pm CEST
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botts we begin with the brand new harry potter game from the same company that brought his polka mungo a few years back and had people all over the world wandering around staring into their smartphones and acting strangely as they chased monsters well this time wizards unite is all about those weird and wonderful creatures dreamt up by j.k. rowling use digital x. but roger has been chasing. the primitive for was it united looks like a trailer for a blockbuster movie. the manufacturer promises address book players to the magical world of harry potter. via smartphone screens and amanda's reality. in the game play a search for lost magical items called found the balls. here's how it
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works. as a player your phone is tracked via g.p.s. and then it shows you a map of your surroundings. with magical places. to reach those places you have to walk there is not a game for lazy bones once you're there you can collect tools that you only need to progress through the game. and that's when things get really interesting camera captures your surroundings and it's animated sequences to the picture to retrieve the volatiles you have to cast a spell by swiping across your screen. since. the game in principle is not really was it's you know i've been affection i take released pokémon go in 2060 that game became a global phenomenon with about 800000000 downloads and it told revenue of more than 2000000000 euros so far with results you know i think is now hoping to reach the harry potter fan base. the mania is still going strong. the
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merchandise report of sports events. and even our report are seeing problems and so far more than half a 1000000000 copies of the harry potter books have been sold worldwide betting its new game will reach similar numbers. rogers here with me now 1st of all roger are you a harry potter. i have to admit i didn't read the books but i saw the movies i like them a lot and luckily you don't have to be a harry potter expert to play wizards you're not ok now we saw you playing it what did you think of it i think. it has a lot of potential it isn't as early stages and 5 now still as a rather mixed back and what's been the reaction from fellow daemons. fellow gamers they are quite happy with they they say they really praise the overall look of did they play the appearance especially because it's very very
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detailed. manufacture and i think they cooperated with one of bravo's they own the copyrights for the plot a movie franchise and that's why the game can come very close to the atmosphere of the movies. you know ok now how's it doing for the company is it i mean you know this is not you know who've made a lot with the fe really made a lot of money and compared to those numbers i say was united is rather mediocre to put it mildly and then expos actually really very skeptical if it can really take off because it basically repeats a game principle that a lot of people know already and if you're looking at the figures the 1st weekend was it's united generated one roughly 1001000000 i'm sorry one that would be a huge number 1000000 euros. was downloaded 3000000 times and compared to
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pokemon gold that's peanuts it was about 10 times as much ok now this game is a fun example of old men did reality all week going to see adult lore of this yeah i think at least the industry is hoping that we'll see a lot more of it in the near future and that they really want to bring that technology to the mainstream as for example apple they have developed a software that's enables users to build their own experience and google has been testing a new feature they are doing their actions at the moment and microsoft is has recently announced a game called mycroft earth in which users can build rows of objects. ok oh look it's be all male this is. just thank you very much for now i'll let you get back to chasing what was bad as a list but. as i was home from rowing for over a drug rings off thank you very much thank. 30 years ago
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july the 1st 1989150 people techno music through west but in the main shopping street the party was billed as a political demonstration under the title peace joy and pancakes a lot within 8 is 1000000 people were attending what evolved into the parade and look back at a piece of music history. provided the techno beats for berlin's reunification. more than a party it was a youth movement started by an underground d.j. and his then girlfriend. d.j. dr martha and danielle deeper chouteau lead the 1st love parade here through west berlin's main shopping district a few months before the berlin wall came down. everyone was scattered around the 20 people who were there 1st we didn't have any event
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management we just did it we just flipped on the generators. west berlin in the late 1980 s. . the dream couple of a new subculture. acid house a new electronic sound which dr much of played in a club called the turbine. at the time affordable electronic instruments drum machines and bass synthesizers were changing how music was made and how it sounded . those 2 machines basically started a revolution it was like you can record music in your bedroom on a cassette or whatever who cares but you could do it. and techno made everyone equal unlike before when there was always the big rock star out there. so. that's why techno was so important to me politically
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and that's. what made it so incredibly attractive i think i took so long to have. the love parade became the image of a new generation post berlin wall hundreds of rivers turned into hundreds of thousands into a 1000000 joins the free outdoor party in the last parade so i thought what i parade was in the perfect place at the perfect time it was a whole generation it started off as a little group of people who took to the streets saying this is who we are this is our music at that we're not afraid of technology we make music with it and i was put. on it. for the love parade and it did in tragedy in 2010 after the event was moved to western germany a stampede broke out leaving $21.00 people dead and hundreds more injured. afterward the organizers canceled the love parade permanently. and today the youth of benefit wrote music history is being honored with this exhibition at the
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original founders want to place an emphasis on the good old days with millions of people went out and raved to peacefully and berlin and change the world image of germany with their colorful tolerant community. in our series europe ties the knot we accompany couples from all over the continent on the most beautiful day of their lives we've been to ireland italy and cyprus so far today we're going right up north just inside the arctic circle to finish lapland where the wedding itself seems quite noble but what happens to the bride before hand seems slightly torture us all i can say is she must love it. at this sauna in finland they're making wedding preparations of a rather unusual kind. that stings why does it have to hurt so much. that i never promised you a rose garden and sometimes my have some pleasant. things struck with
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a bank made of birch branches are supposed to really hammer home the bridesmaids advice. in another period spanish tradition the bride mario crank out her ex-boyfriend's in a t. shirt belonging to her future husband. and the good advice continues. always kiss one another goodnight. that's sweet. my dear mario always lead told me think he's introvert even though you are the one in control. after all that good advice the bridesmaids bay is my go 1st with salt to replace the sodium her body has lost 3 spends. a dash of flour despite talents he. and finally and egg to symbolize fertility.
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and now the big day has arrived mario can't come until we can pull out we'll exchange vows in the biggest church in rovaniemi. struck up the wedding march i cried from the very 1st note. modern mario sousa. do you take tommy up or alexander could pull out to be your husband. i do. they could into old finnish tradition only the bride gets a new wedding ring the groom takes his engagement ring. ready outside the church the couple are greeted by friends from baseball it's tough
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. because he takes place a half hour's drive from the city and a simple wooden house in the far east. will cause. them to go and then more thought the wedding wouldn't change anything between us. but i think we're even happier and even more in love now. if there's any lesson to be done from the happy couple and that it's keep it simple and don't always take nice is.
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