Message date: 2010-01-15

Heavy Rain demo shows off combat system

As the release of Heavy Rain draws ever closer we are starting to see more footage released giving us an idea of exactly how it will play. The focus is clearly on player choice, but that also brings with it a heavy reliance on players pressing the right button at the appropriate moment, a system commonly [...]
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Gran Turismo 5 only uses 80% of PS3 processing power

During CES Gran Turismo series creater Kazunori Yamauchi gave a number of interviews about Gran Turismo 5. If you’ve seen the preview footage or played the demo then you know the game looks stunning. What was revealed by Yamauchi in an interview with VentureBeat though, was that the game really doesn’t push the PS3 to [...]
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First-Person Tetris puts a new literal twist on an old classic

If you are a nostalgic gamer like myself, playing old school video games are fun. And when these games get an upgrade for the 21st century they can often be even more enjoyable. Take for example the classic video game Tetris. Sure there have been a countless versions of the block stacking strategy game made over the past two [...]
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Reggie Fils-Aime says Wii owners don

To date, Nintendo remote-waggling console, the Nintendo Wii, has sold over 26 million consoles worldwide despite graphics technology that tops out at standard-definition. Nintendo’s been famously hesitant to acknowledge that this might be an area in which the HD-capable Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles are superior, but the recent release of a Netflix disc [...]
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Google attack used Internet Explorer,

Google’s recent announcement that they would be pulling out of China unless the Chinese government made search open to all was prompted by a series of attacks on Google’s servers, specifically in relation to accessing the GMail accounts of human rights activists in China. Google can’t prove the Chinese government was involved, but according to [...]
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Next Asus Eee PC nettop the first to have NVIDIA

With Intel’s new Atom Pine Trail platform integrating the GPU to fight the likes of NVIDIA’s Ion, which marries the previous generation of Atom CPUs with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU, the whole future of the Ion platform has been in question. Depressingly, NVIDIA didn’t even make a peep about their plans for ION at [...]
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Large-headed robot baby created to teach learning development

I’m all for robotic research, but when scientists start pulling fake skin over their metallic skulls to try to make them look human, no matter how well they are done, they always look a bit weird. But when it comes to strange looking robots, this little guy unfortunately takes the creepiness cake. Named Diego-San by its creators [...]
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Project Excite Bike brings exercise to the Xbox 360

The rapidly expanding pudding pancake of your posterior is, along with a dermatological encrusting of Cheeto’s dust and the inability to withstand direct sunlight, a natural result of being a gamer. It’s hard to top 30,000 Xbox Live achievement points while maintaining a svelte and wiry exterior. One plucky gamer and hacker hit the hardware [...]
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App overload: 50 things to do with strawberries

The white flag is up. I finally surrender. I don’t want an app for everything on the iPhone. What finally broken my spirit? What app has me finally pulling the emergency stop in an attempt to jump off this crazy train in regards to iPhone app development? It’s an app about strawberries. The California Strawberry Commission [...]
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Review: Defriended for iPhone

We’ve all been there, trying to interact with folks on Facebook only to realize you’ve been removed from their friends list. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could figure out who unfriended you on Facebook so you can tell once and for all who actually doesn’t deserve your attention? Enter Defriended, an iPhone app whose sole [...]
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China won

A couple of days ago Google decided to take a stand against the Chinese government after it discovered hacking in an attempt to gain access to the accounts of human right activists. Posting on the Official Google Blog chief legal officer David Drummond said that: over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese [...]
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Flash on iPhone made possible with Javascript Gordon project

Adobe has yet to get Apple to agree to support Flash on the iPhone. Some have become frustrated enough to create an app in an attempt to support it. Adobe continues to work on a version that Apple may accept while at the same time adding Flash-to-app compilation to the next version of Flash called [...]
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Microsoft Kodu games creator available for Windows

Last year Microsoft launched a game creation tool for the Xbox 360 called Kodu which could be downloaded for just $5. It was meant to act as a first step into the process of game development removing the need to learn and write code with a simple interface and “visual programming language”. Microsoft clearly saw the [...]
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Glary Utilities Pro free today only

Whenever I get asked to recommend some free security and clean-up applications to use on a PC one of the packages I always recommend is the free version of Glary Utilities. With a single click it cleans your registry, fixes broken shortcuts, checks your startup files for problems, clears any temporary internet files, scans for [...]
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We might like Apple

Apple is seen as a bit of a darling of the tech industry. When it announces a new gadget everyone listens and then the company usually goes on to sell millions of units while competitors scramble to keep up. That success is based on clever gadget designs that look great and are both useful and [...]
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