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by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:52- Categories:
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With motion controllers now commonplace, many have speculated that being able to play games using only the power of thought is the next boundary for developers to break down. Indeed, a few primitive prototypes are already out there....
However, according to the man responsible for creating the PlayStation Move peripheral, this sort of space-age tech is not something that Sony is currently interested in chasing.
"That's where it always ends up because the final end everyone thinks of, the ultimate end is the brain experience," said Sony R&D's special project manager Dr. Richard Marks when asked by Gamasutra what the next technological paradigm shift for the industry might be.
"But I think the brain interface thing is too far. Actually I think the body should stay connected. Like having your, you know, adrenaline pumping.
"When you play some of the experiences like Rock Band where you break into a sweat playing the drums, those things are good. I like those things. I don't want to remove all of that.
"Some people just say, 'If I could just get rid of all those human body problems...' I don't agree with that. I like it when it's connected. So I'd rather get more information about what they're doing. A lot of expression comes through what you do with your hands and your body, so."
Elsewhere in the interview, Marks also delivered his verdict on Microsoft's competing Kinect system. He explained how he was a big fan of camera control in general but only for "a fairly narrow set of experiences".
"It's really good for dancing. There's no way you could argue that. It's great for dancing," he argued.
"But it's not so good for maybe first person shooters or an RTS. Those kinds of things just don't really make as much sense for that by itself. So I think that it's a good tool, again, but it doesn't solve all the problems of video games by any stretch."
Marks added that he was impressed by how well Kinect had integrated voice recognition but insisted the technology still had a long way to go.
"I think that actually [Kinect] does better in that area than I expected it to do. I tried Kinect on the voice networks, it's better than I expected. But it's tough, it's still very stiff. You have to speak the way it wants you to speak. And you have to kind of modify yourself to match it. You watch Star Trek and they just talk to the computers whenever they want, as if it's just another person.
"We're still quite a ways away from it knowing whether you're talking to it or to another person in the room. And not having to really treat it so stiffly, I guess. I think that's not quite there yet. But I think it's good, I think it's a good vector. There's a lot of powerful information that can come out of voice."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...nwave-controlsby Published on March 16th, 2011 21:48- Categories:
- Playstation Vita News
The basic Next Generation Portable model will cost $250 and the 3G model $350, a Ubisoft survey suggests....
Research firm Toluna conducted a survey asking consumers if they'd be happy to pay the asking price for Sony's PlayStation Portable successor this week on behalf of Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft.
Kotaku reported the survey gauged purchase intent based on the expected price of the different NGP models.
"The retail price of the Sony NGP is expected to be around $350," says the survey in reference to the premium model. It asks: "How likely would you be to purchase the Sony NGP now that you know this retail price?"
Sony is yet to put an official price stamp on the powerful handheld, but told Eurogamer it will be "affordable". "I can't put a ballpark on it in terms of figures, but what I would say is that we will shoot for an affordable price that's appropriate for the handheld gaming space," Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Andrew House told Eurogamer January. All NGP devices will have wi-fi capability; a separate SKU will have 3G.
"So the user gets a choice," House explained. "Wi-fi is available wherever, which clearly is the most important aspect of connectivity and that connected experience; 3G will be a subset of that."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...price-revealedby Published on March 16th, 2011 21:46- Categories:
- Pandora News
Newly released/updated for the Pandora:
Lightweight2 is a very small Browser. Updated to 1.4 Changelog: --- 1.4 - Changed all flat PushButtons to ToolButtons with AutoRaise: HoverFeedback seems only be supported by Oxygen - Moved Hover url into WebView - Added ability to open file after downloading it - Fixed some optical issue with the display of teh remaining datasize - Open "mailto:" Urls with desktop-email-client - Indicate no active tab, when opening downloads-view - Added QSettings workaround for Pandora * To use it uncomment line 30 from src/lgihtweight.cpp - Bookmarkmanager: Fixed bug that caused displaying wrong buttons --- 1.3 - Added more shortcuts: * Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right : Go to tab left / right of current tab * Ctrl+E : Show/Hide urlBar of current tab * Ctrl+W : Close current tab - Indicate the current acive tab - Moved pageloading progressbar to the buttom - Added ability to save cookies on disk (User must give the allowed domains) - Fixed bug: Always show a download in progrss after stopping a download - Open bookmark: Show a tab with the bookmark-url, if there is one. Do not create a new tab in that case - Add ability to create a new bookmark in bookmarkmanager. (Creates a bookmark from the current viewed page) - Allow going to "about:blank" - Added loading of translations from an Unix-instllation - Added support for disk-cache up to 1GiB --- 1.2 - Show progress of pageloading - New bookmark-system with folders - On-the-fly SHA1 check of Downloads - Searchbar - Win32: Make the flat buttons non flat --- 1.1 - Download support - Added icons for web-contextmenu - Translate web-contextmenu - Fixed possible crash when using control-buttons with no tab in Window - Translation: Spanish - Disable useless control-buttons - Show only reload or stop button - Some smaller changes --- 1.0 Added support for translations Added Autentication support Added popup support (All popups are opend in a new tab) Show Webpage icon directly again when opening a bookmark --- 0.5 Added full bookmark support Added support for costum searchengines Showing URL for hovers links Added Shortcuts Added support for "Open in new Window" in Contextmenu of a link --- 0.1 First release More info about creating bookmarks at Documentation/Lightweight2 Manual
Download Here ...by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:45- Categories:
- Dingoo News
Newly released/updated for the Dingoo a320 and Dingoo a330
It's a implementation of te well known sliding puzzle or just 15 puzzle. The object of the puzzle is to place the tiles in order by making sliding moves that use the empty space. This still need to do some things, but it contains enough to play. [v0.2] * PSP port; * Faster loading; * Use of customizable background images *; * Proper success sound (bye Blanka); * Numerical tips; * Pause; * Adjust the left pane. * To add your own background images, just convert them to BMP format, and copy them to the directory "data/bg". It is important to remember that the images must have a resolution of 240x240, necessarily.
Download Here ...by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:44- Categories:
- Dingoo News
Newly released/updated for the Dingoo a320 and Dingoo a330
This is a port of OpenBOR [ http://lavalit.com ] for Dingoo-linux Installation ============ - Copy the OpenBOR directory somewhere on your filesystem - Set your menu launcher to execute ./OpenBOR.dge - Copy yours paks files to the "Paks" directory - Have fun! History / Changelog =================== Rev. 3162 (08/03/2011) ---------------------- - Based on OpenBOR v3.0 build 3162. v0.2.1 (23/12/2009) ------------------- - Fixed the prolonged loading time issue from the latest release; - Based on OpenBOR v3.0 build 2559. v0.2 (21/12/2009) ----------------- - Fixed 16bits colors issue, now mods like 'Ryuko no Ken Nekketsu' displays correct colors; - Fixed memory calculations issues; - Based on OpenBOR v3.0 build 2536. Note ==== Only tested with latest Elta rootfs (20091208) Special Thanks ============== - Brazilian Dingoo Community - Dingoonity folks
Download Here ...by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:42- Categories:
- Apple iPad,
- Apple iPhone
Apple Inc. has changed how purchases inside iPhone and iPad games are authorized after customers complained that their kids were racking up hundreds of dollars worth of charges. The issue was that after a user entered his or her iTunes password on a device, the device didn't prompt for the password again for 15 minutes. Any purchases, whether in the iTunes store or inside kid-friendly games such as 'The Smurf's Village,' went through without a new password prompt. This meant that parents who handed over their iPhones or iPads to their kids were sometimes shocked by large purchases of 'Smurfberries' and other virtual bling."http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/0...p-iTunes-Bills ...by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:41- Categories:
- Pandora News
Newly released/updated for the Pandora:
'Multi Platform RAM Defragmentation' is a so-called Memory Defragmenter, also called RAM defragmenter, RAM/memory booster, RAM/memory optimizer, etc. By its visionary design, 'Multi Platform RAM Defragmentation' makes your computing platform run faster while simultaneously increasing system stability, and testers all over the world report that it also does a great job in delivering world peace and harmony.
Download Here ...by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:39- Categories:
- DCEmu
The NPD Group has told GamesIndustry.biz that it is working towards including digital sales data in its monthly reports.
Video game publishers have been critical of NPD stats as digital formats grow, with EA going so far as stating that the data it releases to the public is a "a misrepresentation of the entire industry".
But the NPD's Anita Frazier told GamesIndustry.biz that it has been making further investment in its online consumer panels and intends to increase the frequency of its digital reports - which also include revenue from subscriptions, DLC, mobile, social and rental businesses - from quarterly to monthly.
It will become increasingly challenging for the financial community to create proper valuations of companies in the absence of an objective third-party source covering the entire market
Anita Frazier, NPD Group.
"We are expanding the number of digital retailers we have relationships with in order to develop a digital POS (point of sale) service," said Frazier.
"The goal is to provide our clients with a total POS games tracking service that incorporates the growing digital channel as well as the currently predominant physical format, and to deliver this at the same frequency as we currently do for new physical retail sales (monthly)."
NPD estimates that boxed retail sales still account for 60 per cent of the US market, but it also acknowledges that current sales reporting does not paint the full picture. Frazier said she also expects publishers and digital distributors themselves to be more open with their digital sales figures in the future.
"We expect it to happen, especially as digital grows to become a larger portion of the consumer's overall spend.
"It will become increasingly challenging for the financial community to create proper valuations of companies in the absence of an objective third-party source covering the entire market, and it will be harder for companies to manage their businesses and resources without visibility into all forms of distribution."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...tal-sales-data
...by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:36- Categories:
- DCEmu
Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the only public-voted category in the GAME British Academy Video Game Awards, with over 110,000 consumers casting their votes.
EA and BioWare's Mass Effect 2 won the award for best game, presented at 195 Piccadilly in London this evening.
Sony and Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain took three awards, for technical achievement, story and use of audio, while Sony Santa Monica won the artistic achievement gong for God of War III.
Codemasters received the best sports game award for F1 2011 and Criteron's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit claimed the best multiplayer award.
Lionhead's Peter Molyneux was awarded the BAFTA Academy Fellowship, joining fellow game makers Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto and Will Wright.
The BAFTA winners follow:
Action
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Artistic Achievement
God of War III
Best Game
Mass Effect 2
Family
Kinect Sports
Gameplay
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Handheld
Cut the Rope
Multiplayer
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Original Music
Heavy Rain
Social Network Game
My Empire
Sports
F1 2010
Story
Heavy Rain
Strategy
Civilization V
Technical Innovation
Heavy Rain
Use of Audio
Battlefield: Bad Company: 2
BAFTA Ones To Watch Award in association with Dare to Be Digital
Twang!
GAME Award of 2010
Call of Duty: Black Ops
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ic-voted-bafta
...by Published on March 16th, 2011 21:33- Categories:
- DCEmu
Birmingham NEC gathering GAMEfest to take place between September 16th-18th
Leading UK games retailer GAME has tonight at London's video game BAFTAs announced that it is to stage its first UK consumer games show later this year.
Called GAMEfest, the event is actually an extension of the retailer's store manager conference. Entry will be reserved exclusively for Reward Card customers.
It's scheduled to take place at the Birmingham NEC between September 16th-18th – that's exactly one week before the Eurogamer Expo is held at Earls Court in London.
Last year the retailer held its first ever GAMEfest event in Madrid.
MCV will have more details on the gathering at a later date.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/43534/GAME...-consumer-show
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