Gently introducing you to the working week, here's yet another embarrassing Modern Warfare 2 knife kill. We still randomly lob blades into the sky with the hope of landing one of these.

Admittedly it's not quite as good as our last embarrassing kill, but we hope you enjoy it anyway.



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Sony hopes new shooter MAG can establish the publisher in the competitive FPS sector
Sony believes it can grow its presence in the FPS market, with the arrival of online multiplayer blaster MAG.
The ambitious title is due for release on PS3 next week, and allows 256 players to battle it out online at the same time. It joins Sony’s other big-name first-person shooters Killzone and Resistance.
UK product manager Phil Lynch told MCV: “MAG is a very important IP for us and definitely a key exclusive for PlayStation 3.
“It’s a real statement of intent from us to engage fans of first person shooters everywhere. With the successful Resistance franchise along with Killzone 2 and now MAG, we feel we are a viable choice for gamers looking to get that and much more from their games console.”
The first-person shooter genre boasts some of the bestselling titles of all time and Sony is confident that MAG can match its rivals, as well as building on the success of previous PS3 FPS hits.

“Our sales expectations for MAG are high,” said Lynch.
“Thanks to the massive success of titles like Modern Warfare, Killzone 2 and Resistance, the FPS is more accessible to everyone.”
Lynch added that Sony is working hard to maintain the standard of first party PS3 titles, which has been raised by the likes of Uncharted 2.
He said: “Our first-party games portfolio is getting stronger and stronger with every release, with extremely positive Metacritic scores across the board and various awards honours.
“So our community has justifiably high expectations for everything we take to market, but MAG will definitely be one of the many tipping points for those who haven’t got a PS3.”

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Revolution Software has today released Broken Sword: The Director's Cut for the iPhone and iPod Touch. A remake of the developer's first classic point 'n' click adventure in the Broken Sword series from 1996, The Director's Cut edition originally appeared on the Wii and DS in 2009, to critical acclaim.
As with the versions for the Wii platforms, the iPhone release features new in-game artwork by Watchmen artist and long-time Revelation Software contributor Dave Gibbons.
"I am very proud that the game, and indeed the whole series, has maintained such a loyal following," says Charles Cecil, managing director of Revolution Software. "Since the launch of iPhone we have been bombarded with requests from fans to produce an app and the innovative multi-touch user interface is perfect for an adventure game - it really works very well."

As well as introducing puzzles and gags new to those who missed out on the Wii and DS version, Broken Sword: The Director's Cut on iPhone also uses the control scheme introduced in Revelation's remake of Beneath a Steel Sky for the iPhone, which saw release last year.

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Former Tory leader Duncan Smith says video game age ratings are ineffective
In a lengthy pre-election rant with the The Times Online, former Tory leader and current back-bencher Iain Duncan Smith has slammed video games as one of the seemingly many factors behind what the Conservatives are labelling as ‘broken Britain’.
“We are driving children to lose their childhood,” the MP explained.
“Some video games are incredibly violent, like Grand Theft Auto. They are meant to be 18 but nobody cares what it says on the label.”
The attack comes as part of a larger criticism that touched on subjects such as marriage, alcohol, parenting and religion.
“In some areas, the way in which society should work has been inverted,” he continued. “Instead of wisdom being passed from mother to daughter or father to son, dysfunction is being handed from one generation to the next.”

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The piracy-free future of PS3 now seems to be under real threat
A hacker who made his name by being the first to break Apple’s iPhone 3.0 firmware is claiming to have been the first to hack Sony’s until-now piracy free PS3.
The hacker community is taking these claims far more seriously than similar statements made earlier this month.
Writing on his blog, UK-based George Hotz stated: “Three years, two months, 11 days... that’s a pretty secure system.
“I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet.”
Hotz goes on to claim that the nature of the hack means that Sony may have difficulty closing the loophole via firmware updates. If true the news could prove a big blow for PS3.

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More than 200 applications are being used by 50 tablet devices at Apple's headquarters, a mobile analytics firm has said.
The company, Flurry, has been able to track the activity because its technology is being used to provide analytics for the apps.
"Because Flurry could reliably "place" these devices geographically on Apple's Cupertino campus, we have a fair level of confidence that we are observing a group of pre-release tablets in testing," blogs the company.
"Testing of this device increased dramatically in January, with observed signs of life as early as October of last year."
According to Flurry, more than 150 of the applications downloaded and launched by the tracked users were games, while entertainment apps and news and books both had more than 60. This presumably includes duplicates, judging by Flurry's headline 200 figure.

"With a larger screen, more memory, multi-touch and multi-tasking expected, games will play better than ever on Apple handheld devices," says Flurry. "The mix of applications observed comprises mainly of media and entertainment consumption as opposed to enterprise, productivity and computing."
Flurry says the tablets that it tracked were not running iPhone OS 4.0, but rather 3.2 - which has not yet been released for iPhone. The company says it's satisfied that the devices it's tracking are not merely iPhones running the new OS, though.

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The coder Mediumgauge releases a new update for PSP Filer, useful hombrew that in addition to fully manage the content of your memory stick, there will also launch homebrew, open file format .zip / .rar, dump your UMD, and more yet. The program comes as version 6.5.

Changelog v6.5:

Quote:

- Added player audio
- Fixed a bug that did not allow you to play wav files properly 64k or 128k
- Fixed another bug related to wav file
- Fixed a bug that occurred when procedures were initiated for the transfer files via WiFi AdHoc
- Added a new feature to the metronome

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Pate has posted a new release of his Dos Emulator for DS, heres whats new:


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Heres an Updated release from Ant512:

Woopsi is a Nintendo DS GUI library for rapidly creating user interfaces for homebrew software. Modelled after the AmigaOS windowing system.

Version 0.44 is out now:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/woopsi/

This release adds system-wide support for unicode (UTF-8). Virtually all of the new features are related to text storage, manipulation or display.

In addition to that, the FileRequester is now an official part of libwoopsi and there are dozens of fixes and improvements.

It is worth noting that this release does *not* include any font classes that can render text beyond the standard ASCII set. This will come in a future release - TrueType support is in the works. Alternatively, you can roll your own font class.

Fixes:
- Moved fatInitDefault() SDL function into woopsifuncs.cpp (Quirky).
- ScrollingPanel::raiseScrollEvent() only fires if events are enabled.
- Gadget::raisesEvents() retrieves its value from the GadgetEventHandlerList object.
- Gadget::setRaisesEvents() alters the GadgetEventHandlerList object.
- Removed the raisesEvents flag from the Gadget class.
- Bmp2Font produces working Font classes.
- Deleted badly-converted fonts:
- Latha;
- Lucida10;
- Roman 10;
- Trebuchet8.
- FileRequester no longer has transparent regions.
- FileRequester sorts correctly.
- FileRequester does not attempt to draw when drawing is disabled.
- FilePath uses WoopsiString::lastIndexOf() to change to parse path string.
- Dragging a screen that isn't the top screen so that it is not visible no longer causes a crash.
- Removed glyphs from NewTopaz and Topaz fonts.
- Changed NewTopaz font to PackedFont1 from PackedFont16.
- Changed Topaz font to MonoFont from Font.
- Fixed memory leak when enumerating directories in FileListBox.
- FileListBox shows dummy file list when in SDL mode.
- Graphical corruption in GraphicsPort::clipScroll() fixed.
- Fixed FileRequester layout.
- Replaced magic number double click time with define in woopsifuncs.cpp.
- TestPanel class in scrolltest example draws its border correctly.
- Fixed a crash in GraphicsPort::drawText() when trying to draw text outside the clipRect with a PackedFont1 font; should provide a minor speedup.
- ScrollingPanel draws its border correctly.
- Removed Text::getLinePointer().
- MultiLineTextBox::drawCursor() uses a StringIterator to locate the cursor position.
- MultiLineTextBox::drawCursor() does not read past the end of the string when the cursor is positioned beyond the string.
- Text::wrap() does not perform an invalid comparison between line index and char index when truncating the line positions array.
- Text::wrap() correctly appends the string end position in all scenarios.
- Text::wrap() always assumes text height is at least one row.
- Text::getLineContainingCharIndex() returns the correct value if the character is in the last row.
- WoopsiString::insert() explicitly calls its own setText() and append() methods to prevent the Text class from wrapping twice.
- Added WoopsiString::encodeCodePoint().
- PackedFontBase::isCharBlank() returns correct value if character not present in font (fixes horizontal alignment in MulitLineTextBox).
- Key repeat values stored in defines.h.
- FileListBox does not show "." directory.
- Minor optimisation when building the FileListBox contents.
- Split Label::calculateTextPosition() split into horizontal and vertical methods.
- TextBox switches to left-aligned automatically if contents exceeds size of box.
- Fixed memory leak and logic problems when deleting gadgets.

New Features:
- Added FontBase::getCharHeight().
- WoopsiString supports UTF-8 (Lakedaemon).
- Split glyphs into separate GlyphFont.
- GadgetStyle includes a glyph font.
- All gadgets converted to use WoopsiStrings instead of raw chars/char arrays, meaning they support UTF-8.
- Various changes in Text class to support UTF-8.
- Changed parameters to GraphicsUnclipped::drawText() (and subclasses).
- Added StringIterator class, for efficient iteration over a UTF-8 string.
- Removed dependence on WoopsiString::getCharArray().
- Promoted FileRequester gadget from bonus folder to main library.
- libfat enabled by default in test projects and template.
- Added WoopsiString::lastIndexOf().
- Added WoopsiString::subString().
- Added WoopsiString::indexOf().
- TextBox implements key repeats when left or right d-pad is held down; cursor moves repeatedly until end of string reached or d-pad released.
- MultiLineTextBox implements key repeats when left or right d-pad is held down; cursor moves repeatedly until end of string reached or d-pad released.
- Textbox contents scrolls horizontally as cursor is moved.
- Added key repeat event handling to the entire system.

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