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by Published on July 26th, 2012 23:08- Categories:
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GDC Online Awards include nods to World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Sims Social and others
The Third Annual GDC Online Awards have posted nominations for games ranging from subscription MMOs to F2P social titles. The awards will honor the best connected online gaming titles from around the world in a ceremony that is adding more and more to the growth of the casual and connected gaming market.
Big nominees this year include Star Wars: The Old Republic, which garnered six nominations, as well as The Sims Social and Diablo III, which both netted multiple nods.
The Best Live Game and Best New Online Game represent the biggest awards of the night, which saw games like Rift, League of Legends, World of Warcraft and CityVille take nominations. In the Best New Online Game category, The Old Republic, Draw Something, Rage of Bahamut and others are to duke it out come October at the Game Developers Conference in Austin, Texas.
The full list of awards and nominees:
BEST SOCIAL NETWORK GAME: • CastleVille (Zynga Dallas) • Rage Of Bahamut (Cygames/Mobage) • Draw Something (OMGPOP/Zynga) • Empires & Allies (Zynga LA) • The Sims Social (Playfish) BEST AUDIO: • Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin) • Tribes: Ascend (Hi-Rez Studios) • Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Playdom/Disney) • Diablo III (Blizzard Entertainment) • Indiana Jones Adventure World (Zynga Boston)
BEST ONLINE GAME DESIGN: • Glitch (Tiny Speck) • Realm of the Mad God (Wild Shadow Studios/Kabam w/Spry Fox) • Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin) • DragonVale (Backflip Studios) • Woodland Heroes (Row Sham Bow)
BEST ONLINE VISUAL ARTS: • Tera (Bluehole Studio/En Masse) • Empires & Allies (Zynga LA) • Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin) • Age of Empires Online (Robot Entertainment & Gas Powered Games) • Glitch (Tiny Speck)
ONLINE INNOVATION: • Journey (thatgamecompany) • Realm of the Mad God (Wild Shadow Studios/Kabam w/Spry Fox) • Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin) • DayZ Mod for ArmA II (Dean Hall/Bohemia Interactive) • Idle Worship (Idle Games)
BEST COMMUNITY RELATIONS: • World of WarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment) • League of Legends (Riot Games) • Solitaire Blitz (PopCap/EA) • World of Tanks (Wargaming.net Belarus) • Diamond Dash (Wooga) BEST ONLINE TECHNOLOGY: • Diablo III (Blizzard Entertainment) • Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin) • Indiana Jones Adventure World (Zynga Boston) • Tera (Bluehole Studio/En Masse) • The Sims Social (Playfish)
BEST LIVE GAME: • League of Legends (Riot Games) • Rift (Trion Worlds) • CityVille (Zynga) • World of WarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment) • EVE Online (CCP Games) BEST NEW ONLINE GAME: • CastleVille (Zynga Dallas) • Star Wars: The Old Republic (BioWare Austin) • DragonVale (Backflip Studios) • Draw Something (OMGPOP/Zynga) • Rage Of Bahamut (Cygames/Mobage)
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-online-awards
...by Published on July 26th, 2012 23:02- Categories:
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New controller from Apple similar to DualShock, will work with Apple TV
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Apple's move into gaming, however unpronounced, has taken a tiny step forward with a new patent. Apple's new patent filing shows a gaming controller that could very well give core gamers an alternative to touch-screen gaming and open the doors to developers to bring more sophisticated games to iOS.
The patent, which was published today after being filed in March, will link various devices such as iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs and other Apple owned hardware. The patent shows "a schematic of a video game controller for the standalone media player of [an Apple TV] or a video game system." The controller will use Radio-frequency identification (RFID) and NFC tags to connect to the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
The move shows that Apple is increasingly working on a way to break into the gaming industry at large, perhaps without bursting into the console market. This new controller could be seen as a competitor to the rising idea of platform-agnostic games, where developers hope that games will be the driving factor in getting gamers attached, not the platform itself.
Of course, this controller is by no means a reality, and like other patents, it's entirely possible that an actual product will never be borne from it.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ing-controller
...by Published on July 26th, 2012 23:00- Categories:
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Digital Foundry breaks down the challenges facing Sony with its upcoming console revision
Good news, bad news. According to a recent report from VG247, the latest revision of the PlayStation 3 could well be released at a surprisingly price-point - £99 is being suggested, somewhat optimistically - but the platform holder won't reveal the new console at Gamescom, looking instead to sell-through more of its existing inventory. Our sources corroborate the Cologne no-show and while the entry-level 16GB model will be "aggressively priced", we have no confirmation on just how low that price-point will be.
The upcoming CECH-4000 model is definitely a very big deal for Sony however, representing the company's best chance to grab current-gen market share before more the technologically advanced replacements arrive next year. More than any other PlayStation 3 model released to date, this revision is all about getting as many boxes in homes as possible, and based on leaked photography from Brazil's equivalent of the FCC, we have a pretty good idea of what Sony has done to get its build costs down to a minimum.
"The new model introduces a number of new cost-cutting measures, but it's the move towards flash memory for the entry-level unit that offers the most potential for a meaningful price-cut."
Superficially, overall size issues aside, the most obvious change to the core PlayStation 3 design comes from a top-loading Blu-ray drive, replacing the more expensive slot-loader we've seen in all PS3s to date. Curiously, the lid appears to be raised vertically in relation to the rest of the top elevation, suggesting that perhaps it slides across the face of the unit, rather than popping up. Other than that, the basic hardware make-up looks to be much the same as the existing Slim: dual USB ports remain (Sony couldn't really cut-down any further here) while the reverse of the unit retains the multi-AV port, HDMI socket, Ethernet and Toslink digital audio outputs.
A look at the power supply rating offers us our first hints of what may - or may not - have changed within the console: Sony has reduced the load it is capable of down to 190W from the current Slim's 200W. That's a very meaty PSU bearing in mind that the launch version of the Slim - which has since been made much more efficient - only drew a maximum of 105W when I first tested it back in 2009. It also suggests that the core of the PS3's components hasn't changed that much from the existing Slim, which currently uses a 45nm Cell CPU combined with a 40nm RSX graphics core. Combining both chips into one - as Microsoft has done with the Xbox 360S - or dropping either component down to a lower fabrication node would surely have brought about more comprehensive power-savings, allowing Sony to incorporate a smaller, cheaper PSU into the new machine.
However, the various interconnects between PS3's two types of RAM, and the complexity of Cell itself makes integrating GPU and CPU into one part immensely challenging, and while a 32nm shrink for the main processor could be achieved, there appears to have been some uncertainty if it would happen at all. For RSX, the next logical shrink is down from 40nm to 28nm, but with production on the lower process still ramping up, right now it's probably more cost-efficient for Sony to stay where it is.
So far, what we seem to be looking at is a machine that rolls up all the gradual changes Sony has made to the Slim since its 2009 debut, but with only superficial changes to the chassis, offering limited cost-savings. So it's safe to say that the notion of a £99 PlayStation 3 doesn't really add up at this point. However, the most fundamental difference comes from revisions to the attached storage. According to the leaked documentation, three different SKUs are in the offing: 16GB, 250GB and 500GB. To begin with, many thought that the 16GB option was a typo, and that the entry-level PS3 CECH-4000 would be a 160GB model that's more in line with the current offerings on the market.
Leaked images of the new CECH-4000 PlayStation 3 model from Brazilian website Tecnoblog show clear cost-cutting in terms of the unit's construction, including some kind of manual mechanism for accessing the Blu-ray drive. Size has also decreased visibly.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...a-99-pound-ps3
...by Published on July 26th, 2012 22:51- Categories:
- DCEmu
Ubisoft has unveiled its Gamescom 2012 line-up and detail their press conference.
The conference will take place at 3pm on August 15th in the Konrad-Adenauer-Saal, Congress-Centrum North. Top Ubisoft executives will be in attendance to showcase the firm’s new free-to-play titles set in some of Ubisoft’s popular franchises.
The conference will also detail the company’s plans in e-sports and other growing online game genres.
The Gamescom public booth, which is open from August 16th and located in Hall 7, will display some of Ubisoft’s biggest line-up this year.
Games include: Assassin’s Creed III, Assassin’s Creed III Liberation, Far Cry 3, Ghost Recon Online and Shootmania: Storm.
Yves Guillemot, CEO at Ubisoft said: “The total number of players and the resulting opportunities for our industry continue to multiply as new types of gaming take hold.
“After a successful E3, we’re looking forward to bringing a strong line-up to Gamescom so that customers can experience many of our hotly anticipated titles first hand.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ubiso...ine-up/0100196 ...by Published on July 26th, 2012 22:44- Categories:
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Europe's most powerful supercomputer — and the fourth most powerful in the world — has been officially inaugurated. The SuperMUC, ranked fourth in the June TOP500 supercomputing listing, contains 147,456 cores using Intel Xeon 2.7-GHz, 8-core E5-2680 chips. IBM, which built the supercomputer, stated in a recent press release that the supercomputer actually includes more than 155,000 processor cores. It is located at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) in Garching, Germany, near Munich. According to the TOP500 list, the SuperMUC is the world's most powerful X86-based supercomputer. The Department of Energy's 'Sequoia' supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., the world's [overall] most powerful, relies on 16-core, 1.6-GHz POWER BQC chips."
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/07/2...-up-in-germany ...by Published on July 26th, 2012 22:40- Categories:
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin reveals all in a shout out to 'Glass Explorers.'
Project Glass is a swanky piece of AR hardware, which will provide the wearer with maps, video calling, messaging, weather, apps, and other functions.
Another interesting feature is the camera, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin has offered some insight, revealing that the gadget will come equipped with auto picture-capture.
He demonstrated use of the tech while driving in Montana, uploading the result to Google+, citing that the photo was taken without 'distraction or disruption'.
Don't expect to see friends uploading their Glass-captured images to social networks just yet though, the gadgets won't hit the consumer market until 2014.
This is the second recent demo of Project Glass, following the recent video footage captured when users took part in a skydive.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...capture/018781 ...by Published on July 26th, 2012 22:38- Categories:
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But the device could be riddled with malware, as 52 per cent are in the dark about smartphone security.
Mobile management firm Kaspersky Labs teamed with YouGov to find 93 per cent of Brits own a smartphone, compared to 64 per cent that own a desktop PC.
The turn in the tide has made a huge impact, with 78 per cent using a smartphone as their first web browsing method, falling to 57 per cent for desktop users.
Meanwhile, Brits are the most lax Europeans for adopting smartphone security, with 52 per cent oblivious that such software even exists, while just 19 per cent have adopted anti-virus tech.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...-option/018784 ...by Published on July 26th, 2012 22:37- Categories:
- Android News
Last year a rumour surfaced that Facebook was working on a mobile phone with HTC, and those whispers haven't gone away.
New rumours have surfaced that seem to give weight to the idea that the Taiwanese manufacturer is working with the social media giant.
According to a reporter at Bloomberg, the device – codenamed Buffy – will be released mid 2013. It's expected that the phone will run on Android and that Facebook has recruited a team of former Apple engineers to build it.
Shortly after these new rumours broke, a Facebook spokesperson told The Next Web: "Our mobile strategy is simple: We think every mobile device is better if it is deeply social. We’re working across the entire mobile industry; with operators, hardware manufacturers, OS providers, and application developers to bring powerful social experiences to more people around the world."
If this story turns out to be true, then it could positively change the fortunes of HTC, who are losing users to rival Android manufacturers such as Samsung.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...in-2013/018783 ...by Published on July 26th, 2012 22:36- Categories:
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Live language translation tool takes AR to the next level and is far more elegant than Kirk's universal translator.
If you haven't yet been impressed by the practical applications of Project Glass, watch this video.
Produced by Will Powell, he explains the video on his website: "I have created a new project glass inspired video which works on translating realtime conversations and displaying it as subtitles in your glasses.
"I can have a conversation with Elizabeth who speaks Spanish to me and I return with English. I have never learnt Spanish but using the glasses I can have a full conversation."
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...btitles/018785 ...by Published on July 26th, 2012 22:34- Categories:
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Korean OEM steams ahead of its US rival with fresh support from Galaxy S III.
New data from Juniper shows that Samsung has shot off into the smartphone shipping horizon, distributing 52.1 million units in Q2, more than doubling Apple's 26 million iPhones.
However, it should be noted that Samsung has a veritable army of smartphones on the market, which only continues to grow. Comparably, Apple has only released five iPhones, and it's thenewest models that buyers are clamouring over.
That said, the Korean firm's lead is still impressive, and its Galaxy S III supported its growth by selling more than ten million units in under two months.
Meanwhile, RIM shipped just 7.4 million smartphones in Q2, trailing Nokia which hit 10.2 million as it waits to see whether the switch from Symbian to Windows Phone will pay off, while HTC reached 11.6 million.
Daniel Ashdown, research analyst, Juniper Research, said: "Sony should be doing better: it, like Samsung, has a global name and the Xperia brand is well-established but its marketing and products have been disappointing so far."
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