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    by Published on June 1st, 2006 15:58

    Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis, who you may know as sneaky raw fish connoisseur Gollum and giant hairy ape King Kong, has been speaking to the Beeb about his new role in Heavenly Sword.

    Ninja Theory's hack n' slasher was the undoubted star of Sony's PS3 line-up at last month's E3 and, after seeing the game in action, Serkis duly signed up via a rather unusual process (more on that in a moment) to star in the game as ultimate villain King Botan - as well as taking on board a dramatic director role on the title.

    "We are aiming to bring the highest level of layered, truthful and emotionally engaging performance into Heavenly Sword," said Serkis, who went through a lengthy motion capture routine (which he should be used to now) to bring the evil Botan to life.

    Serkis was apparently recruited via a rather unusual route through his mortgage adviser, who happens to be the brother of Ninja Theory's boss, Tameem Antoniades. Antoniades told the Beeb, "Because the production quality [on Heavenly Sword] is so high, we have been working with more film people. Andy is taking care of all the performance capture, the casting and is heavily involved in writing."

    "We've done facial tests with him to find out how to create believable performances in real time on the PlayStation 3. Not many people believed what we showed [last year] was real," said the Ninja Theory boss. "This year we have proved ourselves to the doubters."

    Via CVG ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 15:56

    Via CVG

    Sony has just unleashed a brand new firmware update for the PSP version 2.71 which enables - amongst its many other wonders - LocationFree TV.

    The new version adds a new icon to the PSP interface, Portable TV or P-TV, which adds portable TV watching functionality to your favourite sleek Sony handheld. Japanese users of the service will be able to download video content from So-net, with some free and some pay-to-download and view, content.

    More significantly over here in the UK, version 2.71 will enable Sony's brand new LocationFree TV service which launches today in Sony stores across fair old Great Britainland. UK and European users can get the full deal by visiting Sony's freshly launched LocationFree TV site.

    Demoed to CVG on Wednesday, LocationFree TV looks like it could be one of the PSP's killer features as the handheld expands over the next six months, allowing you to watch your home TV on a PSP or laptop from anywhere in the world.

    Just in time for the World Cup too, and we'll be bringing you a full hands-on report soonest, but our advice is get downloading the firmware now - you need never miss a World Cup goal, an episode of Lost or the latest goings on in EastEnders ever again!

    I prefer House which is on tonight myself ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 15:54

    As you might expect, there was much commotion in the CVG war-room when we first saw Solid Snake sneaking in the new Smash Bros. But taking a look at these tasty new screenshots, it's hard to remember a time when we couldn't kick Mario's arse with the Metal Gear Solid super-soldier.

    Along with these new screenshots, a fresh blog entry by series director Masahiro Sakurai was released today, on his own official Smash Bros. website. "It looks like people are split pretty evenly over which of the four new characters is their favourite," Sakurai writes. "I bet you were all surprised by the appearance of Snake!"

    Advertisement:He continues. "Finally we've gotten over the wall that separates different game makers, but of course this was due to the cooperation of many different people. Now, Smash Snake is fighting furiously and sneaking before my very eyes."

    Smash Bros. Brawl is due for release in 2007.

    Screens and News over at CVG ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 15:52

    News Via CVG

    Widely regarded as the golden boy of the E3 awards world, the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 body has announced its big winners from this year's massive videogame jamboree. 37 publications knocked heads to vote for the best of the best in 16 categories with Nintendo's Wii proving a major hit. Categories it won included Best of Show - as did Will Wright's Spore and Epic's Gears of War.

    Cast your eyes below for the full run-down on categories, nominations in the categories and winners - highlighted in bold. You can also find further analysis on each by checking out the Game Critics Awards website.

    Best of Show:

    Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft for PlayStation 3)
    Bioshock (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC and Xbox 360)
    Gears of War (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)
    Spore (Electronic Arts for PC)
    Wii (Nintendo)

    Best Original Game:

    Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft for PlayStation 3)
    Bioshock (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC/Xbox 360)
    Gears of War (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)
    LocoRoco (SCEJ/Sony Computer Entertainment for PSP)
    Spore (Electronic Arts for PC)
    Wii Sports (Nintendo for Wii)

    Best PC Game:

    Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts for PC)
    Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Splash Damage/id/Activision for PC)
    Hellgate: London (Flagship Studios/Namco Bandai Games for PC)
    Supreme Commander (Gas Powered Games/THQ for PC)
    Spore (Electronic Arts for PC)

    Best Console Game:

    Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft for PlayStation 3)
    Bioshock (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC and Xbox 360)
    Gears of War (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studios for Xbox 360)
    Mass Effect (BioWare/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)
    Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo for Wii)

    Best Handheld Game:

    Elite Beat Agents (Inis/Nintendo for Nintendo DS)
    Killzone: Liberation (Guerrilla/Sony Computer Entertainment for PSP)
    LocoRoco (SCEJ/Sony Computer Entertainment for PSP)
    Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Kojima Productions/Konami for PSP)
    The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo for Nintendo DS)

    Best Hardware:

    DS Lite (Nintendo)
    Logitech G25 Racing Wheel (Logitech for PC)
    PlayStation 3 (Sony Computer Entertainment)
    Wii (Nintendo)
    Xbox 360 Wireless Headset (Microsoft for Xbox 360)

    Best Action Game:

    Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts for PC)
    Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Splash Damage/id/Activision for PC)
    Gears of War (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studios for Xbox 360)
    Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Capcom for Xbox 360)
    Resistance: Fall of Man (Insomniac/SCEA for PlayStation 3)

    Best Action/Adventure Game:

    Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft for PlayStation 3)
    Bioshock (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC and Xbox 360)
    God of War 2 (Sony Santa Monica/SCEA for PlayStation 2)
    Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo for Wii)
    The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo for GameCube/Wii)

    Best Fighting Game:

    Heavenly Sword (Ninja Theory/Sony for PS3)
    -Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Midway Games for PlayStation 2/Xbox)
    Tekken: Dark Resurrection (Namco Bandai Games for PSP)
    Virtua Fighter 5 (Sega for Arcade/PlayStation 3)
    WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 (Yuke's/THQ for 360/PS3/PS2/PSP)

    Best Role Playing Game:

    Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix for PlayStation 2)
    Hellgate: London (Flagship Studios/Namco Bandai Games for PC)
    Mass Effect (BioWare/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360)
    Neverwinter Nights 2 (Obsidian/Atari for PC)
    World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Blizzard for PC)

    Best Racing Game:

    Excite Truck (Nintendo for Wii)-Formula One 06 (Studio Liverpool/SCEE for PlayStation 3)
    Gran Turismo HD (Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for PS3)
    MotoGP 06 (Climax/THQ for Xbox 360)
    Test Drive Unlimited (Eden Studios/Atari for Xbox 360, PC, PS2, PSP)

    Best Simulation Game:

    Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Microsoft Games Studio for PC)
    Sid Meier's Railroads! (Firaxis Games/2K Games for PC)
    Spore (Electronic Arts for PC)
    The Movies: Stunts and Effects (Lionhead Studios/Activision for PC)
    Wii Music Orchestra (Nintendo for Wii)

    Best Sports Game:

    Madden NFL 07 (Tiburon/EA for PS3 / Xbox 360)
    Madden NFL 07 (Tiburon/EA for Nintendo Wii)
    NBA 2K7 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports for Xbox 360)
    NCAA Football 07 (EA Tiburon/Electronic Arts for X360/PS2/Xbox/PSP)
    Wii Sports (Nintendo for Wii)

    Best Strategy Game:

    Company of Heroes (Relic/THQ for PC)
    Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II (EA for X360)
    Medieval 2: Total War (Creative Assembly/Sega for PC)
    Supreme Commander (Gas Powered Games/THQ for PC)
    World in Conflict (Massive Entertainment/Sierra for PC)

    Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game:

    Elite Beat Agents (Inis/Nintendo for Nintendo DS)
    Guitar Hero 2 (Harmonix/Red Octane for PlayStation 2)
    LocoRoco (SCEJ/Sony Computer Entertainment for PSP)
    Lumines II (Q Entertainment/Buena Vista Games for PSP)
    WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Nintendo for Wii)

    Best Online Multiplayer Game:

    Battlefield 2142 ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 06:41

    Sgstair posted this news:

    There have been some pretty significant updates to the dswifi lib in CVS - TCP is now a lot more stable, and some other things have been addressed (As always, see the Checklist [wiki.akkit.org])
    Of course please let me know if you do manage to find any bugs or it doesn’t work how you think it should.

    I’m also still debating whether to spend some time converting the junky videos I took of the Wii action and post them… to give you an idea of what we’re talking about, the footage is 640×480, 15fps without sound - the footage is a bit shaky but some is better than others, I’ll clean it up to the best of my ability if I convert it.
    More importantly I’d like to know if you people (whoever reads this blog, if anyone :P) would like to see this footage, given that there are of course lots of nicer sources out there - there is at least one video I’d like to show everyone though, so I will at least convert and post the one.

    More info --> http://blog.akkit.org/2006/05/31/cvs-update/ ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 06:38

    News from PataterSoft:

    Hay kiddies! Guess what? I made you this special little app that helps you break that nasty habit of yours. Do you want to convert some data out of a .c, .cpp, or .h file into REAL, ACTUAL binary data? Does everybody on #dsdev yell at you for using .h files for your graphics instead of .bin files, but your graphic converter only converts graphics into .h? Enter hConvert. The hero of smashing text based binary data. It'll parse through a (currently limited) hex based, comma delimited, "{" starting, "};", terminated dump of binary data and spit out a little .bin file. Super useful! You know you want it oh so badly.

    Using bin files, devkitARM, and the default makefile for devkitARM (which uses bin2o) is the recommened way of linking binary data into your program. However, the most portable way of including binary data in your program is through an isolated translation unit, ie a .c file a textual representation of the data to be linked. Many kiddies would make the mistake of then including this file, "#include "my_gfx_thingy.c", which is bad bad bad. NEVER DO IT. The proper way to make it a truly isolated and portable translation unit is to make a .h file that will refer to it using the extern keyword. That would look like this in the .h file (not the .c) which we include from where ever we want to referece the graphic, continuing our previous example, "extern const uint16 my_gfx_thingy[];".

    hConvert would be useful, if you are concerned about portability and would never use devkitARM's bin2o makefile rule that wouldn't exist in another toolchain, in converting a .c isolated translation unit into binary data for use with a filesystem, such as GBA_NDS_FAT lib from chishm or Nintendo's filesystem (using their tools).
    hConvert is a an application for x86 Linux and Macintosh OS X (and Windows at a later date, probably tomorrow).

    More Info --> http://www.patatersoft.info/hconvert.html ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 06:36

    Parrot posted this news

    Here is my palette conversion tool for the PC. It converts DS Palettes to an unsigned short array. I hope to be able to convert back to DS palettes and other secret functionality. This tool is oh so handy for those of you considering porting your DS game to the PC but don’t want to use other GFX formats such as PNG or have lost the originals.

    More info --> http://n-central.com/parrot/?p=20 ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 06:35

    Wintermute posted this news:

    This is a major update to the ARM toolchain.

    devkitARM release 19 may be downloaded from here.

    This release updates binutils to 2.16.93, gcc to 4.1.1 and improves the newlib pseudo device API added in previous releases.

    The toolchain is now arm-eabi instead of arm-elf since this allows us to dispense with the interworking libraries and build arm946e-s code without object marking mismatch problems. Unfortunately this means that code built with prior releases are no longer compatible and must be rebuilt with the new toolchain.

    have all been built with the new toolchain and are not compatible with prior toolchains.

    The windows updater will automatically install these updates.

    More info --> http://www.devkitpro.org/ ...
    by Published on June 1st, 2006 01:21

    realn0whereman posted this news/release:

    ok this will most likely be the last release. This is an app (coded by yoursam1 and i did everything else) that will help return your psp if it is stolen and the thief access' the memory stick via usb, this app will send you an email with his IP . this file is only about 3 kb so it should not concern people about space. just have this on your stick just in case
    .

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    by Published on June 1st, 2006 01:18

    GMdude66 posted this news/release:

    I have just created PATS (PSP Anti Theft System).

    PATS is a psp protection system, when someone else plugs in your PSP they will have to enter a password or else there IP will automatically be sent to you.

    Nothing in this package is mallicous and WILL NOT harm your computer in ANY way. Please read the 'readme.txt' file for further information and full installation instructions.

    PATS Version 2 has now been released!

    Changes:
    Added a 'password' box!
    Ditched the registry!
    Ditched the .bat file and am now using .vbe (MUCH more features)
    If password is correct an explorer window will automatically open.

    Download and Give Feedback Via comments ...
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