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by Published on February 22nd, 2011 22:38- Categories:
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Politicians in the real-life town of Ciudad Juarez are petitioning for Ubisoft's upcoming shooter Call of Juarez: The Cartel to be blocked from sale in Mexico.
Chihuahua state politicians "unanimously" voted to request that the federal Interior Department ban the modern-day shooter, according to congressman Ricardo Boone Salmon.
Salmon told the AP that "It is true there is a serious crime situation, which we are not trying to hide. But we also should not expose children to this kind of scenarios so that they are going to grow up with this kind of image and lack of values."
Ciudad Juarez has seen 6000 deaths from drug-related violence over the last two years – a factor which also led to a number of senior Texas police recently expressing concern about the game's use of the setting.
State congress leader Entrique Serrano was concerned that the game might provide a negative inspiration to local youth. "Children wind up being easily involved in criminal acts over time, because among other things, during their childhood not enough care has been taken about what they see on television and playing video games. They believe so much blood and death is normal."
The first two Call of Juarez games were set in the 19th century, but developer Techland has relocated the third game to present-day Mexican ganglands.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-of-juarez-ban
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Scribblenauts studio 5th Cell believes digital platforms XBLA and PSN make more sense for a developer of its size than attempting to move to full console development.
"We want to start small but we want smart growth," creative director Jeremiah Slaczka toldGamesIndustry.biz in an interview published today. "We're not hiring bodies and biting off more than we can chew. DS to XBLA makes sense as a next step. Whereas DS to Xbox 360 might be possible, it's maybe going to be a hard road. "
The studio is currently working on XBLA action-shooter Hybrid, which it has scaled up to 65 staff for as the bar for XBLA is so much higher than it used to be four years ago. We're seeing a lot of people go to XBLA with games that look like console games.
Although "When you break the math down we make far more money on Hybrid on XBLA that we would on a retail game," 5th Cell is conscious of the risks involved.
"I think there's opportunities but you've got to be careful about riding a whole company on it. Especially as experimentation, you can have just a few people on it. Hybrid's 30-40 people and even DS games are 30 people.
"Whereas with iPhone you can screw around, iterate, try different things. You're not making tons of money and bank-rolling the whole company but you can still make decent money."
For the full interview with Slaczka and 5th Cell's general manager Joseph Tringali, in which they also discuss being a third-party success on Nintendo platforms, why they won't lay off staff come the end of a project and their resistance to publishing deals, please click here.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-it-used-to-be
...by Published on February 21st, 2011 21:11- Categories:
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News via http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/...uVknofPDQd.php
From team-xecuter.com/jungleflasher.net:
JungleFlasher 0.1.79(208) BETA
* PhatKey Support
Support for Lite-On key extraction, Using Pógó Mo Thóin DIY probe or Xecuter Probe III.
Thanks to Maximus & Co for the un-released original concept.
Full PMT Guides: here
* Hitachi Support
Gui changes in Hitachi:rive area.
[Refresh] in Winapi no longer scans for new hardware
[Scan] added to scan for new hardware separately
[Remove] removed, but added to context menu for convenience
JF will accept system message about new drives added, JF will auto refresh list for new ODD.
* x360USB Support
Initial support for x360USB added – More to follow at release
LibUSB is required, if you dont have LibUSB installed, LibUSB0.dll is required to run JF. Correct file is included and should be copied to JF folder if needed.
* PortIO and other DLL’s
We followed schtroms lead and embbed the Portio .sys files to load from temp folder. Other required DLL’s have been embedded also. For those using Test signed drivers in x64, PortIO load function checks JF folder for existing files and uses those if present.
Also:
PMT (Pogo Mo Thoin) Tutorials
Now anyone can use this method, you’re not tied to just one device or manufacturer so thanks again to the guys at Team Jungle for releasing the schematic for everyone to enjoy. Includes updated step-by-step how to make your own guides and how to use with the new Jungle Flasher v0.1.79 so you can now easily extract your liteon 83850V2 and 93450 DVD Key without cutting traces and no soldering required.
Official Site: http://team-xecuter.com/ | http://jungleflasher.net ...by Published on February 21st, 2011 20:45- Categories:
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Buzz! maker Relentless Software is no longer shackled to PlayStation, and there's one piece of technology that has particularly caught its eye: Kinect.
"Of course I'd consider any game for Kinect. And the reason is because Kinect is amazing," Relentless co-founder and executive director Andrew Eades told Eurogamer.
"It's the exact right technology for now. It's given our sector a new lease of life. We'd be mad to not look into Kinect and what we can do.
"The Kinect audience that Microsoft is going after is exactly the audience that we've spoken about forever. Since we started we've said we make games for everyone and that's exactly what Kinect is about, making gaming available to anybody.
"The removal of the controller is a stroke of genius," he added. "People can actually have a go because they don't feel intimidated by this weird DualShock controller or the Xbox controller."
That's the reason Relentless developed the original Buzz controller for PlayStation 2 six years ago.
Eades wouldn't confirm or deny if Relentless was making a game for Kinect nor whether he'd talked to Microsoft.
If Relentless did develop a game for Kinect, a Buzz! game would be off the menu - Sony owns that IP. But what about family murder mystery game Blue Toad Murder Files, could that potentially be a Kinect game?
"Yeah in theory it could be, of course," answered Eades. "It would be really suitable for that.
"There's a lot of hurdles in practice, but why not? I mean I'd love to do it. I'd love to do it multi-platform but I think you'd have to get PlayStation and Xbox to agree with each other on that."
When asked about PlayStation Move, Eades sees one stumbling block: sales. Kinect, remember, raced out of the traps with eight million sales in 60 days.
Sony's been less forthcoming with Move figures; the last we heard was in November 2010, whenMove had shipped 4.1 million units around the world."My only issue with Move is if it's got enough numbers out there - whether it's sold through to enough people to make it a platform that we could aim at," said Eades.
"The difference with Kinect is that it's big enough from its first holiday, and growing, that you can take a punt on it - and my conversations with publishers are confirming that decision.
"But we're still not sure if Move is big enough yet for us. I hope it will be, because my dream scenario is not to be partisan in any of this, it's to have available a bigger audience."
Let's not forget about Wii, the console with the biggest rectangle on the seventh generation home console sales chart - not to mention an audience that fits Relentless' remit.
"We have Wii capability here," Eades revealed. "It is a platform we're looking at.
"We find it slightly more difficult because we think we're a bit late to the party, if you like, on Wii. There's a lot of good, solid games out there that are sufficiently supplying our audience, our market. So it's a bit harder for us to come in and compete there."
Relentless Software has already branched out to PC with the release of Blue Toad Murder Files. The studio has also announced its first iPhone game, Quiz Climber, which will be published by Angry Birds powerhouse Chillingo.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...roke-of-genius...
by Published on February 21st, 2011 20:35- Categories:
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Namco Bandai's latest game in the popular 'Tales' series has taken the top spot on the Japanese software chart, with the PSP exclusive tripling sales of its home platform for the week.
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 sold 222,068 units at Japanese retail for the week ending February 13, which landed Sony 106,893 sales of PSPs - a rise of over 75,000 from last week's 30,475. The figure eclipses its nearest hardware chart rival, the PS3 by four to one. Just 107 PSPgo units were sold in the country last week.
Elsewhere in the software chart, new releases dominated the top ten. Five top ten titles were in their debut week, occupying first, second, fifth, sixth and seventh. Capcom's Monster Hunter Freedom 3 rose back up the chart to third from sixth last week.
The 360 SKU of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption expansion Undead Nightmare is the only title on the Microsoft platform in the top 20, scraping in on the lowest rung on its opening week. The PS3 version managed 13 places higher in seventh, selling an extra 14,000 copies.
Japanese software chart: Week ending January 13. Figures are weekly sales. All data courtesy of Media Create.
- 1 Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 PSP 222,068
- 2 Samurai Warriors 3 Z PS3 208,548
- 3 Monster Hunter Freedom 3 PSP 93,483
- 4 Miles Edgeworth 2 DS 30,910
- 5 LittleBigPlanet 2 PS3 24,648
- 6 Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends Wii 22,598
- 7 Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare PS3 21,718
- 8 Donkey Kong Country Returns Wii 15,971
- 9 Kenka Bancho 5: Laws of Manhood PSP 14,372
- 10 White Knight Chronicles: Dogma Wars PSP 11,229
- 11 Pokemon Black / White DS 10,433
- 12 Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butouden DS 10,341
- 13 Wii Party Wii 10,239
- 14 The Last Story Wii 9,052
- 15 Macross: Triangle Frontier PSP 8,409
- 16 World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 PSP 7,575
- 17 Valkyria Chronicles 3 PSP 7,491
- 18 World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 PS3 7,379
- 19 Ni no Kuni: The Ebony Wizard DS 7,267
- 20 Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare 360 7,180
- 1 PSP 106,893 (30,475)
- 2 PS3 26,766 (23,846)
- 3 Wii 15,028 (14,972)
- 4 DSi LL 12,069 (11,555)
- 5 DSi 10,039 (9,954)
- 6 Xbox 360 2,118 (2,282)
- 7 PS2 1,665 (1,897)
- 8 DS Lite 1,003 (1,056)
- 9 PSP go 107 (136)
by Published on February 21st, 2011 20:30- Categories:
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is back at the top of the UK chart, as last week's number one slips to fourth and the best new entry comes in second.
Test Drive 2's top placing proved brief as it drops below Dead Space 2 in third, but Capcom's strong week with Marvel vs Capcom 3 isn't enough to take first from the perennial Black Ops, which is still seeing a 55 to 38 per cent sales division in the 360's favour. Both Wii and PC make up four per cent of Black Ops sales each.
No other new entries made the top twenty this week, with only Toy Story 3 making a re-entry at 17.
Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2010 UKIE Ltd.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...software-chart ...by Published on February 21st, 2011 20:23- Categories:
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Microsoft is to open up its XBox Kinect technology to allow amateur software developers to experiment with it.
The company is to release a software development kit in the spring, which will give developers access to the secrets behind the technology.
For now it will only be for personal use, but Microsoft says it will release a commercial version in due course.
Kinect, which turns the player's body into a game controller, has been a big hit since it launched last November.
It has already captured the imagination of the hacker community, which has been demonstrating various uses for the technology, including 3D photography.
Microsoft is hoping that an army of smarter developers will now find more ways to take Kinect to the next level.
"As breakthrough technologies like these reach scale, the resulting creativity and invention will open up a whole new world of possibilities for computing," said Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.
The announcement was made during an open day at Microsoft's research centre near Seattle.
The company is hoping that the success of Kinect, developed by its own scientists, can give it a greater presence in the home entertainment field.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12531127
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XCM HDMI Capsule LED 4-Port Switch
Manufacturer: XCM
Site: Buy from Play-Asia
Price: $29.99
Overview : XCM HDMI Capsule (HDMI Switch) is unlike similar HDMI splitter products on the market (most of them are black or grey color). XCM HDMI Capsule is a frosted white color with a built-in 4 set LED for different HDMI ports. Each set of LEDs has its own color and light up when in use. It is in small size and looks cool. You can plug in for 4 different kinds of consoles simultaneously. You can assign which HDMI cable goes to which color for your console; green LED for Xbox 360™, blue LED for PlayStation 3™, red LED for Media Player, Yellow LED for Blu-Ray player or however you like it.
Features :
- HDMI 4 IN 1 Switch
- Group of different color LED lights for each HDMI input.
- Compliant with HDMI 1.3a.
- High performance up to 2.25Gbps.
- Capable of supporting the following digital video formats in deep color mode at up to 36 bits (12 bits/color) DTV resolutions: 480i, 576i, 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i to 1080p
Quality/Usability : Depending on your HDTV, they sometimes come with 2-3 HDMI ports. But sometimes, that is not enough. So we would need to unplug the HDMI cable from the device we're not using and plug it into a device we are using. This can be annoying and can be a pain to get to. XCM, known for their XFPS line has released their own HDMI switch.
What makes this switch different from the ones I've reviewed or seen is that it does not come in a black or silver housing. It's not long or looks like your average switch that blends in with your devices. The XCM HDMI Capsule is white and a bit bulky. However, rather than a small LED indicating which port is used, the entire section of the port is lit. It would be hard to miss which port is in use. The LEDs are fairly bright but too bright if you're watching a movie or playing a game in a dark room. In a room that is lit, its noticeable but not to the point where it is distracting.
The XCM is powered with an power supply that connects to the wall. It comes with two power cables (US and EU) and a small 5v power brick that connects between the XCM Capsule and power cable. At first, I thought the cables did not plug into the brick as it was hard to get it in. With a little force, it fit in. Removing the cable required force as well. It seems that the groove in the middle of the connector on the cable is a bit too thick. When I inserted it into the power brick, some plastic shaved off. This does not affect performance or cause any damage.
No manual is included and you shouldn't need one but you'll have to supply your own HDMI cable or you can purchase HDMI cables from LighTake, PriceAngels, DealExtreme or VolumeRates.
Conclusion : Overall, the XCM HDMI Capsule LED Switch does what it's suppose to do but is not as sleek as what is available on the market. The size is a bit big but the fact that the entire section of the port is lit up when its selected makes it unique. The price is reasonable. If the thickness of the switch was slimmed down, it would make it more attractive. Would of been nice to be able to change the brightness as it can be distracting when you're in a dark room. Connecting the power cable to the power supply will require some force to get it in and out.
On the description of the box (and probably found on the web), it states the following: "You can assign which HDMI cable goes to which color for your console; green LED for Xbox 360™, blue LED for PlayStation 3™, red LED for Wii™, Yellow LED for Blu-Ray player or however you like it." Opps! The Wii does not have HDMI (unless you use a converter such as VDIGI). We helped XCM with the description and translation and should have caught this error. Bad DCEmu Reviews...BAD!
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New from Divineo China
- XFPS 5.0 works on both PS3/Slim and Xbox 360/Slim consoles
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- Easy to map all Xbox 360 wired controller keys to keyboard and mouse via PC by XCM software.
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