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December 30th, 2013, 22:53 Posted By: wraggster
We hope that some of our readers are currently at this year’s Chaos Communication Congress (schedule can be found here and live streams here), as many interesting talks are happening. One of them addressed hacking the memory controllers embedded in all memory cards that you may have. As memory storage density increases, it’s more likely that some sectors inside the embedded flash are defective. Therefore, all manufacturers add a small microcontroller to their cards (along with extra memory) to invisibly ‘replace’ the defective sectors to the operating system.
[Bunnie] and [xobs] went around buying many different microSD cards in order to find a hackable one. In their talk at 30C3 (slides here), they reported their findings on a particular microcontroller brand, Appotech, and its AX211/AX215. By reverse engineering the firmware code they found online, they discovered a simple “knock” sequence transmitted over manufacturer-reserved commands that dropped the controller into a firmware loading mode. From there, they were able to reverse engineer most of the 8051 microcontroller function-specific registers, allowing them to develop novel applications for it. Some of the initial work was done using a FPGA/i.MX6-based platform that the team developed named Novena, which we hope may be available for purchase some day. It was, among others, used to simulate the FLASH memory chip that the team had previously removed. A video of the talk is embedded below.
http://hackaday.com/2013/12/29/hacki...y-controllers/
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December 30th, 2013, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Chromebooks, and ChromeOS have come a long way, and this year two of the best selling laptops at Amazon are Chromebooks. Computerworld calls it a punch in the gut for Microsoft."As of late Thursday, the trio retained their lock on the top three places on Amazon's best-selling-laptop list in the order of Acer, Samsung and Asus. Another Acer Chromebook, one that sports 32GB of on-board storage space -- double the 16GB of Acer's lower-priced model -- held the No. 7 spot on the retailer's top 10. Chromebooks' holiday success at Amazon was duplicated elsewhere during the year, according to the NPD Group, which tracked U.S. PC sales to commercial buyers such as businesses, schools, government and other organizations. ... By NPD's tallies, Chromebooks accounted for 21% of all U.S. commercial notebook sales in 2013 through November, and 10% of all computers and tablets. Both shares were up massively from 2012; last year, Chromebooks accounted for an almost-invisible two-tenths of one percent of all computer and tablet sales.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...tel-be-worried
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December 30th, 2013, 22:24 Posted By: wraggster
 Perfect World Entertainment, publisher of free-to-play games like Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter and Star Trek Online, has announced the creation of a new company division that plans to bring "current and future" games to both current and next-gen consoles.
Perfect World Entertainment CEO Alan Chen said in a press release that the studio's move to consoles was a "natural progression," but no details were given on how the company's mostly keyboard-and-mouse-centric games will be translated to the controller-oriented consoles. The press release did, however, tease that more details will be coming sometime next year.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/29/mm...g-current-and/
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December 30th, 2013, 22:21 Posted By: wraggster
The Steam Holiday Sale continues to steamroll over your self-control, slashing prices on another batch of games. Today's deals include Grand Theft Auto 4 orGame Dev Tycoon for $5, the entire Alan Wake collection for $4, survival horror gem Outlast for $6.79, Metro: Last Light for $13.59 and more.
You'll also find very deep discounts courtesy of a community sale onNihilumbra and flash sales on Shadow Warrior, Tropico 4, Limbo andSpacebase D-F9. And, of course, yesterday's big deals are still available, including discounts on The Swapper, Total War: Rome 2, Spelunky and more.
In related news, Valve's attitude toward savings has spurred Steam to break yet another of its records. On December 29, the servicesurpassed 7.6 million concurrent users, beating the record of 7 million it set earlier this month.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/30/st...reaks-7-6-mil/
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December 27th, 2013, 21:43 Posted By: wraggster
 [Tim] found himself with a laptop that had a good 18.4″ screen, but otherwise didn’t run properly. It would be a shame to throw that away, so he decided to salvage the screen by turning it into a standalone monitor. This isn’t exactly new, as he did what many people have done and looked to eBay for an after-market LCD controller board. The real beauty is in the enclosure he built. [Tim] had some scrap wood available from a previous project, so he set about designing a new frame for the monitor, and a very nice adjustable stand, as can be seen in the photo above.
One nice detail is in the control panel buttons. The LCD controller comes with a separate board housing the controls, and while he made a mistake mounting it initially, he ended up with a nice set of oak buttons that match the frame perfectly. He then built a nice backing out of styrene that holds the screen in place as well as housing the electronics.
Overall, it’s a nice looking project, and it is always nice to see electronics re-purposed rather than ending up in a landfill. We can’t help but think this would be a great frame for building a picture frame or a wall-mounted PC as well.
http://hackaday.com/2013/12/26/re-pu...aptop-display/
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December 26th, 2013, 23:41 Posted By: wraggster
Money continues to flood into the coffers of PC exclusive space trading and combat video game Star Citizen: it's now raised an astronomical $35 million.Star Citizen already holds the world record for the most amount of money raised through crowd-funding. In a post on the Roberts Space Industries website designer Chris Roberts called the latest milestone a "monumental achievement".A large amount of this last stretch goal has come from some 6617 new backers, Roberts said. The extra money will increase the amount of content available at the start, will allow the development team at Cloud Imperium Games to hire more staff and invest in research and development."Unlike a typical publisher we don't look at this initial funding as bigger profits - we look at as allowing us to deliver more of the dream sooner and ensure the online infrastructure and support is as full featured as possible, even during the pre-release period," he said.Now that $35 million has been raised the final fan-voted space ship design has been unlocked: the Drake Herald. This is a small, armoured ship designed to safely deliver information.Onwards to the next stretch goal: for $37 million the Tanga System will be unlocked. It seems inevitable Star Citizen will get it. Voting on the $38 million stretch goal has begun. When - and at what amount - will crowdfunding for Star Citizen end? How far can Star Citizen's crowdfunding go? To infinity and beyond?
Tempering the excitement however was last week's announcement that the release of the hotly-anticipated Dogfighting module had been delayed."I know it was disappointing for many people, and it wasn't a decision that I took lightly but after much deliberation I decided it was best for the long term health of the project," Roberts said."The various modules are a great way of engaging all of you and providing useful feedback to the team. But for me their strongest benefit is providing smaller, shorter terms goals for the team to achieve, while working towards is a pretty daunting feature set for the full game. It forces us to finish a feature with enough polish that hundreds of thousands of people can experience it."He continued: "In my heart I didn't want to rush out something that would be a stop gap. Testing the head to head aspect is the one I'm most focused on. I've made a lot of single player games - I know that we can knock that out of the park but I really want to make sure that the multiplayer combat is fun, compelling and that we solve the various challenges in having the controls and flight model work smoothly online."That was what the Dogfight Module was always intended to be at its core and so at the end of the day I felt I would be letting myself down, as well as everyone in the community if I didn't deliver a module that lived up to the goals I wanted to achieve. Even though I want the community's feedback that's only useful when I'm mostly happy with how something plays and looks and I'm not there yet on the multiplayer dogfighting."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...nomical-USD35m
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December 26th, 2013, 23:37 Posted By: wraggster
Blizzard has released new details on changes that will be made to StarCraft 2 with the upcoming Patch 2.1.
As the developer explains, the update will introduce a number of new features for Clans and Groups, as detailed in a recent blog post.
 A new Events tab will be added to the clan or group window, where new event creation tools can be found.
"Club officers and owners can use the 'Create Event' button found in the lower left corner to bring up the event creation screen and start scheduling meet ups for whatever occasions you'd like," explains Blizzard.
"Once you've scheduled one or more activities, you'll see them listed chronologically on your Clan or Group's Events tab, which allows you to scroll through all of your club's upcoming events. Up to five events will also be displayed in the new Events section of the StarCraft II home screen so that you can quickly see what's coming up at a glance."
The update will also allow players to upload their own custom image as a club icon and change Clan decals.
Clan decals are different from club icons because "they are only usable by clans and will show up in-game", says Blizzard.
Screenshots of the new menu screens to manage these details are in theblog post.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ns-and-groups/
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December 26th, 2013, 23:24 Posted By: wraggster
With the release of SteamOS, developing video game engines for Linux is a subject with increasing interest. This article is an initiation guide on the tools used to develop games, and it discusses the pros and cons of Linux as a platform for developing game engines. It goes over OpenGL and drivers, CPU and GPU profiling, compilers, build systems, IDEs, debuggers, platform abstraction layers and other tools.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/1...r-linuxsteamos
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December 26th, 2013, 23:16 Posted By: wraggster
Take a moment to enjoy the fact that you've made it a week into this year's Steam Holiday Sale. Good job – but stay strong. There's another week of this madness left.
Today's daily deals are Dark Souls for $10.20, Hotline Miami for $3.40, DMC: Devil May Cry for $25, Anno 2070 for $15, NBA 2K14 for $20, Killing Floor for $10,Van Helsing for $10, Wargame Airland Battle for $20 and Gone Home for $10. Flash sales available for eight more hours are Bastion for $7.50, Lost Planet 3for $25, Unepic for $6 and The Cave for $7.50.
You can grab yesterday's daily deals for another 24 hours: Endless Space for $7.50, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut for $5, Terraria for $2.50,Payday 2 for $13.50, plus a few more.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/26/st...-souls-gone-h/
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December 25th, 2013, 20:32 Posted By: wraggster
Intrepid modder DooMero has mashed together Resident Evil 4's "Mercenaries" mode with the original Doom, creating a hybrid game experience that expertly combines elements from the two games. You only need watch this video of the 4.0 version of the mod to understand.
Just hit the play button above and you'll understand all – and if you want to try the mod, you can download it here. You'll need a copy of Doom and its multiplayer mods, Skulltag or Zandronum, in order to run the mod, which is about 85% complete.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/24/do...aries-to-mars/
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December 24th, 2013, 22:56 Posted By: wraggster
Valve has released its latest top ten weekly sellers chart for Steam – with newcomer DayZ claiming the top spot from last week’s winner, Starbound.
Starbound still finished in the runner-up spot, with Rust (last week’s runner-up) finishing third this time around.
Steam’s end of 2013 sale also had an impact. The BioShock franchise, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Batman Arkham Origins, and The Stanley Parable all benefited from the start of the fortnight-long promotion.
Here's the list in full:
- DayZ
- Starbound
- Rust
- The Walking Dead: Season 2
- BioShock Triple Pack
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- BioShock Infinite
- The Stanley Parable
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/steam...-15-21/0126247
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December 24th, 2013, 22:52 Posted By: wraggster
The Xbox One is out, along with a new Kinect sensor, and this time around Microsoft didn’t waste any time making this 3D vision sensor available for Windows. [programming4fun] got his hands on the new Kinect v2 sensor and to import anything into a virtual environment.
We’ve seen [programming4fun]‘s work before with an extremely odd and original build that turns any display into a 3D display with the help of a Kinect v1 sensor. This time around, [programming] isn’t just using a Kinect to display a 3D object, he’s also using a Kinect to capture 3D data.
[programming] captured himself playing a few chords on a guitar with the new Kinect v2 sensor. This was saved to a custom file format that can be played back in the Unity engine. With the help of a Kinect v1, [programming4fun] can pan and tilt around this virtual model simply by moving his head.
If that’s not enough, [programming] has also included support for the Oculus Rift, turning the Unity-based virtual copy of himself into something he can interact with in a video game.
As far as we can tell, this is the first build on Hackaday using the new Kinect sensor. We asked what everyone was going to do with this new improved hardware, and from [programming]‘s demo, it seems like there’s still a lot of unexplored potential with the new Xbox One spybox.
http://hackaday.com/2013/12/23/holog...he-new-kinect/
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December 24th, 2013, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Shona Ghosh writes at PC Pro that the final deadline for Windows XP support in April 2014 will act as the starting pistol for developing new exploits as hackers reverse-engineer patches issued for Windows 7 or Windows 8 to scout for XP vulnerabilities. "The very first month that Microsoft releases security updates for supported versions of Windows, attackers will reverse-engineer those updates, find the vulnerabilities and test Windows XP to see if it shares [them]," says Tim Rains, the director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group. Microsoft says that XP shared 30 security holes with Windows 7 and Windows 8 between July 2012 and July 2013. Gregg Keizer says that if a major chunk of the world's PCs remains tied to XP, as seems certain, Microsoft will face an unenviable choice: Stick to plan and put millions of customers at risk from malware infection, or backtrack from long-standing policies and proclamations.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12...-is-windows-xp
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December 24th, 2013, 22:45 Posted By: wraggster
Mobile device displays continue to evolve and along with the advancements in technology, resolution continues to scale higher, from Apple's Retina Display line to high resolution IPS and OLED display in various Android and Windows phone products. Notebooks are now also starting to follow the trend, driving very high resolution panels approaching 4K UltraHD even in 13-inch ultrabook form factors. Lenovo's Yoga 2 Pro, for example, is a three pound, .61-inch thick 13.3-inch ultrabook that sports a full QHD+ IPS display with a 3200X1800 native resolution. Samsung's ATIV 9 Plus also boast the same 3200X1800 13-inch panel, while other recent releases from ASUS and Toshiba are packing 2560X1440 displays as well. There's no question, machines like Lenovo's Yoga 2 Pro are really nice and offer a ton of screen real estate for the money but just how useful is a 3 or 4K display in a 13 to 15-inch design? Things can get pretty tight at these high resolutions and you'll end up turning screen magnification up in many cases so fonts are clear and things are legible. Granted, you can fit a lot more on your desktop but it raises the question, isn't 1080p enough?"
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...tebook-display
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December 24th, 2013, 22:24 Posted By: wraggster
The Steam Holiday sale continues, rotating out a slew of new daily deals.Splinter Cell: Blacklist headlines today's deals and is half-off, down to $30.
Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition, which includes the base game and a whole mess of DLC, has been marked down to $15, while Castle Crashers is on sale for $3.74 and Shadowrun Returns is down to $9. You can also grabAmnesia: A Machine for Pigs, the follow-up to original scream generatorAmnesia: The Dark Decent, for $10.
These deals will be active for 24 hours total, so if you're looking into grabbing any games on the cheap, head on over to Steam to see all that's on sale.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/23/st...lands-2-amnes/
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December 24th, 2013, 22:15 Posted By: wraggster
YouTube channel Trial By Game issued a slew of Steam Machines and Steam Controller videos in the last week. Using its prototype hardware, the channel delivered 23 related videos to date, many of which show the Steam Controller in action with games like Surgeon Simulator 2013, Metro: Last Light, Civilization 5, Bastion and Super Street Fighter 4. We included a few more of the channel's videos after the break.
Valve announced its hardware and accompanying operating system inSeptember prior to kicking off the selection process for its 300-person hardware beta program, which Trial By Game seems to be a part of. Valve created its own video to demonstrate the Steam Controller in October, but as with Trial By Game's looks at the game pad, the controller shown isn't final hardware. The Steam Controller's final form will feature a touchscreen between its circular trackpads.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/24/wa...a-dozen-games/
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December 24th, 2013, 22:14 Posted By: wraggster
Origin has kicked off its End of Year Sale, chipping away at prices on some of Electronic Arts' biggest PC games. You can grab Battlefield 4 for $42, Need for Speed: Rivals for $35, SimCity for $24, FIFA 14 for $28 and Dead Space 3 for $18. If you don't need your games to be quite as fresh, you'll find better deals on older EA games. Battlefield 3, The Sims 3 and Mass Effect 3 are each a paltry $12, for example.
And since we're on the subject of savings, don't forget that the Steam Holiday Sale is still running as well.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/24/sa...origin-end-of/
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December 21st, 2013, 23:18 Posted By: wraggster
This is how Internet Explorer would look if you move the tabs to the top like in other browsers. Developed as a design and UX study, the open source add-on replaces the default navigation bar and combines three traditionally separate toolbars into one. The UX project started in 2004 to demonstrate that it is feasible to combine the address, search, and find box into one. Additionally, Quero offers a variety of customization options for IE, including making the UI themeable or starting Microsoft's desktop browser always maximized."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12...erface-of-ie11
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