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June 9th, 2012, 22:59 Posted By: wraggster
The BlackBerry PlayBook has been a pretty miserable failure. RIM shifted 500,000 in the first quarter of this year, while Apple moved 11.8 million iPads.
And with BB10 coming later this year and promising all manner of new functionality and UI, one wonders what's the future for RIM's first gen tablet.
Well, the 16GB model's a goner, for a start.
The company has confirmed that it's concentrating only on the 32GB and 64GB models from now on.
But it's still "committed to the tablet space". It just thinks higher memory models offer better value for its users.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...laybook/018256
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June 9th, 2012, 22:49 Posted By: wraggster
The data comes from IMS Research, which says the tablet price decline is a reflection of the competition on the market.
Apple continues to launch its best-selling iPad range at high-end prices between $400-700, which has paved the way for Amazon and Barnes & Noble to enter the low-end market with respective $199 offerings, the Kindle Fire and Nook.
Gerry Xu, report author, said: "There are few innovations from vendors to differentiate their tablets; low price seems to be the major factor to attract consumers to buy tablets other than iPads.
"More vendors are expected to focus on the low-end tablet market. However, to balance performance and profitability with a low price remains challenging for most tablet vendors. "
The low-end market is considered to only focus on price, which is why some buyers pay premium prices for more interactive and user experience focused tablets, such as the iPad.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...6-in-q1/018262
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June 9th, 2012, 10:30 Posted By: wraggster
There's no PS4 or Xbox 720 behind the curtain, Alan Willard assures a dark room full of eager video game journalists. Nope, it's just a current high-end piece of PC hardware. In spite of the company's position as a creator of one of the industry's leading game engines, Epic doesn't get a peek at Sony and Microsoft's next generation consoles before the companies are ready for their grand unveiling. "We won't know final hardware specs until everyone else does," the company's senior technical artist tells me after the presentation, adding with a laugh, "If they do, I don't know anything about it."
The company spent this year's E3 cycling media in and out of its small meeting room on the second floor of the convention center, dimming the lights and showing off just what Unreal Engine 4 has to offer -- or at least a pretty good idea of what it will offer when it's finally ready for prime time. It's clear from the excitement on the Epic employees' faces that all involved are relieved to finally show the demo off for gatherings of eager writers. No surprise there, of course. After all, the engine has been in development in some form or other for eight or nine years -- several lifetimes in the roman candle-like world of video game development.
"[Epic founder Tim Sweeney] started looking into different programming languages and where the whitepapers were going," Willard tells me, describing Unreal Engine 4's infancy. "Stuff that wasn't necessarily being used for development yet, but trying to envision where hardware was starting to go and starting to make deep-level tech decisions." It's a mind boggling proposition -- beginning development on an underlying technology for games that will run on systems debuting a decade or so after the fact.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/08/e...real-engine-4/
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June 9th, 2012, 10:24 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's deep exploration of Windows 8's numerous tweaks has swung to one of the most important components for the onslaught of tablets we're about to see: the media foundations. The pipeline is now much leaner than it was in Windows 7, both through lower lag and miserly energy use that should keep that Skype video call from falling out of sync and killing your battery. Tuning up the video performance also makes in-the-box HD webcam support an easy feat, and Microsoft has thrown in extras like Stereo 3D video and multiple audio tracks for one video. There's much (much, much) more detail from Microsoft's group program manager Scott Manchester, so if you want to know the intricacies ofWindows 8's moving pictures and sound, head on over to the source and get an eye- or earful.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/08/m...-8-media-core/
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June 9th, 2012, 10:23 Posted By: wraggster
If you haven't done it in a while, opening your PC case can be like a slasher flick -- you know you'll see something disgusting, but you're never sure what. Taiwan's YoungYear Electronics claims to stop the horror with its Green Mesh case, which has neither fans to suck dust, nor filters, and keeps your components cool with a "chimney effect" instead. It's this same action that repels dust out the top, so that only one quarter the usual amount of filth is drawn in -- according to the company. The only downside is that with poor heat dissipation, the maximum power supply unit size is 300 watts -- which probably scratches it off the list for most modders or power-users. For the rest, if you don't mind your computer's innards blowing in the breeze, at least you'd have no nasty case-opening frights.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/08/o...unnies-at-bay/
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June 8th, 2012, 01:34 Posted By: wraggster
Google vowed that it would adapt Chrome to Metro back in March, and it's just now providing its first real look at the Windows 8 revamp. Don't expect a radical remake: it's Chrome, just in Metro. Even so, the very first test releases will support charms for sharing and other cross-OS features, and they will obey Snap View for tablet-friendly Windows 8 multitasking. Metro support will come in the next Dev channel release for those using the Windows 8 Release Preview. Those of us leery of running a pre-beta web browser on top of a beta OS will have to wait some months to see the finished result. That patience should be rewarded through better touchscreen support and refinements to the overall interface, so by the time the dissenting among us are ready to toss Internet Explorer 10 aside, Chrome will be waiting with open arms.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/07/g...ws-8-metro-ui/
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June 8th, 2012, 01:32 Posted By: wraggster
It's all about perspective. At least, that's what we've gleaned from a Surface skim (hard wink) of thisMicrosoft patent application. Filed back in December of 2010, the USPTO doc describes a touchscreen tabletop imbued with a "view-restrictive filter" that, presumably, projects content in an orientation specific to a user's viewing angle, switching between diffuse and transparent states. Unsure of just what that means? Imagine, then, an ordinary-looking glass conference table surrounded by suit-and-tie types that, at the flick of a finger, turns into multiple personal computing displays. Bear in mind, this is all conjecture based on some densely-worded legalese and the IP in question's still lingering in a governmental limbo. That said, there could come a day when the Office of the future (harder wink) could look a lot like this. In the tech industry, nothing's off the table (hardest wink).
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/07/m...n-tabletop-th/
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June 7th, 2012, 20:49 Posted By: wraggster
From Software has admitted that it is struggling with the PC port ofDark Souls due to severe framerate issues.
"To be completely honest, we're having a tough time doing it due to our lack of experience and knowledge in terms of porting to PC," producer Daisuke Uchiyama admitted to Eurogamer.
"First we thought it would be a breeze, but it's turned out not to be the case. We're still developing right now - we're crunching right now.
"In Japan there's not much of a PC market and we haven't really taken into consideration that audience before. That's one of the reasons why we haven't been able to step up on the PC platform until now."
The Prepare To Die edition of the game is scheduled for an August 31 release on PC and features additional content including new bosses. That content will find its way to consoles as DLC later in the year.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/soft...ort-dark-souls
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June 7th, 2012, 19:47 Posted By: wraggster
Gigabyte showcased a whole host of new products at this year’s Computex, including new motherboards, GeForce GTX 680 SOC, and what the company claims is the world’s lightest notebook.
Gigabyte’s new 7 series motherboards feature Thunderbolt technology, a bi-directional 10Gbps data pipeline, and the latest 3rd generation Intel Core processors. Also previewed at Computex 2012 were Gigabyte’s new X79S platform motherboards, which are designed for workstation builds that require enterprise-class storage.
Also on show was the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 Super Overclock Edition, which includes Windforce 5X cooling technology. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 SOC, designed with Gigabyte Extreme Dual BIOS technology, is equipped with Gigabyte’s GPU Gauntlet Sorting process and Ultra Durable VGA or VGA+ boards.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...otebook/028468
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June 7th, 2012, 19:46 Posted By: wraggster
Fans can catch a glimpse of some pre-alpha gameplay in the new trailer for the upcoming third-person action adventure Lifeless Planet.
The game, developed by Stage 2 Studios, is based around a secretive Cold War project of the Space Race, which enabled mankind to travel much farther into space than previously thought. Players are sent across the galaxy to explore a distant planet, only to discover signs of a previous human presence.
Lifeless Planet began as a pure indie development, which had a successful campaign on Kickstarter. Lace Mamba Global then signed the publishing rights for the game, which will be available on PC and Mac. The game will see a digital and retail release in Q4 2012.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...ameplay/028471
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June 7th, 2012, 01:08 Posted By: wraggster
If Intel and Microsoft have been the royal couple of Computex 2012 (aka the world's biggest Windows 8 Ultrabook tradeshow), AMD has been the third wheel. That doesn't mean it's opted out of the festivities, though. Nope, it's chosen this week to show off its Trinity chips, and it even has its first Windows 8 concept device on display. The reference design, made by Compal, has the same form factor we've seen over and over again this week: an 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768 tablet paired with a keyboard dock. The main differences are that it has a kickstand, and packs one of AMD's Trinity A6 APUs. The chassis is on the chunky side, at a shade under 20mm, and the screen's a fingerprint magnet, but then again, we don't put too much stock in prototype designs; such details are subject to change.
Performance seemed smooth so far as we could tell, but then again, we haven't had the chance to put it through its paces, streaming HD video or attempting anything of productive value. We wish we could tell you a bit about rated battery life, but alas, AMD isn't ready to make any public claims just yet. As for the accompanying dock, the keyboard is far more spacious than what we're used to. Want to see it in action? We've got a quick walk-through of the design, with photos and video below.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/06/a...-computex-201/
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June 7th, 2012, 00:26 Posted By: wraggster
When it comes to Star Wars, the gaming industry has a long history of cranking out titles of uncertain quality. For every brilliant title like Knights of the Old Republic, we've seen several clunkers and a few outright failures like Republic Heroes. LucasArts demonstrated a new Star Wars game at E3 this week,Star Wars: 1313 and despite the brand's uneven history, folks are cautiously optimistic. The 1313 moniker refers to a specific level of Coruscant which is a haven for criminals, bounty hunters, and crime lords. You take on the role of a bounty hunter looking for information on an unspecified criminal conspiracy who descends to 1313 in search of data. This will likely be the first Star Wars game to be rated 'M' for mature, and it focuses on the seedy underbelly of the universe.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...star-wars-game
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June 7th, 2012, 00:19 Posted By: wraggster
Stainless Games has been fundraising for Carmageddon: Reincarnation, a modern day remake of the classic Carmageddon racing games, on Kickstarter for weeks. Stainless said that if they hit $600,000 in pledges before time runs out, they would commit themselves to creating a Linux port of the game, as well as a MacOS port. Today they made it official: the fundraising has come so close to netting $600K overall, with a few more hours left to go, that they are officially committing themselves to creating a Linux port of the new game. PC gamers will get to play Carmageddon 4 first, with a February 2013 release date. The MacOS & Linux versions will follow the PC version later in 2013."
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...sion-confirmed
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