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May 13th, 2012, 00:05 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft can't do anything to magically make hard drives stop failing when parts go bad, but Redmond is rolling out a new NTFS health model for Windows 8 with a redesigned chkdsk tool for disk corruption detection and fixing. In past versions of the chkdsk and NTFS health model, the file system volume was either deemed healthy or not healthy. In Windows 8, Microsoft is changing things up. Rather than hours of downtime, Windows 8 splits the process into phases that include 'Detect Corruption,' 'Online Self-Healing,' 'Online Verification,' 'Online Identification & Logging,' and 'Precise & Rapid Correction.'"
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...s-health-model
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May 12th, 2012, 00:28 Posted By: wraggster
Third party browser developers Mozilla and Google have both cried foul after Microsoft announced that the ARM version of Windows 8 would not allow any other browser than IE to run in 'desktop mode' on the operating system.
"Windows on ARM -as currently designed - restricts user choice, reduces competition and chills innovation," wrote Mozilla's legal eagle Harvey Anderson. "By allowing only IE to perform the advanced functions of a modern Web browser, third-party browsers are effectively excluded from the platform," he added.
The fundamental problem is that the 'Metro style' applications only have access to a limited subset of the APIs on Windows RT. One of the functions that's missing from this mode is the ability to run virtual sandboxes which it's claimed is necessary to run some of the browser optimisations such as just-in-time compilers.
Google also backed Mozilla's complaint issuing a statement saying: "We share the concerns Mozilla has raised regarding the Windows 8 environment restricting user choice and innovation."
Another complaint raised by Mozilla is that even when limited to the Metro style applications, Microsoft's has allowed themselves greater access to system APIs than third party developers.
"A browser running exclusively in Metro does not have the APIs necessary to compete with IE or any other modern browser," said Mozilla spokesman Asa Dotzler.
Microsoft's move, they say, stops anyone else from building a competitive web browser for the Windows RT platform.
One might also suggest that any OS launching which restricts third party application capabilities - particularly that of web browsers - may just have a hard time against the likes of more established mobile operating systems. Then again, it doesn't seem to have hurt iOS any.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/index.php/...ictions/028334
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May 11th, 2012, 13:16 Posted By: wraggster
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StepMania v5.0 Alpha 2 is released. StepMania is a music/rhythm game. The player presses different buttons in time to the music and to note patterns that scroll across the screen. Features 3D graphics, visualizations, support for gamepads/dance pads, a step recording mode, and more! StepMania is a music / rhythm game. The player presses different buttons in time to the music and to note patterns that scroll across the screen. Features 3D graphics, visualizations, support for gamepads / dance pads, a step recording mode, and more!
http://sm-ssc.googlecode.com/files/S...5.0_alpha2.exe
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May 11th, 2012, 00:24 Posted By: wraggster
Intel has typically kept its cool in responding to Windows 8 on ARM, but that war of words (and chips) just got a little more heated at an investor meeting. CEO Paul Otellini saw his more mobile-oriented competition facing a "big uphill fight" without the presence of legacy Windows app support. That's a big drawback for corporate buyers that have legions of traditional apps they want to keep running, the executive said. He also used the opportunity to rib ARM over a lack of any existing Windows hardware. There's certainly no question that Intel has a head start in Windows 8 support, but the remarks do come with a degree of irony. Intel is cutting into ARM's territory with Atom-based Android phones, and while it won't have as much of a problem with legacy OS support as ARM will with Windows, Intel has a lot to prove on its own.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/10/i...-in-windows-8/
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May 11th, 2012, 00:04 Posted By: wraggster
Mozilla has accused Microsoft of trying to go back to the 'digital dark ages' by limiting rival browsers in the ARM version of Windows 8. Third-party browsers won't work in the desktop mode, and Metro style browsers will be limited in what APIs they can use, said Mozilla general counsel Harvey Anderson, forcing users to move to IE instead. Mozilla said it was the first step toward a new platform lock-in that 'restricts user choice, reduces competition and chills innovation,' and pointed out that such browser control was exactly what upset EU and U.S. regulators about IE in the first place. Anderson called on Microsoft to 'reject the temptation to pursue a closed path,' adding 'the world doesn't need another closed proprietary environment.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05...ozilla-counsel
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May 10th, 2012, 23:50 Posted By: wraggster
'Our plan was to break one million subscribers'
Bioware’s The Old Republic has been a successful release for publisher Electronic Arts, the company’s CEO has claimed.
Speaking to CNBC, John Riccitiello said the plan for the MMO had always been to surpass one million subscribers, and believes the current number of registered users had beaten those expectations.
“When we originally started the franchise, our plan was to break one million subscribers,” he said.
“Our investment case was 1.2 million. We told the street yesterday we’re at 1.3 million. We happened to have an earnings call right in the launch period, where we hit 1.7 million.
“We have an obligation to tell them the facts. I think it’s a solid success.”
http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...rofitable-game
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May 10th, 2012, 23:32 Posted By: wraggster
Stainless Games is aiming to release Carmageddon: Reincarnationby raising $400,000 on Kickstarter by June 6th.
The original Carmageddon was released on PC back in 1997 and although being heavily criticised for its excessive violence, sold over two million copies.
After years of negotiations, Stainless Games finally bought back all the right to Carmageddon from publisher Square Enix and the developers are now able to reboot the brand.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation is a re-boot of everything that gamers loved about the original, such as its real-world environments and action replays of ghastly collisions.
Kickstarter enables backers of the project to pledge different amounts of money in exchange for exclusive content. Anyone pledging $1,000 or more will be immortalised within the game, having their face mapped onto a selection of in-game pedestrian victims.
If you fancy getting repeatedly mowed down and having your guts splattered across the road visithttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-reincarnation
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...n-to-pc/028327
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May 10th, 2012, 23:30 Posted By: wraggster
Just when you thought the Sims 3 add-ons and expansion packs might've slowed down for a second, EA has announced a new one that ties in fashion label Diesel.
The Sims 3 Diesel Stuff pack includes Diesel and 55DSL apparel for male and female characters, as well as Diesel home furnishings. Imagine, next time a fashion-conscious young geek (if there is such a thing), comes into the shop, you could now have the perfect games title for them.
"We always look to create content in stuff packs for The Sims that give our players cool items that play into their inherent creativity and give them new tools to play with life," said Jennifer Lane, producer within The Sims Studio. "Diesel's brand of rock-and-roll meets refined denim fashion style speaks to our fans' love of clothing and home furnishings. What is particularly exciting is you can see the latest fashions in the Diesel stores, wear them in real life and bring them into the virtual world of The Sims to enrich your Sims' lives and modernize their neighborhood."
The Sims 3 Diesel Stuff does not currently have a concrete release date, but it will be available in retail stores and at Origin.com later this summer. Those eager to dress to impress can pre-order now.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...ff-pack/028331
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May 10th, 2012, 13:42 Posted By: wraggster
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Yamagi Quake II is an enhanced client for Quake II.
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On 04/29/2012 Quake II 4.20 was released. Changes since 4.10 are:
- Add an options framework to allow disabling most option features (OGG/Vorbis, ZIP file loading, OpenAL, etc) at compile time.
- Integrate OpenAL support, enabling surround sound and better stereo sound calculations.
- Enforce the "C" locale to prevent libraries like broken LADSPA plugins to override it and break printf, scanf, etc.
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May 10th, 2012, 13:40 Posted By: wraggster
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OpenMW is an open-source engine for the game The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.
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The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.14.0! This release precedes Morrowind´s 10th Anniversary by 2 days! Release packages for Ubuntu are now available via our Launchpad PPA. Release packages for other platforms are available on our Download page. This release brings many notable features, including terrain and water rendering! A video highlighting many of the new changes in this release made by our very own WeirdSexy can be found here.
Please note:
- There is a regression in the Launcher in this release, from which you will observe that the rendering subsystem will default to OpenGL regardless of what was previously selected. This will be fixed in the next release. This can be overcome by setting the rendering system explicitly from the launcher each time, or running the OpenMW binary directly from the command line, which will select the renderer that has been set in your config file.
- There is a known issue where a crash may occur underwater with the underwater effect enabled on OS X
Changelog:
- Fix for meshes rendering with the wrong orientation
- Fix for better grabbing of small objects
- Fix to enable toggling of collision rendering
- Updates to be compatible with Ogre 1.8.0 RC1
- Fix for Wireframe mode applying to HUD and Console
- Fix for terrain crashing when moving away from predefined cells
- Fix to allow OS X Launcher to handle spaces in the binary path
- Fix to support TGA textures
- Fix to support wireframe mode in water
- Added water rendering
- Added terrain rendering
- Added ability to render Path Grid
- Added Factions support
- Added Local Map
- Added Compass/Mini-Map
- Added Clothing/Armour redering
- Added Window Pinning
- Added Auto-Equip.
- Added support for containers tracking changes to their contents
- Added several NPC Dialogue Window improvements
- Added backend for a game settings manager
- Added backend for a Spell List and selected spell
- Added backend for NPC holstered/drawn state
- Added a Morrowind.ini Importer (not yet included in the binary packages)
- Refactored the Sound code
- MyGUI updated to version 3.2.0
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May 10th, 2012, 13:39 Posted By: wraggster
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A new version of OpenRA has been released. OpenRA is free Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
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We have released a new version of OpenRA! Head over to the downloads page to grab it.
List of changes since the previous release:
- Maps
- Added a new RA Map by Nukem: Tainted Peak
- Dropped three RA Maps: Daejeon, Mjolnir, and No Fly Zone.
- Added a Sound Engine game setting: Sound.Engine=AL.
- "AL" uses OpenAL, "Null" gives you no sound.
- Warnings are shown to lobbies when a DEV_VERSION client joins.
- General gameplay changes:
- Buildings now take 10 seconds to capture.
- New units now attack-move to the designated rally point.
- RA changes:
- Spy
- Can infiltrate Refinery: Steals 50% of a player´s cash, minimum $500.
- Can infiltrate Radar Dome: Resets exploration for the enemy team.
- Is equipped with a Silenced PPK. Use force-fire to assassinate an enemy unit (careful, your disguise will be dropped).
- Gap Generator made available to Allies.
- Tanya made available only to Allies.
- Pillboxes now include a rifle infantry when built. Pillboxes are garrisonable, so swapping the unit inside changes the weapon fired.
- Camo Pillbox was removed (temporarily).
- Artilleries have a 75% chance of exploding on death, down from 100%.
- Flamethrower received new art for its flame effect, as well as an overall damage increase.
- AI: Replaced Normal AI with two new AIs: Rommel and Zhukov.
- Zhukov is a turtle, but sends large attacks with Artillery and V2.
- Rommel is a modified Hard AI; sends Artillery and V2, but doesn´t like light vehicles.
- CNC changes:
- A10´s speed increased, Napalm Drop damage increased.
- Chinooks now carry up to 10 passengers.
- Sight of all infantry was increased by 1 tile.
- Chem Warrior/Flamethrower/Grenadier damage vs certain armor types increased.
- Artillery´s attack range was doubled.
- Guard Tower´s attack range increased by 1.
- Increased sight of Construction Yards and MCVs.
- Construction Yard armor type changed to Heavy (previously Wood).
- Harvester armor type changed to Heavy (previously Light).
- Reduced the probability of SpawnVisceroid from 10% to 2%.
- Reduced the damage and size of Grenadier death explosions.
- Units no longer target buildings when attack-moving or when idle. They still target defensive structures (except SAM sites).
- AI is now reasonable and playable.
- General mod support and bug fixes:
- New CloakPaletteEffect trait for adding a shimmer effect to cloaked units.
- Cargo trait now allows initial passengers when units are built.
- Capture time length is adjustable
- Custom starting units can be used for each faction.
- General engine tweaks.
- Main menu no longer vanished after a lobby disconnect.
- Fixed a crash with capturing/selling buildings at the same time.
- Fixed a crash in server in StartGame if there were unvalidated connections.
- Fixed a crash in the CNC replay viewer.
- Fixed a bug in CNC where radar would not be shown if dead/spectating.
- Fixed a bug where passengers could shoot from transports.
- Improved error messages given with bad MiniYaml indentations.
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May 10th, 2012, 12:52 Posted By: wraggster
Euh... No, not this nightmare: you're Ryan, a bartender who can't sleep peacefully for months because of weird dreams and nightmares. During one of those, a monk suggests you become the deliverer who would keep the Dreamweb safe by killing its enemies.The ScummVM Team is proud to announce thatDreamweb is now playable in ScummVM using the latestdaily builds, and ready for testing.
Please post any bugs you find in the bugtracker, following our bug submission guidelines. Any screenshots of your playthrough is welcome.
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May 10th, 2012, 00:55 Posted By: wraggster
 Domain registrations suggest that EA is planning to follow up its hit Facebook game The Sims Social with a Facebook-based SimCity. Last September, the publisher registered (or re-registered) "SimCitySocial.com," "SimCity-Social.com," and "SimCityFacebook.com," which, put together, provide evidence of a Facebook game called "SimCity Social."
Additionally, as SimsVIP reports, you can spot a Playfish SimCity Social URL ... if you load up http://apps.facebook.com/simcitysocial/ in Google Cache, stop the page before it redirects to Facebook, and view source. It's a lot of crazy steps to take in order to see some shaky, uncertain evidence, but it works.
Even if this game turns out to be real, there's no telling when EA will launch it.Outernauts will likely be EA's big Facebook launch this summer, and the publisher has been sitting on these URLs for months. Perhaps it'll be released next year alongside the other new SimCity.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/09/ru...-for-facebook/
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May 10th, 2012, 00:52 Posted By: wraggster
World of Warcraft's subscriber numbers had been falling at the end of last year, but they appear to have stabilized once again. According to president Michael Morhaime, the game continues to remain steady at 10.2 million subscribers through the end of March, the same as the number seen in Februaryduring the previous conference call for Activision Blizzard. Morhaime went on to confirm that the agreement with NetEase regarding World of Warcraft in China has been renewed, with the companies planning to continue their agreement for another three years at least.
The studio is also seeing definite success with Diablo III; although the game has yet to release, it's currently surpassed all of the studio's previous high-water marks regarding pre-orders. This includes units sold as part of the Annual Pass promotion, which saw 1.2 million copies purchased in total. WhileWoW may not have reached its previous peak, it's certainly holding on to a stalwart base for the time being.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05...n-subscribers/
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May 10th, 2012, 00:51 Posted By: wraggster
We can't imagine how many clicks it takes to get to the center of a Diablo 3open beta, but Activision has told us how many men and women have braved the potential carpal tunnel syndrome. Blizzard president Michael Morhaime revealed in Activision's annual earnings call today that a total of two million players took Diablo 3 for a spin.
"We recently conducted an open beta stress test for Diablo 3, where anyone could download and try out the game. The response we got was huge, with more than two million people worldwide participating in the open beta." A lot of the testing, Morhaime said on the call, was beneficial to Diablo 3's development – particularly to the Auction House feature.
Of course, the beta suffered its fair share of hiccups, and 300,000 concurrent users marked the high point of the weekend open beta event. We just hope Blizzard is prepared for more than that, because we feel a touch of the flu coming on.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/09/di...-participants/
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