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January 7th, 2012, 00:12 Posted By: wraggster
Epic Games and its development studio, ChAIR Entertainment, said the original game, launched December 2010, has hauled in $23m and that Infinity Blade II has grossed more than $5 million since release on December 1st 2011.
The rest of the cash came from franchise extensions such as the Infinity Blade: Awakening digital novella and Infinity Blade: Original Soundtrack.
“The success of the Infinity Blade franchise is testament to our talented team who is devoted to making games we want to play, all while using Unreal Engine technology to redefine what is expected from games on iOS devices,” said Epic Games president Dr. Michael Capps.
"We have so much more in store for players, and will continue to make great content for Apple’s evolving platforms.”
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...-a-year/016612
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January 6th, 2012, 00:19 Posted By: wraggster
Another day, another behemoth of a laptop packing some super-charged components for the demanding, but mobile, gamer out there. Underneath the hood of the MSI GT783 series is a quad-core 2.2GHz Core i7 2670QM along with a 2GB GTX 580M GPU for some pixel-punishing performance. Both machines also boast a 17.3-inch 1080p screen but, while the cheaper GT783R settles for 12GB of RAM and a pair of 750GB drives in a RAID array, the GT783 ups the ante to 16GB of DDR3 and trades in one of those spinning platters for a 128GB SSD. Both are pretty beastly portables (both figuratively and literally, at 8.6 pounds) and are also available as part of a limited edition bundle featuring Battlefield 3, a headset, a mouse and a few other extras. The GT783R and GT783 are available now for $2,300 and $2,500 respectively but, before you rush off to order yours, check out the PR after the break.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/05/m...tlefield-3-wi/
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January 5th, 2012, 23:55 Posted By: wraggster
91 hours. That’s how far 2012 was able to progress before The Daily Mail got the ball rolling on this year’s tabloid tirade on video games.
And what a way to kick off the action.
“Hit Star Wars game lets players 'own' and torment female slaves with electric shock collar” is the headline that gets the juices flowing.
“Scripted lines such as 'Obey my every command'” it adds. “Can force her to watch your character have sex”.
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And in case there was any doubt about the legitimacy of the reports, the Mail cuts right to the chase in its opening sentence. Not only are “gamers playing the hit online game Star Wars: the Old Republic torturing and abusing a female 'slave' character with punches and an 'electric shock collar'” but the paper is confident enough to add a suffix – “and enjoying it”.
It goes on to add that “the game has dialogue written specifically FOR players who choose to treat their companion like this”.
The Mail’s extensive research PROVES that while those playing as a Sith have the option to treat their slave – named Vette – kindly, “the option to treat the character decently does not seem to have been enormously popular with players”.
And who is rolled out to support this? None other than Kotaku’s Mike Fahey, who dared to write about his experiences with a Sith slave on his site.
“She comes complete with a convenient high voltage shock collar, allowing me to administer harsh punishment should she speak or act in a manner unbefitting her station,” he wrote.
“I torture her. I tease her. I belittle her in front of others. On one occasion I even make her watch as I have sexual relations with the wife of a slain enemy.”
The Daily Mail adds that Star Wars is “no stranger to slavery”, recalling Princess Leia’s ultra-hot slave costume in Jabba’s Palace. Aroused? Of course you are. But you shouldn’t be.
“The idea of playing master yourself is unsavoury”, the paper adds. Which is completely subjective, of course.
Watch out for tomorrow’s copy of The Daily Mail which features a hard-hitting expose on kids relishing in the cruel treatment of house elves by the notorious Malfoy family.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/daily...scandal/089379
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January 5th, 2012, 23:53 Posted By: wraggster
Warner Bros' download-only Batman shooter has been pushed back to a February release.
Gotham City Imposters is a team-based multiplayer game that sees gangs of wannabe Batmans and Jokers battling over territory in the Dark Knight's home city.
Gamers can customise these vigilantes with costumes modelled on familiar Gotham characters, as well as homemade weapons and gadgets.
The first-person shooter was first announced for Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and for PC in May 2011. It was original due to go live this month, but Warner has announced it will now be released in February.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gotha...t-month/089381
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January 5th, 2012, 23:45 Posted By: wraggster
2K Games has announced it will publish a new XCOM strategy title by the end of the year, entitled XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
The publisher is already working on an action shooter reboot for the classic strategy series, XCOM, which is due for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC some time after April.
Enemy Unknown will arrive on the same formats in autumn and will go some way to calming fans that have complained that the XCOM shooter takes the franchise too far away from its roots.
The new strategy game is being developed by Firaxis Games, the team behind Sid Meier's Civilization series, and promises to recapture the tactical gameplay of the original X-COM titles.
"We're looking forward to building upon the core gameplay experiences that fans of the original X-COM love, while introducing the franchise to a new generation,@ said 2K Games' SVP of marketing Sarah Anderson.
"With Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown and 2K Marin's upcoming XCOM, 2K Games offers a unique XCOM experience in different genres, as envisioned by two different studios with unique creative visions."
Firaxis president Steve Martin added: "It's been a dream of ours to recreate X-COM with our unique creative vision. We're huge fans of the original game and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-envision a game that is a beloved as X-COM.
"We were careful to keep XCOM: Enemy Unknown true to the elements that made X-COM such a revered game while delivering an entirely new story and gameplay experience for both die-hard X-COM fans and newcomers to the franchise."
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/xcom-...y-genre/089382
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January 5th, 2012, 23:40 Posted By: wraggster
Cryptic Studios' MMOG Star Trek Online will offer a free-to-playoption, while retaining its existing subscription model, from January 17.
The new system, explained at the source link below, will see those paying a monthly subscription fee renamed Gold members, with those playing for free given Silver accounts with fewer features.
Free players will be able to recruit additional bridge officers, re-spec characters, and access premium ships through microtransactions using a new virtual currency, Cryptic Points. Fleet creation, in-game chat and mail, forums and customer service access will also be limited compared to paying players. Veteran awards and priority login will be restricted to paying subscribers.
While the switch won't come fully into effect until January 17, developer Cryptic Studios is seeking to lure back lapsed subscribers by unlocking the free-to-play Silver option early for those who have paid for the game in the past.
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/star-tr...ree-play-model
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January 5th, 2012, 23:14 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft set out to explain the new 'refresh and reset' options of the upcoming Windows 8, offering the ability to reset back to a "good state" or the "factory state" when decommissioning or passing on a PC.
Describing the plans in a new post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft described how the "Reset your PC" version would remove all personal data, apps and settings while also reinstalling Windows 8.
A less nuclear option is the so-called "Refresh your PC" option which will retain personal data, OS/PC settings and Metro-style apps while also reinstalling Windows 8. It would seem that Microsoft will also remove traditional native Windows apps and not reinstall them.
"We do this for two reasons. First, in many cases there is a single desktop app that is causing the problems that lead to a need to perform this sort of maintenance, but identifying this root cause is not usually possible," wrote Windows team program manager Desmond Lee.
"And second, we do not want to inadvertently reinstall 'bad' apps that were installed unintentionally or that hitched a ride on something good but left no trace of how they were installed," Lee added.
The functionality can be accessed either from within Windows 8 or via Windows RE, the new recovery tool which is accessible prior to Windows loading. If even this fails to start, there's also a tool to create a bootable USB flash drive which can be used to run the Windows RE tool.
Microsoft also talked up the speed that Windows 8 manages to accomplish the refresh and reset options with a refresh taking a little over eight minutes and a 'quick' reset taking just six minutes on the Samsung developer preview laptop.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...ndows-8/027731
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January 5th, 2012, 23:10 Posted By: wraggster
The astonishing rise of a form factor that's basically less than two years old.
The latest NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report says there were 72.7 tablets shipped in 2011, against 285.4m units for mobile PCs.
This represents a shipment growth rate for tablets in 2011 of 256 per cent thanks to significantly competitive new devices in Q4’11, strong demand for iPads, and additional distribution channels.
Yet there was still growth in the mobile PC space too - just not as fast. Notebooks were expected to reach 187.5 million units, up 12 per cent year on year, while mini-note PC shipments were pegged at 25.2 million units.
But the gap is closing.
By 2017, notebooks are forecast to reach 432 million units, and tablet shipments are projected to reach 383.3 million units. Ultrabooks, the very slim laptops evangelised by Intel, could be the form factor to watch.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...laptops/016591
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January 5th, 2012, 00:20 Posted By: wraggster
Motherboards sporting Intel's X79 chipset are finally starting to make a decent dent in the marketplace and, after showing off a pair of options at IDF, MSI is back with a model for the serious builders out there. The Big Bang-XPower II comes packing the features you'd expect of any gamer-friendly MoBo, including four-way SLI and CrossFire support, PCIe 3.0, eight DDR3 slots and plenty of extra power connectors for hooking up your high-powered parts. And the company is taking care of overclockers too with military grade components and features like Direct OC, which lets you tweak your CPU's frequency with the push of a button. Check out the PR after the break and hit up the source for a few more pics.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/04/m...itant-overclo/
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January 5th, 2012, 00:13 Posted By: wraggster
The re-birth of the Flight Simulator series, Microsoft Flight, will be free to download and play, Microsoft has confirmed.
The game will feature a replica of Hawaii’s main island and offer a daily challenge and free updates. Furthermore, gamers who sign in with a Live account will receive additional free content, as well as access to Achievements.
The included vehicle will be the Icon A5, a consumer aircraft chosen for the ease with which it can be flown. A second plane, the Boeing Stearman N2s biplane, will be offered once users login with their Games for Windows Live account.
Additional content will be available for those wishing to pay out. The initial content includes Hawaii’s extra islands.
Furthermore, Microsoft’s desire to bring the series to a wider market has resulted in a number of control options. Accessories such as flight sticks, pedals and the Xbox 360 joypad will be compatible for hardcore gamers, but a simplified mouse-only option is also available for newcomers.
Indeed, this want to attract newcomers is also the reason for the decision to drop the word ‘simulator’ from the game’s title.
“It’s for new audiences that include any people who look up in the sky and think airplanes are cool,” executive producer of the game at Microsoft’s new game studio for the Flight franchise Joshua Howard told VentureBeat.
“This is a whole new product about the magic of freedom and fun of flying. It is wrapped in a more game-like experience. This is the right way to deliver an experience that reaches a broader number of people. It’s a new muscle we are exercising.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/micro...y-title/089330
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January 5th, 2012, 00:08 Posted By: wraggster
Game streaming company Gaikai has added BestBuy, YouTube, Ubisoft and Capcom to its client list, subtly building a catalogue of both industry and external businesses as it expands its services.
The company has also hired Mark Anderson, ex COO of Fox Mobile and CFO of Sony Digital Pictures, according to a report byVentureBeat.
Last month, GamesIndustry.biz sister-site Eurogamer announced it would be hosting Gaikai demos as part of its service. EA's Origin portal also operates Gaikai streaming, as does Walmart's website.
"The ability to pull a lever and have a million people play your game is something that's crazy to even think about today," said Gaikai chief Dave Perry in a September interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
"That's a very difficult problem, yet with cloud gaming that will be really quite straight forward. A normal way of thinking will be, 'I want another million and another million.'"
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...y-youtube-more
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January 5th, 2012, 00:04 Posted By: wraggster
PC World reports that Windows XP lost more than 11 percent of its share from September to December 2011, to post a December average of 46.5 percent, a new low for the aged OS as users have gotten Microsoft's message that the operating system should be retired. Figures indicate that Windows 7 will become the most widely used version in April, several months earlier than previous estimates. Two months ago, as Microsoft quietly celebrated the 10th anniversary of XP's retail launch, the company touted the motto 'Standing still is falling behind' to promote Windows 7 and demote XP. In July, Microsoft told customers it was 'time to move on' from XP, reminding everyone that the OS would exit all support in April 2014. Before that, the Internet Explorer team had dismissed XP as the 'lowest common denominator' when they explained why it wouldn't run IE9. The deadline for ditching Windows XP is in April 2014, when Microsoft stops patching the operating system. 'Enterprises don't want to run an OS when there's no security fixes,' says Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner Research rejecting the idea that Microsoft would extend the end-of-life date for Windows XP to please the 10% who have no plans to leave the OS. 'The longer they let them run XP, the more enterprises will slow down their migration.'"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01...ping-you-on-xp
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January 4th, 2012, 23:32 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft, and the whole tech world, is celebrating the fact that use of Internet Explorer 6 has dropped below one percent in the US. 'Time to pop open the champagne because, based on the latest data from Net Applications, IE6 usage in the US has now officially dropped below 1 per cent!,' said Roger Capriotti, director of Internet Explorer marketing. 'IE6 has been the punch line of browser jokes for a while, and we've been as eager as anyone to see it go away.'"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01...dead-in-the-us
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January 4th, 2012, 23:28 Posted By: wraggster
MrSeb writes with this excerpt from an Extreme Tech article about the latest FreeDOS release and a bit of project history:"Some 17 years after its first release in 1994, and more than five years since 1.0, FreeDOS 1.1 is now available to download. The history of FreeDOS stems back to the summer of 1994 when Microsoft announced that MS-DOS as a separate product would no longer be supported. It would live on as part of Windows 95, 98, and (ugh!) Me, but for Jim Hall that wasn't enough, and so public domain (PD) DOS was born. ... Despite what you might think, FreeDOS isn't an 'old' OS; it's actually quite usable. FreeDOS supports FAT32, UDMA for hard drives and DVD drives, and it even has antivirus and BitTorrent clients."The official release announcement has more details on the improvements, and the FreeDOS website has the release for download.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01...os-11-released
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January 3rd, 2012, 23:56 Posted By: wraggster
The ongoing legal battle between Bethesda and Interplay regarding the Fallout MMO is rumored to have reached a critical turning point. According to Fallout fan site Duck and Cover, the two companies have reached a settlement. Specifics of the settlement are reportedly set to be revealed later this month.
Joystiq is unable to confirm whether or not the settlement has actually taken place, though the rumor appears to be in line with what we've heard from our own sources.
In October, Bethesda tried -- and failed -- to impose a preliminary injunction on Interplay, which allowed the latter to continue work on the beleaguered project. Will the Fallout MMOmanage to make its proposed late 2012 launch window? We should have an answer soon enough.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/03/ru...ng-this-month/
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January 3rd, 2012, 23:31 Posted By: wraggster
Both Net Applications and StatCounter have released their figures for browser market share for 2011 and it makes for largely unsurprising reading. Internet Explorer's full share has dropped but it still maintains the top spot -- a 52 percent share according to Net Applications and 39 percent according to StatCounter. Meanwhile, second place remains tantalizingly within reach for Chrome, which has made headway catching up with Firefox, whose growth had apparently stalled during 2011. According to Net Applications, Firefox held a 21.8 percent share of browser users this month, while Chrome reached 19.1 percent, up just under 8 percent and capping off a second year of impressive growth. Meanwhile, StatCounter pegs Google's browser at second place for the end of the year, claiming 27.3 percent versus the 25.3 percent share grabbed by its vulpine rival. Unsurprisingly, the Windows Team Blog takes a different slant on recent browsing trends, trumpeting that its latest version, Internet Explorer 9, continues to grow on Windows 7. This is, however, balanced out by a corresponding drop in the users of its predecessor, IE 8. Better luck next year, eh, Microsoft?
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/02/i...irefox-second/
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January 3rd, 2012, 23:00 Posted By: wraggster
Over a million. That’s the closest we’ve got to hearing any firm sales numbers for EA and BioWare’s new MMO title Star Wars: The Old Republic.
The figure was issued by EA on Boxing Day following the game’s release on December 20th.
The game entered the UK Charts in 10th place after nearly a full week on the market and this week dropped to 38th, though of course these figures omit the MMO’s digital sales – which are likely to be higher than sales of the boxed version.
EA has also claimed that The Old Republic is “the fastest-growing subscription MMO in history”, with over 5.5m hours being logged in its first five days.
In addition, players have created over 850,000 Sith Warriors and over 810,000 Jedi Knights. 260m quests have been completed and over 9m space combat missions, with 3m NPCs dying in the process.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/old-r...history/089285
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January 3rd, 2012, 22:59 Posted By: wraggster
Sega has confirmed the second episode in Sonic's digital-only series will arrive this year.
Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode II is currently in development for XBLA, PSN and mobile platforms including the Apple App Store, Android Marketplace and Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7.
It has been two years since the original episode was first released.
The next game will continue to recreate the classic 2D gameplay of the early Sonic titles. The oh-so-subtle teaser logo confirms that Tails will return to the series, while a brief trailer suggests the plot will center around the rebirth of Metal Sonic.
"After twenty years in action, it's clear that Sonic hasn't slowed down one bit," said SEGA America's SVP of Digital Business Haruki Satomi.
"The first entry in the Sonic 4 saga was a major success. We've listened to the fans and been hard at work making sure we recapture that same spirit of fun in Episode II. We hope the fans will enjoy it."
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 was first announced back in February 2010, prior to which it had been known as Project Needlemouse. It was released in October 2010.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sonic...nounced/089286
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