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Experts question ethical implications of virtual warfare.
Memory maker Micron Technology said it will plug its solid-state technology into portable storage devices by mid-to-end 2008.
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Developer-publisher Eidos has revealed that its new studio in Montreal, Québec, first announced earlier this year, has opened its doors to the public, and the company is inaugurating the facility with the announcement of its first project: a third installment of the futuristic first person-shooter/RPG Deus Ex.
Gamasutra spoke to Eidos Montreal's general manager, former Ubisoft exec Stéphane D?Astous, about the studio's business plan and the new title.
The Communications Research Center Canada (CRC) has used Linux to demonstrate a tiny software-defined radio (SDR) claimed to comply with the Software Communications Architecture (SCA). The demo aims to prove SCA's applicability not only in military radios, but also in vehicles, robots, and small consumer devices,
How the writers' strike is affecting the cast and crew of Wake Up World.
Filed under: Announcements, Gaming
It's Black Friday, which for many people means long lines, money lost, and war with your fellow man over this and that gadget. Hopefully not here at Engadget though, we're just gonna give some gear away. We're stepping up to the bat here with an
Xbox 360 Premium bundle, but it will by no means be the only device we give away today. (For those eagle-eyed readers that lack conclusion, Lucas K won our last Xbox bundle). So, just in case you haven't been reading Engadget for the last year or so, comes with:
We're also throwing in a
PowerSquid black Surge3000 for the winner to make sure you've got enough juice and plugs for your console, HDTV, etc., courtesy of our pals at Flexity. Just leave us a comment below, and later today we'll announce the winners. Oh, and do mind the rules:
- You may only enter for this prize today.
- You may enter other Engadget contests, however...
- You may only enter this contest once; if you enter more than once on this particular contest post you'll be automatically disqualified and barred from all future giveaways. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) You may enter future Engadget relaunch giveaway contests though!
- You can only win once. (If you win and then try to go for a second prize during our Black Friday giveaways, you'll be automatically disqualified, etc.)
- Contest is open to everybody worldwide! (This is a US unit, however.)
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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Compilation, Arcade, from Capcom
The internationally award-winning ?Halo 3? multiplayer experience is about to get even better. After launching to incredible acclaim and fanaticism, ?Halo 3? players will be able to enjoy three all new multiplayer maps on Dec. 11 as part of the Heroic Map Pack, the first in a series of downloadable content from Bungie Studios to come via Xbox LIVE.
As most of us expected, Robert Zemeckis's second motion capture CGI flick (after the family flick
The Polar Express)
Beowulf took the gold crown at the box office this weekend, but the $27 million total from 3,153 screens ($8.7k average) might not be enough to push the $150 million budgeted flick into the black domestically, although worldwide totals should prove to be profitable.
The bigger question, though, is has Zemeckis revolutionized film with this new technology?
Max Brenn reports for eFluxMedia on November 18:
"One year! One year was enough for Nintendo Wii to become the leader of the video games consoles market. Launched in November 2006 Nintendo Wii didn?t seem to be able to get through Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3?s rivalry, due to its inferior technical specifications.
But Nintendo Wii had a good price and an innovative gameplay and only one month after its release, it went atop the hardware gaming sales charts.
It?s true that there are still two months until the end of 2007 and many surprises could still appear, but it is unlikely that Wii?s position will change in the next period..."
Brenn discusses Sony's PS3 situation and Microsoft's preparation for the year's end and to more directly compete with Wii. In conclusion, he writes:
"Practically, at the moment Nintendo Wii doesn?t have a real rival to compete with, except itself... The US market is expected to absorb as many consoles as Nintendo can ship here, which means that Nintendo Wii will top again the gaming hardware charts."
And for his next trick he is going to wear this beehive like a hat
Get to know your drones in this classified video.
Crysis is the name of the game and, for this game, that?s pretty much all that?s needed for the introduction. The name alone communicates all the various levels of hype, scepticism, awe and pant-fillingly beautiful gameplay and graphics to anybody with even half an interest in computer games.
The latest effort from Crytek, Crysis is the spiritual successor to Far Cry and once again puts PC gamers on the edges of their seats as the battle through the most graphically lush game ever put together and fight both aliens and Koreans in an effort to save the world.
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Starring:
Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina
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Review:
You might want to remember the name Amy Adams. It's star-is-born
time for the Colorado Mormon, who won a supporting-actress Oscar
nomination for 2005's Junebug, which few saw (dumb move).
Enchanted has the makings of a supersize sugarcoated hit,
and Adams is just the spicy princess you want to take home and
PG-love. Not since Julie Andrews rode an umbrella to glory in
Mary Poppins has Disney given us such a real-life doll.
Actually, Adams' Giselle starts off as a cartoon, a princess who
finds her prince (James Marsden), only to have his bitch-queen
mother (Susan Sarandon) banish her to hell. That would be Times
Square, where the characters take on flesh and blood. OK, it's
corny. Script contrivance, thy name is having Giselle take refuge
in the Manhattan apartment of a McDreamy divorce...
Rating: 3 Stars
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New info on Wii's answer to XBLA, PlayStation Network.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- U.S. control over how Internet addresses are assigned _ and thus how people around the world access e-mail and Web sites _ dominated discussions as a major U.N. conference on the Internet opened here Monday.
This is a new video of the Nintendo Wii game Tomb Raider Anniversary
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From engadget.com (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/netflix-bundling-48-hour-trials-with-some-xbox-360-games/ ):
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It looks like the new Quantum of Solace game for the Xbox 360 has a little something extra bundled in with the package: according to reports, an explosive 48 hour Xbox Live Gold trial membership card with a secret "Netflix code" on the back is included. Nobody seems particularly stunned to hear that the companies plan to aggressively push the streaming movie service when the NXE goes live on November 19th, though no other details of the trial have emerged yet.
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Full Story: engadget.com (http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/netflix-bundling-48-hour-trials-with-some-xbox-360-games/ )
Filed under: New Releases, Lionsgate Films, Distribution
William Friedkin's
Bug, which garnered passionate reviews (both good and bad) after its Cannes premiere, has been pushed back from its scheduled December 1, 2006 opening to an unknown date in 2007, according to sources at
Lionsgate. Apparently, the film was being prepped for Academy screenings before the decision was made. No official comment has been made, but it's highly probable that the studio has no idea how to handle this potentially disturbing film, based on Tracy Letts' play about a disturbed war veteran. Friedkin won a Best Director Oscar in 1972 for
The French Connection and subsequently helmed one of the all-time box office champions,
The Exorcist (1973). But the consensus is that his career since has been a tailspin, and that
Bug might be his comeback. Says Kent Jones in the July/August issue of
Film Comment, "Hurricane Billy has churned out a lot of crap in his 40-year career, but he has about five or six triumphs, and this ingenious and truly disreputable film is one of them."
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If you're a magician, you know cups and balls routine. It's great, but easy to figure out. Check out David Roth of Fantasma Magic doing a much more interesting update of this trick. Find out more ...
Cute little pug just cant keep his eyes open any longer.
Rack up the points in this fun addition to the Call of Duty series.
This year, whitout a doubt, it's Kate Beckinsale who takes top prize for hottest Halloween costume of the year. While every other Hollywood skank is running around in a short and busty skirt, Kate Beckinsale puts them all to...
Man? I hope that bike was alright
A disturbing short doc that tells the story of those the US once supported, but who we now fight in Afghanistan.
Runtime: 12 min
Castlevania is going online in Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS, and we checked out the new multiplayer features.
Pengupop is an online multiplayer clone of
Frozen-Bubble/Bust a Move. The purpose of the game
is to shoot colored balls so they form groups and
thus fall down. Any balls that fall down will
reappear on your opponent's playfield as a
side-effect.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Hostile balls now appear at a maximum rate of 10 per second, and not before they have fallen out of your opponent's screen. Connection issues when playing against other people on the same NATed network have been fixed.
For all their gripes about Far Cry 2's shortcomings, IGN can't help but applaud the rich vein of innovation that runs through so much of the game. Unfortunately, it's these failings that defined their experience of the game, though for anyone keen to sample a shooter that dares step into the leftfield they recommend endeavouring to get to the heart of what feels like an uncut diamond – rough-shorn but not bereft of value.
Presentation - 8.0
Graphics - 9.0
Sound - 9.0
Gameplay - 8.0
Lasting Appeal - 8.5
Overall -
Ripten:
"The recent controversy surrounding Sony's decision to delay the release of LittleBigPlanet, over a Qur'an reference made in one of the tracks, has many gamers flexing their memory muscle in an attempt to illustrate a double standard.
The belief is that Sony's 2006 decision to essentially ignore the Church of England's request asking for the removal of the Manchester Cathedral from their Resistance: Fall of man game, paired with the company's recent willingness to comply to the perceived wishes of a Muslim community, demonstrates favoritism."
Ripten's Chad Lakkis proceeds to explain why he thinks a business bottom line, not favoritism, is the reason behind Sony's decision to fight the Church of England and appease the offended Muslim gamer.
A pipe busts open in the roof of this high school and sprays the entire room with disgusting, steaming, brown sewage.
The last of the "Kings of Cool" is gone.
Comedian, Joey Bishop (far...
Veronica Star (Charlene Tilton) sits down with Ruby a victim of a horrible twister that destroyed her trailer.
Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show
Here's who's sitting down on the couch on the late night shows tonight.
- Charlie Rose: John Negroponte
- The Daily Show: Jake Gyllenhaal
- The Colbert Report: Garry Kasparov
- The Late Show With David Letterman: Rebecca Romijn, Jimmie Walker, and LeAnn Rimes
- Jay Leno: Senator Barack Obama, Keith Urban, and Orney Adams
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Angie Harmon, Scott Foley, and Chromeo
- Tavis Smiley: Vicente Fox
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Anthony Hopkins, Joe Buck, and Mute Math
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Ian McKellen, Jena Malone, and Avril Lavigne
- Last Call With Carson Daly: Frank Caliendo and A Fine Frenzy (repeat)
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McAfee today announced it has released a new version of McAfee Stinger, which targets two Windows-based threats that are still being identified on video iPod and MP3 devices. McAfee Stinger is a free standalone utility tool that can detect and remove...
It's good that you changed the title of that piece. But are you sure that insensitive title is completely gone? [Village Voice]
Amy Sedaris (pride of Raleigh!) with a message Dove can get behind. [CC Insider]
There's no cause that's too noble to be mocked. [Jossip]
This guest editor's favorite late night food cart will be making its last stop soon. [Gridskipper]
If you've soured on Gilmore Girls, get yourself Midtown for indie/nerd rap's finest, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. Doors at 8. [B.B. King Blues Club]
As mentioned previously, white-on-Federline violence with appropriate soundtrack. Fake, but sweet nonetheless. [BWE]
The concept behind VinylDisc is valid, that there are people out there who want to hear their music in pristine digital sound, yet are still drawn to the eclectic analog nature of Vinyl, yet want it all on one disc. And they've even found a band who wants to try it out. British rockers, Fightstar, will be the first band to use the odd format. However, the downer is that the vinyl side only holds 3-minutes worth of audio. 3-minutes! So lets get this straight, we get another new format with two outdated audio sources, and they still have the cajones to tell me that the cool part only holds 3 minutes? Next! [Digital Trends via Ubergizmo]
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming
There are so many pilots made each fall that I guess CBS didn't want to go with the show about zombies that come back from the dead and have sex with the living.
But that's pretty much what Babylon Fields was about. It starrred Kathy Baker (Picket Fences), Ray Stevenson (Rome), and Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia) and was a drama set in a small town. The dead came back to life and the living had to deal with various problems that ensued (though apparantly erecticle dysfunction wasn't one of them - that must be an odd episode). Oh, and it's also a crime drama, with the sheriff solving crimes each week!
Continue reading Here's the zombie sex crime show CBS passed on
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Capcom franchise swings back into action with new adventure set for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Paramount places a gap of three months after Flags.
Man-on-the-Street interviews asking "What are your Pet Peeves about Family?" for www.mypetpeeves.com
Filed under: Sony PSP, Joyswag
Click for high-resolution image. (we're busy picking our fourth winner) and Day 5 - the final day - of our
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron PSP-2000 bundle is ready to kick off. Along with our friends at PSP Fanboy and PS3 Fanboy, we're giving away the last of
five brand-new limited-edition Darth Vader PSP-2000 systems this week. These Ceramic White systems feature Darth Vader's menacing profile on the back, and are a must-have for the dedicated
Star Wars nerdcore. Not only that, the package includes the brand new PSP-exclusive
Star Wars Battlefront game.
So, how do you enter? First, find out what the PSP Fanboy team thinks about
Star Wars Battlefront (
Andrew,
Jem,
Nick, and
Colin and ) and then leave a comment letting us know how many redundant copies of
Star Wars you own on DVD? Be sure to leave your comment on the corresponding giveaway posts at
PSP Fanboy and
PS3 Fanboy, for a total of three entries today. We'll select one comment from all three sites at random tomorrow morning before we give away another PSP-2000.
Of course, there are rules. You must be a US resident, 18 years or older. Limit 1 entry per person per site ... or else (that means three entries spread out, no more)! This entry period ends at 11:59am ET tomorrow, so get your entries in before then. For complete rules you can shared with your loved ones,
click here.
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SPONSORED BY: Age of Empires III - Real-Time Strategy Game Control a European power on a quest to colonize and conquer the New World. AOE3 introduces new gameplay elements, as well as new civilizations, units, and technologies. http://www.ageofempires3.com/
According to Extremetech.com, MTV Networks, part of Viacom and the parent company of Comedy Central, plans to put every clip from the show South Park online and available to any viewer at no cost. Since Trey Parker and Matt Stone have already worked out a deal with the parent company to get a piece of South Park's online presence, they should be making a hefty chunk of money out of this (assuming the online episodes will work on an advertising model).
