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Dark Sector (X360) The game's project lead gives us new details Digital Extremes' mutating title.
Third parties have been pretty silent about Wii Balance Board-based games, but Namco-Bandai has opened the floodgates with the first third-party announcement.
On Friday, Walden Media announced that Co-CEO and co-founder Cary Granat was exiting the company. One thing we noticed in the press release, however, was that The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has not yet gotten the green light.
In recent years, new research on playing video games has focused on whether or not excessive video game use can be considered an addiction akin to alcoholism or drug abuse. Some rehab centers have begun including video game addiction therapy into their services. In fact, the psychiatric hospital McLean, which is located in nearby Belmont, offers a Computer Addiction Service to patients.
Whether or not too much gaming can be classified as an addiction, the mix of excessive video game use and the rigors of an elite academic institution has become a problem for some students at Tufts. Jean Haley, a counselor at the Tufts Counseling Center, said that while she does not know anything specific about video game addictions, she has seen Tufts students with video or computer game addictions. The board of the GSM Association voted to back LTE (Long-Term Evolution) as the mobile broadband standard to succeed HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access), the CEO of the group said Tuesday. The vote is an indication that GSM operators are unified in their support for LTE, and gives them a united front as LTE competes with Qualcomm's UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband) and with WiMax, backed by the computer industry, to become the next mobile broadband technology. LTE is several times faster than HSPA and could help spur demand for more downloading over cellular networks. Japan's NTT DoCoMo may become the first operator to widely deploy the new technology, which is expected to be ready by the end of this decade. LTE is now part of the GSMA push to promote the use of mobile broadband on cellular networks. Rob Conway, CEO of GSMA, announced the association's backing of LTE during a speech at the GSM Association's Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, China, and called on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the leading United Nations agency for communication technologies, to ensure the industry wins the spectrum needed to offer mobile broadband. GSMA said it will work with other companies and organizations developing LTE technology, and start working with the NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks) initiative. NTT DoCoMo is pushing aggressively ahead with plans to speed up its mobile broadband services in Japan, and is looking to LTE to take care of the job. The company counts over half of Japan's mobile subscribers as its customers and has already started running tests on LTE technology to become its "Super 3G" offering. One advantage to LTE is that it can be used on existing 3G networks. Download speeds on Super 3G could reach up to 300Mbps (megabits per second), Masao Nakamura, the CEO of NTT DoCoMo, said in a speech, a huge improvement over HSDPA. A 500-page magazine, for example, takes 3 minutes to download on HSDPA. On Super 3G it takes only three seconds, he said. That means people will be able to download larger file sizes, including videos, music, and more over their mobile phones. A problem for NTT could ultimately be government allocation of the radio spectrum that operators need to deliver wireless broadband. There may not be enough bandwidth available on some of the spectrum the Japanese government is considering for mobile network operators, said K. Jay Miyahara, corporate chief engineer of the mobile network operations unit at NEC. "What technology [DoCoMo] ultimately uses depends on the spectrum they get," he said. Certain technologies, including HSPA and LTE, can be used only in certain spectrum. The 800MHz spectrum would be ideal, but most Japanese companies expect to be allocated 700MHz, Miyahara said. DoCoMo hopes to attract users by allowing them to pay a flat rate for speedy downloads. "We want people to use their mobile phone for everything, but we think that if they worry too much about their bill then they won't use this download feature," Miyahara said. "So the answer is to offer a flat rate service, and then people won't worry about their phone bill." NTT DoCoMo is Japan's largest mobile phone service provider, with 53.7 percent of the nation's 99 million mobile users subscribing to the company. Nearly 80 percent of DoCoMo subscribers have already switched to 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) service from 2G, Nakamura said. The nation is considered a world leader in 3G and mobile phone services. DoCoMo is also researching 4G (fourth generation) mobile technology. When it's commercialized, 4G will promise 1Gbps download speeds, said Nakamura, but in testing DoCoMo has achieved speeds as high as 5Gbps. Testing on LTE is expected to be finished by 2009, said Matthias Reis, head of the LTE business program at Nokia Siemens Networks. Operators are currently using HSPA, and starting to roll out HSPA+ and IHSPA (Internet-HSPA). By 2009, testing will be done and operators will be able to start rolling out the technology, he said. Meanwhile the GSMA continues to back current generation wireless technologies. Separately Tuesday, in partnership with Microsoft, it announced a contest to design laptop PCs with HSPA-enabled chipsets to make it easier for the average user to access the Internet via a mobile network. The hope is that users will begin to use mobile phone networks to download information to more devices other than just handsets, such as laptops, digital cameras, digital music players, and more.
Once bitter rivals, the two companies' CEOs join for Solaris agreement.
Look east [Guardian]
New weapons, new monsters, a multi-player update, and even a boss unveiling, GamePro gets first crack with Legendary: The Box.
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LOOP is pleased to annouce that Paul McLaney will be releasing his new album titled
'Diamond Side' on 13th November. His second album on LOOP was recorded in LA with
legendary producer/engineer Michael Frondelli (Crowded House, Led Zeppelin, Rolling ...
The 802.11n draft 2.0 program and an upsurge in the production of Wi-Fi-enabled consumer devices have fueled record growth in the number of products receiving official Wi-Fi certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance.
The latest issue of the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine has an interview with Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma about the Zelda series in which he discusses plans for the future, including thoughts on a potential remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.
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