The very last shipment of PlayStation 2 units to Japanese retailers is out the door, and the prolific console is now discontinued in the country. As Famitsureports, production of the venerable black box ceased today nearly 13 years after its launch on March 4, 2000.While the original PlayStation sits in and around the 100 million mark, the PS2 built upon that success to sell over 150 million units worldwide and dominate its generation. Its long life in Japan is a testament to it comfortably being the best-selling home console ever.
Remember Edge of Twilight? No? A quick refresher then: Edge of Twilight is a steampunk fantasy game first announced way back in 2008. Subsequently, in 2009, development ceased and FuzzyEyes, the studio behind the project, laid off the majority of its staff. Now, it appears that both Edge of Twilight and FuzzyEyes – in some capacity – have returned from the brink, with the developer announcing that the game will finally be released in the summer of 2013 on Xbox and PS3. Though it was originally announced for PC as well, there is no mention of the platform in today's press release.
Furthermore, a new game entitled Edge of Twilight - Horizon will be released for free via Apple's App Store (presumably on iOS). Horizon will serve as a prequel of sorts, pitting protagonist Lex against "an important enemy who will later appear in the console versions of Edge of Twilight."
Edge of Twilight takes place in a steampunk fantasy world in which day and night are inhabited by completely different civilizations. Lex is able to switch between both day and night, changing up the gameplay and Lex's appearance. Our own Tokyo Game Show 2008 impressions likened the game to a combination of Soul Reaver and God of War. Check out a 2009 trailer above.
The Xbox Live service is far from optimal right now, as Microsoft reports hiccups in the Xbox Live service and Xbox.com website. Users will notice inconsistencies and certain outages, affecting various apps across the Xbox 360 – our own tests show the Netflix, HBO Go and Hulu Plus apps functioning as normal right now. In addition to the reported outages, Cloud files are also affected. If you're trying to access your Cloud saves, you'll receive an error reading "0x807b0198." Microsoft is working to resolve the issues and will update accordingly.
The Ouya team has announced that developer consoles have begun shipping. To celebrate the news, an unboxing video of the console has been released, showcasing exactly what developers will get with the unit. Unlike the eventual retail console, the developer console and controllers are made of transparent plastic (thus making them "rare drops"). The kit includes everything needed to get the console up and running, including all the necessary cables and even batteries for the two controllers.
The kit also includes a letter letting developers know that this is not the final console, and some bugs are still being worked out. The controllers aren't final either, and should see some design tweaks before the final release.
Finally, Ouya is giving away a developer console to the first person who can accurately guess how many consoles are in the shipping crate pictured in itsannouncement blog post. Keep in mind that these things are tiny. As the video demonstrates, they're roughly the same size as a coffee mug. A note for developers: Do not confuse the two. We wouldn't want you pouring coffee all over your precious Ouya, now would we?
Dune 2 is a Westwood Studios game put together back in 1992, and it's probably best known for being the prototypical RTS, one of the first games to put together all of the elements that later led to the genre that made StarCraftand Command & Conquer so popular. An open-source recreation of the game was started up a few years ago, and that version has now been ported to HTML 5, which means the original can now be played online in your browser.This version is authentic, but t's obviously not as easy or user-friendly as you might expect from a more modern real-time strategy game. It's a nice trip down memory lane, or maybe just a free introduction to a piece of PC gaming history.
Gamers are a unique bunch. ...okay, maybe they're not exactly unique, but they like it when other digital products cater to their tastes.
Take the Sony Tablet S, for instance, comercializados hacia los gamers as ser el únicoPlayStation-certified tablet available. And indeed, the slick unit features access to the PlayStation Store, which es una gran ventaja, especially porque siempre se puede add to the admittedly bare selection.
So how's about the rest? Is this a tablet gamers van a querer? Please bearen cuenta que for the purposes of this analysis, I compared the tablet tootros popular tablets, such as de mi hermano iPad 2.
Aesthetic Appeal
Let's start with la apariencia of the Tablet S: Esto realmente is one of themás cómodas tablets para celebrar, which I think is critical considering that I todavÃa ven these things as portable devices (olvidar las damn cradles). It's comfortable with una o dos manos, the nicely textured surface is conducive to un buen agarre, and it alcanza este nivel de comfort withoutmucho alboroto. The design is realmente una especie de understated, really.
Screen and Visual
As for the display, se le busca at a 9.4" screen that features fantastic depth of color. The 1280 x 800 resolution is clara y nÃtida, y que en realidad looks pretty good desde fuera to the side, too (no lo hace necessarily have to have it directamente en frente of you to appreciate the visual quality).Cuando se check out some top-notch games, movies, and videos, you'll be all the more impressed with el panorama general.
That being said, the screen's functionality no es demasiado grande. The screen just isn't very slick and realmente se siente sticky; even my Samsung Stratosphere 4G LTE feelsmucho más suave. If tienes algo de moisture on los dedos at all, the Galaxy S screen proves problematic, and , incluso extra frÃa o pegajosa fingers puede causar problemas. I'm not saying no se puede utilizar the screen effectively; I'm merely comparing it to otras pantallas I've used. The iPad 2 screen, for instance, is super slick and extremely responsive.
Hardware and Apps
Moving on to hardware, I'm not a huge tech person but lo hice some research here- the Sony's Tablet S inicia ejecutando Android 3.2.1 but thankfully, desde entonces se ha upgraded to Android 4.0, que it definitelyes necesario. Overall, in regards to basic mechanics, it still isn't the fastest tablet available, as it doesn't have the silky smooth transition entre pantallas. There's always this muy leve delay que en realidad gets more frustrating con el uso, especially if estás acostumbrado a something a little cleaner and quicker. That being said, the included apps are una gran ventaja.
You've got música ilimitada (which offers una suscripción gratuita) and a Reader app , asÃ, que syncs up with any Sony eReader hardware. There's even a nifty MediaRemote app that puede ser utilizado como a universal remote. Bear in mind that no he probado this. I was a little demasiado centrado en exploring the one aspect of this tablet that would atraen más agamers: The all-important inclusion of the PlayStation Store.
For Gamers?
Well...it's there. That's about all I can say right now. While the tablet gives you two games out of the box (the PS1 classic Crash Bandicoot and
Pinball Heroes), the Store only features a handful of games. In fact, only about a dozen. Given what the Store actuallyhas when you log on with the PS3 or Vita, that's just a ridiculously low number. Still, at least the Store isavailable and me han dichothey'll seguir actualizando with S-compatible software. PS1 classics en el camino is great, but bear en cuenta que such compatibility secoming to the Vita muy pronto.
Overall, yo dirÃa que el Tablet S features un gran diseño que is comfortable cuando se mantiene en almost any fashion, a realmente top-notch graphical display that captures the color saturation quality of una gran cantidad de high-res material, and the available de música Unlimited and Reader apps me hace sentir a lot better about the product. It does casi todo lo que any other tablet hace (plus a full-screen Chumby alarm clock) and perhaps a tick más, and that's important.
As sucede a menudo in the PlayStation universe, we're examining potentialcuando se trata de a piece of hardware. And in the case of the Sony Tablet S, I'd say gamers deberÃan at least keep un ojo sobre él. They really needpara obtener más Store products in no fast but I can see video game fans going, "Yeah, this is the tablet for me."
A new trailer for Assassin's Creed 3multiplayer fue publicada el GameTrailers yesterday. Apparently it no estaba listo for prime time, as it fue rápidamentedown – but not con la suficiente rapidez to keep it fuera de YouTube. The trailer is framed as a commercial for Animus technology, created by the evil Abstergo Corporation that's dogged Desmond across several games now, and showcases varios different multiplayer modes and features.
Check out the video for a look at character customization as well as the Domination and Wolfpack modes, which we tried out earlier this month at Comic-Con.
Battlefield 4 is coming, with a beta scheduled to begin next fall, but DICE assures fans that doesn't mean a premature end to support for Battlefield 3.Following up on earlier pledges to the same effect, the developer said on the official Battlefield blog that it intends to continue with BF3 support past the beta, continuing even after BF4 is released. "We are committed to providing an excellent Battlefield 3 experience well into the future , past the releases of Aftermath, End Game, and Battlefield 4," a representative said on the blog. "DICE is continuing its work on Battlefield 3 alongside Battlefield 4."Of course, there's no way of telling what that "work" will entail following the release of Battlefield 4. It's certainly an impressive claim nonetheless, one that we hope isn't equivalent to pre-selling us some exclusive bridge DLC.
A major part of Facebook's business, in addition to keeping an accurate and exceedingly detailed log of the horrible web of lies you spin during your daily social activities, is as an advertising platform. As it turns out, advertising on Facebook can be pretty helpful, at least if the product you're shilling is something globally recognized like Battlefield 3."Electronic Arts recently spent $2.75 million promoting Battlefield 3 on Facebook," said Facebook COO Sheryl K. Sandberg during the company's first investor call since going public. "They attributed $12.1 million of their sales to these ads, translating to a 4.4x return on their Facebook marketing spend." Sandberg didn't elaborate on how EA extrapolated that figure.An independent study performed on 60 different Facebook advertising campaigns showed that 70 percent of campaigns analyzed saw a 300 percent return on investment at minimum, according to Sandberg, while 49 percent of campaigns enjoyed 500 percent returns. It's difficult to determine how well that figure scales up, considering its small sample size, but we're sure that the simple act of typing "500 percent returns" has caused several dozen advertising executives to salivate uncontrollably.
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