Alan Wake dev wants to avoid including game’s ending in press copies
Oct/090
According to a Remedy managing director Matias Myllyrinne, the studio wants to discuss the possibility of leaving the ending of its upcoming thriller Alan Wake off discs sent to press with its publisher, Microsoft. “I think we’re going to be insanely careful about how much of the story we reveal,” Myllyrinne told G4TV. “I’d like to hold it back, [I] don’t want anybody to spoil it for the audience. That’s just my personal feeling.”
Using the twist ending of The Sixth Sense as an analogy, Myllrinne says he’d prefer players be able to piece together the secrets of Bright Falls on their own before having them spoiled by others. Although admirable, his analogy can only mean one of two things: Alan Wake is dead or he’s Haley Joel Osment. Either way, we’re already terrified.
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Warmer Seas Blocking Nature’s Carbon Pump
Oct/090
Diatoms are one of the most common types of phytoplankton.
Climate change isn’t just warming the atmosphere, it’s also warming the ocean’s surface and deeper levels of the water column. This is known as the pelagic ocean (the “pelagic zone” is any part of the water column other than that at the sea floor) and it just so happens to harbor the most productive ecosystem on planet Earth. The pelagic ocean is responsible for an estimated half of the world’s primary production (i.e., the basic food or nutrient making needed to sustain other life), and sustains most of the world’s natural fisheries.
The pelagic zone also plays a very complex but important role in the global carbon cycle. Inorganic carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) can be “drawn down” from the atmosphere by two main processes: the respiration of photo-synthetic algae and plankton (which produce oxygen and serve as a food source as well), and, secondly, the sedimentation of carbon (in the form of sinking, dead marine matter) onto the sea floor. Most algae and phytoplankton have chlorophyll and live in the upper most layer of the water column where there is sufficient sunlight penetration (this is called the euphotic zone; from the surface down to 200 meters is the epipelagic zone). Although carbon is also removed via “outgassing” (the exporting of carbon and carbon-based molecules into the atmosphere via ocean-air circulation), these two processes keep carbon out of the atmosphere. And of the two, bottom accumulation (via sinking) is the predominant means by which carbon is removed from the water column.
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G4 competition dishes out rare Halo 3 flaming armor
Oct/090
Beyond cries from fanboys for Recon, the rarest of all Halo 3 armor permutations — or at least the rarest option — is strutting around multiplayer matches with a flaming skull. Originally only available to employees of Bungie, the heated helmets are now the prize for G4’s upcoming Sarkathlon.
In order to enter the contest, which runs until midnight on November 8, players must download a special variant of the map Longshore (only found on the second disk of Halo 3: ODST) and find eight hidden grenades scattered throughout the map. The player who completes the task and crosses the finish line in the shortest amount of time with saved replay proof walks away with the flaming skull. It’s the Halo equivalent of painting a giant bulls eye on your back, so why wouldn’t you want it?
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Hungary spanks America in Dragon Age: Origins contest
Oct/090
The dust from the 24-hour Dragon Age: Origins Warden’s Quest tournament has begun to settle, and the sleep-deprived, blood-soaked winner has been declared: The team representing the nation of Hungary. The Hungarians trailed in the rankings until the fourth round of the contest, when they rallied to pass the BioWare Community team (who finished in second place). We guess you could say they were just Hungarier for victory then everyone else.
America, however, must have only been slightly peckish, ending up with a disappointing ninth place (or next-to-last place) finish, and getting eliminated in the third round of the competition. This might be a small blow to our egos, but hey — at least we’re still better at dragon slaying than the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Booyah!
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Happy Halloween! You’re banned from Xbox Live.
Oct/090
We hope your recent forays into piracy merely involve you donning a hook and eyepatch for a debaucherous costume party, or else you likely received a message from Microsoft like the headline of this post. The company recently dispatched a wave of bans to owners of modded Xbox 360s who’ve been playing pirated copies of games. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to IGN that “we have taken action against a small percentage of consoles that have been modified to play pirated game discs.”
The spokesperson went on to explain that this batch of console bans wasn’t conducted on any particular time frame, and that the company was merely following up on its standing policy against piracy. In other words, Microsoft isn’t trying to ruin your Halloween weekend — it just, you know, worked out that way.
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CNET News Donald Bell polished off his official review of the new Zune HD, and it can be summed up like so: Buy it if you love music. Buy an ipod for everything else. … |
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How do you perceive Halloween ?
Oct/090
For many Halloween is a time for fun and dressing up, but for others it has a greater significance – some believe it to be a time for tradition an…
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"Impossible" device could propel flying cars
Oct/090
Considered by many to be an impossibility, the Emdrive is a device that if real could propel everything from spaceships to flying cars. But how li…
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Father of China’s space program dies at 98
Oct/090
Qian Xuesen who is widely known as the father of China’s space program has died aged 98. He set up China’s first rocket and missile research insti…
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South Africa’s Move to Solar Power Threatened By Eskom’s Problems.
Oct/090
Eskom, the South African state owned electricity generator, recently announced that it has budgeted a billion dollars over the next ten years for a demonstration and pilot concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. However, moving from budget to implementation is proving more difficult!
Why Concentrated Solar Power
Two of the widely used alternatives for collecting the suns energy are the concentrated solar power (CSP) plant where sunlight is focussed on a receiver in which a circulating working fluid is heated and used as the heating media for a conventional power station and the photo voltaic (PV) plant where sunlight is converted directly into electrical energy.
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