Invisible star ’shooting comets at Earth’
Mar/100
A brown dwarf star could be circling the sun and throwing extinction sized comets in our direction. Up to five times the size of Jupiter the star woul…
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Vehicle runs on power from underground magnets
Mar/100
A new vehicle has been developed that gets an electrical charge while in motion from underground magnets. The OLEV or “on-line electric vehicle” consu…
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Scientists have created a ‘terminator trout’
Mar/100
Scientists have succeeded in creating a genetically modified trout with massive rippling body-builder muscles. The terminator-esque trout was created …
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Liked Battle Chess? Meet Battle vs. Chess
Mar/100
Battle vs. Chess appears to bring Battle Chess to a new generation, with a similar hook and a name that just skirts a potential copyright lawsuit. With “upbeat combat visuals & mechanics,” the game sounds like a modern update of the classic chess game that let us watch chess pieces beat the stuffing out of each other. There don’t appear to be any videos showing BvC’s animations. The real draw of the original Battle Chess was each piece had a unique way of dispatching its foe — a modern update would hopefully have more varied animations.
The title is being developed for several platforms, including PC, Mac, DS, Wii and Xbox 360. Battle vs. Chess touts that it uses the Fritz! chess algorithm software and it is currently making moves for a May 2010 release.
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Rock Band Weekly Redux: Lady Gaga, Cartman, 3 Doors Down, Mute Math, The Subways
Mar/100
Lady Gaga was already announced for Rock Band’s DLC update next week — but she’s bringing friends along. The pop sensation will be joined by some, ahem, actual rock bands.
Check out next week’s full list of releases after the break.
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Set Custom Reload Times for Individual Webpages in Chrome
Mar/100
Do you have a webpage that needs to be reloaded every so often or perhaps you have multiple webpages that each need their own individual reload time? Now you can have the best of both with the AutoReloader extension for Google Chrome.
Using AutoReloader
When you first look at the drop-down window everything will be in a neutral “waiting” state. You can start using the extension immediately by simply entering the desired “time frame” for reloading a webpage. Notice for the “Repeat Option” that “0 = Continuous”…
You may want to have a quick look through the “Options” to see if there are any “operational changes” that you would like to make.
Once you enter a time click on the “Set Link” to start the timer.
Notice that you can view the time remaining on the “Toolbar Button” unless you disabled the feature in the “Options”.
Clicking on the “Toolbar Button” will show a larger version of the timer in the drop-down window along with a “Cancel Current Timer Link”.
Here is the best part of all with AutoReloader…you can set up your own customized list of “Reload Times” and then access them through the drop-down window. Using the two times shown here we were able to set the “Productive Geek Webpage” up for 30 second reloads and the “TinyHacker Webpage” up for 1 minute reloads at the same time. There was no conflict whatsoever in running both “reload times” simultaneously. This is a really terrific feature!
Conclusion
Whether you have only one webpage or multiple pages that need periodic reloading (such as tracking a Woot-Off or an Ebay auction) the AutoReloader extension is the perfect tool for the job. Running custom reload times simultaneously have never been easier.
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THQ’s Bilson: Research and focus testing will ‘usually destroy’ creativity
Mar/100
During an interview at the 2010 Game Developers Conference, THQ executive VP of Core Games Danny Bilson told Joystiq that market research creates “bland” titles, citing it is not a process his group is willing to utilize for future development. “We don’t do research to find out what people want to play. If you need to do that kind of research you must not be playing games yourself,” Bilson said, noting that research and overusing focus tests can “misguide creative forces.”
According to Bilson, his core group at THQ is ruled by creating “excellent” titles. Put simply, Bilson says he will not ship a game if it’s not “really good” — noting that doing otherwise will make it impossible for him to “sleep at night.” As an example of this process, Bilson noted his decision to push Darksiders from a 2009 release into the early-2010 calendar in order to ensure the game was of high quality. (Darksiders currently holds an average Metacritic rating of 83.)
“Inspiration comes from one place and research and focus testing will usually destroy it. It will usually create ‘bland’ and create something for everyone and really nothing for anyone,” he said, praising the idea that publishers should not ship a game until it’s ready. “If my teams make really good games, in the long run, that’s what people relate to. They’re not buying advertising, they’re not buying Wall Street nonsense. They’re buying what’s on that disc.”
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Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes trailer offers taste of high-def wizardry
Mar/100
Following up yesterday’s announcement that Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is getting an HD facelift and coming to Xbox Live and PSN, Ubisoft has revealed the first teaser trailer for the game. Amidst all of the quoted accolades and plumes of smoke are some actual tidbits of gameplay.
In short: this looks purty.
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February NPD: Xbox 360 and BioShock 2 sales heat up
Mar/100
BioShock 2 seems to have had something to do with the boost, with the Xbox 360 version topping the software charts (and the PS3 version absent from the top ten). Other notable software milestones: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now the third best-selling game of all time, and Just Dance seems to have made a better pact with Satan than even Dante’s Inferno did. See the software top ten after the break.
-DS: 613K
191K (45%)
-360: 422K89K (27%)
-Wii: 398K
68K (-15%)
-PS3: 360K83K (30%)
-PSP: 133K33K (33%)
-PS2: 102K60K (143%)
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Q4 release for Mafia 2 (re)confirmed; Payne, Noire, Civ V still on hit list
Mar/100
Earlier this month, Take-Two announced the potential movement of one of the titles planned for release in its fiscal fourth quarter, extending from August to October. The choices were: LA Noire, Mafia 2, Max Payne 3, or Civilization V. During our demo of Mafia 2 on Wednesday, we were told the game would make its Q4 release, removing it from the list of potentially delayed titles. If we were the betting type, we’d be looking at one of those two Rockstar titles; after all, we’ve seen Civilization V at this point while LA Noire and Max Payne 3 remain shrouded in mystery.
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