8-Bit District 12 takes over the RPG market

Porting a game a successful as Minecraft onto the Xbox 360 may seem like a daunting task, because the hardware itself is so familiar to the user that they will spot the differences and hardcore fans will be all over you if you get one thing wrong.  Minecraft is not the case however.  The game is very easy to learn if you have played the PC version, however it is based off the engine that was done over a year ago, which is a time machine for many of us, and is a good thing and a bad thing.  The addition of ravines and abandoned mineshafts was welcomed in the PC format and this being absent in the Xbox version makes the game feel limited on the underworld setting.  However, the limitations are many and yet none at the same time.  You have infinite resources to build whatever you want but you are limited by the physics system, where the game is full of "if only I could get up there" moments.  You can play the game however you want but the limits are truly in the variety of items, plausible items are deliberately left out of the game.  The crafting system not only sets up the item for you but makes it as long as you have the materials, which is a welcome change from the system of guessing how to make the item that you want to make.  All in all this is a very successful port which lacks some of the more annoying features brought into the modern game on PC.    

You are in the future, things are very SHINY here

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 is becoming one of the largest projects that the developer, Treyarch, has ever made. Treyarch has made such games as Spider-Man on the Play-Station 2, Call of Duty 3, World At War, and Black Ops.  The studio head announced that many of it's game modes are going to be totally revamped to fit with the futuristic Cold War setting.  However, the Zombies mode is the most exciting thing about it.  Speculation on the setting on the next map has come from such successful youtubers as The Syndicate Project, WhiteBoy, and many others.  None of these have been officially confirmed, but Treyarch has confirmed some things.  It has been confirmed in an interview that Treyarch gave its zombie team a chance to do whatever they want with the mode.  It is also rumored that the Zombies will be contained on a separate disc, which gives room for more game modes.  Treyarch released the image above as a Zombies concept art, and has confirmed a larger and more in-depth game.  Similar to some custom maps for World At War on the PC, there will be a campaign style game where the players will complete objectives, similar to the Easter Eggs on Moon, Shangri-La, and Ascension, respectively

Mario, Sonic and RON PAUL?

Ron Paul is going to war against the federal reserve, MARIO STYLE. His new game, The Road to REVOLution, is a side scrolling, platforming game, similar to Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. The objective of the game is to fight through the 50 states collecting delegates and gold, which give you the presidency and the branches of the federal reserve, respectively. There are 13 bosses slated for release in the game, including British economist John Maynard Keynes. The game was given a beta release of mid June, with an Alpha release in July

iPad 3, enough said

GUESS WHAT

Your Super expensive iPad 2 is already out of date

New Features

Higher Resolution screen

4G LTE Network Connectivity

AX5 processor (Faster than iPad 2)

5 Megapixel Camera

1080p Video

Updated versions of iPhoto and GarageBand

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Less than a millimeter thicker than the iPad 2

Same battery Life (10 hours of Wi-Fi and 9 hours of 4G LTE)

Same price as the iPad 2 on launch ($499)

Click HERE For the Full Aricle

Assassin's Made Our Country

Ubisoft's Flagship Product, Assassin's Creed, a series with 4 installments on consoles, many random installments across handhelds, and a few books, has been confirmed, announced, and some information was given.  It started with a Best Buy employee leaking concept art from the game's new protagonist.  This is a welcome change because the last installments have been in foreign countries, from Israel to Italy.  The most recent one will be in America during the American Revolution.  The concept art released was of the protagonist in front of the colonial flag.  Ubisoft also released the cover art of the game which is shown in the image below. 

China and Apples dont get along

Apple Inc's distributor in China, Proveiw, is trying to get stores in China to stop carrying iPads.  This was caused by a victory in a local court over the copyright to the iPad.  The claim was met by several supplyers to pull iPads from the shelves but no specifics were given as to the stores that do this.  The article is


HERE

Google's move to Cloud Computing

• Google's long rumored product, GDrive, has been reported to be close to launch
• GDrive is a rival to Dropbox as a file cloud for easy storage
• it will allow access to files through an app on smartphones, kindle fires, ipads, that sort of thing
• GDrive is rumored to have similar file capabilities as Google Docs, Google Music, Picasa, and others
• it stores everything in a cloud similar to that on Amazon's Kindle Fire
• It can store up to about 1 GB of space for free and with a payment you can make the limit larger.
• Click Here for the article

Toys make Apple GIVE OUT LAWSUITS!

• Apple gave out lawsuits to manufacturers of these very expensive Steve Jobs Action Figures,  they stand 12" tall and are extremely detailed.  The figures cost somewhere between $75 to $225 a pop so think twice.  The figure has Steve Jobs in all his glory, in his Black Turtleneck, Jeans, wire glasses, and an iPhone 4, the last device he designed.   

Organization Will Set You Free

"If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times, organization will set you free"  or so said Alton Brown.  The way that people organize their computer, or as an extension, everything, is a clue to the way they function best and what they like doing.  For my Personal Computer (Here and after known as "my PC"), I use a combination of things that I have learned from various sources.  I use Google Reader and Google E-Mail to have easy access to the internet if at some point I have an opportunity to check CygnusX-1.net or the Call of Duty MW3 forums or SMNC (Super Monday Night Combat) beta fixes.  I don't store many pictures but my "Lets Play Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" and my "Batman Arkham City: Riddler INSANITY" videos all have 16 gb USB drives for themselves.  Social Bookmarking, also known as the processing of bookmarks to people that you set, are not used.  On my Reader account I have all of my rush news tagged with the words "Geddy, Neil, Bass, Alex, Clockwork, Angels, Sectors" depending on the topic

Nightrider is Real?

Google has recently gotten the rights to the patent for a self driving car.  This is a change in Google's normal product lineup and is shocking to most people.  The video will explain in more detail.

Verizon and Microsoft make a Deal/ Nintendo's top dog retirement?

Verizon and Microsoft

• Verizon announced that 26 channels will be available later this month as an app for Xbox Live's new streaming service.
• They say this number will increase due to the fact that most families that have xboxes want live TV streaming 
• It is an experiment to persuade channels like MTV to support Xbox streaming

Shigeru Miyamoto is stepping down?

• Recent news states that Nintendo's CEO, the man who invented Mario, is stepping down.
• This is confirmed as a lie by Nintendo spokesmen.
• This rumor caused a 2% drop in Nintendo stock.

Spotify is adding APPS!

The Social Networking site Spotify is now launching apps for its users.  These apps will be similar in function to Facebook's apps in the respect that the site shows reccomendations for apps,  shows contacts who are using the apps and, as a selling point, the company is opening the app store to independent app programmers.  Much like Apple, Spotify will have to approve each app but in the long run it will make the site more popular because of the variety of apps.     

Modern Warfare 3, Enough Said

Call of Duty (CoD) Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) has destroyed many sales records for sales within the first five days of release.  It has topped out at around $755 Million, give or take a million or two.  It has smashed every video game record for sales and as smashed movies as well.  It has lost only to James Cameron's Avatar in first days of availability.  Avatar got 2.8 Billion in sales its lifetime in the theaters so MW has a long way to go

Microsoft is overdoing the US patent situation

Barnes and Noble announced that there were multiple charges of excessive royalties payed to Microsoft for the right to the Android smartphone.  This was seen as an attempt to drive companies out of business because of the rising prices needed to pay these royalties.  Microsoft is now suing Barnes and Noble, claiming that their Nook infringes on at least 5 patents made within the last decade by Microsoft.  Microsoft also entered a deal between Nokia, itself and MOSAID.  The agreement was made that, because of Nokia and Microsoft combined, MOSAID gained control of 2000 patents.  The only price in this matter is the fact that 2/3 of profit revenue from these new devices goes to Microsoft and Nokia, respectively.

YAHOO!

Yahoo is looking not for a permanent CEO, which it at the moment lacks, however is making an attempt to sell itself to anything that would take it. It has Silver Lake and Providence equity partners bidding to get the rights to the Yahoo name

ARM Archetecture

A company called ARM, based in Cambridge, is working to create a cheaper OS for mobile devices. Smartphones like Apple and Samsung use the ARM A9 model of microchip. With new advancements, ARM hopes to create a generation of Sub $110 phones that are faster than any other phone on the market

RIM Black Out

RIM is still trying to figure out why there was a blackout of its services.  It is trying to get back consumer support for the security of its products.  It wants to get the people who left after the blackout back on the service line and will up its security once it figures out the problem

A new iPhone this year (SURPRISE)

Apple's recently inducted CEO, Mr. Tim Cook, is now the man on the stage releasing the new Apple product.  His breaking-in ceremony, as it were, is going to be the newest iPhone release for this year (*Gasp* *look of shock and awe*).  Apple has released a new version of its flagship product, the iPhone, for the last 4 years.  Some speculators say that the iPhone's competitor will be only the iPad, the Apple tablet device.  My opinion is that this is getting annoying to have an Apple device just a year after the release of the previous one.

Tech Article 9-30-2011

Amazon.com has unveiled its new supposed competitor to the Ipad 2.  It carries a $200 price tag and people say that this is the last straw for other Android products, which are beaten at one end by the Ipad and at the other end by the Kindle Fire,  which will be cheaper than any other Android tablet.   

Blogging with MultiMedia

this post is mostly another post about my intrests and some other stuff.  Cooking to me is cool and a lot of fun.  i like eating sushi which is a horrible habit because it is expensive.  I have recently taken to reading DC comics New 52, which is a reboot of 52 of DC's comic book series, mostly the Action Comics with superman series which i have a picture of

I Have also taken to Cubing competions, which offer exciting things for me to see in the way of cubes.  I have seen cubers do the cube in 20-30 seconds but none as fast as this guy.