Wednesday, February 3, 2010

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 03/02/2010


bit-tech.net
Samsung plans touch-integrated AMOLED
Samsung has announced plans to mass produce a 3.3" WVGA AMOLED display for mobile handsets which features capacitive touch elements integrated directly on to the panel.
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Aliens vs Predator Hands-on Preview
Joe takes a look at all three campaigns of the new Aliens versus Predator, as well as the new survivor mode. Is the upcoming game a consolified mess? Is it as scary as the 1999 classic? The only way to find out for sure is to read the preview.
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All new hard drives will be "4k advanced format"
Western Digital were the first to introduce the new, larger sector, however Seagate tell us it will be uniform across the industry
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XPower X58: a new extreme for MSI?
MSI's XPower motherboard looks distinctly MSI, but it has clear influences from EVGA - that's a *lot* of power sockets after all.
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Gran Turismo 5 for Q4 2010 release?
A Sony spokesperson has hinted that GT5 may see a European release later this year and before Christmas.
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Games I Own: Freedom Force
I only bought the Freedom Force games – both the original and the sequel Freedom Force vs The Third Reich – fairly recently, though I annoyingly timed it just before the recent Steam and2 deal. It was a series I’d often heard lauded as a great tactical RPG to play if you like comics, but I’d never really gotten around to trying it until a few weeks ago.

I don’t totally regret the decision to buy the game, but the fact that I have to mention this up front probably hints clearly at how unsatisfied I am with the game.

What Freedom Force is, is an incredibly tongue-in-cheek game inspired mainly by 1930s comics, as oppose to the modern Marvel and DC conglomerates. It focuses on a series of characters who get exposed to an alien weapon called Energy X which accidentally rains down on the planet as part of an overly convoluted alien plan to take over Earth. The exposed humans subsequently manifest super powers, dividing fairly equally into heroes and villains. The heroes, championed by the ultra-American hero Minuteman, form into Freedom Force and go around fighting evil.

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Google plans new research funding
Google has announced a series of grants for twelve outside research projects in the areas of machine learning, data collection on mobile handsets, energy efficient computing, and privacy.
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A.C. Ryan PlayON! HD Media Player Review
A.C.Ryan is back with a High-Definition capable media player that includes an in-build hard drive and compatibility with every video and audio format you can shake a stick at. How good is the interface and how intuitive is it to use though?
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