Download of the Day: Firefox 7.0 Beta 5
Our Download of the Day today is Firefox 7.0 Beta 5.
The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox sets the pace with dozens of new features to deliver a faster, more secure and customizable Web browsing experience for all.
User Experience. The enhancements to Firefox provide the best possible browsing experience on the Web. The new Firefox smart location bar, affectionately known as the "Awesome Bar," learns as people use it, adapting to user preferences and offering better fitting matches over time.
Performance. Firefox is built on top of the powerful new Gecko platform, resulting in a safer, easier to use and more personal product.
Security. Firefox raises the bar for security. The new malware and phishing protection helps protect from viruses, worms, trojans and spyware to keep people safe on the Web.
Customization. Everyone uses the Web differently, and Firefox lets users customize their browser with more than 5,000 add-ons.
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Deal of the Day: Quad Core 15.6" Gateway NV55S02u Laptop with 4GB Memory, and 500GB HD for $399.99 with FREE Delivery
Our Deal of the Day today is the Office Depot - Quad Core 15.6" Gateway NV55S02u Laptop with 4GB Memory, and 500GB HD for $399.99 with FREE Delivery!.
Offer: Office Depot has an amazing price on this 1.4Ghz AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Quad-Core processor (TurboCore clocks up to 2.3Ghz) based laptop at just $399.99 after $200 instant discount. This 15.6" LED-backlit LCD TFT equipped white notebook features 4GB DDR3 SDRAM, 500GB hard drive, 8x DVD+/-RW DL, 802.11b/g/n wireless, 10/100/1000 networking, 512MB ATI Radeon 6520G graphics, HDMI out, Windows 7 Home Premium x64, and a 1 year warranty. Expires 9/17/11.
GATEWAY NV55S02U QUAD-CORE LAPTOP COMPUTER DEAL
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution ships 2 million copies
Deus Ex: Human Revolution has received some great press and reviews and has the proud feeling of shipping 2 million copies since release in North America, Europe and PAL territories. Now remember, this is shipped copies, not sold copies. An impressive number nonetheless.
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Microsoft ready to pull more of the curtain away from Windows 8
Microsoft is preparing to show off their upcoming flagship operating system, Windows 8, at their Build developer conference in Anaheim, California next week. Microsoft have said they want an operating system that feels at home whether home means an 8-inch tablet or a powerful desktop computer connected to large-screen monitors.
Window President, Steven Sinofsky says "It's 'no compromise' and that's really important to us". Commitment like this is great to see, especially in a changed battlefield against companies like Google and Apple.
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Battlefield 3 - Operation Guillotine footage, the excitement is beginning to be a little too much
I just stumbled across this footage of Battlefield 3 and if the previous footage wasn't enough to clamp down on the uncontrollable wet dreams that BF3 has been causing fans (myself included) then this won't help one bit. It's almost as if DICE are trying to excite people too much - well, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
The above footage looks absolutely incredible and I have said this before but I will make an official statement: this game will be like Half Life 2 was to the gaming industry. A benchmark, an absolutely phenomenal looking game (not just graphics) but lighting, shadows, body movement, destruction, etc.
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Driver San Francisco Xbox 360 Review
To their credit they have gone back to the drawing board and back to their roots. Driver San Francisco removes a lot of what made Driv3r a poor game and focuses more on what made the original games so good, driving and lots of it. Driver San Francisco is without a doubt, one of the surprises of the year.
Driver San Francisco picks up on the day Tanner is due to finally put Jericho away for life for his crimes. For those of you not up to speed, Jericho has been Tanners arch nemeses throughout the series and was the main protagonist in Driv3r. However, as expected, something goes wrong and Jericho escapes, but that's not the main problem. Tanner discovers that Jericho is up to something that puts the entire city of San Francisco at risk and needs to stop it, but in a very unique way.
What makes this feature so interesting to explore is the way that Reflections has incorporated it into the gameplay. Although there are only eight chapters (which consist of generally two missions each), there are many other missions that need to be completed before progressing. Before each Tanner mission you need to complete city missions which range from chasing down a car with the police through to protecting an armoured van from attack. When you jump into any car, you obviously interrupt a person taking control of the wheel, and the chat or job they may have been doing.
Falling into a car and picking up the chat is one of the games more interesting features. One minute you can be talking with a cop about the job ahead, switch to another car and you are arguing with a teenage daughter about why she can't go out. Reflections could have just let you take control and ignore all that detail, but it is this detail that makes Driver San Francisco such a polished experience to play.
Once you get away from the smarts of the shift mode, the driving itself is also impressive. The model is a mix of realism and arcade and whilst you do need to control your speed and steer properly, it's not a simulation by any stretch of the imagination. The individuality of the cars is also well represented. Large trucks handle poorly whilst sports cars with turbo engines handle much better as you would expect. That is an extreme example, but also more subtle differences can be felt between the different cars as well.
The game is set in the bay area of San Francisco and is gigantic. In many ways the shift mode makes it a lot easier to explore the city due to its size. Between missions you can jump into any car and just go for a spin which represents the 'free drive' mode of the game. Sometimes it's just fun to find a hot sports car and go for a spin in an area of San Francisco you might be familiar with.
Driver exploits this love of driving by including the film director mode again. You can take the last section of driving you have done, open it in the film director mode and use all different camera angles to come up with a good looking car chase video. Aside from this, to keep you going there are also challenges and when you complete those, you gain points to upgrade your car.
As mentioned before, the game in terms of world is gigantic and even though this is the case, the graphics are still very impressive. The game does not miss a beat even at high speeds and with a lot of traffic on screen. This was obviously crucial to Driver San Francisco being a fun game to play. A game all about speed which runs like a slideshow at times is never going to be a good thing. The cars are all licensed and individually modelled for damage and also have unique sounds.
Driver San Francisco was a game that on paper looked a bit puzzling. The shift mode whilst shown and explained quite a bit before the release, was seen as a risk and hard to get your head around, but in practice it is brilliant. Reflections has put together an incredibly fun game to play, with some amazingly unique mechanics and gameplay that does not let up until the final credits roll.
Driver San Francisco takes us back a decade or so and reminds us why the original games were so good. Welcome back Driver, we missed you.
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