Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita? Gearbox's Randy Pitchford Wants Someone to Make it Happen
Wouldn't it be nice to continue your PlayStation 3 playthrough of Borderlands 2 on your PlayStation Vita whenever you are away from home? Gearbox president Randy Pitchford thinks so, but the only problem is the studio is too busy working on the PC, PS3, and 360 versions of the game. Pitchford would like an outside developer to make Borderlands 2 for the PS Vita and for Sony to get behind the franchise in general. He loves the cloud connectivity offered by the PS3 and PS Vita and hopes Sony can be given the proper push to make a Vita version of the upcoming shooter a reality. Pitchford says the idea is possible from a technological standpoint, just it needs the support to become a reality. He calls on gamers to get Sony interested in the idea because, while Gearbox is busy, Pitchford knows other developers could have an easy time making a PS Vita port of Borderlands 2. It would certainly be a welcome option for PS3/Vita gamers if it does happen.
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Petition to Add Playable Female Characters in Aliens: Colonial Marines Reaches 2,500 Signatures
The Aliens series of movies is known to have female characters in vital roles. The main female is series' protagonist Ellen Ripley, but we also have Newt, Vasquez, Ferro, Lambert, The Alien Queen, and some from Alien: Resurrection I would rather not name. The point is, the Aliens movies have females in prominent roles, yet the upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines game does not have any playable female characters in the multiplayer portion. Some gamers have noticed this and created a petition to add in female characters to multiplayer. Currently, the petition is over 2,500 signatures as of writing and shows no sign of slowing down. The creator of the petition, user MOOSH89, says she is not outraged at the lack of playable females in the multiplayer, but wants Gearbox to recognize the important role females have played in the series. Gearbox does not seem to have any problem with playable females in the Borderlands games, so hopefully it will listen to the petition and get the matter corrected in Aliens: Colonial Marines.
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Looking to Nature for Solar Energy Efficiency
Nature is old and has been conducting experiments far longer than man. In fact, man is just the result of an experiment by Nature. Now man is looking to benefit from other experiments by studying the light-capturing method of some deep-sea bacteria which can achieve 98% efficiency for harvesting sunlight.
Using double-walled nanotubes, researchers at MIT, Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Groningen have emulated the light receptors of green sulfur bacteria. These nanotubes are able to self-assemble like other nanostructures, but do so with great purity. This is a major benefit to the researchers as they do not need to separate out the highest quality nanotubes, because they are all high quality.
As part of the study, the researchers deactivated one of two walls of the nanotube. This was important to answer the question of how if the two walls work together or can be considered separate systems. The latter is the case and it is this kind of information that is of interest. The nanotubes themselves are not something that could be used for solar power production (at least at this time) but what can be learned from them could greatly improve other solar power technologies, which are closer to 20% efficiency than 98%.
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Heihachi and Toro Join the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Cast
Earlier we found out that PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will arrive on October 23 of this year, but that was not all Sony had set to reveal today. At the Evolution Championship Series in Las Vegas tonight, Sony revealed two new characters for Battle Royale: Heihachi Mishima and Toro Inoue. Heihachi is, of course, one of the main characters from the Tekken fighting game series and should fit in just fine with PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. He will be able to use his familiar moves in the game and should be one of the more formidable characters around. Toro Inoue, on the other hand, is known as the Sony Cat and is a big mascot in Japan. He has made some video game appearances throughout the years, but now you will be able to fight as him in Battle Royale. Toro can excel in close-range and ranged combat, plus his unique style should be a joy to see in fights.
Be sure to check out the trailer below to see the ten announced fighters (so far) in action. You can see Heihachi and Toro in their own trailers as well.
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New Quantum State Found A classic lesson taught to us in school is that opposites attract and likes repel, and this is easily demonstrated with magnets. Unfortunately in science it is not always so simple. In superconductors we have like-charged electrons pairing together, in protons and nucleons we have quarks with three distinct charges (red, green, and blue), and now researchers at Kansas State University have discovered a quantum state that has three atoms bound together, even if two repel each other. Three-atom quantum states have been found before, and the similar Efimov three-body state was first predicted in the 1970s. It took 30 years for it to be experimentally observed because it requires temperatures within a billionth of a degree above absolute zero. This new state also only exists at such a low temperature, but it has at least one crucial distinction from the Efimov state; its range. The Efimov state requires the atoms be very close to each other to interact. What KSU found operates at a greater distance, but is not quite long-range, which makes it very interesting. For centuries researchers have been trying to understand three body problems, with the most obvious example being the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Unfortunately a perfect description of how these three classical bodies interact has not been discovered yet, because the system is too complex, even with just three bodies. In quantum mechanics though, the three body problem is (ironically) not as hard to work with. As this state exists on the cusp between short-range quantum mechanics and long-range classical mechanics, it may help create a link between the two realms. Also this discovery can further our understanding of particle physics as the researchers learn how different classes of particles behave in it. Read More ...
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Lands October 23, 2012 Good news everyone, as we finally have a release date for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. When the fighting game was announced this April, there was just a "later this year" launch window attached to it. Now, we can pick up PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale on October 23rd for the PS3 and PS Vita. No matter which version you pick up, you will be able to battle friends on either system thanks to cross-play. Anyone who pre-orders the game (even those who already have) will gain access to an alternate set of costumes for the characters, which you can use as soon as you pick up your copy. The photo below shows the costumes for the eight confirmed characters and two mystery characters set to be unveiled in a matter of hours, but Sony assures there will be far more than 10 playable characters in the game (wait for Comic-Con!). You can also unlock a ton more costumes for the characters while playing the game, but the alternate set shown below is only through pre-order. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will have the price revealed later for both the PS3 and PS Vita versions. For those interested in owning both versions, it seems a PS3/Vita bundle will be announced in the near future. There will be no special edition of the game, but there may be a digital version that will work on both the PS3 and PS Vita. Read More ...
Lawyerbot: Name Says it All Lawyering is not as easy as some television shows may make you think, nor is it as exciting. Really a fair portion of it can require reading or hiring someone to read a lot for you. It may be evidence or law books that have to be read, but it still can take a great deal of time and effort to do so. To speed the process along, and cut costs, some lawyers are now looking to software for document analysis, and courts are allowing it. In one case there were an estimated two million emails and attachments to be examined, which would have taken 20,000 hours to read and cost $2 million in the process. The lawyer decided to use a bot with predictive coding to study the documents and identify which were relevant and which were not. The opposing lawyer objected to this, but the judge overturned the objection, and allowed the bot to be used, and thus cut the discovery time down to just two weeks and a percentage of the cost. There are some concerns about whether a piece of software can be as competent at finding relevant documents as humans, but evidence is showing the bots can be more competent than people. In the Enron corpus a bot successfully found a document that said, "I'll be shredding ' till 11am" which the humans had all missed. The hope for these bots is that they will allow lawyers to attract more clients as legal costs can be greatly reduced. As long as the bots can be validated and defended in court, this hope may come true. Read More ...
Sapphire Holding New Contest to Win an HD 7970 Toxic Sapphire Technology likes to be active with the community, and what better way to show fan appreciation than by having a contest? Starting on July 10th, Sapphire will hold a Facebook contest to win an AMD HD 7970 Toxic; the newest card from the company. The contest will run until July 17th, so you only have a week to enter. All you need to do is head to the Sapphire Facebook page, click on the Sapphire Evo application, take a photo of your Sapphire video card, and send it in. That is all you have to do to be entered for the HD 7970 Toxic, which comes with higher clockspeeds and improved cooling over regular HD 7970s. You can also take a look at Sapphire's past video cards on its Facebook page to see how much the company has advanced over the years. Read More ...
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