Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Now Available
Isometric puzzle platforming action game Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris has officially arrived on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Of course no release would be complete without an official Launch Trailer, and Square Enix even took it a bit further with a handful of launch screenshots.
Source: Press Release
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SOE's H1Z1 Infecting Steam Early Access on January 15
Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has revealed that its zombie survival MMO H1Z1 will be hitting Steam Early Access on January 15, 2015. While the game is planned as a free-to-play title, gaining Early Access will cost you. Basic entry will be priced at $19.99, while a more expensive choice (pricing TBD) will also be available with access to specialized game servers. At launch, the game will feature roughly 64k square kilometers, with more land added over time. As always, be wary of purchasing any Early Access game, as you're purchasing an unfinished product. You can check out SOE President John Smedley's community post for more details.
Source: Press Release
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NVIDIA GRID Tuesday Celebrates Indie Gaming
As part of GRID Tuesday this week, NVIDIA is adding a pair of indie games to its cloud based gaming service. In Stacking "you will explore a vintage world inhabited by living Russian stacking dolls as you jump into more than 100 unique dolls and use their special abilities to solve a wide variety of challenges." PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate "is a fun game in the tower defense genre by Q-Games with 47 levels, 24 challenges and plenty unlockable content." I haven't played PixelJunk but found Stacking to be quite fun. The games will be free for owners of the SHIELD tablet and portable devices until June 30, 2015.
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Gigabyte Hosting Goodbye 2014 OC Challenge
Gigabyte is planning to close out 2014 with one last overclocking competition, the Goodbye 2014 OC Challenge. The contest runs until January 4, 2015 at midnight and will have three stages. Each stage targets a different benchmark with prizes for the best scores in XTU, Highest CPUz, and Super Pi 32m. Users can enter with any Gigabyte Z97 series motherboard with the contest being hosted by HWBOT. Prizes for the challenge include $2,000 in cash, three X99M-Gaming 5 motherboards, and three Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboards. Full contest rules, scoring, and details can be found on the contest page.
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Spray-on Solar Cells Becoming More Possible
Even though many people only associate solar power with dark, silicon cells, the technology will likely have altogether different appearances in the future. For example, some solar power technologies come in a liquid form that can be sprayed onto arbitrary surfaces. Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) could be applied this way, but the actual spraying process is complicated, but researchers at the University of Toronto are changing that.
Traditionally batch processing is used to apply CQDs to a surface, but this is a somewhat slow and inefficient process, as it requires multiple stages. What the Toronto researchers built with airbrushes and a spray nozzle used in steel mills is able to do the same job, but very rapidly and efficiently, in a roll-to-roll method. This would also make adding these solar cells to other manufacturing processes much simpler.
The researchers ultimately want to see backups capable of spraying solar cells onto roofs, but that is still a ways off. As that is developed though, CQDs will also see their own performance improved, making for a more powerful combination.
Source: University of Toronto
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Amazon Launches Negotiating Program for Select Items
Amazon has just launched a new program on its website that allows consumers to haggle prices with third-party sellers over select products, which currently includes items such as sports jerseys, autographed posters, collectible coins, and fine art. The program, known as 'Make an Offer,' allows consumers to suggest a reduced price for items that are sold by third-party sellers who participate in the program. The haggling itself occurs through email after an Amazon user submits their offer for an item to the seller. Once a final price is agreed upon, Amazon provides notification for the consumer to add the item to their cart so that they can complete the purchase. Throughout next year, Amazon plans to expand the new negotiation program to hundreds of thousands of items, though it is not currently known if technology products will be included in the expansion.
It is worth noting that the 'Make an Offer' program is not meant to act as an auction, as users interact one-on-one with the seller and will never pay more than the listed price for a product.
Source: CNET
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Measuring the Effort by Gecko to Stick to Surfaces
The ability of geckos to adhere to just about any surface has inspired a number of technologies, such as special gloves. There has been a question though, about whether geckos must apply some force for the adhesion to work. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside put this question to the test by measuring the adhesion strength of living and dead geckos.
The reason geckos are able to stick to almost any surfaces has to do with what are call van der Waals forces. These are the very small forces between molecules that can actually pull them together. To take advantage of them, gecko toes are covered with hair-like structures called setae that can actually require an electron microscope to see in detail. While these setae provide the clinging forces, some have believed that some active component is also required, such as using muscles to push the toes against the surface. By using a device to measure shear forces, the Riverside researchers found no difference in strength between living and recently-dead geckos. However, living geckos will hyperextend their toes to reduce adhesion, to prevent injury.
What this research translates to is that geckos use no energy when clinging to a surface, such as when they are sleeping. That adhesion can be entirely passive could influence many technologies.
Source: University of California, Riverside
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Stream Viewer Added to Razer Comms
Razer, a world leader in connected devices and software for gamers, has officially launched Stream Viewer for Razer Comms, the company’s gaming VoIP messenger. Stream Viewer provides users of Razer Comms with seamless integration with popular streaming providers such as Twitch, which enhances the social experience of gaming. According to Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO, "Maximizing this new and exciting form of media content and consumption, Razer Comms with its Stream Viewer feature aims to push the social experience in gaming and provide Razer’s millions of users with access to a refined streaming content experience." Stream Viewer allows those who utilize Razer Comms to watch streams with friends, discover streams based on interests and games, host private chats while watching streams with friends, create playlists to group favorite streams together, receive notifications when streams go live, and share playlists.
Gamers can read more about Razer’s gaming VoIP messenger at the official Razer Comms website.
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FinalWire Releases AIDA64 5.00
Version 5.00 of AIDA64, a popular PC diagnostic utility that provides detailed information about hardware and software of individual or networked computers, has just been released by software development company FinalWire. The latest edition of AIDA64 includes various improvements and new features, such as RemoteSensor smartphone and tablet LCD integration, Logitech Arx Control smartphone and tablet LCD integration, Aquaero and Aquaduct sensor devices support, system certificates information, and support for Gravitech, LCD Smartie Hardware, and Leo Bodnar LCD devices. Version 5.00 of AIDA64 also includes support for Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9888, improved support for the Intel “Skylake” CPU, preliminary support for the Intel "Braswell" SoC, and improved support for Crucial SSDs.
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Microsoft Responds to Street Fighter V Exclusivity
Street Fighter V was confirmed by Capcom over the weekend and in doing so revealed that the game will be exclusive to the PlayStation 4 and PC platforms. Microsoft Head of Xbox Phil Spencer addressed the exclusivity deal over the weekend tweeting "Business deals happen. We won't do all of them." He further added "When we have a 1st party franchise in a genre I'd rather invest in ours," referring to Killer Instinct, which is owned by Microsoft. Spencer rounded out his thoughts on exclusivity saying, "I'd love it if Xbox fans could play all the games, but business just makes some deals happen. It's all part of competition... I appreciate the competition, they do good work. I just focus on us and like you say I think that makes us better." Only time will tell if SF:V will make its way to the Xbox One, but until then gamers will have to make due with what choices are available to them or purchase multiple consoles.
Source: Ars Technica
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Sony Hacked Again, PlayStation Network The Target
Sony was the victim of another hacking attack last night, targeted at the PlayStation Network, an occurrence that appears to be happening more frequently. Sony said it was "investigating the root cause for the issue," while the group known as Lizard Squad claimed responsibility posting to their Twitter account "PSN Login #offline #LizardSquad." Sony Pictures was the victim of a massive attack last week where hackers stole about 100TB of data including employee Social Security numbers, internal files, and multiple upcoming Sony movies. Hacktivist group Guardians of Peace claimed responsibility for the attack today in response to the upcoming movie The Interview and demanded that Sony stop "immediately showing the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the War!"
Source: CNET
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OCC's 2014 Christmas Contest Has Arrived!
Alright folks, it's December, which means OverclockersClub's Christmas Contest is under way! It is starting a bit later this year because our head honcho, Bosco, hasn't been feeling too great, but nevertheless our Christmas Contest has arrived. We have a ton of great prizes to give away this year, with cases, memory, solid state drives, flash drives, CPU coolers, fans, and oh so much more to give out. Prizes from Thermaltake, Kingston, BitFenix, OCZ, DimasTech, Corsair, REEVEN, Tesoro, be quiet!, Phanteks, XTracGear, and Patriot are all up for grabs, and we're even throwing in some games from yours truly.
All you need to do to enter is send an email to contest@overclockersclub.com (subject of "OCC 2014 Christmas Contest") with your user name; full system specifications; and full contact information, which includes your name, mailing address, and phone number. Your email must have all those elements to it or else you'll be disqualified, so be sure everything is correct before hitting send. The contest is open worldwide and to everyone, including OCC staff.
The OCC 2014 Christmas Contest runs until December 31, so be sure to get your entries in by then! Good luck to everyone who enters, and a very happy holidays from all of us at OCC.
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LG Forms Division Dedicated to OLED Technology
LG Display has revealed that it has gathered all of its OLED related departments and placed them under a new division that is entirely dedicated to commercializing OLED technology. The new division, which will handle all OLED related projects for LG to include the management of OLED buying clients, will be headed by Yeo Sang-deog, the CTO for LG. According to LG, the company plans to quadruple its OLED panel production during this month in order to help bring down the cost of OLED televisions, a task that will certainly make full use of the new division. LG is also working on technologies to minimize burn-in effects that seem to plague OLED panels used outside of commercialized products.
Source: CNET
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20 Year Anniversary PS4 Sells for $20,100
It was recently revealed that Sony was selling a limited edition of the PlayStation 4 video game console to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of the original PlayStation. The limited edition of the console, dubbed the PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition, managed to fetch an amazing $20,100 on eBay over the weekend following 34 bids. Another seller was able to sell their limited edition version of the PlayStation 4 for $15,100 after 106 bids were placed for the console. Although Sony released the PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition for $499, consumers are purchasing the console for amazingly high amounts because the 12,300 units originally produced sold out quickly during preorders.
Source: CNET
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