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First Episode of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series Has Arrived
Details started to spill last month, and now the time has finally come for the first of six episodes of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series. Entitled "Iron From Ice", Episode One launched today for Windows PC and PlayStation 4, with Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions arriving tomorrow, the iOS version arriving Thursday, the PlayStation 3 version arriving December 9, and an Android version "later this month." A Mac version was supposed to arrive alongside the Windows version today, but has been temporarily delayed while Telltale works on resolving some last-minute issues.
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The Desert is Unforgiving in Total War: ATTILA
Back in the beginning of November, Creative Assembly released a cinematic trailer for Total War: ATTILA entitled "The White Horse". So I guess it's only natural that its brand new cinematic trailer is entitled "Red Horse"? The trailer shows "the Sassanid Empire exploiting the confusion around it and striking out in war on its neighbours." Behold the Red Horse:
Source: Press Release
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The Crew Has Officially Hit the Streets
Ubisoft's MMO-CarPG The Crew has officially released, so of course that means a Launch Trailer:
Source: Press Release
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Infiltrate ACE Chemicals in Batman: Arkham Knight
The highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Knight is still half a year away, but Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) is releasing a series of gameplay videos that feature Batman taking on Arkham Knight's henchmen in the ACE Chemicals plant. The first two videos have already been released. Part One shows off the new Fear Takedown, while Part Two features an epic Batmobile showdown with some drone tanks.
Source: Press Release
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Child of Light Reaches Profitability
Roughly six months after its initial release, Ubisoft's beautiful platforming RPG Child of Light has attained profitability. Speaking at the GameON: Finance conference in Toronto, creative lead Patrick Plourde proclaimed that "it's profitable enough that we would have been able to fund a sequel." Ubisoft took a chance on the smaller project because Plourde agreed to be the Creative Director on Far Cry 3. Plourde didn't want to make Far Cry 3 initially, but Ubisoft's upper brass told him that if he helped build that brand, they would give him "a free shot" at the game he wanted to make. Seems like that agreement was a win-win for Ubisoft, as both games enjoyed great critical and commercial success.
At its peak, there were roughly 40 people working on Child of Light, which Plourde said cost "a couple of million" to make. In September, the Child of Light development team was officially established as a core team at Ubisoft Montreal. While Ubisoft's large-scale AAA titles get a lot of heat, its smaller-scale projects like Child of Light, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon have been universally praised and have enjoyed great success at a fraction of the cost.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
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Amazon Enlists Robot Help to Fill Holiday Orders
Amazon is taking advantage of the acquisition of manufacturer of Kiva in 2012 as part of the holiday shopping season, using robots built by the company to increase efficiency in filling the massive amounts of orders it is receiving. The robots drive around the warehouse guided by tape markers and transport racks of merchandise to human workers who then box and ship the items. The robots cut out several miles of walking per day for employees and also allow for better use of warehouse space as they are able to better maneuver than their human counterparts.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
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NVIDIA Adds More Batman Games to GRID Service
As part of a GRID Tuesday event, NVIDIA announced the addition of Batman: Arkham Origins and LEGO Batman: The Video Game to its GRID cloud gaming service. The games are available for free to NVIDIA SHIELD users as part of the GRID service and gives them a chance to play popular games on their portable systems. The two games join Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, both of which were launch titles for the GRID service.
Source: Press Release
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Steam Beta Broadcasting Launches
For some people, livestreaming gameplay probably seems like a weird phenomenon, at least until Amazon bought Twitch for almost $1 billion. Then and now Twitch seems to be the primary streaming service, but that may be changing in the future as Valve has begun a Steam Broadcasting beta.
Currently you are only able to view streams in the Steam beta client, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari. That is if you have permission. Under Broadcasting options, the streamer can restrict viewers to friends they invite, require friends ask to watch, allow friends to watch freely, or allow anybody to watch freely. There are also options for video dimensions, bitrate, where to show the viewer's chat, if the desktop is streamed, and if the microphone is streamed. Streams are live only and not archived, but who knows, maybe that will change through the course of the beta.
Starting a broadcast is a little different than other services as it starts when someone chooses to watch, instead of streaming all of the time with people coming and going as they please. You are able to stop a broadcast at any time though, through the Steam Overlay.
Source: Steam Community
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Intel Acquires PasswordBox
PasswordBox, a San Francisco-based security company that has introduced innovative technologies like Legacy Locker, secure password sharing, and 1-Tap Login to apps and websites for mobile phones since its launch in June, 2013, has been acquired by Intel. According to a blog post by PasswordBox, the company in the will be fully integrated into Intel Security, a global leader in secure technology. Intel plans to integrate the technology offered by PasswordBox into their own suite of applications and services, providing secure and seamless online experiences for millions of users.
PasswordBox will continue to remain available as is, with Intel Security offering all new and existing customers a premium subscription at no cost as a thank you to for the support that PasswordBox has received. The free premium subscription will remain available to customers until the release of a new product from Intel Security.
Source: PasswordBox Blog
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Acompli Acquired by Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that it has officially acquired Acompli, a provider of innovative mobile email applications for Android and iOS. The main mobile application developed by Acompli, which was created by veterans of VMware and Zimbra, focuses on allowing users to fully interact with their emails on their smartphones and tablets. According to Microsoft, the acquisition of Acompli represents the company-wide effort to help people accomplish more with their mobile devices. Microsoft expects to integrate aspects of the primary Acompli mobile application with projects that are being actively developed by the Outlook team.
Although Microsoft did not reveal financial details of the acquisition of Acompli, Re/code reported that the technology giant paid more than $200 million for the provider of innovative mobile email applications.
Source: Microsoft Blog and Re/code
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Keeping Buildings Cool by Radiating Heat to Space
With as much as 15% of energy in the United States going toward air conditioning, technologies that can keep things cool efficiently are always of interest. Researchers at Stanford University have devised a novel approach that reflects and radiates heat into space with a passive and advanced mirror.
The mirror is a multilayered material just 1.8 microns thick, making it thinner than aluminum foil. It contains seven layers of silicon dioxide and hafnium oxide atop a layer of silver that have had their thicknesses tuned to best radiate infrared light into space, while also reflecting Sunlight. Radiating infrared light is one of the ways a warm body can give off heat, and at the frequency this light will be at, it will not warm the air it passes through. When the researchers tested their photonic radiative cooling mirror, as they are calling it, the mirror was almost 9 ºF cooler than the air surrounding it as it prevented some 97% of Sunlight from actually reaching the building.
Before we can see these mirrors deployed to reduce cooling costs, two issues must be addressed. Naturally, one is how to mass produce the mirrors, but the other is the daunting task of finding ways to effectively shuttle heat from inside a building to the radiator, so it can be sent to space.
Source: Stanford University
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Intel Roadmap Outlines Dedication to Improved Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes
An Intel roadmap that has recently been made available to the public shows that Intel is expecting technology innovation to continue in regards to shrinking its processors. Desktop processors that make use of 14nm technology are expected to be available sometime next year, while 10nm processors are likely coming late next year or early 2016. In order to make 10nm processors a reality, the semiconductor industry will have to go through the process of upgrading to extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUVL, technology. Intel is also planning on offering 7nm processors sometime in 2017, which is amazing considering that, in 2007, the chip manufacturer was offering 45nm processors to consumers.
Source: TweakTown
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Xbox Live Successfully Taken Down by Lizard Squad
The Lizard Squad, an infamous hacking group that has successfully brought down gaming servers for a variety of games and services during the past few months and even issued a bomb threat recently, was able to take down Xbox Live late Monday night. The group likely used a DDOS attack to make Xbox Live unavailable to gamers, and the group even went back to posting on a Twitter page about the attack, despite Twitter suspending the group’s account a few weeks ago. Lizard Squad noted that the attack on Xbox Live was simply an early Christmas gift for Microsoft, and that the unavailability of Xbox Live is the first of more things to come in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Source: Attack of the Fanboy
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Futuremark Issues Minor Updates For 3DMark and PCMark 8
Futuremark has released software updates for its popular 3DMark and PCMark 8 benchmark software that fixes some bugs while keeping scores mostly unchanged. 3DMark has received improved hardware detection and a reduction in hardware monitoring overhead. A memory issue was also fixed that had the potential to cause a crash while stress testing. One of the fixes for PCMark 8 can influence scores in the Storage Consistency and Storage Adaptivity tests found in the Professional Edition. PCMark 8 also has an update to improve hardware compatibility and was issued a fix that could cause the Adobe After Effects test to fail.
Source: Press Release
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