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April 7th, 2015, 23:59 Posted By: wraggster
EA's Battlefield Hardline maintains its position at No.1 in the GfK Chart-Track Top 40.
The shooter holds its position at the top of the charts in spite of a 40 per cent decline in sales. The title holds off competition from Grand Theft Auto V, sales of which rose 35 per cent, bringing it up two positions to No.2.
Rockstar's crime title wasn't the only game who sales increased this week – a number of titles benefited from Easter sales.
Far Cry 4's sales rose 116 per cent thanks to retailer promotions, while FIFA 15 sold 44 per cent more units week-on-week.
And joining Bloodborne in the Top 10 is another From Software game. This time its the re-release of Dark Souls II – Scholar of the First Sin – which debuts in eighth place. Meanwhile From's PS4-exclusive falls one place to No.3 in the Top 40.
Below is the software Top 10:
1. Battlefield Hardline, EA
2. Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar
3. Bloodborne, Sony
4. FIFA 15, EA
5. Far Cry 4, Ubisoft
6. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision Blizzard
7. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, 2K Games
8. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Bandai Namco
9. Dying Light, Warner Bros
10. Destiny, Activision Blizzard
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April 6th, 2015, 21:24 Posted By: wraggster
Since the Raspberry Pi 2 was released, everyone building RetroPi emulators has been graced with four USB ports. For those of us doing useful stuff with the Pi, those ports are a little anemic: you can’t plug in a webcam and a WiFi module at the same time without suffering CPU brownouts. The maximum current all USB peripherals can draw from the USB port is 600mA. By changing a value in the /boot/config.txt file, this current limit can be increased to 1.2A for all four ports.
 The yellow line traces the signal from the GPIO to the USB power switch.Because the USB current limit is set in software, there must be a few bits of hardware that do the actual work. Tucked away below the right hand of the GPIO header is the hardware that does exactly that. It’s anAP2253 current-limited power switch (PDF), and the current is adjustable by tying a resistor to pin 5 on the chip.
Pin 5 on the AP2253 is connected to two resistors. One resistor goes directly to a ground plane, while the other is switched through a FET. The gate of this FET goes to another resistor, and when a GPIO pin is high, these resistors are wired in parallel. This means the resistance is halved when the GPIO pin is high, doubling the current limiting circuit in the AP2253.
This setup provides a relatively easy mod to increase the current limiting of the USB ports so they can provide 4x500mA, meeting the USB spec. The AP2253 power switch’s current limiting can be set by a single resistor, anywhere from 10kΩ to 232kΩ. By removing R50 and R4, and replacing R50 with a 10kΩ resistor, the current limiting of the AP2253 switch will be set to its maximum, 2.1A. Divide that by four, and you have 500mA per port, just like every other computer on the planet.
There is a reason the Raspberry Pi foundation set the current limiting of the USB ports so low. The Pi was originally intended to run off of a micro USB phone charger. There aren’t many phone chargers out there that will supply more than 1A, and the CPU and related peripherals will take half of that. If you’re going to change the /boot/config.txt file, you’re going to need a beefy power supply. Increasing the current limiting of the USB ports to 2A will require an even bigger, beefier supply.
http://hackaday.com/2015/04/06/more-...-pi-usb-ports/
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March 30th, 2015, 20:13 Posted By: wraggster
Battlefield Hardline has spent its second week in pole position of the GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40.
Sales of EA's new shooter fell by 43 per cent week-on-week, but Hardline still beat this week's top new release, Sony's PS4-exclusive Bloodborne.
The hardcore RPG debuted at No.2, falling 22,500 units short of first place.
In third place is another new entry into the charts, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection – a PS4 and Xbox One remaster of 2012's Borderlands 2 and last year's Pre-Sequel.
Grand Theft Auto V falls once place to No.4 as sales dip 11 per cent, while FIFA 15 remains steady in fifth position.
Retailer promotions help Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Far Cry 4 this week – sales of the former rose 43 per cent, while the latter's sales shot up 233 per cent.
They weren't the only games to benefit from price activity, either. Sales of The Order 1886 rose 112 per cent thanks to retailer promotions, bringing it back to No.10.
And Minecraft: PlayStation Edition falls out of the Top 10 for the first time since February. In spite of a nine per cent rise in sales week-on-week, the PlayStation SKUs of the construction title drop from No.10 to 13th place. Minecraft: Xbox Edition sits in ninth place.
Below is the software Top 10 for the week ending March 28th:
1. Battlefield Hardline (EA)
2. Bloodborne (Sony)
3. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (2K Games)
4. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
5. FIFA 15 (EA)
6. Dying Light (Warner Bros)
7. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
8. Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
9. Minecraft: Xbox Edition (Microsoft)
10. The Order 1886 (Sony)
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March 30th, 2015, 20:12 Posted By: wraggster
The European Commission has announced plans that, if passed, will turn the digital video games market on its head.
Currently sellers such as Valve (Steam), Sony (PlayStation Network) and Microsoft (Xbox Live) funnel customers through regional portals according to their location. This is done partially for rights reasons but primarily to allow for the setting of individual prices in each region.
Such pricing strategies, however, could be outlawed in the EU. The move would also pose problems for services such as Netflix, which currently ranges its content on a per-region basis.
“Let us do away with all those fences and walls that block us online,” the Commission’s VP for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said. “People must be able to freely go across borders online just as they do offline.
“Innovative businesses must be helped to grow across the EU, not remain locked into their home market. This will be an uphill struggle all the way, but we need an ambitious start. Europe should benefit fully from the digital age: better services, more participation and new jobs.”
Commissioner for the Digital Economy Günther Oettinger added: “Europe cannot be at the forefront of the digital revolution with a patchwork of 28 different rules for telecommunications services, copyright, IT security and data protection.
“We need a European market, which allows new business models to flourish, start-ups to grow and the industry to take advantage of the internet of things. And people have to invest too – in their IT-skills, be it in their job or their leisure time.”
The report adds: “Too many Europeans cannot use online services that are available in other EU countries, often without any justification; or they are re-routed to a local store with different prices. Such discrimination cannot exist in a Single Market.”
The news comes at a time when Steam, in particular, is trying to tighten its grip on regional pricing. Valve recently extended its restrictions affecting those who attempt to buy content in one region and then access it in another.
Steam was also criticised earlier this month when it appeared to change its rules to as to comply with the EU’s 14-day refund requirement – only for users to discover that they must waive the right at the point of purchase.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/eu-wa...market/0147346
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March 30th, 2015, 20:11 Posted By: wraggster
GitHub is one of several major firms that has been the victim of cyber attacks over the last few days.
“We are currently experience the largest DDoS [distributed denial of service] attack in GitHub’s history,” wrote the firm’s systems engineer Jesse Newland in an official blog post. "Based on reports we’ve received, we believe the intent of this attack is to convince us to remove a specific class of content.”
The content Newland refers to is believes to be web pages that provide users from China with ways to circumvent censorship controls for the region.
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March 30th, 2015, 20:07 Posted By: wraggster
If your child is playing 18-rated games such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, you could be reported to the police and social services. That's the message being sent to parents by a group of primary and secondary schools in Cheshire. In a letter, the Nantwich Education Partnership has warned parents about the levels of violence and sexual content that are prevalent in mature games. It says regular exposure could lead to "early sexualised behaviour" and leave children "vulnerable to sexual exploitation or extreme violence." Some parents have already voiced their disapproval, but headteachers say they're merely following the guidance set by their local authority: "If your child is allowed to have inappropriate access to any game or associated product that is designated 18+, we are advised to contact the police and children's social care as this is deemed neglectful."
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/30/s...-games-police/
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March 29th, 2015, 00:00 Posted By: wraggster
It’s been a few years since the RTL-SDR TV Tuner dongle blew up the world of amateur radio; it’s a simple device that listens in on digital television frequencies, but it’s one of those tools that’s just capable enough to have a lot of fun. Now, we have a transmitting dongle. It’s only being used to transmit live HDTV from a Pi, but that in itself is very interesting and opens up a lot of possible builds.
The key piece of hardware for this build is a UT-100C DVB-T modulator. It’s a $169 USB dongle capable of transmitting between 1200-1350 MHz, and with a special edition of OpenCaster it’s possible to transmit over-the-air TV. There’s no amplifier, so you won’t be sending TV very far, but it does work.
On the Raspberry Pi side of the build, the standard camera captures H.264 video with raspivid, which is converted to a DVB compliant stream using ffmpeg. These are well-worn bits of software in the Raspberry Pi world, and OpenCaster takes care of the rest.
While this seems like the perfect solution to completely overbuilt quadcopters, keep in mind transmitting on the 23cm band does require a license. Transmitting in the UHF TV bands is a bad idea.
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/28/trans...-raspberry-pi/
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March 26th, 2015, 23:56 Posted By: wraggster
Last week’s ‘official’ UK Top 10 chart would have been totally different if digital sales figures were taken into account.
Key sources have shared data with MCV that underlines the disparity between ‘official’ charts and the still unmeasured digital world.
The pressure is now mounting on the industry as a whole - publishers, format holders, data trackers and trade bodies - to start offering this kind of insight on a regular basis.
If the UK charts included digital sales data, last week an entirely new IP would have been No.1 - the Paradox-published Cities: Skylines. The game sold 60,000 copies over 10 days in the UK alone.
Elsewhere, indie sequel Hotline Miami 2 would have been at No. 4.
One other new IP would have cracked the Top 10 on digital sales alone: Ori and the Blind Forest on Steam and Xbox One.
Second-week digital sales of Sniper Elite spin-off Zombie Army Trilogy – UK studio Rebellion’s first self-published game on console – actually push the title up the chart when download numbers are paired with boxed figures. Minecraft gets a similar lift.
The UK trade has been talking up a digital chart for years. But efforts by both Chart-Track and UKIE have stumbled as they failed to secure the support of 100 per cent of publishers.
However, MCV put the chart on this page together over just a few days with input, data and guidance from the likes of Paradox Interactive and Rebellion, plus off-the-record guidance from retail sources wishing to remain anonymous for now.
So MCV will do the counting for you
Until a formal solution is offered for better showing the health of software sales in the UK, MCV is committed to offering a substitute.
Going forward, we hope to start publishing regular charts accurately taking into account digital sales like the one above.
Using a variety of sources, we will try to accurately portray a total measure of games sales in the UK, across both boxed and digital.
We do not guarantee 100 per cent accuracy from day one – but what we do promise is to start bringing some unity on the otherwise separated and fractured data sources in the business.
If you’d like to contribute to this new initiative, contact MCV editor Chris Dring atcdring@nbmedia.com. Data will be kept confidential at all times and used only to aggregate Top 10 or Top 20 rankings.
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March 26th, 2015, 23:41 Posted By: wraggster
Razer's entry into virtual reality may not be as ballsy as HTC's or Samsung's, but it could be just as important. Back in January the gaming manufacturer revealed Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), a project that offers a hardware design and software framework that anyone can build VR devices and apps from. Today, OSVR is announcing that more than 20 higher education facilities will join the initiative and be provided with development kits and the necessary support to create new experiences and hardware.
The move is part of OSVR Academia, which looks to involve educational labs and research facilities in the open-source VR movement. Speaking on today's announcement, Aaron Westre of the Virtual Reality Design Lab at the University of Minnesota said there's a "need to integrate new hardware devices and software techniques as soon as they're available. The modular architecture of OSVR offers us an efficient platform to increase our agility and invent new VR experiences for users."
OSVR isn't only backed by Razer. Motion-tracking firm Leap Motion is also involved -- and the pair are collaborating on new hardware -- as is game-engine maker Unity and developer Gearbox Software. For those not part of a research team, both the hardware schematics and related software are available at OSVR's website. As it's open-source, they're both provided free of charge.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/26/r...ation-program/
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March 26th, 2015, 23:40 Posted By: wraggster
In a rather off-hand comment at today's Facebook developer's conference, company CTO Mike Schroepfer dropped a hint that the Oculus Rift VR headset could come to market this year. It was during an overview talk about what VR means for the company, where Schroepfer demonstrated a sleek looking space shooter game. Following that, he said "You're going to be able to do this, this year in VR ... and in something shipped by Oculus."
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/26/f...k-oculus-rift/
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March 25th, 2015, 23:48 Posted By: wraggster
Last week’s Japanese retail charts resembled a bygone era, as the latest Final Fantasy and Resident Evil instalments topped the rankings.
According to the latest data from Famitsu, the remastered PS4 edition of Final Fantasy Type-0, which was originally released on PSP exclusively in Japan back in 2011, was crowned as the biggest-selling game of the week, shifting over 91,000 units.
Type-0’s success also helped to extend the success of Sony’s PS4 in the weekly hardware rankings, as the console claimed its fourth consecutive week at number one.
Coming in second in the software charts was the PS4 edition of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Capcom’s console and PC sequel to the 3DS-only Revelations. The PS3 version of the game came fourth.
The title was originally released digitally in a series of episodes over the previous four weeks – the boxed version of the game collates the episodes with extra content.
Meanwhile, the PS4 release of new EA shooter Battlefield Hardline claimed third place, selling just over 65,000 units in its debut week.
Other new entries last week included the PlayStation Vita Edition of Minecraft, which landed in fifth. It helped the Vita retain its second-place position in the weekly hardware charts.
Two other new titles rounded out the Top Ten: Sega’s Phantasy Star Online 2 Episode 3 Deluxe Package and Takara Tomy Art’ catchily-titled PriPara & Pretty Rhythm: PriPara de Tsukaeru Oshare Item 1450!, which took ninth and tenth place, respectively.
The slew of new releases meant that many of the charts’ stalwarts from the past few weeks dropped out of the Top Ten, including the previous week’s number three, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, and the second-highest title of the preceding week, Yakuza 0: Chikai no Basho on PS4.
Former chart-topping title Yakuza 0: Chikai no Basho for PS3 dropped to sixth position in its second week.
Here’s the full software Top Ten for the week ending March 22nd:
- Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (Square Enix) PS4 – 91,093 (New)
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 <Disc Version> (Capcom) PS3 – 73,074 (New)
- Battlefield Hardline (EA) PS4 – 65,189 (New)
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 <Disc Version> (Capcom) PS4 – 40,749 (New)
- Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony) Vita – 36,593 (New)
- Yakuza 0: Chikai no Basho (Sega) PS3 – 34,234
- Battlefield Hardline (EA) PS3 – 25,034 (New)
- Mario Party 10 (Nintendo) Wii U – 24,254
- Phantasy Star Online 2 Episode 3 Deluxe Package (Sega) Vita – 20,056 (New)
- PriPara & Pretty Rhythm: PriPara de Tsukaeru Oshare Item 1450! (Takara Tomy Arts) 3DS – 19,073 (New)
And here’s the hardware rankings:
- PS4 – 47,429
- PS Vita – 21,716
- New Nintendo 3DS XL – 14,299
- PS3 – 5,990
- Wii U – 5,485
- New Nintendo 3DS – 5,095
- Nintendo 3DS XL – 1,931
- Nintendo 3DS – 1,423
- PS Vita TV – 526
- Xbox One – 322
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March 25th, 2015, 23:45 Posted By: wraggster
Virtual reality can be nauseating. It tricks a part of the brain into believing the body is moving, when it's not. A disconnect between the systems (somatosensory and vestibular, to be precise) can make some people want to throw up. But an ongoingstudy at Purdue College of Technology suggests that a virtual nose could reduce simulator sickness in video games. When your movement isn't anticipated by the body's perceptual system, it triggers motion sickness. That explains why it's usually a passenger who gets sick in a moving car and not the person driving the car.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/24/v...ator-sickness/
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March 24th, 2015, 21:23 Posted By: wraggster
A leading UK police officer has said that the UK’s current PEGI age rating system is not sufficient to protect minors from the most violent content.
Northamptonshire’s police and crime commissioner Adam Simmonds wants a US-style Adults Only (AO) rating to help parents identify games with particularly brutal content that goes beyond what could normally be expected in a PEGI 18 game.
Grand Theft Auto V is the cited example, alongside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. These games contain two infamous examples of game violence – Trevor’s torture scene the optional civilian slaughter level No Russian, respectively.
In a report on the issue published today Simmonds claims that one in four children aged between four and 11 have seen online imagery that upsets them, with video games being the most common source. Furthermore, it says that 30 per cent of children have access to content and games for which they are underage, with one in ten saying they had played Call of Duty.
“Controversy creates cash,” Simmonds said. “Many parents might not be fully aware that these games contain such disturbing scenes. It is time for the industry to play a more proactive role in protecting young minds.”
“A new Adult Only rating alongside parental locks on consoles will better support parents in safeguarding their children. If companies fail to do this, games involving extreme violence or sexual content should be banned altogether.”
US ratings body the ESRB has an AO rating (pictured), although its implementation has been rare. Upcoming controversial PC title Hatred has been awarded an AO, as did the pre-edit version of Rockstar’s Manhunt 2. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was also temporarily bumped from M (Mature) to AO following the discovery of the deleted ‘Hot Coffee’ sex scene, although the rating was lowered upon its removal.
UPDATE: MCV has obtained a full copy of the report referenced, which is entitled ‘Online Safety: A Report by Northamptonshire Police & Crime Commission’. It doesn’t contain any references to proposed changes to the UK age ratings system, which appears to be a context used only in the Northants Police press release linked to above.
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March 23rd, 2015, 21:09 Posted By: wraggster
EA's new Battlefield game Hardline has debuted at No.1 in the Gfk Chart-Track Top 40.
Not only is this the publisher's first No.1 of the year, but it's also the biggest launch of 2015 thus far.
This is a more impressive debut than Battlefield 4. That title debuted in second place when it launched in November 2013 as it came out at a busier time of the year.
Battlefield Hardline isn't the only new entrant into the chart. Square Enix's Final Fantasy Type-0 HD debuts in second place, while Wii U exclusive Mario Party 10 goes straight to No.6.
The physical release of Resident Evil Revelations 2 is in seventh place.
Last week's No.1 Grand Theft Auto V falls to third place, with sales declining five per cent week-on-week. Dying Light also falls two places to No.1 as sales dip 36 per cent.
And despite retailer promotions, Disney Infinity 2.0 doesn't make it into the Top Ten, instead charting at No.11 this week. Meanwhile, a hardware bundle for Halo: The Master Chief Collection sees sales of the game shoot up 80 per cent, while the game rises up 14 to No.13.
Below is the software Top 10 for the week ending March 21st:
1. Battlefield Hardline, EA
2. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, Square Enix
3. Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar
4. Dying Light, Warner Bros
5. FIFA 15, EA
6. Mario Party 10, Nintendo
7. Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Capcom
8. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision Blizzard
9. Minecraft: Xbox Edition, Microsoft
10. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition, Sony
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