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March 23rd, 2015, 21:01 Posted By: wraggster
The console cycle as we know it may be at an end, according to Twitch CEO Emmett Shear.
In an interview with The Guardian, Shear predicts that hardware makers like Microsoft and Sony will shift their console release strategy to fall in line with the more frequent upgrade cycles of smartphones and tablets.
"The problem is, the seven-year upgrade lifecycle doesn't work in the face of the two-year upgrade cycles for every other hardware platform," Shear said. "It's so intrinsically built into how consoles get manufactured and made and the full business model, that I'd be surprised to see another generation."
Shear added that he expects Sony and Microsoft to make slight improvements to their current console releases, rather than focusing on any next-gen plans.
"I could imagine a version 1.1 product from both Microsoft and Sony which adds in slightly more speed and slightly more memory very similar to how phones and tablets work today," Shear said. "I think it's going to look more like the mobile phone market over time."
Shear also touched on Amazon's acquisition of his company for nearly $1bn, explaining that the deal allows Twitch to collaborate with a major player in the games market as well as maintain its independence.
"They sell video games effectively, they have a platform for producing video games, what Twitch brings to that is the missing piece of the puzzle: a community. We provide that reach, and it made a lot of sense. We also gained access to a lot of things through the purchase that it would have taken us a long time to build ourselves, if we ever actually could."
"Amazon was committed to Twitch remaining independent," Shear said, adding, "I don't think I would have gone with any deal that didn't give us that level of independence."
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/curre...o-says/0147058
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March 23rd, 2015, 20:58 Posted By: wraggster
 Google successfully invaded living rooms everywhere with its simple and cheapChromecast dongle, and late last year announced its next product bound to the big screen: the Nexus Player. Running the TV-friendly version of Android OS, it does everything the Chromecast can and more, being a dedicated set-top box that doesn't require other devices to control it. With a nifty voice search feature and second job as an Android mini-console when paired with the gamepad accessory, it's Google's attempt to take on the Rokus, Apple TVs and Fire TVs of this world (the latter also having console functionality). And after a few months of being available stateside, it appears to be officially launching in the UK on March 26th for the agreeable price of £80.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/23/g...yer-uk-launch/
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March 22nd, 2015, 20:24 Posted By: wraggster
[b10nik] wrote in to tell us about a pretty sweet project that he just finished up. It’s a mechanical keyboard with an integrated Raspberry Pi 2 Model B inside.
[b10nik] purchased a new Filco Ninja Majestouch-2 keyboard just for this project. Although it may make some people cringe, the keyboard was immediately taken apart in order to find an open cavity for the Raspberry Pi. Luckily there was space available towards the left rear of the keyboard case.
 If you are familiar with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, you know that all of the connections are not on the same side of the board. The USB, audio, HDMI and Ethernet jacks were removed from the PCB. The Ethernet port is not needed since this hack uses WiFi, but those those other ports were extended and terminated in a custom 3D printed I/O panel . The stock keyboard case had to be cut to fit the new panel which results in a very clean finished look.
There’s one more trick up this keyboard’s sleeve, it can be used with the internal Raspberry Pi or be used as a standard keyboard. This is done by way of a FSUSB30MUX USB switch IC that completely disconnects the Raspberry Pi from the keyboard’s USB output.
For another RaspPi/Keyboard solution, check out this concept from a few years ago using a Cherry G80-3000 mechanical keyboard.
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/21/raspp...nced-keyboard/
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March 17th, 2015, 23:41 Posted By: wraggster
GCHQ, the UK equivalent of the NSA, has created a 66 Raspberry Pi cluster called the Bramble for "educational" purposes. What educational purposes isn't exactly clear but you do associate super computers with spooks and spies. It seems that there was an internal competition to invent something and three, unnamed, GCHQ technologists decided that other Pi clusters were too ad-hoc. They set themselves the target of creating a cluster that could be reproduced as a standard architecture to create a commodity cluster. The basic unit of the cluster is a set of eight networked Pis, called an "OctaPi". Each OctaPi can be used standalone or hooked up to make a bigger cluster. In the case of the Bramble a total of eight OctaPis makes the cluster 64 processors strong. In addition there are two head control nodes, which couple the cluster to the outside world. Each head node has one Pi, a wired and WiFi connection, realtime clock, a touch screen and a camera. This is where the story becomes really interesting. Rather than just adopt a standard cluster application like Hadoop, OctaPi's creators decided to develop their own. After three iterations, the software to manage the cluster is now based on Node.js, Bootstrap and Angular. So what is it all for? The press release says that: "The initial aim for the cluster was as a teaching tool for GCHQ's software engineering community....The ultimate aim is to use the OctaPi concept in schools to help teach efficient and effective programming."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/03...mputer-cluster
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March 17th, 2015, 23:18 Posted By: wraggster
Capcom has again teamed up with peripheral maker Mad Catz to produce new licensed FightSticks and FightPads for the latest in the Street Fighter Series.
According to the companies, the new line of arcade-style input devices will arrive in time for Street Fighter V's spring 2016 launch on PC and PS4.
Mad Catz will manufacture FightPads, FightSticks and Tournament Edition FightSticks – though we'll have to wait and see what they look like, as no images of the peripherals have been released as of yet.
Mad Catz has also signed a three-year deal to be featured as a “Premier Sponsor” of the Capcom Pro Tour, with Capcom agreeing to make it the exclusive controller sponsor for the eSports tour of events
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/mad-c...htpads/0146781
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March 14th, 2015, 02:16 Posted By: wraggster
PS4 may have again beaten Xbox One in the monthly US hardware charts in February, but it was Nintendo that emerged as the month’s surprise winner.
The launch of the new 3DS XL in the region saw Nintendo’s handheld platform win the hardware race, while The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D was the best-selling game.
Nintendo noted that the new 3DS XL sold 130 per cent more units in its first month than the numbers achieved by the original 3DS XL. For the first two months of the year 3DS hardware sales are up 90 per cent year-on-year, while Wii U sales were up 20 per cent.
Looking exclusively at home consoles, Sony’s command of the market shows little sign of abating with PS4 outselling Xbox One yet again both in the hardware and software markets.
Nonetheless, Microsoft said that Xbox One enjoyed its best February to date and that hardware sales were up 84 per cent month-on-month.
In the NPD software charts 2K’s Evolve and Warner’s Dying Light claimed second and third behind Zelda – which, Nintendo said, sold 515k units throughout the month across physical and digital.
Fellow new 3DS title Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate sold 290k, which is the best performance from an entry in the series to date and Capcom’s fastest ever 3DS seller, although it only just scraped into the Top Ten, one place behind new PS4 title The Order: 1886.
Here’s the February Top 10:
1. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (Nintendo)
2. Evolve (2K Games)
3. Dying Light (Warner Bros)
4. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision)
5. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
6. NBA 2K15 (2K)
7. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse (Bandai Namco)
8. Minecraft (Sony/Microsoft)
9. The Order: 1886 (Sony)
10. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom)
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ninte...charts/0146633
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March 14th, 2015, 02:10 Posted By: wraggster
Goodbye, Google Code. The technology giant has decided to close its project hosting and code collaboration site because, well, there are simply better alternatives on the web. Google says it launched the platform back in 2006 because it was unhappy with the "limited" options available to the open source community. Since then, the likes of GitHub and Bitbucket have risen to prominence, superseding Google Code's feature set and encouraging developers to transfer their projects. As such, Google's offering has become increasingly filled with spam and abuse, leading to the company's decision to pull the plug. Yesterday it stopped accepting new projects, and on August 24th the site will become read-only. Google Code will eventually be shuttered next January, although tarballs of project source, issues and wikis will continue to be available throughout 2016. If you need to transfer a project, head here for the relevant GitHub and Bitbucket migration tools.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/13/google-code-closing/
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March 12th, 2015, 21:49 Posted By: wraggster
Virtual reality will have as big an impact on video games as motion controls, says GAME
The statement follows last week’s GDC, which was filled with VR products including Sony’s Project Morpheus and Valve’s Vive headset.
“VR is the next big thing in the industry and as much of a game-changer as the Wii and Kinect were,” said GAME UK category director Charlotte Knight.
“VR offers limitless potential; developers can build immersive experiences that have never been possible before.”
GAME isn’t the only UK retailer expecting huge success from VR.
“VR is, on paper, a potentially game-changing innovation,” said Games Centre MD Robert Lindsay. “I’m excited to see how developers utilise the tech to expand the immersive element of games
and tell stories from a different perspective – literally.”
ShopTo senior buyer Alison Fraser added: “There is no denying that VR will be a big part of gaming. It has the potential to stay long-term, but that will be the big test of the technology – and depends on how streamlined they can make the tech over the next few years.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/game-...-thing/0146532
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March 9th, 2015, 19:45 Posted By: wraggster
There’s something so nostalgic about the rotary phone that makes it a fun thing to hack and modernize. [Voidon] put his skills to the test and converted one to VoIP using a Raspberry Pi. He used the RasPi’s GPIO pins to read pulses from the rotary dial – a functional dial is always a welcome feature in rotary phone hacks. An old USB sound card was perfect for the microphone and handset audio.
As with any build, there were unexpected size issues that needed to be worked around. While the RasPi fit inside the case well, there was no room for the USB power jack or an ethernet cable, let alone a USB power bank for portability. The power bank idea was scrapped. [voidon] soldered the power cord to the RasPi before the polyfuse to preserve the surge protection, used a mini-USB wifi dongle, and soldered a new USB connector to the sound card. [Voidon] also couldn’t get the phone’s original ringer to work, so he used the Raspberry Pi’s internal sound card to play ringtones.
The VoIP (SIP) was managed by some Python scripting, available at GitHub. [voidon] has some experience in usingAsterisk at his day job, so it will be interesting to see if he incorporates it in the future.
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/09/conve...-raspberry-pi/
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March 9th, 2015, 19:39 Posted By: wraggster
Tech company Feelreal debuted an add-on for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this year, which allows users to smell what they see.
It’s no real surprise that scratch and sniff has come to virtual reality, which makes use of our senses to trick our brains into thinking that certain things are actually happening.
The device clips onto the bottom of an Oculus Rift, sitting over the user's whole face and shooting out hot air and cool mist, as well as producing certain smells that match with what is being seen through the VR device.
Seven smells are currently available on the device including Ocean, Jungle, Fire, Grass, Powder, flowers and metal.
The smelly add-on also has a little mouthpiece, allowing for a full facial experience of sight, sound, smell and speech.
The gadget can be pre-ordered from the Feelreal website here for around £165.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...-smells/035763
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March 9th, 2015, 19:37 Posted By: wraggster
Warner Bros and Techland's open world zombie title Dying Light once again takes pole position in the GfK Chart-Track Top 40.
It keeps the top spot in spite of a 48 per cent decline in sales this week.
The game has so far managed to outpace the other new IPs that launched this year, including Sony's The Order 1886 and 2K's Evolve, in spite of launching digital over a month ago.
The Order fell three places to No.7, with a 62 per cent dip in sales, while Evolve falls to No.9 in its fourth week on sale with a 35 per cent sales decline.
The rest of the Top Five are mostly familiar names. Grand Theft Auto V charts in second place, up from fifth last week. Sales of the game fell a mere ten per cent week-on-week.
Meanwhile FIFA 15 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare fill out third and fourth places.
And Bandai Namco's Dragon Ball: Xenoverse – which debuted in third place last week – falls to fifth with a 61 per cent drop in sales.
In eighth place is Rebellion's first self-published title, Zombie Army Trilogy. The boxed release was handled by Sold Out.
Here is the Top Ten for the week ending March 7th:
1. Dying Light, Warner Bros
2. Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar
3. FIFA 15, EA
4. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision Blizzard
5. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse, Bandai Namco
6. Minecraft: Xbox Edition, Microsoft
7. The Order 1886, Sony
8. Zombie Army Trilogy, Rebellion
9. Evolve, 2K Games
10. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition, Sony
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/dying...-place/0146338
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March 9th, 2015, 00:00 Posted By: wraggster
The overall gaming hardware market reached $67bn in 2014, according to new data presented by analyst Jon Peddie Research.
Games Industry reports on JPR's presentation, which claimed PC accounted for 33 per cent of the market, smartphones came in at 23 per cent, consoles and handhelds brought in 16 per cent, and tablets made up 11 per cent.
JPR pointed out that global gaming software was worth $26bn in 2014, according to recent data provided by the Open Gaming Alliance.
The two reports combine to indicate a total gaming market of around $93bn – with JPR expecting "robust growth" throughout in the coming years.
The research firm also stated that it does not expect smartphones to somehow catch or pass consoles in regards to raw processing power and graphics – adding that the thought that phones offer “console quality” graphics tends to reference older console generations.
"There is no such thing as catching up. Moore's law serves all platforms.”
Android is starting to make significant inroads in the hardware market as well. JPR states the Android console sector represents a "paradigm shift" for the market – as more than 1bn Android users can be leveraged. The firm also projects a rise in dedicated Android portable gaming devices over the next few years.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gamin...ar-jpr/0146268
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March 8th, 2015, 23:57 Posted By: wraggster
The HTC Vive might've stolen some of Samsung's thunder, but it bears reminding that the latter did announce a new VR headset earlier this week. Sure, the Gear VR for the Galaxy S6 is only slightly different from the original Note 4 edition, but even minor tweaks can spell big improvement. It's smaller, lighter, has a wider focus margin and there's a new strap design that promises to make the headset much more comfortable than before. I had a chance to give it a spin earlier this week and I also talked to Max Cohen, VP of mobile at Oculus, to get his take on the new hardware, possible future updates and, of course, his opinion on the HTC Vive.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/gear-vr-s6-oculus/
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March 8th, 2015, 23:51 Posted By: wraggster
We've already got Android in phones, tablets, TVs and maybe even cars, but according to a new rumor, the next step could be VR headsets (beyond Mattel's View-Master). While smartphones can already provide the brains of a VR unit for Samsung's Gear VRor Google Cardboard, the Wall Street Journal says Google has "tens of engineers" working on a version of Android that would power virtual reality apps. According to the rumor, that's in addition to the Magic Leap augmented reality project Google has invested in, and a separate AR project Google is working on itself. Based on what we've seen of Android development so far -- and the recent flood of VR hardware -- it's really no surprise, but if you see a slew of headset rumors ahead of the next Google I/O it might be for something other than just a new edition of Glass.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/android-vr-rumor/
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March 5th, 2015, 23:21 Posted By: wraggster
The Raspberry Pi B+ has a native VGA connection. Sure, it’s hidden away in binary blobs and device trees, and you need to wire up the GPIO pins just right, but it’s possible to connect a VGA monitor to a Raspi B+ natively. For the brave, smart, or foolish, this means you can also drive raw DPI displays. [Robert] had a few of these dirt cheap displays sitting around and decided to give the entire thing a go. It worked, and he’s written down how to do it.
One of the chip architects for the Raspberry Pi, [Gert van Loo], was exceedingly clever when designing the Pi. There’s a parallel interface in the chip that, when combined with a few dozen resistors, can drive a VGA display in addition to the HDMI display. Screens with a Display Parallel Interface are actually pretty similar to what the VGA spec calls for. The problem is, hardly any of this is documented for the Raspberry Pi, and finding it means trawling through forums.
[Robert]’s example circuit uses a 5″ display from Adafruit, a 40-pin breakout, and a bunch of prototyping wires. Setup requires grabbing a cut down version of the device tree used for the Raspi VGA breakout board, setting the output format, rgb order, and aspect ratio of the display, and wiring everything up.
What’s interesting here is that [Robert] reproduced this project from scratch, and found that any display with a 40-pin DPI connector will work with the Raspi, provided you have a datasheet. That’s pretty cool; these displays can be cheap, and since we don’t yet have a proper DSI display for the Pi, this will have to do for now.
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/05/using...-raspberry-pi/
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March 5th, 2015, 23:15 Posted By: wraggster
Valve reckons it has cracked the motion sickness problem that virtual reality headsets cause with a number of players.
Boss Gabe Newell admitted to The New York Times that he’d reacted badly to previous demonstrations of VR tech, describing them as the “world’s best motion sickness inducers”.
However, the company’s own headset – the HTC made Vive– has cracked the issue, Newell claims, thanks to its laser positioning system that accurately maps a player’s real movements to the game. He reckons that “zero per cent of people get motion sick” as a result.
Furthermore, the tracking system – called Lighthouse – is being offered free to select hardware manufacturers.
Last year EA CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted that VR’s main challenge was that selling the tech to anyone who is “at all even slightly motion sick prone” will be “very tough”.
Added Jorgensen: "I've seen people within 30 seconds have to take the goggles off because ... it is so immersive. It's an incredible experience and I think there's a huge opportunity but there's some technology steps that have to be played out and I think so ways to make sure people enjoy it but don't get sick by it too quickly."
Oculus boss also warned market rivals that they must also ensure that they solve motion sickness issues as not doing so could pose a risk to the entire VR industry.
“We’re a little worried about some of the bigger companies putting out product that isn’t quite ready,” he admitted. “That elephant in the room is disorientation and motion sickness. We’re encouraging other companies, particularly the big consumer companies, to not put out a product until they’ve solved that problem.”
One developer, Lunar Studios, even abandoned a VR version of its upcoming title Routine due to the“extreme” motion sickness caused by play testing the game.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/newel...s-rate/0146208
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March 5th, 2015, 23:11 Posted By: wraggster
Currently, the HTC Vive is the only virtual reality headset that's part of Valve's Steam VR push. That's not because it's the only one, but because it's the only one we know about thus far. "You should think of the Vive as the first in the same way there are multiple Steam Machines," Valve president Gabe Newell told me this morning. In other words, Steam VR is an open platform supported by Valve. "We're building tools and hopefully they're valuable to hardware partners who want to do it. In some cases, we'll take the leadership role in shipping stuff. But we're really just building tools for other people to continue. So you'll see more headsets."
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/v...vr-initiative/
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March 4th, 2015, 21:51 Posted By: wraggster
We already saw the new Vive virtual reality headset that Valve and HTC are working on, but they're not stopping there. Hardware engineer Alan Yates says that its Lighthouse room-scale tracking system brings the "high-resolution, high-speed tracking" that you need for a quality VR experience. According to Yates, the system is cheap enough to integrate into TVs, monitors, headsets, input devices or mobile devices. There's not a lot of detail on what exactly it includes, but it sounds a lot like the extra LEDs Sony just revealed on its new Project Morpheus prototype, and its PS Move controller. Those let the system track it with a camera to see how the wearer is moving in greater detail. Valve will make Lighthouse available to hardware manufacturers "freely," and we'll probably be looking for VR-ready stickers on our next TV or monitor.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/03/valve-lighthouse-vr/
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March 3rd, 2015, 21:46 Posted By: wraggster
A retail-led survey has found that UK children under the age of 12 are now more likely to own a tablet than a games console.
46 per cent owned a tablet and 43 per cent a games console. These were followed by mobile phones (30%), laptops (28%) and MP3 players (15%).
It also found that over two thirds of kids own some sort of tech or gadgetry, with the average owning three such items. Kids are on average only five years old when they receive their first gadget and the average worth of these accumulated trinkets is £375.
On average kids spend 2.5 hours per day playing with said items.
The survey, run by Vouchercloud.com, polled 2,482 UK adults who had at least one child under 12.
“We can’t escape from it, all aspects of our lives are becoming ‘smart’ or ‘i’ or powered by gadgets, with toy collections no exception to this rule,” Matthew Wood said. “Gadgets and their capabilities have developed so rapidly that they have started to be seen as a necessity, rather than a luxury. Peer pressure from the playground and glossy ads have dictated that children are part of this shift in attitudes to technology, if not leaders in it.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/table...ildren/0146062
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