Archive for July 8th, 2009
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 0 views
If you enjoyed MadWorld (and are looking forward to Bayonetta ), you’ll want to take the chance to meet the fine folks behind those games on Friday, July 24. As part of a promotion for Bayonetta , some developers on the title will be on hand to answer your questions about gigantic heels and how effective they are at killing things. And then there are the prizes, with one lucky individual walking away with a custom Xbox 360. This little shindig is not open to the general public, however, and you’ll need to be at least 21 years old to enter (like all good things in life), so you’ll have to win yourself a ticket. Platinum Games will be running several promotions to award folks with tickets, but you can enter right now by following these steps: Make sure you can be in San Diego that day (transportation is on you) Become a fan of PlatinumGames on Facebook Shoot an email over to littleangels@platinumgames.com with a link to your Facebook profile You better get on it, because the deadline to enter is 11:59p.m.
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Meet / pester Platinum Games in San Diego this month
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 2 views
If you’ve been dragged around the Octagon and beaten to a pulp one too many times due to glitches in UFC 2009 Undisputed ’s online component, you’ll be pleased to hear that the developers are working on a patch. In fact, this blog post on the official site is proof of that. There are several issues the developers are looking to resolve, and one of the more nasty ones involves a lack of repercussion for those who disconnect prematurely. These folks will receive a prize in the new patch, to the tune of some DNF and a loss on their record. Other fixes will target lag, Flash KOs, and the CAF cheat. For the full list, hit up the blog post . [Via Kotaku ] Original source: www.joystiq.com , delivered by rss-farm.ru
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UFC 2009 Undisputed patch incoming
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Augmented Reality apps that overlay information on visuals from your mobile device’s camera definitely have the potential to be more than a trend. Uses like viewing restaurant reviews, real estate listings, or pointers to the nearest subway stop just scratch the surface of the game-changing power of Augmented Reality. Sometimes two great tastes don’t taste great together, though, as in the case of an Augmented-Reality-Meets-Twitter app set to launch soon in the iPhone app store. The iPhone app is called TwittARound , and it overlays nearby tweets on your surroundings. The idea here is that people will have posted useful information about the places they’ve visited, and you can access it just by pointing your camera at something. It’s a great idea, but it doesn’t jive with the reality of Twitter, which is that the vast majority of tweets lack context or useful content. Nobody reads the public timeline on Twitter because at least 90% of it is going to be irrelevant to them, and filtering by location doesn’t help all that much. TwittARound looks like a really impressive proof-of-concept, I’m just not convinced that AR and Twitter are a match made in heaven. [via PSFK ] Original source: www.pheedcontent.com , delivered by rss-farm.ru
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Augmented Reality meets Twitter: useful, or just trendy?
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 0 views
Su.pr is a URL shortening service similar to TinyURL , Snipr , and dozens of other services that let you take a long URL and condense it into just a few characters to share in an email, Twitter message, Facebook status update, or anywhere else. But there are few things that set Su.pr apart. First, like Bit.ly , Su.pr offers analytics that let you know how many times users have clicked on your links. And second, Su.pr is run by web site discovery service StumbleUpon, and every time you shorten a link, you also add a web-based StumbleUpon toolbar to the link that lets users vote on the story. In other words, when you shorten a link through Su.pr, you’re not only able to share it with the few dozen friends who read your Twitter updates, but if they like it enough they can vote it up and brings thousands of StumbleUpon visitors. Up until recently, the service was only available to a small group of beta testers. But today Su.pr dropped the beta label, and with it the need for an invitation to use the service
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StumbleUpon’s Su.pr URL shortener now open to the public
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