Archive for July 22nd, 2009
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 0 views
Looking for some supplementary materials for Sony Online Entertainment’s utterly adorable, free-to-play MMO Free Realms ? You’re in luck. DC Comics brand WildStorm and SOE are teaming up to publish a comic book series based on the popular online game. J.S. Lewis, the author of the Grey Griffins children’s book series, will be penning the story, but let’s be honest — you won’t be picking up the comics for the story . No, we wager you’ll purchase the comics because of the unlockable in-game items they’ll contain. The first issue, which drops July 29, includes the “Spider Bite Sword.” We imagine the following 11 issues will include equally enticing armaments
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Free Realms comic coming July 29, includes in-game bonuses
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 0 views
Riding on the coattails of last Friday’s Rock Band Network reveal , indie label Sub Pop is the first record company to officially pledge its support for the new DLC initiative. Rolling Stone spoke with Sub Pop A&R exec Tony Kiewel, who said, “This conceivably could be the opening of the floodgates.” Sub Pop intends to convert its “entire catalog” — which includes Sonic Youth, early Nirvana, and The Postal Service — to playable tracks. Additionally, Kiewel notes that future artists’ releases on his label will automatically get the Rock Band treatment. “This’ll be another format alongside vinyl and CD.” The only thing difference between buying the newest Shins album from the Rock Band Network versus at the record store? The disdainful look from the Paramore t-shirt-clad cashier on your way out of the record store. Original source: www.joystiq.com , delivered by rss-farm.ru
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Sub Pop announces support for Rock Band Network starting this fall
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 4 views
A BIOS screenshot is all we are allowed to post yet, benchmarks will come soooooooooon! After having a quick play with an early sample motherboard from Gigabyte of Intel’s latest P55 chipset, we decided to have a play with DDR3 clocking and came to an interesting surprise - it’ll easily hit upwards of 2.3GHz! We used two sticks of 2GB OCZ Blade 2,000MHz CL8 DDR3, set at CL9 and 1.5V, and clocked the beans out of both our Intel Lynnfield CPU (that’s retail spec, but engineering sample still) and this Elipa Hyper IC memory to reach 2.35GHz. We increased the core voltage quite considerably as it was the only option available in the early BIOS from Gigabyte, assuming that this included the uncore voltage that contains the integrated memory controller. However, on further questioning the gurus at Gigabyte Taiwan, it was claimed that there is no uncore voltage option available for Lynnfield. We are still trying to ascertain whether this is unique to Gigabyte’s early BIOS and can be fixed in future updates, or whether it’s unique to its boards (we find that unlikely), but it would be strange not to be able to increase the voltage since some has to be applied anyway. As it stands now, the performance margin is certainly impressive, but more extreme overclockers might be disappointed if things stay the same.
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Intel’s Lynnfield will hit upwards of 2.3GHz DDR3
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 3 views
Adobe has kindly released the code for two of its Flash-based frameworks - TLF and OSMF - under the Mozilla Public Licence. It’s shaping up to be a good week for open source software with the news that Adobe has freed two of its frameworks via the Mozilla Public Licence. According to BetaNews , the company has opened the source code to its Open Source Media Framework and the Text Layer Framework, both Flash-related technologies. The code for both projects is now available via the company’s dedicated open source site . Adobe’s director of standards and open source Dave McAllister has said that he hopes opening these frameworks – and the company’s continued investment in open source software development – will “ strengthen the industry and lead to the next generation of Web applications, content, and video experiences. ” The Open Source Media Framework is a collection of tools for created customised Flash-based media playback utilities. Perhaps the most important functionality for your average webmaster is full support for plug-ins via a standardised API – meaning easy integration with advertising systems and visitor tracking utilities
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Adobe open-sources two frameworks
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