Okay, okay … you can take off the red & blue glasses. The above video (and the one to be found after the break) are not, we admit, in 3D. Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao is though. Not as in “polygonal,” but honest-to-goodness 3D — as long as you have the proper equipment.
Blitz Arcade was demoing the Namco Bandai published XBLA/PSN title yesterday on a Samsung DLP display capable of 3D output when used with special polarized glasses. While the game was more or less exactly what we played at New York Comic-Con, it was superficially deeper. The effect worked, even in conjunction with prescription glasses, lending the scenes impressive clarity while doing a great job of delineating the foreground / background planes gameplay traverses between.
Our major gripe — apart from the fact the mode will only work on certain TVs — is that it really seemed like nothing more than a novelty. While sharp, it robbed the game of color and detail, leaving behind what reminded us of Sega’s old “holographic” arcade games. We applaud Blitz Arcade for trying something different, though; we’re just glad it’s not the only way to play this stylized beat-’em-up.
Remember when there were never going to be any moreKatamari Damacy games? It must have just been a bad, bad dream, because Katamari (is) Forever. The new game, announced for US release yesterday, was previously announced in Japan as Katamari Damacy Tribute. It’s rolling Stateside later this year exclusively for PS3 — in full 1080p — and we’ve seen it in action. Is it more than just crisp graphics and fancy new visual filters? You betcha. Join us after the break for more.
Looking at this examination of GameStop‘s sales over at Gamasutra, it’s hard to not get frustrated thinking about how much money the used game monolith is making on our undying urge to play “the next big thing.” Pulling figures from the 10-K filings made each year by the company with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Gamasutra noticed some interesting figures. Notably among those: “between 41 and 46 percent” of the company’s gross profits are coming from used game sales alone.
And how much is the company making, on the dollar, for each dollar they invest in the used game market? According to the analysis, GameStop is making 48 cents on every 100 spent in the used games trade — a nearly 50% profit margin on a service that accounts for “22 percent to 28 percent of GameStop’s revenue.”
Though GameStop’s plans for world domination weren’t explicitly spelled out in the 10-K, we expect to hear more about them in the coming months. Alright, alright — fine, you got us. GameStop isn’t planning global domination … yet.
Activision picked the wrong day to announce a Wii sports minigame collection, because Sega just outclassed it. Compare the list of sports in Activision’s Big League Sports: Summer with Sega’s new Wacky World of Sports:
Big League Sports: tennis, beach volleyball, golf, soccer, baseball and football. Wacky World of Sports: furniture racing, card boxing, log cutting, Fierljeppen, mud sliding, tuna tossing, cheese rolling, extreme ironing, and two more. One of the characters is also some kind of Naruto parody, but we don’t know whether to mark that as a plus or minus. Wacky World of Sports will be out in the regular world in “late 2009.”
As we reported last month, Namco Bandai is “rebooting” (that’s cool-talk for “taking another crack at”) Dead to Rights, its tale of a cop, his dog and lots of third-person shooting. Dead to Rights: Retribution, as it’s known, was shown in non-playable form last night at Namco’s preview event — well, it was being played, just not by us.
We got a look at two levels from Jack Slate and his pooch Shadow’s new adventure, one that’s full of shotguns in the mouth, ripped-out throats and a glimmer of hope in its melee combat.
Good grief man … I just [finally] upgraded my system to Vista, am thinking about going to Windows 7 when they release it and now you’re talking about Windows 8? So it would seem, according to this article published in Redmond Magazine.
Obviously Version 8 would be several years away but sometimes this gets crazy. For some reason I thought I read somewhere else that Windows 7 was going to be the last major release for awhile. Guess not!
One thing’s for sure; there’s not going to be any lack of work for this Olde Country Windows programmer for a long time! Click on the Logo below to read more about it.
Despite the fact that Voice Command is already available for Windows Mobile phones, Gizmodo, and other technology sites are reporting that a Tellme App is coming to Windows Mobile 6.5 in the fall. The new App should be available for free via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, or embedded on handsets.
Tellme a mobile voice company became a subsidiary two years ago, and currently have products available for the Blackberry platform, Samsung Instinct as well as for Ford’s Sync System. It includes using voice command for text messaging, making calls, web searches etc.
None of these features are new to long time Voice Command users, and even using voice command for web searches has been available in Live Search. What Tellme does seem to do, is create a unified interface for all of this functionality, and best of all it’s free!
Sources also state that the product will be more integrated at the carrier level, and use GPS and Cell tower triangulation to localize searches such as traffic searches and movies.
Head over to Tellme’s site if you want to be notified when this product becomes available for Windows Mobile, (Blackberry users remember there’s already a client available for you) and also check out a brief video over at Windows Mobile Experts on some of the functionality of Microsoft’s Tellme.
What other things do you think Microsoft could improve about Voice Command, and in turn Tellme?
One of the most anticipated features about Microsoft’s upcoming OS release Windows 7, is its new built in Virtualization dubbed XP Mode. The feature should help new users migrating to the new OS, over any compatibility fears they may have of the new OS, with their legacy software etc.
News has been trickling out about what the actual system requirements will entail to be able to run the feature on your computer. Gizmodo reported earlier this morning that some of the requirements include:
a CPU with true chip level virtualization
a minimum of 2GB of ram
Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate
licensed copy of Windows XP SP3.
To find out if your computer has true chip level virtualization, Steve Gibson has created a little utility. Check out his program Securable, which can tell you if your pc is up to snuff or not.
Service Credit (via gift card) in the amount of 0. The gift card is good for anything sold through any AT&T store or can be used for the cost of a service plan.
Yesterday, there was a lot of buzz about this “Project Pink” phone thing. This was some rumor swirling around that Microsoft was making something for Verizon that many assumed might be a “Zune Phone” that so many have expected over the last couple years. Well, John Starkweather from Microsoft put out the following late last night…
1) Microsoft is not going into the phone hardware business 2) Microsoft is not building a Zune-specific phone 3) We’re deepening our relationships with our hardware partners in order to create even better performing phones that are competitively priced, have the features people want, that are easy-to-use and just downright lustworthy. The upcoming availability of Windows Mobile 6.5 software will enable our OEM partners to build even more compelling devices in a wide-range of form factors for customers around the world.
Plans change, focus changes, the world changes. Who knows. I trust this source much more than some story in quoting some he said, she said stuff though.
Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao — in 3D! originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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