SpaceX vient de réussir un essai statique de fonctionnement des 9 moteurs Merlin du premier étage du lanceur Falcon-9, destiné à expédier la capsule Dragon vers l'ISS pour y apporter du fret, voire, plus tard, pour y amener des astronautes. L'essai ouvre la voie aux derniers préparatifs d'un lancement qui pourrait survenir dans quelques semaines.
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Comme vous le savez, la date de sortie de l'extension Dragon Age : Origins - Awakening approche à grands pas étant donné qu'elle est prévue pour le 19 mars, c'est à dire demain. Electronic Arts profite donc de cela pour nous dévoiler le trailer de lancement de cette extension.

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We interview BioWare about the latest addition to the Dragon Age universe, as well as get our sword fighting stance on with an extensive look at Red Steel 2 for the Wii.

One brilliant thing about video games is that they can react to what players do and have multiple endings. Books can't do that. Movies can't, not even Clue. Many in gaming argue for branching storylines. Here's an argument against:

"What we found is that if you over-branch the storylines [is that] if there was one route you went down and got one reaction — and a completely different route got another reaction — we found that people would get really disappointed. They always felt they were on the wrong path. They always felt, ah, I wanted to see the dragon!"

That's Peter Molyneux, renowned head of Lionhead Studios, speaking, in an interview with Kotaku at Game Developers Conference last week, riffing on some talk about his team's next big role-playing game, Fable III.

We had been discussing the propensity for gamers to abandon the games they are playing, a potential problem for Molyneux, whose Fable III is supposed to reveal its true scope only in its second half. The first half of the game is a hero's journey, the player-character's fight to stop a villain in the fantasy world of Albion and Aurora. The latter half of the game sees the player as king, now required to rule the people he saved and either enjoy or suffer the reactions of the people to whom he promised favors on his rise to power. That concept of playing through kingly responsibility was inspired, Molyneux had told Kotaku, by a curiosity he had about super-hero comics that never showed the aftermath of big super-hero fights. How did the people react to the damage caused by the heroic battle? How did they live in the aftermath? That is the back half of Fable III.

But many people don't finish games, Molyneux conceded. He mentioned that he was already fading on Bioshock 2, because it felt too similar to the first Bioshock. He said he was playing through Heavy Rain, but doing it in small bits because he found the game "harrowing," something he could handle only in 20-minute doses.

To compel people to play, Molyneux believes, players should want to know what's coming next and must sense that that next thing will be something cool, something their friends will urge them to accomplish or see without spoiling it.

But the buzz-kill, he said, can be when the player believes they can't experience that next cool thing at all, because of a choice they made.

It's surprising to hear Molyneux dismiss the over-branching of game stories, in part because the technique has been used a lot by role-playing game makers like BioWare or even by the creators of Heavy Rain. The allure of multiple endings and varied experiences can backfire. The first Fable, Molyneux recalled, was going to have a dragon in it, but a dragon that only some players would find, if they played the game a certain way. That frustrated the people who tested the game and was dropped.

Molyneux has, of course, championed the malleability of Fable's content. Players are expected to see their character and, in Fable III, his or her weapons morph. They are expected to shape the community by marrying and divorcing, having kids and buying shops. That range of options clearly appeals to him. But it seems that big storyline forks don't.

Should a game's story branch? Should it be a choose-your-own adventure? For once, the argument is in the negative. The argument has been made: Sometimes forking your gaming story is just too much, too frustrating and too annoying.

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This Magic: the Gathering variant format as created as an alternative to the Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) format to address the issues our local group had with the EDH format; namely the oversized EDH decks being difficult to properly shuffle and the multiplayer games taking longer then we liked due to high starting life totals. We feel the MCH format addresses these issues while still providing all of the aspects of EDH that we found enjoyable.

Mythic Commander Highlander (MCH) is a Magic: the Gathering variant which provides a way of encouraging casual, interactive games with a low barrier to entry while still requiring good deck building skills. It can be played 1-on-1 but is usually multiplayer.

Deck Construction Rules

Players must choose a Legendary Creature or Planeswalker as the Commander for their deck.

Players may choose any Legendary Creature or Planeswalker as their Commander. Two players in the same game may choose the same Commander, an other players may include that card in their Deck even if it’s not their Commander. Commanders that are Legendary Creatures are subject to the Legend rule just like any other Legendary Creature; Commanders that are Planeswalkers are subject to the Planeswalker Subtype rule just like any other Planeswalker; multiple copies of the same Legendary Creature or Planeswalker (whether Commander or non-Commander) will all be put into the Graveyard (or Command zone) as a state based effect.

The Commander is the principle around which an MCH deck is built. It is more easily available than other cards in the deck, and MCH decks will usually want to leverage their Commander’s strengths in their design. It is not, however, guaranteed to be available at every point in the game so MCH decks should be able to function without it for a time.

The Commander’s mana cost defines what color of cards may be used in the deck.

All decks may use colorless cards.

Land cards are considered colorless.

Hybrid color cards are considered to be both of their colors.

An MCH deck must contain exactly 66 cards, including the Commander.

With the exception of Basic Lands, no two cards in the deck may have the same English name.

MCH is played with Legacy legal cards, with the follow exceptions:

Cards are legal as of their set’s prerelease

The following additional cards are banned:
Biorhythm
Braids, Cabal Minion
Coalition Victory
Empress Galina
Gifts Ungiven
Karakas
Kokusho, the Evening Star
Limited Resources
Lion's Eye Diamond
Metalworker
Painter's Servant
Panoptic Mirror
Protean Hulk
Recurring Nightmare
Riftsweeper
Sway of the Stars
Upheaval

Play Rules

The start of the game procedure for MCH is as follows:

Players announce their choice of Commander and move that card to the Command zone.

Each player draws a hand of seven cards.

Players may mulligan, using the "Partial Paris" (aka "Brittany") method.

Being a Commander is not a characteristic (MTG CR109.3), it is a property of the card. As such, "Commanderness" cannot be copied or overwritten by continuous effects, and does not change with control of the card.

While a Commander is in the Command zone, it may be cast. As an additional cost to cast a Commander from the Command zone, its owner must pay {2} for each time it was previously cast from the Command zone.

If a Commander would be put into a Graveyard or Exile from anywhere, its owner may choose to move it to the Command zone instead. This is a replacement effect; the card never goes to the Graveyard or Exile and will not trigger abilities. Commanders will move to the Library or Hand as normal; only transitions to Exile or the Graveyard may be replaced.

Players begin the game with 30 life.

Commanders are subject to the Legend and Planeswalker Subtype rules; they will be put into the Graveyard or Command zone at the same time as other Legendary Creatures with the same name or Planeswalkesr with the same subtype.

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These rules are derived from the Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) rules released under the Academic Free License (AFL) by Gavin Duggan.

Fier de son succès dans son pays d'origine, le MMORPG free-to-play chinois Loong : The Power of the Dragon s'apprête à conquérir l'Occident dès cet été. Comptant près de 40 millions d'utilisateurs en Chine, ce titre affiche des ambitions sérieuses, s(...)

Fier de son succès dans son pays d'origine, le MMORPG free-to-play chinois Loong : The Power of the Dragon s'apprête à conquérir l'Occident dès cet été. Comptant près de 40 millions d'utilisateurs en Chine, ce titre affiche des ambitions sérieuses, s(...)

Après avoir connu un succès phénoménal en Chine, lE MMORPG free-to-play Loong : The Power of the Dragon s'apprête à conquérir l'Occident cet été.(...)

Après avoir connu un succès phénoménal en Chine, lE MMORPG free-to-play Loong : The Power of the Dragon s'apprête à conquérir l'Occident cet été.(...)

Join us, brothers and sisters. Join us in the shadows where we stand! Latest trailer for Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

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Les chasseurs de monstres en herbes vont pouvoir se la jouer classe avec cette version collector de Monster Hunter 3. Précisément, ceux ne sont pas deux mais trois versions du RPG de chez Capcom qui vont débarquer en Europe, en voici le détail en image : Vous aurez donc le choix entre une vers...

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Appartenant autrefois à la noblesse de Férelden, Nathaniel Howe ne vit plus que pour venger son père assassiné par un Garde des Ombres.(...)

En pleine confiance, Bioware n’a pas hésité à insérer de mystérieuses affiches dans les boites de Dragon Age Origins : The Awakening.

Electronic Arts diffuse le launch trailer de l'extension de son RPG Dragon Age : Origins - Awakening dont la sortie est calée à demain. Dragon Age - Origins - Awakening - Launch Trailerenvoyé pa...

New character to recruit

Downloadable content (DLC) for the consoles is clearly here to stay. I got a copy of Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening today - it was on disc, but it will be available for download - and now just need to find the time to play what sounds like 25 hours worth of decent content. Bioware have also just released details of a new character called Kasumi - the galaxy's most enigmatic thief, apparently - who will be appearing in the upcoming Mass Effect 2 DLC in April. Quite frankly I'll take any chance to play more Mass Effect 2 and - assuming the price is not ridiculous - will be snapping this up. The premise sounds promising enough:

The galaxy's most enigmatic thief Kasumi has enemies everywhere, but only a few could put a face to her name. Not much is known about her, other than Cerberus has contracted her to assist Commander Shepard in the mission to save mankind. In exchange, she requires help with a dangerous heist to infiltrate the vault of a deadly criminal known as Donovan Hook.

Bioware seem to be cornering the market in quality DLC then, but what else is out there? I'll be checking out the Bioshock 2 DLC very soon but anyone else got any good recommendations? Or are you simply too busy ploughing through your ever increasing to-play pile to get round to buying some DLC?

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Fernando Paiz nous a gratifié d'un "Etat du Jeu 2010" dans une récente interview et sur le site DDO US plus récemment.

MESS, acronyme de Multiple Emulateur Super System, est sans doute le plus gros émulateur existant. Il gère plus d'une centaine de machines. Il reprend le noyau de MAME pour simuler les machines arcade. Il émule également les consoles et les ordinateurs.

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Nouveaux pilotes supportés :
- Casio PV-1000 [Wilbert Pol, plgDavid]
- Research Machines Nimbus [Phill Harvey-Smith]
- Iskra-1031 [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Iskra-1030M [Miodrag Milanovic]
- EC-1840, EC-1841, EC-1845 [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Spektr BK-001 [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Zvezda [Miodrag Milanovic]
- MK-88 [Miodrag Milanovic]
- Poisk-1, Poisk-2 [Miodrag Milanovic]
- PK8020 Neiva, PK8020 Kontur [Miodrag Milanovic]
- C64 Direct-to-TV (not working) [Guru, Fabio Priuli]

Nouveau système promu du statut NON_FONCTIONNEL :
- Victory MPT-02 and clones [Curt Coder]

Pilotes du squelette :
- Amstrad MegaPC
- Amstrad MegaPC Plus
- BestZX
- Contel Codata Corporation Codata
- Digital Microsystems DMS-86
- Digital Microsystems DMS-5000
- Digital Microsystems ZSBC-3
- Sanyo PHC-25 [Gilles Fetis, Curt Coder]
- Tandy 2000 [Curt Coder]
- TRS-80 Model II [Curt Coder]
- TRS-80 Model II/16 [Curt Coder]
- Victor 9000 [Curt Coder]
- Xerox 820-II [Curt Coder]
- Xerox 16/8 [Curt Coder]

Changement dans les pilotes :
- [ABC80] Correction partielle des entrées du clavier.
- [APEXC] Correction du désassemblage dans le débogueur.
- [C16] Connexion du lecteur de disquette 1551 du Commodore.
- [C64] Ajout d'un accès en lecture-seule pour les disquettes D64.
- [C128] Ajout d'un accès en lecture-seule pour les disquettes D71 double face.
- [C128] Le bus série IEC rapide est maintenant supporté avec un 1571/1581.
- [COCO3] Correction de l'émulation du minuteur haute résolution du Coco3.
- [INTV] Correction de la détection des collisions.
- [MIKROMIK] Correction d'une régression de segmentation de la mémoire.
- [ODYSSEY2] Correction de la forme du caractère $.
- [PDP1] Correction d'un crash lors de l'invocation du débogueur.
- [PET] Changement du lecteur de disquette du Commodore 4040 pour les séries 2001/30xx/40xx. Changement du lecteur de disquette du Commodore 8050 pour les séries 80xx.
- [SCV] Correction d'une l'implémentation de l'audio upd177c.
- [SMS] Correction d'un blocage de PGA Tour Golf.
- [SNES] Travail sur la vidéo de la Super NES.
- [SNES] Retrait de l'implémentation de mult/div à travers les minuteurs puisqu'elle cassait beaucoup de jeux dans la version 0.136.
- [SNES] Correction de problèmes dans les modes haute-résolution.
- [SNES] Correction de la lecture de la manette série cassée depuis la version 0.134. Vous pouvez de nouveau lancer Super Double Dragon et Super Star Wars Empire Strike Back (et probablement d'autres jeux).
- [SNES] Correction des graphiques "offset-per-sprite".
- [SNES] Correction de problème de défilement.
- [SNES] Ajout du support de la souris et du SuperScope.
- [SNES] Correction d'un débordement OAM.
- [Spectrum] Ajout du support des formats ach, .frz, .plusd, .prg, .sem, .sit, .snp, .snx et .zx. Théoriquement, correction des problèmes avec les formats .sna et .sp.
- [Spectrum] Ajout du support du format de chargement rapide .raw.
- [TX0] Correction du désassemblage dans le débogueur.

Changements dans les sources :
- Basé sur MAME 0.137.
- Reconstruction de l'interface MOS6526 CIA. Ajout de retours de service SP/CNT. Correction des transferts du port série.
- Nettoyage pour l'utilisation de driver_data et Standard C library.
- Correction d'erreurs 'uninitialized variable'.
- Implémentation du signal 'disk changed' (DSKCHG) du lecteur de disquette.
- Implémentation du signal 'disk double sided' du lecteur de disquette.
- Emulation des lecteurs de disquettes du Commodore au niveau matériel : 1551, 1571, 1581, 2040, 3040, 4040, 8050, 8250, SFD-1001.
- Ajout du support en lecture-seule pour les formats d'image de disque : D64, D71, D81, D80, D82.

Atlus has released a new 3D Dot Game Heroes vignette called "The Most Interesting Hero in 3D". Why's he so interesting? Because even dragons consider him a boss. Check it out after the jump.

A l'occasion de la sortie de Dragon Age Origins : The Awakening, Bioware nous propose une vidéo de cette première extension.(...)

They have a voice. They're going to use it.

Let's remove any confusion from the start. Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening is not another piece of crappy DLC following the dismal inclusions we've seen since the BioWare RPG's release last November. This expansion is 25 hours of full-scale new content, essentially an entire new game, that picks up the story however you may have left it. It has a new setting, a (mostly) new crew of companions, new abilities, skills, spells and talents, and most importantly, a re-imagined approach that's appropriate to a shorter format while still achieving the necessary sense of scale.

You've finished Dragon Age, right? By necessity, this review has to mention the events at the end of that game, so consider yourself spoiler-warned. That said, we can all rest easy because the Archdemon has been defeated, the Blight quashed, and now all citizens of Ferelden live in happy bliss, singing songs of praise to the mighty Grey Warden [your name here] who saved the day. Except, of course, that's not the case at all. It's never that easy.

There are a number of ways you could have chosen to end Dragon Age. The consequences of these can be dramatic enough that you might not even have a character to import into the start of Awakenings. My character, Simon, survived, and so I pick things up with the level 21 Grey Warden being attacked on his way to Warden stronghold Vigil's Keep to take up his post as Commander. Attacked by darkspawn.

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Tout comme ce sera le cas avec Monster Hunter Tri et Dragon Quest IX, Nintendo prendra soin d'une autre licence importante lors de sa sortie en Occident. Dans un communiqué de presse, le constructeur annonce son partenariat avec Koei en vue de l'édition de Samurai Warriors 3 aux Etats-Unis. ...

Hoo Avalon, célèbre Ile de la littérature Arthurienne aurait-elle un rapport avec Avalon Code ? Pas si sûr ! En tout cas ce qui l'est c'est que cet A-RPG a été développé par Matrix Software à qui l'ont doit quelques remakes sur Nintendo DS (Final Fantasy III & IV, Dragon Quest IV) mais aussi le célèbre Alundra sur Playstation ! Alors, à quelle sauce vous sera proposé Avalon Code (disponible en Europe dès vendredi) ? Réponse dans ce test : Cliquez sur l'image...