via MacNN:

The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software have launched Frenzic, a game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Seven levels can be conquered, from Newbie to Frenzic Grandmaster, each requiring the player to move a wedge from the center circle and into one of the six corresponding circles surrounding it. Gamers can track personal scores, or compare performance against other players via the Internet. If the gamer ...


More...

p—bTrion and Sci Fi staff up forthcoming game/TV project/b : MMO and virtual world developer a href="http://www.trionworld.com/index.php" title="Trion World Network"Trion World Network/a and The Sci Fi Channel are building out the team for their a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-investors-pump-1485-million-into-12-virtual-worlds-companies-in-q3" title="as yet unnamed videogame/TV show hybrid"as yet unnamed videogame/TV show hybrid/a: Blizzard Entertainment and Carbine Studios vet Kevin Beardslee will serve as senior development director, and TV writer Peter Egan will pen the first episode. a href="http://www.trionworld.com/news14.php" title="Release"Release/a. /p p —bWorld of Warcraft's new sales record/b : Activision (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=ATVI" class="ticker" title="ATVI"NSDQ: ATVI/a) Blizzard's money-maker continues to live up to the hype—a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/" title="Wrath of the Lich King"Wrath of the Lich King/a, the latest installment of World of Warcraft (WoW) bsold 2.8 million copies worldwide in the first 24 hours of its release/b. At about $40 a pop, that means Lich King could have clocked in about $112 million in sales on its first day, though that's not counting retailer discounts or the $70 Collector's Edition (that comes with extra branded merchandise). And let's not forget the residual income from the game's $15 monthly subscription fee. The publisher says Lich King broke the first day sales record for PC games (which was set almost two years ago by the first WoW expansion, a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/" title="The Burning Crusade"The Burning Crusade/a). a href="http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=349190" title="Release"Release/a. /p p —bPublishers adopt Live Gamer's upgraded virtual transaction platform/b : Acclaim Games, GoPets and IAC's Instant Action.com have all adopted Live Gamer Exhange, an upgraded virtual goods transaction platform from in-game commerce tech firm a href="http://www.livegamer.com/index.php" title="Live Gamer"Live Gamer/a. The new platform lets players buy, sell and trade items like gold and other virtual merchandise using real-world money. a href="http://www.livegamer.com/014news.php" title="Release"Release/a. /p p iMore after the jump. /i /pp—bRealNetworks (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=RNWK" class="ticker" title="RNWK"NSDQ: RNWK/a) relaunches GameHouse/b : RealNetworks has relaunched its casual games hub a href="http://www.gamehouse.com/" title="GameHouse "GameHouse /a and the available payment options: including unlimited play for $20/month and a "club" membership with discounts. The site also features a free daily game giveaway. Of course, there are a glut of casual gaming sites, so anything a single one can do to stand out is a plus. a href="http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2008/gamehouse.html" title="Release"Release/a. /p p —bGauging the influence of in-game ads/b : Dynamic in-game ads influence 14 percent of electronics purchases in consumers aged 18-34, beating out satellite radio and outdoor billboard units. The stats from BIG Research and the National Retail foundation may help electronics advertisers decide which "experimental" channels they should stick with in the midst of budget cutbacks. a href="http://adage.com/article?article_id=132742" title="Via AdAge."Via AdAge./a br / /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=Ytl95I"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=Ytl95I" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=iYBVN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=iYBVN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=HMO4N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=HMO4N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=VJIon"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=VJIon" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=MAwXN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=MAwXN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=RjwDN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=RjwDN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/461342680" height="1" width="1"/

The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software have launched Frenzic, a game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Seven levels can be conquered, from Newbie to Frenzic Grandmaster, each requiring the player to move a wedge from the center circle and into one of the six corresponding circles surrounding it. Gamers can track personal scores, or compare performance against other players via the Internet. If the gamer ...

The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software have launched Frenzic, a game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Seven levels can be conquered, from Newbie to Frenzic Grandmaster, each requiring the player to move a wedge from the center circle and into one of the six corresponding circles surrounding it. Gamers can track personal scores, or compare performance against other players via the Internet. If the gamer ...

UK based magazine PC GAMER has reviewed GTA IV and it has received a score of 92 percent and been awarded their 'must buy' badge. Bottom line is the game looks great and the keyboard and mouse combination is effortless to use. There is the odd issue including framerate issues, but none of these are determined incredibly serious by the reviewer.

Asus vient de présenter sa machine à base de Core i7, la nouvelle architecture du fondeur américain, Intel. Ce PC de bureau venu d’ailleurs porte le nom de CG6190. En Core i7 Deux processeurs peuvent garnir le socket 1366 destiné au Core i7, l’un de bas

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/scottritchie.png alt= The MediaTomb software is extremely powerful, however it's a serious pain to get it working.nbsp; I had one task in mind: get my videos folder playable on my Dad's PS3 by streaming.nbsp; It took me about 2 hours to set up and configure by manually a href=http://mediatomb.cc/dokuwiki/transcoding:transcodingediting a config file and creating some custom scripts/a - and that was after Inbsp;even learned what UPNP streaming is and which software I had to download in the first place.br /br /In the end, however, it worked beautifully.nbsp; My dad could click quot;search for media serversquot;nbsp;on the Playstation, have it discover my computer, then he could just click videos and find the one to play.nbsp; In the background, MediaTomb was silently transcoding the .mkv format (which the PS3 doesn't understand) to MPEG2.br /br /strongWe can do so much better/strongbr /br /Imagine how amazing an easy interface to mediatomb could be. nbsp;I could right click my Videos folder, select sharing options, and then check a box for quot;stream media in this folder over the network.quot;nbsp; Instead of manually editing configuration files and editing scripts, I click a button that says I have a Playstation, and it sets that all up automatically.nbsp; I never even hav to learn what codecs are, what UPNPnbsp;does, or even that I'm using MediaTomb.br /br /This could be a major feature in Ubuntu.nbsp; This is something where we can easily outclass Apple and Microsoft, who seemed to be more worried about copy protection then actually letting you watch your own movies.nbsp; It could even be a selling point for the Best Buy clerk trying to explain the boxed Ubuntu copy to a console gamer.br /br /strongThis requires real work to do/strongbr /br /On a personal note,nbsp;Inbsp;haven't made a post in a few weeks. nbsp;Real life has been very hectic.nbsp; I moved back in with my parents to save some money, but the situation has become clearly unlivable for me and I'm finding it very hard to spend enough time on open source.nbsp; There's a href=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScottRitchieso much/a for me to do in the coming months, and it'd be a real shame if Jaunty wasn't as good as it could be because I was too busy doing quot;realquot; work so I could get out of the house.br /br /I'd really like to get more involved with making things like this much easier for every day human beings.nbsp; I'm going to be visiting some apartments tomorrow in preparation for moving out, however I'm not sure if I'll have the savings to do it without making a huge financial risk.nbsp; Inbsp;may get stuck in a menial job just to pay rent, working even less on Ubuntu than I am now.nbsp; Or, I might luck out and land a job at a place like Canonical, and be able to spend 80 hours a week just doing what I love.nbsp; I can't help but feel optimistic in this community.br /

Even before "The Wizard" enchanted and inspired the gaming generation, gamers have sought that final prize: making a living playing video games. Unfortunately, dreams of professional-gamerism have been shown to be as elusive as dreams of being a professional gambler. Luckily, startup BringIt is attempting to make both those dreams a little more attainable. BringIt made the connection between the huge online gambling market and the exploding online gaming community, and has created a site where gamers can challenge one another with cash on the barrelhead.

Earlier on Boing Boing, Cory blogged that President-elect Barack Obama has appointed Net Neutrality advocates and "virtual worlds nuts" Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford to co-chair his FCC transition team. Okay, so we might know the guy as Kevin Werbach out here in meatspace, but to his Terror Nova Guild buddies, he's better known as Supernovan Jenkins (the first name presumably a reference to Werbach's Supernova tech conference series), and he's a Level 70 Tauren Shaman. Livejournaler Waltermonkey opines on the deeper meaning of Werbach's WoW identity: What does this tell us about him, as a person, as a gamer, as a government official? I will attempt to translate all the dorkese. 1. - CULTURAL RELATIVISM Every player in WoW belongs to one of two warring factions, Alliance or Horde. Werbach is Horde. Children often choose to be Alliance because they perceive them as "the good guys", but students of history (both ours and Azeroth's) recognize that Alliance culture is based on medieval European culture and Horde culture is based on the indigenous cultures that were supplanted by the West. Werbach is a Tauren (a minotaur), which basically makes him a Native Kalimdorian. The Tauren revere nature, living in wigwams near giant totem poles. As a Shaman (see below), he could also have chosen a troll (blue-skinned Jamaican-like monster) or an orc (green-skinned Klingon-like monster), so there must be something about the cow-man that appeals to his liberal guilt. Read the whole thing: victory or death! yes we can! (Waltermonkey; thanks Drew Coombs of Project Lore! Recompense of phat lewt, reagents, and pizza await thee.)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=1578573baac1ac7ab7deda86b74b4daeamp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=1578573baac1ac7ab7deda86b74b4daeamp;p=1" border="0" //a

Geek ou retro-gamer, la toute nouvelle collection de stickers muraux géants Nintendo est disponible en France. Tout ce qu'il faut pour s'immerger dans l'univers de Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong et New Super Mario. A mettre d'urgence sous son sapin!

Asus complète sa gamme Republic of Gamer avec une nouvelle machine bâtie sur le chipset Intel X58.

With Midway's holiday hopes (and financial future) pinned on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, it appears the reviewers aren't going to help the company out. Barring major outlier Giant Bomb and its 5/5, most outlets appear to be sticking around 80 and below. If it does well at retail, MK vs. DC may help prevent the publisher from hearing an ominous voice-over: "Finish him!"

GamePro (80/100): "Though far from a technical fighting game, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe exceeds expectations by delivering a solidly enjoyable casual fighter. The Mature-rated gore is missed, but the core combat here feels more confident and energetic than it has in years."
IGN (75/100): "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is fun and a solid entry into the franchise, but I doubt many folks will find it entertaining past a rental. Casual players will punch through the storyline before burning out after getting stumped by one or two Kombo Challenges, while Mortal Kombat fans will have trouble accepting the toned down Fatalities and somewhat slower gameplay."
GameSpy (70/100): "Though MK vs. DC purports to shake up the franchise, the reality is that among the many new touches that the game adds it still lacks the depth of other fighters available today. Again, it doesn't feel dramatically different from its predecessors, save for new mini-game modes and a big facelift. The movesets are rather generic (most are a variation of "down, forward, button") and feel a tad antiquated. Its big hook (the crossover license) can't justify the relatively shallow fighting on hand."
1UP (B-): (Calculated as 67 on Metacritic) "MK vs. DCU is an oddly enjoyable distraction from "real" fighters. Its masher-friendly controls appeal to me in a casual-gamer way, and the midmatch minigames (damage-percentage tugs-of-war, airborne ass-kickings with the defender mirroring the aggressor's button-presses in a bid for dominance) give the fights a sort of party-game vibe."

With Midway's holiday hopes (and financial future) pinned on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, it appears the reviewers aren't going to help the company out. Barring major outlier Giant Bomb and its 5/5, most outlets appear to be sticking around 80 and below. If it does well at retail, MK vs. DC may help prevent the publisher from hearing an ominous voice-over: "Finish him!"

GamePro (80/100): "Though far from a technical fighting game, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe exceeds expectations by delivering a solidly enjoyable casual fighter. The Mature-rated gore is missed, but the core combat here feels more confident and energetic than it has in years."
IGN (75/100): "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is fun and a solid entry into the franchise, but I doubt many folks will find it entertaining past a rental. Casual players will punch through the storyline before burning out after getting stumped by one or two Kombo Challenges, while Mortal Kombat fans will have trouble accepting the toned down Fatalities and somewhat slower gameplay."
GameSpy (70/100): "Though MK vs. DC purports to shake up the franchise, the reality is that among the many new touches that the game adds it still lacks the depth of other fighters available today. Again, it doesn't feel dramatically different from its predecessors, save for new mini-game modes and a big facelift. The movesets are rather generic (most are a variation of "down, forward, button") and feel a tad antiquated. Its big hook (the crossover license) can't justify the relatively shallow fighting on hand."
1UP (B-): (Calculated as 67 on Metacritic) "MK vs. DCU is an oddly enjoyable distraction from "real" fighters. Its masher-friendly controls appeal to me in a casual-gamer way, and the midmatch minigames (damage-percentage tugs-of-war, airborne ass-kickings with the defender mirroring the aggressor's button-presses in a bid for dominance) give the fights a sort of party-game vibe."

Synergy. Can you dig it? Sony does, finally noticing those 14 million accounts stranded on the console-side of PlayStation Network. We imagine the meeting went a little something like this:

Exec One: You see, we've got 14 million people over here [*motions to his right*]. But what if we could take them [*lifts his hands up*] and stick 'em over here, too? [*motions back to his left*]
Exec Two: So are you gonna eat that last Mint Milano or what?

Exec One: No -- well ... let's split it.
Exec Two: Deal.
The result? PSN IDs are being incorporated into PlayStation.com and, at a later date, PlayStation.Blog. Doing so will make your friends list and other features accessible through a web browser -- oh my! On a solemn note, these changes bring PlayStation Underground to its inevitable end, but members can hold on to some of the good times by merging their Underground accounts with their PSN IDs. And this is only the beginning, promises PSN senior director Susan Panico: "before this year is over we'll have more enhancements for your gamer profile." Dare we say, a New PlayStation Experience?

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/ps...ground-closes/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/mac/" rel="tag"Mac/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag"Online/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/11/19/playstationcom-continues-to-evolve/"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/ps.com.reboot.490w.jpg" alt="playstation.com" //a/div Synergy. Can you dig it? Sony does, finally noticing those a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/sony-80-of-ps3-owners-active-on-psn/"14 million accounts/a stranded on the console-side of PlayStation Network. We imagine the meeting went a little something like this:br / ul liemExec One:/em You see, we've got 14 million people over here [*motions to his right*]. But what if we could take them [*lifts his hands up*] and stick 'em over here, too? [*motions back to his left*]/li liemExec Two:/em So are you gonna eat that last Mint Milano or what?br //li liemExec One:/em No -- well ... let's split it./li liemExec Two:/em Deal./li /ul The result? PSN IDs are being incorporated into PlayStation.com and, at a later date, PlayStation.Blog. Doing so will make your friends list and other features accessible through a web browser -- emoh my!/em On a solemn note, these changes bring PlayStation Underground to its inevitable end, but members can hold on to some of the good times by merging their Underground accounts with their PSN IDs. And this is only the beginning, a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/11/19/playstationcom-continues-to-evolve/"promises/a PSN senior director Susan Panico: "before this year is over we'll have more enhancements for your gamer profile." Dare we say, a New PlayStation Experience?p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/psn-ids-on-playstation-com-underground-closes/"PSN IDs on PlayStation.com, 'Underground' closes/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:22:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/11/19/playstationcom-continues-to-evolve/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/psn-ids-on-playstation-com-underground-closes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1378109/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/psn-ids-on-playstation-com-underground-closes/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cmAWkFX78-VTf_ly6NKurUrlquk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cmAWkFX78-VTf_ly6NKurUrlquk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=iM403hkF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=iM403hkF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=aExBJNDF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=aExBJNDF" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/xE4HOcRTeBE" height="1" width="1"/

One gamer is claiming that Microsoft is asking for $100 to fix his Xbox 360 that was bricked after installing the New Xbox Experience. Many gamers have apparently received an error code after the NXE install.

Being an older gamer, I still have trouble using the keyboard as opposed to a gamepad or joystick to move in different directions. I've used a free download to map/convert gamepad movements to keyboard arrow keys, but it doesn't work that well. Has anyone seen a USB gamepad or keyboard that can send keyboard characters directly to the PC? pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Zg-vxZ5QE9GN3YUoBj7SZ_Z-K6w/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Zg-vxZ5QE9GN3YUoBj7SZ_Z-K6w/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?a=668YbgqO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?a=z4RhaSzg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?d=308" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?a=1m7tyloH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?i=1m7tyloH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?a=FBfxNJWr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?i=FBfxNJWr" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?a=4Foquzml"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?a=x1hKTB38"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/extremetech?d=129" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/extremetech/~4/m902SzkZ5pg" height="1" width="1"/