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March 24 will mark the day that the first sports game ever will be
broadcast live in 3-D to a U.S. audience, thanks to a cooperation between MSG and
Cablevision. Hockey-loving Cablevision subscribers will be able to catch the Rangers face off
against the Islanders on iO TV channel 1300, according to Engadget. New York-based fans will also be able to watch the
game live at at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. You know, just in case you haven’t
spent $3000 on one of the 3D TV sets that have only been available for a few weeks.
MSG said that it is currently in discussions with other operators about carrying the game as
well, but Cablevision definitely scored a bit of a prize with this one. Comcast announced earlier
this week that it will broadcast
the Masters Tournament in 3-D, which would have given it the bragging rights for the first
3-d sports event ever broadcast in the U.S. ESPN
previously announced that it will start a 3-D network in time for the World Cup in June, and
DirecTV also has some 3-D sports coverage in the works for the coming months.
Rangers vs. Islanders will be shot with technology from 3ality Digital, which also powered BSkyB’s January 3-D Premiere League
Soccer broadcast.
Due to population decline, Detroit plans
on bulldozing roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city into semi-rural farmland. It is a worst
case scenario in America, but pales to the problem of Eastern Germany, where demographic collapse
in some towns is so severe, urban-wolves and neo-Nazis are the new order
of the day. The mayor of one town says: "You can't go into the forest without a knife anymore."
More on Eastern Germany demographic collapse:
Well, this is a
surprise. Square Enix's iPhone RPG
Chaos Rings looks, in terms of design, like one of its PlayStation-era RPGs, and, in terms
of graphical quality, better than one of its PlayStation-era RPGs. Watch the trailer for
the Media Vision-developed game after the break, and you'll see what we mean. Dynamic camera
angles, detailed -- and stylish -- monsters and characters, and interesting prerendered
environments are all on display.
What's nice is that since RPGs don't really require precise controls, we can semi-safely get
interested in this game without having our hopes dashed by the platform. It could still turn out to
be terrible, but it isn't guaranteed to be.
Well, this is a
surprise. Square Enix's iPhone RPG
Chaos Rings looks, in terms of design, like one of its PlayStation-era RPGs, and, in terms
of graphical quality, better than one of its PlayStation-era RPGs. Watch the trailer for
the Media Vision-developed game after the break, and you'll see what we mean. Dynamic camera
angles, detailed -- and stylish -- monsters and characters, and interesting prerendered
environments are all on display.
What's nice is that since RPGs don't really require precise controls, we can semi-safely get
interested in this game without having our hopes dashed by the platform. It could still turn out to
be terrible, but it isn't guaranteed to be.
Alors que Final Fantasy XIII est désormais disponible partout, l'on peut supposer que Square
Enix va enfin communiquer sur Final Fantasy Versus XIII, action RPG exclusif à la
PlayStation...
Quoi de neuf aujourd'hui sur FunTouch ? Ces derniers jours ont été marqués par
l'annonce de Square Enix d'un nouveau jeu de rôle spécifiquement
développé pour l'iPhone, Chaos Rings. Réalisé tout en 3D, le jeu a des
faux airs de Final Fantasy (...)
Just as
Comcast leapfrogged DirecTV's 3D plans, its claim to the first live HD 3D event has been stolen
away by Cablevision, which will broadcast a
Rangers/Islanders NHL matchup Wednesday, shown both in a special viewing party in the Theater at
Madison Square Garden and on iO TV channel 1300 (if you already have a 3DTV but not Cablevision
then keep an eye on your channel guide as, like the Masters broadcast, it may be shared with other
networks.) While this is probably just the beginning of another FCC battle over who it will
have to share the broadcasts with, MSG is just focusing on keeping a trend going since it was
one of the first to jump on HDTV production of NBA and NHL games way back in 1998 and plans to keep
3D broadcasts coming over the next year with more games and concerts. Production is being handled
by 3ality Digital, previously responsible for the BCS game that turned some of
our preconceived notions about 3D with its BCS National Championship broadcast a little over a
year ago, which plans to use 5 cameras from a lower angle than usual to resemble the perspective of
the actual players -- minus concussion-inducing blindside hits to the head. Anyone willing to host
a viewing party? We're totally down to bring snacks... if you'll cover our
3D glasses.
Square Enix vient d'annoncer son prochain gros projet exclusif iPhone et iPod Touch : Chaos Rings.
Se basant sur des mécaniques similaires à un Final Fantasy, la production promet
d'être particulièrement intéressante.
Bonne nouvelle pour les joueurs sur iPhone et iPod Touch : Chaos Rings de
Square Enix - Final Fantasy - devrait débarquer sur iPhone. L'éditeur, du moins,
publie une vidéo de mise en bouche plutôt formidable. Pas de date de sortie connue.
Maintenant que la
date de sortie du soft est officiellement dévoilée, il ne reste plus
qu’à Square Enix à essayer de faire monter la sauce
auprès des joueurs, en diffusant par exemple une vidéo musclée qui ne pourra
que caresser les bourrins en herbe dans le sens du poil.
Pas franchement original, mais efficace. Et c’est le principal…
Square Enix continue d'alimenter notre galerie d'images de Front Mission Evolved dont la sortie
reste calée au 2° trimestre de cette année, mais sans date plus précise.
Vous serez aux commandes...
Got some strange screws that need unscrewing? Want to get in there and modify some gear the
manufacturer didn't trust you to open? Maybe you need to pick up the new 54 Piece Bit
Driver Kit over in the Maker Shed.
This kit includes a magnetized driver with metal shaft, swivel top, and rubberized grip, a 60 mm
extension, a 130 mm flexible extension, and 54 bits. By iFixit.
Square Enix vient de fournir de nouveaux visuels de Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 en mettant en
avant le mode multijoueur, praticable en Wi-Fi contre des joueurs du monde entier.
A Times Square protest is currently underway in support of jailed activists Lt. Dan Choi and Cpt.
Jim Pietrangelo.
Protesters are reportedly chanting: "Release the DC 2! Now!" "We are out, let us in!" I
recognize some members of Queer Rising and that's Rainbow Flag creator Gilbert Baker on the
right.
Choi and Pietrangelo's D.C. arraignment is scheduled for 1pm at Courtroom 115, 500 Indiana NW.
Après les Shades en artworks hier, Square Enix illustre à nouveau Nier au travers de
ces pas moins de 31 images tirées de la version japonaise. Nier débarquera le 23
avril prochain....
Another familiar story for Fashion-Technology collaboration…this time it is Canon USA and
the fashion brand LeSportsac having come up with an exclusive design digital camera case for
Canon’s PowerShot ELPH digital cameras. Featuring a so-called “square dance”
pattern, the case comes with a long strap as well as a swivel hook strap allowing you to carry it
the way you are comfortable with.
Americablog
reports: "It increasingly looks as though someone has decided to play hardball with Dan and
James. The Park Police say that Dan is not being released on bail. Dan also has not made his
phone call to the person designed to pay his bail - the person's phone number is written on Dan's
arm, so there's no chance he doesn't have it. That means that Dan apparently is not being
permitted a phone call, and thus not being permitted to have anyone pay his bail. Why not? We
have just learned that Dan is in fact being charged with "failure to obey a lawful order," yet
that charge usually means you get processed, you pay bail, and you leave. Then why are they not
letting Dan Choi leave, but instead are holding him to be arraigned? Why are they apparently not
permitting Dan his phone call?"
Pam Spaulding
has some photos of the activists sitting inside Pelosi's office. Four of eight activists were
arrested, transported to Central Cell Block in D.C., where Choi and Pietrangelo were being held.
They were released without bail. Their court date is April 6.
Six of the eleven activists sitting inside Pelosi's offices in San Francisco were arrested,
according to GetEQUAL's Kip Williams. They were detained, cited, and released with a fine for
disturbance charge.
Pour les fans de Final Fantasy XIII qui possédent un Iphone, nous apprenons qu'une
application concernant le titre de Square-Enix vient de débarquer sur l'App Store. D'un
montant de 6.99euros (), cett...
You think the idea of user-generated content as a business model was invented in the
Aughts? No way. Media outlets have been drawing on material created by amateurs, consumers and
customers for generations and repackaging it for your entertainment.
Folksy as it may sound, our history is driven not strictly by the polished content produced by a
class of citizens with a slew of degrees and many years of training - a surprisingly amount has
been generated in a largely unfiltered form by the masses.
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Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and social media
consultant. He is @obilon on Twitter.
Necessity meant that user-generated content was packaged and presented through very structured
channels. That's not that different from today, where the stuff that we produce is presented
through some slick content management system on websites like Blogger or Square Space or through
podcatching software like iTunes.
Talk Radio
Click and Clack (Tom and Ray) are two brothers from the very funny and very informative
nationally syndicated NPR call-in show, "Car Talk." Since the 1980s, these guys have done nothing
but take calls from real life people who are having trouble with their cars, and then attempt to
give good advice and be funny at the same time. It works. While the actual talking is done by
these two grease monkeys the fodder is all provided by real people who call in with real
automotive woes.
Dear Abby
Think that newspapers are being killed by user-generated content? Well it's about time we
returned the favor since so many advice columnists made a name for themselves using our pitiful
problems to advance their fame, dispense advice, sell a few newspapers and make some dough to
boot.
One of the most famous and recognizable names in the advice column game was started in 1956 by
one Pauline Phillips using the pen name Abigail van Buren or Dear Abby to dispense her "uncommon common sense". Without the contribution of
hundreds of thousands of users over the years, Dear Abby and her twin sister, Eppie Lederer
(a.k.a Anne Landers), would never been able to produce such a voluminous supply of folksy advice.
America's Funniest Home Videos
With the invention of the hand-held Super8 film camera and the video tape recorder, average
people could tape themselves doing all sorts of silly, stupid, dangerous, profound or mundane
things. Sometime in the late 1980s, television producers saw a goldmine in the stockpile of
footage the average American had been recording for more than two decades.
In closest precursor to YouTube that anyone can probably point to, AFV consisted of the
serendipitous slapstick of the average American man and beast. From sledding into the side of a
house to a cake in the face, American viewers are still not tired of this shows format even
though much more of the same can be found on YouTube every day.
Fanzines
Of course, the geeks rule in this very early form of user-generated content. In the 1930s,
amateur magazines were produced by science fiction fans as a way to connect with other
like-minded people. This became a massive network of people who produced, collected, commented
and held conversations about science fiction. Some of the early fanzine publications even
consisted entirely of letters sent in by subscribers - a publication with a cool sort of
self-generating content paradox!
The preeminent SciFi convention, Worldcon, even instituted a best Best Fan Writer and Best Fan
Artist category in the mid fifties to recognize the best of fan made content. Technological
innovations like mimeograph and photocopy machines allowed for faster, quicker reproduction of
fanzines to a global audience but unfortunately it wasn't until bulletin board newsgroups and
blogging technologies came about until that information could be transmitted faster than the
postal system allowed.
Late-Night Television
David Letterman had some wild antics by decidedly non-professional persons and animals with the
Stupid Human Tricks and Stupid Pet Tricks segments on his late night
show.
Along with fellow comedy writer, Merrill Markoe,
Letterman hit on success with these two segments that invited the public to showcase their
talents (and the talents of their furry friends) on national television. There were others who
followed the David Letterman model of plumbing regular people for content to display on big media
outlets.
I’m at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in
a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to
keep paying for it. It’s a big issue locally– earlier this year three of
Hawaii’s five largest TV news stations merged
operations and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin isÂ
merging with the other daily paper the Honolulu Advertiser, resulting in plenty of layoffs
and general civic concern.
So it’s fitting that the conference ended with a talk by John Temple, the editor of eBay
founder Pierre Omidyar’s new Peer News
site, a test case in how the future of local news could work. And thankfully, we finally got
a few more details on the site and the approach.
Temple was clear to say “there is no silver bullet” when it comes to fixing the media
business, but also sees a great deal of hope in the volatility– this from the guy who was
head of the now shuttered Rocky Mountain News, a paper that’s already gone through what so
many dailies are dreading.
“We’re not trying to reinvent a local newspaper and put it on the Web,” he
said. Indeed, the mission of Peer News doesn’t even contain the words “news” or
“media” or “paper.” It’s simply “to create a new civic
square.” Core to the development of Peer were three questions:
-What is the role of a free press in a democracy?
-How would you best fulfill that on a local level using all the tools available today?
-How do you do that in a sustainable way?
On content, the most interesting thing Temple talked about was doing away with
“articles” as we know them. He criticized the static, episodic nature by which
journalists have traditional covered news, challenging readers to hunt through archives for the
information they want. Instead, Peer’s “building block” will be a page
that’s always updated almost like Wikipedia, or as he put it, “something closer to a
living history on a topic that changes as it develops.” There will no longer be a sense of
“missing” an article, because the “articles” will be living things. That
also addresses the critique that local news swarms around one issue, then moves on.
“We’re not going to be hot topic driven,” Temple says. Going back to those
questions, Temple says the role of a free press is to inform citizens so they can make
intelligent decisions. “Let’s stop making it so difficult,” he said.
The other hallmark of Peer’s approach is what has made blogs popular– a sense of
community. But it’s certainly a different approach. For one thing, Peer won’t have
“reporters” in the classical sense, it will have “hosts” who help
facilitate this civic square answering questions for the community. “In this
era, the fact that newspapers still rewrite press releases is an embarrassment,” Temple
said. “We’re not going to be stenographers. I think that’s a downfall of
journalism.”
But for a site that intends to be very community oriented, there was one big shocker: Peer will
not have comments. “(Comments) descend into racism, hate, ugliness and reflect badly on
news organizations that have them,” said Temple. Why? Because people do not have to show
their faces when they comment so there’s no sense of responsibility, he argued. “We
think anonymity is a huge problem when it comes to comments,” he said.
Temple also emphasized that the coverage would not pull punches: “We’re going to call
things like we see them. We think there’s real value in taking a stand.”
So what about that business model? As Temple noted, there aren’t that many
business models out there to chose from. Unlike most media sites, this will be a member site that
people “value and will pay for.” He added “advertising would not be a key focus
for us.”
Peer should be launching early next quarter, so we’ll be able to see more of these ideas in
action soon. But it’s clear that the site– or “news service” as it
prefers to call itself– is taking a markedly different approach from old and what we
consider “new” media right now.
And with the benefit of some of these details, it seems less out of step for Omidyar to be
starting this company. EBay, after all, was one of the first sites to powerfully leverage
community on the Web, pioneering a lot of the systems of trust and reputation we still use today.
Nous vous l'annonçions avant hier, Kane & Lynch 2 : Dogs Days sortira en Europe le 27
août 2010. Histoire de bien vous l'ancrer en tête, Square Enix nous propose un trailer
qui déménage. Si vous êtes...
Square Enix nous envoie enfin une version HD du trailer de Kane & Lynch 2 : Dog Days
publié hier. Le filtre qui salit l'image est toujours là mais c'est tout de suite
beaucoup plus regardable, ...
Après quelques Tower Defense et le portage des deux premiers épisodes de la saga
Final Fantasy, Square Enix annonce un premier gros RPG exclusif sur iPhone : Chaos Rings.
Square Enix va consacrer les images du jour de Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2, aux bestioles du jeu,
ce qui tombe assez bien puisqu'elles seront au cœur du gameplay avec pas moins de 300
créatures à capturer pour ensuite les entraîner et au final les faire fusionner
pour en obtenir de plus puissantes qu'on pourra à nouveau entraîner et...
On reste chez Square Enix, avec la possible annonce prochaine d’un
Dissidia : Final Fantasy II. En effet, Tetsuya Nomura a,
lors d’une interview menée via
Twitter, laissé entendre que le développement d’un second volet allait
prochainement commencer. Où, pour les plus pessimistes, que Nomura avait
TRÈS envie de s’y mettre. Dans tous les cas de figure, on peut logiquement
s’attendre à avoir droit à ce Dissidia : Final Fantasy II.
Le premier volet ayant, il faut l’avouer, plutôt bien marché…
La communication autour de Final Fantasy Agito XIII est très discrète depuis son
annonce, mais à l'occasion du GDC, Square Enix a donné quelques détails sur ce
dernier, ainsi que sur son grand-frère : Versus XIII.
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