Snakes and Lattes, a Toronto café, combines board games, sippy drinks and a relaxing atmosphere. Oh, it also supports practices that many people strived to overcome throughout history. Just, you know, against modern technology .
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Irrational Games yesterday revealed Bioshock Infinite, sequel to two of the most immersive and stunning games released in recent years. Initially conceived as ‘Project Icarus’, Infinite distances itself from the claustrophobic underwater city of Rapture and instead, sets itself in the floating city of Columbia, a statement of American glory at the start of the 20th Century. View the Bioshock Infinite screenshots . Set before the first two games where the emphasis was on an elite dystopia hidden from the public, the steampunk city of Columbia is shown as a beacon of the USA’s might, yet has fallen into a tragedy of its own. The gameplay remains similar to BioShock 1 and 2, with the ability to wield plasmid-like powers alongside weapons. —————————————————————————- Related Links: – The top 10 titles unveiled at E3 2010 – Best Games: 2010’s hottest releases – 50 Best games series ever – StarCraft 2 review —————————————————————————- Similarly, the trailer reveals a model of a Big Daddy prior to a variation on the game’s iconic character throwing the protagonist, ex-private detective Booker DeWitt, out of a window. The story of Infinite revolves around his investigation of Columbia after the heavily armed city succumbs to a disastrous secret, centred around Elizabeth, the girl from the trailer. How the intense atmosphere of Rapture translates to the vastly openness of the skies is yet to be seen, but the other key changes emphasised by Irrational’s Kevin Levine is of the AI enemies. He said of the new game: “When designing BioShock Infinite, we thought, ‘wouldn’t it be great if you walked into a room in this game and you didn’t necessarily know the dispositions of the people in it? Are they going to sit there? Are they going to attack you? What might set them off?’” (via CVG ) “We really wanted to have a notion that not everyone in the city was automatically hostile towards you. Instead it has more of that ‘Wild West’ feel where you walk into a bar with your hand on your pistol and you’re not sure what’s going to happen to you,” he added, suggesting that the choice mechanics may be improved for Infinite to allow greater variation in gameplay. Though there was no word given about possible multiplayer like in Bioshock 2, the trailer and details given about BioShock Infinite promise a worthy successor that will have fans eagerly anticipating a rampage through the streets of Columbia.
Irrational Games yesterday revealed Bioshock Infinite, sequel to two of the most immersive and stunning games released in recent years. Initially conceived as ‘Project Icarus’, Infinite distances itself from the claustrophobic underwater city of Rapture and instead, sets itself in the floating city of Columbia, a statement of American glory at the start of the 20th Century. View the Bioshock Infinite screenshots . Set before the first two games where the emphasis was on an elite dystopia hidden from the public, the steampunk city of Columbia is shown as a beacon of the USA’s might, yet has fallen into a tragedy of its own. The gameplay remains similar to BioShock 1 and 2, with the ability to wield plasmid-like powers alongside weapons. —————————————————————————- Related Links: – The top 10 titles unveiled at E3 2010 – Best Games: 2010’s hottest releases – 50 Best games series ever – StarCraft 2 review —————————————————————————- Similarly, the trailer reveals a model of a Big Daddy prior to a variation on the game’s iconic character throwing the protagonist, ex-private detective Booker DeWitt, out of a window. The story of Infinite revolves around his investigation of Columbia after the heavily armed city succumbs to a disastrous secret, centred around Elizabeth, the girl from the trailer. How the intense atmosphere of Rapture translates to the vastly openness of the skies is yet to be seen, but the other key changes emphasised by Irrational’s Kevin Levine is of the AI enemies. He said of the new game: “When designing BioShock Infinite, we thought, ‘wouldn’t it be great if you walked into a room in this game and you didn’t necessarily know the dispositions of the people in it? Are they going to sit there? Are they going to attack you? What might set them off?’” (via CVG ) “We really wanted to have a notion that not everyone in the city was automatically hostile towards you. Instead it has more of that ‘Wild West’ feel where you walk into a bar with your hand on your pistol and you’re not sure what’s going to happen to you,” he added, suggesting that the choice mechanics may be improved for Infinite to allow greater variation in gameplay. Though there was no word given about possible multiplayer like in Bioshock 2, the trailer and details given about BioShock Infinite promise a worthy successor that will have fans eagerly anticipating a rampage through the streets of Columbia.
Virgin Media hopes to give armchair football fans a taste of the new Premier League season atmosphere with the launch of its Sofa Stadium online football app.
Google’s Nexus One phone is going where few smartphones have gone before. A group strapped the Nexus One to the back of a rocket and launched it from the Nevada desert into the atmosphere to test the device’s performance up in the air. The Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation , a group of rocket enthusiasts, used an Intimidator-5 rocket to send the device 28,000 feet into the atmosphere. “The purpose of flying the Nexus One is to find a low-cost satellite solution,” says Thomas Atchison, chairman of the Mavericks Foundation. “The radio, processing power, sensors and cameras in smartphones potentially have the same capability as those in satellites.” The idea is to drive down satellite cost by using off-the-shelf products and components, says Atchison. “Today’s satellites are the size of Greyhound buses,” he says. “But I believe they are going to get smaller and more frequently deployed. This is a first-step effort.” The Nexus One piggybacked on a rocket that’s being used as part of a project called Clotho that’s trying to find out how far off the earth’s surface life exists. The test flight with the Nexus One was to see how the device behaves under a high-G environment, says Atchison. “If you put a Nexus One in orbit, how will it perform?” he says. “How does the device handle the thermal temperature and vibrations. We wanted to see the results.” The resulting video from the Nexus One is below. As expected, the video is a lot of shaking, blue sky and blobs of light, but it is still fun to watch. An earlier test brought Nexus One back with a shattered screen but the device did well on its second flight. James Dougherty, one of the participants in the project, shows the payload with a biosampling module and the Google phone. See Also: Extreme Hobbyists Put Satellites Into Orbit With $8000 Kits … The $150 Edge-of-Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On Beer … DIY Freaks Flock to ‘Hacker Spaces’ Worldwide Water-Cooled Supercomputer Doubles as Dorm Space Heater Photo: The shattered Nexus One post launch ( jurvetson/Flickr ) [via Make and Droid Ninja ]
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Virgin Media launches Sofa Stadium app
Friday, August 13th, 2010Virgin Media hopes to give armchair football fans a taste of the new Premier League season atmosphere with the launch of its Sofa Stadium online football app.
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