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11.3m Player Deaths in Just Cause 2 Visualized as Point Cloud
Data visualization is the vehicle by which Big Data can be humanized, or at least re-rendered in a format that can be instantly digested by our powerful pattern recognition modules built deep in our brains. In fact, our brains are evolved to primarily do pattern recognition for particular contexts—most of those contexts that don’t involve ...
LulzSec Rampage Continues as they Sail Unchallenged into Sex Industry Website and Pillage almost 26,000 Passwords
The hacker group, LulzSec, who have been making the rounds like media hungry children has found a port at a sex industry website, and after a short round of cannon shelling from the Lulz Boat, they invaded and pillaged passwords and e-mail addresses. An article in Naked Security (an aptly named subdivision of Sophos) outlines ...
iCloud and the Accumulation of Cloud Hype: It’s Much More than Simple Streaming Media
In a particularly biting editorial recently, Carl Brooks, Senior Technology Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com, penned that he wasn’t pleased with the use of “cloud” to describe Apple’s new iCloud service. The crux of his argument rested on that it didn’t involve any cloud-computing; but instead presented itself as a sort of Software-As-a-Service architecture for simplified media ...
E3 2011: Battlefield Gets More Social With Free ‘Battlelog’ Networking Feature
This year at E3, video game publisher/developer Electronic Arts revealed the release of the newest of their extremely popular console-based first-person shooter (FPS) series with Battlefield 3. They demonstrated beautiful rendering and game play that will certainly push modern hardware to its extreme for the gaming enjoyment of millions of customers everywhere. This year, though, ...
E3 2011: EA Sets Sights on Zynga’s Crown with The Sims Social for Facebook
When it comes to Facebook and the social gaming sphere there is no contender as heavyweight as Zynga—the game publisher best known for Farmville and all its strange descendants—but other developers believe that growing crops and petting cows might be too staid an activity for the hip Facebooker. Enter Electronic Arts and they’re über-famous social-simulation ...
E3 2011: Nintendo Mixed PS3 and Xbox 360 Footage Into their Wii U Highlights Reel
During the E3 2011 keynote for Nintendo we saw a lot of beautiful footage outlining the capabilities of the suped-up Wii U platform. Most of those watching will probably recall a highly stylized reel with a bird flying past a cherry tree and a pond full of beautifully rendered koi. However, later on in the ...
Sony’s Jack Tretton Addresses PlayStation Network Outage at E3 2011 Keynote
It’s been a big year for Sony and the PlayStation Network—and by big I mean the elephant in the room where the PSN was dead-in-the-water for nearly a month of that year. Not only did the PlayStation Network go dark, but after it came back online, Sony kept getting hammered by further breaches to various ...
E3: PS Vita Expected in Market ‘Phased Rollout’ by the End of 2011
In light of the beating they’ve taken, Sony really needed to come to market with something to revitalize their position in the market and the PS Vita may do exactly that. Originally called the NGP (Next-Generation Gaming Portable) the Vita retained the name it was rumored to possess when Sony representative’s debuted the platform at ...
Kinect Fun Labs: Testbed For the Future of Interactive Media
The Kinect system for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console seems to be an experiment more than anything. Although the Kinect allows gamers to control their video characters with gestures and voice commands, the simple truth is that motion-based gaming is really only suitable for a very few types of games. The Kinect must be meant for ...
E3: Nintendo Wii-U First Impressions—Game Changing?
Today Nintendo stepped out at E3 2011 and revealed their “next-gen” console, which is really a controller-peripheral called the Wii-U. From its initial looks, the Wii-U appears to be an oversized controller-cum-tablet (with a massive 6.2-inch diameter touchscreen), which will bring a screen literally into the hands of the player. The overall bulk of it ...