Yesterday Ushiro for PSP was announced by Level-5, and today they have unveiled another four titles as well.
For those who didn't know, Level-5 is the independent Japanese developer who was worked on everything from early PlayStation 2 RPG Dark Cloud to the world-beating, epic Dragon Quest VIII.
The games set to be unveiled, as profiled by this week's issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine, are as follows:
Ninokuni: The Another World (Nintendo DS, with an port to an unspecified console also planned) is an RPG starring a 13-year-old boy who's invited into a magical fantasy land by a spirit, a world eerily close to Earth that's under the rule of a dark sorcerer.
There he hopes to deal with the issues that haunt his life, not the least of which being that he was responsible for his mother's passing not long ago. This project i... More »
An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.
The machine is an unusual blend of chips used in consumer products and advanced parallel computing technologies. The lessons that computer scientists learn by making it calculate even faster are seen as essential to the future of both personal and mobile consumer computing.
The high-performance computing goal, known as a petaflop — one thousand trillion calculations per second — ... More »
Threespeech has revealed a wide selection of English tracks for SingStar plus a few other European tracks. The update includes Avril Lavigne – Complicated, The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations, R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts, Coldplay – Shiver.
Read on for a list of all the new tracks in the European list...
Dutch Language
Het Goede Doel – Belgie
Kadanz – Intimiteit
English Language
Avril Lavigne – Complicated
Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack – Tonight I Celebrate My Love
Good Charlotte – I Just Wanna Live
The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
Shocking Blue – Venus
Golden Earring – Radar Love
The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
Hard-Fi – Hard To Beat
Avril Lavigne – My Happy Ending
Erik Faber – Not Over
Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died In Your Arms
R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
Wilson Phillips – Hold On
Buzzcocks – Ever Fall... More »
Google engineers have adapted a software programme to help track child sex predators and search for patterns in images of abuse on the web.
Google created the technology for the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
It was originally developed to block copyrighted videos on the company's YouTube division.
The programme uses pattern recognition to enable analysts to sort and identify files containing child sex abuse.
Google says its aim in teaming up with the centre's Technology Coalition Against Child Pornography is to develop solutions that would make it harder for people to use the web to exploit children or traffic in child pornography.
"You always hope that your work will eventually be used to do some good in the world, and this was an amazing chance to make that hope real," said Google research scientist Shumeet Baluja.
Overwhelming task
Mr Baluja, who was also t... More »
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Assassin's Creed (AC) is an excellent game. It was one of the few times when - Public Enemy be damned - we did believe the hype! That's not to say the game wasn't divisive - it certainly had its detractors, but for our money it was original, groundbreaking and deeply compelling. It did something quite rare in this era of generically plotted titles - it tried something new.
Was the ending obtuse and something of a cliff-hanger? Perhaps. Did the story overreach? Well, a bit. But at least it wasn't another bloody bag of pants about a space marine shooting demony things while growling tedious one-liners. It took the sumptuous visuals and acrobatic finesse of Prince of Persia and gave it a vaguely sci-fi twist with just a bit of history thrown in for good measure. It was at times violent and beautiful, and showed what the next-gen consoles could really do.
Frankly the idea of a PC port seemed… well, is 'doomed to fail' too strong a description?
AC,... More »
YouTube users in the UK will be given the chance to make money from the videos they post on the site.
The project is already up and running in the US and is now being extended to other countries, starting in the UK.
In the US some contributors are already earning thousands of dollars each month from their films, according to the video-sharing site.
The amount that is earned will depend on the number and popularity of the videos, it said.
Creating stars
Those signing up to the YouTube Partner Programme, as it is called, will be offered a share of the revenue generated from advertisements that run next to their video.
YouTube is not disclosing the exact details of the scheme, but does say that those making "several thousand dollars a month" are regularly producing videos with over one million views.
"The more videos you have and the more popular your stuff is, the more money you are going to... More »
YOU might think it a bad idea for trainee surgeons to play games on the Nintendo Wii when they should be studying, but it might be time well spent.
Kanav Kahol and Marshall Smith of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, have found that surgical residents performed better during simulated surgery after playing on the Wii console. They put it down to the console's novel "Wiimote" control system, which allows players to direct on-screen action using a wireless wand that detects acceleration in three dimensions.
Now they are designing Wii software that will accurately simulate surgical procedures. A training platform based on the console, which costs about $250, might be more practical for trainee surgeons in the developing world than traditional virtual training tools, which typically cost a great deal more.
To test how the Wii affected surgical skill, the researchers asked eight trainee doctors to play it for an hour before p... More »
With the launch of the iPhone in the UK today, environmental lobby group Greenpeace has accused Apple of including hazardous substances in the manufacture of the new handset.
Scientific tests commissioned by Greenpeace studied 18 components and confirmed the presence of toxic compounds in half the samples. This included the phone’s antenna, where they made up 10 per cent of the total weight of the flexible circuit board.
Dr David Santillo, Senior Scientist at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories, co-ordinated the project and deconstructed the iPhone for analysis.
“Two of the phthalate plasticisers found at high levels in the headphone cable are classified as ‘toxic to reproduction, category 2’ because of their long-recognised ability to interfere with the sexual development in mammals,” Dr Santillo said.
While the use of phthalates is not prohibited in mobile phones, it is banned from use in all toys and childcare articles s... More »
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