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Minecraft Beta 1.5 Released
You now have several more reasons to be playing Minecraft. With the release of Beta 1.5, Mojang’s wildly successful mining/building/survival sandbox game, Minecraftians have access to a whole new set of features, including weather, achievements, and a minecart rail system that doesn’t rely on a physics exploits to run. One of the biggest additions in 1.5 is weather; your massive open-world ...read more
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Glasess free 3D coming to the iPad via software hack
There was a glasses free 3D iPhone/iPad story a while ago, but this one looks real. A group of researchers have produced a software which will achieve the former, and have dubbed it 'Head Coupled Perspective (HCP). HCP is a 'software hack' and uses the front facing camera to great a 'glasses-free' 3D display. Essentially, it acts as a 3D representation on the 2D screen that moves when you do, ...read more
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Paul D Ceglia files claim for 85 per cent ownership stake in Facebook
Did Mark Zuckerberg really sign a contract to sell half of Facebook for $1000? Claims contract signed in 2003 Files contract signed "Mark Zuckerberg" Judge freezes Facebook assets A MAN from a small town in the US state of New York claims he owns 84 per cent of Facebook - and he's going to court to prove it. Paul D Ceglia, from Wellsville, has filed a civil case against the founder of ...read more
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Call of Duty: Black Ops mod tools launching in May
Tired of all that silly "paying" for new Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer maps? We know, we know -- money is so 2010. Good thing for you, then, that Treyarch announced plans this week (via Twitter) to officially release the promised mod tools for Black Ops sometime this May. The tools will, of course, only end up on the PC version of Blops, though considering that they never ended up in any ...read more
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Microsoft urges Windows Phone 7 users not to jailbreak
In a blog posting, Microsoft has politely urged Windows Phone 7 users not to jailbreak their devices so that they can enjoy the 'copy and paste' feature. Many other smartphones have this feature, and MS claims that not everyone will be happy until they receive the new update which contains the respective feature. Although they do also generally warn that jailbreaking the device may deny WP7 users ...read more
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Crysis 2 Direct X 11 Patch in the Works
Crytek has announced that it is officially working on a Direct X11 patch for Crysis 2. No details have been announced about the patch, so what to expect from the much wanted compatibility is up in the air. As meticulous as Crytek is, you can expect them to take their time with the patch, they've already announced that they are looking to "get the best out of DX11". When the news was ...read more
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Xbox 360 “Running Out of Steam” says PS3 Exec
SCEA CEO Jack Tretton has taken some serious pot shots at both Nintendo and Microsoft in a new interview with Fortune today, launching an unprecedented attack on Wii, 360 and Nintendo’s portable consoles.Tretton tried to again make the case that the Playstation 3 is “just hitting its stride” with regards to the console’s hardware, which includes both a hard drive and a Blu-Ray ...read more
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Kinect hack: Controlling an AR Drone
Kinect isn't making you feel enough like an omniscient being? Perhaps you'd prefer controlling actual, physical things with your movements, rather than a virtual representation? Boy does Tom Zickel have a Kinect hack for you!
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Minecraft Given a Release Date
Name one massive, open, sandbox game with snowy areas coming out on November 11. If you said The Elder Scrolls: Skyrm, you'd be correct, but we would also accept Minecraft as an answer. Yes, the game that hundreds of thousands of people have already bought and are actively playing is being "released" on the same day as the next title in Bethesda's flagship series. This, along with news of a ...read more
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Kinect Hacks: Invade space to control Space Invaders
Space Invaders is a classic arcade title, presenting a simple premise and an almost infinite progression system. But there's just one thing needed to make it perfect. According to coder Derrgis, who created this version for the ElectroShock Festival, it's motion controls with Kinect. video in read more
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