Sunday, January 9, 2011

Mac App Store on the record!

Day One record for the new Mac App Store. There were more than one million applications downloaded by users in the first 24 hours. Once again tops the list of the Access fee are Angry Birds, while Twitter is ahead in the Top Ten of those free. Compared to the more than 300,000 mobile version, the Mac App Store may currently has about 1 / 3 of available applications.

"We are amazed by the success of the Mac App Store since its first day," said the histrionic Steve Jobs, "our team is doing an excellent job and its ease of use has already attracted millions of users." Jobs is probably far less happy with the fact that hackers are able to "pierce" the new App Store in record time, bypassing all its security systems and DRM.

Monster Hunter attracts tourists

A Japanese spa has created a highly original way to attract new customers tie their name to the Monster Hunter series. According to the Mainichi Daily News wrote, the owners of Shibu Hot Spa Nagano, have entered into a partnership agreement with Capcom after discovering aesthetic similarities between the places where it placed its structure and present some scenarios in the last chapter of series, Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii.

SEGA realizes urinals-game

SEGA has decided to return to the exclusive club of hardware manufacturers after leaving it in the post-Dreamcast. How? Creating a ... interactive urinal! Unfortunately this is not a joke. As confirmed by the magazine Wired, has created the toilet-SEGA video game, or rather, the "Toylets" that are already available in many public toilets in Tokyo.

There are four different games that take advantage of a very special pressure sensors that can measure the strength and direction ... uh, ok, you understand. As if this were not enough to make this one of the craziest invention ever in the world of video games, Toylets also allow you to "download" the best scores via a USB port properly installed.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Origin "Big O" to 5 GHz

At CES 2011 the company was present Originin, which we are accustomed to eccentricities and in this case it did with its powerful desktop computer, the "Big O" At first glance the large size of his cabinet to appreciate the inner leaves where circulating hoses that are part of the liquid cooling for the processor, which already speaks of a great power.

In this new more powerful version can be configured with an Intel i7 overclocked up to 5 GHz and as extra data can be attached to the system console Xbox360 Slim. Now the most important detail and that scares her more than his monstrous power, is its price. It all depends on the hardware configuration you choose but its base starts at $ 7,669 and can climb up to $ 16,999, if your budget allows power to end live.

Fresh information about Silent Hill 8

"Downpour" The new issue of Game Informer has brought new information on the eighth chapter of Silent Hill is currently in development at Konami for Vatra. The title apparently is Silent Hill: Downpour and will be set in the south-east of the famous town in question, as well as in neighboring locations.

Apparently, the game world is fairly large, so as to bring the player to make use of a metro-type transport system to move from side to side. The combat system seems to be set slightly differently, in some ways more challenging, with the introduction of a weapon at a time can bring and the possibility that this is worn down to break.

Ballmer: support for Kinect arrive at the right time on a PC

Not until the head of Microsoft Steve Ballmer has got to mention rather briefly the relationship between PC and Kinect, a relationship that is obviously intended to exist anyway. The information was vague and decided: "The support will come through official channels at the right time", which says almost nothing but confirm if only the project by the Redmond, also to expand the Windows-based system the use of the special recognition kinetic camera.

First scan of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

A little 'light ... After the official presentation and the first movie released in Computer Graphics for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, many expected that the material might show something more than likely that will ultimately be the look of the gameplay of the title developed by Bethesda Softworks. Thanks to Game Informer magazine, we can offer you the first pictures on the direct result of Oblivion: the case for the accuracy of scans taken from the latest issue of the journal, which allows us to give a first look at the characteristics of the production.