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Unless your common sense is blinded by Apple fanaticism you'll know that trying to pick up an Apple product on the day of release at an Apple Store is a fools errand. The only thing you'll get for your troubles is an insincere head shake from a smarmy paid-to-be-polite staffer and the faint sense that you're about to buy your way into a hipster cult. Instead, those in the market for an ego boost and a shiney new iDevice will find they'll have much better luck online. If you're anything like us, you'll want to minimise the time it takes between deciding you want the new iPad and confirming payment, before the old voice of reason starts whispering lies like "you can't afford it", "do you really need another one? You already have an iPad 2" and "You won't be able to feed your kids for at least a month if you get one." So, we've thrown together a list of alternative places you can get the new ipad and stuck it below. Click fast, ignore the voices and think of how cool you'll look on the train...
Portal 2 came away the big winner at this year's British Academy Video Game Awards, grabbing Game of the Year. The game also scored valve awards for Best Design and Best Story, giving Valve plenty of reasons to be might pleased with itself.Minecraft creator Markus Persson would also have left grinning after picking up the night's Special Award for his successful PC build-'em-up. Battlefield 3 broke Call of Duty's winning streak by taking the GAME Award of 2011, along with best audio and online multiplayer awards. LittleBigPlanet 2 and Batman: Arkham City also did well. Head over to the official BAFTA site for the full list of categories and their winners.
Ubisoft's post-apocalyptic survival game I Am Alive topped the Xbox Live Arcade charts on the week of March 5.
It took the top spot above spin-off multiplayer shooter Gotham City Impostors and Alan Wake's American Nightmare.Meanwhile Call of Duty obviously still dominates the most played charts with Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops retaining a firm grip on the top two spots. FIFA 12 hangs in strong at third ahead of Battlefield 3. Here are the full listings: LIVE Activity for week of March 5 Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU's) 1.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 2.Call of Duty: Black Ops 3.FIFA 12 4.Battlefield 3 5.Halo: Reach 6.Modern Warfare 2 7.Mass Effect 3 8.Skyrim 9.NBA 2K12 10.Gears of War 3 11.GTA IV 12.Forza Motorsport 4 13.Madden NFL 12 14.NHL12 15.FIFA Street Demo 16.Saints Row: The Third 17.Halo 3 18.Mass Effect 2 19.NBA 2K11 20.Call of Duty 4 Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased) 1.I Am Alive 2.Gotham City Impostors 3.Alan Wake's American Nightmare 4.Pinball FX2 5.Fruit Ninja Kinect 6.Trials HD 7.Castle Crashers 8.Nexuiz 9.REAL STEEL 10.The Simpsons Arcade Game 11.NBA JAM: On Fire Edition 12.Peggle 13.Dungeon Defenders 14.Full House Poker 15.Warp 16.Shank 2 17.Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 18.DOOM 19.UNO 20.Double Fine Happy Action Theater Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased) 1.CastleMiner Z 2.Total Miner: Forge 3.CastleMiner 4.FortressCraft Chapter 1 5.The Impossible Game 6.The $1 Zombie Game 7.Avatar Paintball 8.End Of Days: Infected vs Mercs 9.Miner4Ever 10.Toy Stunt Bike 2 11.FLIRT 12.Fortress Wars 13.Avatar Legends 14.Don't Die Dateless, Dummy! 15.Avatar Laser Wars 16.I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 17.Avatar Onslaught 2 18.Beat Hazard 19.Miner Style 20.Little Racers STREET
The Japanese games industry needs to start making titles that appeal to a global audience rather than just focussing on niche games for domestic customers if it wants to get out of its rut, according to Konami's Hideo Kojima.Speaking to Eurogamer during a round-table Q&A in Washington DC ahead of the Smithsonian's Art of Video Games exhibition, the Metal Gear Solid creator offered his response to Keiji Inafune's GDC rant about the sorry state of the Japanese industry."I think the problem really is more about where people are looking and who they're targeting," said Kojima."A lot of creators are just focused on Japan and the Japanese market and aren't really aware of what people around the world want."He went on to explain that he believes there are three elements that developers need to get right in order to have a global hit: "technology, gameplay and world view."Kojima argued that Japan is failing to keep up in all three areas."Regarding technology, I think in Japan there are less people going abroad, and maybe less people going to, say, M.I.T. and being at the cutting edge of things. From a technology standpoint, I think Japan is lagging behind a bit.He suggested that that's a problem that can be easily remedied, but the other two issues are potentially more serious."The bigger problem is how do you use that technology to create something? When it comes to gameplay, unfortunately a lot of Japanese creators don't really like creating a free experience. Those types of games aren't being made in Japan."Regarding world view," he continued, "game creators now are creating games based on the culture they know, targeted at Japan and Japanese cultures. So they set it in places like Shibuya or Shinjuku or somewhere else in Tokyo. And it's not something that appeals to people outside of Japan."Because Japan doesn't look outside of it's borders then technologies don't come, creating this vicious cycle."If developers took a more global view, Kojima argued, they might find it easier to secure bigger budgets."The Japanese games industry has fallen to a point where Japanese movies were at as well - these small indie movies set within Japan with a Japanese story done on a low budget. Because the scale is so small we can't get the budget to make it succeed on a global level."In contrast to that, most Western studios approach things from more of a Hollywood standpoint where they're looking at making their games a very global success and looking at how they can sell them in various markets."From the very beginning they have those goals and are able to get the proper budget and commit the proper technology to it."Kojima did offer some cause for optimism, however."I think that it's still not over. Japan does have the ability to recover from this and get back up to a competitive level, technologically and in other ways."I don't want to break this down to a thing where it's Japanese games versus non Japanese games. The key is it has to be a global game, it has to be something made for everybody. I want to get rid of all those barriers."He offered up his own studio as an example of a Japanese developer taking a more global view of the industry."You can tell from my generation that I've been influenced by Star Trek, so when I think of my studio I think it as the Starship Enterprise. The Enterprise had people from all races - even Vulcans! I want my studio to be like that."This is my Enterprise. It just happens that the captain is Japanese and the ship was manufactured by Konami, but it's a multi-cultural staff."Last month, the studio announced it was looking to recruit Western developers to work on the Metal Gear Solid series.
Terry Cavanagh, indie-game maniac behind VVVVVV, Chat Chat and At a Distance, has started a new website with a title to make an SOE enthusiast blush: Free Indie Games. Guess what it offers? Free indie games, as chosen by Cavanagh based on their newness, goodness, freeness, indieness and gameness.
Today is the day many have been patiently, or not so patiently, waiting for. The new iPad saunters onto shelves around much of the globe, and into the sweaty palms of the "gotta-have-its." So, were you dazzled by that display? Or tempted by the LTE and new graphics chip? Maybe you're upgrading, or treating the partner (by treating yourself)? Perhaps you were hoping for the rumored smaller device, or just gotta have something Android. Whatever camp you fall into we want to know about it, tell us
Are we shocked to see an untethered iOS 5.1 jailbreak for the new iPad? Not so much. Are we surprised to see it arrive so quick? Hell, yes. The iPad 2's untethered jailbreak took an eternity, whereas this new tunnel seems to have been dug during one fleeting Friday night. The hacker to thank is i0n1c, aka Stefan Esser -- a man who moves so fast his YouTube clip reportedly had 28 likes before it had even finished uploading. Just leap that final fence, Stefan, by releasing your jailbreak to the public, and we shall re-christen you bi0n1c. (Unless you want to keep your current handle, which would also be fine.)
Need something to sate that Windows 8-lust Microsoft stirred up with its Consumer Preview? Then take a gander at this in-development vehicle control app shown off at the company's Redmond campus as part of this year's Worldwide Public Safety Symposium. Developed by Modularis, an outfit known for their enterprise, federal and OEM automation solutions, the Metro-style application turns its host slate into a virtual controller, granting users remote access to door locks, sirens, lights, as well as the ability to pull cloud-based data -- courtesy of Windows Azure -- from multiple cars to determine GPS location. And, as you'll see in the video after the break, it also has the unintended and wholly amusing benefit of freaking out innocent passers-by.
Vita recognized by Germany's prestigious Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen
PlayStation Vita has been recognized amongst over 4,500 applicants as a winner in one of the most prestigious industrial design award ceremonies in the world. Germany's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen has given the Red Dot Award to the Vita for Sony's exceptional design quality.
"To be recognized for our commitment to product design by leading industry experts is a fantastic achievement for SCE", said Andrew House, President and Group CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "We are particularly thrilled with the reaction and expectation to the recently launched PS Vita in North America, and Europe, the ultimate portable entertainment system, especially the introduction of innovative new ways to play and interact. Winning a red dot award for product design further establishes PS Vita as the must-have portable entertainment system across the world."
Sony was also recognized for their design prowess in other devices within the PlayStation line of products, including the Wireless Stereo Headset for PS3, Wireless Keyboard for PS3 and 3D display, which were similarly awarded with Red Dot Awards.
As the new iPad launches fans everywhere are rushing to pick one up, or are they?
Today marks the launch of Apple's new Retina-enhanced iPad, with the industry watching to see if Apple can break records again with the new model of its best-selling tablet. Competitors continue to release other options for consumers with Google's Android OS and Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 giving manufacturers the ability to sell their own "iPad killer". Unfortunately for them, Canaccord Securities analyst Mike Walkley told investors that he believes Apple's domination will continue unchecked.
"We believe Apple has extended its leadership position in the fast growing tablet market, and we have increased our 2012 and 2013 iPad tablet share estimates," Walkley wrote, according to BGR. "We believe the new iPad has raised the bar relative to competing tablets with impressive hardware specs, competitive pricing, and the leading software ecosystem of over 200k iPad-specific applications. At MWC, our meetings with Android OEMs focused on smartphones as tablet OEMs indicated difficulty competing with the iPad 2, let alone the new iPad."
Canaccord believes Apple will sell 65.6 million iPads in 2012, up from 55.9 million in 2011. Walkley has estimated that Apple could sell 90.6 million iPads in 2013, up from his previous estimate of 79.7 million.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster concurs, estimating sales of 60 million iPads in 2011. Apple Insider reports that Munster expects Apple to sell over 1 million iPads within the first 24 hours of launch.
Early this morning, fans were lined up at Apple Stores and other big-box retailers, like Best Buy, to pick up the new model. 450 people lined up outside of Apple's Ginza store in Tokyo, according to the Associated Press. The Apple Store in Hong Kong used an online lottery with preset times for winners to keep crowds down. TheBoston Globe reported that 200 people waited outside of the Apple Store there. On the other hand, Business Insider noted that while crowds massed around the larger stores, many smaller retail outlets had no lines waiting for their iPads.
Can Apple continue to hold lightning in a bottle, or can Google and Microsoft catch up this year?
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