Selection of video games for Christmas

"Le Nouvel Observateur" offers a choice of games that have marked the year that will delight all types of players.Again this year, video games are the stars of Christmas (MATHILDE GIRAULT / SIPA - Montage) This year, video games are the stars of Christmas (MATHILDE GIRAULT / SIPA - Montage)

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Make a selection of video games for Christmas is not an easy task. That is to take stock of the gaming year, one thing is certain, this year 2011 has been prolific!
And difficult to identify "the game of the year." "Games of the Year" is already possible. As each test is all about perspective, each game offers a unique and personal.
"Le Nouvel Observateur" So a book selection, which is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to distinguish the game highlights.
Drawing of the hero of the game "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" (CD)
* Travel with a backpack
Entertaining, the video game media is primarily a great escape. Moving from a fantasy world as "Lords of the Rings" to a futuristic world similar to "Blade Runner", it's as simple disk alternators.
- "Deus Ex: Human Revolution": a scenario searched and mature, a perfect staging for a full game. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
- "Skyrim" wonderful role play in a world populated by Vikings and dragons. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
- "Uncharted 3" real "Indiana Jones" video game for the action, adventure and travel. Playstation 3.
Image from "Battlefield 3" (CD)
* Forward action
The film has its Hollywood movies, the video game's "triple A". Big-budget games where the action is permanent. A good dose of adrenaline in fact.
- "Modern Warfare 3" and "Battlefield 3" war games two similar, but just as well be made to treat for the eyes. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
- "Assassin's Creed: Revelations": welcome to the world is Italian assassins in the time of the Templars, from Constantinople to Masyaf. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
- "Batman: Arkham City": the hero of a generation of teenagers back in a game well built, inspired by the darkness of the comic. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
"The Rabbids go live" (CD)
* Move your body
The Wii, and more recently the motion sensor Kinect Xbox, have transformed the video game. The handle to the body gives way to a game fun or crazy to many, and sweating.
- "The Rabbids go live" big ears the most stupid are back to mini-games with absurd laughter guaranteed. Xbox 360.
- "Uncharted 2": the reference for the dancing games, which takes the full potential of Kinect. Xbox 360.
- "Just Dance 3": the famous dance game returns to choreograph more colorful than ever, and more fun guaranteed. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii.
"Rayman Origins" (CD)
* Play with your child
Gone are the clash of generations on the video game. Today, parents, fans or not, are more inclined to play with their darlings. Must still find the game best suited, which will delight young and old.
- "Rayman Origins" the mascot of the French video game is back for a magical and colorful game that really makes sense to many. Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC and 3DS.
- "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games 2012" at the Summer Olympics approach, what better training with his heroes. Wii and 3DS.
- "Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure": mix real toys and video games, a really good idea that will delight the young. Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, 3DS, PC and Mac.
"Tiny Wings" on the iPhone (CD)
* 5 minutes to spare
2011 has seen the explosion of mini-games to mini-parties. Between applications for smartphones and for the "social gaming" on Facebook, casual gaming has been democratized, with a creative boom.
- "Tiny Wings" this little addictive game of skill on the iPhone is one of the greatest achievements of the year. IPhone / iPod Touch.
- "The Sims Social": the famous Sims return, doped social, for a game that upsets its own codes. On Facebook.
- "Fruit Ninja" enough to become a master of the sword with the hobby of cutting fruit. IPhone / iPod Touch / iPad and Android.
Image from "Dead Island" (CD)
* Looking for thrills
Action, hemoglobin, horror ... Sometimes the game is not in lace and accelerates your heart rate between two shouts. Games not to place any hands.
- "Dead Island" an island paradise, a strange virus, zombies with a shovel. This is a new benchmark in the action game, halfway between horror and Series B. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
- "Dead Space 2" image in the movie "Alien", you end up in a spaceship abandoned, infested with mutants. Tetanizing. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
- "Gears of War 3": a more traditional action game, but just as nag, with a particularly neat. Xbox 360.
"Child of Eden" (CD)
* In the spirit shifted
The game would he lose his creativity and innovation to offer only suites of suites? Not at all! The introduction of motion sensors or open platforms Download (Xbox Live and Playstation Network) boosted the creation.
- "Child of Eden" in a fantastic world of pixels, hands fire missiles music to fight a virus psychedelic. Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
- "From Dust": promoted God, you must manage the development of a civilization by protecting it from various disasters. Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
- "Little Big Planet 2" Sony made in a game that is closer to the UFO fun as the game platform. Playstation 3.
"Forza Motorsport 4" (CD)
* 3, 2, 1 ... Go!
The game is somewhat regressive in that it models all the dreams of children, particularly of motor racing. Large displacements, or tuning kart, there is something for everyone.
- "Forza Motorsport 4"-oriented simulation, the game is simply beautiful and varied. Xbox 360.
- "Need For Speed: The Run": this is a game called "arcade" where realism is not de rigueur, but the pleasure tenfold with intense chases. Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, PC and 3DS.
- "Mario Kart 7": almost twenty years that the little plumber is racing kart on board, and the recipe is still effective. On 3DS.
"Marvel vs. Capcom 3" (CD)
* All barred
After the displacement, up to the baston. Exit the simulations appropriate "realistic", here are superheroes, real war machines.
- "Marvel vs. Capcom 3 ': the fight to the old nervous (2D) with a number of heroes of the comics and video games. Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
- "Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi Ultimate" manga flagship is once again declined in a 3D fighting game, multiplying the Kamehameha. Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
- "Kung Fu High Impact" completely different, this game takes advantage of the Kinect sensor for which you are fighting heroes. Fun and humor to the appointment. Xbox 360.

My Xbox LIVE on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

The application for the Xbox iOS devices is now available for free download in the Apple AppStore.
Microsoft has made ​​available to Xbox 360 gamers an application to manage their account and connect to Xbox LIVE service. It is compatible with Apple iOS devices: iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Depending on the type of account (free or Gold) My Xbox LIVE application will allow the players to communicate with friends, access their files, invite or compare the progress made ​​in games.

Editing avatar in the application My Xbox Live

The application also proposes to publish his Xbox Live account by changing the settings or the appearance of their avatar. The home page lists news, videos, tips on the latest games and other activities.

The last update of the Xbox 360 raises his voice

Since this morning, users of Microsoft's console can give orders through Kinect.Was expected yesterday, but finally this morning that the update of the Xbox 360 is effective. French players can now download the new panel of the machine of Microsoft and enjoy the latest from the manufacturer. Additionally an interface that completely changes the look of the console, the innovation lies in speech recognition. One year after the launch of Kinect in Europe, then the voice comes in the French salons equipped with accessory motion detection, along with our neighbors German, Italian and Spanish.
Aesthetically, the interface contains the codes previews for Windows 8. A willingness by Microsoft to standardize the appearance of its platforms and facilitate the movement of consumers between shelves, PC, mobile and Xbox. Airier, lighter and more enjoyable, the new dashboard has nine tabs (social, games, music, applications ...), themselves divided into several areas of interactive colors. Players can walk through the pages of their console with their controller or, if they are equipped with Kinect, by hand or by voice. And for the latter, we see the first use it's pretty stunning.Minimal margin of error
Of course, as it is to capture any voice, do not try it in a place too noisy, but we can not blame Microsoft to offer us a gadget imprecise, since the voice commands respond very well and this, without having to go through long minutes of preliminary recognition or learning disabilities. Once your machine started, simply say "Xbox" so that the mode is activated. You can then ask him to make a number of tasks by saying the name tabs or items displayed on the screen.
Very easily, it jumps from its library of games to his friends or his music. If the function may seem insignificant, voice recognition still brings a fluidity and speed of execution significantly. After a few minutes of trial and error, and once the keywords identified, navigation is instinctive. The urge in the middle of a movie and your controller has disconnected? Say "Xbox" and "pause" and you can go away immediately. It is hoped that the integration of voice will, of course, other benefits of it, especially in games (Forza Motorsport Kinect Sport 2 and 4 are already benefiting from the experience, for example), but this seems very promising.
If this update is obviously focused on speech recognition, it is not the only novelty it contains. The Xbox 360 is now equipped with applications such as YouTube or Facebook, until they can soon watch trailers Screenrush like that of example. Bing, stamped Microsoft search engine, also happens in the Xbox family. It allows you to find all content (games, movies, music, images ...) accessible from the home console. For Xbox Live Gold subscribers, the cloud appeared and you can save the parts from any machine with its gametag (name of player).

After Twitter, Facebook arrived on the Freebox Revolution

 
Application on a freelance TV interface devoted to Facebook. Subscribers with a Freebox Revolution can enjoy, via a revised and adapted to television, all the usual social network.

With a simple click of the remote control, it becomes possible to post messages, view photos and videos posted by friends or to respond to invitations for events and all this directly on their TV.

The Facebook application is available at no additional cost to the Free users equipped with the Freebox Revolution. It is accessible directly from the menu of the Web "box" after updating the Player.

The Appstore today unveiled Windows 8?

Microsoft must hold a news conference on Tuesday to give new details on its future application store for Windows 8.
It was in San Francisco that Microsoft expected to unveil Tuesday the Appstore to be associated with Windows 8. It's Fox News that says, explaining that the Redmond company take the opportunity to explain its strategy on this application store.
Designed for both the tablets and conventional computers, the Appstore will offer both free applications, paid and trial. This will be directly integrated into the interface of Windows 8 Metro, and all the shelves Windows 8 will therefore benefit.

However, we know that the applications will not be usable if you disable the interface Metro on a PC.

The government launches its Open Data Portal

The government portal of the French Open data, Data.gouv.fr was launched on December 5. 350 000 data sets are offered for free.The data in the French Open happen. Nine months after installation by the Prime Minister, the Etalab, the cell responsible for centralizing data and redistribute public organizations launched December 5 Data.gouv.fr. 350 000 data sets from 90 harmonized data producers are now freely available from this site. An initiative which is an "unprecedented commitment to transparency on the part of the state," says the director of the Etalab Severin Naudet (read the interview with Severin Naudet from 01/09/2011). Among these data, we find the extent of air pollution by department, the mapping of road accidents since 2005 or the composition of the operating budget of the state.
Among the entities producing such data are public companies such as SNCF and Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) to whom the law does not publish their offers and données.Data.gouv.fr geographic data over the network rail transport, such as geographic coordinates of the stations for passengers or railway crossings. The launch of Data.gouv.fr accompanied by that of an "open license" use of data that allows such reproduction and adaptation of these data, including for commercial purposes.
All public data will not be provided free of charge. Some data sets will be the payment of a fee, including some agencies whose budget depends in part on statutory business income, as INSEE and the Louvre. The data should however be paid scarce. They will be a list drawn up by decree of the Prime Minister to be published in July 2012.
Eventually, other data sets should integrate the portal. Some judicial data, such as the number of crimes since 2002 and the identification of offenses and associated penalties should be available soon. The agriculture and employment also require "substantial technical work" before they can make available. The Director of Etalab expects a doubling of the number of data sets available within a year.

5 gadgets for Smartphone .... Amazing!!

Media, accessories, toys ... The Smartphones are now the argument lacked brains boil gadgets to decline indefinitely. The more useless the more sophisticated, these inventions of all kinds abound sometimes no cheek!

Your Smartphone ... feet in the water!

Want to ridiculous fantasy, love and fresh water? Elecom Nendo and adapted the concept to that of tap phone support for a result ... the most "mixed". Designed polycarbonate plastic, it is available in four colors: clear, blue, white and black. When it vibrates, attention to the cold shower ...

Do not fall over in the bay
"Sorry, I have to hang up ...." Not so fast! You will now no excuse to stop the tirades hieratic of your progenitor. This package allows you to charge your phone effect while moving. Zip, drums, multiple pockets and the ability to charge multiple devices simultaneously ... AViiQ has potential! At the same time for $ 80 ...


Evolution Neck Pillow: brace it this one!
Cabeau, specializes in pillows and accessories for the trip, found the antidote to your chronic stiff neck - but that's ridiculous.
The Evolution Neck Pillow, which keeps the memory of shapes, supports your head sideways and ensures his rear. Of course - and that's where we're interested - it has a cover story for Smartphone ... to put it in plain view if a bird of prey pass by there ... count $ 35 - buy phone not included.



Android, at the right time!
Gadget hybrid combines the Smartwatch Android phone to watch. Available in two versions: I'm color (several different colors, € 248) and I'm jewel (diamonds and precious stones, between € 595 and € 12 000), it allows you to connect your particular mobile bluetooth, receive and make calls and SMS, but also to receive notifications of your Facebook and Twitter.

40 minutes REsident Evil : The Mercenaries 3D

If you are unsure about purchasing Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, maybe watching 40 minutes of gameplay will help you decide. Capcom has in fact held a long session for this game in the presence of developers who give us (in English), some new details for this title very attractive. And of course, we will enjoy doing.

[Open] STCC ² - Jyllandsringen

The site hosted an open RacingFR Thursday, June 23, 2011 on the tour of Denmark, Jyllandsringen, which is available with the pack STCC2 recently released by SimBin. This circuit is very tortuous but allows great battle in the race. It is very well finished, well modeled, though bright, probably one of the best creations of the game Race 07.

What could be driving on this circuit recently developed by Swedish studio? Well, we had the choice of every car Championship STCC of 2010! The Chevrolet Cruze was available, and the sublime VW Sirocco without forgetting the Peugeot 407, Opel or the Seat ... well I did not list all brands / cars available because there are not bad.

Testing and Qualifying

After the free practice, everyone realized that the VW was the best car! So a lot of drivers have chosen the German mark. My free practice went well because I was more into the rhythm with my Peugeot 407! Qualification took place on a single lap and as many say that we should not wallow! My lap was pretty good except for one corner where I turned the sub-... but I still qualified 8 of 16 pilot position. The front grille is the trustee for VW armada ...

Race 1

After reading the book by Alain Lefebvre (SIMRACING), I followed his advice in choosing a realistic goal for this Open. So I decided to try to make regular tours and a clean race. It looks crappy goal, right? But in fact, it's super difficult (well for me). Unfortunately, there are other drivers on the track that do not have the same goal ... and even if you have all good intentions, this is not enough because you need to know to avoid the seeds. short, we must be lucky.


Jyllandsringen1-1


At the start of the first race, a driver on my right is a 180 °!? I can avoid it and damage my car just did not need ... The pilot later explained on the forum that the wheel was not in position 0 at the time of departure. So the wheel was turning a lap without noticing.

A few turns later and is the cacophony of drivers with more or less in bulk. I can not avoid the VW in front of me that surprises me with an emergency brake. I start slipping and Opel (driver 49) can in turn avoid me and hit me hard. Suspension damaged. Super ... not even a tower and have disabilities.


On the grid, I occupied the 8th position after the first corner I was 10 and after contact with the Opel, I found myself at the 14th place ... Ahhh it's beautiful goal.

Jyllandsringen1-2
So I'm leaving in late position and make my way among the cars that go slower than me. I am surprised by my race pace and up for lost time, it's nice. I listened to Sun in preparing this Open for the race and not qualifications or lap. It does no good to slam a super lap if it is to go in the bin the next round.

The race lasts 20 minutes and there is 17 laps with a mandatory pit stop. It was at this pit stop that everything changed. For a lot of drivers, it was a disaster. Yes, you have to train to do tricks regular but we also find the pit entry and work. Not to mention starting to train with the clutch ... so I made a lightning stop changing my tires just before and it allowed me to finally take the 7th place finish!


Race 2

Having finished the 7th place, we reverse the grid positions for the first eight of the race 1 and then I find myself in 2nd positron before departure. I've never had so many cars in my mirrors. Alas, when the green lights go out, I skate and I left completely loupe. After the first corner, I hold the 6th place but at least I avoided a big pile behind me.

Jyllandsringen2-1
A few turns later and I have to avoid a VW (driver 31 years) who left in a spin after a collision with a Chevrolet (driver 40). I touch the car by doubling the outside but nothing serious. The new smoke implanted in the update is quite striking. At times, we see nothing so this is a cloud. SimBin added a lot of effect is really nice.


I take my race pace and has a solid place 7. I caught up with the same drivers before and I hope to seek a 4th place. Amazing with my little Peugeot 407. My tracks are not bad, my race is clean and now I finally get behind the furious!

Yessss, I can Bastard, while respecting each other. No need to rush. Do I go back to the pits? No, I want to participate in the fight to quit wasting time. My brakes are good, I do not take risk and do not want to screw up the race and the other at the same time, mine.

Jyllandsringen2-2
Unfortunately, VW's pole sitter (53) behind me is very urgent! The driver is not patient enough and gets caught by the pace a bit slower due to the furious. I feel an impact in the back. 407 from the left, then right, I try to balance the body. It continues to the left and right but I'm starting to recheck the matron. All this happened in 1 or 2 seconds.

However, the driver of the Volkswagen leads me the coup de grace in Alimentary me in the back and this time, the shock is more violent and I can not keep control of who goes Peugeot hit the stack tires at the pit entry.

Holy shit! The offending driver waiting for me but I decided to make my pit stop because I am at the entrance of the pits. I returned in late position and I crossed swords (well, aluminum and carbon) with another VW Sirocco. Definitely.

Jyllandsringen2-3
It goes faster than me, for sure. I keep the inside of the turn but it takes the path as if I did not exist!? I brake too late, light Touchette and both cars go on lollipop but inconsequential. In the end, I can still hang in the Top 10. By the way, you can enjoy the new effects of smoke in my face style above.

This report does not can be a good idea of ​​my two races because, despite the incidents that we can see in this article, I realized my goal was to make regular tours. 34 laps in total (2x17), I made only 7 laps very means which are due to clashes and adventures I had. In fact, there was that the first round of the first race where I screwed up. For the rest, I have suffered ... And I remember above all a great evening with lots of adrenaline.

Qualification: 8 / 16
Race 1: 7 / 16
Race 2: 10 ° / 16

The Playstation 4 presented in 2012?

When a firm announces that the console itself is by no means the end of life, must of course understand the opposite! Last week, Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony America, announced the joke: "The PS3 is in only half of his life" ... It will therefore survive the global thermonuclear war in 2027 and certainly fit the space module designed to capture in March 2050.

A totally bogus statement of Jack for the general public. U will release the Wii in the first half of 2012, the Xbox 720 late 2012 (in advance), so it would be suicidal for Sony not to react. Can you imagine presenting Nintendo game 1080p and 60fps on the Wii Sony U and next row with the same games in 720p 30fps full of alliasing and jerks?

Thus, according to Industry Gamers, Sony would not play the ball PS3 (released too late and too expensive in front of the Xbox 360, which led him to be dropped on the U.S. market), and may present as Microsoft, its future console at E3 2012 ... an E3, which may be very hot.

2 Wii: Nintendo announces : the launch of its new console for 2012

The Japanese video game giant Nintendo said on Tuesday the launch of a new home console. Its commercialization in 2012.


Nintendo has announced the launch next year of home console Wii 2. A model playable on the Wii 2 will be presented in early June at the show "Electronic Entertainment Expo", Los Angeles (USA). The Japanese giant has, however, gave no details about the new game console.

According to several rumors, the Wii 2 should support high definition and also 3D. The new controllers may also incorporate a touch screen 6 inches.

Since its launch in 2006, Nintendo has sold nearly 86 million Wii. However, the product is now facing strong competition from Sony's PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Two consoles that use a system of detention without any motion controller.
In just four months, moreover Microsoft sold over 10 million Kinect, the motion detection system for its Xbox console.
Sony and Microsoft do not provide, however, no new release until 2014.

Nintendo also announced this week for the second consecutive year, a fall in annual profit due to lower sales. The Japanese giant has passed during its last fiscal year ending in March, only 15.1 million Wii, against 20.1 million the previous year. Nintendo expects a further decline in sales this year.

League of Legends: free game online

League of Legends is an online game that is played with several players online.


In this game, players form two teams of five. The teams have a basic three-port. Two accesses are located on the sides and access is in the middle. These pathways are ways that players use to enter the enemy camp.
Each team of League of Legends is represented by a summoner. The latter with his friends on the same team has powers, methods and playing strategies that change as soon as the game evolves. The caster gains a number of issues when it's a good move. These positive actions are sanctioned by taking gold and experience become tools of war and spells used against opponents. Points are exchanged against defense capabilities, attack or care. The caster also gains the power of teleportation and other powers enabling it to change his team. The use of magical powers, however, have received a negative impact on the opposing team from League of Legends.

The history of the game League of Legends goes back more than two hundred years, during which the invocation of a town called Runeterra used the magic to fight with their opponent. Over time, the inhabitants of this town out eventually that magic was a danger to the development of their city because it was causing earthquakes, storms and perpetual war. Scholars and wise men of the city have decided that conflicts and wars must be solved in another way. And they founded the League of Legends, which aims to manage conflict and wars. The League of Legends is headed by the high council of arbitration composed of three summoners.

The online game League of Legends is available on Mac and Windows. The game was published on these sites with GOA and Riot games. The public of Europe and the United States are amateurs. United States, a new collection called the Collector Pack conquered the market. This package entitles you to choose between 20 champions and four special runes. It consists of skins and credits. France, League of Legends website is launched on October 27, 2009. This game can be accessed on a memory card and hard drive with a processor and a graphics card Direct X9. League of Legend can be played also on the private interface through a password. The platform has many champions, objects and magical powers that allow players to get into playing conditions favorable.

In addition, players once admitted to the League of Legends interface are free to play online and choose the teams where they want to play. The game is for adults and youth with over 12 years.

Review: No More Heroes - Heroes Paradise

It should properly have been difficult in the midst of so many casual games once a hardcore title like No More Heroes on the Wii launch. Now is there anyway to try to score commercial success on the PlayStation 3, with the Move controller a good alternative compared to the Wii. The result shows us quickly that in three years time, nothing has changed. Graphically, the whole a pleasant turn received finery, but here and there are still rough edges and corners of the Wii are inherited. Fortunately, the artistic portion unchanged. Everything looks extremely violent and striking graphics are visually emphasized. Each boss looks handsome, and very charismatic. So much so that you will regret it for that each time to kill. However, you should have something about the best killer of all time.
The story will not mince words: after a drunken night in a bar, you are blackmailed with sex. Sylvia promises you a good turn when you're the best assassin. To you to the biggest killers to silence, with only one goal: to be number one. Each boss has a horde of helpers who serve as nothing but cannon fodder. They are a little boring after a while, but luckily the bosses of a better level. So you keep on playing. All of the original problems remain. Thus the Move controller barely used because most of the attacks by means of button combinations. You step into your office so soon with only the PlayStation controller and the game completed. There are different attacks you can perform, ranging from beating and kicking your opponent until the earthworks. Once the boss is about to pass, you get a whole series of quicktime events that you must perform well. Then follows a bloody scene - you understand immediately why this game the PEGI 18 + received.

No More Heroes - Heroes Paradise is an amusing game, but you have to be receptive. Do not you love so much artistic creations or do you expect deep gameplay and adventures, then you should stay as far away from this game away. Are you always in for a unique game, enjoying no blood, then No More Heroes - Heroes Paradise ideal as a snack.

Review: The First Templar

 Games is a relatively well-known game developer in terms of strategy and simulation games (for example Tropico 3), but it is his first attempt to develop an action game. The First Templar is set in medieval times. You get a quest about the Templars and all rumors that are known in the past. Despite the requisite clichés from movies and books knows this game very interesting adventure to keep a proper packaging. You will have to repeatedly laugh at the dialogue, although this may have to do with the voice actors. The First Templar is a typical low-budget game, and you'll quickly in his sights. However, the battles and events depicted remarkably smooth. It even has a little like Batman: Arkham Asylum - quite a compliment. You get the complete freedom to certain areas to visit, always associated with fighting. Block, attacks, counter, you know it all quickly. Gradually you learn more attacks, but in fact they add much excitement to the gameplay.
Graphically it looks poor out. Even with the best will in the world you notice that something is lacking in this game. It is also your immersion in the Middle Ages in the road. If you can directly compare Assassin's Creed, do your eyes hurt. The puzzles throughout the game are somewhat traditional: find a key, open a door, pull a lever, and so on. Few groundbreaking, interspersed with appropriate boredom. Surprisingly, The First Templar can play in cooperative mode. Online search for a partner - if you can find someone - and you're good to go. The fact remains that this game in every way a bit meager fails.

With a little good will we see something beautiful that the game developer holds, but the effect is much better. Wait and see whether any improved successor comes from The First Templar. The title late in any case, many options.

Review AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs Asus GTX 590

Can not every year the two major tenors next to each other with graphics cards that contain two processors. Last year, Nvidia has missed the boat, two years AMD has the fastest graphics card on the market. This year AMD Nvidia put the guy off by two weeks for the launch of Nvidia's flagship itself a reference card on the market.

Now both are on our test bench, ready to sweat.

Giant Cards
Since both processors contain two graphics cards, they are exceptionally large. The GTX 590 measuring 27 cm, the Radeon HD 6990 is doing with some centimeters to 31 cm. Such major draw cards for great performances. Asus has given us his version of the GTX 590 sent. Which hardly differs from the standard Nvidia solution.

AMD's flagship not only looks impressive from, it also contains a special switch to card a boost. This lets you easily switch between two different BIOS settings. By default it comes with a maximum consumption of 375 watts and clock speeds are lower than the Radeon HD 6970. Turn up the second set, then climbs the maximum power to 450 watts.

Because it lies outside the formal specifications of a computer power supply, AMD recommends that this function only with quality power supplies with high power. If you use the fastest setting, each core is equivalent to a Radeon HD 6970. In theory, this doubles the speed to ensure, but experience teaches us something that rarely succeeds.

Nvidia's GTX 590, but has a BIOS setting. The clock speeds are compared to the GTX 580 significantly reduced from 772 to 608 MHz. Nvidia has done this to avoid heat problems and consumption within limits. The result is a pretty quiet card, compared with AMD's Radeon HD 6990, thanks to a fan at low speed the card perfectly cool.

Little difference
The test results indicate that there is little difference between the two cards. One test shows a clear advantage to AMD, and Nvidia better scores in other benchmarks. The main benchmark for DirectX 11 is 3DMark 11, and there let Nvidia AMD far behind.

When we found the 2.5-Heaven's also a heavy DirectX 11 benchmark, then Nvidia gets very narrow margin. Even in games with DirectX 10 support and the 3DMark Vantage benchmark, the difference slightly in favor of Nvidia.

It is difficult to indicate a pronounced winner, because the results are so close together. Future drivers will have control over who can definitively distinguished. With the price in mind, we prefer provisionally to AMD's Radeon HD 6990.

AMD Radeon HD 6990
Price: 599 euros (May 2011)

PRO: four DisplayPort outputs, scores well in DirectX 11 applications.
CONTRA: extremely large, very noisy under load, but a DVI connection.

Asus GTX 590
UK Price: 713 euros (May 2011)
UK Price: 699 euros (May 2011)

PRO: relatively quiet, three DVI connectors.
CONTRA: can be very hot; price.

Download Arena Chess GUI 3.0

Chess lover? Then you should just try Chess Arena. Unlike many traditional chess programs Arena has the graphical interface and the actual chess engine disconnected. You can so easily another, more powerful engine to link to.

Want a Dutch interface, then you are in the User Files section, Engines, Menu Languages ​​also the Dutch-language module dutch_v03 js.zip Download and extract to the subdirectory \ Languages​​. Through the Options menu, you can still the preferred language.

Parties review
The interface consists of several components: besides the obligatory menus, toolbar and find the actual chessboard includes a clock and a list of chess moves. Nice and handy that you played games again move for move again viewing

This applies not only to your own games: Arena contains an impressive database of more than eleven thousand parties, played by grandmasters. Open through the menu PGN, Material, and you will find the specified database in the subdirectory \ Databases.

Chess Engine replacement
At the bottom you will find detailed information while playing chess on the used engine. Default is 5.1 SOS. That is not exactly the most powerful engine, but you can so easily replaced by another. That is no more difficult than the menu Engines Manage the active engine to delete, and select as AnMon, Hermann, Ruffian or Rybka.

Prefer a more powerful engine? One of the best is undoubtedly Houdini. You only need to unpack the archive file and the folder with the exe files to the subdirectory \ Engines copy. From the menu Engines Install new engine that you can then add to Chess Arena.

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Miyamoto: Wii, you can only cope with a WiiPad

According to Nintendo guru Shigeru Miyamoto, the Nintendo Wii you designed it with a new controller.

In an interview with the Australian technology site Switched On E3 game exhibition explains the mastermind behind Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda games that you may be only a new controller with the successor to the Wii can use.

3DS
The Japanese game developer is still investigating whether it is possible to create your own controller, also called WiiPad, take it to a friend to be there together on the Wii, you play. "It would be convenient to bring your Nintendo 3DS and as a controller to use, " said Miyamoto.

One reason for this decision gave the game developer not. Maybe the Wii you do not have enough computing power to more than one controller to provide images, though the final hardware specifications are not fixed yet. So were the pictures of you Wii games that Nintendo showed at E3, set of consoles from the competition.

Controller with touchscreen
You need the Wii hit the shelves next year, for a price that the current cost of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 matches. The Wii U differs from the current generation of game consoles by the new controller, alongside the traditional button layout is also a touch screen with a diagonal of 6.2 inches on board.

On the screen of the WiiPad Additional information can be displayed, but also the image to play full game with no TV possible. Who dreamed of multiplayer games with multiple people without television, yet some must continue dreaming.

Game : Final Fantasy XIII

Today we'll review the finer points of the final installment of Square-Enix in their flagship series, FFXIII

Final Fantasy XIII Basics

Like the rest of the iterations recent Final Fantasy 13 is set in a fantasy land near dystopian who can remind you at the same time almost every science-fiction sub-genre while retaining the signature style Final Fantasy. Your main character is lightning, but you will also discover the history of many of the views of fellow you progress through the plot, but magnanimous strictly linear.



Consideration of Final Fantasy XIII

Literally everything you see in Cocoon is beautifully rendered, large-scale environments are breathtaking, but there is an equal amount of detail in the individual textures. Each character model is capturing the imagination and is animated with incredible realism.
Powered by Crystal Tools engine, is capable of FFXIII now, clean transitions directly between normal exploratory gameplay, battle sequences, and video in real time without loading times.

Although undoubtedly impressive, the 360 ​​version suffers some drawbacks in this regard because of the need to cram the epic three-DVD. The entire game displays a lower resolution, and has 18 GB more massive install. This could be particularly prohibitive if you have the arcade version of 360.

The soundtrack is constantly increasing the challenge as well: even if all the possible actions that affect the battles will inevitably old after a while, the original score is appropriately epic ever. Virtually every facet of this game the production values ​​are high.

Unfortunately we can not be said of writing, which can and will not hesitate to produce moan after moan in the drives. At worst, almost all of the personality, with the exception of lightning can feel like hastily slapped together stock characters. Although you feel a lot of care taken in creating the myth of the world of Final Fantasy, the individual characters that inhabit it feel empty and flat.

Combat in Final Fantasy XIII

The new combat system feels very natural and exciting to find a compromise between the Active Dimension Battle 12 and combat systems based tour's previous final fantasies. There is a surprising amount of depth contained in such a fast system-based. Unfortunately, the mechanics of the game are fully distributed slowly over the first 15 hours, if you do not experience everything the game has to offer until you are immersed in your adventure.
Although there is no traditional rounds of combat, the battle is still on a deliberate pacing through your ATB gauge, which charges a fixed rate. This counter attack which governs you are able to achieve, the more complicated or powerful your attack, over the bar runs out and you'll have to wait to use it.

A role assignment for each character is contained in each of your "paradigms" or general battle strategies tailored to specific situations. At its most intense, you will run FFXIII paradigm shifts in contemplating that attack is the most appropriate, while keeping an eye on more than half a dozen gauges on the screen.

The Crystarium is the system upgrade for 13, taking a form similar to the gate of the sphere of ten years. Unleashing stats and new abilities is related to the different roles of nature can take. Followed suit with the mechanics of combat, most updates are in the Crystarium unfortunately blocked off until certain sections of the story went.

Final Fantasy XIII is not the transcendent experience that the hype built up over recent years. On the other hand, it is important not to assume that a series can always combine a unique world of vision with a penchant for incredible details.

Download free games : Sonic Games 1.0

Sonic Games is a collection of classic arcade games with the famous blue hedgehog as a protagonist. On the main page of the program, you can choose from 7 games listed in the menu of the game's exciting titles: Sonic 3D Snowboarding Sonic Character Designer Sonic Lost in Mario World Sonic Pacman, Tetris Sonic, and Sonic Sonica Ultimate.

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[MAJ²] Downgrade psp 6.38 / 6.39 and 6.20

As you may already know, the Hen (software that allows the use of unofficial software) is not compatible with the version 6.38 version, so some of you might want to return back on the updates. This operation is called downgrade your psp to spend 6.20.

AJ ²: The Pack RTU were revised, the bug has been eradicated. Moreover, the downgrade is now in version 3.5 for better compatibility with your psps.

Requirements:
_Psp version 6.38 / 6.39
_The Pack RTU

> RTU 6.38/6.39 >>6.20 psp Fat / Slim – 1000 , 2000, 3000
> RTU 6.38/6.39 >>6.20 psp Go
> RTU 6.38/6.39 >>6.35 psp GO version 7g / 8g / 9g
If you have a PSP Go:

You must use PSPident (a run through the Set tab) to determine the version of your motherboard:

Method:

1. Unzip the package RTU to the root of your memory stick

2. Tab game, run the downgrader


3. A black screen appears, the software asks you to press X to confirm.

4. A blue screen appears telling you to turn a configuration error. ROUND press to remedy this problem.