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Submission + - 1M people stop playing WoW (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by FBeans on Thursday November 10, 2011 @07:55AM

FBeans writes: “Almost a million people have stopped paying for World of Warcraft in the last three months.”

“World of Warcraft's subscriber numbers have been on a steady decline from the peak of 12 million they hit in 2010.”

The recent decline in numbers could be put down to a string of top titles that have hit the shelves recently: Arkham City, Skyrim, Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 to name a few.

But now WoW is 7 years old, are gamers looking for something fresh? Or is WoW set for another 7 years at the top??

Submission + - Google Street View Spreads to the Amazon. (sky.com) 4

Submitted by FBeans on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:37AM

FBeans writes: “Google has used a pedal-powered tricycle to start photographing the vast Amazon rainforest as part of its global Street View facility.”

“Although the pictures will only show a small slice of the gigantic forest, members of the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS) which helped Google carry out the project, hope it will help spread environmental awareness.”

Now we can all go on rain-forest tours or travel down the Rio Negro river, “a boat with the tricycle on top took thousands of shots of the jungle and its residents.”

With Google spreading it’s street-view to businesses, geothermal mapping of the US and now the Amazon. Is there anything that Google won’t point a camera at? And what’s next?

Submission + - ARM claims PS3-like graphics on mobile GPU (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

l_bratch

on Thursday November 10, 2011 @05:46AM

l_bratch writes: ""British computer chip designer ARM has unveiled its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) for mobile devices.

The Mali-T658 offers up to ten times the performance of its predecessor."

ARM claims that its latest GPU, which will be ready in around two years, will have graphics performance akin to the PlayStation 3. If this has acceptable power consumption for a mobile device, could we be seeing ultra-low power hardware in high-end PCs and consoles soon?"

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