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Fable III Announced For 2010 52

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @02:10PM from the a-boy-and-his-dog-and-his-empire dept.

Flea of Pain writes "Fable III is finally in the works! 'Peter Molyneux revealed that his team is working on Fable III, which will arrive in late 2010, two years after the release of Fable II. The game will give you the primary task of becoming Albion's king and leading the people to happiness and the kingdom to glory. Fable III will be something bold and different, Molyneux promises, stating that story and drama will play a major part in it. New things will be done with the dog and the bread-crumb-trails mechanic, which were present in the second game, and you will be offered complete control of your actions and your people's actions, as you will be the king of Albion. ... [Y]ou will need to balance many things, including poverty and greed, tyranny and compassion or progress and tradition, all in order to keep your subjects happy. Furthermore, you will be able to set taxes and decide how you will rule your subjects. Your spouse, be it a king or a queen, will also point you into various directions over the course of the game. It seems that you will start as a son or daughter of the hero from Fable II and then progress until the halfway point of the game when you will be named king or queen of Albion. This means that you need to keep your save data from Fable II in order for a higher degree of customization.'"

Xbox Gaming Platform To Span Web, Console, Mobile 33

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @11:02PM from the triple-threat dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "According to a job posting from August 10, 2009, Microsoft is looking for a LIVE Community Director in the Entertainment & Devices Division. The job posting seems to suggest that Microsoft is looking to bring the Xbox Live, Windows Mobile, and other similar properties closer together. More specifically, there's talk of a 'casual and social gaming platform' that would be available via more than just one device: 'The LIVE Engagement Team is looking for a LIVE Community Director to manage its LIVE community strategy and execution across a range of properties, from Xbox LIVE to Windows Mobile. This senior position will play a vital role in the community space as the LIVE Engagement team builds and program's Microsoft's next-generation, LIVE-enabled casual and social gaming platform across the Web, the console, mobile and beyond.' The first key responsibility listed in the job posting is to '[d]evelop a community strategy that leverages all parts of the LIVE Services team to deliver scenarios and engagement across three screens.'"

Comment Re:Vaporware (Score 1) 1006

by mrycar on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:35PM (#29031017) Attached to: Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City

4 wheels and a bumper.

I love motorcycles a lot, but refuse to drive one to work, due to the speedbump factor. Motorcycles are neraly invisible on the roads. Avoided many accidents that nearly occured because driver didn't see me.

Got tired of it, after witnessing too many friends become speedbumps because they weren't as agile at dodging the merging Dodge as me.

I'd rather be alive and able then not, so my mode of transportation to work is a car.

When I ride motorcycles, now, I do it away from cities on roads that little traffic.

Comment Re:Vaporware (Score 1) 1006

by mrycar on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:29PM (#29030953) Attached to: Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City

The volt is in Yuma, AZ doing high temp testing as we speak. Will see how it does.

Comment Re:Vaporware (Score 1) 1006

by mrycar on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:27PM (#29030915) Attached to: Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City

If you watch the web cast that GM had, they addressed this question in the Q&A. Cold weather testing has been going on and the 40 mile range on battery alone already had this factored in. Plus there is a really cool display that shows power utilization. Don't forget that it has a generator to kick in if there is a less than 40mile range.

Submission + - Amazon delists music after battle with MI (spiegel.de)

Submitted by Opportunist on Saturday December 22, 2007 @09:17PM

Opportunist writes: It all started with Amazon buying music cheaply abroad and selling it expensively in the EU. Now, the music industry did not like that of course, deemed those imports "illegal" and sent a cease and desist letter. Amazon decided to bend to the MIs will. And do more than that. They not only delisted the CDs required, they pulled almost everything from Sony and Warner (and a few topsellers of Universal and EMI) from their range of products. In the meantime, after a quick talk, it seems the problem has been resolved. For now. Neither side really considers it settled, it just seems both agree that such a battle should not be fought right now, in the week before the big spending event. Though one has to wonder: Who is actually in the stronger position when they canot find an agreement?

Submission + - Star Trek: Of Gods And Men - Part1 Released (myspace.com) 1

Submitted by

stonedcat

on Saturday December 22, 2007 @09:12PM

stonedcat writes: "Star Trek: Of Gods and Men is a three-part unofficial Star Trek fan mini-series, part one (http://www.startrekofgodsandmen.com/) has been released today in flash format, higher quality versions should follow. Directed by Tim Russ (Tuvok from Voyager) and featuring several former cast members from various Star Trek series this mini-series should be a fresh look at the Trek universe especially with the lack of any Star Trek series or Movies on the horizon. This mini-series has been compared by fans to Duke Nukem Forever with its many delays and it was thought to never see the light of day. With this release we can be assured that the film is no longer vapor ware or a pipe dream."

Submission + - Mystery About Earth's Mantle May Be Solved

Submitted by

explosivejared

on Sunday December 09, 2007 @04:31PM

explosivejared writes: "Recent observations made by the University of British Columbia may give insight to an old question about the composition of Earth's mantle, precisely why Earth's mantle doesn't resemble chondrite more. The article discusses the findings of John Hernlund about how the dynamics of magma account for the discrepancies in the theoretical composition of Earth and the actual composition of the mantle."

Submission + - Electric Cars to Help Utilities Load Balance Grid

Submitted by

Reservoir Hill

on Sunday December 09, 2007 @11:32AM

Reservoir Hill writes: "A team at the University of Delaware has created a system that enables vehicles to not only run on electricity alone, but also to generate revenue by storing and providing electricity for utilities. The technology, known as V2G, for vehicle-to-grid, lets electricity flow from the car's battery to power lines and back. When the car is in the V2G setting, the battery's charge goes up or down depending on the needs of the grid operator, which sometimes must store surplus power and other times requires extra power to respond to surges in usage. The ability of the V2G car's battery to act like a sponge provides a solution for utilities, which pay millions to generating stations that help balance the grid. Willett Kempton, who began developing the technology more than a decade ago, estimates the value for utilities could be up to $4,000 a year for the service, part of which could be paid to drivers. A car sitting there with a tank of gasoline in it, that's useless," says Kempton. "If it's a battery storing a lot of electricity and a big plug that allows moving power back and forth quickly, then it's valuable.""

Submission + - CNBC confirms Apple sub-notebook to debut in Jan (appleinsider.com)

Submitted by bobbybobber on Thursday December 06, 2007 @03:18PM

bobbybobber writes: CNBC's Jim Goldman during a just-aired broadcast claims to have spoken to a source at one of Apple's Asian manufacturing facilities who confirmed that the company will indeed introduce its much rumored sub-notebook MacBook Pro at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Goldman corroborated several data points first published by AppleInsider, such that the portable will be 50 percent thinner than the existing MacBook Pro and employ NAND flash memory in place of a traditional hard disk drive. He added that his source believes the notebook will be priced aggressively, at approximately $1500. During the brief segment, Goldman also cited sources who say Apple will have a 3G iPhone on store shelves by late May or early June, not late 2008 as Apple chief executive Steve Jobs had previously indicated.

Submission + - Microsoft Kills Santa Claus 1

Submitted by

theodp

on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @10:54PM

theodp writes: "What says Christmas better than a foul-mouthed Robo-Santa? Attempting to capitalize on the Xmas holiday again, Microsoft re-launched its gimmicky Windows Live Chat with Santa. Unfortunately, Santa-bot's AI failed him and he was easily tricked into talking dirty, prompting Microsoft to kill Father Christmas."

British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps 539

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @07:44PM from the can't-be-seen dept.

longacre writes "The tiny village of Barrow Gurney, England, has asked GPS map publisher Tele Atlas to remove them from the company's maps. The reason: truck drivers using GPS navigation devices are being directed to drive through the town despite the roads being too narrow for sidewalks, which has led to numerous accidents. At the root of the problem lies the fact that the navigation maps used by trucks are the same as those used by passenger cars, and they don't contain data on road width or no-truck zones. Tele Atlas says they will release truck-appropriate databases at some point, but until then they advise local governments to make use of a technology dating back to the Romans: road signs."

Submission + - Should we have the right to breed? 11

Submitted by on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @07:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: I just finished reading Garret Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons and I'm having a little trouble coming to grips with it. In the essay Hardin argues that in a world with finite resources we must stabilize the population at less than the carrying capacity in order to maintain quality of life. However, "Confronted with appeals to limit breeding, some people will undoubtedly respond to the plea more than others. Those who have more children will produce a larger fraction of the next generation than those with more susceptible consciences. The differences will be accentuated, generation by generation." Hardin therefore suggests that we must legally restrict freedom to breed.

However such restrictions would require a invasion of our privacy to a degree that strikes me as simply intolerable. But I'm curious, what do slashdot readers think? Is Hardin's logic sound? If it is, is controlling the population important enough that we should give up what we have long accepted as some of our most basic rights in order to achieve it?

Submission + - When Networks Collide - Apple and AT&T (pbs.org)

Submitted by bitster on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @07:10PM

bitster writes: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071129_003521.html

Submission + - Microsoft HD-DVD support a ploy? (shootfortheedit.com)

Submitted by MacColossus on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @06:13PM

MacColossus writes: According to this forum post by Transformers director Michael Bay, Microsoft is supporting HD-DVD BECAUSE it's the inferior format. They hope it will slow adoption of both HD disc formats while they perfect their HD digital download service. "All ur films belong to us!" This of course raises all kinds of anti-competition abuse questions if true.

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