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Journal Journal: Sony PS3 Sales pass 2 million....two weeks late.

Journal by Schiper on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @03:17AM

Sony has shipped 1m PlayStation 3 consoles in Japan, the consumer electronics giant said yesterday, the day it hit that mark. However, the announcement was a tacit admission it has failed to hit the 2m-machine target it last year said to would reach by the end of 2006. Last week, Sony said it had shipped 1m PS3s in the US by the end of December. However, it only passed the 2m global shipments mark yesterday. It forecast

Submission + - Announcing Crystal Space 1.0

Submitted by

Jorrit

on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @01:44AM

Jorrit writes: "After nearly 10 years of development we finally release version 1.0 of Crystal Space. Crystal Space is an Open Source and portable 3D engine framework which runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X. It is fully featured with support for vertex and fragment shaders, dynamic lighting and lightmaps, skeletal animation, physics, 3D sound, terrain engine, python support and much more.

Together with Crystal Space 1.0 we also release Crystal Entity Layer 1.0. This is a game layer on top of Crystal Space which makes it easier to develop games. Crystal Entity Layer is heavily oriented towards scripting (but also works in plain C++) and adds features like customizable third person camera, movement system, quest system, rule system, path finding and so on.

We would also like to announce a relatively new project called CELstart. To use Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer effectively you need to make your own C++ programs. If you download CELstart then you can start making full powered Crystal Space games by using only XML and/or Python scripts. It is by far the easiest way to make 3D games using Crystal Space.

Interested? Check us out at http://www.crystalspace3d.org/"

Submission + - HP beats Moore's Law

Submitted by

John H. Doe

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:46PM

John H. Doe writes: "From the article: "A number type of nano-scale architecture developed in the research labs of Hewlett-Packard could beat Moore's Law and advance the progress of of microprocessor development three generations in one hit. The new architecture uses a design technique that will enable chip makers to pack eight times as many transistors as is currently possible on a standard 45nm field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip.""

Submission + - Procedural Hot Coffee Mod

Submitted by

a.d.venturer

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:24PM

a.d.venturer writes: "Amidst the news that Brian Eno is producing procedural music for Spore, I find myself a little worried. When are we going to get our first procedural hot coffee mod? All it will take is a generated nipple or chorused voices repeating one of six banned words, and one offended parent, teenager (or younger) to record it. How is the ESRB supposed to review content that hasn't been generated yet, and potentially may never be?"

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