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Submission + - Minecraft reaches Beta status, price goes up

Submitted by Eric
Eric writes: After over a year of development, Minecraft has hit Beta status today. Minecraft was developed for about a week before its public release on May 17, 2009. With the new milestone, the price of the game has increased to €14.95; when Minecraft moves beyond beta status, it will sell for €20.00. The beta is more focused on polish and content. The aim is to add proper modding support via a stable API, some kind of non-intrusive narrative to the game to help drive the game experience early on, and a late game goal. Updates will be less frequent so as to make sure stability is maintained thanks to more extended testing. Despite this, there have already been two beta releases: client and server Beta 1.0 followed quickly by client 1.0_01.

Comment Re:Idiots (Score 1) 156

by r337ard (#34271528) Attached to: Review of Dell Inspiron Tablet/Laptop Hybrid

You need to do more research. The connector is a measly $29. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A

That device is also requires app support, numerous reviews on that page say it doesn't mirror output and doesn't work for a number of apps. Your presentation might not go that well after all, unless of course you only use Keynote and Videos for your presentations; or jailbreak the phone to enable mirroring...
Media

YouTube, Now In Text Mode! 102

Posted by CmdrTaco from the squeezing-the-pipes dept.
techmuse writes "YouTube has introduced a new, higher-resolution text mode for video. The new text mode is far more efficient than their previous high-end, high-definition offering, and should bring entirely new levels of realism to streaming web video!"

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."
Image

What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? 513

Posted by samzenpus from the fire-makes-things-hot dept.
CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?' being just a selection of the truly baffling — and disturbing — questions Google is regularly forced to answer."
The Almighty Buck

Console Port of The Witcher On Hold 23

Posted by Soulskill from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
Several sources are reporting that work on The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, a console port of the popular PC game, has officially been suspended. CD Projekt, makers of the original game, were working with WideScreen Games on the new version. WideScreen says that CD Projekt missed a significant payment for their role in the development, leading them to stop work on the game. They are emphatic that development won't continue until CD Projekt makes good on the debt, but CD Projekt says, "All payments were done on time according to milestone plan. ... Truth is that payments were later than originally planned but this was solely due to delays in production. The delays were growing in the project due to WSG [continuing] to miss the deadlines." The game's future is uncertain.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Valve Discusses Team Fortress 2's Future 135

Posted by Soulskill from the improving-and-evolving dept.
The Escapist chatted with Valve's Robin Walker about how the Team Fortress 2 team has been listening to feedback and continually updating the game to fix problems and add to the gameplay experience. Walker mentions that ideas for new classes are "floating around," and that a new mode of play will be introduced soon. "'Players have driven our entire approach to designing achievements, the way we tie unlockables to those achievements and the design of those new weapons themselves. The choices we made within the Medic and Heavy updates were very much the result of the ways that players have used that combination of classes within the game. The addition of the payload game mode came from players requesting an old Team Fortress Classic map called Hunted, and describing what they did and didn't like in that map.' ... The Scout is the next class slated for the special treatment, and Walker expects the update will be available early this year. Additionally, the team is juggling a number of side projects at the moment, including finally bringing a year's worth of the downloadable content and upgrades to the Xbox 360 version of the game. A new Payload map is in the works, more community maps are on the way and the team will soon unveil a very different new game mode."

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 2, Informative) 907

by r337ard (#26114151) Attached to: Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150

Superfetch is a huge part of the perception that Vista is a 'resource pig'. It loads your RAM with commonly accessed files when there is nothing else to do with it, in theory that ram can be cleared as soon as something you're running actually needs it so there is no performance loss in preloading.

I've been running Vista for around 18 months on a relatively inexpensive machine as well and the only complaint I have with it is that it is still far slower for gaming than XP would be.
Microsoft

MS Says Windows 7 Will Run DirectX 10 On the CPU 503

Posted by kdawson from the aero-capable dept.
arcticstoat writes "In what could be seen as an easy answer to the Vista-capable debacle, Microsoft has introduced a 'fully conformant software rasterizer' called WARP (Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform) 10, which does away with the need for a dedicated hardware 3D accelerator altogether. Microsoft says that WARP 10 will support all the features and precision requirements of Direct3D 10 and 10.1, as well as up to 8x multi-sampled anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering and all optional texture formats. The minimum CPU spec needed is just 800MHz, and it doesn't even need MMX or SSE, although it will work much quicker on multi-core CPUs with SSE 4.1. Of course, software rendering on a single desktop CPU isn't going to be able to compete with decent dedicated 3D graphics cards when it comes to high-end games, but Microsoft has released some interesting benchmarks that show the system to be quicker than Intel's current integrated DirectX 10 graphics. Running Crysis at 800 x 600 with the lowest quality settings, an eight-core Core i7 system managed an average frame rate of 7.36fps, compared with 5.17fps from Intel's DirectX 10 integrated graphics."

Comment Re:Is there a technical reason not to allow both w (Score 1) 1104

by r337ard (#23257984) Attached to: Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork

really? I use google talk and I don't see what you are talking about. elaborate?
Open a new chat window, click the chat area and hold down a key. The window will scroll lines up into the chat area. It is sort of annoying if you're writing huge blocks of text, but a simple option to limit the scroll lines or expand the window downwards would appease most people I think.

Personally, I prefer it the way it is, but wish it didn't scroll up 12 lines or so into my chat area.

Spacecraft to Fly Through Geyser Plumes On Saturn Moon 80

Posted by Zonk from the fueling-station-coming-soon dept.
Riding with Robots writes "Today the robotic Saturn probe Cassini will make its closest buzz ever over the surface of the enigmatic ice moon Enceladus, whose surprising giant water geysers hint at a hidden ocean of liquid water. The spacecraft will fly right through the tops of the geyser plumes in order to sample the material that originated beneath the surface. NASA is offering a video, interactive guide and image gallery in advance of the event."

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