After an online rental service outed that Max Payne 3 will be featured on two discs on the Xbox 360, Rockstar Games has confirmed this is exactly the case. The forthcoming third-person shooter will have half of its single-player story contained on one disk, which will be accompanied with the online multiplayer component. The second […]
Former Sony lead artist Martin Binfield touched a few projects that never saw fruition, including The Getaway 3, and his showreel shows off bits of these before they were shelved. The Getaway 3 footage in Binfield’s above reel is pulled from the game’s E3 trailer, while canceled PS3 science-fiction and lifestyle projects demonstrate rocket-fueled space […]
Crytek continues its multiplatform approach to development with Crysis 3, aiming to satisfy everyone from console owners to the PC gamers that are so hardcore, they cosplay as “parallax occlusion mapping.” The developer hopes to have Direct X 11 support for PC at launch this time — one of several advantages, it says, of having […]
Sony announced Skype will be available later today on the PlayStation Vita. Users can make both voice and video calls on the app. Skype will run in “background mode,” so if someone is playing a game on Vita, they can pause action, take the call, then return to the game. Calls between Skype users is […]
Comedian and actor Kevin Hart has been added to the main stage lineup for the 2012 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Organizers say Hart, hot on the heels of his starring role in last weekend’s No. 1 film, “Think Like a Man,” will debut his comedic talents during the festival scheduled for July 6-8 […]
Riders in Boston and surrounding areas will soon be able to both purchase and display rail tickets on their smartphones, thanks to a system being put into place this fall by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The service is modeled on a similar system used in the UK by London-based Masabi, and uses QR […]
As a response to user requests, Startech unveiled the new Unidock Unidock 3U. The open dual hard drive docking station allows for one Serial ATA (SATA) and one older Parallel ATA (PATA or IDE) drive to be connected simultaneously with a USB 3 high-speed connection to the host computer. The dual drive adapter supports both […]
Realmac Software has updated its popular to-do iPhone app Clear to version 1.1, adding in several user-requested features such as a better UI for alerts and a “shake to undo” feature. The update also adds support for new themes, some of which are hidden or must be “unlocked” through usage, and the app has now […]
A new utility from WellRedApps aims to make public-key encryption of sensitive documents easy enough that business and other users will routinely do it rather than risk data interception. Called DropKey, the drag-and-drop program uses a 256-bit version of public-key cryptography, which uses a matched-pair standard for encryption and decryption. The program features Address Book […]
Three days prior to the release of Ubuntu Linux distribution 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, the next major release has been named. Following the software’s trend of alliterative titling, version 12.10 of the popular distribution will be known as Quantal Quetzal. Details of features in version 12.10 are sparse, but are expected to include a typographical […]
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