Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced the simultaneous release of The Sims 3 for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch handsets. The new version allows users to control simulated people inside a virtual world, the application allowing for dozens of unique personality traits as well as extensive customization for your Sims […]
Day: June 2, 2009
E3: Nintendo Briefing Notes
Nintendo just wrapped its media briefing on this end and the results are strange, encouraging and mixed: -Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway announced that this year’s theme will be “Everyone’s Game”. There’s something for everyone and Nintendo intends to address this. -“New Mario Brothers” Wii was announced, the title featuring beautiful graphics as well as co-op and […]
Having lost the battle to acquire Yahoo! so many times, Microsoft decided it still needed to get into the search engine business, and this weekend they launched a “preview” of the service. Called “bing“, the service doesn’t look much unlike Google, except for some prettier formatting. Opinions online seem pretty varied so far, as people […]
Hulu Desktop released for Mac and PC
Last week, Hulu released it’s Hulu Desktop application for Mac and Windows, which allows you to stream it’s library of videos without using a web browser. The current release is considered a “beta” while Hulu “[…] plan[s] to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service”. The software and it’s interface fill the entire […]
In addition to Microsoft’s Bing preview, Microsoft also announced Project Natal, a technology project developed by 3DV which uses a camera technology to function as an input. The core ideas behind the project include motion recognition, complex voice recognition and scanning body features. And since a picture’s worth a thousand words, here’s what the guys […]