The teaser video let us catch a glimpse of some bosses in new lv60 dungeons, among them: a giant octopus, a shadow with big jaws and a butterfly fairy queen. The names of the new dungeons are previously revealed as:
Children's Week is coming! Taking place once a year in Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Dalaran, and Shattrath City, this week-long celebration is a time to give back to the innocents orphaned by war.
The official launch of TERA is approaching day by day. To biuld up publicity of TERA, En Masse Entertainment took a range of actions to attract gamers' attention continuely. According to a developer journal created by TERA's Senior Producer Brian Knox, we can know the road to launch and the growth trajectory of the Bluehole studio.
DUST 514 is a sandbox shooter and the mercenaries (players)' actions will have certain impact on the planets in the game. Playstation blog just explained how the dynamic battlefield works in DUST 514.
gamigo today announced that the closed beta testing for their upcoming post-apocalyptic title, Grimlands, officially start today. This first step of beta testing will focus on technical details such as server stability, optimization of the network code and testing new features.
Today, WEBZEN finally opened the registration page (http://event.webzen.com/C9/Tournament/Application) for '2012 C9 Championship Tournament' and began accepting applications for the tournament that has a grand prize of $10,000 (USD). To get a ticket for the '2012 C9 Championship Tournament', players must complete 3 in-game party quests before May 5th.
Prepare to free Arcana from the tyranny of endless armies as Iris Online unveils new zones, new items, new quests, a level cap increase to 75, and the most challenging dungeon yet – the Lost Temple of Atlantis! The battle begins today, April 26, and kicks off Iris Online's latest treasure hunting and buff events!
Mike O'Brien, ArenaNet's founder, recently chatted with Forbes's contributor stating his high expectations about Guild Wars 2. After 5 years of development and long wait, Guild Wars 2 is finally coming to a close with its first public beta test this weekend.
GSC Game World didn't reach agreement with the rights owner regarding the use of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. brand, so they moved forward as an independent studio with a new project.
Ripper teleports into Seven Souls Online, an upcoming free-to-play MMORPG set in an East-meets-West world combining elements of both fantasy and sci fi. SSO promises to be an action-packed roleplaying game, with over 2,000 quests and a stunningly beautiful world to explore. Features: Three Classes | The magic-enhanced Manatech Rebel, the savage Imperial Guard, and the cunning Exiled Avenger. Rage Mode | Characters may instantly transform into powerful demons and monsters! Book of Lost
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that the War of Immortals will be expanding with the Lost Omen expansion. New content in Lost Omen will include the new Harbinger class, PvP arena and new, more powerful pets. To celebrate the announcement, the team has released a new trailer http://www.mmorpg.com
Ripper teleports into Seven Souls Online, an upcoming free-to-play MMORPG set in an East-meets-West world combining elements of both fantasy and sci fi. SSO promises to be an action-packed roleplaying game, with over 2,000 quests and a stunningly beautiful world to explore. Features: Three Classes | The magic-enhanced Manatech Rebel, the savage Imperial Guard, and the cunning Exiled Avenger. Rage Mode | Characters may instantly transform into powerful demons and monsters! Book of Lost
Ankama has released further details about the new WAKFU feature, the Smithmagic. With Smithmagic players can recycle items from their inventory and transform these into runes to customise their equipment. This is an ancient art, dating from the Age of DOFUS, but Smithmagic in WAFKFU is different. Smithmagic is not a profession, it can be [...]
Perfect World Entertainment has announced the first expansion for War of the Immortals, named Lost Omen. This expansion is going to be released on May 10 and take the Atlantean war between the gods to a new level. Lost Omen add a new class, the Harbinger, teacher of the psychic and the powers of the [...]
Gamigo and Drago Entertainment has started today the first step of Grimlands beta. This beta will focus on technical details such as server stability, optimization of the network code and testing new features. This first beta version of the shooter MMO Grimlands includes a dozen new dungeons full of post-apocalyptic adventure for groups of players. [...]
Mail.Ru, has released today a huge patch for RiotZone, that comes with lots of new content for the game. Some of the new features include: - Officer level cap raised to 45 - New urban and jungle missions - Item shop heavily modified: now even lower level players will find useful items to enhance your [...]
Games321 has released a trailer for Pockie Ninja presenting the Chapter 9: Battle! Impel Down, which has just been put online and brings a great amount of new content.
Wargaming.net is going to launch the award-winning MMOG World of Tanks to players in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. The game will be launched through online game publisher SEA Gaming, who will handle marketing, distribution, operations and support service for players. In-game language options for the armored action MMO will feature English, [...]
Blizzard has announced a series of events to celebrate the release of his highly anticipated game, Diablo III. On the night of May 14, stores in US, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and the region of Taiwan will host the players in the presence of members of the Developer Team of [...]
Three Gates with FREE MMORPG and MMO Reviews, are giving away 1500 closed beta keys for Legends of Aethereus. Legends of Aethereus is a co-op multiplayer online action RPG which offers uniquely designed Combat Arena scenarios. Players can create their own scenarios, using beasts, traps and contraptions, and they can design as well new gear, [...]
Gamigo with FREE MMORPG and MMO Reviews, are giving away 500 closed beta keys for UFO Online. In the strategic browser-based game UFO Online, humanity has also made the mistake of trusting the aliens. A terrible mistake, as it turns out. The supposedly-peaceful aliens soon turn out to be nasty invaders looking to exploit our [...]
Aeria Games, has started the closed beta registration for its new MMORTS Dragon Crusade. Dragon Crusade provides an epic fantasy tale of the rise and fall of kingdoms. The game features diverse races and architecture, deadly instances, powerful alliances, thrilling combat, and customizable equipment. Throughout every aspect of the game, strategy plays as important a [...]
As far as quantum computing breakthroughs go, this latest one by a team of researchers from the U.S., Australia and South Africa is truly special. According to the researchers, a tiny crystal comprising only 300 atoms developed by them has paved the way for a "huge leap" in computing. A leap so vast, these researchers claim, that it would take a supercomputer larger than the known universe to do the kind of calculations possible with their "quantum simulator," a special type of quantum computer. Hit the jump for more.
"Computing technology has taken a huge leap forward using a crystal with just 300 atoms suspended in space," Dr Biercuk, from the University of Sydney's School of Physics and ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, is quoted as having said in a university news release.
"The projected performance of this new experimental quantum simulator eclipses the current maximum capacity of any known computer by an astonishing 10 to the power of 80. That is 1 followed by 80 zeros, in other words 80 orders of magnitude, a truly mind-boggling scale."
In a video (below) uploaded to YouTube by the University of Sydney, the Aussie researcher described the system as being a one-atom thick "pancake" of 300 beryllium atoms; however, the technical systems accompanying this trapped-ion quantum simulator take up an entire room. Bieruck and his teammates have detailed their system in a letter published in the journal Nature.
"In our case, we are studying the interactions of spins in the field of quantum magnetism - a key problem that underlies new discoveries in materials science for energy, biology, and medicine."
"For instance, we hope to study the spin interactions predicted by models for high-temperature superconductivity - a physical phenomenon that has yet to be explained, but has the potential to revolutionise power distribution and high-speed transport."
There's one problem, though: it's not easy to check the accuracy of calculations performed by this tiny beast using conventional computers. Bieruck sees overcoming this problem as the next big challenge for him and his team. In the meantime, you can enjoy your Ivy Bridge-powered rigs and ultrabooks.
Another day, another new graphics driver. But rather than being yet another beta release, the AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver is fully WHQL certified and brings a bevy of useful new features to the virtual table, including Radeon HD 7000 series support for Windows XP, openSuse 12.1 and the just-released Ubuntu 12.04.
The new driver squashes third-screen tearing issues in 3x1 and 1x3 Eyefinity setups and provides bug fixes for a handful of games, including Skyrim, Stalker: Call of Pripyat, Rage and 2007's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (WTF?). In addition, AMD reports that texture filtering and super sampling anti-aliasing: level of detail image quality has been improved for the Radeon HD 7000 lineup. Along the same lines, morphological anti-aliasing receives a major boost for Radeon HD 5000, 6000 and 7000 series cards, with AMD claiming that "MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions."
Eight out of ten geeks agree*: once you've taken an SSD's blazing fast speeds for a whirl, it's hard to go back to standard HDDs. (The last two geeks horde ripped HD video files like they're going out of style.) The problem is, the comparatively sky-high price point of SSDs have kept most folks away from their oh-so-sweet performance. New reports indicate that may change in the coming months, however, as the big movers and shakers in the SSD industry lower prices to try and squeeze out the little guys.
Falling NAND chip pricing is the reason that Kingston, Intel, OCZ and Crucial will be able to engage in the "price war" to eliminate smaller companies from the SSD market, DigiTimes reports. The publication's sources say that the big guys are worried that "inferior products" from bit players may slow down the mass adoption of SSDs through retail channels, so the big guys plan on squashing the competition with a swat of the low-price sledgehammer.
Now, you want to take everything you hear from DigiTimes with a grain of salt, but keep in mind that Intel recently released the budget-priced 330 SSD line with a base model that retails for under $100. The big companies also hope to spur the mass adoption to SATA 3.0 by offering those SSDs at competitive prices to SATA 2.0 SSDs, the publication says.
If you're a Ubuntu Linux user, there's a new entry on your to-do list for today: downloading Ubuntu 12.04 (aka "Precise Pangolin"), the just-dropped long-term support release for the operating system. That means it gets five full years of bug fixes and updates, and it brings a host of improvements and fresh features to the OS -- including upgrades to its divisive Unity interface.
This is the first time Unity has reared its head in a LTS Ubuntu release, and it brings Canonical's new menu-shattering HUD interface to the party. (We've covered the Canonical HUD previously; hit the link for more details.) Initial reports say that Unity speeds along like a champ in Ubuntu 12.04, but we haven't had a chance to try it out for ourselves yet.
In addition to the usual app updates, Precise Pangolin packs in improved power management, a new login screen and a Video Lens that searches for cinema both online and locally. Canonical went after the enterprise market hard with this release: Ubuntu 12.04 includes support for VMware, Citrix, Microsoft RDP 7.1 and over 20 different laptops and desktops available on the market. OMG! UBUNTU! made a video of the top ten new features available in the O.S., which you can watch above.
Leisure Suit Larry is returning to the Land of the Lounze Lizards, and it's all because of the generosity of thousands of nostalgic old school adventure gamers who pledged the necessary half a million dollars to make it happen. With six days to spare, Al Lowe, creator of the original Larry games and not the last two abominations that sullied the franchise, is promising more content if pledges top $750,000.
Fans of the original games will be happy to know that Al Lowe is in full control of the remake, which promises to add improved graphics, a revamped interface, and updated humor. Adventure Mob is providing the code base, and Replay Games, which is made up of a bunch of Sierra veterans, is overseeing the project and will handle publishing chores.
It remains to be seen whether Leisure Suit Larry will capture gamers the way he did back in adventure gaming's heyday. Al Lowe and Co. will give it an honest shot, and if nothing else, the remade game has allowed old school gamers who pirated the original copies to atone for their sins by backing the Kickstarter project.
Having to lug around bulky accessories and peripherals with your Ultrabook or tablet PC kind of negates the whole idea behind thin and light form factors. At the same time, some people find an external optical disc drive (ODD) to be an essential companion, and if you're one of those people, you may want to slap Samsung with a high-five for announcing its new SE-218BB external DVD writer.
Samsung claims the SE-218BB is the world's thinnest ODD, making it a perfect compliment for light and portable devices. It's 18 percent slimmer than conventional DVD writers, measures just 14mm high, and is 8 percent lighter than Samsung's regular DVD writers. And with a brushed aluminum aesthetic, it looks good to boot.
Here's another bonus: It uses a single USB port to power the drive and provide AV connectivity. Most (not all) external DVD writers require two USB ports to function properly, and since these are in short supply on many Ultrabooks, this could end up being a major selling point.
When is an Ultrabook not really an Ultrabook? Whenever Intel says so, that's when. For consumers, the answer might not be so cut and dry, and as notebook makers look to deliver thin and light notebooks at lower price points, you'll have to ask yourself how much you really care about buying a notebook with an official Ultrabook designation versus buying one that's nearly identical but lacks Intel's full blessing.
Here's the deal. According to news and rumor site DigiTimes, notebook manufacturers aren't really happy with the high manufacturing costs associated with second-generation Ultrabooks. Next-gen models are expected to cost about a grand, and that's a tough sell. The solution? Launch "ultra-like" notebooks.
DigiTimes didn't go into specifics, but we imagine lower priced Ultrabook knockoffs will show up to the thin and light party with mechanical hard drives instead of solid state drives, lower quality displays, slightly thicker frames, and a variety of less expensive processor options, including those from AMD.
Samsung today officially introduced what it claims is the world's first quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. It's called the Exynos 4 Quad, a 32nm 1.4GHz quad-core processor based on the ARM Cortex A9 architecture. With twice as many cores as its predecessor, the 45nm Exynos 4 Dual, Samsung claims the Exynos 4 Quad doubles the processing potential with a 20 percent lower power footprint.
"The quad-core processor offers phenomenal multitasking abilities surpassing any single or dual application processor. Since all the cores must share a single battery, the power management and efficiency in the limited battery capacity are indispensable for mobile computing devices," said Taehoon Kim, vice president of System LSI marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. "Given the diverse functionalities consumers are demanding from their mobile devices today, the Exynos 4 Quad meets those high-performance needs while keeping power consumption very low."
One of the neat things about the Exynos 4 Quad is that it's pin-to-pin compatible with the 32nm based Exynos 4 Dual, which makes it easier for mobile device makers to adopt the new part. From a performance standpoint, Samsung says the Exynos 4 Quad is tops when it comes to heavy-load applications like 3D games, video editing, and calculation-intensive simulation.
"With Exynos 4 Quad, you experience console-like gaming wherever you go," Samsung claims.
The Exynos 4 Quad will provide the performance foundation for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy smartphone, which will be officially introduced in May, and is currently being sampled to other device makers.
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As far as quantum computing breakthroughs go, this latest one by a team of researchers from the U.S., Australia and South Africa is truly special. According to the researchers, a tiny crystal comprising only 300 atoms developed by them has paved the way for a "huge leap" in computing. A leap so vast, these researchers claim, that it would take a supercomputer larger than the known universe to do the kind of calculations possible with their "quantum simulator," a special type of quantum computer. Hit the jump for more.
Another day, another new graphics driver. But rather than being yet another beta release, the AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver is fully WHQL certified and brings a bevy of useful new features to the virtual table, including Radeon HD 7000 series support for Windows XP, openSuse 12.1 and the 
Eight out of ten geeks agree*: once you've taken an SSD's blazing fast speeds for a whirl, it's hard to go back to standard HDDs. (The last two geeks horde ripped HD video files like they're going out of style.) The problem is, the comparatively sky-high price point of SSDs have kept most folks away from their oh-so-sweet performance. New reports indicate that may change in the coming months, however, as the big movers and shakers in the SSD industry lower prices to try and squeeze out the little guys.
If you're a Ubuntu Linux user, there's a new entry on your to-do list for today: downloading Ubuntu 12.04 (aka "Precise Pangolin"), the just-dropped long-term support release for the operating system. That means it gets five full years of bug fixes and updates, and it brings a host of improvements and fresh features to the OS -- including upgrades to its divisive Unity interface.
Leisure Suit Larry is returning to the Land of the Lounze Lizards, and it's all because of the generosity of thousands of nostalgic old school adventure gamers who pledged the necessary half a million dollars to make it happen. With six days to spare, Al Lowe, creator of the original Larry games and not the last two abominations that sullied the franchise, is promising more content if pledges top $750,000.
Having to lug around bulky accessories and peripherals with your Ultrabook or tablet PC kind of negates the whole idea behind thin and light form factors. At the same time, some people find an external optical disc drive (ODD) to be an essential companion, and if you're one of those people, you may want to slap Samsung with a high-five for announcing its new SE-218BB external DVD writer.
When is an Ultrabook not really an Ultrabook? Whenever Intel says so, that's when. For consumers, the answer might not be so cut and dry, and as notebook makers look to deliver thin and light notebooks at lower price points, you'll have to ask yourself how much you really care about buying a notebook with an official Ultrabook designation versus buying one that's nearly identical but lacks Intel's full blessing.
Samsung today officially introduced what it claims is the world's first quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. It's called the Exynos 4 Quad, a 32nm 1.4GHz quad-core processor based on the ARM Cortex A9 architecture. With twice as many cores as its predecessor, the 45nm Exynos 4 Dual, Samsung claims the Exynos 4 Quad doubles the processing potential with a 20 percent lower power footprint.
