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NEW YORK – February 20, 2014 – Pyle Audio, manufacturers of outdoor recreational gear and home, car and pro audio equipment, unveils the Gator Sound Bluetooth speaker. Portable, lightweight and waterproof, the Gator Sound speaker system is the perfect solution in the shower or tub, with no worries about moisture or submersion. The ultra-light Bluetooth Gator Sound speaker allows users to connect and stream music, as well as take phone calls. Its built-in lithium battery and USB charging cable create both indoor and outdoor functionality, allowing users to enjoy hours of music in any environment, wet or dry. Available at www.PyleAudio.com for $49.99.
With its easy-push controls, the engineered IPX-6 waterproof (up to 3.3ft) Gator Sound speaker provides crystal clear audio and echo cancellation for your phone calls. It features a wide range of low, mid, and high sound restoration amid streaming music, sacrificing nothing in sound quality, while catering to the most adventurous listener’s need for convenience and durability. Just hang the Gator Sound speaker system from its preinstalled plastic hook on your showerhead or place it on any surface. Once fully charged, the Gator provides up to 25 hours of play time.
“We’re always looking for opportunities to incorporate Bluetooth capabilities into our new product lines,” said Abe Brach, Product Specialist at Pyle Audio. “However, it’s not just about simply creating a wireless speaker. We also take into consideration ease of use as demonstrated by the Gator Sound’s amazing durability and functionality.”
Gator Sound Features Include:
• Features ultra-lightweight, waterproof and portable design for an all element performance
• Hands-free calling with built-in microphone
• Push control connection to virtually any Bluetooth enabled device (Smartphone, Tablet, PC, MP3 player, etc.)
• Built-in rechargeable lithium battery and USB charging cable
• Enhanced bass production delivers accurate lows, mids, and highs
• Integrated plastic hook for hanging on your shower head
• Available in blue, white or black
The Gator Sound from Pyle Audio is available in black for $49.99 at www.PyleAudio.com.
Activision has released a new trailer showing off the item customizations now possible in Call of Duty: Ghosts, thanks to a content update.
New customization options for Call of Duty: Ghosts include:
- Personalization Packs: Fight in style with the Ducky, Space Cats, Inferno and Circuit Personalization Packs.
- Special Characters: Intimidate your enemies as one of the Ghosts. Choose from Keegan, Merrick, Hesh and Elias.
- Captain Price Legend Pack: Become one of the most legendary Call of Duty heroes of all time with the Capt. Price Special Character and themed Personalization Pack.
- Extra Slots Pack: Increase the number of Create-a-Soldier loadout slots from 6 to 10 for each character.
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Looks like Irrational Games founder, Ken Levine, is leaving the BioShock universe in the hands of 2K Games and closing down his Irrational Games development house. Instead, he will be starting a smaller company focused on “narrative-driven” games… (ed. note: I am still not understanding why he just doesn’t start this smaller company and keep Irrational Games making tons of money on the side and his loyal employees employed?)
When Jon Chey, Rob Fermier and I founded Irrational Games seventeen years ago, our mission was to make visually unique worlds and populate them with singular characters.
We built Rapture and Columbia, the Von Braun and The Rickenbacker, the Freedom Fortress and some of the nastiest basements a SWAT team ever set foot into. We created Booker and Elizabeth, the Big Daddy and the Little Sister, MidWives and ManBot. In that time, Irrational has grown larger and more successful than we could have conceived when we began our three-person studio in a living room in Cambridge, MA. It’s been the defining project of my professional life.
Now Irrational Games is about to roll out the last DLC for BioShock Infinite and people are understandably asking: What’s next?
Seventeen years is a long time to do any job, even the best one. And working with the incredible team at Irrational Games is indeed the best job I’ve ever had. While I’m deeply proud of what we’ve accomplished together, my passion has turned to making a different kind of game than we’ve done before. To meet the challenge ahead, I need to refocus my energy on a smaller team with a flatter structure and a more direct relationship with gamers. In many ways, it will be a return to how we started: a small team making games for the core gaming audience.
I am winding down Irrational Games as you know it. I’ll be starting a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at Take-Two. That is going to mean parting ways with all but about fifteen members of the Irrational team. There’s no great way to lay people off, and our first concern is to make sure that the people who are leaving have as much support as we can give them during this transition.
Besides financial support, the staff will have access to the studio for a period of time to say their goodbyes and put together their portfolios. Other Take-Two studios will be on hand to discuss opportunities within the company, and we’ll be hosting a recruiting day where we’ll be giving 3rd party studios and publishers a chance to hold interviews with departing Irrational staff.*
What’s next?
In time we will announce a new endeavor with a new goal: To make narrative-driven games for the core gamer that are highly replayable. To foster the most direct relationship with our fans possible, we will focus exclusively on content delivered digitally.
When I first contemplated what I wanted to do, it became very clear to me that we were going to need a long period of design. Initially, I thought the only way to build this venture was with a classical startup model, a risk I was prepared to take. But when I talked to Take-Two about the idea, they convinced me that there was no better place to pursue this new chapter than within their walls. After all, they’re the ones who believed in and supported BioShock in the first place.
Thanks to Irrational and 2K’s passion in developing the games, and the fans who believe in it, BioShock has generated retail revenues of over a half billion dollars and secured an iconic place in gaming. I’m handing the reins of our creation, theBioShock universe, to 2K so our new venture can focus entirely on replayable narrative. If we’re lucky, we’ll build something half as memorable as BioShock.
We will do our best to update an FAQ in this space as questions come in.
-Ken Levine
LOS ANGELES- February 20, 2014– Feenix, the premiere boutique peripheral firm for luxury gaming instruments, is excited to debut the Aria; a sleek headset that introduces gamers to audiophile level sound quality. Gamers can now experience their favorite titles the way sound engineers intended; in mesmerizing detail.
“For years gamers have been misled as to what they should be looking for in a gaming headset. Their choices have had nothing but poor sound quality, gimmicky features, and unnaturally over pronounced bass;” said Feenix creative director, Ashkon Shayani. “The Aria focuses on providing high grade audio and reproducing sounds perfectly in studio monitor fashion. The result is the ability to hear sounds you never knew existed.”
The Aria’s 50mm full range neodymium magnet drivers deliver studio monitor sound performance. Each driver is individually sound checked prior to assembly to ensure the best possible quality. The Headset’s acoustic chamber is constructed entirely of Japanese pine wood for a warm and rich sound.
The Aria’s independent cardioid clip microphone allows for unidirectional voice recording that is unmatched by any traditional headset. The studio-grade recording capability allows the Aria to be utilized as an every day headphone rather than solely as a gaming headset.
100% memory foam and protein leather ear cushions completely surround the ear for unrivaled comfort and breathability during prolonged use. The Aria is currently available for pre-order at FeenixCollection.com for $349.
Every Feenix customer receives their own personally assigned account manager that provides lifetime support. Feenix limits its production volume to less than 1000 units per month to ensure that each item undergoes a thorough hand check before being shipped out. All Feenix products are sold exclusively through www.feenixcollection.com to maintain the company’s service and quality control standards.
Montréal (February 20, 2014) – Square Enix® and Eidos-Montréal™, the award winning studio behind the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution® today released a THIEF™ launch trailer to celebrate that Garrett, The Master Thief is almost ready to step from the shadows. THIEF is out next week, so take a sneaky peek at the launch trailer containing new sections of gameplay and glimpses at some key encounters that lie in wait for Garrett. THIEF launches on Tuesday, February 25 for Windows PC, PlayStation®3, PlayStation®4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Related Links
Official Homepage: thiefgame.com
Official Facebook® Page: facebook.com/thief
Follow @Thief on Twitter®: twitter.com/thief
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SINGAPORE – Feb. 20, 2014 – Touch Dimensions, a multi-award winning developer of video games, announced today that Autumn Dynasty: Warlords will launch on iOS Thursday, February 27th for $6.99. Warlords is the sequel to the #1 top-paid real-time strategy game, Autumn Dynasty, and expands the series into new territory with empire management, diplomacy, espionage and all-out war. Rule the lands and strive to be the First Autumn Emperor in a beautiful painting that comes to life with every stroke of the brush! The original Autumn Dynasty will also be free until February 26th to celebrate the sequel’s upcoming launch.
Manage every aspect of your feudal empire: build epic cities, raise armies, recruit generals and take on dangerous quests. Fight your battles in real time, against a wide range of opposing forces, each with different military techniques and unit types. Engage in sabotage, espionage and alliances to conquer your foes and expand your lands. Autumn Dynasty Warlords is a true real-time strategy game that puts you in command at the beginning of the Autumn Dynasty’s history!
Autumn Dynasty Warlords features:
- RTS-4X gameplay: Explore, expand, exterminate and exploit
- Riveting missions: Experience them all with more than 100 hours of gameplay
- Non-linear campaign: Seemingly unrelated decisions will cause your empire to flourish… or falter
- Strategic flexibility: Employ different types of troops, decrees and select the best officer for leading them to victory
- Pick your battles: Defeat and conquer enemy provinces via various routes and methods
- Unique touch controls: Take full command of your armies with ease and stylish brush strokes
- In-game interactions: Dispatch your officers for diplomacy or espionage and use them to perform tasks that affect the entire world
- Ancient Asian paintings comprise the map, with different terrains for every location.
- Retina display optimized
- iCloud Compatible with Game Center achievements
Autumn Dynasty: Warlords launches on iOS Thursday, February 27th for $6.99.
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Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday 20th February 2014 — In support of last week’s Workbench update, Bohemia Interactive today launched a series of mod-making video tutorials for their new sim game Take On™ Mars. Titled ‘Mars Mod-Maker’s Manual (M4)’, the video series aims to help people get started with creating additional or new content for Take On Mars, using the game’s Workbench editing suite. The first chapter – Data Structure & Modifications – kicks off with an explanation of where Take On Mars looks for its data, and how it can be modified.
“The fact that Take On Mars itself started as a mod for Carrier Command: Gaea Mission explains a lot about the dedication of this team to modding and user content creation”, said Take On Mars’ Project Lead, Martin Melicharek. “While we’re still adding new content to the game ourselves, with a really cool announcement coming up next week, we’re looking forward to see how other people experiment with the tools used to develop Take On Mars. The Mars Mod-Maker’s Manual (M4) should form an excellent starting point.”
More chapters in the ‘Mars Mod-Making Manual’ series will be released over the course of the next few months – starting with the second chapter about addons, mods and total conversions.
More information about Take On Mars is available at mars.takeonthegame.com. To enlist as a Rover operator, people can purchase Take On Mars (Early Access) for 13.99 EUR/ 17.99 USD/ 11.99 GBP on Steam and Store.bistudio.com.
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Griffin’s WoodTones Over-The-Ear Headphones feature real wood housing ear cups that protect 50mm neodymium drivers. Griffin touts that the wooden housings increase audio quality – but, do they? Read on to find out.
Design
When I first saw the Griffin WoodTones Over-The-Ear headphones, I instantly had a vision of myself sitting on my porch drinking a cup of coffee on a cool, gray morning. The classy, beech wood ear cups remind me of coffee, green tea, and flannel. Aside from the wooden ear cups, the rest of the headphones are simply black, to give extra focus where it needs to go. I should note that it is not clear if the entire ear cup housing is wood or just the back side of the ear cup housing – I believe it is just the back part of the ear cup. Griffin has followed the current trend in headphones and included an audio cable that be unplugged from the headphones for storage. The rectangular shape of the ear cups more naturally fit around your ear, so that they don’t press on them uncomfortably after long amounts of usage. Also, they are very light weight, which
Setup
Setting up a pair of headphones is probably a bit extraneous for this review. After all, you plug them into the device of your choosing and listen, right? Well, yes, but I will say that adjusting the headphones to fit your head – an important part of the setup process, is very different with the Griffin WoodTones. . Griffin has employed a one-size-fits-all headband system that works very well. Instead of pulling the ear cups down from the band to adjust them for your ears, you simply put the headphones on and they auto-adjust.
Audio Quality
One of the selling points of the WoodTones Over-The-Ear Headphones is that the wooden ear cups increase the “warmth” of the audio coming from the headphone speaker drivers. I can’t say with 100% certainty that the wood parts are responsible for the sound and not the quality of the 50mm drivers, but the sound quality is definitely very good. The WoodTones Over-The-Ear headphones have a decent level of bass, a warm quality and I found them to be enjoyable while both listening to music on my iPhone as well as when plugged into my PC as I played Insurgency from New World Interactive. The headphones handled the virtual gunfire and explosions respectably and, after all the gaming was over, I even tried for my wish of sitting in the morning air while wearing them. Then I realized that it was really cold out there and quickly rushed back in the house for warmth. Sometimes, visions are better left in your head.
Conclusion
Overall, the Griffin WoodTones Over-The-Ear headphones are a great pair of headphones for your listening enjoyment with their lightweight and comfort. Good for both playing video games as well as listening to your favorite album, they retail for about $100 dollars on Griffin’s website, but if you shop around a bit you can find them for a good deal less.
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When trying to integrate a SSD card into your system, you can easily get swallowed up in techno-babble. If you like techno-babble, that’s great – dive on in, the water is plenty deep. When I got my SanDisk Ultra Plus 256G SSD, all I wanted to know is how will this effect me as a gamer and how can I really utilize this sweet piece of tech. So, I began writing this review for the laypeople out there!
Features:
- Increased performance for faster boot and application load times
- Increased reliability and durability over traditional hard drives
- Consistently high data transfer speeds
- Backed by a 3 year limited warranty
- Operating temperature: -32ºF to 158ºF (0ºC to 70 ºC)
- Power Consumption (active): 0.12w
- Shock Resistant: up to 1500 G @ 0.5 m/sec
SSD For Gamers:
I promise to keep this simple for the non-tech heads. First things first – incorporating a SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD into your computer will make your boot-up time insanely fast. Windows just flies open so fast that at first you wonder if something went wrong. Nope, things just went extremely right. In the olden days of SSDs, when they were about the same size as the cards you put in your digital camera now, space allotment on the drives used to be very pick and choose. The overall consensus was that you should definitely install Windows on it and be happy with your “super boots”. Now that they are 256G with 6G/s transfer rates, game management definitely comes into play.
First instincts is to put Steam on the drive – I love Steam and have about 100 games on it, but it turns out that low load speed with Steam is more of an internet relay issue than a hard drive one. A better use for the SSD is to install those monster games that have all the beautiful graphics, huge save files and take up a load of hard drive real estate. Those games that have load times when you go through doorways into new areas or after cut-scenes. They becomes smooth experiences hopping from level to level or area to area because it is all just instant access at insane speeds. If you are like me and have been gaming for decades you will really understand how amazingly far we have come.
Another benefit of having a SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD that most gamers don’t think about is temperature and noise. Thanks to the SSD being a solid state device (hence the “SS” in “SSD”), there are no whirling platters with lots of or mechanized arms to heat things up. Loading the games and system programs you use most on one of these disks actually will reduce your heat and noise levels as well as make your games play more seamlessly. It is also good to note that because there are no whirling platters, these drives are shock absorbent! If you take your rig places, bump it regularly or have a laptop gaming rig, SSDs will be less likely to error or suffer damage. Because there are no moving parts there is also no problem with moving parts breaking down, meaning the longevity of the drive is way better than a standard hard drive.
Why to Use SanDisk:
A lot of what was pointed out in this article discusses the gaming benefits of SSDs in general. Any die-hard gamer can tell you though that when it comes to gaming parts brand names do make a difference. You don’t want to trust the heart of your rig to a generic name that you don’t know if you can trust. When it comes to SanDisk, they back their products with not just years of reliable brand recognition but enough research and performance testing of their products to feed even the most hungry tech head’s tastes. The SanDisk Ultra Plus 256G SSD is a new standard for the industry and one you can trust your gaming life to, I certainly am.
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