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Home Console Gaming May Suffer Death By A Thousand Cuts, Rather Than A Major Revolution
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
The Ouya is making its way out to backers even now (though my shipping notification still hasn’t arrived. Grrr.) and judging by early impressions, it’s no silver bullet to take down behemoths like Sony and Microsoft. The $ 99, Android powered console still isn’t fully formed exactly, but it’s doubtful that between now and June 25 it’ll take on giant-killer proportions. Likewise the recently-announced BlueStacks Android gaming console, which features a subscription-based pricing model, probably won’t alone topple the giants.
But combined, these and a slew of other devices including the GameStick, smart TVs from manufacturers, Steam Boxes, and even Google and Apple hardware are eating away at what was once a fairly exclusive field. It seems a lot of people are waiting for a watershed moment to signal a significant shift away from traditional console gaming to a new paradigm, but increasingly, it looks likely that what we’ll see instead is an erosion that more closely resembles glacial shift, but on a less geological time scale.
There’s evidence to suggest that console gaming is already losing significant ground, like quarterly results from Nintendo that show a dramatic decline in consumer interest in the recently-launched Wii U console. And while Sony saw its first full-year profit in half a decade, most of the good news was on the smartphone side, and PlayStation sales fell for the year. Microsoft is still doing fairly well with the Xbox 360, but growth of key accessories like the Kinect have slowed with time.
Slower Kinect sales are a good bellwether for the industry’s overall health, if only because it and devices like it are where console makers are turning to try to inject some fresh life into a market that had recently started to look fairly stale. To some extent, Kinect, Move and other gimmicks like the screen of the 3DS are an answer to incursions by mobile gaming and other alternatives. Just like point-and-shoot cameras needed differentiating features like long zooms to prove themselves relative to smartphone cameras, video games needed something new to reel in new buyers.
The new crop of challengers to the console gaming market, including Ouya and the new BlueStacks GamePop console, risks getting discounted by critics as just another round of devices like the GP2X Wiz or the Gizmondo, which had limited appeal and then faded into the background of video games history as little more than a minor footnote. But that’s taking too short-term and dismissive a view on what’s currently happening in the video game space. It’s true that, as ardent console gamers continually remind me, there will always be a demand for that type of content.
Increasingly, however, there’s a growing contingent of players that are fine saying, “if I can get it on my phone, why do I need it anywhere else?” and that’s a market that’s ripe for a living room transition like the ones being attempted by Ouya and BlueStack. It’s easy to discount these ahead of their full consumer launch, and I don’t expect them to have an immediate impact on console sales, but they are signs of a sure shift, and one that won’t go away, even if doesn’t provide the sort of bomb shock disruption that we’re so fond of identifying and championing.
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Insane Japanese Dance Dance Revolution Player
Author: Dave Adams
This is a video of some guy in Japan made of nothing but Redbull and uncut cocaine playing Dance Dance Revolution, or the Japanese equivalent of Dance Dance Revolution. He’s quick. If I was ever challenged to a duel I would pay this guy to take my place and kill my enemy. And, if I couldn’t come up with all the money he wanted for the job, I’d have to go with plan B: flee the country, move to South America, grow a beard, and only respond to ‘Mr. Monchichi, banana magnate’.
Hit the jump for the video.
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The psychedelic revolution is not being televised
Author: Angela Stephens
Synthetics — a wide-reaching drug “class” of sorts that utilizes man-made compounds and substances to create psychoactive experiences for users — have been steadily rising in popularity over recent years. There’s a whole new world of substances waiting for those that know where to look, but aside from a few prominent examples (such as the multiple substituted cathinones that were dubbed “bath salts” in the US) this uptick in use has gone largely unreported. Writing for New York Magazine, Vanessa Grigoriadis pulls back the curtain on this relatively new field, explaining the motivations and proceses of those that make and use synthetics.
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Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution
Author: Jade Kim
By Dieter Bohn and Ellis Hamburger
Something weird and remarkable started occurring at Google right away after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps.
Excellent design is not something anyone has actually typically expected from Google. Infamously, the company used to focus on A/B screening small, incremental modifications like 41 various shades of blue for links rather of trusting its designers to create and execute on a total vision. The & ldquo; design viewpoint that lives or dies strictly by the sword of records & rdquo; led its very first visual designer, Douglas Bowman, to leave in 2009.
More recently, nonetheless, it & rsquo; s been impossible to ignore a series of attentively made apps– especially on iOS, …
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Aakash 2 hands-on: the $40 educational slate with revolution on its mind
Author: Tiffany Shoman
Efforts to put cheap computers in the hands of students have always hit major stumbling blocks. Most notably price. The OLPC project had noble goals, but ultimately ended up well above its target price of $ 100. The Classmate was more of a “me too” product than anything truly revolutionary. What started as India’s effort to launch a $ 10 laptop, slowly mutated into a $ 35 tablet that, even then, struggled in its initial incarnation. What ultimately became known as the Aakash was painfully underpowered and had carried a cost almost double its $ 35 target. With the second version DataWind is hoping to make good on the promise of an ultra-affordable tablet that can actually be used by students and educators. CEO of the company Suneet Tuli swung by our offices with the Ubuslate 7Ci, the commercial version of the Aakash 2, to give us a chance to put the device through its paces and talk about the transformative power of education.
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90 Seconds on The Verge: Kindle Paperwhite, Ping R.I.P., and IKEA’s LED revolution
Author: Tiffany Shoman
” O, I pass away, Horatio; / The potent toxin rather o’er-crows my spirit: / I can not live to hear the news from England; / However I do prophesy the election lights / On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; / So see your man, with the occurrents, more and less, / Which have actually gotten. The rest is silence.”
Spoiler: Hamlet dies.
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IBM: We’re on the cusp of the Quantum Computing revolution (video)
Author: Matthew Wilson
Technology’s holy grail is the development of a “perfect” Quantum Computer. Traditional computers recognize information as bits: binary information that represent “On” or “Off” states. A Quantum Computer uses qubits; operating in superposition, it exists in all states simultaneously — not just “On” or “Off,” but every possible state in-between. It would theoretically be able to instantly access every piece of information at the same time, meaning that a 250 qubit computer would contain more data than there are particles in the universe. IBM thinks it’s closer than ever to realizing this dream and if you want to know more, we have the full details after the break.
Gallery: IBM Superconducting QBit Setup
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IBM: We’re on the cusp of the Quantum Computing revolution (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Delicious Revolution Cookbook – Healthy Food For Busy People.
Author: Eric Moss
The Delicious Revolution Cookbook – Healthy Food For Busy People.
151 Page Cookbook With Over 100 Easy To Make Healthy Meals. Every Recipe Has A Gorgeous Full Color Photograph. This Is A Revolutionary Solution For How To Make & Prepare Deliciously Healthy Meals For Increased Energy And Weight Loss That’s Sure To Please.
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Engadget Distro Issue 21 asks: ‘Will the revolution be portable?’
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As the unstoppable avalanche of tech news that is CES comes rushing our way, we bring you Distro Issue 21, the very first of the year. This edition brings with it three reviews: Michael Gorman takes on Samsung’s Series 7 Chronos laptop, Brad Molen explores what’s in Pantech’s rather bizarre Pocket and Mat Smith gets his game on with Sony’s next-gen portable, the PlayStation Vita. Also in this issue, our supreme leader, Tim Stevens, recommends a way for the FAA to approve devices for in-flight use, Ross Rubin talks the “Three D’s of CES TV” and Matt Lees of Official Xbox Magazine answers the Distro Q&A. And, as to our plans at CES, keep it locked here for not one, but two new issues of our fine weekly, packed full of the most important news to come out of this year’s show.
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Engadget Distro Issue 21 asks: ‘Will the revolution be portable?’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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