If you ever wonder whether it is possible to create all round 3D image view that you have seen in many Sci-fi shows!!! Now it is possible thanks to the folks from Japan that made a prototype concept product that is able to display 3D object and can be view from 360 degree and showcase at recent IFA 2009. At this stage of development Sony have yet to identify specific application usage model based on this technology. The specification of this 360 degree 3D display is 24 bits colour at 96 X 128 resolutions to generate stereoscopic images without having to wear 3D glasses. In this early stage I think it is not possible to put in on mobile devices yet but it will be cool to have 3D Head Ups Display use in car dashboard.
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This is the sequel to the original series “Darker Than Black” and the story revolve around protagonist Hei who works for a mysterious organization known only as “syndicate” to gather information and material related to the radiation cause by the meteor crash. Due to the meteor crash causes some of the people on to have special ability and power. Those who have that ability are known as “Contractor”. Hei who is a contractor is known by Messier Code “BK-201” and in this sequel he left the syndicate organization after betraying them in at the end of the first series together with Yin. The sequel will take place 2 years later after the first series and on the run from the organization that they used to serve. They left Tokyo and end up in Russia to encounter Suou Pavlichenko whose family was pull into a war with several government intelligent agency due to their research into contractors.
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I got the Asia version of the game and I finally finish the game in the story mode and here is what I think about the game. There are no screen shots or videos in this review because I don’t have any video capture device to grab from, if you want to see the game screen shots click here. For the story wise I am not going to cover also because there aren’t much to talk about but just think of it like a good guy ninja clan with the charter to stop the evil fiend from hell. There are 17 chapters all together an average 30 minutes to complete 1 chapter but there some chapters are really long so I think about 9 hours to finish playing through the story mode. The extra contents are the 3 chapters dedicated for Momiji, Rachel and Ayane play using existing stages in the game with some modification. Team mission game play is basically survival game trying to fend off all the horde of enemies using the 4 characters in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 without any time limit and chapters challenges basically play specific chapter to try to get as much karma points as possible to obtain certain ranking to unlock additional character costumes.
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It has been out for a while but I thought it would be a good idea to share what it have been like using the Sennheiser HD 555 for more than 6 months and have over more than 300 hours of music and movie on it. For starters Sennheiser classify this headphone as audiophile grade and suitable for movie and music. So the HD 555 it is considered the mid range of the entry level audiophile grade headphone from Sennheiser and price between HD 515 and HD 595.
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Act 6 – Masaki October 11, 2009 at
11:37 am
Begin with a glimpse into the past history of Masaki where he was just only a 4 or 5 years old child and was under the care of his family houseroid Tex. In his room Masaki have a conversation with Tex regarding about his father and mother ongoing divorce court case but Tex feedback to Masaki was that it was neither side that was completely wrong. Tex requested a favor from Masaki to keep this conversation from his father as the topic might hurt his father feelings but without their notice Masaki’s father was already eavesdropping from behind the door. The following morning Masaki’s father inform Masaki that there is a problem with their houseroid Tex and while Masaki try to talk to Tex it seem that Tex no longer talk back.
Back to the future in the “Ethics Committee” meeting and Masaki’s father was chairing the meeting. The agenda of the meeting was regarding the increasing report of excessive human-robot interaction in over 1400 areas and claim all areas identify do not violate robot laws and it must be grey zone due to the limitation of the laws implementation. The committee plan to eliminate such places but first they need to investigate this places further and pick the targets for full investigation. After the eliminations are done then only they will hand over the news to the media. Acknowledging the scope of the investigation is too huge for their current resources to do, Masaki’s father orders the use of large number of android investigators to help out with the investigation. Those suspected android that has excessive interaction with human will be reported to Ethics Committee who works in the police force and have them make the arrest. They are also aware of the group call APC (Android Promotion Committee) which is a group that has conflicting objectives with the Ethics Committee and caution that APC might take this event against them due to that the Ethics Committee will order their android investigator to keep their ties secret from the Ethics Committee. The meeting maybe secret but Dr. Ashimori was listening in secret from her office with a hidden microphone in the Ethics Committee meeting room.
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Another great old game for this coming Christmas holidays is God Of War Collection. Nope it is not a new game but a re-mastered of the best action adventure hack & slash game from PS2 to PS3 system. So it is a collection of God Of War part 1 and 2 that will be re-mastered into HD 720p resolution and will be running 60 fps with 2x anti aliasing. That’s right one of the best PS2 game that have won many awards is coming to HD and already look very good on the PS2 and will look even better on PS3. There are many 3D hack & slash release before it but never quite reach the hype of gamers expectation after moving to 3D gaming but this game set the bar on how 3D hack & slash game should be. It is currently plan to be release in November 2009 and selling cheap for 2 games for the price of less than 1 regular game at about 40 USD. At the moment there are no screenshots available yet but there are more discussion updates here.
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Rikuo seems to have a problem sleep at night in bed and can hear the tune of piano playing. In the morning Rikuo wake up with a tired face because he was not having enough sleep at night and was inform that by his sister Naoko that Sammy have gone for her monthly maintenance but she had prepare breakfast for Rikuo before going. While taking breakfast Rikuo glance through today’s newspaper and show topics of android job expanding and also show that android can also do play music as well and later was interrupted by Naoko claiming that Rikuo should have turn off the sound while playing the piano at night. This have cleared Rikuo thinking that he thought he was dreaming at night but actually some else was playing the piano at night. The conversation between Naoko and Rikuo also reveal that their mother is a professional music instructor and would not let Rikuo help her with music lesson because Rikuo have stop playing the piano.
At school and after lesson Rikuo feeling sleepy due to lack of sleep at night was disturbed by Masaki. Masaki want to share what he have found on in his father’s computer that reveal that there is a new prototype android model that are made for to become a foster father for human child and already testing in secret. He also comment that machine seem to be butting into everything that human does and then leave.
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If you are looking for a good basic cell phone, Nokia 1202 could be the answer for you. The Nokia 1202 was design to be cheap and reliable cell phone for those who just want a basic phone for communication needs. At first glance it looks simple and elegant. This small and slim phone is available in 2 colours variant black and blue/grey. This phone support GSM Dual band protocol.
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Beginning with first person view of a nameless android supposedly a houseriod taking care of a kid and its sound and vision are distorted as if the memory was corrupted then suddenly later a view of it from a remote back alley as if it was abandon by its owner. Back at home, Naoko inform Rikuo that their father is very busy again due customer complain about the new android model and the TV news advise the public to properly dispose of their old android and not to abandon it (due to the high cost of proper disposing it). Rikuo comment that the new android AI still need fine tuning and unable to really comprehend instruction from its owner and would questions the owner.
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Alright I know the game have been announce for quite sometimes and it is already release in Xbox 360 but I want to reiterate few things since this is a great action game and it will be release next week on PS3 and I can’t wait play it since I like the first Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
Let’s begin by looking back a bit, Ninja Gaiden is popular series back in 8bit and 16bit console era and they are great games but those series are consider the first generation. The second generation series is release first on Xbox, Xbox 360 and PS3. There are no stories related between the first series (1 gen) and second series (2 gen) personally I don’t think there are any stories to talk about because it is basically a pure action game. So the second generation of Ninja Gaiden series is more like continuing the Ninja Gaiden game reputation with a new story and new 3D platform setting. The new series was first release in Xbox and then ported to PS3 dubbed Ninja Gaiden Sigma with quite significant additional new contents.
The game play of Ninja Gaiden is all about nail biting outstanding hacking & slashing of evil demon. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 stories will continue from Ninja Gaiden Sigma. Now Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for PS3 will have a whole lot more additional new contents when compare to Ninja Gaiden Sigma. The new stuff are the co-op mode, new stages, new playable characters like Ayane, Momiji & Rachel, new weapons, SixAxis play mode support and etc.. Unfortunately it is also comes with reduce bloodshed (less blood) and less gore when compare to the Xbox 360 version which have crazily huge amount of blood squirting off from slashed enemies.
For those who have played the new generation of Ninja Gaiden series know that this is a very challenging game to play but very fun. Even in normal setting most people would find it extremely difficult to even pass through the early stages. I have never played Ninja Gaiden 2 on Xbox 360 but I expect the same challenging game play in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. There are a lot unhappy people in regard to Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 releases on PS3 especially those bought the Xbox 360 version will find that they are losing out on the additional game contents and would have to buy the game again on PS3 just to play the new contents. This is probably cause by Microsoft trying pay more to get “Time Exclusive” game titles to be release on Xbox 360 first and when that 1 year time exclusive is over the publisher or developer can choose to release the game on other platform of course they need to add new stuff or else people won’t buy the game.
If you like challenging hack & slash action adventure games, this game should be very high on your wanted list and also this could be the final Ninja Gaiden game as the lead game designer Tomonobu Itagaki left Team Ninja and Tecmo the publisher have not made any announcement about any sequel or new development for the Ninja Gaiden series.
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