I thought i'd start doing a round up of rumors, news and release of the week. This might not be happening every week, there's a lot of intersting news that happened this week.
i'll first start off with the news that i've just read about sega, Sega are closing all the major studios except from two, Sega of america and sega UK, this is because of fineical problems in the sega family and this is causes the rest of the studios to be shut down and try to renew the stradgey of sega franchises, obviously when you think of Sega you think of sonic the hedgehog.
remember my little rant about Blackberry 10, the new operating system coming from RIM well they've announced that BB10 will only be coming out in 2013. Now i'd like to say Rim needed BB10 to be a winner in the OS war, now with iOS 6, windows 8 mobile and now newly announced is Android Jellybean 4.1. I personally think that the end of rim now, no more blackberrys. Maybe the company will survive if it brings out it's BBM (blackberry messenger) to other platforms and if they do that, that will be the last outcry that RIM will do.
Since i've already covered Google IO in the previous blog i won't talk about it again. Two major players in the app field have finally hit iOS, the apps that i'm talking about is Google chrome and Google drive. Google chrome and safari use the same Webkit and the same protocols as safari so there's not a massiv leap in speed but you've certainly got more functionality with the Chrome web browser.
What nintendo announced is that they are bringing out a new 3DS but with a bigger screens. it's conviently got 3DS XL, keeping in the lines of the DSI XL. I can't remember the actual specs of the screen but what i know is that nintendo aren't upping the resolution of the screens so speaking realiscity the games won't look that good as they are only easy ports.
Have you ever wondered what the people at Valve use to make their short films, adverts and gameplay mechanics. well now you can own the software and make your own movies. You can just be playing a game from team fortess 2 or other Valve titles and as you're playing through the game, the program will record every little action, every footstep at every angle. you can change where the camera is to give it a more dynamic view and give that one game of team fortess more depth.
Analyst are saying that iTunes is ready for a major overhaul, the User experience will be change for a more user unified experience, music will be more easier to be catagorized, movie will have a little thumbnail and if you hover over that thumbnail you'll get a little sneak peak. Instead of the normal white themed iTunes, the default theme will most likely be piano black and try and keep up with their other iDevices.
The facebook app for iOS will be re-built from the ground-up. Let's be honest the facebook iOS app is sluggish, it's always clicking over everywhere and things can't be displayed on the iPad without going to it's HTML5 counterpart, that's where facebook want to correct it and rebuild the entire app with speed in mind.
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