In addition to the Mad Catz Mustang guitar controller and the upcoming Fender Squier Stratocaster, there is now a third option for realistic shredding in Rock Band 3, thanks to a firmware update for You Rock Digital's You Rock guitar. The You Rock guitar is similar to the Mustang in that it has real strings for strumming, though they don't stretch along the full length of the guitar. Unlike the Mustang's many, many buttons, the You Rock features a touch-sensitive fret board. The You Rock also functions as a MIDI instrument and includes many built in sounds and effects.

Those wishing to use the You Rock for Rock Band 3 will need to download firmware 1.2 from the You Rock website. Like the Fender Squier, the You Rock requires the Mad Catz MIDI adapter for use with Rock Band 3. The guitar is compatible with all versions of the game and, in addition to pro mode, it can be used to play standard modes as well. That's what we call a two'fer.

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Last week's Switched On discussed Nokia's quest to help Microsoft create a third mobile ecosystem alongside those of Apple and Google. That word – ecosystem – has clearly passed into the pantheon of buzzwords, leveraging many synergies from purpose-built paradigms. And yet, building and maintaining ecosystems is something few companies really understand. True technology ecosystems are more than just successful platforms or throwing many products together simply because they are owned by the same company. They are characterized by strategically implemented nurturing.

One concept that Apple seems to have adapted from natural ecosystems is the concept of the water cycle you probably learned about in grade school. Apple turns up the heat on the life-sustaining water of innovation that passes between the well-grounded Mac market and the soaring growth of the iOS market. Apple alluded to this cycle in its Back to the Mac event. After inheriting many technologies from Mac OS X, iOS began offering Mac OS X launch screens, full-screen apps, app resuming, and document autosaving. This week's announcements, though, show that the cycle may soon be heading again in the other direction as Apple showed off two Mac technologies that may well wind up strengthening the iOS ecosystem.

The first of these is Thunderbolt, Apple's term for Light Peak: an even faster bus than the one Sandra Bullock drove in Speed. Apple is no stranger to interconnect innovation, having developed the core technology behind IEEE 1394, aka FireWire.
Now, Apple is positioned to once again differentiate based on the speed of syncing media.


FireWire was the original way iPods connected to Macs, and it provided much faster music transfer than what was available from most competitors using first-generation USB. Now with iPads and iPhones available with more than six times as many gigabytes as that first iPod, Apple is positioned to once again differentiate based on the speed of syncing media. And this time, Intel -- which once championed USB -- will be the Keanu Reeves that moves the bus forward.


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The world's fastest GPU has arrived with the EVGA GeForce GTX 580. Experience blockbuster games like Call of Duty®: Black Ops and Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X® 2 in their full glory with everything cranked to the max. Not only does the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 rip through the latest games, it also runs quieter than the previous generation. And as you have come to expect from the GeForce GTX GPU, the GTX 580 packs support for all the premium GTX gaming technologies such as NVIDIA Surround, 3D Vision, PhysX and SLI. With all these features and more, it is easy to see how the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 obliterates the competition.
Limited Edition includes the following:

    * Limited Edition Call of Duty: Black Ops Box
    * Limited Edition Call of Duty: Black Ops Card Artwork
    * Limited Edition Call of Duty: Black Ops Poster

source : evga

Introducing the fastest DirectX 11 GPU, the EVGA GeForce GTX 580. This card rips through the latest DirectX 11 games with up to 8x the tessellation performance over competing GPUs, and runs quieter than the previous generation. Experience a whole new level of interactive gaming with SLI and combine up to three displays for the ultimate 3D gaming experience. With these features and more, the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 does not just dominate the competition, it obiliterates it. Specifications include the GTX 580 (797MHz core clock) chipset, 1536MB of 0.4ns GDDR5 memory with a 4050 MHz effective memory clock and 194.4 GB/second memory bandwidth, 384 bit memory interface, 1594 MHz Shader Clock, 512 CUDA cores, 51 GT/s texture fill rate and PCI Express 2.0 compatibility. Additional features include Microsoft DirectX 11 Support, NVIDIA PhysX and NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technologies, NVIDIA 2-way, 3-way and 4-way SLI readiness, NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround readiness, NVIDIA CUDA technology with CUDA C/C++, DirectCompute 5.0, and OpenCL support, PCI-Express 2.0 support and OpenGL 4.1 support. Connections are 1 Mini-HDMI 1.4a connector and 2 Dual-Link DVI-I HDCP capable connectors. Package includes the EVGA Driver/software disc with EVGA Precision Tuning utility, 1 Mini-HDMI to HDMI cable, 1 DVI to VGA adaptor, 1 6-pin PCI-E power cable, 1 8-pin PCI-E Power Cable and a limited lifetime warranty if registered within 30 days at www.evga.com.

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many explanations that discuss Crysis 2 is always going to be torn between two things: it looks, and how to play. When I check the single player part of the PC version of Crysis 2 months ago, I was surprised as much by how well controlled on the pad 360 as how the version that looks fantastic, and I also went with some serious questions about how it will run on consoles. Last week, things shifted around a bit when I spend time with multiplayer Crysis 2 on the Xbox 360, and I was surprised by two things: how great it looked, and how not so great it is playing.



Thankfully, it looks like most of the graphical issues we saw at Gamescom last year and last year's multiplayer beta on 360 last year have been worked out, as Crysis 2 is clearly in the running for best looking console game out there. It's the atmosphere and lighting that really impresses. Levels are huge with a ton of routes and traversal options, and the constant shifts between darkness and daylight in Skyline, the level included in this week's demo, in particular are striking.






Crysis 2 was so striking, in fact, that it took me a few minutes with the game to realize that something wasn't quite right with Crysis 2's controls on the 360. Eventually, it hit me: Crysis 2 on 360 has some seriously laggy controller response. While some of Crysis 2's control idiosyncrasies make sense - a delay between hitting the jump button and flying into the air makes you feel like a cyborg hurling himself upward - simple things like aiming and strafing just aren't as responsive as they should be. What breaks my heart is the theory that this might be tied to the preview build's framerate - if Crytek UK (formerly Free Radical of TimeSplitters and, uh, Haze fame) can tone the graphics down in multiplayer somewhat to get something that feels more responsive, it would be the right move, but it would still hurt my heart a little.  and according to news obtained Crysis 2 will be released on 2 March

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn  on IGN's top 25 modern PC games list and will probably continue to say it as nostalgia gradually warps my memory. Since Dragon Age: Origins was purportedly a spiritual successor, I was thrilled. I couldn't wait to play, and play I did when it was finally released in 2009. Though it didn't turn me into the hopeless, bleary-eyed obsessive I became after Baldur's Gate II launched, it still played all the right notes, even if some of the complexity had been stripped out after the Dungeons & Dragons days.

On PC, Dragon Age: Origins was unflinchingly difficult even at the standard setting, which made intelligent party tactics and frequent use of the pause function essential to victory. That's exactly how I thought it should be. Then I played the Xbox 360 version, and for a moment I looked around as if someone might be playing a trick on me. The framerate was a mess and, by comparison, the challenge seemed more about dealing with the interface than chopping down enemies. That may just be some of my PC elitism bleeding through since I know a number of people who loved Dragon Age on consoles, but it's a perspective that's hard to shake after experiencing the relative convenience of the PC version.

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for those of you who like listening to music, especially those who like apple products, the company Apple recently updated its software for the iPod nano is the 6th generation, 1.1 that allow you to truly enjoy the music the music that you like better. The following is an explanation from Apple about the new generation of iPod nano:

Turning the iPod nano off completely and turning it on again

Hold down the Sleep / Wake button for installments iPod nano seconds to turn off completely.

Note: If the iPod nano (6th generation) That is showing it's charging or attached to a powered accessory or cable, you can not turn off the iPod Until you detach the accessory or cable from the device.

To turn the iPod nano is back on, hold down the Sleep / Wake button for A Few seconds.

Turning the iPod nano off completely causes the Following to occur::

     * Music or other audio that's playing on the device stops.
     * Paused Clears radio.
     * If a slideshow is playing on the device, it stops.
     * If a voice memo is being Recorded, it stops and Saves.
     * The pedometer stops.
     * Nike + workout data stops and Saves.

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Armageddon will debut on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on May 31. The title was originally slated to debut in March but last year was pushed back to May.

As for the game, where Guerrilla focused on Alec Mason's rebellion against the oppressive Earth Defense Force, Armageddon shifts the focus and ups the stakes. The game picks up roughly 50 years later and focuses on Darius Mason, Alec's grandson. When the younger Mason accidentally unleashes a planet-threatening evil on Mars, it's up to Darius and his grandfather's old rebel group, the Red Faction, to clean up the mess.

As in previous Red Faction games, cleaning up a big mess will require making an even bigger mess, thanks to a focus on physics-based destruction. Armageddon will provide players some new surroundings to explosively customize, from ice caves to lava flows.

In support of Armageddon, THQ will release a downloadable series entry, Red Faction: Battlegrounds for Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, as well as Red Faction: Origins, a television movie created in partnership with the SyFy Channel.

source : Gamespot

for the lovers ipad maybe they'll be happy to hear this news .. iPad2 will soon be launched, according to the news in the can, iPad2 will be thinner than previously and with the view that many in the update, and is equipped with cameras and video chat features Facetime. There are also some reports iPad2 be supported by one chip multimode Qualcomm and will merjalan in precisely in the city of San Francisco.

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two companies competing in game development gaming technology smakin day maupu tighter, competition between Konami and EA is one of the most famous in the gaming industry, and it's certainly one of the reasons football game better and better the resulting end-this end. Japanese companies seem to continue to seek to discover new things, just so they could get the upper hand of their opponent from EA. And this time they got their compatriots from Nintendo as an ally. 3D Edition PES 2011, is now a popular football game in the world, will arrive on the market along with the new Nintendo 3DS next month.

Yup, starting March 25 (European release date), we will be able to play Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D on the new platform this year's top games It seems the 3D version won’t sacrifice anything of the incredible level of realism of the regular PES 2011, but, with the aid of Nintendo 3DS’ new and unique 3D imaging, it will surely improve the gaming experience, by bringing depth and feeling to every dribble or pass.

A player camera has been implemented so that you can “feel” the game: you can know accurately estimate the distance between the player you’re currently controlling and a team-mate whom you’d want to deliver the ball to, which will be a real help for those of you who enjoy the British way with long passes and crosses.

This morning, Craig and Don Mattrick, president, Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB), announced plans to release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit, or SDK, this spring.

The community that has blossomed since the launch of Kinect for Xbox 360 in November shows the breadth of invention and depth of imagination possible when people have access to ground-breaking technology. Already, researchers, academics and enthusiasts are thinking through what’s next in natural and intuitive technology. For example, in January I mentioned Craig’s talk at the Cleveland Clinic, where he highlighted students at the University of Washington’s Biorobotics Lab using Kinect with a commercially available PHANTOM Omni Haptic Device to explore how robotic surgery could be enhanced by incorporating the sense of feel.

The Kinect for Windows SDK is being developed and released by Microsoft Research (MSR) in collaboration with IEB.  It will be available this spring as a free download, and will give academic researchers and enthusiasts access to key pieces of the Kinect system—such as the audio technology, system application programming interfaces and direct control of the Kinect sensor itself.

Supporting this community and enabling creativity around natural user interfaces (NUI) is important to us, and our hope is that this SDK will ignite further creativity in an already vibrant ecosystem of enthusiasts. We are very excited by this announcement. Not only does it showcase our investment in this important technology trend, but it ensures that people have the tools they desire to revolutionize how people interact with technology.

The possibilities are endless.  Natural and intuitive technologies such as Kinect can be more than just a great platform for gaming and entertainment.  They open up enormous opportunities across a wide variety of scenarios, including addressing societal issues in areas such as healthcare and education.

source : Microsoft

There's something quite appealing in the Intel Core i7-2600K. Although lauched at high speed, there are no symptoms of overheating in this product.

Core i7-2600K or commonly known as one of the family of Sandy Bridge, a second generation of Intel Core line of processors i that occupy the highest position. However this product priced at a reasonable price, which is in the range of $ 300.

Judging from the specifications diusungnya, this product certainly brings a myriad of improvements. For example, integrated with the Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) that supposedly can improve system performance. Well when did video transcoding, or simply watch servings High Definition (HD).

Also there is another feature called Intel Quick Sync Video that could indeed designed to improve the quality of rendering this processor. However, the feature is not active when the user wearing an additional graphics card AMD Radeon or Nvidia GeForce.

By default the Intel Core i7-2600K run fast enough, namely 3.4 GHz and can be automatically increased up to 3.8 GHz. Thus even if there were not enough, this product can be overclocked easily. Congenital capital only cooling, it can touch the processor speed 4 GHz.

Unlike previous generations, Clarkdale, which belong to the heat. Intel to reform the Sandy Bridge architecture that makes the processor is pretty cool, despite continued lauched at high speed.

Intel Core i7-2600K was just born with a speed of 3.4 GHz and can automatically increase up to 3.8 GHz thanks to features Turbobost. But if you think thats not enough, this processor can still be lauched faster because it has a multiplier that is not locked.

Only with congenital cooling, this product could reach 4 Ghz more easily. Even if you want more serious, could be increased again with a better cooling system. Even in some cases there were successful penetrating up to 5 GHz. Wow!