Goldeneye 007 To Re-Re-Release On Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

 

By: Kareem 

First there was Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64, it was fun we all had a blast shooting our friends and most importantly it brought a decent FPS to a home console and introduced many a gamer to their first taste of 4-player home gaming madness. That’s something no other console could do at the time out of the box, without the need for any extra peripherals (besides the controllers of course).

Then, GoldenEye got re-released on the Wii in 2010 and…nobody cared. It went mostly unnoticed and ignored, those that did have a chance to play it like it but there just wasn’t enough. The Wii’s lack of real HD quality left the re-release with a kind of bad facelift vibe though, sure it looked better but you felt like Activision could’ve done better.

Which leads us to this news. Activision is planning to re-re-release GoldenEye 007 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. They haven’t announced an official release date exactly but say be prepared for a fall release. The new version of Goldeneye will obviously be in full 720-1080p HD resolution and offer support for the PlayStation move including the sharp shooter peripheral that goes along with it. Unfortunately for Xbox 360 owners there will be no Kinect functionality. That’s not all however, the game will also feature an improved version of the classic 4-player split screen as well as 16 player online multiplayer.

According to Activision the game is being built on an entirely new engine so it should be pretty damned awesome. As long as the gameplay holds up and everything is nicely polished this should definitely be a game worth checking out this fall. If for no other reason than sheer nostalgia.

Related Stuffs:

• Source: PC World
• Official: Goldeneye Game Site

 

Goldeneye 007 Reboot Trailer:

Hackers Planning Their Own Social Network?

By: Kareem 

Some cats either from or supporters of anonymous have decided that enough is enough with what they view as BS social networks and decided to start their own.

The site is called anonplus is already up, although all it contains right now is a single page outlining their plans along with the names of some of the key devs, and a developers forum where people can contribute ideas and skills. According to the anonplus website the plan is to create a social network free from forced accounts, information mining and censorship.

There’s no official announcement from anonymous as of this writing, so no one really knows if they’re members or just some developers sympathetic to anonymous’ cause. So you can make of it what you will. According to the rumors the idea for the site came after a number of anonymous members were censored on other social networking sites.

I’m fairly neutral when it comes to social networking. Most of the time social networking sites seem to dissolve into madness with people having 3000+ “friends” and no one really using the sites to do any real networking or socializing. It seems to me that most people use Facebook as a personal cloud scrapbook storage app, or to make money. There are a lot of ‘jobs’ out there for people who have massive Facebook and Twitter followings regardless of how many of their ‘friends’ are total hack accounts or how many of their followers are ‘marketing experts’. 

I wish these guys the best of luck and hope they succeed if for no other reason than just to see what /b/ version 3.0 will look like. We can’t be certain this isn’t a prank or that it will go anywhere, but still it’s some pretty interesting news nonetheless.

Related stuffs:

Source: Information Week

Team at Cornell Mucks With Space-Time

 

By: Kareem 

A team of science-types over at that fancy Cornell University have successfully created a device that allows them to create an “event cloak” something that has been theorized for quite some time now.

So what exactly is an “event cloak”? Basically it’s a point in space-time where a gap has been created in order to allow a photon to travel in between, pretty much making it entirely invisible. The idea is that you use time-lenses, which are special lenses designed to compress and decompress light in time. The lenses are able to do this by using something known as an electro-optic modulator. The modulators are used in tandem to slow down (compress) and speed up (decompress) incoming photons. So you shine a light through one side, the photons slow down, you crank the other side and the photons speed up again creating a gap in-between which allows photons to sneak through.

Like a chicken crossing the highway:

Although the team can only trap light for 110 nanoseconds and their best hope is 120 nanoseconds this is still a pretty damned amazing leap for physics. Not only because it can and will make people completely optically invisible, but also because if it’s given enough power the device can ‘disappear’ entire events.

Lets just hope our ass-backwards childish stupid couldn’t-even-pass-a-2nd-grade-science-class military leaders don’t get there hands on it…what they already have? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!

Related stuffs:

• Source: Popular Science
• Article: Metamaterial 'Space-Time Cloak' Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events