Τρίτη 5 Μαρτίου 2013
Δευτέρα 4 Μαρτίου 2013
Tekken 6 Online Logic
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Σάββατο 2 Μαρτίου 2013
Violence In Video Games
- A bit of intro
As the gaming industry moves on to next levels almost every day, changes happen. Thats the natural order of things! Gaming nowadays is an important part of an average man's life, if we want it or not. Every single person has at least played a game once in his life. Especially these days with Facebook and other social networks wanting to promote apps and other mini games almost all social network users are familiar with gaming.
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We have the first appearance and traces of Sega (Service Games), back in 40's which alongside with Rosen Enterprises were publishing the first coin-operated entertainment machines likes jukeboxes. Nintendo as well, goes even more back in the time which was founded in September of 1889, and was producing handmade hanafuda playing cards. As you can see the roots of gaming are deep inside human society and with a bit of studying and openmindedness we could easily see what gaming industry has to offer.
Well that's not anything else than pure entertainment at highly advanced levels. We pay for a few hours of escaping reality. Thats all. The same goes for almost for every kind of entertainment regardless if it is a book a movie or music etc. As i already said gaming goes way back, but in the last decade we can say there are giant steps in the gaming industry. This happens because manufacturing companies are able to use more advanced technology therefore they have the capability of designing games look like more like they have pictured them in post-production stages. For example with the arrival of colors we could see Frodo in Lord of the Rings and relate him (those pixels) with what we have read in the book. Moreover, with the arrival of 3D environments video games were one step closer to the real world.
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| Parappa The Rapper |
So, at the beggining companies could only make dots moving, then they moved on to colorful pixels binded together, giving us a picture to what they want us to believe we see, then with 3D technology we approached even more reality and so on. So thats why we passed from Tetris to Overboard or Residnet Evil. Because yes Tetris or Pac-Man is entertaining but as always thats not enough for people. Gamers as every consumer wants to be thrilled, feel adventure and andrenaline pumping in his blood. So thats why more "violent" games came up. And phrases like "video games cause violence" or ""violent" games should be prohibited" are totally untrue and wrong. And here is why. Lets say there is a case of a murder. The murderer kills the victim with a knife. Whose fault it is? The knife's or the one's that commited the murder? The knife itself is neutral, it is not good or bad. Its up to people and how they use things. Games themselves can't create violence if the player is not violent in his own nature. I am not trying to say that they are not violent video games. There are indeed! And there are some really hardcore games out there but again its up to people how they will "use" and play them.
- Actual reasons that lead to violence
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| Condemned 2 |
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And thats because all these ways of entertainment offer interaction each one of them to a certain point. Music transfers feelings and messages to the listener, the same goes for the movies. Games are one level above them because it offers all that previously said plus interaction. So, it ιs how people respond to stimuli of those interactions that matters. Hence, it is that violent reaction we should focus on and what is really causing it (society/famliy/relationship oriented problems) and not on some unreal digital violence. And that goes way back to human relationship and how a community treats its members. What matters mostly here, is the social education a child receives in his early years, the treatment and how things are handled inside his family environmnet and how he treats and behaves towards friends. If a person learned how to be socially healthy and acceptable then its unprobable that he will react violently in certain situations. But if he is being abused in any means especially during childhood, then it is very likely that this person is going to reproduce violence when something relevant occurs!
You can also think this subject vice versa. Violence most of the times is a result of power and enforcement. The attractions to these two situations and terms, are oftenly sweet and tempting, causing weaker people to fall into their traps quite easily. Violent scenes in video games sometimes may cause averse to that certain violent act instead of encouraging it They deconstruct violence turning gamers away. Another "plus" if you want is that oppressed people break out "digitally" avoiding harmfull sitautions in reality.
Judging video games for violence is so childish and narrowminded like judging movies or toy guns for wars! And LETS assume that video games do cause violent behaviors. What about Theme Hospital? Or Parappa The Rapper? What about Sims? Hasty assumption as the one above simply distort the truth and lead to generalities. It is just wrong to criticize one specific category judging only one sub-category. Instead, I could elaborate on the positive side effects that video games (the rest categories if you want) have on the human brain but I will just let this video do the talking for me!
Also do not forget that many games are masterpieces with amazing directions, noteworthy castings and such ripe plots that we can hardly find even in the best books or movies. People always want to find a scapegoat to blame wittingly or unwittingly (Barrack Obama sponsored a research against violence in video games with 10.000.000$ ??? Hmm... Yes Obama my friend you were a bit late but FINALLY found the root to all problems) and games is the prefect scapegoat in the present. Few years back we had the evil, malice, wicked and vicious Heavy Metal music, before that we had Rock 'n Roll, before that the arrival of movies. etc etc etc... So you want to tell me that millions of people who play Call of Duty or Thief are bloodthirsty coldblooded killers? And that before the arrival of video games the planet Earth was the perfect, crime-free, ideal world? I dont think so neither do you! In advocasy to my sayings there are statistics and results of surveys that prove that video games are so responsible for violence as music or movies can be. You could google it for yourself!
We live in and with technology, we are surrounded by it, we even choose to live like this even if we dont know it. From the simplest form of technology such as fire (yes fire is the first form of technolgy known to man) clothing and light to airplanes, videochat, and cloning, it has become an unextractable part of the present human society. Video games is a part of our lives, a part with a role of entertainment and its blame in crimes and violence is equevalent to everything we encounter and interact with everyday!
(If you will excuse me now ... i was playing Manhunt so i have to go kill my neighboor).
Παρασκευή 1 Μαρτίου 2013
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Πέμπτη 28 Φεβρουαρίου 2013
PS4 Will NOT Block Used Games
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| Shuhei Yoshida Sony's Worldwide Studios Director |
Also, Yoshida made a statement on the judgemental comments that followed the PS4 presentation about the actual console not being present. "The console is just a console. The game pad, thanks to the Share Button is much more important". That maybe true but does not mean that uf the were showing the console as well that we were indefferent! So if it was possible for you to show it, you would!
Source: thegang.gr
Wii U: A "Critical Error" for Nintendo
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| M.Pachter - Financial Analyst |
The GamesBeat article says that the Wii U sales in America are lower by 38% than they were last year at the same period of time (after the console release). Also, it adds that in January, Wii U, sold less than 100.000 pieces at the market.
In January Nintendo had lower its expectations for the financial year of 2013. From 5.500.000 pieces that was the first expectation of Wii U sales, they were reduced to 4.000.000 pieces. But till now the numbers vaguely exceed the 2.500.000 pieces that have been sold, which means that by the end of March (end of the financial year) the numbers will drop even more.
Source: byteme.gr
Πέμπτη 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2013
Playstation 4 - First Impression (Specifications/DualShock 4 Pics/Summary)
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| Snapshoot of the Live Playstation - 2013 Meeting |
Some minutes ago, Sony has presented Playstation 4 in an official presentation giving us a small taste of what the new console's capabilities will be, leaving other crucial information such as what it will actually look like, its official release date and its price for the upcoming E3 exhibition in June in Las Vegas.
Sony wanted to focus, not only to the gaming experience regarding high processing power and graphics but also on many other relative factors and a huge variety of services that players will experience that will be way more than its predecessor had to offer. In these services are the ability to live broadcast your gameplay or to interact, help, and take control over your friend's game right the moment when it happens. For the creation of PS4, Sony has discussed with many game designers in order to understand their needs and to achieve the maximum desired result.
In tonight's event, that Sony live streamed and that they watched it over than 3.5 millions of people online, these are some of the new features that were presented and we are going to see on the upcoming console:
- Processor thats based on the x86 architecture
- 8GB GDDR5 RAM
- DualShock 5
- Low power consume
- A second custom chip that is responsible for taking up other tasks such as downloads/video uploads/browsing while you play the game at the same time
- Games are being downloaded in the background
- New graphic environment
- You can watch ur friends live as they play their game and comment, participate in chat while you can also at anytime take control and help your friends.
- You can share your gaming footage instantly and with just one button over the Playstaion Network or on other devices as well such as smartphones, tablets etc...
- There is also the capability of broadcasting live as you play
- The PS3 titles will not be compatible on the PS4 system but Sony is working on some alternative solutions.
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| DualShock 4 |
DualShock 4. The new gamepad of PS4 comes to confirm the rumors the had been leaked the last few days. Its partially redesigned and it has:
- a touchpad on the front side
- a "share" button on the back side
- a headphones port
- and a light bar that in combination with a 3D camera it can detect the pad in the three dimensional space and tranfer the movements in the game
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| Interactive online help |
The "Social Gaming" is what makes PS4 to stick out of the crowd of the next-gen consoles. Sony in collaboration with Facebook and Ustream are making a network of gamers in which they can share gaming footage just by pressing the "share" button on the DualShock 4. In other words you can broadcast or upload your game in search for help or comments.
PS Vita also plays a vital role in the future of PS4 having the capability to play the games of playstaion 4 by the streaming network of Gaikai, the company that Sony bought last June.
Alongside these new console's specifications we watched representatives of the largest video game companies such as Square Enix, Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard, Quantic Dreams and Capcom, representing demos and footage of the game that the PS4 is going to host. Those games were Final Fantasy, WatchDogs, Halo, Diablo III (so the rumors were true), Knack, Second Son and Driveclub.
Summarising, with the arrival of PS4 we are going to experience the gaming as we never did before. The gaming experience will reach a totally new level that till today we could only imagine and watch in sci-fi movies, it will bring the gamers even closer with the network sharing community, and it will give them all those things that the companies wanted for so many years but the past's technolgy did not let them.
Source: Playstation Meeting - 2013
Τετάρτη 20 Φεβρουαρίου 2013
WSJ: PS4 Will Stream PS3 Games
As "The Wall Street Journal" published that Sony Corporation will use streaming technology for its next generation console regarding games and it is going to be announced on 20 February (tomorrow).
Last June Sony purchased Gaikai - a company that streams video games online in real time from remote servers, sending compressed video frames. Now The Wall Street Journal says what many were expecting that Sony will use that technology and that will reveal it on 20 Feb. Although Sony is not neccessarily going to use directly Gaikai, just the streaming tech which will bring the Playstation 3 games to the new console.
Previous generation of Playstation (PSX, PS1, PS2, PS3) have offered backward compatibility. That means that a PS1 disc could be read by a PS2 system and a PS2 disc could be read by a PS3 system. But the playstation to come is expected to use AMD x86 chips, which will not be compatible with the system architecture of the previous consoles/discs. So streaming online the games of previous consoles should cover that technology chasm between past and future systems allowing some compatibility. Techically the already owned by the users original games of PS1, PS2, PS3 will be totally worthless when it comes to PS4.
Rumors want Sony not to stream PS4 games because Gaikai and OnLive have been delivered a maximum of 720p resolution, something that it could be really "heavy" for internet connection".
Well, the only way to verify those rumors is just to wait until 20 Feb. a date that surely many of us are waiting a day that will definitely change the future gaming. In a bad or in a good way?
We will find out soon...
Source: theverge.com
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