So you want to play Gran Turismo, Soul Caliber, Motor Storm on your custom firmware enabled PSP?
Tough luck my friend! Or is it? Seems the magnificent hacking crew of the PSP scene has found a way
to bypass the requirement for Official Firmware 5.55 (and upcoming 6.00) releases.
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From FMPro.org
MightyData announces “Charting”, the first video in MightyData’s “11 Days of FileMaker 11″ series celebrating the release of the FileMaker 11 product line. The video showcases how to create three different charts in FileMaker Pro 11 using related records and summary data… – (MightyData)
Posted in FileMaker Pro
From FMPro.org
Updated dialog plug-in for FileMaker Pro 11 adds creating custom transparent icons from PNG images… Troi Automatisering today announced the immediate availability of Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5 for FileMaker Pro 11… – (Troi Automatisering)
Posted in Gaming Xbox 360
“Very aggressive” is the phrase THQ executive VP of Core Games Danny Bilson used to describe his company’s plans for downloadable titles across the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC platforms during a GDC 2010 interview with Joystiq. With two studios dedicated to the downloadable space — THQ Digital Studios Phoenix (formerly Rainbow Studios) and THQ Digital Studios UK (formerly Juice Games) — Bilson told us THQ plans to release “up to six” downloadable titles within the next year, some based on the company’s biggest brands.
“We’re going to be building stuff on some of our core brands,” Bilson said, noting the plan is to create downloadable titles within the same universe as THQ’s major franchises in order to improve brand awareness. Surprisingly, Bilson’s plans include “giving away” some of the upcoming downloadable games, although he did not specify how this idea would be executed.
Bilson’s theory is that by getting players “involved” in its franchises via downloadable titles, THQ can help drive pre-orders and awareness for their big-budget (in relation) retail counterparts. While he would not specify which THQ franchises would get downloadable titles, we were told the plan is to roll out this strategy on “two or three” of THQ’s biggest franchises (à la Square Enix’s upcoming Lara Croft game from developer Crystal Dynamics).
But the plan doesn’t end there: Similar to the approach taken by Microsoft’s Fable II: Pub Games experiment, downloadable releases based on THQ’s major brands will unlock content within the retail releases, teasing players with potential advantages to purchasing retail releases; retail games will also unlock content in downloadable titles, to help drive players to explore more content within that franchise’s universe. “You’re going to see some of our core brands built out in different kinds of gameplay to get people involved in the brands and drive awareness towards a launch.”
THQ developing downloadable games based on ‘core’ brands originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Posted in Gaming PSP
Konami has released what is apparently the first of ten Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker gameplay videos. The video clocks in at 8:48, but not counting the intro it gives us a full eight minutes of Naked Snake
Posted in Gaming PSP
A game development team was hard at work when the police suddenly busted in and put them all on handcuffs. How’d that happen?
Posted in Windows Mobile
The comScore MobiLens service reports on trends in the US mobile industry. In the three months between October 2009 and January 2010 their stats, which come from Smartphone subscribers aged over 13 years old, Microsoft appear to have lost ground, the iPhone has plateaued but the Google Android OS has more than doubled it’s share.
In this graph, taken from gizmodo, shows the change on the previous figures and – although Google remain a smaller player – their rate of growth is pretty amazing.
Windows Phone 7 Series, which was recently announced at Mobile World Congress, will hopefully reverse the slide for Microsoft. However, there’s a number of months to go before this OS appears and we’ll be keeping an eye on the next stats when they appear.
Link – comScore
Credit – Gizmodo.com – Techcrunch.com
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That’s right, folks — Harmonix has just revealed that Green Day: Rock Band will be available for all come June 8 on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Up to 6 players (3 mics; 3 instruments) will progress through the career of the trio, unlocking collectible images (more than 100, apparently) and some 40 minutes of “rare and unreleased” footage from interviews, outtakes and performances along the way.
As alluded to above, GD:RB will also sport the same vocal harmonizing feature that made The Beatles: Rock Band such a delight for mic hogs and comes loaded with 47 Green Day tracks, including “Brain Stew,” “Jaded,” “Hitchin’ a Ride,” “American Idiot,” “Wake Me Up When September Ends” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”
Oh, and if you’re looking to export these tunes, worry not: all 47 tracks are fully exportable to a console hard drive and playable in Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and the recently announced Rock Band 3. The export fee is $9.99 via Xbox Live or PSN. The export features is not available for the Wii system. Additionally, if you’ve picked up the six Green Day tunes already available as DLC, you can play them in the new game with added harmonies, “unique” visuals and more “exclusive archival material.”
Green Day: Rock Band will be available as a standalone game for Xbox 360 and PS3 for $59.99, while Wii owners will get a bit of a price break at $49.99. A special edition Green Day: Rock Band Plus will also come to Xbox 360 and PS3 for $69.99 and includes fancy packaging, an “export” feature (we assume, a voucher to export the disc tracks to the hard drive) and the six previously released Green Day DLC tracks.
Update: The GameStop pre-order bonus for the standalone game is an export voucher (for Xbox 360 or PS3). Essentially, pre-order GD:RB from GameStop, and you can export all 47 tracks to your console hard drive for free.
Green Day: Rock Band releases June 8 worldwide originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Following yesterday’s announcement of Rock Band 3, MTV Games and Harmonix have given the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band a June release date.
Posted in Gaming PS3
Along with the announcement of the PlayStation Move came the names of the publishers currently developing games for the new motion controller. Which ones are they?
Posted in Windows Mobile
Some months ago I blogged about how the Google car had snapped pictures of my entire family. Today the journey is complete and all those millions of photos are online. Google Street View has expanded to cover most of the UK and it’s available right now, in your hand.
Your street, your house, your car and possibly everything else is now in the Google matrix. It’s on your phone too. I tested it on a HTC Hero and grabbed this screenshot from a very tiny local lane. Even dirt tracks appear to have been covered with your Windows Mobile or Android now getting the updated images.
I’m counting the minutes until (A) Lots more “strange images” are found (B) Someone films themselves outside their house viewing Google Street View on an Android phone with compass mode turned on or (C) This hits the newspapers with headlines shouting about “invasion of privacy”.
Link – google.co.uk/maps
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