BioShock Infinite postponed to early 2013

Originally, the release of BioShock Infinite was scheduled for October this year, now have fans of the shooter series but wait a few months longer in the game. Publisher Take-Two today announced a new date 26 Announced in February 2013.

This was announced today by Take-Two press release. That Kevin Levine, creative director at Bioshock Infinite developer Irrational Games is quoted, that one was at the announcement of the game initially been confident of being able to hold the October deadline.

Bioshock Infinite – E3 2011 Demo Walkthrough ( HD version )

“Since then, however, we have discovered new ways of how we can make something out of Infinite still much more extraordinary,” says Levine. “That’s why we want to give our talented team the time it takes to deliver the best possible game.”

Compared to the gaming blog ‘ Kotaku ‘Levine has become the reason for the shift described in detail and said that will be the new Bioshock game and a truly comprehensive plan to game elements, someone who has never previously implemented in a shooter. Even the first part there were some delays, so you have the time to be published must also move, as about the Big Daddies were not what had come to know the players love and later.

Bioshock Infinite – interview with Ken Levine ( HD version )

Bioshock Infinite is the second sequel to the critically acclaimed first-person shooter adventure games from the year 2007. Unlike the first two issues is the venue this time is not the underwater world of Rapture, but a flying city.

In Infinite, the player takes the role of Booker DeWitt, who is sent into a parallel universe in the year 1912 in the flying city of Columbia. There he should free a woman named Elizabeth, but this is naturally more complicated than expected.

Bioshock Infinite is not a direct continuation of the first two parts, but it has many parallels: This concerns mainly the kind of ambitious storytelling and the desire of the makers to create a completely new and independent world.

Gmail: New Possibilities for translations

The developers of the Internet company Google will soon be new opportunities for translation with respect to the in-house e-mail service are available. This feature has been tested over several years.

This project was announced by Jeff Chin, the Google product manager for Google Translate is responsible. His information , according to this feature, which will be very popular especially in the circles of business, are offered in the near future for all users.

Gmail with the new translation options

In the Gmail Labs option this translation was presented several years ago. Not only because of the huge demand we have now is when Google decided to put this feature to all Gmail users in the coming days.

The compilation process for Gmail will make very simple. After all, this should be enough to click on a button (Translate message). A moment later, the electronic mail is then presented in their own language. For some languages, this feature can be disabled or enabled automatically.

Apart from the automatic translations will soon introduce two additional features for Gmail. Thanks to the so-called Title Tweaks is you can easily identify a small design change, if new emails have arrived. Is introduced in Gmail also “Smart Mute”. If this function is enabled, long e-mail threads are automatically moved to the archive.

Google Drive. Google’s cloud is here

His imminent release was an open secret and already we have between us. Google Drive, cloud storage service from Google has just put into operation for all users of a Google account.

The service offers free, 5GB of storage space where we can save any files, images to music, videos and office files. The system actually works much like Google Docs and enables collaboration or comments among different users on a single file.

From these initial 5GB, Google Drive offers extend this capability to other 25GB for 1.88 euros per month, at 3.76 euros by 100GB or 1TB for 37.71 euros. Subscription to a monthly fee is also expanding the capacity of Gmail to 25GB.

Google Drive is accessible via web and have specific applications for PC, Mac and mobile devices with Android operating system. Google says it is working also on the IOS version, which will come within weeks.

Google Drive will also have some smart features. The first is an OCR recognition software that allow you to search or copy text from images containing text. The next step, according to Google, is an image recognition system by context. Users who want to register with the new service only have to enter your newly released site.

Professional users of Google Apps will have improved encryption, security and support 24/7 on Google Drive.

Is it worth mounting a Hackintosh or better to buy a Mac?

Today Intel has finally launched their new processors Ivy Bridge , now just need to close your store and Apple show us the new iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and who knows if a new Mac Pro Something that many are willing it to happen. Wish it was Tuesday.

However, sometimes, watching the new releases are made ​​at the hardware level by thinking about it gives me the option of setting up a Hackintosh. Something to dismiss for various reasons which I summarize in one: you buy a Mac, it works and forget the rest. As bonusextra legal is an issue not because Apple does not license its operating system. But I think some users will not think alike and have to go messing with compatible components and some other modification of the system to install it on “any PC” do not care. So I’d like to ask.

Is it worth mounting a Hackintosh or better to buy a Mac?
I hope you will share your answers with us. Surely many users are asking the same question. While we leave you with the answer to the question valued last week you consider that what is best for your iPhone Stylus?

The most valued response has been to Mictlan Geovanni Trujillo who is clearly the best option is the Wacom Bamboo stylus. If it is true that for everyday use do not need a stylus, in applications to take notes or illustrations is appreciated The use of a.

Bamboo. My favorite. If you are creative and like to illustrate, this is right for you, plus it is visually better.
Now, if you want to comment on the question for this week only have to direct you to the section of Applesfera answers so that we may tell if you montaríais a Hackintosh.

Recent changes in ARD, ZDF and Sport1 Overview

Football fans will have to adapt from the Bundesliga season 2013/14 changes. The German Football League (DFL) has awarded the broadcast rights to the first and second Bundesliga football again. Depth has reached into the pocket especially Sky. The pay-TV station will show all games live and also took over the rights of Deutsche Telekom. LIGA total! There will be no longer so in 2013. There are also new and in the exploitation rights on the Internet and in mobile TV.

The good news first: The first and second games of the football league we will be able to see from the 2013/14 season continued on Freeview at ARD, ZDF and Sport1. The existing rules remain there. The sports show on ARD may also send Saturdays from 18:30 clock, the gym on ZDF from 21:45 clock. Live will see the opening game of the round-round, the Super Cup and the relegation matches, each transmitted by the ARD. Sport 1 will continue the Monday game of the second division transfer.

The pay-TV rights stay with Sky. In addition, Sky has also acquired the rights previously held the German Telekom. From the 2013/14 season there will be no league total! give more. The rights include all distribution channels from Sky, ie cable, satellite, mobile, IPTV and Internet. Theoretically, however, Sky would have the opportunity to deliver to other areas of interest. Whether this is planned, remains to be seen.

The other new features: Sport 1 Sunday report may be so-called third use of the games of the Bundesliga. The rights to the second division will also remain at Sport1. New to the boat’s Axel Springer. Axel Springer Verlag is allowed to report on the Internet from the games of the Bundesliga. Summaries of the games will there be a fee within an hour after the game. The next day, the summaries may be offered free of charge.

Steam login problems for users in Germany (Update)

Valve’s gaming platform Steam is struggling with problems that seem to affect only users in Germany. Since last night occurs when logging an error message, the client does not start and play the game coupled with Steam is thus prevented.

The Steam Forum informs the operator with a brief message about the problem. It states that it is a login problem with Steam, which “refers to some users in Germany,” be aware. We have been working on a solution as quickly as possible and will publish further information.

Post by Valve in Steam Forum
There is a known issue affecting some users log in Steam in Germany. We Are Actively working on this issue and will post more information as soon as possible.

For Steam users particularly annoying is the fact that not only online games but also games that are actually no Internet connection required, not usable. This is because the offline mode is also currently not available. Although this could be enabled on the client, the configuration is, however, an online connection and therefore requires a successful login into steam, which is currently acknowledged, however, with the following error message.

Error message when Steam login
The problem seems to affect not only a few players in Germany. In the appropriate discussion thread , numerous users of different regions of air to make their anger.

Gabe Newell: Apple CEO Cook was not at Valve

Earlier this week, reports have emerged that should have paid, according to which the Apple CEO Tim Cook Steam’s operators Valve visiting. This was immediately speculation about a possible collaboration between Apple and Valve consequence.

Now, Valve announced CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell to speak out and denied that a visit Cook has actually taken place. As the gaming blog ‘ Kotaku ‘reports, Newell has spoken in a podcast about it and meant that no one at Valve know something of this alleged meeting with Tim Cook.

“We have a number of emails back and forth and asking each other: ‘Who is Tim Cook meets with you at least not with me?’” Said Newell. “The rumor was so matter of fact, however formulated, that we ourselves were actually confused for a while.”

Gabe Newell said that had “given it to this day is not a meeting with Tim Cook of Apple or anyone else”: “I wish it were so, we have a long list of things that we at Apple’s support for games and! Gaming in general want, “says co-founder of Valve. Finally he said that “it seems (Tim Cook) like a smart guy, but I’ve never met him.”

After the alleged visit to the Apple-heads last Saturday, there were immediately rumors about a possible cooperation between the two companies. It was assumed that the steam-operators could play a significant role in the living room designed by Apple.

Currently the company is out of the Cupertino, California, an Apple TV to work, a game console, which will rely on a Kinect-like controls as well as touch screen control, media reports that a major part of it. Most recently, the characters were compacted that Valve is also working on a “steam box” the console.

How a sponsored tweet can not work at all for a mere red herring

For users, Twitter and other social platforms are interesting for immediacy: you can tell what you’re doing, share pictures of what is happening and even talk live with our friends about what you want. But these networks allow instant communication does not mean that companies have to be as impulsive in their campaigns.

On these lines you have a perfect example. As always, I go to read my Twitter timeline and I find that tweet sponsored. So far so normal. Or not? If we take a closer look we see that the link is not clickable and, moreover, not being well formed does not auto-shortens the link and everything is very confusing. And, nevertheless, appeared as patrocionado tweet in the timeline of thousands of users.

No doubt a task for the company, which has lost hundreds of potential clicks (including mine). After all, few users will get the link, copy and paste into your browser bar. An oversight that can happen to anyone, but it certainly should not be committed in a campaign. So it should review each message several times, and good looking typos or formatting, similar to that just commit.

Sennheiser IE800

The Sennheiser IE800 are the last model submitted by the company’s high-end audio in the event prior to IFA. They are also a cluster of new audio technologies that raise its price to 599 euros a very exclusive.

The IE800 is a headset with internal channel wideband driver smallest in its class, 7 mm in diameter with Extra Wide Band sound quality. Sennheiser has also endowed the IE800 of a new hi-fi system whose frequency range is from 8 to 45,000 Hz.

The intraatrial are particularly susceptible to a condition called masking. This problem occurs when there are frequency peaks around 7 or 8 kHz. These low frequency peaks at loud volumes can completely cover the sounds of other frequencies by the human ear is unable to distinguish all the nuances of music.

Sennheiser claims to have solved the problem by incorporating a double echo chamber that absorbs excess caused by these frequency peaks. A ceramic body and two vent pipes are responsible for moderating the bass and reduce harmonic distortion to just 0.06%

All this technical talk is translated into an audio experience close to that of circumaural headphones Hi-Fi, but with the small size of some intra-atrial and the ability to plug in portable audio sources without being founded leads (The impedance is only 24 Ohms).

In the first test we have done may have missed some more strength in the bass, but there is no doubt that they sound IE800 every little nuance of sound. It weighs just 8 grams and cable measuring 1.2 meters and can be released in the middle. The IE800 will go on sale by the summer.

Max Payne for IOS

Often listening to players possessing an IOS device. They are tired of cheap copies of great success, free games with micropayments, puzzles and tower defense. We often talk to them and hope to find a game that goes beyond something that enters the conversation in a safe, but empty, as the speaker of the sun will rise tomorrow because it is something that inevitably will sooner or early.

The difference with this example is that we know for sure when it will reach the exact moment that the sun begins to warm, something that neither Apple nor the developers working on games for their phones and tablets know for sure that many bombings charge of advertising. Luckily the wait was worth it and the light rays that anticipate the dawn begin to shine strongly. Mobile Max Payne may be one of them.

I say might because the process is not adequate. This is a great game, that’s for sure, but not born of the intention to create a masterpiece for IOS devices, but porting an already consecrated. The game with great graphics, a masterful screenplay and a mechanical attractive to iPhone and iPad, is yet to come, and Max Payne is just further proof that, for power, can be done.

For that you have suckled from small the video game world is no need for introductions, Max Payne is one of those great works that you will have enjoyed before or on which you have inevitably heard wonders. A note, all are true. For it is now when you are starting to introduce you in the industry, here are a couple of notes.

Created in 2001 by Remedy Entertainment, Max Payne Matrix accompanied in the fever of the shooting in slow motion, but their development and were more than mechanical and closed when the Wachowski Brothers film rang loudly. The game came to Mac, PC, PS2, Xbox and even had a version for Game Boy Advance. Needless to say, the port we receive now in the AppStore is a version of what is seen in these first four platforms.

It keeps everything, including our language dubbing, less obvious, ie, graphics and controls. The former have been slightly enhanced to look their best. But do not expect a physical game with graphics and art, but one of eleven years well enough makeup so that time is not heavy on the shoulders. If done with varying degrees of success is something you see when you do them at the controls, but be aware that not talking about a remake, it is only a way to enjoy it now then.

On the latter could run rivers of ink, and we all know for sure, and there are already several games we have shown that third-person shooters require more than good intentions to work properly, both in iPhone and iPad. The solutions could pass for a touch panel rear monitor that allowed the camera and shoot at the same time, though the most logical would be a command that is conectase via bluetooth. A solution that will end with time coming but it’s getting hard to get too.

In this particular case the Rockstar thought autoapuntado system is the best solution, and after trying the game with that option off must be recognized that the challenge reduces the fun proposes a game like Max Payne, where the shootings should to be fluid, dramatic and visually stunning. Something that is not going to get very good for you to be without a targeted assisted.