We’ve got a load of details and spoilers about The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for you. But due to the spoilers located in this blog post, I am placing all the details below the line and in the full post. If you do not want to read any spoilers, please do not read below the line!
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- Zelda dies within the first hour of the game
– Link can still see the ’spirit’ of Zelda after herSource: WiiNintendo.net RSS Feed
The Solar Impulse, a prototype aircraft being developed as part of a project to fly around the world on solar power, successfully underwent its first engine run up today in Switzerland. After waiting for calm winds and favorable weather, the team rolled the delicate aircraft out of the hangar Friday.
Just before noon local time, test pilot Markus Scherdel boarded HB-SIA, as the aircraft is officially known, and powered up the four electric motors. Initially Scherdel only ran the motorsSource: Autopia RSS Feed
An empty two-lane road. Press the “Sport Plus” button. Shift into Drive. Press the brake, then the accelerator. The LCD panel in the middle of the right-side dial says “Launch control activated”. Release the brake. Now we’re in the hands of the Panamera’s formidable array of computers. There’s a fantastic noise, a massive lurch as the PDK dual-clutch transmission briefly spins all four wheels, and we are on the way to a twelve-second quarter-mile. It’s that simple.
Hans Zimmer may have a laundry list of feature films he contributed to on his resume, but the renowned film composer says he still had to approach his work on Modern Warfare 2 “truly as a novice.” In an interview with USA Today, he speaks like a true convert. When asked about the legitimacy of games as an art form, he frankly states, “Absolutely, that we can’t even question anymore.”
Zimmer says his first experience working on a game has, unsurprisingly, been very different thanSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed
If you track video games at all, you will know three things: first, as my GearGames Weekly indicates, we had a typically anemic summer release schedule; second, the release of Madden NFL Football signals the start of the Fall game season; and finally, the last few months have seen a virtual defection of games into early 2010 for a variety of reasons, including the most honest assessment that the economy is lousy and they don’t want to risk lousy sales. History is a good teacher in thisSource: Gear Diary RSS Feed
Cowon-heads of the world, you are in for a treat today. It looks like not one but two of the company’s snack-sized media players are finally hitting the big time. First off, the iAudio 9 PMP is due to hit the states within a week. Available in 8GB and 16GB denominations, for some reason the domestic version will be available only in black. Aside from supporting the usual compliment of media files (MP3, FLAC, Ogg, WAV, APE, WME, XviD, and WMV videos) this guy sports composite video out. GetSource: Engadget RSS Feed
There are notebooks and then there are NOTEBOOKS, and the Acer Aspire AS8940G-6865 is definitely in the latter category. The new entertainment notebook by Acer has a whopping 18.4-inch screen (1920080) that is powered by the Intel® Core(TM) i7 Quad-Core 720QM processor. The AS8940G packs in Acer’s CineSurround technology, comprised of five speakers including the Tuba bass boost.
The graphics get the horsepower to drive the giant display from the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M with 1 GB ofSource: jkOnTheRun RSS Feed
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We’ve already seen the MILESTONE showing off multitouch capability, something the DROID clearly lacks in the States despite the fact that Android 2.0 rocks kernel support for it — and now we’ve got another smoking gun: the official spec sheet. A quick glance at Motorola’s tech specs for the Euro-flavored handset lists “pinch and zoom” as an interface feature, so yeah, it looks like this’ll be in the shipping firmware. There’s speculation out there that Source: Engadget Mobile RSS Feed
Much like that other highly anticipated Q4 blockbuster, it seems Assassin’s Creed 2 won’t receive a pre-launch playable preview. According to Connected Consoles, a Ubisoft representative recently confirmed at the Eurogamer Expo that the company has no plans for a demo. We’ve contacted Ubisoft to try and corroborate this report, and to see if the company has a good reason for not putting out a sneak preview of the title. You know, a reason better than “you guys already know what stabbingSource: Houstonist RSS Feed
The innovation coming out of the cloud computing market has, in many ways, made infrastructure startups interesting to venture capitalists again. Despite our excitement over the potential of cloud computing to transform IT, however, weighing on the minds of many in the VC community is what sort of time frame we should expect for exits. To put it more bluntly, we want to know when it’s going to rain — when VC investments in cloud computing will result in acquisitions or even an IPO.
