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Nokia N900 Maemo5 Coding Competition – Win a trip to Dublin, Ireland!

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Nokia N900 Maemo5 Coding Competition – Win a trip to Dublin, Ireland!

Are you a developer? Are you looking for a challenge? Do you have a Nokia N900? If you answered at least 2 of these questions, you might be interested in the very first Maemo.org N900 Coding Competition which has just begun. This is open to anyone worldwide.

Qt, PyQt, PyGTK, whatever language you like can be used to program the application/game as long as it’s functionally complete, runs safely and easily on the Nokia N900.

This was supposed to be a friendly, win pride not prize community competition to get developers to create some useful/interesting apps or games for the Nokia N900 which uses the Maemo5 (code name fremantle) OS. However, Nokia has announced that they will sponsor this competition and 6 lucky winners of each application category will be invited to the MeeGo Conference 2010, due to be held in Dublin, Ireland with travel and accomodation costs all paid for!

If for some reason you cannot make it, they will give you a brand new Nokia N900 mobile phone instead. To top it off, there is a prize fund which is being contributed by the maemo.org community members which you will get a share of at the end. Not too shabby for a competition which was just created by a member of the forum for fun!

More details of this competition can be found on the main competition thread at talk.maemo.org.
There is also a wiki page listing of the currently registered entrants and their projects.

Maemo5 SDK can be found HERE

Street Fighter IV update detailed

Dylan Radcliffe
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On a normal occasion, MasterAbbott would be hitting up the news about the upcoming update to the gameplay mechanics in Street Fighter IV. He is sadly being a lazy bum on the office couch. He’s been sleeping non stop for the last 37 hours. Nah! I’m just kidding, he’s been doing the opposite in fact, if it wasn’t for it being the weekend he would probably be working non stop for 37 hours. Busy busy!

Either way, the game’s assistant producer, Tomoaki Ayano has detailed an upcoming patch due to land this June on the Super Street Fighter IV Saikyo Blog.
The update pretty much fixes a bunch of gameplay mechanics and adds a few other tweaks.

Here’s the list of problems that the patch will fix in the patch which is currently due June 15th.

  • Certain Fei Long combos turning into an endless combo
  • When you unleash an Ultra Combo and time freezes, your guard input cancels out. This, Ayano admitted, is actually something that was known prior to the release, but they left it in as an interesting play mechanic. After the game’s release, they realised that there were a number of characters that ended up being able to unleash their Ultra Combos with no risk.
  • The effect of Sagat’s Angry Charge move does not reflect on his EX Tiger Uppercut in some circumstances.
  • Counter damage against Bison’s Ultra Combo II Psycho Punisher move is too low
  • When Ibuki attacks a ducking Chun-Li, the second hit of the attack will not register
  • Guy throwing glitch
  • When Ibuki rises from the ground in certain instances, she’ll retain her invincibility for a long time.

The Pantera of rockband tracks

Dylan Radcliffe
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Are you telling me that Pantera is not a good replacement for plethora? They both start with a “P”.

Well according to the press release (which I don’t actually receive), this album is being called the “fan-favorite” album. Have you guys really been requesting these songs? When am I going to get some Weird Al music?

Here’s the list of new songs from Pantera?

The Great Southern Trendkill – 1280 Microsoft Points (160 Microsoft points each)

  • Pantera – “The Great Southern Trendkill”
  • Pantera – “War Nerve”
  • Pantera – “Drag the Waters”
  • Pantera – “10s”
  • Pantera – “13 Steps to Nowhere”
  • Pantera – “Suicide Note Pt. II”
  • Pantera – “Living Through Me (Hell’s Wrath)”
  • Pantera – “Floods”
  • Pantera – “The Underground in America”
  • Pantera – “(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin”

They will be arriving May 25th

Bob recieves more firepower in Guerrilla Bob Update

Travis Bruno
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BUY GUERRILLA BOB $1.99 from the APP STORE NOW

Yesterday Angry Mob Games released their own update for the game over the iTunes Store.  There is an extremely large amount of new features.  Both an update patch of 1.1 and the even further updated patch of 1.2 will be downloaded once the game is updated. Below is the full list of what is changed between the two patches:

What’s new in 1.1:

  • Improved controls
  • New auto aiming control settings, which makes targeting all the enemies much easier
  • New Mercenary gameplay mode: collect money from the enemies and use it in the shop to unlock lots of awesome new weapons:
  • Machinegun
  • Timed Bombs
  • Molotov Cocktail
  • Shotgun
  • Double Uzis
  • Flamethrower
  • Rocket Launcher
  • Grenade Launcher
  • Sticky Bow
  • Chaingun
  • All the weapons are upgradeable
  • New Survival Mode: Wave Attack. Fight waves of baddies and access the shop during the fight, to purchase new arsenal.
  • Various Bug Fixes
  • Improved graphics and sound effects
  • You can set the enemies on fire, and watch them slowly burn

What’s new in 1.2:

  • Check out the new story twist when completing the Arcade or Mercenary modes!
  • MiniGore playable character joins the action!
  • Brand new Bonus Level, just in time for the World Cup!
  • The baddies got smarter, and they never stop coming. Try the hard difficulty level, to see what it’s really like!
  • Various minor tweaks, including a separate save slot for Survival mode and the ability to flip the screen anytime.

The inclusion of the brand new game modes have definitely extended the gameplay value of this stellar shooter. The amount of weapons they have now released and the fact they are also upgradeable are slightly troubling as the enemy themselves may turn those weapons against you if you are unwary.

If you wish to purchase Guerrilla Bob from the iTunes Store you may do so HERE.

COMPETITION TIME

You may not have to purchase the game however!!! As a lucky bonus Angry Mob Games has given us one extra code for our great members here at Capsule Computers!!! Entering is simple, just comment below on who you would think would in in an overall power struggle between Guerrilla Bob and Rambo!  Who do you think would win? Comment Below!!!

Create your own music from scratch with Mix Superstar

Travis Bruno
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Create your own music from scratch with Mix Superstar

Digital Leisure Inc. has just announced their brand new WiiWare game, accompanied by a website, called Mix Superstar.

Full description from Digital Leisure:

Think you can be the next big music star? Well now you’ve got all the tools right at your fingertips with Mix Superstar. Create, mix and record your own royalty-free musical masterpieces right on your Wii™. There are over 1,000 Dance, Hip Hop and Techno loops included across multiple instruments like Drum, Bass, Synth, Guitar and even voice tracks.

With this you can create your own synthetic bands and songs to sound like whatever you want them to sound like. With the thousands of loops provided you will have nigh limitless options to change the songs around. Not only that but there will be the inclusion of voice tracks to place professional singers into your own songs.

You won’t even have to use the voice tracks provided, because you can make your own. Mix Superstar is fully compatible with any Logitech USB microphone or the Wii Speak itself. Also included in this huge package is the ability to upload your songs and then download them later onto your own PC. Not only will players be able to create their own music but they will also have the option to take them with them wherever they go.

There has been no official release date yet for Mix Superstar; nor was there any mention of a price tag. However this is literally an entire music studio at your fingertips so there can hardly be much complaint about the price tag itself. What does everyone think about this game? Would you enjoy being able to make your own music instead of always playing the same songs over and over again on various other music games? I sure would. If only they would make this game compatible with one more input source; a Vocaloid source…

Bioshock pitch document revealed

Dylan Radcliffe
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Hey! Do you like the game Bioshock? Well, of course you do!

Irrational Games has released the pitch document for Bioshock, which was originally planned to be very different. Jellyfish powers away!

I’m glad they altered a lot of the game, specifically the aquatic powers and being on a deserted island. on the other hand, I wish they would have kept a lot of it, such as the weapons that are fully customizable and the environment controls that add more strategy to the game.

Check out the pitch document by clicking here, or clicking the pitch document above.

Time Bubbles in Singularity

Travis Bruno
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What if you could encase your enemies within a small bubble of time so slow they were standing still? They could be easy pray to any of your attacks; so much so you could even play with your prey. Also what if you could simply dodge a hail of gunfire thanks to the fact that each bullet is traveling through the bubble as if it were speeding through molasses. In the latest Singularity trailer Raven reveals the Deadlock Feature which does exactly that.

This feels a bit like the stasis weapon from EA’s Dead Space considering it will slow down anything that you fire it at, and also is useful for moving around obstacles just like the Stasis was in Dead Space. With the abundance of features constantly being revealed for Singularity it causes me to wonder; will all of these modes really be used constantly or will some be extremely overpowered while others useless?

To aru Majutsu no Index 2nd season hinted?

Travis Bruno
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A fan Japanese blog named Kyo mo Yarareyaku has stated that they have seen an announcement outside of a Japanese Tatsuya store stating that the second series of To aru Majutsu no Index will be shown this Fall season. This is not confirmed by the animation studio nor the writer of the To aru Majutsu series. However this is extremely good news as there is a very large amount of story from the light novel to cover, including many new arcs and a variety of new enemies.

Here is hoping that this announcement turns out to be true because this was an amazingly entertaining Anime that did not focus on Moé behavior like other anime, namely K-On!, but instead focuses on an in depth storyline about magicians and espers and how they co-incide within the world. I would definitely recommend this series to anyone who enjoys a good action Anime.

Source: (Anime Nation)

First opening of the series:

WiiWare Releases For This Week ending 21th May

Jack Joly
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Here are the downloads, for WiiWare and DSiWare for Friday 21 May. Unfortunately, as you would have probably noticed without my saying so, there are no Virtual Console releases this week.

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials And Tribulations
(WiiWare- Capcom, 1000 Wii Points)

Robin Hood: The Return of Richard
(WiiWare- Nordcurrent, 500 Wii Points)

Telegraph Crosswords
(DSiWare- Sanuk Games, 500 Nintendo DSi Points)

Discolight
(DSiWare- Kaasa Solution GmbH, 200 Nintendo DSi Points)

Ferrari GT Evolution
(DSiWare- Gameloft, 800 Nintendo DSi Points)

Flips More Bloody Horowitz
(DSiWare: Electronic Arts, 200 Nintendo DSi Points)

Do this weeks releases interest anybody? It’s a bit of a shame there is no Virtual Console game released today, although I’m sure there’ll be one next week.

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