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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Haktech: Counter-Strike GO!

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) will expand upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched 12 years ago. CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust, etc.).

Friday, March 30, 2012

Haktech: Rumors: PS4 Blocks Used Games And Not Backward Compatible

The first round of rumors regarding the PlayStation 4 carries a lot of unwelcome news for gamers.

There is nothing surprising in the expected technical details. The PlayStation 3 successor, currently codenamed “Orbis” is expected to sport an AMD CPU and GPU that’ll make it capable of running stereoscopic 3D games at full 1080p HD (unlike the PS3 which limits 3D games to 720p resolution). The GPU’s maximum resolution will be 4096x2160 which is also the maximum resolution achieved by HD TVs shown during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

Additionally, it is rumored that the upcoming PlayStation console will not be backward compatible with current PlayStation 3 games.

A big negative for the upcoming console is that it ties games to a single PSN account, hence limiting the ability to resell used games. Under this system, second hand games will run in demo or trial mode unless they pay a fee to unlock the full game.

The last bit of rumor circulating today is that Orbis/PS 4 will be released during the 2013 Holidays season. It is worth noting that Sony’s CEO Kaz Hirai has stated clearly that they won’t reveal any new consoles during E3 in June 2012.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Microsoft: Kinect for Windows 1.5 software due in late May

It's been close to two months since Microsoft first launched the Kinect for Windows device, along with the 1.0 version of its SDK. This week, Microsoft announced that the 1.5 version of the SDK would be released sometime in late May with a number of new features and improvements.

Among the new additions will be Kinect Studio. Microsoft says it will help Kinect software developers by recording and playing back clips of people who are using the applications they are making for the device. It will also add what Microsoft is calling 10-joint skeletal tracking and it will allow Kinect for Windows apps to track the head, neck and arms of a user if he or she is standing up or sitting down.

The 1.5 SDK will include support for four new spoken languages, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. It will also support some specific dialects for the Kinect voice recognition features such as how residents in the UK and Ireland speak English or how Canadians speak French.

Microsoft also announced that Kinect for Windows will be available for sale in late May in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. It will expand to even more countries in June, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.