This Is How Game Developers Donates to Japan Disaster
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan invites a sense of sympathy from many sides, including the vendors in the gaming industry that apparently has their own way of expressing their concern.
CCP Games is making such a program in Eve Online to invite gamers donating, in this games, the players were invited to provide their Pilots License Extension (PLEX). These items then would be cashed and given to the red cross disaster in Japan. Zynga, which calls upon the players of CityVille and Farmville, to buy some items in the game, and all proceeds will be donated. Also quoted from 1up, Capcom’s Street Fighter IV game on the iPhone is applying a discount , and just like Zynga, all sales proceeds will also be donated. In addition, there are still some other game players in the industry who perform similar steps, including Sega who will donate the proceeds of Football Manager. Then Mastiff who promised to give $ 100 for every 100 ‘thumbs up’ on their Facebook Fans Page.
Natural disasters that befell the State of Sakura does have a great enough impact for the gaming industry. The fact is, some major publishers had decided to delay and even cancel the launch of their game.
Ortustech HD screen Conquer iPhone Retine
Screen technology has been so increasing. Ortustech, a company whose founder is one of the vendors from Japan, Casio, claims to have created the smallest screen full HD (High Definition) technology.
Using Casio’s technology, dubbed Hyper Amorphous Silicone TFT (Hast), this screen has a very high number of pixels in a small field. As quoted from PCMag last Tuesday, the screen only 4.8 inch extend.
Compared to the iPhone 4 retina screen that supposedly most sophisticated, these screens look better. With 458 pixels per inch (ppi), the display screen of Ortustech pass over the retina that contains ‘only’ 326 ppi. Ortustech also features 1920×1080 pixel resolution, while the iPhone 4 has 960 × 640 pixels. Ortustech also claimed having 30% clearer screen than its competitors with point of view reaches 160 degrees and has 16.8 million colors.
Ortustech screen seemed to be functioning great to used in a smartphone or a gaming device, but however it has not been mentioned whether it will eventually be marketed in electronic products.
E3 Report : Four Big Moments in Bringing New Gaming Sensation
Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was held in Los Angeles on 15-17 June 2010. As quoted from detikINET, there at least four things that will change the gaming sensation.
Game freaks all over the world had been quite long waiting for the realization of ‘Project Natal’. Now the motion controller of Microsoft is officially named Kinnect, the collaboration of Kinetic and Connect. The new motion controller is supported by some fun games like Kinectimals, Kinect Adventures, Dance Central etc.
Nintendo 3DS was considered the most prominent games console in market. It can not be denied that the presence of three dimension effect in gaming is something the games freaks all over the world has been longing for. No wonder Nintendo 3DS is one ‘breakthrough’ in gaming sensation.
The presence of XBox 360 Slim can be considered as giving a new refreshment for the game console. More over this new console offers brand new design and energy saving up to 10% compared to the previous generation
PlayStation Move in E3 can be said as Microsoft Kinect most rival because both console offers Motion Sensor. The different is PS Move needs additional device to make the motion controller works. PlayStation Move from Sony is scheduled to be released in September 15th this year.
