The company Telltale Games decided to travel to the past to a new series of video games: episodic titles based on franchises "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park."
The popular Universal Studios film trilogy spawned several games during its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s but have been absent from the interactive world. The untitled game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC and Mac go on sale later this year.
"I think it is a perfect time to reintroduce these properties in the digital world," said Dan Connors, CEO of Telltale Games.
"Telltale Games has always wanted to be a great company of narrative. We have been refining our tools over the past six years, and we're ready to take on these two iconic properties and further mainstream narrative games," he added.
Telltale Games episodic previously created games based on the Oscar-winning animated series "Wallace and Gromit, Aardman Animations, the comic series of Steve Purcell's" Sam and Max "and his story on the Internet by Matt Chapman" Homestar Runner. " The company, based in San Rafael, California, went to Universal Studios while looking for inspiration for their next game.
"'Jurassic Park' and 'Back to the Future' are two of our larger properties and dear," said Bill Kispert, vice president of Universal Interactive Studios. "We were very interested in bringing them to the interactive space, but not exactly the type of properties that lend themselves to the stereotypical style of gaming."
Connors said the games, in the early stages of development, would tell new stories derived from "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park." He joked that the games of "Back to the Future" DeLorean include a trip to the 1970s, while those in "Jurassic Park" would be intense and would incorporate new parallel stories of the mythology of man against the dinosaur in the series.
Google widens its multilingual search maps
Google announced the launch in 11 countries in its "Navigation Maps," which includes the voice guidance and allows users to speak Spanish, French, German and Italian advantage of the help in the search for directions.
According to the announcement, users in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland can copy the version 4.2 of Google Maps Navigation, already available in the U.S. and the UK.
In so doing, provide instructions for guidance "to each change of direction" as long as they have a smart phone with Android 1.6 or higher.Google initially said guidance instructions to its operating system for smart mobile phone last October and the decision has had some lasting impact on the field of guided navigation.
For example, in January followed in the footsteps of Nokia and Google announced its own set of guidance instructions Ovi Maps.According to Google, voice communication has always been the natural way to interact with Google Search phone and voice users can say what they want, instead of typing a text.
This facility was initially developed for English and then to Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. The goal, Google said, is to bring "Search" (search) voice users in all languages.
In addition to work with Android phones, "Search" voice phones can run on iPhone, BlackBerry and Nokia S60, the firm added.
Moreover, the firm announced a new indexing system, called "Caffeine", according to Google search substantially accelerates data over the network.
Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team explained that before the firm explored a fraction of the network every night, indexed and added content to its results, and now, thanks to "Caffeine", the search engine scans the network, find new information and the index immediately.
"We process the information immediately so that we can offer it seconds later," said Cutts.
When Google started its work updating its index once every four months. Around 2000 he began to index every month in a process that took a week to ten days.
Now is "Caffeine" is used in all schools and, according to Cutts, "greatly increased" the ability to "enhance the indexing of documents in the order of 100 petabytes."
According to the announcement, users in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland can copy the version 4.2 of Google Maps Navigation, already available in the U.S. and the UK.
In so doing, provide instructions for guidance "to each change of direction" as long as they have a smart phone with Android 1.6 or higher.Google initially said guidance instructions to its operating system for smart mobile phone last October and the decision has had some lasting impact on the field of guided navigation.
For example, in January followed in the footsteps of Nokia and Google announced its own set of guidance instructions Ovi Maps.According to Google, voice communication has always been the natural way to interact with Google Search phone and voice users can say what they want, instead of typing a text.
This facility was initially developed for English and then to Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. The goal, Google said, is to bring "Search" (search) voice users in all languages.
In addition to work with Android phones, "Search" voice phones can run on iPhone, BlackBerry and Nokia S60, the firm added.
Moreover, the firm announced a new indexing system, called "Caffeine", according to Google search substantially accelerates data over the network.
Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team explained that before the firm explored a fraction of the network every night, indexed and added content to its results, and now, thanks to "Caffeine", the search engine scans the network, find new information and the index immediately.
"We process the information immediately so that we can offer it seconds later," said Cutts.
When Google started its work updating its index once every four months. Around 2000 he began to index every month in a process that took a week to ten days.
Now is "Caffeine" is used in all schools and, according to Cutts, "greatly increased" the ability to "enhance the indexing of documents in the order of 100 petabytes."
A computer attack from China blocks South Korean government site
One of the main sites of South Korea's government on Wednesday suffered a cyber attack from China which forced to suspend some services for hours, reported the South Korean Ministry of Interior.
Http://korea.go.kr site that offers information on services and public policy failures and delays suffered for about four hours by an attack known as distributed denial-of-Service (DDoS).
This type of computer sabotage against a server is performed through automatic orders executed en masse from multiple computers simultaneously, with the aim of the website is blocked.
According to South Korean agency Yonhap, the search was conducted after the attack has led to the conclusion that came from 120 servers in China.
Although no damage because the computer center of the South Korean government blocked access to the servers involved, the National Intelligence Agency is still investigating details of the origin and consequences of the attack.
The cyber assault has led the South Korean public to take extraordinary measures to prevent attacks, "cyber-terrorists," according to Yonhap.
In July last year, South Korea suffered a similar attack against several government websites, including the Office of the Presidency and the Ministry of Defence as well as against private Internet portals.
That attack coincided with others that were aimed at different websites U.S. state agencies, including the White House and the Pentagon, and sites like the New York Stock Exchange.
The National Intelligence Agency of South Korea said then that computer attacks were launched from 16 countries, with the possible involvement of North Korea.
Http://korea.go.kr site that offers information on services and public policy failures and delays suffered for about four hours by an attack known as distributed denial-of-Service (DDoS).
This type of computer sabotage against a server is performed through automatic orders executed en masse from multiple computers simultaneously, with the aim of the website is blocked.
According to South Korean agency Yonhap, the search was conducted after the attack has led to the conclusion that came from 120 servers in China.
Although no damage because the computer center of the South Korean government blocked access to the servers involved, the National Intelligence Agency is still investigating details of the origin and consequences of the attack.
The cyber assault has led the South Korean public to take extraordinary measures to prevent attacks, "cyber-terrorists," according to Yonhap.
In July last year, South Korea suffered a similar attack against several government websites, including the Office of the Presidency and the Ministry of Defence as well as against private Internet portals.
That attack coincided with others that were aimed at different websites U.S. state agencies, including the White House and the Pentagon, and sites like the New York Stock Exchange.
The National Intelligence Agency of South Korea said then that computer attacks were launched from 16 countries, with the possible involvement of North Korea.
Baidu aims to have 79% Internet search market in China
Baidu, China's largest Web search, plans to increase its market share in mobile devices and personal computers up to 79 percent in China thanks to the withdrawal of Google, an executive said Tuesday.
The general director of corporate development for Baidu, Hesong Tang made the remarks during a news conference.
The Chinese search engine attracted more than 64 percent of China's search market in the first quarter from 58.4 percent in the fourth quarter, according to research firm Analysys International.
The general director of corporate development for Baidu, Hesong Tang made the remarks during a news conference.
The Chinese search engine attracted more than 64 percent of China's search market in the first quarter from 58.4 percent in the fourth quarter, according to research firm Analysys International.
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