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If you follow let’s players on Youtube or Twitch there’s a fair bet you’re familiar with the name of Elgato. Their capture devices are used by a lot of Youtubers with high subscriber counts because they perform well with a number of consoles. Now Elgato have just released their latest device – the HD60 Pro.
The main features of the HD60 Pro are that it is compatible with all the latest consoles, and is able to stream directly to Twitch or Youtube in 1080p at 60FPS with little latency. This on top of something called Flashback recording which allows you to go back in your latest gameplay and record something after the fact – brilliant for those times when you’re playing and something amazing or hilarious happens out of the blue. There’s also some very nice videos available on Elgato’s Youtube channel telling you how to install the device in case you need instructions; very useful.
Specs:
Interface – PCIe x1
Input – PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 & Wii U (unencrypted HDMI)
Microsfot built up the launch of Windows 10 for a long time and the release has so far been fairly good. There’s a lot of happy customers although quite a few reports of people having problems with the automatic updating, the ‘spyware’ and some programs no longer working have also been reported as well.
Now Microsoft have announced that there’s going to be some “exciting news” about Windows 10 devices to tell, and they’ll be sharing it in New York on October 6th at 10AM EST. What this actually means is unknown, but guesses are already flying around as people try to pinpoint whether this has anything to do with PC, Xbox or mobile – and if it has any meaning for gamers.
All we can do is wait for October 6th and tune in to find out what Microsoft have got to tell us.
If you’re one of the small group of people out there who owns a smartphone running Windows Phone 8 or 8.1, or a computer running Windows 10, you probably recognise Cortana. Effectively Microsoft’s answer to Siri and Google Now, Cortana is Microsoft’s answer to a voice-operated assistant that lets you speak to your phone to have it perform tasks for you, such as setting reminders, finding out things you need to know, or messaging contacts.
Though developed for Microsoft’s own devices, Microsoft of late have been very eager to expand the reach of Cortana and turn it into the personal assistant behind ALL your devices. To that end, the company has also released Cortana as apps for iOS and Android. But while these app-based versions of Cortana might allow you to message people with your voice or look up information from the internet, it’s not really integrated with Android or iOS. There’s only so much the developers can do when they don’t control the operating system.
However, a new announcement from Cyanogen suggests that this could change.
For several years now, a team of developers have made waves with a fork of the Android system known as Cyanogen. Cyanogen’s original intention was to take what was good from stock Android systems and modify the rest, to create a system that gives control and customisability over how their smartphone looks and works back to the actual user. Cyanogen has since become a corporation – of which Microsoft is a key investor – and the system has become a standard mobile phone OS in its own right, with Cyanogen OS becoming the original system of choice for the OnePlus One and many other phones; with the older Cyanogenmod remaining the tool of choice for replacing stock Android and installing Cyanogen to traditional Android-powered phones.
Cyanogen’s desire to put control back in the hands of the user has put the system regularly at odds with Google’s ethos; and Cyanogen has ditched many standard Android services for equivalents, either home-grown or ran by competitors such as Microsoft. And now, the company has revealed that it’s working with Microsoft to integrate Cortana into Cyanogen- kicking the traditional Android voice assistant, Google Now, out onto the street.
It’s not clear exactly how this will compare to the assistant on other platforms, but Cyanogen hints that it could offer better control over third-party apps than rivals like Google or Apple’s Siri. You could tell Spotify to play specific songs or playlists, for instance. We should not have long to wait to find out how well this pairing works, however – Cyanogen have claimed Cortana will start in her new role from the very next Cyanogen OS release.
From Software, the Japanese development studio best known for the Dark Souls series has announced that it is planning to open a new studio in Fukuoka, Japan next month with an aim to get it fully operational by January next year.
The studio’s function will be the creation of 3D CG assets for games, as well as providing support to From Software’s main studio located in Tokyo. Job listings are already going up online for 3D environmental and character artists to join the team and with Dark Souls 3 having had its Japanese console release date announced it’s a fair bet that it’ll be working on that project as the first thing it ever does.
From Software are known most famously for their Dark Souls games and most recently Bloodborne on the Playstation 4; bringing a unique mix of elements that defines the games as uniquely theirs.
The people behind Anno 2205 have just released a new trailer that details footage and other things shown at the recent Gamescom event, most notably the arctic setting available in game.
At its core Anno 2205 is about celebrating humanity’s growing technological prowess to the point that areas thought unhabitable now are able to be lived at in the near future, the arctic land and the craters of the moon being two of the climes available in Blue Byte’s colony builder game, alongside the much more manageable climate of our own fair Earth in the future.
Arctic play will focus on the mining of methane ice by building an industrial infrastructure and as you could guess supplying the necessary heat to keep the machines working and the people alive will be your biggest and primary concern for that setting.
Are you looking forward to Anno 2205? Tell us in the comments!
