Blizzard just announced that the long-awaited sequel to Starcraft actually is coming soon. It’ll be available for both PC and Mac and while there’s no official release date set yet there’s a bunch of screenshots up at least.
Watch the trailer right after the jump:
Here it is, Microsoft’s first ad for the shiny, black Xbox 360 Elite. It’ll tell you that it’s black, features HDMI and 120 GB of storage and that it’s.. uuh.. black.
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(Via Kotaku)
Here’s Microsoft / Razer Reclusa, a pitch-black keyboard designed specifically for gaming. Among the features we find Razer Hyperesponse Gaming Key Action put in place to reduce the dreadful key latency, blue LED backlit keys for late night sessions, two 360° jog-dials, six programmable gaming hot keys, gold-plated USB ports and a detachable and padded wrist rest.
I4U did a full review of the Reclusa and found it pretty appealing (7.5/10), while reporting on some issues – could be worth a read if you’re about to buy one.
Microsoft.com: Reclusa Product Page
Amazon.com: Microsoft Reclusa ($69.95)
I wrote about Barbarian Software’s Magnetosphere earlier and claimed that it was one of the most beautiful audio visualizations I’ve seen ever (see the original video here). Now (finally!) they’ve managed to convert it into a free, interactive and absolutely stunning Mac / Windows iTunes Visualizer.
Barbarian Software: Magnetosphere iTunes Visualizer (Mac, Windows)
Check out a video of it in action after the jump:
Version 2.0 of the free e-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird is now available to the general public.
As usual it’s available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and the new features include:
… and much more. Read more about the new features here.
Adobe presented the Adobe Media Player (formerly code-named “Philo”) at the NAB 2007 conference in Las Vegas today – a desktop media player designed to stream, download, manage, queue and play Flash video. This application skips the whole idea of storing the media locally and uses RSS and other feeds to help you find on-line media to watch or subscribe to (no more pesky web browsers between you and the media). If you want to you’ll still be able to store some media locally for later off-line watching as well.
Adobe Media Player will be available for both Windows and Mac with support for Linux to follow.
Microsoft just announced their new browser plug-in Silverlight (formerly known as WPF/E to developers) in Las vegas. This plug-in is obviously designed to compete with Flash in the areas of video, interactivity, animation and other rich media experiences on the web but this puppy is High Definition-ready right from the start.
Also, the plug-in won’t be exclusive to Windows and Internet Explorer, it’ll be available for Safari (Mac) and Firefox as well.
Microsoft.com: Silverlight
SeattlePi.com: Big names back Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in
Update: So what does the Adobe CEO think of Microsoft Silverlight?
“Even though they say Silverlight is going to be cross-platform, and maybe the first [version] will be, I’m not sure our customers or the people that are trying to deliver that content will have the degree of confidence that if they go with Microsoft, they’ll be able to provide them with a complete cross-platform solution forever,” he said.
(Via On10)
According to the Japanese website Famitsu Capcom and Nvidia just announced that Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will be available for PC gamers as well in June 2007.
Apparently it’ll feature improved visuals through DirectX 10, which might render it a Windows Vista exclusive (check out this DirectX 9 vs 10 comparison while you’re at it).
The Windows, Linux, Mac, cell-phone and Wii-running web browser Opera has been updated to version 9.2 and one of the new features in this version (except that it’s now available in 31 languages) is the Speed Dial function.
When you open a new tab you’re presented with nine empty slots instead of the usual blank page. In these slots you can put quick-links (along with automatic thumbnails) to the websites you visit the most. Later you can either click on the thumbnails to navigate or just press ctrl/apple-1-9 to jump right away – it’s actually very usable as soon as you remember the numbers.
Good news Guitar Hero-fans, the guys over at Joystiq tried connecting the USB-guitar bundled with the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II to a Windows-running PC and after a little software calibrating here and there they actually got it to work.
Since there’s no Windows version of Guitar Hero they tried using it with the freeware clone Frets on Fire and apparently that worked like a charm.
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