New story missions, dungeons and more coming to Gameloft’s Dungeon Hunter 5
Gameloft’s extremely popular Dungeon Hunter 5 game on Android will soon get a pretty sizable expansion, which the developer is referring to as the Northern Storm update. The game will receive a number of new missions, a new environment, Guild Leaderboards and much more.
First and foremost, the new environment making its way to the game is called Valen Outpost, which is playable in new single player story mode missions. The Northern Storm update also brings a new endless dungeon level, which will allow you to defeat multiple waves of enemies in hopes to earn new ingredients. Speaking of which, players will now be able to craft new trinkets for additional bonuses in the crafting system. For the new trinkets you’ll need new ingredients, which you’ll be able to find in the endless dungeon and various story mode missions.
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There’s a new special dungeon that’s been crafted by the ‘wicked Kenashi builders’, where you’ll be tasked to take on a new boss called Dendrik the Marauder. This new dungeon is where you’ll also be able to earn Kenashi tickets, which can be traded for any of the four new Kenashi-themed armors, four new weapons, three new skills and four new minions to guard your Stronghold.
Dungeon Hunter 5 isn’t the oldest game in the Play Store, but it’s always nice to see a big expansion come to a mobile title every so often. The update is already available for iOS devices, and Gameloft says the Android update is ‘coming soon’. Be sure to check out the expansion trailer attached above, and head to the Play Store link below to download the game.
Japanese court rules that bitcoin can’t be ‘owned’
Tokyo’s district court has ruled that it’s not possible for people to own bitcoin, and therefore they can’t sue for compensation in the wake of Mt. Gox’s collapse. The ruling comes a few days after the head of what used to be the world’s largest bitcoin exchange was arrested on charges of fraud concerning its collapse. The case involved an anonymous individual who had 458 BTC in their account, roughly equivalent to just under $130,000 today. Naturally, the person was seeking to claw some of that cash back, but Judge Masumi Kurachi felt that bitcoins do not possess the necessary “tangible qualities” to constitute owned property under the country’s law. We won’t debate their wisdom here, nor the intricacies of Japanese property law, but given that Gox was holding thousands of people’s bitcoin stashes, there’s plenty more angry customers looking for compensation.
Filed under:
Internet
Via:
Coindesk
Source:
Japan Times
Tags: Bitcoin, Court, Japan, Law, MarkKarpeles, Mt.Gox
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’ looks like ‘Dota 2’ with new features
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is banking big on eSports with a handful of new, updated and returning features that make the professional game stand out from everyday matches. Arena, for example, replaces Black Ops 2‘s League Play as an online ranking system where players compete to reach the top division. CODcaster Mode returns, allowing spectators to commentate over the top of live matches and control some of the visual cues of the game. That’s all fine and dandy, but Black Ops 3‘s real eSports meat comes in the form of Specialist Draft and the “Ban and Protect” systems, which serve to make the professional game play out more like massively successful pro games League of Legends or Dota 2.
Specialist Draft assigns a specific role and power-up path to each player, allowing them to gain new abilities and weapons throughout the match — but there can only be one of each Specialist weapon or ability per team, so players are encouraged to pick the path that plays to their individual strengths. Meanwhile, Bans and Protects allow each team to remove or ensure the inclusion of certain items in every match. This adds a strategic layer to the game before the shooting even begins.
“There’s no doubt that this is the most significant change to how Call of Duty eSports will be played over the coming years,” Treyarch Studio Director David Vonderhaar says.
Source:
PlayStation Blog, Call of Duty
Tags: Activision, blackops3, CallOfDuty, callofdutyblackops3, esports, hdpostcross, ProfessionalGaming, ProGaming, Treyarch
The surprising joy of Time’s virtual reality cover starring Palmer Luckey
It’s amazing to see Palmer Luckey — creator of the Oculus Rift and custodian of the tech industry’s current obsession with virtual reality — on the cover of Time magazine this month. It’s another sign that virtual reality has a real shot at entering the mainstream conversation, following previous signals like Facebook buying Oculus for $2 billion in 2014, and Sony, Valve, HTC, Samsung and dozens of other companies revealing their own VR headsets. As amazing as Luckey’s Time cover is, it’s also really, really odd. Why is he on his tippy-toes? Does he really need to be squatting like that? What are his hands doing? Where’s the controller? And why the hell is he in front of a fake beach? The world may never know, but through the power of photo-editing tools, we certainly can imagine. See some of our ideas below and please add your own chops in the comments (feel free to use our cutout).
Perhaps Luckey made a new, tiny dinosaur friend in virtual reality.
Such poise, such grace.
Don’t forget your parachute, Luckey! Oh, shoot.
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Gaming, Peripherals, HD, Facebook
Tags: facebook, hdpostcross, PalmerLuckey, photoshop, time, TimeMagazine, VirtualReality, vr
Tesla’s prehensile car charger plugs itself in automatically
Keep your flying cars and robot maids, we are already living in Elon Musk’s future. Tesla officially unveiled its automatic charging system today and whaaaaa? When Musk first announced its development last December, he compared it to a “solid metal snake” and he was not lying. In the video below you can see the charger bend and flex like one of Doc Oc’s appendages as it pokes around the backside of a Model S before inserting a nozzle on its tip into the vehicle’s charging port.
Charger prototype finding its way to Model S. https://t.co/L9E4MR642G
— Tesla Motors (@TeslaMotors) August 6, 2015
Filed under:
Transportation, Science
Source:
Tesla (Twitter)
Tags: AutomaticCharger, ElonMusk, ModelS, Tesla, vehicles
Big Data VR app allows researchers to ‘browse’ genomes
Earlier this year, Epic Games (the folks that made the Unreal Engine) held a $20,000 competition that challenged VR companies to create programs that could help users better tackle the valuable, albeit unwieldy, figures in Big Data sets. For its entry into “The Big Data VR Challenge” Hammerhead VR submitted The Genome Browser, a virtualization that will allow researchers to, quite literally, browse through an organism’s genome and access a library of data (generated by the Wellcome Sanger Institute) at each gene.
With it, Hammerhead hopes to empower researchers with the ability to quickly scan through enormous amounts of data and find new correlations between these data points. Doing so could accelerate the development of new drugs and treatments for a wide variety of diseases. And while the Hammerhead team did not win the competition, you can see the VR system in action with this newly-released 3D video, below.
Filed under:
Displays, Science, Internet
Via:
VR Focus
Source:
Hammerhead VR
Tags: BigData, biology, cancer, EpicGames, genes, genomes, genomics, hammerhead, HammerheadVR, VirtualReality, VR
Samsung teases three new devices for their Unpacked event
Samsung’s Unpacked event is nearly upon us and the Android world is gearing up to see what the company unveils at their press event in New York on August 13. We already know that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+ will make an appearance, but there might be another device gearing up to be released.
The teaser comes from none other than Samsung themselves and the image is accompanied by a countdown timer to the event. The image depicts three devices stacked on top of each other. We already know two of them, so what’s the third?
This mysterious third device is on the bottom, underneath the Note 5 and S6 Edge+ and is clearly bigger than the two phablet devices. It is most probably the 8-inch version of the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, but that bezel doesn’t look like anything we’ve seen in the press images so far.
One thing is for sure, we’ll find out next week!
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Microsoft Launches Early Version of Windows Bridge for Porting iOS Apps to Windows
Microsoft today announced the release of an early version of its Windows Bridge software, which is designed to let software developers quickly port iOS, Android, and web apps to the Windows platform.
As of today, Windows Bridge for iOS is available as an open-source project under the MIT license and can be downloaded on GitHub. With Windows Bridge, iOS developers can begin testing the software that will let them convert iOS apps built for x86 and x64 processor architectures to a format that will run on Windows 10 and Windows 8.1.
As outlined by Microsoft, Windows Bridge for iOS includes four components to construct Windows apps using existing Objective-C code: an Objective-C compiler, Objective-C runtime, iOS API headers/libs, and Visual Studio IDE integration.
We’re releasing the iOS bridge as an open-source project under the MIT license. Given the ambition of the project, making it easy for iOS developers to build and run apps on Windows, it is important to note that today’s release is clearly a work-in-progress — some of the features demonstrated at Build are not yet ready or still in an early state.
Regardless, we’d love for the interested and curious to look at the bridge, and compare what we’re building with your app’s requirements. And, for the really ambitious, we invite you to help us by contributing to the project, as community contributors — with source code, tests, bug reports, or comments. We welcome any and all participation in building this bridge.
Microsoft first announced its plans for Windows Bridge at its April BUILD conference for developers, demonstrating an iPad app that had been converted to a Windows 10 app. Tools designed to help developers create Windows apps from their iOS apps could be a huge boon for Microsoft, as app availability has always been one of the major downsides to Microsoft’s Windows mobile devices.
Both Google Play and the iOS App Store have always had far more apps than are available on Windows, so Microsoft is hoping its new tools will encourage developers to spend time creating Windows apps, heavily boosting the number of available Windows apps. As of July, there were 1.6 million Google Play apps, 1.5 million App Store Apps, 400,000 Amazon Appstore apps, and 340,000 Windows Phone Store apps.
Microsoft plans to release a completed version of Windows Bridge in the fall. Windows Bridge for web apps became available alongside the launch of Windows 10, and Windows Bridge for Android is available as a technical preview by invitation only.
How to disable Android bloatware without root
Every single time I get a new phone, my first mission is to get rid of that pesky software manufacturers and carriers insist on pushing down our throats. Yes, I am talking about bloatware, those apps which come pre-installed in your new handsets, but you will likely never use and can’t truly uninstall.
These applications include, but are not limited to, carrier services, cloud storage, sports and games. I have come to the realization that they mostly exist so that us Android enthusiasts can complain about something. But don’t you worry, for there are ways to get them out of your way, and you don’t even need to tinker away and get root access. Let’s show you how this is done.
Hiding apps
The easiest way to clean up your app drawer is by hiding your apps. This used to be a feature we could only see in third-party launchers, which was heaven-sent for those of us who wanted to get rid of bloatware without having to root. The good news is some manufacturers have started baking this feature straight into their launchers, so you may not even need a third-party launcher to do this.
We can’t exactly tell you how to hide apps, as this process is very different for every manufacturer and launcher, but it’s usually an option in the app drawer settings.
Here’s how I can do it in the LG G4:
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The downside to this is that hiding apps doesn’t do much other than keeping them out of sight. These apps will still run in the background and take up space. And given that most times bloatware can’t be uninstalled, the next best option would be to disable these applications from the system settings.
How to disable apps
Disabling apps will ensure installed applications are not running in the background. The icons will also fail to appear in your app drawer or home screens. The only issue is the app will continue to be in the phone, taking up precious space, but at least it won’t be draining other resources or cluttering your apps drawer.
- Open your Settings app
- Scroll down until you find “Apps” or “Application Manager”, tap on it.
- Find the application you want to disable and select it.
- There will be an option to “Disable”.
- You should get a message warning you about the risks of disabling an app. Just press “Yes”.
- You are done! The app is now out of sight and no longer active.
Keep in mind that some of these steps may vary a bit depending on your specific device. It shouldn’t be difficult to figure out, though. Just find the application manager and enter the app. Your option should be there.
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While none of these methods are quite as satisfying as completely removing bloatware from a device, it is certainly better than just leaving the apps enabled and eating away at your system resources. For those that want to take it to the next level, you can always root your phone and there are then plenty of free root-enabled apps that will help you further eradicate the bloatware menace.
ASUS launches the ZenFone 2 Laser, ZenFone 2 Deluxe and ZenFone Selfie in India
Alongside the launch of its new ZenFone Max smartphone with a huge 5000mAh battery, ASUS today at its ZenFestival event announced that it’s bringing the ASUS ZenFone Selfie and ZenFone 2 Laser to India, along with the new ZenFone 2 Deluxe. ASUS revealed the ZenFone Selfie and the then-unnamed ZenFone 2 Laser (both pictured above) at Computex back in June, and we’re just now getting availability details for both handsets. Both devices mark ASUS’ switch back to Qualcomm processors after the company’s brief switch to Intel CPUs.
To start, the ZenFone 2 Laser will be available in 5.5 and 6.0-inch variants with Gorilla Glass 4 displays and resolutions of up to 1080p. The big story with the ZenFone 2 Laser is its 13MP rear-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and dual-tone flash, which comes with ASUS’ super fast laser auto-focus technology. On the processor front, the models range from a quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with 2GB of RAM to the higher-end octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor with 3GB of RAM. The 5.5-inch model will launch in India from 9,999 Rupees and the 6.0-inch variant will be available from 17,999 Rupees. There’s also a 5.0-inch model that will be available, though Engadget reports that this model isn’t launching in India just yet.
More great ASUS devices
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Next up is the ZenFone Selfie, which, as you may have guessed, sports a powerful front-facing camera. The selfie cam comes in at 13MP with an f/2.2 aperture, though there’s unfortunately no laser auto-focus on this camera. As for other specifications, the Selfie is basically the same as the 5.5-inch ZenFone 2 Laser. The Selfie will be powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor and will cost 15,999 Rupees in India.
Last but not least we have the new ZenFone 2 Deluxe, which is pretty similar to the ZenFone 2 proper. This one comes with a polygonal textured back plate, though, which we’re hoping ASUS will make available for existing ZenFone 2 owners. It comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD IPS LCD display, a 2.3GHz 64-bit Intel Atom Z3580 processor, 64 or 128GB of on-board storage, 4GB of RAM and LTE connectivity. It also comes with a 13MP rear camera, 5MP front camera, dual-SIM functionality, a 3000mAh battery and runs Android 5.0 Lollipop. This device will launch in India for 22,999 Rupees.
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