The game on Cloud arrives in Europe

OnLive, the service of video games on the cloud, has announced on his website that he was going to kick off a UK site on June 7, the day of the opening of E3. The games will be available this fall. So far, the platform was reserved for the United States. This announcement means qu'OnLive begins to deploy its servers in Europe and a French release is not far off.

The company will announce its international strategy in the video game trade show. In June 2010, OnLive kicked-off its U.S. service that allows you to play PC games on the cloud. As we report (see "was tested by gaming Onlive cloud"), the service is intended primarily for small configurations that do not have material resources to run the latest titles.

Doom in JavaScript and HTML 5

Mozilla recently put Doom on JavaScript and HTML 5. The demo is playable from Safari or Firefox and if our initial tests have encountered some problems, it's still a great achievement by the developers according to the explanations posted on the publisher's website, used the Mozilla source code the demo of Doom released by id Software.

He first used to go Clang C source code to a bitcode LLVM. He then turned to Emscripten, LLVM compiler to JavaScript. The code was then optimized with closure-compiler. Doom is rendered using the SDL API, which is a multimedia library implemented in JavaScript by Emscripten. It offers access to audio, mouse and graphics chip with OpenGL.

Duke Nukem Forever goes gold

After almost 15 years of developments and twists, Duke Nukem Forever is finally finished. 2K Games and Gearbox announced that the title was passed in Gold, which means that the final version was sent to manufacturers of discs and boxes will be delivered to dealers. According to a statement posted on the site of Gearbox, the first demos will be released on June 3 and will be reserved for members of Duke Nukem First Access Club.

From Starcraft commented on Tom's Games

Our colleagues Tom's Games have a little surprise for you: live broadcasts of tournaments commented Starcraft 2! It's excellent "ZeratoR - GameCreds home. com - which orchestrates the whole. You may be unaware, but the big plays good gamer, you do not play just for fun ... The best players sometimes receive a wage and win prizes ranging from 100 € to 5 000 € per tournament! On the menu tonight at 19 hours: two major competitions.

Case PSN: over 100 million accounts compromised

Sony has discovered that the intrusion into its servers on the machines as Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), in addition to systems Playstation Network (PSN) / Qriocity, which increased the number of accounts corrupted over 100 million and represents One of the biggest computer hacking of all time. The Japanese giant has just published a press release today explaining the extent of damage.

The users' personal information were stolen between April 16 and April 17. This represents 24.6 million accounts associated with online computer games such as EverQuest or DC Universe Online. It is a flaw that can easily give rise to phishing or identity theft. Bank account details of users Austrian, German, Dutch and Spanish have also been stolen but they date from 2007, which somewhat minimizes their importance.

The minimum of Duke Nukem Forever

The minimum of Duke Nukem Forever shows it is possible to play the game even on older machines, but the recommended configuration suggests that the title will not very rich graphics. What looks like the minimum of a game that took 14 years to emerge? The recommended configuration is not very different.

Finally, users must connect to the Internet at least once to validate their license with the Steam servers. We do not treat any minimum requirements of games, but like most of you know, Duke Nukem Forever is not a game, it is a symbolic icon that has spanned the twentieth century and which should land in stores June 10 (see "Duke Nukem Forever delayed ...

"The" and "The" Game Boy?

Existential issue if any, which starts a huge debate on our Twitter account in the comments and news on our 22 years of Game Boy: they say "the" or "the" Game Boy. Use in Europe is to say "Game Boy", in reference to the fact that this is a console. In fact, communication of Nintendo and manuals for various models speak well of the Game Boy, a male.

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Duke Nukem Forever ... retarded (do not laugh)

We approach rarely release of video games in our columns (our colleagues Tom's Games do much better), but Duke Nukem is more than a video game. He is a legend whose spectrum flat for almost 14 years. In September 2010, when it was thought Duke finally trapped in a dark legal mess, he resurfaced: the studio Gearbox Software announced that it has almost finished its development and provides for a release in spring 2011.

IPv6 will land in World of Warcraft

Dreaded since the 1990s, the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses would eventually take place over the next 9-18 months. The time is finally in the adoption of IPv6. Migration is often inconspicuous, being an internal matter for the operators. But sometimes it breaks out openly as today: the inescapable network game World of Warcraft will soon make its transformation.

The next patch for WoW would bring into effect compatibility. The IPv6 connection will obviously not be enabled by default since all players are not on a network compatible, but it will replace IPv4, if possible.

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Microsoft and NVIDIA leave the PCGA

Microsoft and NVIDIA have withdrawn from the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), supposed to support the gaming world on computer. This month is the PCGA had welcomed the fall of pirating PC games. With this statement, the consortium wanted to clear it intended to take a more active part in the video game world.

Hitherto confined to studies and analysis, the president of the PCGA said he wanted to work with developers, publishers and manufacturers to enhance the experience for players. The reasons why Microsoft and NVIDIA from the alliance they formed in 2008 remain secret (see "PC Gaming Alliance: long live the PC"), but we imagine they were ideological conflicts with the new president Matt Plyohar, who took office three months ago.

Doom on a calculator

Funny, a programmer has decided to bring Doom, the first name on his calculator. The model chosen is the Nspire by Texas Instruments, a popular model that has succeeded to the family of models 84. Doom, quite famous in his day, is not true in 3D - the enemies are 2D sprites - but porting is quite impressive and has the advantage of operating your files.

wad, which contain data levels. It is therefore possible to distribute the game engine and then associate it with files. wad eg from an original game (or one of its mods). The calculator in question is obviously strong enough, the level of a desktop PC 90 years: 32 MB of RAM (some reserved for the OS), a 90 MHz ARM9 processor and a screen in 320 x 240 - definition used in the original Doom - in 16 shades of gray.