Et voilà, à Los Angeles, les festivités sont terminées et le plus grand salon du jeu vidéo ferme ses portes. Voici quelques clichés souvenirs pris dans les allées de l'E3 qui reviendra l'année prochaine, fidèle au rendez-vous comme les hirondelles.
Mais l'E3, c'est avant tout une histoire de mecs qui friment. Allez les amis, c'est l'heure de rentrer !
Si Dragon's Dogma ne nous avait pas forcément fait très forte impression lors du dernier E3, Capcom mise en tout cas beaucoup sur son nouveau poulain, jeu d'action au coût de développement faramineux. On pourra d'ailleurs admirer une nouvelle fois la bête grâce à cette galerie d'images composée de screenshots et d'artworks. Elle illustre notamment le principe de Pawns, pierres gravées servant à invoquer des PNJ. Trois personnages non joueurs pourront ainsi rejoindre votre équipe, et évoluer au cours de l'aventure. Ces images nous permettent également de faire connaissance avec la guerrière Mercedes. C'est au début de l'année 2012 que Dragon's Dogma devrait nous parvenir, sur PS3 et 360.
According to the specification which recently appeared on the Rightwares PowerBoard, Google Nexus 7 is the official name for the widely expected $199 tablet which resembles the NVIDIA Kai platform. As you might have assumed, Nexus 7 will combine a quint-core (4+1) Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.3GHz.
ASUSTeK Computer is in charge of manufaturing the device, which carries a lot of resemblance to the concept ASUS and NVIDIA jointly showed at CES 2012. The concept went into more detail couple of months later as NVIDIA revealed its $199 Kai development platform. Codename for this tablet is - "Grouper", perfectly fitting in Googles codebook. Google names its hardware upon fishes, while operating systems are named after deserts. New builds of their core business, the search engine - are named after wildlife animals of the continental kind.
Five-point multi-touch is hardware accelerated (utilizing Tegras fifth core and Synaptics IP) on top of a seven inch screen with 1280x800 pixel resolution i.e. HD Ready. The pixel density is a bit higher than 215 pixels per inch.
When it comes to the software part, Google decided to outfit the Nexus 7 with Android 4.1, the very latest version of its popular mobile operating system. Do note that the codename for Android 4.1 is not Ice Cream Sandwich, but rather Jelly Bean. While numerous Android fan sites wrote lyrics about "Android 5.0 Jelly Bean", the fact of the matter is that Android 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 all have their respective codenames, with Jelly Bean being the code for 4.1. Truth to be told, the built-in OS corresponds to the code "JRN51B", which could be read as Jelly Bean 5.1. In reality, Android 4.1 is the next step, to be followed with 4.2 in the fall.
This version also brings OpenGL ES to the latest version released by the Khronos Group, but dont expect fantastic performance - while you will get what you paid for, Rightwares Taiji OpenGL ES 2.0 test revealed a framerate of mere 18 frames per second, significantly slower than smartphone and tablets powered by NVIDIA Tegra 3. This has lead us to believe that Google is using LPDDR2 memory at 533MHz or 667, given that the 3D engine seems starved for data.
All in all, it seems that ASUS and NVIDIA could not found better partner for its $249 concept tablet from CES 2012. The mighty Google itself.
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The Internet on Saturday buzzed with renewed rumors of Google making its own smartphone, after the Internet powerhouse said it is internally dabbling with a mobile device.
Google workers are trying out a device that "combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on
"This holiday season, we are taking dogfooding to a new level," Queiroz wrote.
"Unfortunately, because dogfooding is a process exclusively for Google employees, we cannot share specific product details. We hope to share more after our dogfood diet."
The Android-based
"ZOMG we had fireworks and we got the new Google phone," one Google worker said in a
A growing number of US telecom carriers and manufacturers have been adopting Google's open-source Android software in bids to challenge the googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/12/android-dogfood-diet-for-holidays.html
(c) 2009 AFP
