2011年1月27日星期四

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Razer's motion control scheme for the PC, which uses a magnetic field to track a pair of controllers in a 3D space, will be supported in Portal 2, giving the game a unique “console-like” experience. (We played with the Sixense controller at CES 2010 with a custom build of Left 4 Dead 2.) You'll see that there's a little bit of lag in interpreting real-world movements, even when the Sixense controllers are wired to the magnetic field replica Omega 1262.75 Ladie's watch base station.Watch as Intel reps move, shoot, twist and manipulate stretchy boxes, all while thinking with portals, with the Sixense. It's launching later this year for “under a hundred dollars.”Portal 2 will be out for the PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this April.”Shogun: Total War 2 has been dropping jaws with its gorgeous visuals since it was revealed at E3 last year.

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In today's Friday fun edition of the daily Kotaku science post

What's Hamlet doing in my Mabinogi? [Official Mabinogi site]”In today's Friday fun edition of the daily Kotaku science post, scientists in Israel make women cry and then make men smell their tears. Surely that's got to be fun for somebody.Making women cry is something that men do on a regular basis, often without any idea how or why they are replica Omega 1362.70 Ladie's watch doing it. A team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, were well aware of the hows and whys when they subjected a pair of women to sad films in order to harvest their sweet, sweet tears.

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2011年1月16日星期日

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