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Evening Reading
by Jeff Mattas, Feb 03, 2011 5:00pm PSTNamco Bandai's IGNITE event in San Francisco turned out to be pretty interesting, full of new game announcements for 2011 and beyond. Some of the biggest news stemmed from the publisher's new relationship with From Software. In fact, the event kicked off with new trailers for Armored Core V and Dark Souls, which are making their way around the internet now. Those attending the event were even treated to a live demo of some Dark Souls gameplay, which (fans of Demon's Souls will be pleased to note) seems to be headed down the path of the bigger, better, and more devious.
And don't worry, while Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, rather than a direct sequel, we've been promised more of the hardcore, tactical-action based hack-and-slash that made the first game such a breakthrough success. The developers also seemed to quite proud to continue the tradition of killing you repeatedly, explaining that they expect some players to "start laughing because they're dying so much."
I'll chat with Garnett and Jeff about it a bit more on this Friday's episode of Weekend Confirmed, so tune in for more details.
And, in case you missed it:
Every time these pop up I find at least one utility that's cool enough to keep. I'll start:
ObjectDock Fences:
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
Love this utility for keeping the desktop clutter free and organized by games, utilities, etc. I'm not sure if it's a feature of windows 7 or fences but you can simply double click an empty part of the desktop and it will hide everything but the wallpaper. Double click again restores them.
PS3 Media Server:
http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
The best uPnP media server in my opinion. I believe the transcoding algorithm is faster than tversity and seems to support a lot more formats. Works fine with my xbox.
KMplayer:
http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/
After losing my mind with bugs in VLC, a shacker recommended this one to me. After trying several, I stayed with KM. It's very lightweight, has a pleasing UI, and VERY user friendly to adjust settings. Love this as a video player.
iTunesKey:
http://www.mattberube.com/software/iTunesKeys/
If you use iTunes like me, this utility is real handy to set universal hotkeys for iTunes shortcuts while you're in games. Good to use if you don't have an iPhone and the Remote app.
Please to be posting more apps!
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another defrag (unfortunately not free) is ultimate defrag. I use it to order all my games in a high performance area.. but I have less use now that I have several SSD and steam tool library manager: http://stefanjones.ca/steam/
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