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The developers working on the Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 have said that a cryptic message that players get when finishing the main story of the title is not a sign that they are working on yet another sequel set in the same game universe.
Game Director Motomu Toriyama, who works on the game for ... |
6 February 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has launched a new update for Final Fantasy XIII-2, labeled 1.03, and the big change is that players are now able to press R3 on the PlayStation 3 version of the game while in the Historia Crux game mode in order to send an instant status update to the social network Facebook.
The Ja... |
3 February 2012
10:33 GMT |
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A comment from one of the leading developers working on the JRPG Final Fantasy XIII-2 suggests that the rumors about Lightning-based downloadable content for the game might have a lot of truth in them.
Yoshinori Kitase, the producer working on Final Fantasy XIII-2, has told the Square Enix blog that, “There is... |
27 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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A rumor from the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu states that in the coming months Final Fantasy XIII-2 will get a significant piece of downloadable content that will allow gamers to both recruit former main character Lightning and then take her through a number of narrative episodes.
The developers working on Final... |
26 January 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Environmentally friendly artists keep amazing their fans with some of the most surprising sustainable concepts ever launched on the market.
The most remarkable fact is that their solutions are often considered a greener alternative, favoring both design enthusiasts and the environment, by giving a new meaning to o... |
12 January 2012
11:24 GMT |
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Hardcore Thunderbird users, and even less addicted ones, are already familiar with Lightning, Mozilla’s extension for offering a calendar in their email client.
Lightning 1.0 has been introduced in Thunderbird 8.0 as an integrated add-on, back in November, 2011. However, a new edition, Lightning 1.2b1, is alre... |
9 January 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has launched a new trailer for the upcoming Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 which is specifically designed to show off the entire cast of characters that will play a major role in the game.
Those who have played the previous entry in the long-running series will meet ... |
22 December 2011
02:27 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 aims for accessibility and one of the main focuses for the team working on the title is making the narrative line easier to understand, while also offering depth for all long term fans of the franchise.Speaking as part of a bigger interview with the Members club of Square Enix fans, Motomu Toriya... |
21 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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There are only a few things that the Microbial Home designer by Phillips can't accomplish, in terms of energy-efficiency and resource preservation. The most intriguing concept displayed by the company is the innovative bacteria-based lightning system.
Powering our entire household without having to pay for a si... |
6 December 2011
09:04 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII was widely criticized after launch for failing to deliver the depth of feelings that characterized previous releases in the series but one leading developer working on the sequel says that the focus on Lightning and Srah will inject more sentiment in the game.Yoshinori Kitase, who is the producer w... |
25 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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The Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has announced that the single player story of the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII-2 will take between 30 and 40 hours to complete by a player who has medium skill.After the game is over and done gamers can also choose to reload save game data and begin playing again from a save point ... |
23 November 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 is about one month away from the Japanese launch date and the publisher Square Enix has put out a new trailer which shows off some in game footage and also offers some glimpses into the story of the new installment.Sazh, one of the more controversial characters from the first game, with his choco... |
22 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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The developers of the long running Final Fantasy series have acknowledged that gamers seem to be moving away from the turn based structure to what is called the action role playing game genre but they are sure that their games still have plenty of appeal for the fan base.Yoshinori Kitase, who is one of the main desig... |
16 November 2011
22:41 GMT |
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If you're still using a desktop email client, chances are you're using Mozilla Thunderbird. While it does not enjoy the popularity or the notoriety of Firefox, the email client has been serving millions of users for many years now.One thing that's been missing all this time though is a calendar or a ta... |
10 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Along with Firefox 8, as expected, Thunderbird 8 has landed as well. Of course, again, as expected, there aren't that many new features, just some minor improvements. What is interesting about the new release though is that Mozilla is now plugging the Lightning 1.0 calendar add-on along with the official Thunder... |
9 November 2011
07:20 GMT |
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Researchers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, led by heliophysicist Doug Rowland, are now getting ready to send a device called the Firestation to Earth's upper atmosphere. The instrument will study various phenomena related to lightning. According to the research team, the ... |
18 October 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that it has set the release date for its Japanese role playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 in North America for January 31 of 2012, with the game playable on both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony.The company has also announced that the theme s... |
22 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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A group of astronomers says that upcoming missions aimed at exploring Titan might also feature instruments or detectors capable of searching for thunders. Finding signs that the atmospheric phenomenon takes place will make it easier for scientists to find lightning. The atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon is... |
3 June 2011
01:38 GMT |
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After it has been spotted on various websites, MSI has finally made official the N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition graphics card which packs 3GB of video buffer memory and is the company's most advanced solution based on the Nvidia GTX 580 design.
The card has the same Twin Frozr IIi cooling system as the regu... |
31 May 2011
04:31 GMT |
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At the end of last week, we reported that MSI is working on developing a 3GB version of the popular GTX 580 Lighting graphics card and now the first pictures of this yet-unreleased GPU have made their way to the Web.
When taking a look at the N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition, it becomes apparent that MSI hasn'... |
17 May 2011
07:19 GMT |
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A few years ago, atmospheric scientists discovered an peculiar phenomenon taking place as lightning strikes were headed to Earth – the generation of a flash of radiation accompanying the event. Now, the cause of these flashes is beginning to be revealed.Called gamma-ray flashes (GRF), these phenomena are charac... |
13 May 2011
03:33 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has announced that the Japanese gamers who have missed out on Final Fantasy XIII until now will be able to pick up a lower priced version of the game for both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony on July 21.
Those who plan to play the game on the Sony home co... |
10 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The Final Fantasy series is well known for the way its characters look, with fans paying special attention to the design of the female cast, but one of the main developers working on the video game series says that the team always began the creation process with the personality and not the looks of the character. Mo... |
31 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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One might think that Micro-Star International would sit back and watch the effect of its highly overclockable dual-GPU NVIDIA card, but it looks like it has more in store, namely both AMD and NVIDIA models for the high-end segment immediately beneath the top tier.Not long ago, NVIDIA officially introduced the GeForc... |
25 March 2011
06:39 GMT |
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One of the main developers working on the newly announced Final Fantasy XIII-2 has offered a series of details on the new Japanese role-playing game, saying that requests from players have been one of the main reasons for the new game set in the same world.
Motomu Toriyama, who is the director at Square Enix worki... |
1 February 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Although the GTX 580 has become the fastest performing video card in Nvidia's arsenal for quite some time now, it still seems to be some life left in the “old” GTX 480 as MSI has just announced that their N480GTX Lighting has become the fastest single GPU in 3DMark 11.
MSI's card managed to s... |
17 January 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Since its introduction, MSI's Lightning series of graphics cards has managed to get the attention of enthusiasts everywhere thanks to its high overclocking potential, so the Taiwanese company plans to introduce two new additions to this successful series built on top of Nvidia's GTX 580 and AMD's HD 69... |
29 December 2010
02:24 GMT |
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A group of physicists from the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) recently managed a breakthrough in this field of research, when they were able to collect the first-ever 3D images of a lightning strike. This has never been done before. In addition to being able to snap images in the X-ray portion of the ... |
15 December 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Square Enix, the well known video game publisher, has announced that its new fighting game, Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy, which was initially shown at the Tokyo Games Show, will be launched on both North America and European markets in 2011, with the name staying the same.Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy ... |
23 September 2010
04:36 GMT |
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The air is loaded with electricity, so if scientists manage to collect it, it should be the newest alternative energy source.Just like solar cells capture sunlight, a device that captures electricity from the air should be able to transform it so that it can light a house or recharge an electric car, and scientists a... |
26 August 2010
04:14 GMT |
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CFCs are increasingly used in airplane manufacture, as they are much lighter than Aluminium and are important weight savers. Dr Igor Golosnoy, of the University of Southampton's Electrical Power Engineering Research Group within the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) is studying these carbon fiber ... |
26 July 2010
06:14 GMT |
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Now that the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 are, more or less, widely available, NVIDIA chose Computex as the site for the introduction of the GTX 465. This card moves the Fermi architecture closer to the mainstream. Meanwhile, ATI's partners aren't sitting idly by, of course. With the GTX 480 as the fastest s... |
2 June 2010
02:36 GMT |
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One of the most peculiar occurrences in nature is the fact that deserts can experience lightning. This should not happen, experts say, as the amount of precipitations in some of the world's driest areas is almost negligible. However, dust storms appear perfectly capable of producing lightning discharges, a fact ... |
12 April 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Not long ago, Micro-Star International expanded its Lightning Series of graphics cards with the new, custom-made R5770 Hawk. Eager to further increase its range of high-end graphics adapters, the company has now revealed that it has completed yet another model in this series, namely the top-tier R5870 Lightning. Esse... |
25 February 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Graphics cards have been coming out one after another over the past few days, following AMD's introduction of the Radeon HD 5450. Still, in this case, the new release is not another HD 5450 incarnation but a card based on the Radeon HD 5770. The new hardware released by Micro-Star International is a video accele... |
5 February 2010
06:55 GMT |
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Though a relatively large number of investigations have revealed that being aboard an airplane while the aircraft flies through the middle of a large thunderstorm is perfectly safe, a new work begs to differ. A number of experts feel that, while flying through large atmospheric fronts, lightning strikes can easily pr... |
8 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The Sun is notorious for its 11-year cycle, but also for the fact that it has sunspots on its surface that allow astronomers to analyze its “health” and, more importantly, predict space weather. But in years such as this one, when the solar minimum is in full effect, and very few sunspots are available, e... |
12 November 2009
05:16 GMT |
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Square Enix has revealed the launch date for Final Fantasy XIII through an online add campaign that was initially only intended to serve as a teaser.The publisher is set to put out the Japanese role playing game on December 17 but this date is only for the Japanese market, where the game can be picked up only for the... |
8 September 2009
03:05 GMT |
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The entire gaming industry seems crazed with downloadable content lately. Bethesda has put out no less than 5 decently sized DLC packs for Fallout 3, extending the interest in their post apocalyptic role playing experience by about one year.Other titles almost obligatorily get one DLC pack and some of them have even ... |
3 September 2009
12:49 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII is coming along nicely and Japanese gamers should get a chance to play the new role playing game before Christmas this year on the PlayStation 3, if all goes according to plan. And the creators of the videogame are now talking more about it and about what players will be up against in this fresh sp... |
27 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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No one is surprised when lightning comes down form the sky, especially during one of those intense summer thunderstorms. But witnessing a bolt of light and electricity going upwards, until it almost reaches the upper limit of the atmosphere, is completely another story. One such formation was recently observed by exp... |
24 August 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Arizona in Tuscon (UAT) have managed a breakthrough in laser technology, as they have invented laser beams that can bend. The solution offers numerous practical applications, including the development of technologies that would allow lighting strikes to be turned away from large buildin... |
10 April 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Since the time of the old Egyptians, UFO sightings have plagued humanity, with those going through such experiences being called heretics at first, then lunatics, and then simply ignored. Because of this massive popular interest in the matter, scientists have attempted to come up with logical explanations for these p... |
24 February 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Back in 1991, scientists were in for a big surprise after the launch of NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Telescope. Instead of just providing the expected data referring to high energy-emitting supernovae, black holes or the like, it detected gamma ray bursts incoming from the Earth as well. Further tests and missions c... |
24 November 2008
18:41 GMT |
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A new breakthrough in the dynamics of lightning has recently revealed the source of X-ray light emitted moments before the lightning strikes and could help in the near future advance the methods used to predict the moment and location where these phenomena occur."From a practical point of view, if we are going to eve... |
17 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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When it comes to gas giants, nothing is small. This also applies in the case of the electrical storm dominating the southern areas of Saturn for the last five months or so, the longest storm recorded to date and capable of producing lightning discharges some 10,000 times more powerful than those observed on Earth. "W... |
30 April 2008
03:31 GMT |
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During an experiment carried out in South Baldy Peak, New Mexico, European researchers using a high-power laser deliberately triggered electrical activity in two passing thunderstorms. Laser pulses created plasma filaments inside the clouds, through which electric current was discharged inside the clouds. However, no... |
14 April 2008
06:42 GMT |
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There are three natural phenomena accompanying the storms that fascinated and frightened human mind since prehistory, when explanation for such powerful natural phenomenon were attributed to gods and spirits. The thunderbolt is an electric discharge accompanied by a vivid light and a powerful sound, which occurs betw... |
12 April 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon that even today remains mostly mysterious to the researchers. On top of having enough difficulties explaining why lightning forms in the fist place, scientists have also been struggling for decades to understand why bolts of lightning forming in the top layers of the clouds trav... |
24 March 2008
04:39 GMT |
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The thunderbolt is an electric discharge accompanied by a vivid light and a powerful sound, which occurs between two clouds or between a cloud and the ground or objects on the ground. The thunder is a noise accompanying an atmospheric electric discharge (lightening or thunderbolt). The lightning is a luminous electri... |
16 February 2008
03:34 GMT |
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