Game Dev Tycoon Review ? GamingBolt.com: Video Game News ...

Game Dev Tycoon is a brilliant game. It?s fun, it?s addictive, it?s time consuming, and it has a great sense of humor. Building on the equally great Kairosoft developed Game Dev Story for iOS and Android, Game Dev Tycoon presents the player with some general insights into the game development process, and the backstage workings of the gaming industry that we all know and love. Oh, and it?s also inadvertently funny too, sometimes.

Game Dev Tycoon tasks the player with taking control of a startup back in the early 1980s, and develop games. At the beginning, you are a one man team working out of your garage, developing low profile games for PC and Commodore. Your options for developing games are severely limited too, as you can only develop text based games, or games with very basic graphics, and even more basic sound, in a limited set of genres, and on limited topics.

Over time, you research new genres and new topics, you research better graphics and better sound, you research new game making techniques such as branching dialogs, multiplayer, online play, achievements, voice acting, non linear story telling, and more. You create your own game engines to make the best games possible. You move from making games for primitive PCs to more modern ones, and games for consoles as well. You learn to market your games and generate hype. You create your own franchises. You learn to target them at specific audiences and demographics. You attend E3, you expand your team slowly by recruiting even more developers.

And eventually, you make your own console. You hold your own expos and conventions. You develop your own digital distribution service. You expand into AAA game development. The amount of stuff you can do, and the exhaustiveness of the choice available to you, the player, as well as the game?s recapitulation of the last thirty years of gaming history, along with its guesses as to what comes next, are incredible. I?ve mentioned things in broad strokes up there. There?s more, so much more. Game Dev Tycoon is an incredibly expansive game, and one that, unlike many other sim games, demands player agency and involvement.

The main ?story? portion of the game is thirty years- from the advent of basic computer gaming to the release of the Nintendo Wuu, Microsoft?s mBox Bext, and Sony?s PlaySystem 4. You are still free to play after that, but there won?t be any more story events, and any new console releases, or the like, for example, have to come from you. Which is just as well, because once those thirty years end, you get full control of the game.

What?s even better is the numerous references to the real gaming industry that the game is peppered with. From the names of the systems above (in addition to others like GameSphere, Master V, and Nuu), to the names of the companies (Nivtendo, Vonny, Vena, and Gommodore), to the frequent, often hilarious market reports we get (Market analysis indicates that the Gommodore 64?s success means the end of other PC manufacturers; we are hesitant about how good console gaming will ever catch on), to the discreet posters and memorabilia of real games such as Meat Boy, Journey, and?Pac-man?that are discreetly packed away in your offices, it?s great. Game Dev Tycoon works as much as a virtual record of the gaming industry so far as it works at being a great sim.

Of course, there are problems. The Mac version is broken, for instance, and after your expansion into the largest office, it simply crashes, and cannot be played again, unless the game is uninstalled and all local file are deleted. There is, of course, the abovementioned fact that this is not a very original game, and in fact is simply building on an excellent base provided by Kairosoft?s Game Dev Story. There is also the matter of the game?s sound and graphics, which are passable at best.

But on the whole, this is an incredible game, one that you will find yourself playing a lot, and for hours and hours and hours at a time. It?s great fun, it?s a wonderful commentary on the state of game development, and it?s just addictive as hell. For $8, you really cannot go wrong with Game Dev Tycoon, and this is a game that is heavily recommended to everybody.

This game was reviewed on PC.

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Mosquitoes reared in cooler temperatures have weaker immune systems

June 3, 2013 ? Urban epidemics resulting from viral diseases, such as West Nile fever and chikungunya fever, are transmitted by infected mosquitoes.

According to Virginia Tech scientists, mosquitoes reared in cooler temperatures have weaker immune systems, making them more susceptible to dangerous viruses and more likely to transmit them to people.

The connection between temperature and the mosquito's immune system, published May 31 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, is significant in light of global climate change, said researchers Kevin Myles and Zach Adelman, associate professors of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and affiliates of the Fralin Life Science Institute.

"Our data offers a plausible hypothesis for how changes in weather influence the transmission of these diseases and will likely continue to do so in the future," Myles said.

A variety of weather anomalies may occur with global changes in climate. However, predicting what these weather anomalies will be is difficult due to the enormous complexity involved. Nevertheless, the work of Myles and Adelman suggest that it would be unwise to focus solely on warmer temperatures when considering links between climate change and disease transmission.

"Mosquitoes like to breed and lay their eggs in dark, cool places because that means the water will last longer," Adelman said. "They don't lay their eggs in sunny spots because that will dry the water out in a day or two. Although this has been known of some time, we are just learning about its potential affects on the mosquito immune response. Hopefully, this information can be used to build better models that more correctly predict when we'll have disease transmission."

Current computational outbreak models consider such things as meteorological variables and human population indexes but have failed to consider the effect of temperature on mosquito immunity, he added. Specifically, Adelman and Myles found that the mosquito's RNA interference pathway is impaired when reared at cooler temperatures.

The rate of transmission of both diseases has increased with outbreaks occurring in unexpected places, such as the introductions of West Nile virus to New York in 1999, and chikungunya virus to Italy and France in 2007 and 2010.

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Obama orders new economic sanctions on Iran

Iranian presidential candidate Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Foreign Minister, walks past a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the conclusion of his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 3, 2013. The 11th presidential election after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution will be held on June 14. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranian presidential candidate Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Foreign Minister, walks past a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the conclusion of his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 3, 2013. The 11th presidential election after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution will be held on June 14. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Turning the screw on Iran and its nuclear program, the Obama administration imposed new sanctions Monday on Iran's currency and auto industry, seeking to render Iranian money useless outside the country and to cut off the regime from critical revenue sources.

The executive order from President Barack Obama broadens what is already a concerted and multifaceted sanctions campaign aimed at crippling Iran's economy, forcing it to comply with international demands that it prove its nuclear program is peaceful. The U.S. believes Iran is working to develop nuclear weapons, a charge that Iran denies.

Officials described the move as part of a dual-track effort to offer meaningful negotiations to the Iranian regime while continually upping the economic stakes.

"Even as we intensify our pressure on the Iranian government, we hold the door open to a diplomatic solution that allows Iran to rejoin the community of nations if they meet their obligations. However, Iran must understand that time is not unlimited," said White House press secretary Jay Carney, adding that more sanctions would be levied if the regime doesn't change course.

The new sanctions marked the first time Iran's currency, the rial, has been targeted directly with sanctions, the White House said. The sanctions apply to foreign financial institutions that purchase or sell significant amounts of the rial, as well as to those who hold significant amounts of the rial in accounts outside Iran.

Senior administration officials said the sanctions were designed to make the rial essentially unusable outside of Iran. The hope is that banks and businesses holding Iranian currency will dump the funds, making the rial weaker. The value of the rial has dropped by half since the start of 2012, the White House said.

Officials would not specify what constitutes a "significant" transaction. The officials were not authorized to speak on the record about the sanctions and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Another set of sanctions will target those who enable Iran's auto manufacturing sector by banning the sale or transfer of goods or services to be used in Iran's auto sector. Officials said the auto sector is a key source of revenue for the regime. Many of the auto parts and components from subsidiaries are dual-use and can be used in centrifuges or missiles.

Also subject to penalties will be anyone who provides material support to Iranians and others who have been blacklisted under previous U.S. sanctions. An exception will be made for some activities related to a pipeline project to move natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe and Turkey.

The appetite has been growing on Capitol Hill for even tougher measures against Iran, fueled in part by lawmakers' concerns about key U.S. ally Israel, which considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be an existential threat. Last month the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation that would impose even tougher economic sanctions against Tehran, while the Senate resolved the U.S. should back Israel if it's forced to take military action against Iran.

"The clock is clearly ticking," Secretary of State John Kerry said last month on a visit to Israel.

Harsher steps to isolate Iran were on the agenda Tuesday at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, where officials from the Treasury, Commerce and State departments were set to testify. An amendment being pushed by two of the panel's members, Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., would go even further than Monday's announcement by targeting all Iranian foreign assets overseas ? such as euros Tehran might be holding in Japan.

The U.S. has already targeted other major sectors, most prominently Iranian oil exports, and last week targeted Iranian petrochemicals ? the largest source of funding for Iran's nuclear program after oil. Although Iranian officials have tried to downplay the effectiveness of the U.S. efforts, the Obama administration says they have had crippling effects. Crude oil production in Iran has fallen about 700,000 barrels per day since 2012, the White House said last week, and exports have dropped even more dramatically, costing Iran about $3 billion to $5 billion in revenue.

The damage inflicted to Iran's economy, while aimed at undermining the regime, has had inevitable consequences for the Iranian public, forcing the U.S. to strike a careful balance between isolating Iran's hard-line government and making life uncomfortable for those who live under its rule. To that end, the U.S. last week eased restrictions on exports of advanced communications equipment to Iranian civilians, aiming to help Iranians interact with the outside world and shed light on what U.S. officials described as the regime's oppressive attempts to stifle dissent.

The new round of sanctions comes at a politically charged moment in Iran, where the effects of U.S. sanctions have been a major issue ahead of the June 14 election to choose a replacement for term-limited President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Senior administration officials said the timing of the sanctions was not related to the upcoming elections.

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Associated Press writer Donna Cassata contributed to this report.

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DIAPER WREATH ~ I'm goin' to a baby shower!! - Home Is Where ...

Having a baby is one of the most exciting times in a girl's life! For all her friends, the shower is a way to celebrate this exciting time.

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I have a dear friend?she's Daughter #1's fourth grade teacher. She was also Son #3 & Son #4's teacher, too. She?is expecting her first baby.?I think I'm more excited for this baby than the mom. Okay, maybe not, but shopping for her little baby boy-to-be?is making me pretty darn excited!!

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The class threw her a surprise baby shower!

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I wanted to make?her something special. Where do you go when you want GREAT ideas???You guessed it?

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PINTEREST!!!

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Wow, there are a lot of great ideas out there. People are so creative!! And like I've always told you,?

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I'M A GREAT COPIER!!

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I saw this wonderful idea!

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It's a diaper wreath. How cool is that??!!

So off to Target and AC Moore I went.

I bought a wreath holder.

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I also bought a pack of diapers, different patterned ribbon, a wooden letter L(for the baby's first name), and a fun assortment of baby items. I wanted to keep with a blue theme so everything has some blue on it.

I wrapped the diapers around the wreath holder with rubberbands.

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I then wrapped thin blue ribbon around the rubber bands into bows. At every third diaper, I tied an "It's a Boy" ribbon along with each small baby item I bought. I tied a large blue and teal ribbon on the top of the wreath and added the white wood L letter to the ribbon.

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And the final result

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Just got home from the surprise baby shower. Mama was so surprised and she loved the wreath.?

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I love putting a smile on her face!!!

Hope y'all enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend. I am thankful for?all the men and women who have given their lives to keep our freedom.?

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God Bless You!

Love y'all,

Linda

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Nokia looks to ban HTC One sales with new patent suit

For two days John McCain and Ted Cruz have been fighting on the Senate floor over the rules for negotiating a budget, but, like so many fights, it's also about so much more. Cruz is being annoying about the budget, but worse, he just doesn't?get the Senate.?

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London attacker British, of Nigerian origin: source

By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities have established that one and possibly both of the men who hacked a soldier to death on a London street was born in Britain of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said on Thursday.

Local media named the man who was definitely born in the country as 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo and said police raided the home of his Nigerian family in a village near the eastern English city of Lincoln. Both men appeared to have converted to Islam from Christian immigrant backgrounds, British media said.

Both suspects in the attack, conducted in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon, are in custody after being shot by police.

As security experts highlighted the risk to Western cities of "lone wolf" attacks by local people radicalised over the Internet, Prime Minister David Cameron held an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs to assess the response to what he called a "terrorist" attack, the first deadly strike in mainland Britain since local Islamists killed dozens in London in 2005.

"We will never give in to terror or terrorism in any of its forms," Cameron said outside his Downing Street office.

"This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life, it was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country. There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act."

The two men used a car to run down the still formally unidentified soldier near Woolwich Barracks in southeast London on Wednesday afternoon and attempted to behead him with a meat cleaver and knives, witnesses said, before telling bystanders they acted in revenge for British wars in Muslim countries.

A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker showed one of the men, in his 20s and casually dressed, his hands covered in blood and speaking in a local accent apologising for taking his action in front of women but justifying it on religious grounds:

"We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day," he said. "This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

The attack, just a month after the bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon, revived fears of "lone wolves". These may have had no direct contact with al Qaeda but are inspired by radical preachers and by Islamist militant Web sites, some of which urge people to attack Western targets with whatever means they have.

Chilling images of the blood-soaked suspect - who urged Britons to overthrow their government or risk having their children face a fate similar to a dead soldier lying just yards away - were splashed across the front pages of newspapers.

"I apologise that women had to witness that, but in our lands our women have to see the same thing. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don't care about you," the man said in the video before crossing the street and speaking casually to the other attacker.

Police said they searched a house in eastern England believed to be the home of the father one of the attackers.

IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN

The grisly attack took place on the edge of London's sprawling Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, a south London working class district which has long-standing historic links to the military.

The victim was wearing a T-shirt saying "Help for Heroes", the name of a charity formed to help wounded British veterans. Britain has had troops deployed in Afghanistan since 2001 and had troops in Iraq from 2003-2009.

Before he was stabbed to death, the victim was knocked over by a blue car which then rammed into a lamp-post. The attackers pounced on him in broad daylight in a busy residential street.

Witnesses said they shouted "Allahu akbar" - Arabic for God is greatest - while stabbing the victim and trying to behead him. A handgun was found at the scene.

Some onlookers rushed to help the victim and one woman tried to engage one of the attackers in conversation to calm him.

"He had what looked like butcher's tools - a little axe, to cut the bones, and two large knives. He said: 'Move off the body,'" Ingrid Loyau-Kennett was quoted by local media as saying.

"He said: 'I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan.'"

'HELP FOR HEROES'

London was last hit by a serious militant attack on July 7, 2005, when four young Islamists set off suicide bombs on the public transport network, killing 52 innocent people and wounding hundreds. A similar attempted attack two weeks later was thwarted.

In 2007, two days after police defused two car bombs outside London nightclubs, two men suspected of involvement, a British-born doctor of Iraqi descent and an Indian-born engineer, rammed a car laden with gas into the Glasgow Airport terminal, setting it ablaze. One of the attackers died and the other was jailed.

Britain has long known political violence on the streets. In 2009, two British soldiers were shot dead outside a barracks in Northern Ireland in an attack claimed by Irish republicans.

Since the 2007 bombings, known as 7/7, security chiefs say they have faced at least one plan to carry out an attack on the level of the 2005 attacks and have warned that radicalised individuals posed a grave risk to national security.

Peter Clarke, the former head of London's Counter Terrorism Command who led the investigation into the 7/7 bombings, said that if the Woolwich attackers did turn out to be acting alone, it showed the difficulty the security services faced in trying to stop them.

"An attack like this doesn't need sophisticated fund raising and sophisticated communications or planning," he told Reuters. "It can be organised and then actually delivered in a moment."

The bombing attacks on the Boston Marathon last month, which U.S. authorities blame on two brothers, have raised the profile of the "lone wolf" threat in the West. A French-Algerian gunman killed three off-duty French soldiers and four Jewish civilians on a rampage in southern France last year.

Britain's involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past decade has often stirred anger among British Muslims and occasionally made soldiers a target at home. British police have foiled at least two major plots in which Islamist suspects were accused of planning to kill members of the military.

Cameron's office officials had welcomed the condemnation from most mainstream British Muslim groups but that the national security committee had discussed community cohesion.

In signs of a backlash after the attack, more than 100 angry supporters of the English Defence League, a far-right street protest group, took to the streets on Wednesday, some wearing balaclavas and carrying England's red and white flag. They were contained by riot police.

Separately, two men were arrested in connection with separate attacks on mosques outside London. No one was hurt.

Fred Oyat, a 44-year-old local resident, said he witnessed the attack on the soldier from the window of his high-rise apartment overlooking the scene.

"The victim was white," he told Reuters. "I was in my house when four shots rung out. I went to the window I saw a man lying on the ground with a lot of blood."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/london-attacker-british-born-nigerian-descent-source-103255576.html

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Haha, Microsoft Uses Siri to Make Fun of the iPad in a Commercial

Microsoft, which has been trying to force Windows Phone into the Android and iPhone conversation in its recent commercials, is going head on against Apple in its latest spot. That's not surprising (as Samsung loves to pick at Cupertino all the time), but what's hilarious is that Microsoft is using Apple's own Siri to do the ribbing in the commercial. You can hear Siri poke fun of the iPad when compared to the Surface in the ad. It's pretty good (for a commercial). [Windows Video]

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