World War II : Road to victory

Ever wanted to create history? If yes, here is your time. Matrix Games and IQ Software have announced the release of ther debut game, World War II : Road to victory. World War II : Road to victory is a strategy based game wherein the player can get the actual World War II experience. The battles are fought at places from France and Russia covering the Europe to the deserts of North Africa.

You can move your allies to your side to gain more power, concentrate on strengthening your combat units from airborne soldiers and armored divisions up to nuclear weapons, use resources to upgrade you arms and ammunition and a lot more. You have the choice of playing the game as a single nation or multiple nations to have the real experience. Historical leaders enhance the performance of your armies, strategically important events that seek your attention take place in the game from time to time. Your decisions in such issues decide the course of war. Amazing graphics and sound effects coupled with excellent gameplay make it a must play game for every strategy game enthusiast.

Cuil - Google's new rival

A new search engine 'Cuil'(pronounced cool) is all set to give sleepless nights to google employees. It is being said that Cuil is the biggest search engine and has an index span of around 120 billion web pages.

Cuil is the outcome of hard work by Anna Patterson, ex-google employee, her husband - Tom Costello, and two other ex-google engineers, Russel Power and Louis Monier. Cuil started operating from 28th July 08 and got enormous response from surfers.

Rather than placing the search results in a vertical manner, one below the other like most search engines, Cuil places them in a magazine like manner i.e. horizontally in columns, which looks pretty neat.

Google has been getting competition from various search engines in the past like Teoma, Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and Powerset but this is the first time that a search engine developed by ex-google engineers is in the contest. Google responded to Cuil on its blog by saying,"Having great competitors is a huge benefit to us and everyone in the search space, It makes us all work harder, and at the end of the day our users benefit from that."

The Art of Murder : FBI Confidential

The Art of Murder : FBI Confidential is basically a point and click game developed by City Interactive which has also developed games like Project Freedom, WWII: Pacific Heroes, and Wings of Honour previously.

The plot of The Art of Murder: FBI Confidential revolves around a rookie FBI agent named Nicole Bonnet. New York is witnessing a series of gruesome murders. Players have to play the game as Nicole and unfold the mystery to find out who is behind all these killings. Naturally the game has a dark and dingy storyline suitable for mature players only.

The Art of Murder: FBI Confidential keeps the player involved throughout the game with its excellent graphics and amazing sound effects. One has to constantly deal with puzzles and twists to crack the codes and advance in the game. It has got 20 in-game 3D characters, 100 puzzles, 15 main locations (200 pre-rendered images in total), and 5,000 dialogue lines.

Here are some of its pics:

 
  

   

Nokia Supernova 7610

Love it of hate it, this is Nokia 7610. Looking at its shiny face it feels that it has got a touch screen user interface. But wait, slide it to reveal the keypad. I wonder why is Nokia still not making cellphones with touch screen interface.

Nokia 7610 is scheduled to hit the markets by 3Q 2008.
This 99 gm phone boasts of a 16million color screen which is now a days Nokia's standard. It has 3.15 megapixel camera. It has 64 MB inbuilt memory and option of expanding memory using microSD card.

Specificaions

 

Size Dimensions : 98 x 48 x 15 mm, 63 cc

Weight : 99 g

Display Type : TFT, 16M colors

Size : 240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches

Vibration : Yes

Memory Phonebook : 2000 entries , Photocall

Call records : 20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls

Card slot : microSD (TransFlash), up to 2GB, 512MB or 2GB included, 64 MB internal memory

Data : GPRS Class 32, 88 kbps

HSCSD : Yes

EDGE : Class 32, 296 kbits

3G : No

WLAN : No

Bluetooth : Yes, v2.0

Infrared port : No

USB : Yes, v2.0 microUSB

Browser : WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML

Colors : Muted Gray, Steel Blue, Red, Bright Lilac, Pristine White

Camera : 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video(VGA@15fps), dual LED

Other features :
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
- MPEG-4 player
- T9
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo
- Xpress-on covers

Battery : Standard battery, Li-Ion 860 mAh (BL-4S)

Stand-by : Up to 300 h

Talk time : Up to 5 h 20 min

Prince of Persia 2008 announced

Good news for all the Prince of Persia game enthusiasts (including me!). Ubisoft has finally made it official that it is working on another sequel of Prince of Persia series of games. The game is expected to hit the stores on 1 November 2008. The name of this installment is still unknown.

Surprisingly, the character of prince has once again been changed i.e. It is not the same prince whom we saw in The Two Thrones. Last time, the prince's character was changed after Prince of Persia : Sands of Time in Prince of Persia : Warrior Within. But no regrets, he still looks cool, tough and sturdy.

It is not yet clear as on which all platforms will the game be launched, I strongly feel that it won't be available on PS2 as most of the games these days are being built for the PS3. Who knows! All we can do is wait.

Meanwhile, check out the screenshots and wallpapers of the game:

Need for Speed Undercover coming!

Did you hear that?
Another NFS sequel is on its way. And this time it is called Need For Speed : Undercover.
Unlike previously, when almost every sequel took nearly 12 months to release, NFS Undercover will be given a 2 year development time. So, expect something worth waiting.

EA CEO John Riccitiello said "We were torturing a very talented group of people up in Vancouver, which makes it harder to be as innovative every year. So, I think we are going to get better from here," Riccitiello said. "Last summer we added head count and split the team in two, so now there are two teams on a 24 month cycle. And this is sort of their first 16 and-a-half month game...Because we didn't do it far enough ago to give us a full two year dev cycle."

Nokia 7510

The 7510 is one of the latest babies of Nokia from its 'Supernova' series.
Basically, a clamshell, with nothing new in its design. We have been seeing similar flip phones with more or less similar designs these days.

It features a push to open side button, something new and unconventional. Now, the phone is a bit heavy at 124 gms if you compare it with todays featherweight, extra light phones. But afterall its a flip phone, so it's got to be heavy!

It can support upto 8gb of memory(microSD card), but surprisingly it has got just 27 mb of internal memory. It does not support 3G, has a decent 2MP camera, 240x320 pixels screen and will be available in four colors namely, Storm Blue, Red, Emerald Green, Espresso Brown.

Specifications:
Dimensions : 92.5 x 46.4 x 16.7 mm, 63 cc

Memory : Internal 27MB, Expandable upto 8gb

GPRS : Yes, Class 32, 88 kbps

EDGE : Yes, Class 32, 296 kbits

3G : No

Bluetooth : Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

Camera : 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels

OS : Java MIDP 2.0

Battery : Li-Ion 870 mAh (BL-5BT)

Talktime : Up to 6  h

Standby time : Up to 300 h

Push-to-open mechanism

Stereo FM radio with RDS

 MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player

MPEG-4 player

T9

Built-in handsfree

Voice command/dial/memo

Xpress-on covers

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