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Video Games: Facts & Rumors & News

Saturday, 29.09.2007

Video games are a part of our life. The role of video games and their great influence on users set thinking: what kind of future game makers prepare us for? Even today one cannot but agree with the fact that online games and video industry have something in common. Filmmakers shoot films based on games’ plots, and vice versa. Movies can be both good (Resident Evil is a real-world example) and bad (Bloodrayne). Anyway, we should take into consideration interference of these two consuming activities.

The Top 10 Video Games That Should Be Made Into Movies. A video game nerd made up a list of games that (he wants) should be cinematized. And the first place GTA IV ranks (I’m not surprised). What about FEAR, NFS, etc.?

Free games. Believe it or not, but Electronic Arts announced that it’s going to start giving its games away for free. The reason? You see how online video services do? Users prefer to get a free lunch. Competition! “We gave the FIFA disc away free, but, instead of charging people for software, we charged small payments within the game: 5p (10 cents) for injury updates, 10p (20 cents) for a new strip (jersey color/uniform). We found that 10 percent of all Korean households downloaded FIFA online and the consumer paid us more online than they would have done buying the game in a store. “This is a model we’re going to expand internationally…The future is pay-as-you-play, downloads and subscriptions,” said CEO of Electronic Arts John Riccitiello.

Play video games on toilet. It’s a good opportunity to have many irons in the fire like Julius Caesar. You won’t have a tedious time while playing one of your fave games somewhere in the gents.
Games kill? I’m not sure in what way one or another gadget has a bad influence on folks, but according to CNN, a man in China decided to go to an Internet café…and played video games for three days. It’s a great pity.
U.S. Video Game Sales Up 46% in August. Relevant information? Sure thing. The top selling game software title in August was EA’s “Madden NFL 08,” which sold 897,000 units and took the #1 (Xbox 360), #2 (PlayStation 2) and #4 (PlayStation 3) spots.

Does the console performance race actually hurt the industry? Josh Valone suggests some important viewpoints on gamers and games manufacturers. “Manufacturers and publishers profit, developers can take daring risks, and gamers can enjoy cheaper hardware with more diverse libraries. The bleeding edge of technology may be enticing but perhaps it’s the modest advancements that bear the most fruit.”

10 Mario Fun Facts! One of the facts I was surprised is “Mario was named after Mario Segale, the landlord of Nintendo of America’s office, who barged in on a company meeting demanding an overdue rent.” Related videos and the rest 9 facts will satisfy your curiosity.
Online games business to triple in Five Years? According to the market researchers at Strategy Analytics, the video game industry is in the midst of an online revolution. “The rapid growth of the addressable market for digital distribution of both PC and Console games will help clear the way for distribution of mainstream hit titles which has up to now been restricted to the physical retail channel,” commented Martin Olausson, Director of Digital Media Research at Strategy Analytics. Recently another market research firm, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, said that online games generate more than twice the revenue of offline titles.

The Top 10 Women of Video Games! The rating list is strictly subjective. One can name several times more sex appeal girls that are video games characters. I adore Lara Croft and in my poor opinion she must take first place. Anyway, tastes differ and depend on our personal world outlook.

Tokyo Game Show 2007. The Tokyo Game Show (東京ゲームショウ, Tōkyō Gēmu Shō?, or simply TGS) is a video game expo/convention held in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan. Like the Games Convention, and different to from E3, the Tokyo Game Show allows the general public to attend during the final two days. As a result, it has much higher attendance than E3. In 2007, the show will be held from September 20th to the 23rd, with the first two days being business days, whilst on the latter two it will be open to the public.

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Fixmymovie.com: Improve your video for free

Saturday, 29.09.2007

It is wonderful if you have another one chance to change your low-quality mobile phone, digital camera video for the better. MotionDSP, a digital video company, launched a new service called Fixymymovie.com, where users are given an opportunity to make their videos look great.

Fixmymovie.com can take any video file from a mobile phone or digital camera and make it better. FixMyMovie’s suite of automatic enhancements improves overall resolution, corrects for poor lighting conditions and removes the blockiness and other artifacts that ruin most cell phone and low-end digital camera videos. Check this software out, seeing is believing.

Process if fixing is as clear as daylight. To begin with, sing up and upload the videos you want to improve. Surely, the gear thinks over whether your video really requires any quality improvement and then makes a decision. Fixmymovie.com fixes only 10 seconds of your video, and after you should make up your mind whether you want to do ahead with adjusting the rest of it later.

And it should be added Fixmymovie.com shows before and after results by sliding bar giving an opportunity to save fave frames for your own. What else: uploading to various video sharing sites, embedding on your blogs and sites, watching via your PS3 or mobile phone.

“Fixmymovie is a video sharing site powered by MotionDSP’s patent-pending video enhancement technology. It makes movies from your mobile phone, digital camera, or webcam look great.”

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Eureka: Season 3

Saturday, 29.09.2007

Content: Eureka is an American science fiction television series (filmed in British Columbia, Canada) that premiered July 18, 2006, on the Sci-Fi Channel. In the UK and Ireland it first aired on Sky One on August 2, 2006 - where it is titled A Town Called Eureka. Repeats of the first Season have since been broadcast on the British Sci-Fi Channel. A second season (starting July 10, 2007) of thirteen episodes was officially confirmed by the Sci-Fi Channel on October 4, 2006. The second season will also air in the UK on Sky One starting in October 2007. According to Sci-Fi Wire, Eureka was originally going to be an animated series.

Eureka founded: With the help of Albert Einstein and other trusted advisors, President Harry S. Truman commissioned a top-secret residential development in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest, one that would serve to protect and nurture America’s most valuable intellectual resources. There our nation’s greatest thinkers, the über-geniuses working on the next era of scientific achievement, would be able to live and work in a supportive environment.

News: SCI FI Channel has ordered a third season of its original series Eureka, giving a green light to production of 13 new episodes, the network announced. SCI FI also renewed its investigative reality series Destination Truth for a second season. Eureka will begin production in Vancouver, Canada, early next year for a summer 2008 premiere. Destination Truth returns to SCI FI in 2008 with six new episodes.
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Video Advertising: Add Video & Adds

Saturday, 22.09.2007

Can you really make any extra money on the web? Earning money online is a science. Building internet business is a fine workmanship. Not this time! PlugAdPlay opened up possibilities for video amateurs and professionals. Just try to fulfil yourself by way of videos! “Plug Ad Play is the advertising provider for all video producers, video artists, video maker, comedians, musicians, directors, and every one who can to shoot a video.”

PlugAdPlay is a video advertising web-portal that gives an opportunity to coin in. Various kinds of adverts and streaming banners can be added both at the beginning and at the end of video clips. You’ve got 3 way to earn money:
1. Upload your video on any video sharing site like YouTube – up to $1 per 1 uploading
2. You get money for each viewer who watches your video and clicks it
3. You must reap as you have sown. Extra bonus – your video is very popular!

And it must be said that embeddable videos will inevitably yield a good return. Add the site’s video player on your blog or website and the result won’t keep you waiting.

They say: “The quick growth of websites like Youtube offers video makers the possibility to spread through the web their home made video Plug Ad Play offers people the possibility to earn money through their video, displaying of messages of advertisers who want to advertise their website or products. We believe this kind of advertising, usually named viral advertising, is going to have many chances of growth in the future. These consumer-shot videos are typically non-commercial videos intended for an audience of friends or relatives. Now with Plug AD Play these consumers have the possibility to insert small advertising message on their video and earn money.”

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Week Totals: Can You Imagine the Life Without Online Video Activities?

Saturday, 15.09.2007

There’s been loads of drastic and breathtaking news in the online video and television sphere over the last week I considered them worthy of acquaintance:

  • YouTube adds ads to video news service. Google and traditional media will cooperate. “You can have video content on your own Web sites and generate revenue from the ads. Or you can make a “branded channel” on Youtube and have sub-channels for individual reporters, then draw the traffic back to the newspapers’ Web site. It’s up to you,” noticed David Eun, vice president of Google.
  • Warner Brothers decided to reverse its direction. The company is introducing 24 Web productions in a range of formats including short-length movies, games and TV shows. Thus, Warner Brothers is planning to create their own web content and team up with appropriate partners. By the way, WB decided to finance most of its projects itself. Jason U. Nadler, director of UTA Online, said, “Artists know the Web is a great place to both showcase their talent and incubate new ideas without the pressure of delivering a full-blown movie or television hit out of the gate.”
  • Searchles.com added some more video services. After Searchles.com created its own TV video aggregator YouTube, Google, MySpace and Blip were included. And now Metacafe, LiveLeak, Veoh and CollegeHumor have been added to the mix. Searchles TV allows you to aggregate, embed and combine videos to your taste. Moreover, social website added more options for its video indexing capabilities.
  • Microsoft Xbox wants BBC content. Microsoft is going to extend the sphere of influence in the world promoting the Xbox 360 as a hub for films and TV shows in HD. Microsoft is planning to popularize its content in Europe by means of the BBC as a major content provider.
  • MySpace Adds Video From Site for Independent Films. News Corp.’s MySpace will show videos from MyDamnChannel.com, a month-old Web site that is trying to convince independent filmmakers to put their short-form work on the Internet, gaining a new source of programming and advertising.
  • REVVER reaches one million dollar mark. Revver, the first video sharing service powered by advertising, announced that it has paid one million dollars to video creators and sharers. Revver generates revenue from pre and post roll advertisements that play in video content in their embeddable player.
  • Wikipedia launched WikiaGaming. Now you have an opportunity to use a collection of video games by means of Wikipedia software. Over 800,000 articles on games in 70 languages, more than 200,000 registered gamers.
  • Online games business tripled in 5 years. This report reaffirmed the words of vice-president of Google, Vint Cerf, who warned to use data and information on the web with great care. According to the market researchers at Strategy Analytics, the video game industry is in the midst of an online revolution. A new report suggests that the revolution won’t be televised; it’ll be downloaded.
  • According to ComScore, Google viewers watched 2.5 billion videos in July, reports Digital Media Bulletin. They took into account that total amount of viewers watched more than 9 billion short-length videos on the web.
  • Robin Goad, research director, compare different word combinations (aka consuming activities) that contain a word “free” and found that free online games (and free music downloads) hotter than sex in the UK.

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