Breathtaking New Crysis Shots - HD

Starcraft 2 High Resolution Screenshots

Here are some official Starcraft 2 super high resolution screenshots. They show off some of the amazing capabilities of the new game engine such as a mass amount of units on the screen at one time. Be prepared for EPIC battles! Click on images to view fullsize.

New Halo 3 Vids - Dual-Wielding, Valhalla, High Ground

1. Dual-Wielding Death-Dealing Gameplay

This video just shows off some coool weapons and a full multiplayer level. Dual wielding weapons and showing some of the new weapons in the game.



2. Valhalla

Great video, finally showing some vehicle action.



3. High Ground Gameplay

Official Intro Video in Forza 2

Cant wait for this game looks sweeet!

X-Play BioShock Preview

YouTube Begins Paying Its Best Filmmakers

The initial group includes those who have built and sustained a mass audience such as LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valartdiary.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
May 4, 2007 03:00 PM

YouTube has decided to share the wealth by paying its most popular content contributors. That doesn't include unwilling partners like Viacom, which is litigating its way to pay day. Rather, it describes YouTube members like LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary.

Some 20 to 40 of these individuals have been selected by YouTube to participate in the same revenue sharing and promotional program as YouTube's corporate content partners. More are likely to follow. The primary criterion for admission into this group appears to be having built and sustained the sort of mass audience that appeals to advertisers.

"As we've progressed, we've seen a lot of the most popular members really advance the craft," said Jamie Byrne, head of product marketing at YouTube. "They're developing series that have persistent audiences. ...We've really seen an evolution of the type of content that the YouTube community is creating and we wanted to recognize and reward that by making them partners."

"Participating user-partners will be treated as other content partners and will have the ability to control the monetization of the videos they create," YouTube said on its blog on Thursday. "Once they've selected a video to be monetized, we'll place advertising adjacent to their content so participating user-partners can reap the rewards from their work."

For filmmakers creating "user-generated content" rather than "premium content" or "motion picture extravaganzas," the recognition that a good film is a good film regardless of its pedigree may make up for not being among the several dozen elevated to YouTube partner status.

As Byrne put it, "One of the things that we want to start to recognize is that these users are media entities in their own right."

YouTube comes late to the idea that content creators should be compensated. Some video sites like Metacafe follow a similar strategy and reward only their most popular filmmakers. Others like Revver take a more democratic approach, rewarding anyone sharing videos with 20% of the associated ad revenue and then dividing the remainder equally between itself and the content creator.

YouTube explained its motivation by saying, "We hope that this program inspires people to keep creating original videos, building audiences and engaging with the YouTube community." Indeed, if those creating the most compelling viral videos feel shortchanged on YouTube, there are plenty of less popular video sharing platforms waiting to catch the fallout.

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India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop

The efforts thus far have yielded designs for a laptop that would cost about $47; a $10 system remains the ultimate goal.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
May 4, 2007 11:00 AM

One hundred dollars for a laptop? Highway robbery, according to policymakers in India.

The country that last year said no to MIT luminary Nicholas Negroponte's plan to introduce portable computers that would sell for a C-note is instead aiming for laptops that would cost $10. That's roughly the price of a ham sandwich in New York.

India's Ministry of Human Resource Development is spearheading the project, with help from Semiconductor Complex, a state-sponsored designer and manufacturer of integrated circuits. Officials from those organizations are presently weighing system designs submitted by an engineering student from India's Vellore Institute of Technology and a researcher from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

The Times of India on Friday reported that the efforts thus far have yielded designs for a laptop that would cost about $47, while a $10 system remains the ultimate goal.

Last year, Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child Organization submitted a proposal to the Indian government under which the group would have worked to produce laptops for Indian students starting at $100. Indian officials at the time criticized the proposal as insufficiently mature to be taken seriously and rejected it.

Still, other countries in emerging regions have signed on to participate in the OLPC program. Argentina, Brazil, Namibia, and Nigeria are among the countries that are on board.

The OLPC organization has produced a reference design for a $100 laptop that features an AMD Geode processor, a range of open-source software, and an attached hand crank for power generation. The group has said it's also considering other options for power generation, including a foot pedal.

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Joost Invites here!

I have Joost invites if you want just comment with your email address.

What is Joost? Its internet TV with some cool channels. Click HERE for more info

Fallout 3 Black Isle Tech Demo

This is what Fallout 3 was going to look like: