Filed under: Downloads, Multimedia

Have a Mac, but having trouble getting stuff to stream onto your PS3? If you haven’t tried Nullriver’s MediaLink solution, you might want to give it a shot. In addition to streaming content, it shows album art and preview screens on your PS3 for a multitude of formats. There’s support for iTunes integration. MediaLink lets you organize your folders however you want as well, so it’s a bit more flexible than other programs that often get recommended for streaming. It’s not without its shortcomings — people are having trouble with AAC and M4A formats, but that’s something we’re sure a few people don’t really care about. Give it a shot, let us know what you think.

[via NeoGAF]

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Filed under: Previews, Videos and Screenshots

LucasArts’ title Fracture seemed neat with terrain deformation mechanics, but some issues were raised that needed addressed: why does the main character look so bland? What happens if you run out of ammo? Some tweaks to the game have been made — the character looks a bit different (but still a bit generic), and you’ve a weapon that lets you move the land without using ammo. But it’s not as cool. There’s a new weapon called the Black Widow that lets you shoot and detonate up to six charges whenever you want. A new stage set in San Francisco was shown, but really, just watch the new video and make your own call.

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Filed under: Game Patches, News

While this update is actually relatively old (released on the 20th of December) we were far too busy playing all the great Autumn titles to check Eye of Judgment for updates. Imagine our surprise, then, when we loaded up the game to find that not only was there a new patch, but that it also fixed one of our biggest qualms about EOJ’s online play.

The patch list contains details of the game’s improvements and includes being able to select your voice input device from within the game as well as various other performance enhancements. The main attraction to the update, however, is the ability to have private rooms for online play.

When the game was first released online play against your friends was a troublesome affair. After sending an invite to your selected victim playmate they would then have, at most, two minutes before some random player jumps into your game room instead. The fix allows you to lock your room for custom matches, which means that only invited players can join.

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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG)

When Wikipedia was conceived, few would have thought it would end up in the regular top-10 of internet sites — but it has. The largest encyclopedia in the world has a viewership that any entity on the web would kill for. Its strength remains in the ability of anyone to create and edit encyclopedia entries, giving the power to the people (literally).

What was next, then, for Jimmy Wales, one of Wikipedia’s founders? Why, a search engine, of course. Although Google has a tight grip on that market already, the new Wikia.com believes it can contend for the internet search championship belt at some point in time. It’s off to a very rocky start (and sorely disappointing to many), but does Wikia.com have a chance to compete against Google where internet stalwarts Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) have so far failed? if so, why?

According to Wales, Wikia.com will succeed because it will be more trustworthy than any other internet search provider. His reason is the same one that has made Wikipedia so popular: anyone will be able to control the results returned from a Wikia.com search. No automated Google algorithms or automated software bots that can be rigged to giving certain search results.

Is Wales correct? Will customers see the value in being able to vote down results that are fluff or not very relevant better than Google’s artificially intelligent software? If customers do see this value — and enough of them start using Wikia.com — Google could potentially see its largest threat yet in the internet search arena. But it will be years down the road from now before consumers flock to anything other than Google.

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