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Sin City Game to Use Unreal Engine 3

Sin City Game to Use Unreal Engine 3

Red Mile Entertainment has been flying low under radar since it first announced development of a Sin City game back in May, but fans eager for information on the game got a fresh dose of info on Thursday: It will use the Unreal Engine 3.

Epic Games’ engine-for-hire is the same core technology behind games like Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and BioShock. It includes a suite of content creation tools, along with support for features like ragdoll physics, advanced gameplay scripting, and massive world support.

Kingston Enters PMP Market with K-PEX

Kingston Enters PMP Market with K-PEX

No, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey are nowhere in sight: memory manufacturer Kingston Technology is diving into the personal media player waters with its new 1 and 2 GB K-PEX personal media players. K-PEX apparently stands for Kingston Kingston Personal Entertainment experience, and has nothing to do with the film K-PAX) rather looks like a Sony PSP, and enables users to play music, view photos and video, and play video games. Kingston announced the K-PEX back in June, but its only now become available in U.S., Latin American, and Asia/Pacific Rim markets.

Microsoft’s E-Mail Caller ID Spec Submitted

Sender ID combines Microsoft’s Caller ID for E-mail (which was submitted to the IETF for consideration in May) with Sender Policy Framework (SPF). SPF, also known as Sender Policy Framework, was authored by Meng Weng Wong, the cofounder and chief technology officer at Pobox.com, a provider of subscription-based e-mail forwarding and mailing list services. Meng submitted SPF to the IETF in February.

Read more at IT World.

Roku HD1000 introduced

Intended to compete with media servers from companies like Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft Corporation, the $500 box features four card slots for memory media, and connectivity for an Ethernet network. With the HD1000, users can play slideshows from digital photos, show video clips, and play music files. The device is “the first digital media player to be designed for high-definition televisions,” according to May Wong of the Associated Press.

Although other products, such as DVD players, feature some networking capabilities, the HD1000 is the first of what could be a huge new product category. “There’s no competition today,” Wood told Wong, saying his company is ” getting in early on a trend.” The name “Roku” means six in Japanese, and was chosen because the company is Wood’s sixth startup.

MSN Messenger 6 gets public preview

MSN Messenger 6, available beginning today at 11 a.m. PDT from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp, helps users create their own online identities through customized display pictures, backgrounds and emoticons. They also can share more of themselves — silly or serious — with IM contacts by competing at live online games, sending photos to their friends, or sharing animated emoticons that breathe life into that sad old :). In addition, MSN Messenger 6 lets users connect in fresh, new ways — via a webcam, a multitude of mobile devices or a Tablet PC — while blocking spam and helping protect privacy.

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