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Havok’s involved itself with mobile gaming for a few years and it’s now taken to this year’s GDC to announce Project Anarchy. This new cross-platform mobile dev engine will include access to its own physics, animation and AI tools — the same as those apparently used in notable series like Skyrim, Assassin’s Creed and, er, Skylanders. It will also integrate Havok’s Vision engine, adding in “game samples” and tutorials to ease mobile devs into crafting plenty of beautiful mobile games that hopefully involve less bird physics and approach something resembling our (admittedly zealous) mock-up above. We’re itching to see those beastly smartphone processors pushed to their limits.

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Cut the Rope is one of the most popular mobile games out there, and even though it’s been a few years since it’s release, it still remains a game that people will long remember. However, the developers of the game, Zeptolab, aren’t done just yet. It turns out they’re planning on releasing four new games by the end of the year, starting with a possible Cut the Rope sequel next month.

The co-founders of Zeptolab, twin brothers Efim and Semyon Voinov, spoke with Polygon about the dev team’s upcoming plans throughout 2013 and said that out of the four games, some will be related to Cut the Rope and some won’t, but they didn’t go as far as saying what the split would be — perhaps it’ll be two-and-two or maybe just three-and-one.

The brothers also noted that while they want to release “tens or twenties of titles every year,” they want them to be good first and foremost, meaning that the development team focuses more on quality than quantity. However, Zeptolab wants to keep its focus on mobile devices for the time being, but expanding out to consoles is certainly a possibility for future titles.

Zeptolab started out with only Efim and Semyon Voinov developing Cut the Rope. The studio now has around 60 employees that span across three continents. Cut the Rope, which was released back in 2010, has seen over 300 million downloads since the game’s initial release, which definitely isn’t up there with Angry Birds, but it’s certainly still a respectable statistic.

[via Polygon]

Cut the Rope developers releasing four new games this year is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Back in April of 2011, a bizarre two headed shark was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. The shark was a tiny bull shark that was discovered by fishermen in the uterus of an adult female shark near the Florida Keys. Researchers have now confirmed that this was an actual two-headed shark and not a conjoined twin.

Researchers from Michigan State University have said that the two-headed shark wouldn’t have survived in the wild for long. Disgustingly, researchers from Michigan State University say that there have been reports of other sharks, specifically blue sharks, with two heads. However, this is the first time the two headed shark has been discovered among bull sharks.

Researchers investigating the bizarre shark used magnetic resonance imaging of the specimen to determine that the shark had two distinct heads, hearts, and stomachs. The remainder of the sharks body ended in a single tail. The researchers say that the condition is called axial bifurcation, and it can happen in humans as well.

The condition occurs when an embryo begins to split into two individual embryos, but stop splitting somewhere in the middle. The researchers do point out that while some people want to find a connection between the two-headed shark and the Gulf oil spill, there is no evidence to support that conclusion at this time. I lean more towards a fiendish plot by Dr. Evil to breed two headed sharks with lasers on their heads.

[via Nature World News]

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It’s anyone’s guess how the HTC One will fare in the West. After all, quality doesn’t guarantee success. If we look across to Asia, though, we can see that the One’s counterpart in that hemisphere, the Butterfly, has already gained some traction. Supply has failed to meet demand in its Taiwanese homeland and, according to Focus Taiwan, the phone has enjoyed “brisk sales” in Japan too — at one point toppling the iPhone 5 to become KDDI‘s bestselling handset. There’s been sufficient interest, in fact, that HTC’s marketing boss Ben Ho has been quoted as promising a successor to the Butterfly, which will carry the same brand name. He didn’t say when a Butterfly II might arrive, or what new “innovations” it might deliver, but it’s an encouraging sign nonetheless.

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How great is this? 55 inches of touchscreen magic for a classroom or a Wolf Blitzer or a droll, droll conference room. Sure, it’s $5,000, and sure, it’s “only” 1080p, but WHATEVER. This is great. More »