Hasta La Gadget!

When it comes to the world of games, the folks over at Blizzard have done a fantastic job over the years with their numerous franchises, ranging from StarCraft to WarCraft and Diablo, spawning sequels after the initial title, where just about all of them happen to be hits. Well, does Blizzard have anything new up their sleeves? Apparently, as the company has just filed a trademark for something that will be known as Overwatch, and this particular trademark deals with all of the standard game and gaming-related categories.

Apart from that, Blizzard’s own recruiting page did mention an unannounced game title, which might have something to do with Overwatch, although nothing has been confirmed just yet. Normally, Blizzard does devote most, if not all of its resources to large teams that work on key franchises, but this particular model seems to be undergoing a change.

In fact, Blizzard did mention recently that they might break off into smaller teams so that these individual teams will be able to work on new kinds of games that will offer a faster turnover, such as Heroes of Warcraft, its collectible card game. Jason Chayes of Blizzard shared, “We started up a new development team because we kind of recognised that we needed to have this ability to be more experimental, experiment with different types of games than what we were doing with our big, core franchises.”

Blizzard Files For Overwatch Trademark , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gaming, Blizzard,

If the fungal spore outbreak in The Last of Us scared the hell out of you, you’ll be doubly terrified to know that there are actual parasites in nature that can turn animals and plants into zombies. In fact, a group of scientists from the John Innes…

It pays to synergize as you can maximize the strengths of both parties , where more often than not, it would result in an exponential benefit. LG’s partnership with Harman/Kardon has started to bear fruit, where their collaboration focused on developing an advanced audio technology that will be employed in a couple of its OLED TV models as well as up to five of its ULTRA HD TVs. The ULTRA Surround system is tipped to deliver a level of viewer immersion that LG claims could be found only in cinemas before this.

I suppose there is no harm at all in partnering with one of the most respected names in the audio industry, and Harman/Kardon has worked alongside LG engineers to develop a speaker system which could deliver even, distortion-free sound with deep bass as well as a wide bandwidth. ULTRA Surround is capable of reproducing audio with amazing fidelity, where viewers would be placed at the center of a wide and evenly dispersed soundstage.

Your ears will benefit from superb dynamic range, in addition to sound balance with exceptional accuracy. It also boasts of an extra wide playable bandwidth and powerful output, and everything sounds all the more realistic thanks to a state-of-the-art algorithm that delivers convincingly real soundscapes. [Press Release]

LG And Harman/Kardon Partner To Deliver Quality Audio For OLED And Ultra HD TVs , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Home, LG,

Microsoft must be busy reorganizing their stuff, considering how they have already stopped official support for the Windows XP operating system and its Office 2003 suite, not to mention closing the door on a service on its Bing Travel site, too. Apparently, this flight price prediction tool is no longer an option on the site. Bummer. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, this decision to shut down the flight price prediction tool was “a business decision to focus resources on areas where we feel there are the greatest opportunities to serve travel needs.”

I suppose the future is really unchartered territory, whether you are in possession of a palantir or not, since one can never be able to tell what is going to be a hit or not. After all, I am quite sure that Microsoft must have had grand plans for forking out a rumored $115 million for Farecast in 2008, which is the company that provided the technology required for such a tool.

The whole premise of the flight price prediction tool is to check out if a particular airline flight that one intends to hop on down the road would increase or decrease in price. Oren Etzioni, the original founder of Farecast, was not too happy to hear of this closure by Microsoft, where he thinks that this happens to be one of the “most distinctive features of Bing.” For those who are looking for alternatives, there is always Kayak.

Bing Flight Price Predictor Shuts Down , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Computers, bing, Microsoft,

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