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Metal Gear Solid (MGS) fans have undoubtedly seen the first Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes images last week when the game was revealed in Tokyo for MGS’ 25th anniversary event. Obviously, you all wanted to see the video, which is a must-see for all gamers, so here it is: the official video trailer that shows both cinematic scenes and game play sequences rendered with the Konami’s Fox Engine. Not only the game engine looks great, but it is also designed to run on PS3 and Xbox 360 as well. Now the question is: how good will this look on current-gen consoles?

Drop a comment to tell us what you think about this Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes video!

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Cooking is usually fun for those who’re good at it. However, often the novice cooks may wants to try their hands on a few delicacies in a test environment. What can be better than doing it in a virtual environment and gauging your cooking skills before venturing for the real deal?

Japanese researchers have made this possible by creating a cool cooking simulator. The simulator essentially brings together technology and cooking in a frying pan which is linked to  a number of sensors. [movie in the full post] (more…)

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Internet analytics company comScore has just released the latest data from its Video Metrix service, a comprehensive viewing intelligence platform that provides transparent and end-to-end video measurement in the online video marketplace. The data that was released last week showed that more than 184 million U.S. Internet users have watched 36.9 billion online videos in July, with over 9.6 billion views on video ads.

In the Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers category, Google sites driven via YouTube bagged the top spot last month with 157 million unique viewers. Facebook and Yahoo trailed second and third with 53 million and 48.7 million unique viewers respectively. On the other hand, the Top 10 Video Ads Viewed category revealed that Google sites scored the highest with 1.5 billion ads, followed by Hulu with 1.2 billion, and Adap.tv with 1.1 billion.

Additionally, the time spent watching video ads totaled to an estimated 3.9 billion minutes, with Adap.tv delivering the highest duration of video ads at 627 million minutes. As for the Top 10 YouTube Partner Channels by Unique Viewers category, VEVO kept its top position in the ranking with 43.9 million viewers followed by Machinima with 25.3 million viewers and Warner Music with 24.9 million.

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Google has rolled out a few updates on YouTube, particularly in the homepage feed. Google hopes that these updates will provide an even better viewing experience to its users. The update brings a couple of improvements to YouTube’s video thumbnails. Now users can enjoy bigger and better quality thumbnails with more information related to the videos. “If an uploader has commented, posted, or added a video to a playlist, we surface this information so you can get a better picture of all the activity related to the video,” Google said.

The update also adds a menu that allows users to quickly control the content that they want to appear in their feed. To access the menu, users will have to hover over an item in the feed and click the arrow that appears in the upper right of the item. Also, the update now offers a distinct and marked view of the videos already watched in the feed, allowing users to better decide what to watch next. Lastly, there’s also a Highlights view option that allows a diverse set of creators to appear in a viewer’s feed based on their subscriptions. The said Highlights view is currently the default view of activity on the homepage feed.

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In a move to increase sales in South Korea, donut and coffee retailer Dunkin’ Donuts is installing an ingenious technology into the buses in Seoul that will release coffee aroma into the air each time the Dunkin’ Donuts radio jingle is being played. The technology uses a spray that they call “Flavor Radio” and it looks similar to other conventional sprayers used in homes. And the strategy seemed to work. The company said that since the campaign launched several months ago, they saw a 16 percent increase in visitors at Dunkin’ Donuts shops near bus stops.

And the coffee aroma on the buses proved to be too hard to resist as coffee sales went up by 29 percent, the company said. However, Dunkin’ Donuts has no plans of deploying the same strategy on it shops around the world. “The campaign was designed to raise awareness of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee in a fun and engaging way. In Seoul and South Korea, there is a lot of passion for Dunkin’ Donuts, so this offered an opportunity to try something unique and different,” Public Relations Manager, Jessica Gioglio said.

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