I was thinking how some games are very good at some things but not so in others.

So what would make the perfect game if we could take some aspects from some games and others from others?

For me it would be something like this, my top 10.

1. A vast open map to explore at your own pace.

2. A level up system, the more you play the higher level of skills etc you acquire and the way you play affects your character and what you become better skilled at.

3. None linear game play, do the missions in no particular order.

4. Face capture technology on the characters, as in L.A noire.

5. Character movements from Assassins Creed.

6. A mixture of puzzle type missions and weapon missions.

7. Stelf and/or full on attacking options.

8. The game must have a money system to buy things.

9. The game must never end, even when you have completed the last mission you can still return to the world and do things.

10. And of course Stunning Graphics.

Ahh! Heaven

Made a video of near sunset time in Assassins Creed Revelations, I think Freddy said it about the screenshot I did that sometimes it looks like a painting, I think this vid shows off that even more, excellent dynamic lighting creates a really nice environment to explore.

Sorry about the jerky mouse movement though, try to ignore that

I have been, it's been very good and has been a nice way to take my mind off being ill.

Some cracking snooker being played by The Rocket and Carter up to the final. Ali went off the boil so far in the final, but O'Sullivan has so far taken it in his stride.

Sensing systems for robots could help blind navigate


Source: Sensing systems for robots could help blind navigate

NASA's WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars


Source: NASA's WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars

What is so great about IE 10, I haven't tried the beta yet nor had much chance to use it in Windows 8 preview so lets try and find out.

Pointers:

Full hardware acceleration. (Should be a lot quicker on computers with mid to high end graphics cards)

Better HTML 5 and CSS3 compatibility and features.

Only available for Win 7 and 8.

Two versions in Win 8, the new touchscreen "Metro" and the standard "Desktop" version.

Some of the off topic chat in the videos gets annoying, try to skip that








I think its looks interesting and it is tempting to download the beta preview for Windows 7 but so far I haven't risked it.

Please feel free to add your experiences, if any, and/or thoughts about it or indeed any other videos you can find about it.

As many of you know, I'm holding an eclipse party on the 19th of this month, to watch the annular eclipse that will be occurring in my "neck of the woods". One of the things I'm planning on doing is constructing a "pinhole projector", to display an image of the eclipse in real time, since I don't have such fancy equipment as solar telescopes or even welding goggles (not a good idea to use anyway, since that's not what they're designed for). In doing some research on the optimal dimensions for the projector, I stopped at the proper Wiki entry to find out things such as pinhole diameter and focal length. I bring this up because while I was on the wiki page, I ran across this statement:

Quote from: WikipediaNASA (via the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts) has funded initial research into the New Worlds Mission project, which proposes to use a pinhole camera with a diameter of 10 m and focus length of 200,000 km to image earth sized planets in other star systems.

And I began to wonder... In what universe is 10 meters considered a pinhole?!?!?! And where the heck are they going to set something like that up??? Isn't 200 thousand kilometers just over half the distance to the moon? o.O