Counter Strike: Global Offensive trailer is out, looks seriously impressive [VIDEO]

It’s been a long wait for all the fans of Counter Strike out there since the last release of the popular shooter. Today, we have the first trailers of the upcoming Counter Strike: Global Offensive, which is due for release in Q1 of 2012 and, dare I say, the latest CS looks more than promising.

The new video game will stay true to the franchise’s nature, while offering a number of pleasant novelties including new maps and weapons, as well as cross-platform gameplay. It is needless to say that the graphics have been seriously improved, putting them on par with the best shooters currently on the market.

You can see the trailer and a short gameplay video below. As always, you are welcome to tell us how you like it in the comments section below.

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[IFA 2011]Sony announces HMZ-T1 Head Mounted 3D Display, makes 3D officially cool again

Sony has announced the HMZ-T1, a new Head Mounted 3D Display, which they like to call “Personal 3D Viewer”. It’s basically the equivalent of watching a 750-inch 3D TV from a distance of 20m, along with a pair of surround sound headphones, except this time it’s personal.

The crux of the HMZ-T1 are the two OLED panels. Each of these panels is only 0.7-inch in size and have a resolution of 1280 x 720, which gives them a mind-blowing pixel density of 2098-PPI. Each of these displays on the HMZ-T1 are positioned in a way that they recreate the experience of watching a 750-inch 3D TV from 20m. Also, since these are two separate displays, it takes care of the cross-talk and the headache of watching a single display creating two images, as each eye is shown a different image, making the 3D experience more natural.

The HMZ-T1 has its own pair of headphones on the side as well that create a 5.1 surround sound effect, so you don’t have to worry about the sound. The HMZ-T1 connects to a separate box from which it gets its signal. The box has HDMI input on the back for connecting your source and an HDMI out for through output. The HMZ-T1 can work with sources such as 3D Blu-ray as well as PlayStation 3 3D games.

All this comes at a cost though and that cost is 60,000 Japanese yen, which is approximately US $779. Still, it is not prohibitively expensive and about the same as what you’d pay for a 3D TV. Except, the experience on this would be more personal but a lot better. The Sony HMZ-T1 will be launched in November 2011.

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Angry Birds Seasons Mooncake Festival update now available for iOS devices

Angry Birds Seasons has just got another update called Mooncake Festival. It brings more than 33 Chinese-themed levels, this time all available to play at launch.

There are also 8 hidden pieces of mooncake unlocking a bonus level, plus another bonus one when you complete all the levels with three stars.

The recently released Mighty Eagle update for Angry Birds Seasons works on the new levels too, so when you finish them you will have even more challenges ahead.

Currently the update is available for the iOS devices, but I guess it should be released (if not already) for more platforms soon.

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iSWiFTER lets you play Flash games on your iPad, like a boss

One complaint that is always made about the iPad (and iOS devices in general) is the lack of Flash support. But after Apple loosened the restrictions on the App Store guidelines, we started seeing browsers that would let you play Flash videos on the iPad. However, Flash-based games, such as ones found on Facebook, were still a no go.

Not anymore though. iSWiFTER lets you play all those Flash games that you love on the iPad. Whether it is Facebook, Google+ or any other site that offers Flash-based games, you can now play them on the iPad through this nifty little browser. Of course, you can also view other Flash content in iSWiFTER, such as videos.

iSWiFTER is free to download but offers only 30 minutes of play time, enough to give you a feel of how it works. If you want to continue using it, you can use the in-app purchasing option to purchase the full version of the app for $4.99.

So now if you were holding out on buying an iPad only because of the lack of Flash support, you don’t have to do that anymore.

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Sony Ericsson Nozomi leaks again, dual-core processor and 720p display confirmed

The Sony Ericsson Nozomi is still happily living in rumorland, but we keep getting more information about it. The latest bit of online gossip has it that the future Sony Ericsson flagship will feature a dual-core processor -and one that’s clocked at 1.5GHz. Previous rumors suggested otherwise, but the new CPU seems more worthy of a flagship device.

The rest of the Nozomi specs include Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4.3″ 1280×720 resolution display with the amazing 342 ppi (pixels per inch), which is more than the one on the Retina display, 12 MP camera, 1 gig or RAM, a 1750 mAh battery and a microSIM slot.

According to the source, the Nozomi should be announced January 2012 and ship as early as March next year.

Keep in mind, though, that these are just preliminary specs of a yet unannounced device – taking them all with a pinch of salt is the right thing to do.

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Verizon DROID Bionic now on sale, will set you back by $299

After many months of waiting, Verizon has finally started selling the DROID Bionic. The handset is now available throughout the carrier’s retail network and will set you back by $299 on a 2-year contract.

The DROID Bionic has a 4.3-inch qHD display, TI OMAP4430 SoC with 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and PowerVR SGX540 GPU, 1GB RAM, 32GB storage space (16GB internal + 16GB microSD card), expandable up to 48GB, 8 megapixel camera with auto-focus and LED flash, 1080p video recording, HDMI out and Android 2.3.4. It will be powered by a 1,735mAh battery.(more…)

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Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Sandwich coming October/November

At a recent Dreamforce conference in San Francisco Eric Schmidt (Google Executive chairman and “droid daddy”) has confirmed that Ice Cream Sandwich, the next Android version, will debut this October or November.

The next droid OS is said to combine Honeycomb (Android for tablets) with Gingerbread, with no home-brewed UIs and with a unified look (which was said about Honeycomb but turned out untrue) and more. (more…)

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A quad-core Windows 8-running tablet from Samsung coming next week?

As far as news from the electronics business go, it doesn’t get much more exciting than this. If the latest bit of online rumor is true (and given that it comes from Korea Economic Daily that’s quite probable) we are just a week away from seeing the first Windows 8-running tablet. And the first tablet with a quad-core CPU. And the first Windows device with an ARM processor. And the best bit is, those aren’t three different devices.

According to the industry source that went all chatty in front of the Korean newspaper, Samsung will manufacture the slate that will be given to developers at the upcoming Microsoft BUILD event next week. It will be running the software giant’s newest OS and will rely on NVIDIA’s Kal-El chipset.

Now, the unnamed Samsung slate probably won’t make it to the market as the Windows 8 OS is still some way off completion and by the time Microsoft is done with the i-dotting and t-crossing, Samsung will probably have better hardware to offer. So developers attending the event will be the only lucky guys and gals to get a taste of the described awesomeness this year.

Your thoughts? Would you be willing to sacrifice the great number of available Windows apps for the superior battery life provided by the ARM CPUs? Or will you be waiting for a slate with Intel-made internals instead?

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