For those of you who might not know, I am a super fan of racing games. More precisely good racing games. And more precisely still, online awesome racing games. The original Test Drive Unlimited was a dream for me. You started off with a sucky Ford Mustang or whatever you could buy with 5,000 dollars, then you had thousands of miles of Oahu, Hawaii to your pleasure. You could free roam, buy new houses at a real estate office, get chased by advanced cops, and play online and organize the coolest races ever. There was even one race that allowed you to grand tour the whole island for 2 hours. And that’s why Atari has its first customer.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 will also a seamless experience as Atari puts it and “is always live”, meaning that unlike the original which had offline and online modes, there’s a single narrative mode that can be progressed on online or offline, either on the Xbox 360, PS3, or PC this Fall. Good stuff. Press release after the break.
It’s hard to believe, but this is a major shadow in Google’s direction. It appears that the main lawsuit has to either do with Android as a whole, or that HTC uses Android in a certain way that Apple doesn’t like, for example in HTC handsets. If this really is a shot at Android, then things could get ugly, but if it’s against HTC infringing Apple patents, then still, there will be sparks that fly. Head up to Engadget where the docs are in a massive gallery of 41 pages.
Even though the ASUS Eee Keyboard debuted at CES 2009 there’s still no sign of it on the market. And that’s what the ASUS president Johnny Shih confirmed at CeBIT 2010 in Germany today. He said that ASUS wants to get the user experience and feel just right and that the Atom-powered, 5-inch touchscreen, HDMI-out, UMB equipped keyboard would come out in April for around $500 to $600. Maybe in April he’ll say May…then we’d know the actual release date. Never.
