Sunday, January 8, 2012

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Microsoft tweaks Xbox Live Arcade Indi games guidelines

January 5th, 2012

Microsoft has changed the guidelines for its Xbox Live Arcade Indi games, giving developers a lot more breathing room for trying something more expansive or using a pricing model that?s a bit different.

The most obvious change is that the maximum file size for game downloads has now been raised from 150MB to 500MB, meaning developers can really push the boundaries of what they could do before. This will allow for improved visuals, bigger games, more music, cut scenes and more.

To help keep everything competitive, Microsoft has now lowered the minimum price for all titles (previously anything over 50MB had to be priced between $3 and $5) to just $1 (which equals out to around 80 Microsoft points), meaning even those developing larger games can keep costs down for the consumer to help sell more copies.

The capacity of titles that a single developer can have hosted on the marketplace has also been raised. The previous cap. was 10, though now it?s been doubled, which should allow developers that were closing in on the maximum to get back to releasing new games.

These aren?t the only changes being requested though, with the comment section of Microsoft?s blog showing that people want to be able to submit games from different countries, the reduction of a 7 day waiting period between uploading a game and having it approved and the introduction of leaderboards and achievements.

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Source: http://xsreviews.co.uk/news/gaming-news/microsoft-tweaks-xbox-live-arcade-indi-games-guidelines/

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Friday, January 6, 2012

Purported photo of the HTC Radiant Windows phone leaks

We heard that the HTC Radiant LTE Windows Phone should be coming soon last week, and now PocketNow claims to have received an image of the upcoming device. It's hard to say whether the handset pictured is indeed the Radiant ? from the front, there isn't much to help distinguish the device from the HTC Titan, but phone's back view shows that the camera's dual flash has been moved to the opposite side of the lens. Other than that, this device doesn't have much in the way of distinctive physical characteristics, but we all know the LTE that this phone is expected to include will be the headlining feature. Odds are good that we'll see this phone surface next week at CES.

Image credit: PocketNow

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More airlines add surcharges to Europe flights

American Airlines and US Airways Group have joined other big U.S. carriers in adding surcharges to flights in the wake of a disputed European law requiring airlines to pay for aircraft emissions.

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Representatives of the two U.S. airlines confirmed on Friday that both have matched a $3 surcharge each way unveiled by Delta Air Lines Inc on fares purchased in the United States for flights between the United States and Europe. The move would help offset the cost of the European Union carbon emissions law that took effect on Jan. 1.

United Continental Holdings also said this week it has matched that charge.

Under the law, airlines touching down or taking off in the European Union and three neighboring nations must acquire permits for the carbon they emit. The measure has drawn opposition from the United States, China and others.

Some industry watchers have said airfares between the United States and Europe could rise as much as $90 as carriers look to pass along the expense to passengers.

Germany's Lufthansa has also told passengers to expect higher fares.

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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45901516/ns/travel-news/

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President Obama proposes easing rules for green? cards

The Obama administration announced Friday that it will propose new rules to fix one of the key problems in immigration law, sparing thousands of American citizens from prolonged separation from family members. This action doesn't require Congressional approval, but can be done through tweaking regulations and providing waivers to illegal immigrant family members of citizens.

One of the snags in the process of applying for permanent residency, or a green card, as a spouse or child of a citizen has been that the law requires any person here illegally to return to their home country to receive a visa. But then they are barred from returning to the U.S. for at least three years and up to a decade. Waivers of this waiting period have been available under law, but have been difficult to obtain. The result: Many family members here illegally stay here illegally, risking deportation.

Now, Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes to allow the immigrants to obtain a provisional waiver in the United States, before they leave for their countries to pick up their visas. Having the waiver in hand will allow them to depart knowing that they will almost certainly be able to return, officials said. The agency is also seeking to sharply streamline the process to cut down the wait times for visas to a few weeks at most.

?The goal is to substantially reduce the time that the U.S. citizen is separated from the spouse or child when that separation would yield an extreme hardship,? said Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of the immigration agency.

On Friday, the agency will publish a formal notice in the Federal Register that it is preparing a new regulation governing the waivers. But agency officials, speaking on condition of anonymity on Thursday before the proposal was formally announced, stressed that this was only the beginning of a long regulatory process that they hoped to complete by issuing a new rule before the end of this year.

This is another "we can't wait" action by the White House, in light of the fact that there won't be any movement whatsoever on immigration reform out of this Congress. As with most of the executive actions Obama has taken in recent months, there really isn't a way for Congress to prevent this action. But don't expect that to prevent some Republican committee chair in the House from having hearings over this latest "unconstitutional power grab" by the administration.

Originally posted to Joan McCarter on Fri Jan 06, 2012 at 09:50 AM PST.

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NY grocery changes course on Alec Baldwin TV ads (AP)

ROCHESTER, N.Y. ? A New York-based supermarket chain has had a change of heart about grounding Alec Baldwin as a spokesman because of his antics aboard an American Airlines flight.

Wegmans Food Markets said Wednesday it will continue running television ads featuring Baldwin after being inundated with "hundreds and hundreds of tweets, emails, and phone calls" in support of the actor.

"We regret ending the Alec Baldwin holiday commercials one week earlier than planned in response to a couple of dozen complaints," Wegmans said in a statement. "We have decided to run the commercials again, effective immediately. Clearly, many more people support Alec."

Wegmans revealed Tuesday it had pulled the ads after drawing customer criticism about Baldwin's behavior. He was removed from a New York-bound flight at Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 6 for refusing to turn off his cellphone.

The commercials, which were filmed for the 2010 holiday season, were supposed to run again for three weeks last month but were pulled a week early after Baldwin's airline dustup.

Baldwin was hired for the ads after he mentioned that his mother, who lives in the Syracuse area, is a loyal Wegmans customer.

"We appreciate Wegmans' decision and the sentiment expressed in their statement," Baldwin publicist Matthew Hiltzik said.

Wegmans, a family owned business founded in Rochester in 1916, is credited with helping pioneer "one-stop shopping." It has 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/celebrity/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120104/ap_en_ce/us_people_alec_baldwin

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