Her Interactive is will be launching a new addition to their Nancy Drew PC game series titled called Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister on June 29, 2010, the 80th anniversary year for Nancy Drew.
More importantly, this will be the first time that the game series will also be available for Mac in a dual format disc for Windows and Apple OS. The game is rated E for Mild Violence and Comic Mischief.
Personally, I’ve never read Nancy Drew as a kid, especially since it’s marketed to girls. So this post might be appealing to moms and dads for their young daughters who are hooked on the book series, if not already the previous Windows gaming releases.
The only thing I can say from my end is that during my time as a bookseller for Barnes & Noble, Nancy Drew books were a commodity one would lose life and limb over…until a certain young wizard came along. *cough* Harry Potter
Just got word on Facebook from Danny Choo about a program that was created where you can turn your “Mac into a Media Server and play files over the network on your PS3.”
These are the current features (this is taken direct from the link above):
Current features
Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also.
Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder
DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder
OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding
Thumbnail generation for Videos
You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!
All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play
Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)
ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders
Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb
Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer
Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support
Basic Xbox360 support
Windows/Linux Only:
Direct streaming of DTS / DTS-HD core to the receiver
Remux PS3 compatible H264/MPEG2 video and all audio tracks to AC3/DTS/LPCM in real time with tsMuxer
FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support
Windows Only:
DVR-MS remuxer
While I don’t own a PS3 I thought I’d pass the information along, because if I did I’d probably try this. Household only has an XBox 360.
Word is that Microsoft is going to start retail stores. “What?!” I know right! That took me by total surprise, but then again I shouldn’t be, as Microsoft has been copying Apple for a long time now.
According to a little article on mercurynews.com, Walmart veteran, Dave Porter will be the retail store strategist for Microsoft. Read more…
