http://www.software-nook.com The Latest - The Hotest Software News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:50:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft is moving its Windows Live support to online forums, which sounds like a step down, until you realize that it was previously email-based. Today, Microsoft announced changes to the way Windows Live customers will receive support. http://www.software-nook.com/all-about-microsoft/windows-live-support-moves-to-forums.html YouTube's new captioning system translates audio to subtitles on the fly. What a fantastic invention. Not for how useful it is, but for its unintentional hilarity. Take, for instance, these captioned screenshots from Mass Effect 2 cinematics posted on YouTube. If you like that bit up ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/youtube-verbally-mangles-mass-effect-2-and-it-is-awesome.html When you boot up Command & Conquer 4, it starts a front end from which you have to log in, much like you would get for an MMO. But then you're in the game and it's mostly like any other real time strategy game. You can play the ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/first-look-command-conquer-4s-offline-mode.html Hey, look, a Battlestar Galactica MMO!Leading [MMO publisher Bigpoint's] product slate for 2010 will be Battlestar Galactica Online, a tactical space combat and adventure MMOG based upon Syfy's Battlestar Galactica series. The game, inspired by one of the most popular science fiction series in television history, will launch worldwide exclusively ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/can-battlestar-galactica-online-make-broswer-based-mmos-fun.html Next week Need for Speed: Shift will be getting a ten-dollar expansion pack that adds seven fancy new cars I've mostly never heard of. 1. Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione 2. BMW M1 Procar 3. GUMPERT apollo 4. Honda NSX ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/need-for-speed-shift-sets-out-for-the-french-riviera.html Since there are so few real time strategy games available right now, you might be interested in the beta for Ruse, which will give you an advance peek at Ubisoft's upcoming game about WWII, deception, and maintaining an online connection while you play single-player. It's open to the public ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/if-you-didnt-get-into-the-starcraft-ii-beta-theres-always-this.html Just because a game is set in the 1940s doesn't mean there's no room for product placement! 2K Games will be including Playboy branded collectibles in Mafia II, the open world game coming out this fall.Mafia II will enable players to collect virtual copies of the iconic magazine, which ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/mafia-ii-to-include-quaint-porn.html Early on in Brooklyn's Finest, we're introduced to a group of drug dealers working for Wesley Snipes' character and infiltrated by Don Cheadle's character. They have a room where they play videogames. The videogames aren't specified at first, but the videogaming is specifically mentioned. Later, the movie ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/gamespotting-brooklyns-finest.html Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment announced the next Scribblenauts game (not pictured; that's the original up there) for the Nintendo DS, due out this fall....players use the stylus and touch screen to help Maxwell, the game's hero, acquire the "Starite," the prize earned from solving the puzzle in even more robust ... http://www.software-nook.com/extreme-games/scribblenauts-sequel-gets-big-blue-hairy-etc.html IDG News/Computerworld/Gregg Keizer gets it wrong again when this bizarre distributed entity reports this week that Microsoft "may move up Windows 7 service pack release" from its fictional original plan to "wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack." Now, he says, Microsoft has ... http://www.software-nook.com/all-about-microsoft/windows-7-sp1-still-on-track-for-q4-2010.html