tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46870117613039091572024-03-12T22:34:21.026-07:00cherrycherrytreeblogkabul jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11761202823403553383noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687011761303909157.post-60404468633906736352014-11-09T12:20:00.002-08:002014-11-09T12:20:18.432-08:00How to build your own mini-PC<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Raspberry Pi is extremely small, consumes almost no electricity and is extremely affordable at 35 euros. We tell you how to set up the mini-PC and extract the maximum. From "PC Magazine" author Tim Kaufmann</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The MiniPC Raspberry Pi can do much: time he is a NAS, sometimes an IP surveillance camera or a media center with XBMC. We'll tell you where the differences between the various models are and what hardware you need for your own system. A whole PC for 35 Euro - no wonder that invites experimentation and tinkering. Hardly a day goes by that does not create a new, cool project, based on a Raspberry Pi. But what makes this piece of hardware really so useful? The Raspberry Pi is a little something like squaring the circle. He is extremely small, consumes almost no electricity is affordable at 35 € and yet so powerful that a graphical desktop including Office software runs on it. Leisurely, yes, but it runs. The heart of the Raspberry Pi is an ARM-based CPU. This means that Windows will not run on it. Instead, Linux is used as operating system. But this is less of a problem than you might think now. Because the hardware is fixed, there are virtually no problems with drivers and other things that might make it difficult to start. You can concentrate on your (maybe) first steps with the still foreign operating system, therefore. In addition, around the Raspberry Pi is a lively community is created that gives advice and assistance. In the gallery, we are in cooperation with the "PC Magazine" show, you know what Raspberry Pi Models are and what accessories you absolutely need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essential Accessories: The Raspberry Pi requires a 5V power supply with Micro-USB port. Theoretically, ranging from many mobile phone power supplies. But many of them deliver their power not from stable, which can lead to quite puzzling failure of the Raspberry Pi. Good experiences we have had with this power supply for about 10 euros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essential Accessories: SD-Card. If you for Raspberry Pi B + grab (he has 4 instead of 2 USB ports), you have to rely on a microSD card. Although theoretically enough a 4-gigabyte card. We advise you to at least 8 or better still 16 GB. Price makes it almost from nothing. The larger cards but keep longer because they contain more memory cells.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Essential Accessories: duty is a plastic housing into which you plug the Raspberry Pi. It protects the electronics from static electricity, among other things. An HDMI cable and a keyboard you need at least during installation. In addition, it is another PC (Windows, Mac or Linux) that has a card reader.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for around 30 euros you get a camera module for the Raspberry Pi, either as a night vision camera and optional with camera housing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to overclock the CPU of his Raspberry Pi, should also attach the heat sink available (about 2 euros).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In general: There is almost nothing that does not exist for the Raspberry Pi as an accessory. Even uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is available for some months. This is useful for example when used as a car PC.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687011761303909157.post-3329283292483041702014-11-09T12:19:00.005-08:002014-11-09T12:19:53.598-08:00Sunset Overdrive NEW GAME review<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Insomniac’s zany, colourful blaster is a sugary, cathartic hit best enjoyed in small doses, says Tom Hoggins.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunset Overdrive is, in many ways, the ultimate video game melting pot. Developer Insomniac has thrown together its recipe from a larder packed with familiar ingredients. Ratchet & Clank’s wacky arsenal, the slick skating and traversal of Jet Set Radio and Crackdown, Dead Rising’s dressing-up, the collectible chasing marathons and spider-web of upgrades of, well, everything. Seasoned with a self-aware mixture of variable fourth-wall smashing comedy and endless pop culture references, the result is a fizzy, muddled sugar-rush best enjoyed in moderation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Which is appropriate. You begin the game as a rubbish collector for FizzCo, a soft drink megacorp preparing to release its latest noxious creation, Overcharge Delirium XT, on a rabidly demanding public. Problem is, a quirk of the recipe means that anyone that drinks it mutates into a bulbous orange monstrosity. A launch party in Sunset City becomes the epicentre of an outbreak which FizzCo’s PR department are quick to contain, trapping the city —mutants and non-drinking survivors all— within a giant forcefield.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />As far as consumerist satire goes, it isn’t the most subtle, with your downtrodden worker becoming a kind of rebellious blue-collar superhero trying to escape the city and lift the lid on FizzCo's naughtiness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For reasons never explained, you can bounce from car bonnets and air vents, run along walls indefinitely and skate along the city’s railings, power-lines and train-tracks. This traversal is the game’s greatest boon, skittering across water, vaulting onto awnings, whipping around roller-coaster tracks. You’ll spend very little time on the ground during Sunset Overdrive, with Insomniac making movement the lynchpin of its energetic combat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Keep still for too long and you’ll get splatted. So instead you whizz across railings armed with a booming phallic shotgun or a machine-gun that fires 12” vinyl records. There’s a scrappiness to it, but Insomniac get many of the details right. Your grind slows as you squeeze the left trigger to aim, or speed up when you need to get out of dodge; collectibles flutter satisfyingly towards you as you pass over them and there’s a generous auto-aim that is appropriate for turning swathes of monsters into goo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The goal is for constant, uninterrupted momentum, encouraged further by ‘amps’ that power up as your combo meter increases. Evasive rolls become path-clearing attacks, bounces can set off explosions or you can simply have lightning striking the ground at random. Weapons can also be charged with elemental powers, while their makeshift manner (flying bowling balls, harpoons, explosive teddy bears) allows for a different feel to your common-or-garden assault rifle. It makes for a cheerful chaos. Unrefined but boisterous, charged with a bubblegum punk score and a lurid comic-book aesthetic that has the infected going ‘POP’ in letters formed of bright orange blood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If only the game’s missions had similar pep. Sunset Overdrive’s strong basis is squandered on a parade of fetch-quests and wave-based survival tasks. Your custom-made avatar dutifully performs the role of the video game hero performing busywork for the fellow Sunset City survivors. More often than not this involves travelling to an area, shooting everything until it is dead, smashing up FizzCo equipment or (repeatedly) surviving waves of incoming mutants. The latter is particularly trying as the game progresses, gooey madness descending into messy tedium. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunset Overdrive’s fizzy combat is fun but, despite a mixture of enemies —monstrous, human or robotic— it lacks variety that its imaginative arsenal only partly mitigates.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the game does throw in a set-piece, it shines. Skating up a dragon’s spine as it winds through the city, bounding boss fights against a giant FizzCo mascot or chasing a train as it careens across the city. These are the moments that Sunset Overdrive’s systems snap together as a satisfying whole. It is a pity that the highlights come too few and far between, interspersed with entertaining but repetitive fluff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s galling is that Sunset Overdrive constantly references the fact that it is dishing out trite objectives. The game’s recurring punchline is that everyone involved knows they’re in a video game, with good-natured jibes at tutorials, disembodied voices, magical inventories and general video game flimflammery. There are a few instances that raise a chuckle; respawning via Bill & Ted’s phone booth or battling a Focus Group formed of FizzCo’s robots. But Sunset Overdrive’s humour misses more than it hits. “I feel a fetch quest coming on” grumbles our hero. And sure enough you’re sent off to collect trinkets. This should be a cue for this kind of task to be thrown out, but the game persists, all the while drawing your attention to the lack of imagination on show during the missions. It is misguided at best, irritating at worst.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As is the swearing and occasionally misjudged comedy, aiming for irreverent and hitting inane. I’m hardly squeamish about a few cuss words, but Sunset Overdrive’s gratuitous effing and jeffing smacks of playground bravado (though to the game’s credit, you can turn on a vulgarity filter to bleep it out). For a game that sets itself up as anti-establishment, it tries ever so hard to fit in with the cool kids. Then there are the more egregious attempts at humour, including the joke that hinges on the fact an ex-military man has lost his arms and legs … and nothing else.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunset Overdrive’s hyperactive puerility undoubtedly contributes to some of its charm, but it too often misses the mark. Coupled with the repetitive mission structure, it can become too sickly during prolonged periods of play.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As such this is a game best played in short bursts, an enjoyable hour or two spent bounding through the city battling monsters with that excellent combat before blunt-force references to GameFAQs and Reddit start giving you a headache.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there is a temptive quality to Sunset Overdrive that keeps you coming back. You get the feeling Insomniac know that their game will have a sporadic pull, so have set it up for short doses over a longer period of time. The boisterous Chaos Squad multiplayer can be seamlessly accessed via phone booths dotted around the city and, in a nice touch, you can continue mucking around in singleplayer until you find a match. Once in a game, the mode tends to favour the wave-based survival of the campaign. These missions make more sense in a group, as you work together to fight off mutants but compete for the highest score by keeping your combo meter ticking over. There are also ‘Sunset TV’ billboards scattered around the city that will offer periodic challenges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It doesn’t lack for content, then, but those looking for something filling and nutritious may feel short-changed by the game’s adolescence and humdrum tasks. But sometimes you simply need a sugary, cathartic snack. Taken under these circumstances, at least, Sunset Overdrive’s giddy blasting often hits the spot.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687011761303909157.post-20376881504636687062014-11-09T12:19:00.002-08:002014-11-09T12:19:18.627-08:00In New Movie, Birds Are The Cinematographers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How do you capture thousands of hours of up-close-and-personal footage of tigers, polar bears, vultures, bald eagles and penguins in their natural element in ways that have never been seen before?<br />
"We put cameras on everything that moves," says John Downer, the producer and director of Wings3D, a unique wildlife movie that's in theaters today, distributed by BBC Worldwide.<br />
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In the 2011-2012 series Earthflight, he placed cameras on trained birds, providing a totally unique POV (don't worry, no birds were hurt). In 2013, Penguins: Spy in the Huddle, part of Downer's successful Spy wildlife series, drew more than 9 million viewers. He used more than 50 robotic spy cameras, cameras disguised as penguin egg, an underwater penguin cam, a fluffy chick cam, and animatronic life-sized penguins (there were a few courtship fails, and even a fight in which a real penguin took off a robotic penguin's head).<br />
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He's used elephants as his cameramen as well, when filming tigers in India for Tiger: Spy in the Jungle.<br />
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He wanted to film tigers in a way that had never been seen before. He realized they were comfortable around elephants, so his crew rode on elephants. He knew that elephants liked to carry logs, so his crew put a camera on the end of a tree trunk. Downer says it was like having "a nature-made steadicam." As the elephants moved, the shots panned smoothly.<br />
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Wings3D relies on the science of avian imprinting, using trained birds, including a vulture, to capture scenes while the team flies alongside in a microlight aircraft. The imprinted birds consider the pilot to be a parent. The team also created a robotic vulture glider and attached a GoPro to a bald eagle, vulture and a fish eagle.<br />
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And, in a stunning spectacle of pink, the team used octocopters to fly over the world's largest concentration of flamingos (2 million of them, in Kenya's Lake Bogoria) and also to film wildebeest in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.<br />
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Having raised his own duck using imprinting, Downer knows that, when working with animals, there's only so much directing he and his team can do. "The animals are still wild," he says. While filming in New York City, the snow geese reacted to the sensory overload and took off to Brooklyn. Fortunately, says Downer, the birds had trackers on them, and before they could hit up Shake Shack, they were retrieved.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687011761303909157.post-33005766588240611242014-11-09T12:18:00.002-08:002014-11-09T12:18:39.974-08:00Google's YouTube explores PAID, ad-free video service<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YouTube, the popular online video service owned by Google Inc, is planning to offer a paid, ad-free version, the head of the site said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“There are going to be cases where people are going to say ‘I don’t want to see the ads or I want to have a different kind of experience’,” Susan Wojcicki, a Google senior vice president who heads the YouTube business, said at the Code/Mobile technology conference in Half Moon Bay, California late on Monday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wojcicki, who became the head of YouTube in February after several years overseeing Google’s multibillion-dollar advertising business, said a paid video service was “near-term” but provided few details, including how much a subscription would cost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In May 2013, YouTube launched a pilot program that allowed individual content creators to charge consumers a subscription fee to access a particular “channel” of videos. Wojcicki on Monday described a broader subscription service in which consumers would pay to access an ad-free version of YouTube’s vast collection of videos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We’re early in that process. But if you look at media over time, most of them have both ads and subscription,” he said.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687011761303909157.post-38999317572812155602014-11-02T16:36:00.002-08:002014-11-02T16:37:53.788-08:00Modifikasi Lamborghini Aventador LP988 Edizione GT by DMC<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://www.modifiedcars.com/cars/540397/lamborghini-aventador-lp988-edizione-gt-by-dmc/attachment/540402" style="border: 0px; color: #216596; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Lamborghini Aventador LP988 Edizione GT by DMC Picture #5" class="attachment-thumbnail" src="http://cdn.modifiedcars.com/uploads/2014/09/540402-160x90.jpg" height="180" style="border-top-style: solid; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="320" /></span></a></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following the Spezial Version and the Molto Veloce, this is the third modification kit for the Aventador by DMC. The package costs $288,888 (£176,138.33) and features:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• An all-encompassing use of carbon fibre</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the bonnet, the 6.5-litre V12 engine received a variety of improvements. The most significant improvement is a twin-turbo conversion that boosts the engine’s power from 700 hp (515 kW) to 988 hp (727 kW). The engine bears:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Individual throttle plates for each cylinder</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A modified ECU</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You also have the possibility of buying the body kit without the performance boost. If you do opt for that, you will have to shell out $89,990 (£54,867.94). However, if you go for the entire package, you will get:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Fresh forged alloy wheels</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A two-tone paint</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Bespoke suspension</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7e7e7e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A modified interior cabin with a different steering wheel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The video game landscape is changing. Largely gone are the days when wholly completed projects would be printed on discs and inserted in our consoles, played until completion and then stored away likely never to be seen again. We live in an age of downloadable content additions, "shared-world experiences" and expansion packs that tread a the line between commercial cynicism and cultural value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is into this environment that new games must venture in order to justify the kinds of nine figure budgets that are increasingly being reported on. Indeed, without such an approach a game is unlikely to generate the kind of investment that would classify it as a member of the nebulously-titled 'triple-A' crowd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Into this space enters The Crew, a massively multiplayer online driving game set across the entirety of the United States. That's 'entirety' in the pragmatic, rather than the idealist, sense. The map is not to scale, rather landmarks and cities are correctly positioned in relation to one another and driving between them means racing across routes lined with roughly the right kind of scenery. It's a shared experience, with other players occupying the world with you, and what's on the disc is far from what's eventually going to be available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Two years ago I would have said that on day launch day the content that's on the disc would be everything," explains The Crew's creative director Julian Gerighty. "Today, though, and this is both a blessing and curse, we can continue working on the game and adding things to it after it has been released and submitted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yes, you could do that two years ago, but what I'm finding with this console generation is that there's a much bigger opportunity to continue building content far beyond launch day. That's my vision for The Crew, to continue supporting it way down the line. We've negotiated with Ubisoft to keep the team working on the game for a year after release to deliver content packs, new missions and skills and even major features."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gerighty's desire is to provide this kind of post-launch support without charging players extra to engage with it. The plan is to instead underpin the business model with a micro-transaction system that sees players part with cash to add extra cars to the game, presumably in a way similar to that seen in Forza Motorsport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The grand scheme is to give players what Gerighty describes as a "platform for driving games", in which multiple styles, tastes and disciplines are covered. It's here that the open-world comes into play, the broad range of environments giving you the option of street racing, off-road hill climbs and takedown challenges in which you must destroy another car within a set time limit. There's even a full recreation of California's Laguna Seca racetrack for you to drive to and compete on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's undoubtedly an idea of significant scope, one that will likely require many hours of investment to appreciate it in the way intended. What it's not, however, is an idea that has come about without existing foundations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Our core team has been working together for about 15 years," Gerighty tells me, "I joined the team about three years ago as creative director. Our studio director has always had the vision of creating large, shared-world driving games - that goes back to Test Drive Unlimited on Xbox 360, the idea of which is essentially Destiny with cars. That game was the precursor to The Crew, really, although it's very bare bones by comparison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I'm seeing a lot of games launching with this similar concept, but without the social layer at the base in the way that we've got it. For me, this generation is all about creating connected experiences. The reason for that is that playing in a world populated by other real people is going to be more surprising and engaging than an AI world. No matter how good the AI is, having other people in the world is going to create a more powerful experience."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A consistent theme comes to the fore when you begin to reel off console games attempting to provide 'connected experiences'. Destiny, Grand Theft Auto Online, War Thunder et al revolve around conflict, either by design or player persuasion. Gerighty is intent on making sure The Crew's communal elements don't exclusively revolve around competition in this way by not encouraging players towards specific routines of play that define a universal base of interaction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can decide to concentrate solely on racing your peers, but equally you can ignore that side altogether and instead embark on road trips across the country or work together as a team against an AI entity. The idea goes back to the initial concept of creating a driving game platform, in which 'driving' is the key word... a 'racing game platform' would be a different proposition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creating this kind of pick-n-choose environment is a far cry from how games used to be made, requiring a completely different skill set based around facilitating player actions rather than guiding them at every opportunity. It's something Gerighty seems to savour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Fundamentally our jobs have changed because of the move towards designing logic and systems over very defined paths for players to follow," discusses Gerighty. "Going back to something very linear and something that's very 'level designed' kind of feels like a chore for me now, I don't enjoy those kinds of experiences very much at all anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Some people do that kind of thing very well. Naughty Dog still creates some fantastic linear experiences, but in general I'm not so interested in them. I think that's been a huge change in this industry and a change in what our jobs mean. It's been a pleasurable change, though, because designing something that's going to be the same every time you play takes the magic out of video games. It does for me, at least."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's where The Crew is either going to succeed or fail, in its provision of allowing us to do something different every time we play. It's no easy task, not least given that driving games must adhere to the rigid fundamentals of vehicular interaction: accelerate, brake, reverse and turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reimagining the framework within which those commands operate, to the extent that The Crew feels like a wide open platform for you to experience 'driving', is where Gerighty and his team will be judged</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple has launched a new iPad mini (iPad mini 3) and still offers the previous two generations of the smaller tablet (iPad mini 2 and original iPad mini) at lower price points. If you're thinking about buying a new iPad mini, or if you've already got your hands on one, you'll probably want to protect it with a case or cover. Here's our round up cases for the iPad mini 1, iPad mini 2 and iPad mini 3.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The iPad mini's dimensions have only fractionally changed through the generations, so all of the cases listed here should fit all three iPad mini models.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Apple sells the official Smart Cover for the iPad mini, which is a miniature version of the full-size iPad's Smart Cover that protects the front of the iPad and acts as a handy stand. It's available in the same colours: black, white, pink, yellow, blue, green and red. The price is also the same at £29, and it attaches with powerful magnets, and can wake and sleep the iPad mini automatically.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The iPad mini Smart Case has the same front as the Smart Cover but also protects the back of the iPad. It costs £55 because it's made with leather rather than the polyurethane Smart Cover, and is available in black, red, blue, brown or beige.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read next: iPad mini 3 vs iPad mini 2 comparison</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll add to the selection below as we come across more iPad mini covers, cases and sleeves</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belkin Slim Style cover for iPad mini - £35</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the name suggests, this iPad mini case from Belkin has protective corners to keep the tablet in place, magnets to secure the case shut when not in use, and a soft inner lining to protect the screen from scratches. The cover can be used as an adjustable stand, positioned in various angles thanks to rubberised feet on the frame and a grippy inner lining.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This particularly practical TurnFolio iPad mini case has a folio design, so it opens like a notebook and the iPad slots into a protective frame that holds it in place. Flip the cover over and it is capable of holding your iPad mini into landscape or portrait mode for a four-position workstand. The entire frame surrounding the iPad mini is removable too. There are cutouts for all ports, buttons and cameras, and it's available in a range of colours and designs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Griffin IntelliCase for iPad mini - £35</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A combination of a polycarbonate rear shell and a TPU cover, the IntelliCase provides protection in a slim package for your iPad mini. Magnets in the cover wake and sleep the tablet when it's opened and closed, and also provides two stand positions: for typing and FaceTime calls, or watching videos. It's available in red ordigital camo (blue/grey) .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Griffin Survivor for iPad mini - £50</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you need to keep your iPad safe from harm mini in harsh conditions, the Survivor All-Terrain should be a good option. As with other cases in the Survivor range, the iPad mini version has a Shatter-resistant polycarbonate frame over the which is a shock-absorbing silicone bumper. There's Also a built-in screen protector and ports are covered, keeping out dirt and rain. A huge variety of colors will be available to suit your taste, and Griffin has made many of the models compatible with the Touch ID so the make sure you check that when you're choosing the which color option to go for if you own an iPad mini 3.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Proporta iPad Mini Back Shell - £ 15</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're not too surprised to see a smartphone-style shell cases available for the iPad mini, and Proporta's are some of Reviews those. Reviews These plastic slim cases cover the rear and sides, protection without adding too much bulk or weight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently, there's a choice of pink, blue, purple or white.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barbour Quilted Mini iPad case - £ 55</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Proporta has teamed up with Barbour to bring the famous brand to the iPad mini with its Barbour Quilted case . It protects the front and back of the tablet with a folio design, and it offers two stand angles. Barbour-lovers will be pleased to see the quilted exterior of this iPad mini case, the which comes in a terracotta color.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cygnett's Armour case for the iPad mini grips the tablet with six 'hooks' but has a foldable rear panel of the which allows the edge to rest on the inside of the front cover in an upright position for watching videos or making video calls as well as other angles . It's also available in purple</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cygnett Slim Folding Enigma case - £ 24.95</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cygnett's Enigma Slim case has a clever folding origami-style front cover that allows you to stand the iPad mini in various different positions. It has a soft, rubberised exterior and microfiber interior, and there's access to all ports and functions. This case comes in blue or pink color options, too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've seen the full-size iPad version of the Tuxedo , and it's much like Apple's own Smart Cover. However, it extends around the rear of the iPad mini, and is attached with a super-strong adhesive tape (the which leaves no residue when removed).</span></div>
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