5″ hard drives, bringing sustained transfer speeds of up to 230MB/s and 180MB/s for read and write respectively, helping performance buffs get enough bang for their buck regardless of file size or type. In addition, the SSD25D will boast an industry-standard 3. From Super Talent we head on to see what Transcend has to offer – the 2. 5″ SATA II SSD25D solid state drive that features 64MB of built-in DRAM cache. 5″ form factor, making it a snap to install on both notebooks and desktops. 0Gb/s SATA II interface and 2. This model from Transcend is capable of outperforming traditional 2.

In his visions, the ladder that takes one to the next level is made of: game design innovation, hardware advancements and software advancements. However, what’s important is to make constant progress and innovate. In his opinion, Japanese developers are more driven by game design while western ones tend to focus on technology to reach the next level. Interestingly, he did simply change the goals many times because it’s just unproductive to seek impossible goals.

His keynote was inspiring and entertaining.

[GDC09] We were live blogging from the GDC09 keynote of Hideo Kojima, the creator of the Metal Gear franchise. To make a long story short, Kojima-san advocated a pragmatic approach that takes into account the cold, hard reality of limited hardware and resources and told us how he and his team have overcome sometimes seemingly impossible goals.

You can check the photo gallery and/or the live blogging session (we’ll make an archive soon). In the end, he advocated to use all three means to make games better and even pointed out that Kojima Productions is hiring right there at GDC – there’s no doubt that their HR department will face an onslaught of developers this afternoon.

Most of the time, this problem is rooted in management. You’ve got people who are incapable of doing (the right) compromises and others that are unwilling to take any risks. It might seem obvious, but believe me most of the industry does just not work this way.

Some simply can’t make fun game to save their lives, and finally many thinks that they can simply do a quick buck on a great franchise. Kojima-san adapts his ideas to the development context and finds ways to innovate with what’s at hand. After all, they that’s where these types of decisions are made – if you work for a game company, you know what I mean. In the end, there’s a reality and limited resources (hardware, software, human, time) that we can build with. As someone who worked in the industry, I enjoyed this keynote (and the MGS franchise) very much.

However, there are teams that do the right thing and even if they do not achieve Hideo Kojima’s level of fame, we hope that they’ll get there in time and we would like to give them some props right now (we know who you are).

The very topic that was discussed by Kojima-san today is basically one of the “solid” recipes to make good games, co nsistently.

Be pragmatic!

To conclude he says something like: nothing is impossible, but added, given enough time and technology – two things that most game developers (and Hideo himself) can’t afford to wait for.

Hideo Kojima is pushing Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker way ahead of its release next year.

“Despite being on the PSP, we don’t plan on making any compromises with the graphics,”, “The art team is used to producing PS3-level quality and the results will make you wonder if this is really a PSP game. For sure, this is a PSP art & technical wonder, although it’s nowhere near MGS4’s image quality (that’s normal). Watch the trailer as we saw it during E3 2009. MGS Peace Walker is the second MGS game named as “the missing link” that should explain intricate details of the (complicated) storyline of the Metal Gear franchise (Portable Ops was the first one). ” The game, he says, will take “hundreds of hours” to finish. The man has quite a following (it’s well-deserved), so he’s the best person to build the hype. In some sense, the message is the same than for most metal gear game: Hideo Kojima wants to tell gamers that despite being a PSP game, this is a “real” Metal Gear (and not a franchise-milking attempt): he and his core MGS team are working hard on it.

5″ Solid 2 SATA II, where it will utilize MLC-based NAND flash memory to achieve a balance between performance and price.

In addition, the OCZ Vertex EX range will sip much less power compared to hard drives, and boast the advantages of being virtually silent and skip-proof. OCZ already has a bunch of high performance computer peripherals to its name, and this time round they introduced yet another feather in their cap – the Vertex EX series of solid state drives. This line will target servers, workstations and other computers that emphasize on longevity and performance without counting the cost. You will be able to pick up the new Vertex EX SSD in 60GB and 120GB capacities. Unfortunately, OCZ has yet to publish the respective pricing details.

After all, the use of single level cells help prolong the life of the drive, and is capable of hitting 260MB/s and 210MB/s for both read and write speeds.

Metal Gear Solid Touch has been talked about since December of last year, it should be coming “soon” (this Spring) on one’s iPhone, and there’s an official site now. From the gameplay footage, we can see that the game has a static background with a couple of 3D animated characters on top.

We would have loved to see something like Metal Gear Portable Ops, but it looks like the iPhone just doesn’t have the chops yet (or blame it on the developer ) – Video in the full post. I’m a huge fan of the MGS franchise, at least since MGS 1, however, I don’t think that I’ll spend any time on MGS Touch.

For those who have been hankering after the next evolution of SSDs, now is the time to check out the OCZ Summit Series which offers features such as a much faster speed and access times, making sure any computer equipped with this will offer a longer battery life and shorter boot-ups of programs, sans the noise of a cluttering hard drive when it starts to wear out.

Here’s a desk made of carbon fiber. By Nurus, via Gizmodo, Dvice. except that there’s a massively heavy piece of glass on top of it. Also, I usually complain about how heavy my desk if only one every couple of years when I move to a new place. Its structure and material makes it super-solid, and light. . . Carbon: hot, hexadesk, not so much – except for your wallet.

5″ Vertex line, although improvements include increasing the clock speed for both the host controller managing data as well as the inclusion of a 64MB cache.