| OnLive reportedly shutting down, new company forming in its wake (update: OnLive says 'of course not') Aug 17th 2012, 19:14  Well, here's a bit of a shocker. After a strong showing at E3 and partnerships with companies like OUYA, gaming service OnLive is reportedly closing down, with an entire staff layoff resulting. Polygon is reporting the story as relayed to the site by game developer Brian Fargo. We've reached out to the company and received a non-comment comment, "We don't respond to rumors and have no comment." Our OnLive contact also used opportunity to plug its Google TV tie-ins and few giveaways -- so, for the moment at least, things seem to be moving along as usual. Update: Joystiq has reached out for comment as well, getting a similar, yet decidedly more blunt response: "We don't respond to rumors, but of course not." Blunt response or no, we're sure this isn't the last we'll be hearing about this one. Filed under: Gaming OnLive reportedly shutting down, new company forming in its wake (update: OnLive says 'of course not') originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  The Verge |  Joystiq | Email this | Comments | | Engadget HD Podcast 311 - 08.17.2012 Aug 17th 2012, 18:56  After a slight... week long delay we finally have your new episode of the Engadget HD Podcast. If you've been waiting for a Fantasy Football update, existing league members should have invites in their inboxes and our pick-em will launch soon. In actual HD news however, DirecTV has finally experienced a loss of customers, perhaps the cable companies can help it deal with the disappointment. For the remaining subscribers however, the iPad app has some updates, while Cablevision is delivering channels to the Kindle Fire. We also take a peek at Verizon's FiOS Companion tablet and wonder if your TV provider should be in the tablet business, as well as recap the last few weeks of Olympics madness. Get the podcast
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00:13:55 - Time Warner Cable lost 169,000 subscribers, spares DirecTV's blushes
00:17:38 - Aereo unveils free trial and new prices for its NYC-based internet TV service
00:20:17 - Live streams come to Cablevision's Optimum App for the Kindle Fire
00:23:57 - DirecTV quietly updates iPad app, HR34 DVR
00:25:25 - Verizon survey reveals FiOS Companion Android tablet, aka the Motorola Corvair
00:31:34 - AOL HD connected TV app is now AOL On for Samsung, Roku and Sony; TiVo coming soon
00:32:48 - 'Just for Kids' now available on the Xbox 360: Go, Netflix, Go!
00:39:35 - SlingPlayer survey hints at possible expansion to game consoles
00:43:00 - WatchESPN Android app update finally brings access for Comcast subscribers
00:49:22 - Red claims Dragon is 'single most significant sensor in the history of image capture'
00:51:28 - Peter Jackson's 48 fps version of The Hobbit said to be a 'limited release' only
00:53:52 - TiVo Premiere 4 confirmed early, promises a 4-tuner DVR for the masses
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LISTEN (AAC) Filed under: Podcasts Engadget HD Podcast 311 - 08.17.2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Skype for Windows 8 preview, user interface revealed in web leak Aug 17th 2012, 18:31  Wondering what Skype's Windows 8 interface might look like? Sure, you could use your imagination -- and probably guess the design with a fair amount of accuracy -- or you can poke around an early hands-on over at Neowin, complete with a half-dozen UI grabs. While still in preview state, the app appears to be "relatively solid," enabling calls and chats with "little issue." From the looks of it, touch fiends will be able to tap around just as accurately as their mouse-bound counterparts can click, with large buttons available throughout. Judging by the app's current state, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect a more formal appearance any day now, letting early Windows 8 users take the native app for a spin before the rest of us get access in the fall. Hit up our source link below for a gallery of screen grabs. Filed under: Internet, Software Skype for Windows 8 preview, user interface revealed in web leak originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink SlashGear | Neowin, @adamUCF (Twitter) | Email this | Comments | | How 3D printing changed the face of 'ParaNorman' Aug 17th 2012, 18:00  We drive around in circles trying to find the place. There's no signage indicating our destination -- no giant, looming cartoon characters or even a logo, just a faceless building in a maze of industrial parks, about 17 miles outside of Portland. It's a beautiful drive of course, sandwiched on a vaguely winding highway by dense Pacific Northwest foliage, past Nike's global headquarters. Compared to the world-class tracks and fields dotting the shoemaker's campus, Laika's own offices are an exercise in modesty (in spite of financial ties Phil Knight), virtually indistinguishable from the densely packed businesses that surround it. There are, perhaps, certain advantages to such anonymity -- for one thing, it helps the studio avoid random drop-ins by movie fans hoping to chew the ear off of their animation heroes. It also means that our cab driver does a good three passes before finally getting out of the car and asking a smoker standing outside a nearby building where to go. He thinks about it for a moment and indicates a building -- a large, but otherwise indistinguishable space. The lobby doesn't scream Hollywood either, but it certainly offers some less-than-subtle hints that we've found the place: a wall-sized black and white image of classic film cameras (ancient devices, someone tells me, that were utilized on the company's previous film), and in one corner, a tiny room encased in glass, with Coraline seated at a table in its center. This building is the house that she built -- or at least kept the lights on; "Coraline" was released after its planned successor "Jack & Ben's Animated Adventure" failed to materialize. Inside, the cavernous space in excess of 150,000 square feet has become a bustling small town of creatives, laboring away in its recesses, many having traveled through several time zones to be in its rank, like carnies hopping from town to town. Stop-motion animation, after all, isn't the most prevalent of professions, and while we've arguably entered a sort of golden age for the infamously labor-intensive art form, thanks in large part to the success of projects like "Coraline," the number of studios actually investing in the form can be counted on one hand. Continue reading How 3D printing changed the face of 'ParaNorman' Filed under: Misc. Gadgets How 3D printing changed the face of 'ParaNorman' originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | |
