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Armored Core: Verdict Day - Screenshots
doo 1.0.7 - Collects and organizes your documents. (Free)
Kiwi 3.0.3 - Full-featured App.net client. (Shareware)
Awesome Video Game Endings: A Retrospective
Sound Byte: Meet the Composer – BioShock Series
Gaming Meme History - In Ur Base, Killin Ur d00dz
PAX East 2013: The Last of Us Demo
Independent midwives to march in London today to protest impending shutdown of indie midwifery
2012-13 WSOP Circuit Lodge Casino Day 1c: Evan Ross Finishes On Top
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Posted: 25 Mar 2013 03:31 AM PDT

New gameplay features will be implemented into ARMORED CORE: VERDICT DAY to ensure that players who choose to play alone will be able to create and recruit a squad of A.I. controlled mechs and enjoy the robust feature sets of co-op and multiplayer modes while new matchmaking system ensures that players will always find battles at a moment's notice.

The Operator Mode returns from ARMORED CORE V, allowing players to tactically command a squad of Armored Cores through missions by relaying real-time information to other pilots by marketing targets and setting rally points. ARMORED CORE VERDICT DAY expands the role of Operator to fully command a squad of computer-controlled Armored Core mechs, creating a brand new real-time strategic mode for the ARMORED CORE series.

ARMORED CORE: VERDICT DAY will allow fans of ARMORED CORE V to carry over their save data to experience brand new content with their customized Armored Core from the previous title. Players will be able to further customize their Armored Core mechs with new parts ranging from guns, armor pieces, shields and boosters. The new robust customization options will help players synchronize their mech loadouts with teammates to deliver maximum destruction on the battlefield.

doo 1.0.7 - Collects and organizes your documents. (Free)

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT

doo is the one app for documents. It lets users access all their documents, wherever they keep them, and automatically generates intelligent tags to help users find any document in seconds.

The cloud-based solution with native apps is currently available for OS X and Windows 8. Apps for Android and iOS are coming soon. Further Windows versions are planned.

Users can connect their local document folders on their devices as well as online services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and their email accounts. doo will automatically generate intelligent tags. The selective sync allows users to define which of their documents to manage locally, and which to back up and sync to other devices via the optional doo Cloud.

The seamless integration with scanners of leading manufacturers, as well as with smartphones and cameras, lets users scan documents and import pictures of documents straight into the app: a quick and effective start into a paperless life.

doo organizes every document in a user's life, private or business.

Version 1.0.7:

Quicker, more responsive sync
An enhanced timeline for pinpoint searching
File path now indicated on document mouseover
Flag colors fixed, lots of other improvements

OS X 10.8 or later

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Kiwi 3.0.3 - Full-featured App.net client. (Shareware)

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT

Kiwi is a full-featured App.net client in a super simple package built just for OS X. Kiwi packs in all the best features of App.net, like private messages, and inline images into a clean, simple, and easy to use app.

Focused Conversations - Kiwi focuses on the path of the real conversation and moves the chatter to the side.
Private Messages - App.net is great for private chats too. With Kiwi you'll manage your private messages with ease.
Twitter Crossposting - Keep your Twitter friends in the loop with Twitter crossposting. Setup up once and forget it.
Unified Timelines - See all your mentions and followers in a single timeline or keep them separate, it's up to you.

Learn more about Kiwi at http://kiwi-app.net/

Version 3.0.3:

New - Cross posting can now be enabled per post.
New - Cross posting controls show the tweet length.
New - Image attachments default to ADN file storage.
New - You can now drag images into the post window to upload.
New - You can now paste images into the post window to upload.
New - You can now reverse the direction of swipe gestures.
New - Marker log window for developers. Ask @isaiah if you're interested.
Improvement - New post windows now pop up close to the timeline window.
Improvement - Youtube, Instagram, and Img.ly links show inline previews.
Improvement - Links to ADN posts are handled by Kiwi rather than opening the browser.
Improvement - Bigger sign-in window to accommodate long errors from ADN's two factor auth system.
Improvement - Image viewer is more zoomeriffic.
Improvement - Clarus says moof.
Improvement - Background timelines use fewer memory and bandwidth resources.
Improvement - Kiwi displays a few more posts in the Home timeline.
Fix - Link entities with single quote characters are no longer truncated.
Fix - When reposting an already reposted post, the ribbon is no longer missing.
Fix - Private messages will display attached images.
Fix - You can now star and reply to your own posts using menu items.
Fix - Avoid locking Twitter accounts db. Work around locks that already exist.
Fix - Fixed a crash that occurred after using the QuickLook preview window.
Fix - Fixed a crash that occurred when a stream marker write fails.
Fix - Many stability improvements.

OS X 10.8 or later

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Awesome Video Game Endings: A Retrospective

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 09:13 PM PDT

With Ken Levine's comments that the ending of Bioshock: Infinite would be "unprecedented", we decided to reminisce on some of our favourite endings to video games. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD.

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"Awesome Video Game Endings: A Retrospective" was posted by edmondt on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:13:41 -0700

Sound Byte: Meet the Composer – BioShock Series

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 07:32 PM PDT

We had a lengthy chat with series composer Garry Schyman on his past work with the first two BioShock titles as well as the upcoming BioShock Infinite.

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"Sound Byte: Meet the Composer – BioShock Series" was posted by Jonathan Toyad on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:32:29 -0700

Gaming Meme History - In Ur Base, Killin Ur d00dz

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 06:50 PM PDT

Dude, where are you? If you're savvy with the Internet and StarCraft the answer to that question should be instinctual. As far as the rest of you go, Jess McDonell is here to let you in on a little secret.

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"Gaming Meme History - In Ur Base, Killin Ur d00dz" was posted by edmondt on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:50:05 -0700

PAX East 2013: The Last of Us Demo

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 10:44 AM PDT

Tom Tsquared Taylor takes a lengthy look at The Last of Us from the show floor of PAX East 2013.

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"PAX East 2013: The Last of Us Demo" was posted by erickt on Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:44:40 -0700

Independent midwives to march in London today to protest impending shutdown of indie midwifery

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 10:59 PM PDT

There are apparently no insurers in the UK willing to extend cover to independent midwives, and so independent midwives and their clients operate in an insurance-free zone, which is risky, but it was apparently a risk everyone was willing to take. However, a new EU regulation mandates that midwives operate with insurance, and once that regulation is implemented locally, it will end the practice of independent midwifery in the UK unless there's some drastic action to create an insurance policy to which independent midwives may subscribe.

We had our daughter at home with an NHS midwife, and it was wonderful. Not everyone is lucky enough to live in the cachement of a hospital with midwives who'll help mothers deliver at home (especially now as NHS budgets are being slashed to ribbons across the country). If this rule comes to pass in the UK without any insurance fix, having a baby safely at home will become effectively illegal for families across the country.

A silent protest is scheduled for today at the House of Commons:

This campaign continues with a Silent Protest and march in Westminster on Monday 25 March, from 11am, to lobby Government to protect women's right to choose their maternity care and find a solution to the issues raised by an EU Directive.
Independent Midwives are registered midwives who have chosen to work outside the NHS to be able to offer continuous care and support to women who choose it. This is the kind of autonomous midwifery that you see in the hugely popular programme "Call the Midwife". Nowadays it is mostly only independent midwives who are able to provide what David Cameron once called "gold standard care". Due to staff shortages and budgetary pressures very few NHS Trusts are able to provide this kind of care.
Sally Randle is an independent midwife in Bristol, offering local women an alternative to NHS care. Sally says, "I was lucky enough to practise this way in the NHS in London, but local maternity services did not provide this way of working. I decided to become an independent midwife so I could continue this rewarding work. I love my job; I don't even mind getting up in the night to go out to a birth because I know the family well and feel privileged to be involved in this amazing time in their lives".

I can't figure out why insurers can't sort this out. The actuarial data set is robust and well-established. The potential liability, though high, is calculable. If you can get insurance to juggle machetes in Covent Garden (high potential liability, small data set, massive individual variation), why the hell can't indie midwives get cover?

Silent Protest and March (Thanks, William!)

2012-13 WSOP Circuit Lodge Casino Day 1c: Evan Ross Finishes On Top

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 10:16 PM PDT

It was a short day for Day 1c of the 2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at the Lodge Casino - at least for poker tournament standards.

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Mobile Monday

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 05:48 PM PDT

Games featured this week: NonoCraft; Tilt To Live 2; Pixel People; Unmechanical — So many new games! It's like, why can't the future be here now? Or, why can't the games I'm bored with be not here while the exciting games I don't have be here? And why can't a normal day at the office be more like a video game?! Tagged as: blog, mobile, mobile-monday, news, previews

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