Alone in the dark Playstation 3 & Xbox 360
Director Uwe Boll was more than a little unkind to the Alone in the Dark franchise with his 2005 Christian Slater-powered cinematic schlockfest, but Atari is looking to restore this seminal survival horror series’ good name in May with a new release, simply titled Alone in the Dark. The game will bring longtime hero Edward Carnby forcibly into the present day. In previous installments, Carnby was kicking it in the roaring 1920s, but now he’ll find himself alive in modern New York City, clothed in contemporary garb and fully aware of his past life eight decades earlier. Naturally, one of your goals will be to figure out just how in the heck all this came about.
On your way to discovering the truth about Carnby’s predicament, you’ll slog through a number of unpleasant and creepy scenarios, fight off various unsightly denizens of the night, and solve a number of environmental puzzles–at least, if our recent demo of the game was any indication. The first leg of the demo began in a level set inside one of New York’s sewers, which Carnby had to navigate from one end to the other. You’ll be able to play Alone in the Dark from either the first- or third-person perspective for most of the game, though we were only able to see from the third-person perspective in our demo–the presentation of which reminded us a lot of such games as Resident Evil 4 and Gears of War.
The sewer level showed off some ghastly enemies and shooting action, like you’d expect to see in a survival horror game, but we were more interested in some of the unique mechanics at work in Alone in the Dark. For one, the game simulates fire more realistically than any game we can remember. Flammable materials, such as wood, can catch fire and burn realistically, with other materials also catching fire due to its proximity. Once an object, such as a chair, is alight, the fire will slowly climb up to consume it, first charring it then reducing it to burning embers and ash after a few moments. We only saw a brief demonstration of this system, but we’re guessing it will figure into a number of puzzles in the final game
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Haiti’s poor resort to eating mud
Cookies made of dried yellow dirt become sustenance, livelihood, concern
Yolen Jeunky, 45, collects dried mud cookies to sell in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 29, 2007. Rising prices and food shortages threaten the nation’s fragile stability, and the mud cookies are one of very few options the poorest people have to stave off hunger.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti’s worst slums and Charlene Dumas was eating mud.
With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies.
Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country’s central plateau.
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.
“When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day,” Dumas said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the 6 pounds, 3 ounces he weighed at birth.
Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. “When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too,” she said.
States of emergency
Food prices around the world have spiked because of higher oil prices, needed for fertilizer, irrigation and transportation. Prices for basic ingredients such as corn and wheat are also up sharply, and the increasing global demand for biofuels is pressuring food markets as well.
The problem is particularly dire in the Caribbean, where island nations depend on imports and food prices are up 40 percent in places.
The global price hikes, together with floods and crop damage from the 2007 hurricane season, prompted the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency to declare states of emergency in Haiti and several other Caribbean countries.
Caribbean leaders held an emergency summit in December to discuss cutting food taxes and creating large regional farms to reduce dependence on imports.
Dirt cookies become bargains
At the market in the La Saline slum, two cups of rice now sell for 60 cents, up 10 cents from December and 50 percent from a year ago. Beans, condensed milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost $1.50. Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs $5, the cookie makers say.
Still, at about 5 cents apiece, the cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on less than $2 a day and a tiny elite controls the economy.
Merchants truck the dirt from the central town of Hinche to the La Saline market, a maze of tables of vegetables and meat swarming with flies. Women buy the dirt, then process it into mud cookies in places such as Fort Dimanche, a nearby shanty town.
Carrying buckets of dirt and water up ladders to the roof of the former prison for which the slum is named, they strain out rocks and clumps on a sheet, and stir in shortening and salt. Then they pat the mixture into mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun.
The finished cookies are carried in buckets to markets or sold on the streets.
An unpleasant taste
A reporter sampling a cookie found that it had a smooth consistency and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered.
Assessments of the health effects are mixed. Dirt can contain deadly parasites or toxins, but it can also strengthen the immunity of fetuses in the womb to certain diseases, said Gerald N. Callahan, an immunology professor at Colorado State University who has studied geophagy, the scientific name for dirt-eating.
Haitian doctors say depending on the cookies for sustenance risks malnutrition.
“Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it,” said Dr. Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti’s health ministry.
Marie Noel, 40, sells the cookies in a market to provide for her seven children. Her family also eats them.
“I’m hoping one day I’ll have enough food to eat, so I can stop eating these,” she said. “I know it’s not good for me.
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Joseph Turok travels to a planet populated by soldiers, dinosaurs, and other vicious creatures that mean him harm in order to take down a war criminal.
Turok for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was first shown at E3 2006, but in the 14 months since the show, things have been strangely quiet on the dinosaur-killing front. The futuristic first-person shooter has finally surfaced again, and we jumped on the opportunity to play for a few minutes and kill us some dinosaurs.
You’ll play as Joseph Turok, a black-ops soldier who is part of Whiskey Company. Joseph’s former mentor in the black ops, Roland Kane, has gone rogue and left for another planet for an unknown reason. Turok and his team are sent to bring Kane back, but the mission goes to hell when their ship is shot down and crashes on a mysterious planet. Your objectives are to survive, find your fellow soldiers, and capture Kane.
Genre: Sci-Fi First-Person Shooter
Release Date: Feb 5, 2008
Players: 1 Player; 16 Online (Game Details)
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