Technology

From: globo.com Author: Thiago Barros Title:

Pre-sales of the iPhone 5 will begin on September 12, says site

The iPhone 5 may hit stores sooner than everyone thought. According to information from the site iMore, pre-sales of the new Apple smartphone will be started as soon as the company announced the product at an event that was scheduled for Sept. 12. That is, less than a month left for the beginning of the orders of the phone.

The expectation was that the product was only available on the official website of the company from Cupertino on 21, little more than a week after its submission. However, Apple would have opted for a different strategy. Soon after delighting consumers with news of your next smartphone, she can give them the option, excited, just ensure your appliances.

Thus, the date of September 21 would be used as the first day of the delivery of these products and also the start of sales in physical stores in the United States. In the rest of the world, including in Brazil, the device would arrive two weeks later, on Oct. 5. According to iMore, the information comes from domestic sources from Apple.

The month of September promises to be quite busy for Apple and the companies they work for her in hardware development and shipping of products. After all, besides the iPhone 5, the company must also launch the iPad Mini next month.

From: globo.com Author: Arthur Figueiredo Title:

Players ask PES and FIFA women's football league with, EA refuses

The series Pro Evolution Soccer, Konami and FIFA, EA Sports are not only the most famous franchises in football today, but are also two of the most profitable series of games. However, one group believes that these games are generating a large segregation to ignore women's football in its annual editions.

A petition initiated by Fernanda Schabarum, Boca Raton, USA, asks for support from other players around the world to try to convince the two companies to expand their games for women. For this gives very interesting numbers: the FIFA franchise is present in 51 countries and translated into 18 languages, with over 100 million copies sold. PES is already sold in 62 countries, 19 languages ​​and sold over 75 million units.

On the target audience, the numbers are even more relevant: according to the Entertainment Software Association of the United States, 47% of video game players in the country are women. Furthermore, a search of the U.S. State Department indicates that 40% of football players there are also women. "Football is the most popular female sport in schools and, in some cases, female soccer players become more famous than men," says Schabarum.

The purpose of the petition is to allow girls and women to identify with the characters in these games, and encourage them to practice this sport. "Young girls can not be represented by male characters in video games." Remember that the U.S. women's soccer team has won two World Cups (91 and 99) and three gold medals in the Olympics in 96, 2004 and 2008.

At the time of publication, the petition had 3384 signatures obtained, and the goal is to reach 19 000. Many women, of course, support the cause. But men in the comments page of the application are also very positive.

The petition cites as "muses" Famous American players like Mia Hamm (who has won his own game on the Nintendo 64) and Hope Solo, but do not forget to Marta, the Brazilian team. Will these companies should include in their women's soccer games? If you think so, you can also read and sign the petition (in English) on the website Change.org.

EA refuses to put women in FIFA

In response to this online petition, Electronic Arts said it has no plans and does not intend to enter the women's game in a future edition of the FIFA series. Even with the appeal of the fans, the idea is not to head of production and their teams when developers.

"We had literally hundreds and hundreds of suggestions from our fans about new features and we have to evaluate these suggestions, such as the inclusion of players in the game, according to our resources, priorities and feedback from fans in general. At the moment, we have no plans to include something in the game, "said David Rutter, executive producer of the series.

FIFA 13 arrives in Brazil in October for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC version of the game will have Brazilian Tiago Leifert narration and comments Caio Ribeiro.

From: globo.com Author: Rafael Monteiro Title:

Resident Evil 6 will have online service with rewards and bonus content

During Capcom's conference at GamesCom 2012 games event which is being held between 15 and 19 August in Germany, the company announced that Resident Evil 6 will keep statistics of the players, as well as in service Call of Duty Elite Activision, through the website ResidentEvil.net free.

The service will keep a record of your data, how the weapons you use, how many enemies already killed, their progress in Mercenaries mode, among others, with the option to post data on social networks like Facebook or Twitter. You can also follow their friends and know when they are online.

There will also be constant disputes in the community, offering prizes as rewards within the game, such as extra clothes for the Mercenaries mode, and also collectible figures of Resident Evil will be displayed on the site ResidentEvil.net.

ResidentEvil.net The network will launch with Resident Evil 6 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 2, while the PC version of the game remains undated. There will also be apps for smartphones and tablets to access the service wherever you are.

RESUME

All the texts talk about the news in the world of technology. The first article is about the new iPhone, the iPhone 5. The second new is about tha football game to XBOX or to PlayStation 3. The third one is about the new game Resident Evil 6 to XBOX or to PlayStation 3.

The first text is about the new iPhone, it says when it will start to be in selling, it will probably start at october, so it will take too long. The second one is about the polemic of tha female football in football games like FIFA 13 and PES 2012, the EA SPORTS, the productors of FIFA refused the offer, and PES hasn't received the offer so it hasn't answered it yet. The third one is about the new game Resident Evil 6, and when it will start to be in selling, i will probably start in the beggining of september, it won't take too long.

I could conclude that lots of new things are coming and all of them are great and I will buy all of them if I can. The new iPhone will be very good, a great thing of Apple. FIFA13 and Pes 2013 will be more than great, almost perfect! The Resident Evil will be very good too, but less than the football ones.