FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2013 file photo, Lady Gaga performs on stage at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, as part of the iTunes Festival, the first of 30 nights of live free music in the capital. Lady Gaga and a former personal assistant who sued her won’t face off in a trial next month after settling their differences out of court. The settlement in a lawsuit brought by Jennifer O’Neill was revealed Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, in a court order dismissing the case. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision,file)
NEW YORK (AP) — Lady Gaga and a former personal assistant who sued her won't face off in a trial next month after settling their differences out of court.
The settlement in a lawsuit brought by Jennifer O'Neill was revealed Monday in a court order dismissing the case. O'Neill had claimed the singer cheated her out of overtime wages when she worked for her for a few weeks in early 2009 and for 13 months beginning in February 2010.
A trial was scheduled to start Nov. 4. O'Neill had testified she was responsible for sometimes monitoring the singer's communications and for handling about 20 bags of luggage.
Court papers revealed that Lady Gaga and O'Neill were roommates and friends on the Lower East Side of Manhattan before 2008. Lawyers did not immediately comment.
Lawyers had notified U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe on Friday that they were close to a settlement.
O'Neill had said that she was paid at a flat rate of about $50,000 annually when she was first hired and $75,000 annually the second time by the pop singer, who is estimated in a list published by Forbes magazine to have earned $80 million in the first six months of this year.
Gardephe had ordered the case to proceed to trial, saying O'Neill's "on-call" time potentially qualifies for overtime compensation. O'Neill's lawsuit said she was on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
According to court papers, Lady Gaga, listed in the litigation under her birth name — Stefani Germanotta — and O'Neill frequently slept in the same bed because O'Neill never had her own hotel room while on tour and was required to address Lady Gaga's needs throughout the night.
In her deposition testimony, Lady Gaga had testified: "You don't get a schedule. You don't get a schedule that is like you punch in and you can play ... at your desk for four hours and then you punch out at the end of the day. This is when I need you, you're available."
Eighteen months ago I reviewed the Dropcam HD, which is now renamed simply as the Dropcam. Now the eponymous company has a new camera, the Dropcam Pro ($199 direct), that outshines not only its predecessor, but its top competitors as well. Dropcam Pro has twice the digital zoom power (8x) of the original (4x)—normally nothing to brag about, but newly enhanced visual quality makes it better than the pan/tilt/zoom on mechanized cameras of the same price (like the Compro Cloud Network Camera TN600W). Couple that with easy PC-free setup and the industry's best cloud-based recording, and it's a no brainer: The Dropcam Pro is our new Editors' Choice in consumer home surveillance.
Design and Setup One look at the packaging for the new Dropcam Pro and it's obvious the company is channeling Apple's product presentation. Even the box is a beaut, containing the absolute minimal paperwork to get up and running: a postcard sized quick start guide.
The appearance of the Dropcam Pro is identical to the Dropcam (still available at $149.99). The camera itself is a small puck that clips into a metal stand on a hinge. The stand rotates as needed in the base you attach to wall or ceiling, so you can view any area of a room. In the stand, Dropcam Pro measures 4.5 by 3.15 by 3.15 inches (HWD). Without the stand, the puck-shaped camera itself is hard to position, but not impossible, if you want to add some stealth to your deployment. It's nice that the Pro's stand is now black to match the camera, but it's a shame the 10-foot long USB-power cord and wall adapter are still white, so they don't exactly match.
Dropcam Pro is one of the few cameras that lack an Ethernet port. It's all about the wireless: Inside the camera is not just Wi-Fi, but dual-band 802.11n, so you can connect via 2.4GHz (the typical setup) or 5GHz. Dropcam Pro is the only surveillance camera on the market with dual-band. The camera actually picks the band for you, generally going 5GHz if available.
Your installation options include plugging the camera directly into a PC to access the setup files for Mac or Windows and going from there, but that's old-school. Much easier: Plug the Dropcam Pro into power, open up the free Dropcam app on an iOS device (or eventually Android 4.3 device), create or log in to a Dropcam account, and let it find the camera. Give the camera your Wi-Fi network login credentials, give it a unique name, and you're done.
How does the smartphone even see your Dropcam Pro if it's not yet on the Wi-Fi? Dropcam Pro also integrates Bluetooth LE, the low energy tech part of Bluetooth Smart (4.0)—the same Bluetooth available on the latest iPhones and Android devices. Not only is Bluetooth LE an integral part of the setup via mobile, it's a future-proof scheme. The company claims Dropcam Pro will use Bluetooth LE to instantly talk to other peripherals in the future, and Dropcam may open its API for programmers that want to make devices that talk to the Dropcam Pro.
Features and Performance What exactly does the Pro have over the old Dropcam that warrants paying the extra 50 bucks? It's all about the optics. The wide field of view on the Dropcam Pro is 130 degrees, up from the original's 107 degrees. The sensor size is double—Dropcam says it is even bigger than the camera sensor in the iPhone 5s. It delivers an excellent video stream at 1,920-by-1,080 full motion—without a doubt, the best video I've seen on a home surveillance camera.
On the mobile apps you can use a two finger pinch/spread to digitally zoom in and out on the video. The same effect can be duplicated with the mouse scroll wheel in the browser interface at Dropcam.com. Digital zoom isn't usually a big deal and sometimes looks awful, but the sensor size, video quality, and well-designed apps make it easy to pan or tilt around the high-def image. An enhanced view oversamples a zoomed-in area of the stream—click the magic wand icon to get a sharper zoom than you'd imagine possible. This works best in very bright light conditions.
Let's also note that on the browser, the Dropcam interface is Flash-based, so it works with every major desktop Web browser in existence. Unlike the interfaces for cameras like the D-Link Cloud Camera 1150 or Compro TN600W, which limit you typically to Internet Explorer.
The audio capabilities on the Pro are enhanced. You'll hear more because of the mic sensitivity, and I found the two-way audio (where you talk through the software interface so your voice comes out the camera) was better than most cameras, both louder and clearer.
The hallmark of Dropcam is its encrypted, cloud-based, digital video recording service, now officially dubbed Cloud Video Recording, or CVR. Dropcam can be used to watch live video feeds at no extra cost, but the power is in being able to go back in time to watch previous footage. If there's any area where Dropcam falls short, though, it's the pricing. Look at it as the cost of three cups of coffee a month ($9.95/month or $99/year) and it doesn't hurt as much, and having that seven-day buffer of recorded video can make all the difference when you have a break-in or other problem. You can also go back a full month if you pay $29.95/month or $299/year; how much its worth to you depends on your security needs. But it wouldn't hurt if Dropcam offered a 24-hour recording buffer for, say, $10/year (or gratis).
You can also use the buffered online video to create video clips of just about any duration: Download it as an MP4 file, or easily share the clip via email, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. You can also make your stream public if you want; Dropcam features many public streams in its Featured Cameras section.
Dropcam Pro marks video as it's recorded, so you know when motion or audio events take place. Those same events can be used to trigger notifications to your phone or via email. Be careful with this in high traffic areas, though. While you can't set the level of motion detection, Dropcam's web interface is testing an activity-recognition feature where the software learns motion patterns of your stream—you label them to help recognize pets vs. burglars. And while it's not much to praise now, since it's a Web interface, CVR subscribers will automatically get updates.
You can schedule times for when alerts can are sent. iPhone users get a nice little extra—Location Scheduling. Tell the Dropcam service to turn on notifications when you leave a location, based entirely on where you phone is. That way, you don't get inundated with alerts when you're home in front of the camera.
The night vision on the Dropcam Pro is phenomenal, especially considering it only uses eight infrared LEDs. That's fewer than most—even the previous Dropcam had 12. The large sensor size makes up for it; it takes in so much light, it requires a cavern-dark room for the night vision to even kick on.
I've dinged Dropcam in the past for not offering a battery but, realistically, it can't without making the camera unwieldy, the size of a phone at least. Luckily, being powered by USB, there are third-party options for hooking it to battery packs a-plenty.
Conclusions Dropcam Pro shows just how great a camera like this can get with quality optics. That Dropcam sees itself more as a software-and-services company, and thus works hard on the back-end and apps also makes a huge difference. The CVR service is costly, but worth it when you capture something important with your baby, your dogs, your family—or something a lot less savory, like burglars. The lack of on-board storage may seem like a burden, but Dropcam would argue the set-it-and-forget cloud storage saves you even more hassle, and I'd agree.
Other options: The Logitech Alert 750n Indoor Master System offers HomePlug connections (a convenience for some with tricky wireless setups at home) and a good cloud service for video, but its price and video quality no longer can compare. Likewise, the Wi-Fi-based Y-Cam HomeMonitor Indoor has some great features, like long-distance night vision and seven days of free online video storage. But with only VGA video, its simply not as good a camera or service combo by any stretch. All told, with this Pro release, Dropcam pulls ahead of the pack in the home surveillance camera market.
RolePlayGateway is proudly powered by obscene amounts of caffeine, duct tape, and support from people like you. It operates under a "don't like it, suggest an improvement" platform, and we gladly take suggestions for improvements or changes.
The custom-built "roleplay" system was designed and implemented by Eric Martindale as of July 2009. All attempts to replicate or otherwise emulate this system and its method of organizing roleplay are strictly prohibited without his express written and contractual permission; violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
It’s been two years since we first wrote aboutSpreecast, a startup that allows anyone to create live, social video broadcasts. After all that time, it’s finally coming out of beta, and doing so with a big new redesign.
Spreecast was launched as a platform for enabling users to quickly and easily create multi-user video broadcasts. As a free product, it provides all the producer tools necessary to invite multiple speakers into a broadcast, take questions and invite audience members to participate, and archive those conversations to be viewed later.
With the redesign, the new Spreecast is cleaner and more airy, cutting out all the jumble of logos and screenshots that used to dominate the homepage. With everything else in the world going flat — from iOS 7 to the New TechCrunch — Spreecast has followed in those footsteps, simplifying the product and making it easier for users to find what they’re looking for. Uh, yeah, it also has a new logo.
Besides the updated home page, Spreecast has made some changes to the way its player works, incorporating user feedback to improve the broadcasting experience. It changed the colors of its call-to-action buttons, for instance, to more clearly emphasize them and help its users along in creating and managing broadcasts as they happen.
While not entirely new with this release, Spreecast has also done a fair amount of work on the backend in order to add other features that broadcasters were requesting. For instance, it recently added new monetization features for its big media partners, which enables sponsorship placements and pay-per-view options. It also has a paid analytics offering and the ability to download archived videos for paying users, as well.
For Spreecast, the new monetization features are a way for it to cash in on a large number of serious media organizations who have begun using it for broadcasts. That includes partners like ESPN, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Oxygen, ABC, and ABC Family. The product is also used by organizations like LinkedIn, The Heritage Foundation, USC Athletics, Stanford Athletics, and Sesame Street to connect with users and fans.
With the launch of monetization features, as well as the availability of Spreecast’s mobile app and mobile web experience, the company decided it was finally time to pull off the beta tag. Spreecast was founded by Stubhub founder Jeff Fluhr, and has raised more than $13 million from investors that include Meakem Becker Venture Capital, GGV Capital, MentorTech Ventures, Stan Shuman, Frank Biondi, Gordon Crawford, Sandy Robertson and Edward W. Scott, Jr.
Microsoft yesterday published instructions for resurrecting a Surface RT that had been bricked by the Windows 8.1 update, along with a recovery image that must be loaded onto a USB flash drive.
The company released the instructions and image two days after it yanked the Windows RT 8.1 update from the Windows Store, the sole source for consumers and small businesses.
Some users had reported that their Surface RT tablets balked at the update, then displayed a an error message stating, "Your PC needs to be repaired. The Boot Configuration Data file is missing some required information." By corrupting the boot configuration data, the update effectively "bricked" the device, rendering it inoperable.
Microsoft was circumspect in the information it released about the snafu, saying only that it was "investigating a situation affecting a limited number of users updating their Windows RT devices to Windows RT 8.1."
The company's Surface RT tablet, which debuted a year ago, has been the only Windows RT-powered device that has sold in any meaningful quantity. The fact that its own tablet -- with a specific and unchangeable set of components -- was unable to perform the update was an embarrassment to Microsoft, with some customers angry enough to assert they would return their devices.
Although some users posted recovery suggestions to Microsoft's support forum -- with others chiming in that those recommendations had worked -- the from-the-horse's-mouth instructions were more thorough, and more likely to be viewed as trustworthy by Surface RT owners.
According to the instructions accompanying the disk image, users must have a 4GB-or-larger USB drive and access to a PC running Windows 7 or later to recover the Surface RT or other Windows RT tablet. Unlike Apple's iPad, Microsoft's Surface tablets include a USB port.
The instructions were involved, and required customers to type in several commands at the Windows RT Command Prompt, a DOS-like command-line interpreter tucked inside even the newest editions of Windows. Most users will be unfamiliar with the prompt, but Microsoft spelled out exactly what to do in 15 steps.
Microsoft has given no hint when it will restore the Windows RT 8.1 update to the Windows Store.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His email address is gkeizer@computerworld.com.
In Nepal, villagers' land uses help people and tigers, study finds
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:
21-Oct-2013
[
| E-mail
| Share
]
Contact: Melissa Andreychek mandreychek@sesync.org 412-680-1277 University of Maryland
Annapolis, Md Hopeful signs that humans and tigers can coexist are emerging in rural Nepal, where the government has committed to doubling populations of the critically endangered big cat by 2022. A new study by conservation scientist Neil Carter provides evidence that when Nepalese villagers are empowered to make some local land management decisions, the resulting landscape changes can benefit both people and tigers.
Few wildlife species face more potential conflicts with humankind than tigers, which require large areas for hunting and raising their young, and inhabit some of the most densely populated regions of the world. Tiger populations have plummeted, from an estimated 100,000 worldwide at the beginning of the 20th century to perhaps as few as 3,000 remaining in the wild.
Carter studies the interactions between humans and tigers in Nepal's Chitwan National Park and its environs. In the latest research, Carter and his colleagues showed that in areas near the national park border where local people were permitted to harvest some of the natural resources they needed, such as timber and grass, the amount of tigers' preferred type of habitat increased. Within the park, where local resource harvests are prohibited, the amount of highly suitable habitat for tigers declined - perhaps due to illegal harvests.
A scientific paper based on the research, which Carter led while working on his doctoral degree at Michigan State University, was published online October 18 in the journal Ecosphere. He is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland.
Chitwan National Park was established in 1973 to protect tigers and other keystones of the area's biodiversity, but it has had significant costs for people living in the area. Residents depend on the forest for wood as fuel and building material, and rely on local grasses to thatch roofs and feed their livestock. The policies governing the park are top-down, with little input from residents, Carter said. Recognizing the potential for resource conflicts, in 1996 the Nepalese government added a buffer zone next to the park, where people have more access to the forest's resources and more say in its management.
"Many animals have their ranges extending outside of protected areas," Carter said. "They don't know and they don't care where the border signs are. So areas outside protected areas are important as well."
To find out how the creation and management of the buffer zones affected tigers, the researchers used camera traps motion-sensitive cameras mounted along animal trails that snapped photos of 17 different adult tigers at sites inside the park and in the buffer zone.
They also used satellite imagery to develop detailed maps of the local land cover, including forests, grasslands, and bare ground. By superimposing their photographic evidence of tiger movements onto the land cover maps, the researchers showed that tigers have a distinct preference for grasslands near water, which flow unbroken into nearby swaths of forest or grassy cover. That's probably because the grasslands and water attract animals for tigers to prey on, the grasses conceal them while they hunt, and the connected patches of habitat accommodate the big cats' need for relatively large home territories.
The researchers used satellite photos taken between 1989 and 2009 to track changes in land cover inside and outside the park, and compare it to the habitat that tigers prefer. Throughout that 20-year span, the park offered more habitat suitable for tigers than the buffer lands did. But the amount of good tiger habitat in the park declined between 1999 and 2009.
Meanwhile tiger habitat outside the park took a turn for the better. From 1989 to 1999, tiger habitat suitability outside the park was relatively constant. But from 1999 to 2009, the suitability of tiger habitat increased in the area between human settlements and the park boundary. The tiger habitat gains happened after the buffer zone was created and local people gained some control over land uses outside the park, the researchers noted.
"In Nepal, we're finding that there is this middle ground where you can have people using the land and still not only keep land from degrading, but can improve habitat quality," said Carter. "Policies in Chitwan's buffer zone, such as prohibiting livestock from freely grazing in the forests and community-based forest management, improved habitat quality."
In July 2013, the Nepalese government announced the nation's tiger population had jumped 63% in four years, with an estimated 198 tigers now living in the wild many of them in and around Chitwan National Park. The government cited habitat improvements and a decline in poaching as possible reasons for the apparent population increase.
"Park managers are doing a tremendous job of conserving tigers and their habitat in the face of relentless pressure from the human population," agreed Carter, who has worked in the area since 2008. By helping to meet villagers' urgent need for basic resources, the buffer zones make park managers' daunting task more achievable, he said.
As Nepal and other countries work to pull tigers back from the brink of extinction, the study "provides a relatively straightforward way to measure how humans affect endangered animals' habitat across space and through time," said Carter. "The next step is to model how tiger habitat and human livelihood strategies will interact and change in the future under different conservation policy scenarios. I'm working closely with computation staff to develop this complex model."
###
Carter's co-authors included Jianguo Liu, director of Michigan State University's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability; Michigan State University faculty members Andrs Via and Henry Campa; Bhim Gurung of the Nepal Tiger Trust in Chitwan; and Jhamak Karki of Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund, NASA's Earth and Space Science program, and Michigan State University's AgBioResearch funded the research.
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Centerfunded through a National Science Foundation grant to the University of Marylandis an Annapolis, MD-based research center dedicated to solving complex problems at the intersection of human and natural systems. For more information, visit http://www.sesync.org.
Media contacts:
Melissa Andreychek, SESYNC
412-680-1277
Heather Dewar, UMD
301-405-9267
Dowload a copy of the research paper at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/full/10.1890/ES13-00191.1
[
| E-mail
| Share
]
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
In Nepal, villagers' land uses help people and tigers, study finds
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:
21-Oct-2013
[
| E-mail
| Share
]
Contact: Melissa Andreychek mandreychek@sesync.org 412-680-1277 University of Maryland
Annapolis, Md Hopeful signs that humans and tigers can coexist are emerging in rural Nepal, where the government has committed to doubling populations of the critically endangered big cat by 2022. A new study by conservation scientist Neil Carter provides evidence that when Nepalese villagers are empowered to make some local land management decisions, the resulting landscape changes can benefit both people and tigers.
Few wildlife species face more potential conflicts with humankind than tigers, which require large areas for hunting and raising their young, and inhabit some of the most densely populated regions of the world. Tiger populations have plummeted, from an estimated 100,000 worldwide at the beginning of the 20th century to perhaps as few as 3,000 remaining in the wild.
Carter studies the interactions between humans and tigers in Nepal's Chitwan National Park and its environs. In the latest research, Carter and his colleagues showed that in areas near the national park border where local people were permitted to harvest some of the natural resources they needed, such as timber and grass, the amount of tigers' preferred type of habitat increased. Within the park, where local resource harvests are prohibited, the amount of highly suitable habitat for tigers declined - perhaps due to illegal harvests.
A scientific paper based on the research, which Carter led while working on his doctoral degree at Michigan State University, was published online October 18 in the journal Ecosphere. He is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland.
Chitwan National Park was established in 1973 to protect tigers and other keystones of the area's biodiversity, but it has had significant costs for people living in the area. Residents depend on the forest for wood as fuel and building material, and rely on local grasses to thatch roofs and feed their livestock. The policies governing the park are top-down, with little input from residents, Carter said. Recognizing the potential for resource conflicts, in 1996 the Nepalese government added a buffer zone next to the park, where people have more access to the forest's resources and more say in its management.
"Many animals have their ranges extending outside of protected areas," Carter said. "They don't know and they don't care where the border signs are. So areas outside protected areas are important as well."
To find out how the creation and management of the buffer zones affected tigers, the researchers used camera traps motion-sensitive cameras mounted along animal trails that snapped photos of 17 different adult tigers at sites inside the park and in the buffer zone.
They also used satellite imagery to develop detailed maps of the local land cover, including forests, grasslands, and bare ground. By superimposing their photographic evidence of tiger movements onto the land cover maps, the researchers showed that tigers have a distinct preference for grasslands near water, which flow unbroken into nearby swaths of forest or grassy cover. That's probably because the grasslands and water attract animals for tigers to prey on, the grasses conceal them while they hunt, and the connected patches of habitat accommodate the big cats' need for relatively large home territories.
The researchers used satellite photos taken between 1989 and 2009 to track changes in land cover inside and outside the park, and compare it to the habitat that tigers prefer. Throughout that 20-year span, the park offered more habitat suitable for tigers than the buffer lands did. But the amount of good tiger habitat in the park declined between 1999 and 2009.
Meanwhile tiger habitat outside the park took a turn for the better. From 1989 to 1999, tiger habitat suitability outside the park was relatively constant. But from 1999 to 2009, the suitability of tiger habitat increased in the area between human settlements and the park boundary. The tiger habitat gains happened after the buffer zone was created and local people gained some control over land uses outside the park, the researchers noted.
"In Nepal, we're finding that there is this middle ground where you can have people using the land and still not only keep land from degrading, but can improve habitat quality," said Carter. "Policies in Chitwan's buffer zone, such as prohibiting livestock from freely grazing in the forests and community-based forest management, improved habitat quality."
In July 2013, the Nepalese government announced the nation's tiger population had jumped 63% in four years, with an estimated 198 tigers now living in the wild many of them in and around Chitwan National Park. The government cited habitat improvements and a decline in poaching as possible reasons for the apparent population increase.
"Park managers are doing a tremendous job of conserving tigers and their habitat in the face of relentless pressure from the human population," agreed Carter, who has worked in the area since 2008. By helping to meet villagers' urgent need for basic resources, the buffer zones make park managers' daunting task more achievable, he said.
As Nepal and other countries work to pull tigers back from the brink of extinction, the study "provides a relatively straightforward way to measure how humans affect endangered animals' habitat across space and through time," said Carter. "The next step is to model how tiger habitat and human livelihood strategies will interact and change in the future under different conservation policy scenarios. I'm working closely with computation staff to develop this complex model."
###
Carter's co-authors included Jianguo Liu, director of Michigan State University's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability; Michigan State University faculty members Andrs Via and Henry Campa; Bhim Gurung of the Nepal Tiger Trust in Chitwan; and Jhamak Karki of Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund, NASA's Earth and Space Science program, and Michigan State University's AgBioResearch funded the research.
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Centerfunded through a National Science Foundation grant to the University of Marylandis an Annapolis, MD-based research center dedicated to solving complex problems at the intersection of human and natural systems. For more information, visit http://www.sesync.org.
Media contacts:
Melissa Andreychek, SESYNC
412-680-1277
Heather Dewar, UMD
301-405-9267
Dowload a copy of the research paper at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/full/10.1890/ES13-00191.1
[
| E-mail
| Share
]
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Sega of America on Monday announced new mobile games coming this fall and winter, and all of them are headed to iOS. Games include new titles featuring Sonic the Hedgehog, a game that will appeal to fans of DoTA and League of Legends, a magic and music mashup, and more.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a new racing game featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and other popular Sega characters. It's a reimagining of the game available for iOS, consoles (and the Mac) with new features and improvements, like four player local and online racing and better social integration. Coming this winter.
There's a new, remastered Sonic the Hedgehog 2 blasting on to mobile in November, complete with remastered audio and upgraded visuals running at 60 FPS. The second Sonic game introduces his friend Tails. It'll be a free update for iOS users who already have the game.
Demon Tribe, coming this winter, blends multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games like League of Legends and Defense of the Ancients 2 with card-collecting and action RPG elements. Up to six players can compete at once in 3v3 synchronous battles.
Rhythm Thief & The Paris Caper combines a mystery caper with beat-matching as you explore Paris in search of Raphael's missing father. It'll be out early next year.
Meanwhile, Go Dance is already available - it turns the FaceTime camera on your iOS device into a motion sensor to capture your moves as you dance to pop hits from Lady Gaga, LMFAO and others.
Are you a fan of Sega's games? Do any of these appeal to you? Tell me what you think in the comments.
![[ Back to EurekAlert! ]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vZ-YE_Y_8j75NMVvMHLGNDAz-Y3_hWoQHp2A2Vh0ZAHIbcHjoB0F9v1CPJy6sIXa7ZKJcAxpkXCYijPgOEAbD4bnY8Os8JSrRgbip2ZgE=s0-d){kind=small}
Share
Source: