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  • ‘Rambo: The Video Game’ Coming to Europe in February

    As bad as the new Rambo video game looks, Reef Entertainment has certainly been proactive in promoting it. The publisher has released numerous trailers for the game, including new gameplay clips showing that it is, in fact, an on-rails shooter with quicktime events thrown in for the “stealth” moments.

    Today Reef announced that the official release date for Rambo: The Video Game will be February 21 in Europe. The game will be released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC on that date. A subsequent release for “North America & Canada” (that’s seriously how the announcement reads) will be coming sometime during the first quarter of 2014, though the game will only be on PlayStation 3 and PC in those territories.

    In addition to the release date, Reef has revealed that the game’s developer is already working on a DLC expansion for the title. As the core game is set to recount the events of First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Rambo III, this content will presumably have something to do with the 2008 Rambo movie. That, or zombies.

    Reef today also revealed that they will be using every bit of the Rambo license that they can. The video game will use voice tracks from the Rambo movies, as well as “selected music” from the trilogy. As a preview of what players might hear during the game, here is the “cinematic teaser” for the game. That is to say, 50 seconds of clips from Rambo movies:

  • Google Street View Maps Reef

    Google Street View Maps Reef

    Google Street View is set to take cameras underwater to map Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, in conjunction with The University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute, for a comprehensive study on coral health, dubbed the Catlin Seaview Survey. Also involved are the non-profit organization Underwater Earth and insurance company Catlin.

    The Great Barrier Reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, and is the world’s largest structure composed of living organisms, able to be viewed from space. The project is meant to study the effects of climate change on the reef, and to provide Google users the chance to virtually explore one of the most biologically diverse spots on the planet, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs, and 900 islands, stretching for over 1,600 miles. The Catlin Coorporation has developed the SVII underwater camera, which takes 360 degree panoramic shots every 4-6 seconds, moving at about 4km/hr.

    Here is an awesome look at some Catlin test shots, indicative of what Google and other contributors hope to accomplish in their photographic mapping of the reef. Google also plans to incorporate its Panoramio feature, which geolocates photos for Google Earth and Google Maps.

    Project chief scientist Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from the Global Change Institute says that “the visual nature of the project will also help bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and public awareness.” Adding that, “for the first time in history, scientists will have the technology to broadcast the findings and expedition through Google.”