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Video Gaming

The Future of Xbox One

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Major Nelson took the stage today at San Diego Comic Con to moderate a panel of developers as they talked about the new features of Microsoft’s upcoming console, the Xbox One.

Ken Lobb, Creative Director at Microsoft, has been trying to revive Killer Instinct for years. Rather than go into tons of detail about the game itself, Ken showed highlights from EVO, the recent fighting name tournament in Las Vegas. At EVO, Ken used Project Upload to record a match where a dev broke a fan’s 100+ win streak through some of the games new combo breakers. We got to see the highlights of the match through the

More impressively, the controllers automatically recognize who is holding the controller through the camera. When the controller is passed from player to player, the games automatically load individual controller profiles for that player. Now passing controllers around during a game won’t require you to back out to the options menu and change look inversion.

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Official: BMW brings burlesque, Warhol, M1 and 6 Series Grand Coupe to Paris Photo LA

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By Jonathon Ramsey

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BMW has worked with Paris Photo for ten years. This year, the photography exposition lands in Paramount Studios in Los Angeles for the first time, and BMW is not only coming with it, the Bavarians are bringing the Art Car that started it all: the 1979 M1 painted by Andy Warhol. For those attending the show, there will also be making-of video of Warhol working on the car – but if you remember the mini lecture that EVO magazine’s Henry Catchpole gave on the Art Cars, you’ll remember that Warhol finished the car so quickly that the cameraman barely had time to get the film rolling.

With that will also be a series of photos of the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe dropped into noir scenes accompanied by burlesque models, all taken by photographer Uwe Düttmann. It’s the first time they’ll be exhibited at Paris Photo. You can check out a few of them in the high-res gallery above, and there’s a press release below with more info.

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Report: KTM X-Bow to get Audi TT-RS five-cylinder turbo

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By Zach Bowman

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The Audi TT-RS continues to occupy a warm spot in my personal top five list of cars thanks in no small part to the lusty turbocharged 2.5-liter five cylinder under the hood. With 360 horsepower and 343 pound-feet of torque in stock configuration, the engine is a shining star of internal combustion. And now it’s headed to one of our favorite vehicles. EVO reports KTM is planning to plop the turbo 2.5 from the TT-RS into the upcoming X-Bow. That ruckus you hear? It’s a choir of angels singing “Halleluiah.” While speaking at the Geneva Motor Show, KTM CEO Stefan Pierer said the engine is good for up to 480 horsepower.

Pierer went on to say that the company is already testing prototypes and that we may very well see the engine show up in some races next year. What’s more, the company’s engineers are playing with dual-clutch transmissions, too. Since KTM is already testing the turbo 2.5 on the track, it’s only a matter of time before customers will be able to get their grubby mitts on a street-legal version.

KTM X-Bow to get Audi TT-RS five-cylinder turbo originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Video: Two weeks and 2,000 miles in Ferrari's FF with <i>Evo</i>

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By Jonathon Ramsey

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EVO‘s Harry Metcalfe had some questions about the day-to-day livability of the Ferrari FF. When he brought those questions up to Ferrari, they suggested he take one for a couple of weeks and try it out for, as he calls them, “mundane duties.” The image above is Metcalfe pointing to the 660-horsepower, all-wheel drive FF parked in one of his fields because, since he lives on a farm, mucking about the green is part of his daily routine. “It could use more ground clearance,” he says, “but that’s an option on this car.”

He does get it on the “tarmac” and he likes it even more there than in the mud. Except for the buttons on the steering wheel; he thinks learning to use them is like learning to play guitar. He has a lot more to say besides that, and you can watch him expound for all of 17 minutes in the video below.

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Two weeks and 2,000 miles in Ferrari’s FF with Evo originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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