SampleLogic The Elements EXP update

SampleLogic presents The Elements EXP, an extended version of The Elements : new interface and 350 new instruments. It is priced 359$ (40$ for the update), and new great audio demos are available (Beyond The Grave EXP reminds some effects from Tron 2 game musics, and Igniting Peace EXP reminds in someway Unreal and Deus Ex musics, or Riven. Other demos, older, are also stunning).

iPhone : Toy Bot Diaries 2/Bike or Die 2/Cube

Among new games released for iPhone we can find : Toy Bot Diaries 2, the sequel to the great platform game (whose demo is available on the AppStore), and that is priced 3,99$. ToySpring Bike or Die 2 (3,99$) uses a physics engine that reminds JellyCar.
Finally a free version of Cube is available. This FPS is uses an open source 3D engine (see also the mac version, and the recent Sauerbraten – Cube 2). Videos are provided.

Snow Leopard earlier than expected / desktop quad core imacs soon

Apple announced that Snow Leopard will finally ship earlier, in the first quarter of 2009 (was expected not sooner than the second half of 2009). Then this Intel optimized OS (and that uses OpenCL and GrandCentral) should be more efficient than Windows, for at least one year.

Meanwhile new imacs fitted with quad core Nehalem (Corei7) processors are expected for the January MacWorld. For the first time they will use desktop processors – in fact special low-power versions -, instead of mobile architecture. Then we shouldn’t expect new mid desktop models using the MacPro enclosure (these will keep the Xeon processors, and then remain expensive).