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Mass Effect 3 "Extended Cut"

June 26, 2012. That is the date that Bioware has set for the "Extended Cut" DL for mass effect 3. The DLC will be free and be available to download on Tuesday, June 26. 


Today's official announcement says that the download "provides more of the answers and closure that players have been asking for... gives a sense of what the future holds as a result of the decisions made throughout the series [and] shows greater detail in the successes or failures based on how players achieved their endings."

After downloading the 1.9GB "Extended Cut" file to their PC, PS3, or Xbox 360, players will be able to load a save just before the end of the game to play through the new content. Bioware says that decisions made throughout the series will affect the way the Extended Cut content plays out, and that multiple playthroughs will be needed to "experience the variety of possibilities offered by the new content."

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Minecraft 1.3 coming soon!

We all know that minecraft has come a long way ever since The Cave Game and InDev. But is the newest update of 1.2.5 enough? I think not, very soon the developers of Minecraft will be releasing minecraft 1.3 which will have tons and tons of new great updates.


Lets start with some new blocks

• Emerald Ore
• Block of Emerald
• New Slabs
• SandStone Stairs

Some items


We will see things in 1.3 that we may have not ever thought of coming to minecraft. 

• Trip Wires - a completely new concept in minecraft, using strings and Trip Wire Hooks on blocks to create trip wires that can activate redstone or something else.
• Dispenser Features -  they will be able to eject lava and water from source blocks if there is an empty bucket inside.
• Redstone will be able to be placed vertically on blocks and stairs.

The new minecraft 1.3 release will not just be great, but will be simply amazing. The new singleplayer will be allowed cheats as if it were a server. It will be a server, not a running server that people connect to, but rather a localhost server. So there will be commands available without any type of "mods" to be added.

Some may have used TooManyItems before, and this might all change. Because in Minecraft 1.3 there will be a brand new interface for creative gamemode. The creative gamemode interface will allow you to search for items, and you can access the normal inventory as if you were in survival.

Here is an image of the new creative interface

copyright Mojang

While this is not even 1/4 of the new things coming to 1.3 you can find more features of the upcoming release at www.minecraft.com or go to this minecraft wiki post about the upcoming features.

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HowTo: Create a simple beat in FL Studio

This is one of many tutorials here on The Universal Bloggers. If you would like to see more variety tutorials, please make your comment below telling us what you would like to see on our HowTo posts. 

You can Download FL studio from here. The demo version is all you will need for this though.

First you will need to open FL studio and start a new project.

Start with a couple of simple Kicks (2 kicks) and Snare Drums (2 Snare Drums)

 Next Add this pattern to the grid.

Make a new pattern.

Next create this pattern with a couple Kicks, Snares, and Claps.

After that add this pattern to the Grid.

Create one last pattern and add some HiHats, every other space.

After that, add the pattern under the other patter in the grid like the image below.

The Finished product is below on my SoundCloud.

Ableton vs. FL studio

While I have gotten back into creating music, it is necessary that I have the correct and best tools for the job. My first tool to introduce would be "FL Studio". This tool provides you with flexible, quicks beat creation and synth creation. There are also many loops and plugins available for synth creation and better sound. The only thing about FL Studio is that there is only support for windows OS's. In FL Studio, there is a huge array of VST plugins available for creating synths and mixing.


Ableton Live is another very amazing tool for producers. There is a wide variety of VST plugins available for windows, but not much in Mac OS X.


On the OS X platform, the default CoreSounds are just as good as the AIO sound driver.
Post your comments below, and let us know what you think about either of the programs.


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Nanovor released today!

Today, smith and tinker, a Seattle based mobile game company announced the release loaf a card style battle game on iOS called "Nanovor". This game is available on the app store world wide. 

The game was originally created and launched for the pc in 2009, but has been re-engineered for touch-based mobile devices. The game is based on Lucas Nelson who discovered another world inside of his computer full of ancient, silicon-based monsters that fight to live. Nanovor is a universal application, meaning you can use it on all of your devices. It is free and available worldwide. 


You can find more information about the game at the Nanovor website.




Have you played Nanovor? What do you think about it? Write your answer in the comments below.


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Google Translate - 200M users and more text than ever.

The massive translation service from google translates more text than any other translation service in the world combined in one day. According to google, this service is used by over 200 Million people per month. With this many users, the service is processing the equivalent to 1 million books worth of text.

In 2001, google started providing a service that could translate about 8 languages and from english. Although the translation quality wasn't very good. So in 2003, google engineers decided to revamp the translation service and the quality of the translations.


Currently Google translate can now translate websites and text in over 64 languages. You can find more information about this on the Google Blog.


What do you use Google Translation for? Do you use it often?

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