Duke Nukem Forever is in fact being developed by Gearbox - and that's straight from the horse's mouth. Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford confirmed today that development on the title is being completed. As it turns out, the studio picked the project up sometime late last year, and they're just polishing things up for a 2011 release on PC, Xbox 360 as well as the PlayStation 3.
What's more, Gearbox officially unveiled the title at PAX today - and not just a teaser video either. A fully playable copy is right out in the open for attendees to test drive.
Story-wise, according to Pitchford, "aliens come and say they're going to be our friends and Duke knows this isn't going to work out. Duke once again is in the pivotal spot and its up to him to save the world." Both single-player and multi-player modes are confirmed.
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Google tweaks their privacy policies
Google has announced a number of changes to their privacy policy, making them more simplified and removing some of the complicated "lawyer" terminology.
In a post on the official Google blog, Mike Yang, Google's Associate General Counsel, confirmed the changes would be put in place on October 3, with users prompted on many popular Google services today to check over the new policy before it goes live next month.
"Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason," Yang wrote. "So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. We want to make our policies more transparent and understandable."
So what's changed? Google has always had a company-wide privacy policy for all users on every product - but some, such as Gmail and Docs, had their own adapted versions of the policy. That will soon no longer be the case, Google says, with 12 of the product-specific privacy policies to be scrapped in favor of the one streamlined approach.
The company is also removing redundant parts of the privacy policy as well as "rewriting" the more legalistic sentences in the document with the hopes of making the policy more relevant and understandable for everyone - not just the lawyers.
Yang also mentions the search giant will be posting more content on how to keep your information private in certain Google applications on their respective support websites, while a page describing tools that can be used to improve privacy has been already been added to the Google Privacy Center.
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Skype 5.0 beta 2 brings 10-way video calling
Skype has announced the release of a new beta that updates its group video calling feature with support for up to ten simultaneous users -- up from five on the previous beta. The feature is being offered as a "free trial," but users will eventually have to pay for the service, which will likely be aimed at companies looking to increase productivity while reducing expenses by enabling face-to-face communication with employees, customers and partners remotely.
Besides 10-way video calling the new version also comes with offline messaging, improves both the quality and reliability of calls, and a revamped user interface that Skype says is sleeker, neater, and crisper than before. In addition, a new Home area will offer updates about the service, details on your call purchases, and will let you keep tabs on your contacts' mood messages or set your own.
The 10-person group video call feature comes as Skype faces new competition from Google, which added a feature to its Gmail service that allows users to make calls to phones. For now, Google is allowing free calls in the U.S. and Canada.
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