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Indie Royale Sigma Bundle has seven games and a question mark
The Indie Royale series continued on this week with The Sigma Bundle, a seven-game offering that comes with a question: What's in the box the mystery game? We won't know until it's revealed on the bundle's page, but what we do know is that the seven-game pack currently includes a first-person shooter, space simulator, real-time strategy game, two platformers and tactical and first-person RPGs. The entirety of The Sigma Bundle is compatible with Windows platforms, but only Gravi, Skyward Collapse, 3089, Survive, and Freedom Fall are available DRM-free. Starpoint Gemini and Starvoid come only in the form of keys for Steam or Desura. Mac users will be able to play Gravi, Skyward Collapse, 3089 and Freedom Fall, while Linux fans can have Gravi and 3089. If your interest is peaked, the minimum price at the time of this writing is just under $6, with n00bstar's "operat0r" album thrown in if you pay $7 or more. Trailers for most of The Sigma Bundle's contents can be viewed by clicking the box art for each game on the offer's website.
Japan rescuers to get water jet cutters for debris slicing
While Japan is fairly well equipped to notify citizens of impending doom, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency is taking another step to preparing its rescue forces for anything in times of emergency, and the forthcoming water jet cutter should help slice through debris without the risk of starting a fire in the process. Due to a railway disaster in April of 2005 which forced rescuers to find an alternate way of cutting metal with gasoline sloshed about, the water jet cutters were moved up in priority, and now the powerful streams can output a high-pressure blast of water / sand in order to make a "1.5-centimeter cut through a 2-centimeter-thick steel plate in just a single minute." Of course, the biggest boon here is the device's inability to spark a fire, but the pressure cutter can also be used in instances where flammability isn't an issue, and it has already been demonstrated to local reporters last week. Although we're not sure just how soon these slicers, along with high-powered "blowers" to whisk away harmful fumes, will be put into action, they'll be hitting the fire departments of Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Sapporo first.[Via Fark]
How would your DS fare ... in a volcano?
That's one of the many tough questions Robert Falcon asks over at modojo.com. He decided to analyze the DS and PSP's ability to survive various natural disasters, including floods, earthquakes, and blizzards. Keep in mind that if your DS Lite somehow manages to find its way into a pit of boiling lava, you need to take pictures so we can post them. Seriously, that stuff is blogging gold.On a slightly more serious tack, has anyone had a DS or DS Lite miraculously survive when it had no right doing so? Let us know![Thanks, Justin!]
