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- Wargaming has announced its plans at the Gamescon 2012
- Bigpoint is celebrating the Olympics by adding some fun summer athletics to its own games
- Combat Arms has released its latest map named “Nemexis Lab”
- PlanetSide 2 has released the full version of the Death Is No Excuse cinematic trailer
- Mabinogi has presented its new Bard character class
- ROSE Online has announced that upcoming expansion, Sea of Dawn arrives on August 7th
- SG Interactive is ringing in the summer with unique in-game opportunities for its games
- RIFT invites back all former players back to Telara through July 29
- Rusty Hearts has launched today its first major expansion, Reborn
- Gamania has launched the browser version of his MMORPG Soul Captor
| Wargaming has announced its plans at the Gamescon 2012 Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:39 AM PDT Wargaming has announced that this year, the company plans on unleashing the party of all parties at gamescom 2012 in Cologne, Germany. Attendees will get to experience a party like no other, with tantalizing go-go dancers, DJs spinning the latest hits, and best of all, live performances by Digitalism and, fresh from their appearance at [...] |
| Bigpoint is celebrating the Olympics by adding some fun summer athletics to its own games Posted: 26 Jul 2012 09:01 AM PDT Bigpoint is celebrating the Olympics by adding some fun summer athletics to its own games inspired by the world-famous five Olympic rings. Bigpoint's favourite games are all geared up for the celebrations and have added in athletic quests in London hotspots. Drakensang Online – Helios Games - Let the Helios Games begin! In the name of [...] |
| Combat Arms has released its latest map named “Nemexis Lab” Posted: 26 Jul 2012 08:28 AM PDT Nexon America has released a new update that comes with a new PVE map and presents the new Assassin characters for its MMOFPS, Combat Arms. The new PvE map, "Nexexis Lab" doesn't only require players to fight against Zombies and Mercenaries, hired by NEMEXIS, but also introduces the newest kind of enemy: Mech-Exoskeletons. The video [...] |
| PlanetSide 2 has released the full version of the Death Is No Excuse cinematic trailer Posted: 26 Jul 2012 07:51 AM PDT Sony Online Entertainment and Games ProSiebenSat.1 have released the full version of the Death Is No Excuse cinematic trailer of its MMOFPS Planetside 2. The game is currently in beta testing. |
| Mabinogi has presented its new Bard character class Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:47 AM PDT Nexon America has released a new video that presents the Mabinogi‘s new Bard character class. The Bard class, also known as the "Battlefield Maestro," supports team battles with the power of music. Armed with a Battle Mandolin, the Bard brings to fights seven new skills to help themselves and their teammates. Some of the skills [...] |
| ROSE Online has announced that upcoming expansion, Sea of Dawn arrives on August 7th Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:55 AM PDT Gravity Interactive, has announced the launch of the ROSE Online‘s upcoming expansion, Sea of Dawn. Beginning August 7th, players can for the first time begin a new story arc, which brings back a fearsome enemy but with the hope of freeing the precious Goddess Luna. Sea of Dawn introduces a number of game changes, including [...] |
| SG Interactive is ringing in the summer with unique in-game opportunities for its games Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:57 AM PDT SG Interactive is ringing in the summer with unique in-game opportunities across its three anime-inspired casual MMOG’s. Grand Chase: Heroes players can experience a new max-level dungeon, Trickster Online gamers can instantly advance as many as 100 levels and Pangya players will see a new web-based board game that provides adventuring golfers with unique in-game [...] |
| RIFT invites back all former players back to Telara through July 29 Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:44 AM PDT RIFT invites back all former players back to Telara to sample the latest and greatest content that Trion's MMORPG has to offer. Any previous subscribers with characters above level 20 can log in for free through Sunday, July 29th and experience unrestricted access to recently-added features, including Conquest, four new zones of Instant Adventure, the [...] |
| Rusty Hearts has launched today its first major expansion, Reborn Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:43 AM PDT Perfect World Entertainment Inc. has launched today Reborn, the first major expansion for the action MMO Rusty Hearts. Players can look forward to new dungeons, bosses, and challenges, in addition to a wealth of new content, including new Weapon Focuses and skill sets for each character, a new Pet System, ranked PvP with weekly rewards, [...] |
| Gamania has launched the browser version of his MMORPG Soul Captor Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:07 AM PDT Gamania has launched the browser version of his MMORPG Soul Captor. This version is now accessible via any web browser after downloading a small plugin. Gamania has appealed to the Kalydo technology, which allows players to access the game immediately without having to download the client. According to the way in which the player plays, Kalydo [...] |
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They say bad things come in threes, and that was definitely true for folks who rely on the Internet for communications and cloud-based data centers today. The woes started this morning when Google Talk went down and stayed down for several hours. Then Microsoft's Windows Azure service went belly up in Europe, followed by some users running into outage issues with Twitter. And without Twitter, how are you going to complain about the other services being down?
You may have heard that Valve is hard at work porting its Steam client to the Linux platform, but it's not because the company has developed a sudden affinity towards the open source space. The real reason is because Valve views Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 release as a "catastrophe" in the making for the PC industry at large, or at least that's the viewpoint held by Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director at Valve.
Shares of Zynga plummeted 40 percent to $3.03 in after market trading after the social game developer reported a net loss for its second quarter ended June 30, 2012. Zynga tried to put a positive spin on the fact that its Q2 revenue of $332 million represents a 19 percent year-over-year increase and that its six months year-to-date revenue of $653 million is a 25 percent year-over-year increase, but the numbers still added up to a $22.8 million net loss for the quarter, and a $108.1 million net loss for the six month period.
It might be awhile before there's an officially certified 802.11ac standard, but in the meantime, companies are ready and willing to forge ahead with router models based on draft specifications, just as we saw in the draft 802.11n days. Asus is one of them, having just announced the launch of its RT-AC66U 5G Wi-Fi router with greater than gigabit wireless speeds on the 5GHz band.
While Samsung and Apple continue to tangle in court over patent infringement claims brought on by the latter, the former spends its spare time shipping smartphones, and a great number of them at that. In the second quarter of 2012, Samsung figures it shipped 52.1 million smartphones, or nearly double that of its closest rival, Apple, which shipped 26 million iPhone devices in the same time period.
Even with all the talk about new directions like Trinity, 
Google just unveiled 
They say bad things come in threes, and that was definitely true for folks who rely on the Internet for communications and cloud-based data centers today. The woes started this morning when Google Talk went down and stayed down for several hours. Then Microsoft's Windows Azure service went belly up in Europe, followed by some users running into outage issues with Twitter. And without Twitter, how are you going to complain about the other services being down?
You may have heard that Valve is hard at work porting its Steam client to the Linux platform, but it's not because the company has developed a sudden affinity towards the open source space. The real reason is because Valve views Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 release as a "catastrophe" in the making for the PC industry at large, or at least that's the viewpoint held by Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director at Valve.
Shares of Zynga plummeted 40 percent to $3.03 in after market trading after the social game developer reported a net loss for its second quarter ended June 30, 2012. Zynga tried to put a positive spin on the fact that its Q2 revenue of $332 million represents a 19 percent year-over-year increase and that its six months year-to-date revenue of $653 million is a 25 percent year-over-year increase, but the numbers still added up to a $22.8 million net loss for the quarter, and a $108.1 million net loss for the six month period.
It might be awhile before there's an officially certified 802.11ac standard, but in the meantime, companies are ready and willing to forge ahead with router models based on draft specifications, just as we saw in the draft 802.11n days. Asus is one of them, having just announced the launch of its RT-AC66U 5G Wi-Fi router with greater than gigabit wireless speeds on the 5GHz band.
While Samsung and Apple continue to tangle in court over patent infringement claims brought on by the latter, the former spends its spare time shipping smartphones, and a great number of them at that. In the second quarter of 2012, Samsung figures it shipped 52.1 million smartphones, or nearly double that of its closest rival, Apple, which shipped 26 million iPhone devices in the same time period.
For privacy-minded types and people in repressed parts of the world, Tor is a valuable tool. The anonymity-enabling onion routing service does have a few drawbacks, however, including its sometimes sub-optimal connection speeds. Tor's browsing speeds have gotten noticeably better over recent months and years, and the poor connections may disappear completely if a proposal that's currently under consideration is adopted: actually paying people and organizations with fast connections to act as a Tor exit relay.
Netflix's recent return to profits must have made CEO Reed Hastings a wee bit giddy; buried deep in the company's new earnings report was a paragraph that teased the possibility of a Netflix-HBO partnership. Will we someday be able to stream Game of Thrones? In a word: no. After the press circulated the speculation yesterday, HBO promptly released a statement squashing the rumor with extreme prejudice.
San Jose's networking kingpin Cisco is planning to hand out about 1,300 pink slips, which equates to 2 percent of its workforce, as it attempts to cope with a sluggish global economy and flat sales. The latest round of layoffs come just one year after Cisco announced 6,500 job cuts, but reducing jobs is not a cure-all to Cisco's problems, nor is a weak economy the only thing the company has to worry about.
If you're into sports, then you know how maddening it can be to see the referees penalize teams like crazy in one game, and then swallow their whistles in the next. That makes it hard for players and coaches to decipher the rules, which is exactly how Samsung must be feeling right about now. Not only are different courts around the world issuing opposite rulings in Samsung's patent fight with Apple, at least one is also factoring in the size of Samsung's devices, or so it seems.
Apple late Tuesday announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 third quarter ended June 30, 2012, and the numbers are nothing short of obscene. All those iDevices, app sales, and other products and services combined to rake in an $8.8 billion profit on quarterly revenue of $35 billion, compared to $7.3 billion profit on $28.6 billion in revenue during the same quarter one year ago. Nonetheless, analysts collectively shrugged their shoulders and said, 'Meh, it could have been better.'
Qualcomm's newest mobile development platform is a quad-core tablet powered by a Snapdragon APQ8064 S4 Pro system-on-chip (SoC) clocked at 1.5GHz, an Adreno 320 GPU, and 2GB of RAM. It runs on Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and has a 10.1-inch display pumping out 1366x768 pixels. All that juicy hardware (save for the screen resolution, which falls well short of the iPad 3's Retina Display and other Android models boasting Full HD 1080p panels) adds up to a powerful Mobile Development Platform (MDP/T) intended to give programmers a potent device to develop, test, optimize, and showcase their latest apps and games.
It's no longer hard to imagine a world where Web apps are just as powerful and popular as—if not more than—desktop apps. As inviting as such a world may seem to many, there is still plenty of work that needs to be done before web apps can give native apps a run for their money. Mozilla, for one, is doing its bit. We're not talking about the highly ambitious Firefox OS (formerly Boot to Gecko) here. Instead,we're referring to something much more basic: Web app support.
In recent times, we've become quite used to a steady stream of Windows 8 news, but the same can not be said to be true of Windows RT. Details of this ARM-friendly version of Windows have been few and far between. But then that's what the rumor mill is for, isn't it? According to an unconfirmed report by the Taiwan-based 
