NCsoft also invites players who have left for 60 days or above back to the world of Atreia by offering them 50 hours’ game time for 30 days. In addition, they will also be given items used to redeem gear.
Superheroes and villains will be able to join new battles in three Duos, an Alert, and two Raids and get their hands on the brand- new power set – Earth Powers.
Last month, ArenaNet opened closed beta sign-ups for Guild Wars 2 for just over 48 hours and had attracted over 1 million player sign-ups. The larger scale closed beta will soon begin in late March but it is still limited and signing up doesn’t guarantee you the access to adventure in the land of Tyria.
Turbine has just released the new trailer of the sixth update of The Lord of the Rings Online, Shores of the Great River. The new update adds a brand new region, the new Soldier on Landscape feature, as well as expands the epic story.
She moves just like flashlight and attacks with windstorm and lightning. Her storm attack is full of power. She can also release various splendid combo skills, just free as the air.
After gPotato announced yesterday that its free-to-play fantasy title Prius Online is going to shut down from March 27th, 2012, today comes another gPotato game – Luna Plus, its anime inspired MMO, which is also going to join the shut down family on March 27th, 2012.
New capsuleers often build their initial fleet and pad their wallets with the lucrative Missions offered by Agents found at stations in all corners of the EVE universe. Mission running provides relatively reliable and secure income that players can use to fund the multitude of other careers and adventures that they embark on as they build their empire in EVE Online.
Unlike other TPS games focuses on battle, Squad Flow chose the story telling style through the mission system. The player will be one of SP5 unit to save a girl named Reah chased by unidentified robots.
In a recent interview with Through the Pixl Glass, Kate Welch, the Web Team Lead for Guild Wars 2 at ArenaNet, delivered the scoop on some unsung side of the game, including the Collector’s Edition and a new Guild Wars 2 website.
Gamedp, a game platform (www.gamedp.com), releases the browser-based MMOPRG -- Crystal Saga at 21:00 March 12th (EST). Along with the launch, a Starter Kit Giveaway Event will be held to give out starter kit codes, and special in-game gifts are waiting for those eager gamers.
Players from Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, it’s time to partner up with your best mates for the ultimate showdown in the upcoming qualifiers! Stand to face off against the champion team from Dragon Nest China in a 3V3 and 1V1 battle for the ultimate claim to glory along with attractive prizes!
We have released two exclusive Co-op gameplay videos from the beta of Diablo III, that shows the Demon Hunter, and the Barbarian in action. The game takes place on Sanctuary, a world of dark fantasy. Unbeknownst to most of its inhabitants, Sanctuary was saved some twenty years ago from the demonic forces of the underworld [...]
Turbine has just released the new trailer of the sixth update of The Lord of the Rings Online, Shores of the Great River. The new update adds a brand new region, the new Soldier on Landscape feature, as well as expands the epic story
Firefall has launched a new developer diary centered in the game open world. Bobby Ross and Nick Keith, builders of this world, explain how the jetpacks allows the players to travel great distances and explore every corner of the game. An example of the great sights you can see is “Mushroom Island“, a huge rock [...]
Turbine has released a new trailer from Update 6: Shores of the Great River - The Journey Towards Rohan Begins from Lord of the Rings Online. The trailer shows off some of the new locations players can scout out in the latest update. Enjoy! http://www.mmorpg.com http://www.lotro.com
From the "We're not sure how we feel about this" department: People attending the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas have a new way to get online -- homeless people. The Bartle Bogle Hegarty marketing firm has launched a non-profit drive called "Homeless Hotspots." Basically, they supply homeless Austin residents with a 4G MiFi hotspot; the homeless people wear a shirt listing their name and access info for the hotspot; and you give the homeless person a donation (which he then keeps) to use the connection.
It's a kind of interesting setup that solves an accessibility problem and puts cash in the pockets of those who need it, but a lot of people are expressing unease about it. A lot of the discontent revolve around the wording on the homeless people's shirts, which read "I'm <insert name here>, a 4G hotspot." Some would rather the shirts say "I'm running a 4G hotspot" or something similar.
Semantics aside, there's no questioning the good that comes from the program: BBH supplied the hotspot devices for free, and the homeless "managers" get to keep the money they raise from people using the service. (BBH suggests a donation of $2/15 minutes, and allows you to donate to specific managers/hotspots via PayPal on the homelesshotspots.org website if you don't have cash on hand.) BBH, of course, gets a case study in new advertising/message campaigns.
As we said, we're not really sure how to feel about this. Offhand, it seems like a decently well-intentioned, innovative idea, but turning the homeless into roaming 4G hotspots just seems like something from a dystopian sci-fi novel. What are your thoughts?
Remember when we thought that Diablo III was going to launch in 2011? Ah, those were the days. But Blizzard put a halt to that rumor train soon after the launch of D3's closed beta test, pushing the game back to Q2 2012 to avoid releasing a game that was "almost ready." They apparently don't want to release "almost ready" components of the game, either: Blizzard recently said that Diablo III won't include PvP when it launches.
Game director Jay Wilson dropped the bomb on the Battle.net website: As we're counting down the days until we're ready to announce a release date for Diablo III, we've come to realize that the PvP game and systems aren't yet living up to our standards. Today, we wanted to let you know that we've made the difficult decision to hold back the PvP Arena system and release it in a patch following the game's launch. After a lot of consideration and discussion, we ultimately felt that delaying the whole game purely for PvP would just be punishing to everyone who's waiting to enjoy the campaign and core solo/co-op content, all of which is just about complete.
On the positive side, Wilson promises that PvP will include new achievements, maps, a "personal progression system" and a matchmaking system -- when it gets around to launching, that is.
While the PvP setback is a bit disheartening, I for one appreciate that Blizzard has high quality standards and plans on releasing the majority of the game rather than delaying the super-hyped title even further. (Although an official release date would be even better.) What do you think about Diablo III's PvP delay?
Consumers downloaded the Windows 8 Consumer Preview over a million times in less than 24 hours, but we're willing to bet that the majority of those downloads came from the technically inclined rather than, say, your parents. The tech world has already proclaimed what it likes and doesn't like in Windows 8 -- but do everyday people really care if W8 has an enhanced contact app? Can everyday people even locate the contact app in W8? Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo decided to put the W8 interface to the test by plopping his elderly father down in front of the new OS with no introduction.
As you can see, Pappa Pirillo struggled to find his way back to the Metro home screen after opening Windows Explorer. What does this prove? Nothing, really -- it's far from a scientific test. But anecdotally, the video shows that the loss of a Start button and the schizoid Metro/Classic interface will likely cause headaches in everyday non-techie users who think that, say, Internet Explorer is the Internet. Or, as Pappa Pirillo says, "Are they trying to drive me to Mac?"
The boutique system builders at AVADirect tell us they've updated their professional server and workstation systems to now include Intel Xeon E5 processor options. Intel's E5 Xeon chips are based on the chip maker's Sandy Bridge-E architecture and come in quad-core, six-core, and eight-core flavors starting with the E5 2603 (four cores, 1.8GHz, 10MB cache, 80W TDP) on up to the E5 2690 (eight cores, 2.9GHz, 20MB cache, 135W TDP).
AVADirect offers the latest E5 Xeon processors in four different configuration types, including 1U, 2U, and 4U/Pedestal servers manufactured by Supermicro, and various workstations, culminating in AVADirect's E5 Xeon Supercomputer, a powerhouse system that starts at $4,759.73 and includes a Lian Li Armorsuit PC-80 tower case, Asus Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard, a pair of Intel Xeon E5 2603 processors, Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 CPU coolers, 8GB of Crucial DDR3-1333 memory, PNY Quadro 600 graphics card, Nvidia Tesla C2075 compaion processor, 1TB Seagate hard drive, Sony 24X DVD burner, and a Silverton Strider ST1200 power supply. Upgrade options abound depending on how deep your budget allows. For an additional $14,718, for example, you can upgrade the RAM to 256GB.
You can view/configure AVADirect's Intel E5 Xeon Servers here, workstations here, and Tesla HPC Supercomputer here.
It's been several months since Lian Li's PC-Q05 was tipped online, reportedly the first chassis to support the new Thin ITX or Thin Mini-ITX format developed by Intel. The super slim chassis then made an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January, and it's been relatively quiet ever since. Lian Li's lips are still sealed, though there's now an official product page for the PC-Q05 filled with glamor shots.
The PC-Q05 is an all-aluminum chassis that weighs a mere 1.76 pounds. It measures 11.18 inches (W) x 1.85 inches (H) x 12.08 inches (D), plenty small enough to accommodate boards built around Intel's Thin Mini-ITX form factor, which must limit the I/O shield to 25mm (0.98 inches) high rather than 44mm (1.73 inches) as found on regular Mini-ITX boards.
Lian Li equipped the PC-Q05 with a pair of 2.5-inch drive bays, so it's possible to install a speedy solid state drive (SSD) for OS chores and a larger capacity mechanical hard drive for storage duties. The case will be available in silver and black, though when and for how much are details Lian Li has yet to reveal.
It's the beginning of a new week and what better way to kick off the humdrum of another Monday than with a juicy rumor? As the latest chatter goes, CNN is apparently really, really close to acquiring the social media news site Mashable for a cool $200 million, perhaps more, and could make an official announcement about the takeover as early as tomorrow.
Reuters blogger Felix Salmon was first to report CNN's interest in acquiring Mashable, claiming that a "little bird" told him at South by Southwest that it was essentially a done deal and would be announced tomorrow. More little birds have since started chirping.
Based on information obtained from "three people with knowledge of the talks," The New York Times today is reporting that the Time Warner company is in "advanced talks" with Mashable, though CNN officials have so far denied that an announcement would be made on Tuesday. Other than that, both sides have declined to comment, which suggests the two are at least talking about a takeover, even if no deal is imminent.
Media sites have been changing hands at a somewhat rapid pace in the last year or so, though it's usually AOL that does the buying. In September 2010, AOL announced it would acquire TechCrunch for $25 million, and then followed that up by buying Huffington Post for $315 million.
Baking a $35 Raspberry Pi sounds like an easy recipe, but when you mix up the ingredients, the result is a sour system that should't be served to the masses. That's what happened to the first batch of Raspberry Pi devices. The cooks responsible for putting together Raspberry Pi systems inadvertently baked in the wrong type of Ethernet jacks, a minor "manufacturing hiccup" that could delay the shipment of some units.
"As you'll have noticed, there's been a bit of a delay in shipping the first batch of Raspberry Pis out to people. This is because of a hardware parts substitution that was made in the factory by accident: specifically, where we'd specified jacks with integrated magnetics in the BOM and schematics, the factory soldered in non-magnetic jacks," the Raspberry Pi team stated in a blog post. "No magnetics means no network connection. We've known about this for four days now, but we haven't been able to tell you about it because it meant we had to do some further tests to make sure that nothing else was affected."
Things aren't as bad as they could be. The Raspberry Pi team said it's a "very minor problem to fix" and that the factory making these things is nearly finished ripping out the non-magnetic Ethernet jacks and replacing them with the correct ones on the first set of boards. The Raspberry Pi Foundation expects the first batch to still ship out as scheduled, though later batches may suffer a "slight delay" if the company runs into trouble sourcing magnetic jacks.
It was almost a month ago that Mozilla announced it would be working on a Metro version of Firefox, however an important question remained. Would Metro Firefox be little more than a live tile that was more of a pain than it was worth? Or would Microsoft allow them to take over default access for opening links and other non-sandbox friendly operations? We finally have an answer, and even though it is still somewhat vague, it looks like Microsoft is going to great lengths to make sure users can replace Internet Explorer in metro should they feel so inclined.
According to Firefox developer Brian Bondy, in addition to classic desktop and Metro web browsers, Microsoft is going to allow a third category of app called "Metro style enabled desktop browsers". Apps in this category would have a desktop version similar to what you are using today, and a metro style counterpart that would take care of operations done in a non-desktop environment natively. For example; if you click a link while in a Metro application, you get a Metro version of Firefox. If you click that same link in a desktop application, you get the desktop version.
By creating a third category of app Microsoft is also choosing to except web browsers from certain features such as Metro sandboxing, and unlock additional API's such as background processing and extensions. These permissions are only unlocked in Metro mode however if you choose to make it the default browser, and the reasons for this are still somewhat unclear. Mozilla is planning to release the Metro and Desktop version of their Windows 8 browser in one package downloadable from the Windows Store, though they admit it remains to be seen if Microsoft will approve that approach since the policy at the moment is Metro only.
Microsoft spent years in court defending itself anti-trust allegations in regards to Internet Explorer, so it makes sense they might spend a bit of extra time making sure they play nice with competitors now so history doesn't repeat itself.
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From the "We're not sure how we feel about this" department: People attending the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas have a new way to get online -- homeless people. The Bartle Bogle Hegarty marketing firm has launched a non-profit drive called "Homeless Hotspots." Basically, they supply homeless Austin residents with a 4G MiFi hotspot; the homeless people wear a shirt listing their name and access info for the hotspot; and you give the homeless person a donation (which he then keeps) to use the connection.
Remember when we thought that Diablo III was going to launch in 2011? Ah, those were the days. But Blizzard put a halt to that rumor train soon after the launch of D3's closed beta test, pushing the game back to 
The boutique system builders at AVADirect tell us they've updated their professional server and workstation systems to now include Intel Xeon E5 processor options. Intel's E5 Xeon chips are based on the chip maker's Sandy Bridge-E architecture and come in quad-core, six-core, and eight-core flavors starting with the E5 2603 (four cores, 1.8GHz, 10MB cache, 80W TDP) on up to the E5 2690 (eight cores, 2.9GHz, 20MB cache, 135W TDP).
It's been several months since Lian Li's PC-Q05 was tipped online, reportedly the first chassis to support the new Thin ITX or Thin Mini-ITX format developed by Intel. The super slim chassis then made an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January, and it's been relatively quiet ever since. Lian Li's lips are still sealed, though there's now an official product page for the PC-Q05 filled with glamor shots.
It's the beginning of a new week and what better way to kick off the humdrum of another Monday than with a juicy rumor? As the latest chatter goes, CNN is apparently really, really close to acquiring the social media news site Mashable for a cool $200 million, perhaps more, and could make an official announcement about the takeover as early as tomorrow.
Baking a $35 Raspberry Pi sounds like an easy recipe, but when you mix up the ingredients, the result is a sour system that should't be served to the masses. That's what happened to the first batch of Raspberry Pi devices. The cooks responsible for putting together Raspberry Pi systems inadvertently baked in the wrong type of Ethernet jacks, a minor "manufacturing hiccup" that could delay the shipment of some units.
It was almost a month ago that Mozilla announced it would be working on a
