Ever heard of the game World of Warcraft? It’s a massive multiplayer online game, basically hundred of thousands people playing against each other in a huge fantasyworld. The developers, Blizzard Entertainment, decided to create a new boss which infected a plague on nearby players, the plague was intended to stay within controlled areas, but managed to escape and infecting almost every player on the server(s).
Often the best parts of a videogame are moments you don’t see coming, and sometimes the developers can’t even anticipate them! Personally, i think this is absolutely great. This is an element of gameplay that even if unintended, which might not be the case, can have far-reaching consequences.
Blizzard has already released a patch which cured the world, unfortunately, it was limited to the game-world only.
So, i turned 25 last Friday (2 September) and that called for some celebration. Problem was that i wasn’t allowed to plan anything because my friends obviously planned something – i had strict orders to be standing well-dressed in the center of Gothenburg at 16.00 sharp, not a second late.
Not a big shocker here, rather a question of time. Google has announced Google Talk, their instant messenger application which features voip functionality. Google Talk is said to be based on the free Im-protocol called Jabber, which makes it really interesting since its a open protocol and should be rather easy to interface from other applications. The VOIP functions are custom though.
It was a matter of time, and now it’s done.
The official new name for the Longhorn operating system is Microsoft Windows Vista. Beta 1, targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3, 2005.
Here they are, the consoles that will be fighting for the spot in our living room later this year. Personally i think I’m gonna go with the ps3 because of MGS4, alto Nintendo is a strong candidate since you can download and play NES, GB and SNES games on it.
