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Jeremy – Beat Peggle – Is it wrong to want more? I dl’d Penguin Catapult 2 on my iPhone yesterday… how wrong and fun at the same time…

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

• Bioware / Mythic combine to make RPG Voltron
  • Bioware = Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Mass Effect
  • Mythic = MMORPG company DAOC, Warhammer Online
  • Bioware making Star Wars MMORPG (think KOTOR but online)
  • Probably bought the foundering company to help them with the engine specific stuff relating to an MMO
• Bethesda buys id Software
  • id is the company that brought you Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake (COMMANDER KEEN!!!) – Huge engine company
    • Id has just released Doom to the iPhone and Carmak says he wants all Id titles to follow (JP – comment)
  • Bethesda is traditionally a RPG company (think Elder’s scrolls and Fallout 3)
  • Trivia: Bethesda developed the first Madden NFL (based upon a new physics engine perfected in Gridiron!)
  • WTH do they want with id? Probably the engine work. Every good game needs a great engine.
• Google Mistook MJ searches for Net Attack  (JP)
  • Good and Bad of this… the hugeness of MJ
    
• Bloodbowl Released
  • Imagine a cross between Football, Role Playing, and Violent Fantasy World
  • Blood Bowl – Only place you can throw a kobold for a touchdown
  • Turn Based or Real Time
  • Reviews are generally decent, can only download it online
    • (JP – not big on most sports games… this looks like it might be fun though)
• Microsoft Marketing IE8 Online  (JP)
  • Dean Kain as a 1960′s pitch man
    S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. – Sharing heavily yet not sharing enough still
  • FOMS – Fear of Missing Something (Web Slices)
  • GRIPES – Gritting Rage Internet Pathetically Extra Slow (web accelerator)
  • OMGIGP – Oh My Gosh I’m gonna Puke (Privacy) - been made private on youtube, irony ftw!
  • Just sent out notices- if you DL IE8 (special version) you can get a free Nickleback track
• Apple’s Inability to regulate AppStore  (JP)
  • Kiddie porn in an App… Wired has a great article about how Apple is failing…
    • 3.0 added parental controls… Apple rejects an App labled for adults (17+) with
      some nudity, but left in a few apps without any warning that contain porn some of it of minors…

• Blizzard working on Faction Changing
  • official post
  • Set down current norms, explain factions
  • In the future, there will be a limited service that will allow a char to be transferred form Alliance to Horde (race change also?)
  • Pro’s and Con’s
• PS3 Looking to Emulate PS2 w/ Patent
  • Huge Gaff by Sony, not providing this. Lets talk about it
  • Klunky software been there but disabled for awhile now
  • This should be console gaming 101 these days…(JP)

• Stoned Wallabe’s Make Crop Circles
  
  • Wallabe’s are raiding the poppy crops on Tasmania (mini-kangaroo’s)
  • These crops are for “medicinal” purposes, morphine etc. 50% of the legal crops come from there
  • Same behavior in sheep
  • Hilarious… What if this is the cause of all crop circles?? High Animals pranking the humans…
• Flight Diverted after Man disrobes
  • US Airways flight from Charlotte to LA
  • 50 yr old man disrobes and wouldn’t put his clothes back on
  • Stewardesses tried to throw blankets on him
  • Law enforcement officers came back and had to take him down
    • • Diverted to Albequerque NM

She says she knows it is illegal… but in her defense… she loves him

Jeremy will present a review of Tweetflip a new iPhone Twitter client.
Justin the creator was gracious enough to hook me up to try this out since he heard I was very unhappy with all the other 5 -6 clients I had tried for my iPhone
(initial impressions on 12 hours of use) update awaiting Apple approval (better than tweetie?)

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