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The Power Geeks #23
by DarthMolen on Nov.05, 2009, under Tech News
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What We Are Playing
JP – the game of Life got me this week. Huge project for work, some insane hours… but hey… My son crawled for the first time tonight and I got to see that! (oh and I snuck in a game or two of bejeweled blitz but Steven beat me last week)
I do wanna say how stoked I am about the two rants from John!
SM – WoW
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- China Shutting Down WoW?
- China’s General Administration of Press and Publications has ordered Netease to cease and desist
- No more subscription collection and no more new users, calling them “illegal behavior
- GAPP is the government armed that outlawed foreign investment in Chinese gaming
- Ministry of Culture is stating to the world that GAPP’s actions are “not appropriate”
- Steven you’ve been playing for years… how would you feel if a government agency walked in and said it was shutting the game down because presumably it is inappropriate??
- Closure of Pirate Bay Sparks 300% growth in piracy
- Did file sharing stop? heck no, it just went underground and grew by a measly 300%
- All pirate bay is a pointer to the actual media, a database of links
- People still want that content, supply and demand, copycat sites popped up everywhere
- What happened? Ppl used anonymizers to copy the indexes from the publicly available Pirate Bay
- Publish to Public Domain, and voila, anybody with a decent connection can now be a hub for P2P traffic
- Terminator Franchise on the Sales Block
- Joss Whedon on his blog in an open Letter to the owners of the Terminator Franchise offered 10Grand to buy it
- Hahahah, TMNT went for like $60 million
- Halcyon is selling the rights after the last movie “Terminator Salvation” tanked at $380 million worldwide (& dispute with Creditor)
- Rights for Terminator expected to go for 3X what TMNT sold for
- Halcyon originally bought it for $25 million from Mario Kassar, the original terminator producer (Cuthroat Island and Showgirls… Haha… but he also did Basic Instinct, CliffHanger and Stargate)
- Who was the director of the first 2 movies?? (James Cameron whose current project Avatar looks to be huge!! and hits theaters on Dec 18th link to trailer in Hd in the show notes!)
- All studios have expressed interest. One interested party you’ll never guess? (Summit Entertainment – Twilight)
- Original film was added to the National film Registry in 2008 as one of the 25 most influential films
- Welcome to the Future: UHDTV
- Original HDTV resolution? 1920 x 1080 (amount of pixels that go across and down the screen)
- UHD will be debuting in 10 year at 2 different rates – 3840 x 2160 and 7680 x 4320 (Holy HUGE batman!)
- thats 4 to 16 times bigger than the current blu-rays
- also offer 22.2 multichannel 3 dimensional sound… geez
- when can we expect this mass market? don’t hold your breath. 2023. But theatres probably 2017
- How big is your house going to be??? That’s you heck of a big screen to display those images!
- Doom Classic Released for IPhone
- Looks like a decent port of the original game… I may grab it in the future… but for now I’m just filing it under the cool category.
- Ridley Scott on board to direct a new Alien Movie
- He recently provided some details about the much rumored flick and said it will be a prequel to the 1979 classic Alien
- The question is will it ever get made… he’s currently set to film Brave New World, and then has at least 3 more lined up…
Geek-Speak
- Apple Looking to Kick-Start $30 all you can watch Video Plan
- People are starting to look
- I think one of the key things here is that Apple is saying it will not be dependant on a device (ie Apple Tv, etc…) but be linked to iTunes.
- I think this has a ways to go before it really gets legs… they have a lot of obstacles to overcome (Like cable companies… and current legal agreements lots of shows/ networks have with cable companies)
- but its the future, TV on the Internet. Apple Store, Zune store, Youtube, etc all do a la carte stuff.
- Internet Movie Firearms Database
- a pretty cool site and great resource if you’re curious about the weapons you’ve seen in a movie!
- Virtual Goods Market Exploding in US, are you being Psychologically scammed?
- WoW
- Wow’s Pet store accepts real money
- Realm transfers, faction transfers, race transfers all cost money also in WoW
- Facebook Games
- totally microtransaction oriented, spend money to excel
- D&D Online – Free to Play, extra stuff and new dungeons require in-game points which can either be earned or bought
- This all based on research done a long time ago by tah dah… Casino’s of all things… you see someone figured out if you used tokens or chips instead of real money
- you were more likely to gamble it all back to the casinos… it seems less like real money… that’s why most of these micro transactions are for points or credits or tokens of some kind.
- Start up Two Fish has even developed a turn key solution you can buy to add Microtransactions to your games
- micro-transaction games may seem like a new phenomenon here in the States, but they have been huge in Japan, China and Korea for years dominating over there since early 2006
- WoW
Deal of the Week
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Celebrating 20 Years of Wallace & Gromit begins November 4 with:
Telltale today joins Aardman Animations in celebrating Wallace & Gromit’s 20th anniversary by opening up free downloads of one of the critically-acclaimed series’ episodes, Muzzled! at www.freewallaceandgromit.com today through noon (PST) Monday, November 9.
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-Four game Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures series discounted to $20 November 4-8
-All episodes of Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures available on Xbox LIVE(R) November 4
-Wallace & Gromit Children’s Foundation and Penny Arcade charity drive kicks off November 4
-Order taking for the Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures Collector’s DVD begins November 4
Contest
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Intarweb Goldmine
- SUV Swipes Elephant in OK
- Your driving along minding your own business when “BAM” an animal lumbers onto the road. WHAM! AN ELEPHANT?
- Ok, deer I get, armadillo’s “check”, but an elephant?
- 29 yr old Asian elephant, 8 ft tall and 4,500
- Tusk went through sheet metal of door, slight leg wound
Man shocks family when shows up alive at his own funeral
- a man in Rio de Janero shocked his family and other mourners when he arrived at his own funeral Monday alive and well
- He was at a truck stop all night with friends and there was a badly disfigured and burned body the family mistakenly identified as him because of the similar clothing
- as soon as he found out he rushed to the cemetery to tell them he was ok!
Doghouse Systems
- New System – Under $1000 – Still handcrafted with care
DoghouseSystems VS
DoghouseSystems VS
-Performance in WoW is still great: 40 Frames / sec @ 1920 x 1280
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
Jinx
- Lifestyle apparel for your inner-geek
- Men’s, Women’s, all sizes
- Specific Collections? They got them,
- World of Warcraft – Home is where the hearthstone is, Baby-T = “My other stroller is [Epic]“, Tanks, Your Welcome
- New Sticker This week (JP)
- They even have hats – Quest-giver hat
- Stickers, Patches, Pins
- Go online jinx.com or call them @ 1-888-JINX-COM - 888.546.9266
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