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The Power Geeks #13
by DarthMolen on Aug.28, 2009, under Tech News
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Somebody kidnapped Cole… Who could it be???
JP – Theory – SJ is behind it… looking for nutritional advice since he is returning to work fulltime!
What We Are Playing
JP – Just got Civ Revolutions for my iPhone
Steven – Same ol’ Same ol’
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare News (JP)
- Wii Version coming Nov. 10
- Just when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 hits, Wii will be getting a game 2 generations back
- Screenshots look, umm like they came from 1999 (JP – because they probably are.. I believe this is a straight port of the original)
- Activision has confirmed that the Treyarch-ported “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” will launch on Wii on November 10th.
- MW2 on the PC will be $60 (console gamers have paid this for awhile)
- Blu-Ray Tanking in PC Market
- Despite pop of Consumer Blu-Rays, Sale of PC Blu-Rays lagging behind
- Estimates from study say 2013 = 16.3% new PC’s will have the bigger drives
- Problems? Cost and limited library
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Sony Announced at GamesCom 2 big things for PSP (JP)
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- Digital Comics service
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- The first announced partner is Marvel, but many more are to be announced in the future pricing is still to come too
- PSP mini’s – a new iphone-esque app market for games under 100MB
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- Puzzle Scape, Sudoku, Tetris,and Zombie Tycoon are just a few of the titles for launch day
- Augmented Reality Apps Arrive (JP)
- First iPhone Augmented Reality app
- This is an app that’s purpose was something else, and threw A.R. in as an extra…. Just the tip of what we’ll see…
- a Much Better implementation for Android
- This is Augmented Traffic… a much better example of things to come…
- First iPhone Augmented Reality app
- U.S. Invites Russia to Share Mars Mission
- Eventually, First need to finish the ISS mission and Moon Flights
- NASA calling for lessons learned from ISS and to make the race to Mars multi-national
- Wikipedia to Require Editing Approval (for living ppl)
- Huge move for the online encyclopedia
- Erroneous and Malicious entries have long plagued the site and made it less-than-reliable
- Anonymous users can’t access and edit entries even today because of previous problems
- Now changes are flagged and invisible until a volunteer power-user approves the new content
- German site has been operating this way for the last year
- Huge paradigm shift, now the site is divided between regular and power users, altering Wikipedia’s implicit notion that everyone has an equal right to edit entries.
BlizzCon Coverage
- The All New Battle.NET
- Better Matchmaking
- Persistent Avatar
- RealNames
- Achievements encompassing all Blizzard games
- Map Marketplace
- Microtransactions and Virtual Chotchkis Ha!
- My Gosh, This is Starcraft 2!
- Yes, we all know that its been delayed 2010, but there is good reason after all
- Robust creation system
- Tight integration with Battle.NET
- 3rd person view between missions where you research, etc.
- Huge overarching storyline to span all three games
- Wow: Cataclysm, The New Expansion (1 post 2 rule them all)
- “Old world Changed”
- Explanation of how WoW Works (leveling and end-game)
- Changes to both paths
- Level – quests re-worked and streamlined
- Level – xp in battlegrounds and through PvP (already implemented)
- End – Path of the Titans (Super Glyphs): Adds questing back into end-game
- End – Guild Levels (guild talent tree: guild eq crafting, mass rezes, mass summons, etc)
- Class / Race changes not seen before: Human and Undead Hunters, Tauren Paladins, etc
- 2 new races: Goblins and Worg’s
- Total revamp on how stats work (more simplified system, no spell damage, attack power, etc)
- Hunters won’t use mana anymore
- Warlocks won’t have expendable shards
- NO NEW CLASS! WTH
- Diablo III trucks along
- New Monk Class Introduction
- When you read the bio of the Monk… It makes me think of EVERY awesome martial arts film I saw as a kid! SWEET!
- New Monk Class Introduction
Geek-Speak
- Marvel Done with Crappy Movie-based games
- “We are not doing movie-based games anymore. Actually, wait … we are not doing crappy movie-based games anymore. You can quote me on that.”-Ira Rubenstein VP of something or other at Marvel
- (Steven)This is a time old tradition. Hurry up and slap together some half-hazard piece of junk. call it a game. release it at movie time and make back ur $2 that you spent making the game in first place
- Anyone seen the PS2 version of Iron Man? Ugh.
- Times are looking up though, X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a critical success
Intarweb Goldmine
- Man Beats 2 With Hammer After Botched D&D Campaign
- We’ve all played with a power tripping DM before right? but try to kill the guy with a hammer?? C’Mon!
- Being a creepy Stalker… There’s an app for that!
- Hilarious spoof of Apple Ads
