Apr
23rd

Happy BirthDay GuildWars – 4 years

Free Storage Pane Giveaway

Lastly, to celebrate our anniversary, we have a limited-time offer where you can get a FREE pane of Xunlai Storage. Our upcoming promotion will be the ONLY way to get this special pane; it is extra, which means you can’t buy it later. Keep an eye on the website and we’ll explain how you can get this bonus storage.

The Zaishen Menagerie

In a beautiful, lush new explorable area in the Battle Isles, the Zaishen Order runs a tight business breeding and training all the common and prestige pets from around the world for their clientele. There are a few ways you can start your own collection in the Menagerie. Bring any pet with you or your Heroes to the Tamer in the Menagerie Grounds. The Tamer will check your pet’s evolution and unlock that tier and any lower tiers. Adding charmed pets to the Menagerie is absolutely free. You can also use Balthazar Faction or pay with Zaishen Coins and gold to have the Zaishen Order unlock and train evolutions of pets for you. This way, you’ve got several choices for unlocking all your pets.

The Zaishen Challenge Quests

Many are familiar with the Zaishen Challenge in the Battle Isles, and soon the Zaishen will extend their Challenge in the form of new quests. There will be three different types of Zaishen Challenge Quests: Mission, Bounty, and PvP.

* Mission quests send you to replay storyline missions from each campaign.
* Bounty quests dispatch you to kill boss monsters in dungeons, veteran missions, and explorable areas.
* PvP quests challenge you to win battles in various PvP types.

Each day, a new quest of each type is available in the Great Temple of Balthazar. You can complete these Zaishen Challenge Quests any time you wish; however, you can only have three in your quest log at once. The most comprehensive strategy is to finish challenge quests the day you get them, so you free up space in your quest log for the next day’s batch. Check back daily to take on the new Zaishen Challenge Quest experience, whether in relaxed solo runs or paired up with a friend or larger group for co-op play.

We’re finally at our fourth anniversary! We couldn’t have come this far without each and every one of you, so in addition to our upcoming Fourth Year Anniversary Update, we’re throwing a big party in your honor.

The festivities begin on Thursday, April 23 after the live update and run until noon on Wednesday, April 29.

Games Galore

You’re in luck! Whether you’re feeling “Lucky” (pun intended) or simply looking for some fun, the citizens of Shing Jea Monastery have once again reopened the Boardwalk. Found only in their village, the Shing Jea Boardwalk’s games of chance will satisfy the most robust adventurers, and the more fortune-favored.

If you’re after the competitive thrill, you can battle it out in the Dragon Arena or enter a Rollerbeetle Race.

* To enter the Dragon Arena, speak with Captain Li Sah.

* To test your skill at Rollerbeetle Racing, speak with the Rollerbeetle Trainer.

* Find these NPCs in Lion’s Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, Kamadan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar.

Presents for All

In true birthday fashion, we’ll once again have plenty of presents for you! Starting at 12:01 AM Pacific on Tuesday, April 28, characters turning four will find a gift in their inventories that has a new miniature from this year’s birthday series. Characters turning one, two, or three will receive a wrapped miniature from that corresponding set of past Guild Wars birthday presents. We give birthday presents year round, so each of your characters will receive gifts on their personal birthdays (creation dates).
Join the festivities and have some fun with us—after all, Guild Wars only turns four once!
Thanks again to each and every one of you for continued support. We wish you the best of adventures in the coming year. Enjoy yourselves and, just as important, enjoy the moment!

Birthday Celebration Event Calendar

Thursday, April 23

* Indulge your Sweet Tooth when Birthday Cupcakes start dropping from creatures across Tyria, Cantha, and Elona.
* See awesome hourly fireworks displays over Lion’s Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, Kamadan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar.

Friday, April 24

* Test your luck and skill at the Shing Jea Boardwalk! Starting at Noon Pacific (-7 GMT), this popular venue will once again open to the public in the Shing Jea Monastery.
* Challenge yourself and others in Rollerbeetle Races and the Dragon Arena. Starting at Noon, these mini-games will be accessible from Lion’s Arch, Shing Jea Monastery, Kamadan, and the Great Temple of Balthazar.

Tuesday, April 28

* Starting at 12:01 AM Pacific on Tuesday, April 28, characters turning four will find a gift in their inventories that has a new miniature from this year’s birthday series. Characters turning one, two, or three will receive a wrapped miniature from that corresponding set of past Guild Wars birthday presents. We give birthday presents year round, so each of your characters will receive gifts on their personal birthdays (creation dates).

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Apr
18th

Tiny Boxed Desktop PC

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I am not a big fan on hardware things, after all so far it’s just the Von Neumann Machine, the computers do the same exact things of 50 years ago, only faster thanks to miniaturization.

But, i was interested in this ‘new generations’ of gpus (graphic cards), nvidia made this ion technology, basically you can have a computer in your house that is big as a small box! Wow this is very cool don’t you think?

With this tiny box, you can surf the web, play flash, video, hd movie, and play some (not too new) games. It’s perfect solution (probably) for a media pc, or for netsurfers, probably not so good for hard-core gamers. And from what i heard it consumes only 30 watt of energy!!

Intel and Amd are building their solutions, which are chips which include cpu and gpu all in the same chip! So i think will see more little box pc, who knows if they can do little box pc for hardcore gamers too?

Well for the moment i don’t know, but i must say it, i am really tempted to buy this little cool pc box…

More videos.. just for curiosity

Solid State Drive (Hard-disk)

Intel WestMere (first 32 NM Cpu?)

AMD 24 cores Server

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Apr
18th

Evo Smart Console and UZEBOX

Evo is a Linux console, priced 379 usd.
Open Source Gaming system, powered by Linux (fedora).

Evo Smart Console

UzeBox is priced 95 usd.

The Uzebox is a retro-minimalist homebrew game console. It is based on an AVR 8-bit general purpose microcontroller made by Atmel. The particularity of the system is that it’s based on an interrupt driven kernel and has no frame buffer. Functions such as video sync generation, tile rendering and music mixing is done realtime by a background task so games can easily be developed in C. The design goal was to be as simple as possible yet have good enough sound and graphics while leaving enough resources to implement interesting games. Emphasis was put on making it easy and fun to assemble and program for any hobbyists. The final design contains only two chips: an ATmega644 and an AD725 RGB-to-NTSC converter.

UzeBox

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Apr
17th

RC TIGER

An online remote controlled battle between tanks.

Now for something completely different.
How would you like to be able to remote control real hardware over your internet connection? How about having a game of tank battle with friends and strangers! Real-time gaming with real hardware.
RCTIGER is that place.
No special software (just Flash 10 player) and you are driving your tank around in real time and shooting at other tanks. Nothing virtual; all real. The first telepresence gaming service in the world.

PLAY

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Apr
11th

America’s Army 3 videos

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Some video from the upcoming AA3.

G4g Entry

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Apr
10th

Adobe Flex Builder free for Unemployed Developers

Adobe is offering Flex Builder for free for Unemployed Developers.

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Apr
10th

25 Games for the price of 1

Strategy First is offering a package of 25 games for 60 bucks on Steam..
You can also buy singolar game, for example Flat Out 2 at 5 euro.

Well.. i don’t know, but thought could be a relevant news so decided to post it.

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Sale ends Monday, April 13, 2009.

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Apr
10th

Twelve Sky 2 – 12 Sky 2 Open Beta start April 23rd

Twelve Sky 2 Open Beta start April 23rd

“TwelveSky 2” is an adrenaline-pumping Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). Set in Ancient China, players are thrown into an age old conflict between three warring Clans. Centered on the reemergence of a new faction, players must fight for the honor of their brothers or turn their backs in their hour of need. Packed with jaw dropping martial art techniques, exotic weapons, armor, and pets, a robust war system, and a whole lot more, “TwelveSky 2” is primed to be one of the best Free-To-Play Player-versus-Player experiences to date!

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Apr
8th

Crysis Wars Free Trial Week

Crysis Wars trial week taking place from Thursday the 9th of April to Friday, 17th of April.

You will be able to download the complete Crysis Wars game, and install it on your computer for free. From then on, you will be able to play on LAN with your friends, without any time limitation. This is the best opportunity to check the gameplay, adjust the settings to your fitting (from best performance to best visuals), and train with your friends on LAN, in preparation for the online week. You will not be able to connect online during this time.

This Thursday 9th April, starting at 9pm CET, MyCrysis members will receive a browser message confirming that they can claim their Free Trial CD-Key. This Demo CDKey will only be valid for your MyCrysis account, and will allow you to play online for the whole week. By the end of the week, your demo CDKey will be deactivated and you will have to purchase the game to keep playing online.

Crysis Wars includes:

* Three diverse multiplayer modes including InstantAction, TeamInstantAction and PowerStruggle
* 21 maps ranging from large battlefields to smaller, more intimate battlegrounds with a diverse array of settings ranging from beaches to graveyards
* All weapons and vehicles released within the Crysis Universe

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Apr
4th

HUXLEY will be published by IJJI

HUXLEY is a mmo-fps, made with with the unreal engine, it probably will be free to play (with cash shop) and will be released in Q2 2009?

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