| World of Warcraft Midget Humpers from Hell (World of Warcraft)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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World of Warcraft player known as 'Athene' has gathered 200 Gnomes to raid Ironforge and Stormwind in a RP server. Their goal is to hump everything in sight and establish their group now known as the 'Midget Humpers from Hell'.
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| IRS Saves Millions by Using Second Life to Market Its Employment Opportunities (Second Life)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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In 2008, the IRS project team established a presence in the Second Life virtual world with the goal of exploring the potential use of this environment for recruitment and training purposes. The team has created the IRS Careers Island and constructed a sky platform with an IRS Careers Center and an IRS Education Center. A number of building design configurations have been tested. A number of education and entertainment features have also been built to attract residents to the simulation (sim). All basic construction has been completed and the sim has been opened to the general population in Second Life since February 2009.
Nearly identical to brand marketing in the physical world marketplace, brand marketing in the SL virtual world involves placing brand messaging in high traffic venues. Unlike the physical world, the IRS has actually built its own venue that provides excellent marketing opportunities.
In the physical world, the IRS could spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, on sponsoring a race car that displays their brand in a field of thirty or more other cars. In the SL virtual world, the IRS has spent a few thousand dollars to build complete entertainment and communications venue that includes a race course.
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| Wolfenstein: Almost there (Wolfenstein)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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Activision has released Wolfenstein's launch trailer as the game will hit the shelves on August 18 in North America. In Europe, it's a bit more complicated as it seems only the PC version will be released next week whereas console players will have to wait until August 28.
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| Mass Effect 2: New screens and alien details (Mass Effect 2)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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"pcgames.de" published new screens,concepts and info from the upcoming Bioware game Mass Effect 2. Translation inside.
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| Rage Designer Promises No Monster Closets (Rage)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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One of the major criticism's lobbed at Doom 3 was its reliance on a "monster closet" system for spawning enemies into a level when trigger points were reached. It may have provided for plenty of frights on the first play through, but many gamers simply memorized the spawn points making short work of Zombies, Cyberdemons, and Hell Knights.
With Rage, the developers are trying to avoid the criticisms of the past and make gamers rethink the concept of an "id game." In a recent interview with 1UP, Matt Hooper, leader designer on Rage, gave strong reassurance that gamers have seen the last of those dreadful closets.
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| The Past Week on Steam - 8/14 (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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This week saw the release of Death to Spies: Moment of Truth and PlayFirst releasing 10 of their games on Steam
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| Linden Lab Announces 2nd Life Support for Plug-Ins (Second Life)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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As a part of his keynote presentation today at this year's Second Life Community Convention, Linden Lab's Tom Hale has unveiled a new plug-in framework for the Second Life viewer. The Second Life viewer has hitherto been restricted to rendering media content that was supported either by its browser component or by the use of Apple's Quicktime. Quicktime is certainly quite workable, but only provides a subset of the extensive range of potentially viewable media that's out there.
The introduction of the LLMedia API looks to change all that, by allowing a straightforward plug-in system to extend the viewer's ability to render various arbitrary kinds of parcel media.
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| Over 100,000 nerds sign Starcraft II Lan petition (StarCraft II)
August 16, 2009 at 12:00 am
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Destructoid:
"When Blizzard announced that Starcraft II would be ditching LAN support, people got upset. Local play has been a staple of Starcraft for centuries, and it was quite shocking to see that the sequel would not allow for that most ancient and noble of nerd traditions, the LAN party. Naturally, an online petition started up."
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