When a gamer is first introduced to the online gaming community they quickly hear about the concept of clans. A clan is a group of gamers who form a team to take part in online competitions and leagues. In recent years clans have moved away from being large groups of people to becoming small single team clans who play in a single competition.
As a result the difference between a clan and a team has become blurred. This League is a system designed to give a gamer the ability to manage their clans and hopefully to create a clear distinction between the concept of a clan and a team. To do this the system allows the management of an overall clan, and within the clan the clan members can become members of multiple teams.
This allows a clan to be a large group of members who can create multiple teams of different skill levels for different games. Another goal of this functionality is to encourage the development of highly skilled teams. Being able to form a large group of gamers increases the chance of attracting more skilled players and putting them into a single team. The team you play in is no longer a clan made up of the first 5 friends you have convinced to join you, but an organised entity of people with the same skill level
By now most people would have replayed the original Mass Effect and saved their games for number 2, but number 3 might be trickier. It seems to be a problem that in certain missions in Mass Effect 2 will have a profound effect on the game. Bioware has smade a statement saying "Dead is dead. Mass Effect 3, as with the rest of the trilogy, is Shepard’s story. If you have a dead Shepard at the end of Mass Effect 2, that saved game won’t import into Mass Effect 3. You can play Mass Effect 3 if you died in Mass Effect 2 of course, but you’ll have to create a new Shepard. Harsh? Yes. But we wouldn’t be serious about the concept of a suicide mission if you couldn’t die and your death didn’t have serious consequences."
Will it wreck the game and the saves if this happens to you?
Even though the game is not set in the past, you nonetheless pay a visit back in time. It seems that the ESRB has described the game as: "in single-player mode, players conduct missions on an unnamed Japanese island during World War II and then move into the modern day through jungles, deserts, and snowy terrain." It does look like you get to progress from there, but only time will tell once the game is out.
The sequel to the 2006 hit, this game has the makings for it to be quite enjoyable. If you click here, you can watch a trailer to demonstrate some whacky things to do in this GTA sandbox style game. Stuff like using a grappling hook to get onto a flying helicopter or using a propane tank full of gas to launch yourself with after shooting it seems a bit farfetched, but quite entertaining. In essence you are trying to overthrow a dictator and you can do missions and the game anyway you want. The game comes out on the 26th of March on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
It seems that Facebook is gathering more attention, especially since changing layouts AGAIN, amongst other things. Now EA has announced that every Americans favourite NFL/Grid Iron game is coming to Facebook. EA just recently bought a social games developer called Plumfish for a cool $300 million dollars. So now prepare for status message updates like this from all your American Football loving friends: “Pits has won the 2010 team Super Bowl with the Miami Dolphins with a touch down in the last minute.”
Do you think that Facebook or other social networking sites have been swamped with too many games which leads to annoying friends or simply not enough time to play them?
This game is a direct sequel to Modern Warfare, which has branched out from the original Call of Duty games series which were primarily based on World War II and moved onto the present timeline in fictionalised war. This game follows on from the events in the first game, so if you have not played the first Modern Warfare, you may not understand some bits, but you can still play it all the same, just like I did.
This game is a First Person Shooter which is available on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC systems.
The game was developed by Infinity Ward and Distributed by Activision in the retail stores and the game is also available on Steam.
You can visit the official website for the game here.
The PC version of the game needs the following minimum requirements:
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Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better supported
Graphics cards: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600XT or better
Hard Drive: 12GB of free hard drive space
Other requirements: 1GB of RAM and Internet connectivity for activation and multiplayer gaming.
Today Steam is going down for some basic maintenance. So if you rely on Steam for game matchmaking and lobbies, you are out of luck. Also the Steam Community, downloading and purchasing games from the Steam store will be unavailable. It will be down from 6pm Thursday USA time, so make sure you are logged in just in case there is a problem, as it will be down for 3 hours if all goes according to plan.
Do you think there is a way to do better maintenance schedules for Steam?
In a case that may have impacted Aussies internet users and companies like the immediate threat of the great URL filter, the case was contested in court with ISP iiNet taking on Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), who represented most of the heavyweights in the music and move industries over copyrighted material. The premise of the case was simple; they attempted to persuade the court that iiNet was legally liable for alleged copyright infringement activity by its customers. In a far fetched attempt, they tried to blame the service provider for allowing piracy to occur, just by providing the internet connection service. iiNet has won the court case, but if AFACT won, the laws could have changed with active filtering for copyrighted work being used and forced disconnections for end users. AFACT have to pay costs and it is good to see that providing a product or service does not legally hold you responsible for end users activities.
Are you happy with this outcome? What other ways can piracy be stopped?
