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Google Games
According to TechCrunch, Google is working on a new big project. The company invested around $200 million into Zynga – a Web 2.0-based social network game developer located in San Francisco, California. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
So what is Google up to? Are they going to compete with Steam, Impulse and others later on? It’s certain that Google Games will be available this year. The system will probably be a big part of Google Chrome OS.
Infinity Ward & Activision Will Have Their Day in Court
August 5th 2010 will be the next date for another hearing between these two companies who produced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. There has been a total of 3 lawsuits filed against Activision from former employees.
Back on the 1st of March 2010 Activision fired West and Zampella, creators of the Call of Duty series, claiming they were insubordinate and broke their contract. They fought back with a lawsuit seeking $36,000,000 in unpaid royalties. And of course Activision counter-sued.
Since this mess West and Zampella have created Respawn Entertainment and signed on with EA.
And Activision has signed a 10 year contract with Bungie.
The current Call of Duty: Black Ops is being developed by Treyarch.
Source: airbornegamer
Blizzard employees revealed
Blizzard introduced the Real ID function to their users lately. But the majority of users who didn’t like it aren’t going to let this one go so easy, so someone created this website.
This is basically a blog where you can read all about Blizzard employees who just happen to leave their names on the Blizzard’s website. As you can see you can read a lot of private stuff from just seeing someone’s real name, like for example this:
There’s a lot more on that site so if you feel like reading private stuff about Blizzard’s employees go ahead.
New Age of Empires on the way?
Microsoft is looking for beta testers for a new title created by Robot Entertainment which consists of many Age of Empires series developers. The new game has a codename, it’s either Spartan or Project S. The rumor is kinda obvious – adding the best Age of Empires features to some cool and modern graphic design/engine. I personally can’t wait for more info about this. You can read a lot more about this on Kotaku.
Engineer Update: Day Three
Another day for the Engineer Update has come. Today Valve revealed a new Payload map.
Another VAC controversy
I think most of Team Fortress 2 players heard about www.tf2items.com, a website in which you can look at anyone’s backpack from the game with items, guns and hats. The creator of the whole system – Drunken F00l – got VAC banned lately after he leaked a way to get…the golden Wrench. That guy claims he found out from someone at Valve (?) how to get the Golden Wrench (the very rare Engineer class item).
Drunken F00l claims that the whole “random drop” system for the Golden item is bullshit and it was designed in a specific way. You just had to know the time in which it will drop and probably know the special blueprints on item crafting.
Anyway you can read the whole conversation between Drunken and some other people here (we hosted this conversation in case it disappears):
http://www.steamunpowered.eu/drunkenlog.htm
You can read more about this whole situation on official Steam forums.
Now lets get to the point, this is a proof that Valve Anti-Cheat system is not (fully) automated at all. As far as we know the user didn’t use any hack in-game to get the Golden Wrench, he used some sort of script to craft an item at specific time to get the special item. Additionally VAC Banned users don’t get their items removed – and he no longer has the Golden Wrench.
You can view the user’s profile by going here http://steamcommunity.com/id/df – leave a comment if you want.
We will keep you informed about the situation.
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Blizzard’s Real ID pissed off the gamers
Blizzard introduced the new feature to their forum community – Real ID.
This basically means that gamers from now on won’t be using their World of Warcraft or StarCraft 2 character names but their real names on official Blizzard forums.
A majority of gamers are pissed at Blizzard for this.
The Real ID feature will be available as soon as World of Warcraft Cataclysm add-on comes out (before StarCraft 2).
Is this the way of stopping the forum trolls? Giving out their real names? We will find out pretty soon.
PS It’s probably gonna end up like this:
Few words about ACTA
ACTA is a global anti-counterfeiting (and anti-piracy) agreement that might change the internet as we know it.
It would give federal officials the right to inspect your files without any warrant. It would make unauthorized possession of copyrighted material a federal crime.
And there’s nowhere in the developed world you’d be able to go to escape it, because they’re all on board: United States, Canada, European Union, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. A reddit user posted this information into the gaming section because many, many people in it have reason to be personally concerned by the passage of this law.
The user might be overreacting a little when you read about facism and all but he’s got few good points.
Here are some useful links to information about ACTA.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation explaining what ACTA is and what you can do about it.
Wikipedia describing ACTA in detail, including participatory countries, controversy, and some potential effects.
The leaked ACTA agreement itself, hosted on The Pirate Bay.
And finally someone provided a link to this very interesting review of ACTA from just a few weeks ago by the American University Washington College of Law. Experts on intellectual property from all over the world gathered in Washington DC to discuss ACTA, and this statement is their conclusion; it goes into detail about what’s wrong with ACTA and why. The review is about says that ACTA is being misrepresented by the powers that be. It violates WTO agreements and threatens public interests.
Read more about it at reddit.
Engineer Gets ‘The Wrangler,’ Total Sentry Control
The Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update continues, building up to its end-of-week release, with the Wrangler.
If you’ve ever wanted manual control for your sentries and a shield to protect them, this is the item for you!
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