Star Wars Galaxies XP Frenzy

A new hotfix when live across all US and European severs early this morning for Star Wars Galaxies that just about doubled XP for everything and will most likely be in effect until the game closes down.It seems SOE is trying to make the last few months of SWG as enjoyable as possible for the remaining players.Bonus EverythingEveryone logged in will earn Double XP, Double GCW Points, Double Heroic Tokens, Double GCW Tokens from Battlefields and City Invasions, Double Pet XP and Loyalty, Double Duty Mission Tokens, Double Chronicles...

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SWtoR Pre-Order Box Art Revealed?

So it seems that yesterday a Polish retailer Empik.com added details for the Star Wars: The Old Republicpre-order and posted up an image of the box art, which was then quickly removed.  Rumors are now flying that Bioware will announce the pre-order this Thursday during Comic-con in Seattle. It’s also worth mentioning that Walmart has the release date set as 11/01/11 and seems to be open for pre-orders, however does not mention any of the above pre-order bonuses. I guess we’ll wait until Comic-con and see if any dates...

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What Won’t China Steal?

Straight out of the “are you f#cking kidding me” file comes World Joyland, a theme park located in Changzhou, China. What makes this theme park so special is that is based off of Blizzard’s popular World of Warcraft and Starcraft intellectual properties, which by the way it’s not paying Blizzard to license.That’s ok though because the theme park owners have an iron-clan solution to avoid being sued into the ground.  One, they’re located in China and two they named the WoW area, Terrain of Magic, while...

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FFXIV Previews Patch 1.18 Settlements

Today Square-Enix revealed more information about Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming 1.18 patch, which will include new settlements.  The new settlements or outposts, six in all, will be intended as landmarks and bases of operation for players.  There players can find useful NPCs, such as merchants or smiths and some quests to do.  Future FFXIV patches will add more enhancements to the settlements as well as bring new quests.There will be two new settlements in each of the three main regions, The Black...

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Black Prophecy Early Impressions Review

Over the last week I had some time to checkout the recently launched NA version of Black Prophecy and as far as first impressions go, it’s not a good one.  Starting off with the installation, I knew it wasn’t going to be a smooth ride as Gamigo required you to download 6 separate files, one of which was a broken link, so I had to wait a few hrs for them to notice  and fix it.Once installed I logged in, created my character and was ready to go.  The game begins with you taking the role of a random crew mate...

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Michael Pachter: "I'm getting my mom an Xbox 360, and you are too" Continue reading on Examiner.com Michael Pachter: "I'm getting my mom an Xbox 360, and you are too"

After some key moves from Microsoft recently, industry analyst Michael Pachter says he has to get his mom an Xbox 360 with Kinect, and he thinks you should, too.Considering Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, Pachter is predicting "Videochat 2.0" via Xbox Live.  Game design program director at Digipen University Ben Ellinger explains Kinect's chatting abilities as such:The microphones and the way they deal with sound on the Kinect is really sophisticated.  Combined with the visuals, you get this magical effect where Kinect...

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Sony Online Entertainment restores service for PC online games

Online game addicts rejoice! Sony Online Entertainment has now restored service for its PC online games. Similar to the restoration of the sister network, the PlayStation Network today, the SOE restoration of The Station online gaming service will happen in phases. Sony discovered hackers had attacked the PC online game service on May 1, about 11 days after it discovered the hacking of the PlayStation Network. The restoration will begin with the return of all of Sony’s PC online games, from EverQuest to Free Realms. SOE will also...

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Third-party smartphone app developer Sourcebits raises $10M for global expansion

India-based smartphone and tablet application developer Sourcebits has raised $10 million in first round funding. The investors — the company’s first — are Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures India, who each invested $5 million. Sourcebits will use the funding to set up sales and engineering centers in the U.S and engineering teams in India and Europe. Outsourcing your app development to India will definitely get easier. Sourcebits is a third-party application developer with 300 engineers and designers. The company claims it does...

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The stable version of Google Chrome 11 is now available

The folks at Google clearly is not still for a second, we are constantly offered upgrades, updates and changes to their services. A few days ago they released the stable version of Google Chrome 11, the 2 nd most used browser in Argentina, which comes with some interesting new addition to the correction of errors that users are reporting. The new addition of Google Chrome 11 is the ability to record your voice using only HTML, for example in Google Translator can record what you want to translate interface and we will respond in the...

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