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Warcraft on an iPhone, but is It Coming to Yours?
2009-09-26
clear="all" /> Yesterday, word spread that Warcraft was OTW for the iPhone, thanks to the app that ran Second Life on an iPhone last year. Skeptical, I held off, but I can't explain why, exactly.
I watched this yesterday morning, looking for any tipoff this was a quicktime movie with cleverly timed gestures - it's four minutes long and pretty elaborate, so I'd say that's unlikely. The video purports to show a jailbroken iPhone operating the Vollee client, which was announced last year as a mobile application capable of playing Second Life. That statement went out with a comment from Linden Lab. Then, also last year,...

Burning Crusade
2009-09-19
!Waste Not, Want Not was the task of the moment, and once collected, I was off to go kill things, specifically:
Dreadcallers, Flamewalkers, and Infernal Warbringers down !The Path of Anguish.

Protip - If the ground behind or around you starts shaking: Move. Move quickly. Move now.
The Path of Anguish is a pretty appropriate name, if you ask me. After a few rounds of death I was thinking of sewing into my robe: "I specced Destruction, and all I got is this lousy repair bill." Now mind you, I am no slouch on the gear side. I've got my Felheart and a healthy dose of Nemesis, but... I got owned. Hard. Clearly some rethinking was in order.
Still, I was headed off to !Expedition Point. !Laying Waste to the Unwanted was just go...

Future of Video Games Outside the Home, DisneyQuest
2009-09-02
gatzke writes "Some interesting developments have been coming online with new technology being developed that may lead to new and exciting gaming outside the home. DisneyQuest in Orlando mixes classic / modern video games with virtual reality and interactive games. MagiQuest in Myrtle Beach is an immersive interactive treasure hunt environment with a simple wand interface." Background

I am a thirty-something engineer that grew up with personal computers. When I was in elementary school, I was learning BASIC while playing Atari games like Asteroids, Pong, and Night Rider at the arcade in the mall. Games improved around middle school, Pac-man, Centipede, Galaga, Spy Hunter, Donkey Kong and others were available at the local arcades. At that time my favorite dinner destination was the pizza place with animatronic animals and a huge arcade. My buddies and I even played games at the mall arcade in high school: altered beast, time warriors, and others. At college in the 90s, I would frequent the local gigantic bar / restaurant / pool hall / arcade that had a good variety of games, especially the linked Dayto...