Friday, April 11, 2008

Age OF Conan MMO Active Combat System

This video are meant to show you the game and its features using actual gameplay footage.

AOC active combat system lets you take an active role in combat. Rather than pressing an auto attack button, you actually control every chop, thrust, and swing of your weapon, also allows player to control defense rather than relying on statistics alone, adjusting defenses as enemies attack, lending an element of skill to every encounter. Players must make strategic decisions regarding how and where they stand in relation to the enemies they are fighting, as well as figuring out how to circumvent their defenses and do the most damage. There is dodging and blocking in the game. Developers call this the Real Combat System, and it promises to bring a unique element of action to MMO combat.

Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action Role Playing Game. Estimated release 20.mai 2008. Game is a mix of single player experience and a massive multiplayer end-game. Developer: Funcom. Genre: Fantasy. Platform: MS Windows.

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

Spy online

Five Million Guild Wars
Do you think terrorism exists only in real world? Before you answer this question you should know that U.S. intelligence community is developing software that will detect potential terrorist in online games it is one of the data mining programs. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell (serves as the head of the Intelligence Community, also acts as the principal advisor to the President; the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to the national security; and oversees and directs the implementation of the National Intelligence Program) sad that they are working on software that will detect treat for community in popular online games, example World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings.
This project is called Reynard. Projects main objective is seek to identify emerging social, behavioural and cultural norms in online games. If all goes well project Reynard will expand and observe other online games. The ODNI (Office of Director of National Intelligence) report to Congress is unclassified but it was accompanied by classified annex. ODNI Report to Congress 15 February 2008.
But that’s not all there are other data mining programs that will protect U.S. online from terrorism.
Video Analysis and Content Extraction – software that can identify faces, events and objects in video.
Tangram – system that evaluates current treat and seeks hidden treat to stop possible terror attempt.
Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination – this tool reminiscent of the supposedly-defunct Total Information Awareness program. It seeks to access disparate databases to find patterns of known bad behaviour. The program plans to work with domestic law enforcement and Homeland Security.
However these data mining programs are controlling our personal data. That is scary the U.S. intelligence community intend to search the entire web for images, video, databases personal and public without owners consent or knowledge. This is serious treat for our personal privacy.
Another disadvantage of these projects is that they are not cheap and here goes our tax money.
Are terrorists really communicating trough online games or it is just a way the government want to control us?

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Five Million Guild Wars Units Sold

Five Million Guild Wars
Five Million Units Sold announced NCsoft® and ArenaNet® February 26, 2008.
Published by NCsoft and developed by ArenaNet, the Guild Wars games have been commercial and critical successes since the release of the original campaign in April 27, 2005. Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions®, Guild Wars Nightfall®, and the recently released expansion, Guild Wars: Eye of the NorthTM is global online role-playing games that allow gamers to play with anyone, anytime, and anywhere in the world. There are not a many realy global projects in the multiplayer online game industry at the moment. The Guild Wars series has set the standard for online co-operative and competitive play with award-winning content and a subscription-free business model. Innovative technology allow compete in head-to-head battles with players from around the world. Online community continue to join in game and stay loyal to the franchise thanks to a business model that makes for a very accessible product. Fans have been overwhelmingly supportive of Guild Wars, and ArenaNet will continue to make the Guild Wars franchise bigger and better. With the development of Guild Wars 2 underway, ArenaNet will continue to provide dedicated support to current games and its millions of customers. Read more: http://www.guildwars.com/events/press/releases/pressrelease-2008-02-26.php

NCsoft has successfully launched multiple online titles in the last four years and continues to support its franchises, which include Lineage®/Lineage II, City of Heroes®/City of Villains®, Guild Wars/Guild Wars Factions/Guild Wars Nightfall/Guild Wars: Eye of the North, ExteelTM, Dungeon RunnersTM, and Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa®. The hugely popular online roleplaying GW games helps publisher NCsoft® Corporation stay on top although they other fresh project Tabula Rasa did not achieve what they expected. More information about NCsoft can be found at www.plaync.com, information about ArenaNet can be found at www.arena.net.

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