Archive for April, 2011
Rift
Last Updated on Monday, 11 April 2011 11:12 Written by Foose Monday, 11 April 2011 12:44
Are you still addicted to World of Warcraft? Need to take a break from Azeroth? Well, enter Rift, another MMORPG that was released in March of 2011 that is already rivalling the World of Warcraft.
The setting is a planet called Telara which is under attack by different worlds, thus creating rifts: Unstable areas of elemental instability that represent the intrusion of elemental planes into the land of Telara. Once opened, these rifts begin to spawn monsters that proceed to march towards important points on the map. It is then up to players to defeat these monsters and to close the rift. If rifts are left unchecked, the invading monsters will eventually conquer large portions of the map, killing and significantly impairing the players in that area. Entering the area surrounding the rift will trigger a prompt that allows the player to join a public group, rather than forcing the player to manually create a group. Players sealing the rift are rewarded for many things including healing, attacking and buffing. The severity and locations of the rifts are entirely dynamic. Rifts of six different types (earth, fire, air, water, life, and death) are possible, and rifts of different types will oppose each other. In addition, Non-player characters hostile to the player may engage rift invaders.
The characters are fully customizable, and include classes such as Warrior, Clerk, Rogue or Mage with over 12,000 weapons to equip.
So far its made for the PC, but sadly for us Mac users, we’ll have to emulate Windows… or Boot Camp it.
After initial purchase, Rift requires a monthly subscription fee for continued play, or buying prepaid game cards for a selected amount of playing time
Check it out here at their homepage: Rift
Daily Digest
Last Updated on Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:07 Written by Bot Sunday, 10 April 2011 05:30
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- GoPro cam shows amazing hunting dog’s-eye view
We’ve seen GoPro cameras used in all sorts of extreme sports videos. They are usually worn on a helmet, or are placed on a car or surfboard, for example. They’re the gadgets responsible for making you feel like you’re the one doing the surfing, snowboarding, or skydiving.
Field and Stream’s Chad Love started thinking that it’d […]
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Friday (again)
Last Updated on Friday, 15 April 2011 09:25 Written by Enki Sunday, 10 April 2011 04:52
Who else is obsessed with this (fill in the blank) song? Stephen Colbert is!
Or try a DJ Ravine’s mix of this song that has made it sound better (though that goes for all but orginal). Click link below for full post:
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Daily Digest
Last Updated on Saturday, 9 April 2011 05:30 Written by Bot Saturday, 9 April 2011 05:30
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- Naval laser could prove deadly to pirates, incoming missiles
The potential for lasers as weapons has been touted by every science-fiction author and military scientist for years: with enough juice behind one, you can use them to set fire to structures or other obstacles at long distances, or cut through 20 feet of solid steel. The US Navy is testing one such laser, called […]
- 16-hour Threadless mural captured in 55 seconds
If you want a t-shirt that’s a little bit different, then you can’t go far wrong checking out the designs on Threadless. The user design submission and voting system works well at getting fresh new prints available to buy regularly, and I admit to owning several myself.
Although printing a design on a t-shirt is a […] - Binary Table 01 is one geeky coffee table
Let’s face it, a lot of people don’t recycle their old electronics. When they get a new cell phone, laptop, or replace that old desktop they’ve had collecting dust since 1995, most people are clueless about what to do with their old tech products. So, into the trash they go. However, one design firm decided […]
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Daily Digest
Last Updated on Friday, 8 April 2011 05:30 Written by Bot Friday, 8 April 2011 05:30
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- EA to offer persistent cloud profiles across games
Of all the video game publishers out there, EA is the one that pushes regular new releases of its most popular games the hardest. Sports games in particular almost always get a new version on a yearly basis, and somehow manage to offer up enough features to tempt us into buying the next game.
The only […] - Vodafone’s Evolution of Mobile advert using 3D projection mapping
Vodafone has just released a new advert in the UK, and used some cutting-edge 3D Projection Mapping techniques to show off the evolution of the cell phone in a different way.
Most of you will have seen projection mapping before in those videos of buildings being seemingly destroyed or manipulated at night. Here’s a good example:Vodafone […]
- Apple rejects PopCap’s Unpleasant Horse meat grinding iOS game
Earlier this week, the much beloved PopCap Games unveiled their new “indie” sister label, 4th & Battery.
The idea behind 4th & Battery is great. Instead of spending all of their time polishing away at the next Bejeweled, PopCap designers will be encouraged to release smaller and potentially less family friendly games under the 4th […]
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