Saturday, May 17, 2008

• Google Acquires FeedBurner

  
  
  
  Google has recently acquired RSS feed aggregator FeedBurner. Google has not released any news on what the new addition has in store for Google’s ever-reigning web services, but you can be sure that whatever it is, it will not disappoint.
  

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• Rock Revolution Drums

  
  
  
  Konami recently announced its addition to the band-based video game industry, Rock Revolution. Yesterday, this image of the game’s drums was revealed to the internet. Is that TWO sets as one?  This could up the difficulty of these games if that’s the case, BUT when it all comes down to it, all this is going to do is clutter your houses more and more. First, it’ll be the Rock Revolution drums. Then, Rock Band and Guitar Hero will just HAVE to release bigger drum sets to compete with Konami. Sigh. A never-ending battle of one side making a new weapon and the other side copying it. When I say to stop copying the other weapon, but instead make a nuclear bomb, I am talking to all you companies (especially in regards to the touch-screen mobile war).
  

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• ESA-Losing Everyone!

  
  
  
  

  The Entertainment Software Association, or ESA, first came into play in April of 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association. Over the years, it became known as the ESA and became the trade association of the computer and video game industry in the U.S.. The ESA holds E3 every year, fights against software copyright infringement, supports the Entertainment Software Rating Board, and they help brighten the government’s outlook of video games.

  But now, it seems that some of the top video game companies (Electronic Arts, Vivendi, Blizzard, and as of yesterday LucasArts) have abandoned the ESA. Why? No one knows. There have been press releases, but none of those have answered the question of why these top game developers are leaving the ESA.

  Feel free to post your own opinions as comments.

  
  

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• Star Wars: Force Unleashed, No Multiplayer for 360/PS3

  
  
  
  

  LucasArts has announced that the Wii, DS, and PSP will have the exciting multiplayer duel mode for the new Force Unleashed game, however, they have stated that the multiplayer feature will NOT be available for PS3 or Xbox 360 owners! WTF!? May the force be with us…

  Here’s the statement regarding the issue from LucasArts:

  “To be specific, there’s no multiplayer in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, because there is on the Wii, PSP, and DS. As far as specific reasons are concerned, we don’t really like to get into the reasons why we don’t do things because I don’t think there’s really a satisfactory answer that people would really be happy with. So, there isn’t multiplayer and that’s kind of how it is…”

  
  

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• HTC Advantage X7150 Not Coming To U.S. Anytime Soon

  
  
  For all you people in the states who were hoping to buy this beauty, you are just going to have to settle for something else (or wait…probably a REALLY long time). HTC is not allowed to sell their shiny new Advantage X7150 in the United States because of legal issues regarding the Qualcomm chipsets that this device (and others among this one) is packing. So, for all you lucky guys over in the UK, enjoy…enjoy.
  

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