Photo’s of a new Wii peripheral have recently surfaced on the Internet and a buzz has quickly followed. Currently there is a rumor that the new peripheral could be a Wii pedometer, which could be an added accessory to the Wii fit.

The President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata had announced that Nintendo would be taking a break on peripherals, and word on the street is the Pedometer will be one of the last units released. As much as Wii fans LOVE there health oriented peripherals some are saying they are not interested in the new piece. Sadly the photos are not very telling, and the information on the piece is very vague. For all we know the image looks like glorified garage door opener.

As of now this is all just speculation, there is no solid indication on what the peripheral really is. Nintendo will be having a press conference this Thursday, and hopefully they will address the question of the mystery peripheral.

Have you ever had an interest in working for an intelligence agency but were not quite sure you had the credentials? Do you worry about a long grueling process of background checks, interviews, and psychological testing? If that person is you then worry no more because MI6, Brittan’s Secret Intelligence Service is now recruiting on Facebook.

As odd as it sounds it is true; MI6 is looking for unique ways of recruiting, and one of those new avenues is through Facebook. A spokesperson was quoted as saying “The Secret Intelligence Service’s open recruitment campaign continues to target wide pools of talent representative of British society today. A number of channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organization. Facebook is a recent example.”

The agency has made there interest in finding new agents through Facebook clear considering, there page includes a competency test, contact information, and links to the main Secret Intelligence Service’s main site. The best part of the MI6 personal page would have to be the comment wall; which has been converted to a mini job applications post for people interested in the agency. Individuals have listed skills including everything from interrogation techniques, to baking cakes; all of which include contact information for MI6 to respond if interested.

If you have an interest in working in intelligence or if you would like to just have a peek at the madness for yourself I have taken the liberty of posting a link. Pop in, and have a go chum!!!

Facebook MI6 Page

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WarPath is a budget-priced first-person shooter computer game developed by Digital Extremes, who previously developed Pariah. The game was originally being developed as a sequel to Pariah, but since Pariah was a commercial flop, WarPath continued development as a whole new game. However, the similarities between the gameplay of both games are very apparent.

From side scrolling to 3D

Originally Prince of Persia was developed in 1989 as an MS-DOS side scrolling adventure, the series was revitalized in 2003 with the release of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. As a continuation of the series the release moved the game into the 3D realm and firmly established the series as one of the greatest in the action adventure genre. Originally released for Play Station 2, the game was later released for other consoles, and also for PC. Though the PC version has a few minor drawbacks it is the easy choice for die hard PC gamers and a matter of personal preference for console junkies.

And then there was sand…

At the beginning of our story we find our hero, the Prince of Persia on a journey through India with his father King Shahraman (say that three times fast), on their way to Azad with a small battalion of men. During their journey they come across the palace of the great Maharaja of India, and with the aid and safe passage of the Maharaja’s back stabbing Vizier they storm the palace. When the siege is complete, the spoils, which include the Maharaja’s daughter (Farah), an hourglass, and the dagger of time; are all collected and divided amongst the victors. Upon returning to Azad the Prince is tricked into placing the dagger into the hourglass smashing it and releasing the sands of time. When the sand is released it baths the palace of Azad, and turns all its inhabitants into undead sand creatures; leaving only the Prince, the evil Vizier, and Farah immune from its curse. The prince soon after forms an alliance with Farah and must track down the evil vizier to collect the sands of time, and use his dagger to fend of the deformed sand creatures.

Game play

The Game consists manly of three types of game play; combat, puzzles, and acrobatics; all of which are extremely enjoyable. The Prince is light and very agile giving him the ability to run along walls to avoid traps, and dodge enemies quite easily. You not only are dependent on the prince’s physical strength and agility you must also rely on the Prince’s dagger to progress through the game. The dagger gives you the ability to rewind time; so if you fall in combat or are captured in a trap you can rewind ten seconds in time and undo the mishap. Not only do you need the dagger to push back the icy grip of death; it is also the only defense against the sand creatures; since they are immune to mortal weapons. The game is completely linear though you are trapped within the cursed palace and can only progress from room to room through a pre-determined path.

PC or Console - Apples or Oranges

For console gamers the first and major draw back to the PC version of Prince of Persia is that it is not compatible with a game pad, but the mouse and keyboard controls are easily adaptable. The other draw back is the PC version did not include any of the bonus materials the console versions had; which for any die-hard P.O.P. fan is a definite drawback. The good news is the PC version has the smoothest looking graphics; the atmospheres are smooth, and natural; not blocky. If you can get over the fact that the Pc version is not game pad compatible it is the easy choice when it comes to graphics.

This Sunday, August 31^st, 2008 marks the 13^th anniversary of the storied Command & Conquer franchise, which has sold over 25 million copies* to date.  And to celebrate Sunday’s milestone and this October’s highly anticipated return to the world of Red Alert with Red Alert 3, EA Los Angeles is giving away one of the original games that started it all, Command & Conquer Red Alert, for FREE.  

Starting at 12:00 AM Pacific time on August 31^st, C&C fanatics can flock to www.RedAlert3.com to download the original Red Alert free of charge.  And because EA is also offering Red Alert 2 for free for those who pre-order Red Alert 3 before October 27^th, C&C fans can walk away with Red Alert, Red Alert 2 and Red Alert 3 - all for the price of Red Alert 3 ($49.99 standard edition, $64.99 Premier Edition). 

To take advantage of this three-for-one offer, just follow the “Red Alert 3 Step”:

• Step 1 - Download the original Red Alert from www.RedAlert3.com starting Sunday, August 31^st FOR FREE
• Step 2 - Pre-Order Red Alert 3 from participating retailers and receive Red Alert 2 FOR FREE
• Step 3 - Pick up your pre-ordered copy of Red Alert 3 when the game hits stores this holiday

Pre-ordering Red Alert 3 will also give gamers the following exclusive items:

• Red Alert Retrospective - A look back at Command Red Alert, Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge
• Premier Edition Sneak Peek - Exclusive previews of Raising of the Iron Curtain, From Pens to Pixels, Command School, and BattleCast Primetime
• From Fighter to Assassin - A featurette on EliteXC superstar, Gina Carano.
• Exclusive multiplayer/skirmish map for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 when the game ships
• Exclusive Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 desktop wallpapers featuring members of Red Alert 3’s star studded cast including Jenny McCarthy, Gemma Atkinson, Autumn Reeser, Kelly Hu and more!

Red Alert 3 is coming to stores this holiday season for the PC and Xbox 360. 

*Data according to NPD Group.

FAIRFAX, Va. - September 18, 2008 - Let the Worldwide WAAAGH! Begin! Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today launched the highly anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR), in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories. With the game’s servers now officially live, all players are invited to enter WAR’s grim fantasy world, swear allegiance to the armies of Order or Destruction, and experience the glory of Realm vs. Realm™ combat.

“The Day of Reckoning is finally at hand and I am pleased to invite players to take their first steps into the Warhammer Fantasy universe,” said Mark Jacobs, co-founder and general manager of Mythic Entertainment. “The stage is set and the combatants are ready - it’s time to go to WAR!”

WAR offers a number of subscription options for eager recruits:

• Monthly Subscription:     $14.99 USD

• 3-Month Subscription:    $41.97 ($13.99 per month) USD
• 6-Month Subscription:    $77.94 ($12.99 per month) USD

Players entering the Age of Reckoning can look forward to invading enemy lands, assaulting imposing fortresses, and sacking sprawling capital cities for the glory of your Realm. They will wield devastating magic and deadly weapons, battle monstrous creatures, and join their brothers-in-arms in epic Public Quests™. Players can climb the Bastion Stair, carry their Guild Banner into battle, and unlock the infinite secrets of the Tome of Knowledge as they travel the world. The wait is over - the Age of Reckoning has begun and war is everywhere!

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is now in stores everywhere at an MSRP of $49.99. Available for PC, WAR is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB. Prepaid Game Time™ cards are also available at most game retailers. For more information, visit http://www.warhammeronline.com/.

Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) September 22, 2008 — Luxand, Inc. today announces BabyMaker 1.0, a fun computer program specifically designed to let couples morph their photos and see a digitally created face of the future baby.

To morph a child picture, BabyMaker relies on the revolutionary facial recognition technology from Luxand. The technology allows morphing two digital photos together to generate a high-resolution picture. To accomplish this, the program carefully analyzes the faces of the two would-be parents, detects their most prominent facial characteristics and applies some advanced mathematical transformations to generate an exact physical manifestation of a child. The quality of a source image doesn’t really matter. One can load in scratched, faded, or black and white photos and still get a color rich, high quality rendering of a baby face.

The software works like magic. To get started, the user should first load the digital image of a “father” and manipulate it - pan, zoom and rotate the photo to get a full frontal view of the face. The next step is to load the image of a “mother”. Once the photos are all in, the program makes some sophisticated calculations, and voila! In a couple of seconds, it shows a photorealistic picture of the future diaper wearer.

After the picture has been created, it can be shared with other people. To do so, the picture should be saved to a file. For more fun, the baby can be placed within a greeting card or a portrait frame in the other editor. Then the user can print the portrait and hang it on the wall, or email the greeting card to the beloved and have fun together!

BabyMaker is a fun program that becomes addictive after a little while. Once all the combinations with the spouse, partner and friends have been tried, users may find themselves spreading the genes throughout Hollywood!

For more information about the product or to download its free trial, visit http://www.luxand.com/babymaker

Frankfurt (Germany), September 18^th 2008 – The new official community website is available online as of today at www.mycrysis.com. It has been created for gamers of Crytek’s constantly growing world wide community. MyCrysis.com provides all forms of information on the Crysis franchise and also offers the official forums, where fans will be able to find all of the latest news and content directly provided by the developers.

“We developed Mycrysis.com to give our fans, our worldwide community a premier platform for all things Crysis”, said Cevat Yerli, CEO & President of Crytek. “Our community is the most important reason we produce games and we want to give them an easy and fun way to get involved in the Crysis franchise.”

“Mycrysis is going to be the new home for our general online community. It’s going to be full of resources for all of our games, and people will be able to network on a whole new level. Where Crymod will still be focusing on all of your modding related needs, Mycrysis will act as our central hub for all of our titles. I’m positive that everyone will really like the new site, and the work we’ve put into it.” said Eddy Dew, Lead Community Manager at Crytek.

Crytek GmbH (”Crytek”) creators of the multi-award winning first person shooter Far Cry®, and the recent blockbuster hit Crysis®, awarded best PC Game of both E3 2007 and the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention, and awarded Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards, is an interactive entertainment development company with its headquarters located in Frankfurt Main, Germany and additional studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary) and Sofia (Bulgaria). Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally high quality video games for the PC and next-generation consoles, powered by their proprietary cutting edge 3D-Game-Technology CryENGINE® 2.

Development teams who are interested in obtaining a commercial license for the CryENGINE® 2 middleware should visit www.cryengine2.com.

Crytek, Crysis and CryENGINE are registered trademarks or trademarks of Crytek GmbH in the USA, Germany and/or other countries

Many of you (specially from Cleveland) are familiar with the Norton Furniture commercials.  Marc Brown the current owner of Norton Furniture (took over from his fathers) is widely popular and well known for his cheesy commercials with terrible plot lines and acting.  Marc’s unmistakable “I’ve smoked an entire millennium” voice only adds to the mess in his commercials…

On the other hand, the Seinfeld and Gates’ commercials (besides having almost nothing to do with Microsoft) are boring, oddly plotted and much to long.  Even the edited down version make you wait almost 2 minutes for some type of punch line which usually ends with Bill Gates doing some odd-ball antic with more poor acting skills.

Microsoft, trying to combat the MAC vs PC commercials launched a new $300 MILLION commercial campaign. Only these commercials barely even mention Microsoft products let alone it’s competitions.

YOU DECIDE!

IRVINE, Calif. - September 15, 2008 - Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced September 15th that World of Warcraft®: Wrath of the Lich King™, the second expansion pack for its award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will arrive in stores on November 13 in North America, Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Russia, and November 14 in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The expansion will be available in Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on November 18. Details regarding the launch of Wrath of the Lich King in mainland China will be announced at a later date.

“We’re looking forward to launching Wrath of the Lich King and finally giving World of Warcraft players a chance to take on Arthas and his minions,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “Until then, we’ll continue to refine and playtest the expansion content to make sure it provides a highly polished and entertaining experience.”

World of Warcraft®: Wrath of the Lich King™ sends players to the cold, forbidding continent of Northrend, where the fearsome Lich King Arthas Menethil, last seen in Warcraft® III: The Frozen Throne®, works from his secluded citadel to bring all of Azeroth under his twisted dominion. Players will battle the Lich King’s undead army from the shores of Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra to the seat of his unholy power in Icecrown Glacier. In addition, players will be able to advance characters to level 80 and gain powerful new abilities while exploring several new zones and dungeons. The expansion also introduces a number of exciting new features, including an achievement system, expanded player-vs.-player combat options such as siege weapons and destructible buildings, and the game’s first Hero class — the necromantic death knight.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista® and Machintosh® in two packages: a standard edition, which will sell for a suggested retail price of $39.99, and a special Collector’s Edition (in select regions) priced at $69.99. The limited Collector’s Edition package will contain:

• The Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game.
• An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm.
• A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic with director’s commentary and more.
• The official soundtrack CD, containing 21 epic tracks from the game, along with exclusive bonus tracks.
• A mouse pad featuring a map of the newly opened continent of Northrend.
• Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion™, starter decks, along with two exclusive cards available only in the Collector’s Edition.

The Wrath of the Lich King expansion requires the original World of Warcraft game, available now for a suggested retail price of $19.99, along with World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade®, which sells for $29.99. These two products are combined in the World of Warcraft Battle Chest®, are available for $39.99. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King has received a Teen rating from the ESRB.

Since launching in November 2004, World of Warcraft has become the world’s most popular MMORPG, with more than 10.9 million subscribers. The game’s first expansion, The Burning Crusade, broke PC-game sales records in North America and Europe by selling nearly 2.4 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability and approximately 3.5 million copies in its first month.

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