In the Soviet Union, you got a knockoff Motorola brick phone and you were happy. In modern-day Russia, however, you might want an iPhone from OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). You’ll pay over US$1,000 for the privilege. The carrier says that makes the iPhone a tough sell in a competitive market.MTS executives criticized Apple as being […]
Month: October 2019
Leaderboard: Battle of the fall expansions
Thought expansions were a thing of the past for MMOs? Don’t tell 2012, which has three major releases lined up this fall!First up is Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan, which sends players into the titular Rohan region for the first time. Not only will there be epic confrontations with Saruman and Sauron’s […]
The Tattered Notebook: Celebrating the search for the perfect UI
EQInterface and EQ2Interface have been stalwart sidekicks for me through the years, and it’s great to see them expand into other games. They now have a library of UIs for several MMOs and have really helped put player-made UIs on the map. EverQuest II’s site had a news article announcing that the collective UI site, […]
Harvard stores 704TB in a gram of DNA, may have us shopping for organically-grown storage (video)
Early research has had DNA making circuits and little factories. We haven’t really seen DNA used as a storage medium, however, and it’s evident we’ve been missing out. A Harvard team led by George Church, Sriram Kosuri and Yuan Gao can stuff 96 bits into a DNA strand by treating each base (A, C, G, […]
Now Playing: August 6-12, 2012
Get pulled into battle this week with Persona 4: Arena… Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list: th.headerBlue { background-color: rgb(96, 164, 218); color: white; } th.headerGray { background-color: rgb(35, 37, 37); color: white; } th.headerGreen { background-color: rgb(88, 129, 39); color: white; } th.headerYellow { background-color: rgb(241, 199, 2); color: white; […]
Oculus Rift’s latest VR headset prototype gets a showing at Gamescom 2012 (hands-on)
Oculus Rift. If you didn’t know, the Rift is a Kickstarter-funded VR gaming headset (stay with us) that’s caught the attention of several games developers — most notably John Carmack. He liked it so much, in fact, that he developed a special Rift-ready version of Doom 3 for the headset and Doom 4 will also […]
The Queue: Horse feathers
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.The password is “swordfish.”amaxewardiary asked: So anyone test AOE looting with the Loot-a-rang to see if you can AOE loot from a distance?Confirmed. It’s real, and […]
Acer Liquid Gallant hands-on (video)
It wasn’t long ago that Acer announced the elegantly named Liquid Gallant: a dual-SIM Android handset made for the jetset. And now, here at IFA 2012, we got a chance to spend some time with the device up close at the company’s booth. As single-core handsets go, this one was quite brisk, loaded up with […]
Flameseeker Chronicles: A brief history of Guild Wars 2’s Tyria
I see a lot of questions about whether or not people who want to play Guild Wars 2 should jump into the original in the (increasingly diminishing) time left before launch. I don’t think there’s really a one-size-fits-all answer to that question. For those of you who are worried about missing a bunch of lore […]
App Store has growing population of never-downloaded “zombie apps”
Here’s a discouraging statistic for independent developers looking to break into the increasingly crowded iOS App Store. According to a report from mobile analytics firm Adeven, over two thirds of the store consists of “zombie” apps, which generate few downloads and almost no revenue to their creators.The total number of these apps sits at around […]