iPad makes non-news and more
1. No mention of WoW on the Apple iPad
(wow.com, Adam Holisky)
No need to read this article, I just mention it here to demonstrate how huge the iPad is. It even makes non-news. “And many of you began writing into us as soon as the iPad announcement was made, asking if we knew about WoW running on the iPad. The answer is no, we have no information, and there is no indication that WoW will run on the iPad.” I understand that it also does not make mocha cappuccinos.
2. The iPad Will be Great For Games Because I Think it Will Fail
(Negative Gamer, John “Wardrox”)
The editor-in-chief of Negative Gamer predicts a bright future for the device that I wanted since Captain Picard put a cup oft tea, Earl Grey, hot, next to it. “Embrace the awkwardly size, finger-print covered screen, un-cost effectiveness, ugly as sin design, 10 hour battery life, everything is proprietary, casual-or-crap-games-only future… I know this will come true because I am almost always wrong when it comes to predicting technology trends. The DS (nobody needs two screens), the PSPgo (download only is the future), social networks (who cares?), anything other than Compact Flash for storage (SD cards are too small), MiniDiscs (I still have a pack of brand new discs as spares; they’re making a come-back, just you wait). Using logic it seems only to make sense that the iPad is the future.”
3. Analysis: The iPad – Good For Gaming?
(Gamasutra, Christian Nutt)
Well, you tell me, Christian. “It’s hard to think of the iPad as “essential” to anybody right now. But there’s a chance it may catch the wave of a new audience that doesn’t want a full-fledged PC. If ever a device had that chance, it may be this one. And those people, like any, will certainly want a chance to play games.“
4. Future Ubisoft Games To Require Constant Internet Access
(Slashdot, Soulskill)
That we need the internet for an MMO makes sense. But for Beyond Good & Evil 2? “Then comes those who own gaming laptops, who now will not be able to play games on trains, buses, in the park, or anywhere they may not be able to find a WiFi connection (something that’s rarely free in the UK, of course – fancy paying the £10/hour in the airport to play your Ubisoft game?). Then there’s the day your internet is down, and the engineers can’t come out to fix it until tomorrow. No game for you.
5. CitiesXL to close multiplayer features
(Massively, Rubi Bayer)
Another one bites the dust. “Three months after launch, CitiesXL was forced to make a difficult decision. An email was sent out to all players this morning informing them that as of March 8th, Monte Cristo will be putting an end to the Planet Offer.” I am qfting Xugu Madison’s comment: “Cities XL always seemed like a mediocre SimCity clone with a chat room and trading options stuck to it. Quite why they thought the incredibly limited interaction was worth $10 a month, I will never know. Love creative MMO ideas, but they need to succeed at the implementation as well…”
6. Das Web-Movie des Jahres heißt „The Dark Knight“
(Bitkom)
So close! A few replacements and this headline could have been all in English! Maybe next time, Bitkom. “Web-Movie”? Heiliges Kanonenrohr.
