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A Look at Gaming in 2010
Joel from Sydney writes "Wired News' Lore Sjöberg has written a tongue-in-cheek look at what the world of gaming will look like in 2010. From the article: 'Nintendo and LucasArts are still locked in competition to bring their aging iconic characters to every genre ever invented. The year 2010 saw the release of Darth Maul's Star Wars Tennis, Mario MMORPG, Clone Trooper Golf, Mario's Dating Sim, Jar-Jar's Dating Sim and Mario Storms the Beach at Normandy. Plus, handheld versions of all those.'"
Wait a minute, so I can blame Wired for hiring Lore and, in effect, ending the glorious beauty that was the Brunching Shuttlecocks?
Damn you, gainful employment!
God Bless America. Why? Did it sneeze?
by 2010, 50% of American households will have an HDTV. Microsoft and Sony will still be fighting over HDTV and media formats, while most major third party developers will have scrapped HDTV in favor of working with NTSC Resolution on Nintendo's consoles, and there will be a lot of unemployed texture artists pissed off that they listened to all those loudmouths at Epic who keep whinging about needing more artists.
PC gaming will no longer exist. Instead of buying high-end graphics cards, gamers decided to just let Congress subsidize Nvidia's development efforts with another trillion dollars in National debt, ensuring that we can get next-gen video chipsets in our consoles for a lot less than the cost of a new Nvidia card.
- All RMT activity banned due to angry players commiting mass PK on farmer bosses outside the game.
- Agreement to ban whole countries and regions along with anyone involved with botting/farming operations.
- Credit/Check card address verification to enforce bans.
- Suspected bots encouraged to be marked as no-penalty kills during investigation.
- Users are marked by world region.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.