Perhaps they don't have the most accounts, but with the huge amount of fake accounts on MySpace, that figure is meaningless. I, like many people I know, have accounts on MySpace, Friendster and maybe a few others, but I only log in when I have friend requests.
Facebook has the best UI and it already has tons of great apps. Until those apps move and all my friends move and users start changing back, I don't think Facebook has anything to worry about. Facebook has the most used photo app and events app on the internet, and those are just two of many. I think it's safe to say they are number one for now.
There are a few sites that rate with the 4 star rating already. Xplay for example.. But as a fan of sometimes ruthlessly critical reviews I love Action Button.net. Here are a couple summaries that don't read like most stale game reviews:
Heavenly Sword is "definitely not the game anyone involved wanted to make."
Blue Dragon is "a bottomless bowl of Cap'n Crunch on a fifty-hour Saturday morning".
I live and work in Japan teaching in Elementary schools. Based on my observations of people in coffee shops, trains, and buses, the PSP/DS ratio is actually about 60/40. But these are adults. About 8/10 kids I teach have a DS.
-Mike
Not only is it just another form of recreation, but it is much more stimulating than watching TV. With the weather as unbearably hot as it is now, 4-6 hours of gaming is much healthier than most other forms of recreation. Especially if you play with real-life friends.
They shouldn't make a SC MMO, they should model the game after Battlefield 2 or the WoW battlegrounds. Make large group battles where you respawn after dying. Players would play as a single unit(FPS style) or a group of zerg (as if they're the overlord). You could have ground and air vehicles like in battlefield. It would be perfect!
Wrong. Professional testers do BOTH. No amount of automated testing can compare to a group of intellegent manual testers thinking outside the box. Doing things out of order, such as this fish bug, should have been very high on the list of things to test. It is sad that things this simple got through QA.
Blizzard created the closest thing to RTS perfection ever made. Starcraft. Just ask Korea. If there were ever a video game Olympics, I'd vote for SC and CS. Never have I been so good at a game, yet so humbled by amazing players as with these games.
Oh yeah WoW is fun too i guess.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." (Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.)
Althought it was funnier when raves were exploding with popularity.
I would guess 99% of all people don't know the difference between memory and a harddrive. I once gave a speech about the basics of computer hardware and I found this analogy useful (although somewhat limited).
Imagine you are going to solve a problem and you have no long term memory. You have only a notebook, a calculator and a library.
- The CPU is like your mind and calculator: Fast enough for simple problems but you can't do everything in your head. - The Cache is your short term memory. You don't need to reread things in the front of your notebook over and over. - The Memory is like your notebook. You can look through it fairly quickly but it can only hold so much. - The harddrive is the library. It holds vast amounts of information but takes a long time to find what you need. Once you find it you can photocopy things and add them to your notebook. If your notebook is full you will throw away old papers.
You can expand on this analogy to say that some books hold information while others hold instructions and references to other books.
Everyone has created new words before. Children do this constantly when learning how to speak. A simple example is the word "falled." If a child knows the word "fall" and has picked up how to create the past tense, he will create the word "falled" instead of saying "fell." We dismiss these new words as mistakes, but where did the child hear this word? The answer is likely no where.
Re:the exclusion of radio is pretty stupid
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The only way for non-MTV watching people such as myself know what's new to download IS the radio. But with that aside, what about talk radio? The news? NPR! I will never buy a portable music player without a radio. A little news radio would do the American youth some good.
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Perhaps they don't have the most accounts, but with the huge amount of fake accounts on MySpace, that figure is meaningless. I, like many people I know, have accounts on MySpace, Friendster and maybe a few others, but I only log in when I have friend requests.
Facebook has the best UI and it already has tons of great apps. Until those apps move and all my friends move and users start changing back, I don't think Facebook has anything to worry about. Facebook has the most used photo app and events app on the internet, and those are just two of many. I think it's safe to say they are number one for now.
There are a few sites that rate with the 4 star rating already. Xplay for example.. But as a fan of sometimes ruthlessly critical reviews I love Action Button.net. Here are a couple summaries that don't read like most stale game reviews:
Heavenly Sword is "definitely not the game anyone involved wanted to make."
Blue Dragon is "a bottomless bowl of Cap'n Crunch on a fifty-hour Saturday morning".
Don't you get it? If you die in Canada, you die in real life!
It's in partnership with Hitachi. Here's the press release.
Actually, Apple specifically recommends using your thumbs in this video.
I live and work in Japan teaching in Elementary schools. Based on my observations of people in coffee shops, trains, and buses, the PSP/DS ratio is actually about 60/40. But these are adults. About 8/10 kids I teach have a DS. -Mike
Not only is it just another form of recreation, but it is much more stimulating than watching TV. With the weather as unbearably hot as it is now, 4-6 hours of gaming is much healthier than most other forms of recreation. Especially if you play with real-life friends.
-yash
They shouldn't make a SC MMO, they should model the game after Battlefield 2 or the WoW battlegrounds. Make large group battles where you respawn after dying. Players would play as a single unit(FPS style) or a group of zerg (as if they're the overlord). You could have ground and air vehicles like in battlefield. It would be perfect!
::sigh:: in my dreams.
Wrong. Professional testers do BOTH. No amount of automated testing can compare to a group of intellegent manual testers thinking outside the box. Doing things out of order, such as this fish bug, should have been very high on the list of things to test. It is sad that things this simple got through QA.
Blizzard created the closest thing to RTS perfection ever made. Starcraft. Just ask Korea. If there were ever a video game Olympics, I'd vote for SC and CS. Never have I been so good at a game, yet so humbled by amazing players as with these games. Oh yeah WoW is fun too i guess.
Well yeah, unless you have a heisenberg compensator!
Wow. You're right.
Funny how google can fail us sometimes.
Score Board:
Marcus Brigstocke: 813
Kristian Wilson: 140,000
I wonder if Kristian Wilson even exists.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." (Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.)
Althought it was funnier when raves were exploding with popularity.Yes it will! :)
I would guess 99% of all people don't know the difference between memory and a harddrive. I once gave a speech about the basics of computer hardware and I found this analogy useful (although somewhat limited).
Imagine you are going to solve a problem and you have no long term memory. You have only a notebook, a calculator and a library.
- The CPU is like your mind and calculator: Fast enough for simple problems but you can't do everything in your head.
- The Cache is your short term memory. You don't need to reread things in the front of your notebook over and over.
- The Memory is like your notebook. You can look through it fairly quickly but it can only hold so much.
- The harddrive is the library. It holds vast amounts of information but takes a long time to find what you need. Once you find it you can photocopy things and add them to your notebook. If your notebook is full you will throw away old papers.
You can expand on this analogy to say that some books hold information while others hold instructions and references to other books.
Everyone has created new words before. Children do this constantly when learning how to speak. A simple example is the word "falled." If a child knows the word "fall" and has picked up how to create the past tense, he will create the word "falled" instead of saying "fell." We dismiss these new words as mistakes, but where did the child hear this word? The answer is likely no where.
The only way for non-MTV watching people such as myself know what's new to download IS the radio. But with that aside, what about talk radio? The news? NPR! I will never buy a portable music player without a radio. A little news radio would do the American youth some good.