Archives for: July 2006

(Update) Video: True-to-Life story of Online Gamers

This video was made by a Japanese Ragnarok Online player. The idea is to show a true-to-life story of how matured gamers guide and teach newbies. This is a very good movie in the sense that many gamers, old and not-so-new alike will be able to relate a… more »
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AJAX + WordPress = AjaxWp

Gianni Milanesi developed an interesting version of WordPress, the popular blog application for those with their own servers by making it AJAX-enabled. He calls it AjaxWp. The project page it self is at this link. more »
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Dear aunt

Oh em gee, a video report about a Microsoft Windows Vista demo of its voice recognition. You gotta watch this. more »
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Guild Wars Nightfall Off-screen Preview

Saw something in YouTube related to Guild Wars' upcoming Campaign 3 "Nightfall". I don't know how long that video will stay available in YouTube. If the offscreen video was illegally shot, then it will be removed, but if it was publicly shown in… more »
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Google Adds Voicemail

Google Adds Voicemail to GoogleTalk and gMail. As shown in the screenshots which you can find here, GoogleTalk will allow you to record a voicemail and it will convert your voicemail into MP3 format and will be sent to the recipient. It's cool, it's… more »
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Digg Stack and Digg Swarm

While reading new stories via Digg, I noticed the red word "new" in the lower block of the left menu besides the name Digg Labs. Sounds like Google Labs to me and I have an idea what it is, so I clicked. I found, well, Digg Labs, and they have tw… more »
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Clinics for Addicted Gamers and Game Tax

China: Clinic offers gamers path back to reality From China Daily dates July 14, 2006, clinics are starting to offer services to get addicted (online) gamers back to the real-world. This isn't just in China but more and more clinics are offering this… more »
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Windows Live Mail Desktop beta now Open

Just a heads up, the Windows Live Mail Desktop beta is now open for all. You can now download and beta test WLMail Desktop without needing an invitation. I strongly suggest that you try this one out if you are using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express… more »
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Xfire - Blizzard Movie Contest

Xfire and Blizzard teamed-up again to hold another World of Warcraft Movie Contest. They did this last year and it produced top-notch WoW Videos from different categories - Comedy, Music Video, StoryLine (SL), Simply Funny, and others. With over $23,… more »
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Guild Wars Extra Character Slots now Available

The promised extra character slots are now available via an "in-game store". Players should see an "Upgrade" button at the top-right corner of their screens when they log-in the game. Currently, the store offers only extra character slots, as they prom… more »
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Minor Changes in gameshogun

We are announcing that gameshogun is now a blog network. From hereon, each blog here in gameshogun are now a blog on its own. The network's URL also changed from gameshogun.info to gameshogun.ws, the main page is from hereon serve as a consolidation of… more »

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NHN Opens Service in the US

Korea's top online gaming company and game portal, and Korea's top earner in the gaming industry - NHN, opens service in the United States. This is a great move for them, and just as they said when I met them, they will start invading the Western market… more »
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Blood Knights and Shamanistic Draenei

World of Warcraft revealed new secrets for their upcoming expansion The Burning Crusade - Blood Elves have learned how to harness the Light and thus become Paladins and the Draenei received the power of the Elements and has started to follow the Shamanis… more »
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Singapore makes push into next generation of cyber games

An interesting article from Channelnewsasia about Singapore's plan to develop its online gaming market, a market that is getting bigger and bigger every year. So how can Singapore develop its workforce to harness some of the global games market esti… more »
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Guild Wars Nightfall New Professions

It is official, the title of Guild Wars' Campaign 3 is Nightfall which I first posted on May 15, 2006, and I first shared the information about NCsoft's new domain names for Guild Wars Nightfall as well. Read the NCsoft and ArenaNet Press Release… more »

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Small Announcement

I just noticed that feedburner interpreted the upgrade as new RSS/Atom feeds and resyndicated a couple of posts per blog as "new". Pardon for that. more »

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Social Bookmarking mod for b2evolution 1.8 Summer release

Social Bookmarking mod/addon/hack (whatever you want to call it) is now available for b2evolution v1.8 "Summer" which I just finished updating tonight. I merged three addons I made for b2evolution v0.9.x series namely - Bookmark this Post, Short Descr… more »
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Update done

The updates to gameshogun blog network is now finished. The gameshogun blog network is now running on b2evolution v1.8 "Summer". Skin updates will follow as I update the skins to the new version. Three b2evolution v0.9.x addons I wrote is now availa… more »

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Temporarily Offline

gameshogun blog network will be temporarily offline as we do an upgrade of the system and the backend. We will be back no later than today. Thank you very much. more »

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ArenaNet Jobs I Want

Checking out what jobs are open in the international gaming industry, I of course checked out first ArenaNet's Employment Information as I am actively playing their first online game Guild Wars. I found three interesting positions... Web Wr… more »
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Latest Continental Cantha Map for Guild Wars Factions

Here is the latest version of the Continental Cantha Map for Guild Wars Factions. Guild Wars Factions - Cantha Map Changes: * Updated a few zones to reflect the recent patch/update changes. * Fixed a few zones I mistakenly patched with an old zon… more »
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Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1 Milestone Released

And it's here, the first "real" public beta of Mozilla's popular browser "Firefox 2". Quoting: New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include: * Built in Phishing Protection * Search suggestions now appear… more »
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Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger Interoperability - Beta Test

Yahoo, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that they started a limited public test for the awaited Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) interoperability which was first announced last October 2005. A new version… more »
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The Video Awards - Videos Consolidated, Voted and Commented by the Users

Love watching videos? Too many video service hosts? Try this: The Video Awards where user-submitted videos from across the net are gathered together to be voted and commented by the users regardless if you are a YouTube fan, a Google Video fan (like… more »
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Firefox 3 Minefield Faster?

I am still not sure about this but I noticed that the latest build for Firefox 3 codenamed: Minefield, is way faster than when they first made it available for testers. Additionally, I noticed some cool changes (if not a milestone) and neat features - o… more »
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