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‘Gold farming’ in games means real income in China

“At any given time, as many as half a million Chinese gamers are completing quests and gathering such assets as virtual gold pieces to sell off for real money. They toil in Internet cafes and in makeshift computer labs, sometimes sleeping on cots in nearby dormitories in shifts.” Gold farming or Gil Farming in World [ READ MORE ]

Sony finally is killing the UMD

And the UMD ladies and gentelmen is history… Having owned a PSP for almost a year now, I was pretty much satisfied with the releases Sony had on the UMD format. I actually started having more movies on UMD than games since the games of the PSP are downright not good. But consumers wanted to [ READ MORE ]

New Ghost in the Shell movie to be released in November

New Ghost in the Shell movie to be released in November in Japan. Other regions to follow. Not considered a direct sequel to the 1995 hit movie. Just by glancing over the storyline of this new movie, it seems to be a continuation from the first movie or second movie both of which were directed [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft admits to Faulty XBOX360 Hardware but will not fix!

XBOX support will not fix broken hardware that is less then 6 months old, and has already been replaced once due to DEFECTIVE hardware. Phone Audio included. Having purchased an Xbox just a few months ago this seriously bothered me. Within less than a month I am already getting the E71 error. This is very [ READ MORE ]

Why Google’s a cooler place to work than Yahoo

A Yahoo intern’s excited post about his workplace just proves that Google’s even cooler. I wish my office had mango lassis. I could not possibly get any better. Heck if I worked at Google I probably wouldn’t go home. It’s a cool place to work. It’s already bad enough that you have to dodge through [ READ MORE ]

Unproductivity

Just recently, it was disclosed to the Philippine public on how inept the elected members of legislature. Can you believe that in past 365 days the Senate only passed 9 bills!?!?! Nine!?!?! And my tax money goes to pay these unproductive people!! And worst of all, the people voted for them!!! Don’t even get me [ READ MORE ]

A friend comes back to Vana’diel

As some of you may know, I’ve been playing Square-Enix’s Massively Multi-player Online RPG for the past two years now and I’ve made quite a number of friends and hopefully fewer enemies than I would like to think.  Up until yesterday I thought one of my friends had already quit playing and I he would [ READ MORE ]

It’s official: Apple say no 12″ MacBook Pro is coming

Dave Chartier was wondering if Apple would produce a 12″ MacBook Pro to replace the 12″ Powerbook, and was told on the phone by Apple that “a 12-inch MacBook Pro ain’t gonna happen.” This definitely saddens me. I bought the very first 12″ powerbook that Apple released 3 years ago and this definitely saddens me. [ READ MORE ]

Sony: PS3 is ‘Too Cheap’

Following Monday’s pre-E3 press event, SCE head Ken Kutaragi spoke with Japan’s IT Media and made a surprising statement regarding the PS3′s price: “It’s probably too cheap.” Kutaragi said. In relation to what? In relation to a brand new car or to gas prices today, maybe? Having just purchased an Xbox 360 Platinum edition a [ READ MORE ]

Why don’t I feel sorry

This afternoon’s headlines just made me shrug it off. “Congressman’s SUV carjacked!” http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=38258 I don’t know the congressman personally or even heard of him until today. But when I heard that a congressman’s SUV was jacked! The first thing that popped in my mind was, “go ahead who cares. That’s probably how he got his [ READ MORE ]

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