Sugru is a clay-like synthetic wondermaterial that can be easily shaped with your hands and hardens completely after 24 hours. You can use it to fix and modify anything. It’s really cool in itself, but awesome when you combine it with powerful magnets.
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You’re seeing America’s new ground-to-air missile defense system in action, destroying an enemy QF-4 Phantom fighter jet. In fact, it simultaneously destroyed two airborne enemies during a stress test last Wednesday. Its name is MEADS and it will replace the famous Patriot missile interceptors.
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This is unbelievable, but the fruit fly G tridens has somehow evolved to have what looks like pictures of ants on its wings. Seriously, its transparent wings have an ant design on them complete with "six legs, two antennae, a head, thorax and tapered abdomen." It’s nature’s evolutionary art painted on a fly’s wings.
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The wonderful folks at The Art of the Title specialize in putting together compilation videos of, you guessed it, title sequences. They can be from movies
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Given enough force you can probably kill with anything you want—so it’s not surprising to see these custom Lego shotgun shells inflicting such damage on metal and plastic. If any of these hit your soft flesh on the right place, it would be way more lethal than any brick left on any rug.
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Though the two are slightly different elements of in-game play, Blizzard has suggested a real-money transaction addition in World of Warcraft despite their less-than-stellar performance with real-money-trading in their other large-scale online game Diablo 3. This new system is said by one single developer on Blizzard’s team – alone in a forum, believe or not – to be part of an exploration of possibilities at the moment, and not quite solid as such.
Though the full system may never make it to the public iteration of the game, testing said system requires that some current in-game elements be tagged with mention of abilities. In this case it was a discovery by an intrepid player and seeker of behind-the-scenes answers that discovered it. Combined with a forum mention of a 100% XP boost in a spell appearing on the game’s public test server, here resulting in the following response from Blizzard:
“We are currently exploring the possibility of adding a way for players in certain regions to make purchases directly within the game. As part of this process, elements related to this will be appearing on the PTR. We’ll provide additional updates on our plans as development progresses.” – Community Manager Zarhym for Blizzard
At the moment there’s been just one similar system in place for the World of Warcraft experience, that being the “World of Warcraft shop” which allows purchase of oddities galore, but outside the game itself. The difference here with an in-game system is the ability to hit the “buy” button without leaving gameplay.
Meanwhile Diablo 3 has a system in place where real-money transactions can take place between players – and they’ve had their fair share of regrets. Though the systems would seem a bit different on the surface, both would have cash moving in through Blizzard first and foremost – so it’s instantly clear why the company would want to roll this all through major tests before any final unveil.
VIA MMO Champion
Blizzard testing WoW in-game purchases despite ongoing D3 debacle is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Music is the language of the soul, or so the saying goes. The explosion of the Walkman in the 1980s across the globe certainly saw a paradigm shift in how we tuned in to our songs, where most folks preferred to take the personal route with their own pair of headphones or earbuds, while on the other hand, there are others out there who preferred to take the “sharing” route, and this is achieved by bringing around a boombox. Well, you can follow this path in the 21st century with the portable and powerful £49.99 Wow Speaker.
Just like how you should never judge a book by its cover, the Wow Speaker packs a whole lot more bite and bark than one would expect. Despite its diminutive size, the Wow Speaker comes with a moulded rubber body which allows it to stand up to its fair share of knocks and hits, too. While Firebox claimed that the Wow Speaker is “practically indestructible”, we would take this claim at face value, unless you actually try to destroy it by running a steamroller over.
[ Wow Speaker delivers rich audio without taking up too much space copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
If you were in one of several of the largest cities in World of Warcraft‘s Azeroth this weekend, it’s quite likely that you were killed – but no worry, Blizzard has fixed everything up now with a patch. This patch fixes the exploit that caused level 1 characters to be able to stroll on in to a set of major cities and decimate their entire population of both playable and non-playable characters alike. As it was, images of death were majorly visible to the general population over the weekend, this throwing Blizzard into a tizzy.
With a message that appeared inside the last day, Azeroth appears to be safe once more. As Blizzard puts it, the fix appeared to be simple, but the damage was already done. At the moment it would appear that they’ve got everything under control, but that they’re still hunting for the villains that made the deaths of masses of characters a possibility. Blizzard has sent out word that they’d be glad to hear any information regarding the incident as soon as possible – note it!
“Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities. This exploit has already been hotfixed, so it should not be repeatable. It’s safe to continue playing and adventuring in major cities and elsewhere in Azeroth.
Video above via BornInCrimson – showing some of the death in Stormwind.
As with any exploit, we are taking this disruptive action very seriously and conducting a thorough investigation. If you have information relating to this incident, please email hacks@blizzard.com. We apologize for the inconvenience some of you experienced as a result of this and appreciate your understanding.” – Nethaera, Blizzard
This situation should remind you of a certain South Park episode in which one single player had enough power to destroy any other character in the game – WoW – to which the boys responded with days and weeks of leveling up, preparing to destroy him. It ended up being that Blizzard had to intervene with a “Sword of a Thousand Truths”, a weapon that only existed in legend – and on a USB stick – with enough power to destroy the one deadly player. As it were here in the “real” world, the hacker(s) still roam free – powerless, but free.
[via Joystiq]
World of Warcraft city deaths patched while murderer roams free is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
It is the ideal situation for a company like Blizzard to be at the top of their game, where Diablo 3, their latest game title to be released a few months ago, had already sold over 10 million copies worldwide – and counting. This will no doubt affect its other online title, World of Warcraft, which saw subscriptions drop to 9.1 million, with the majority of the lost subscriptions coming from Asian territories. I would assume that most of these lost subscriptions were the direct result of folks moving on to Diablo 3, what about you? Either way, the coffers at Blizzard are certainly ringing in the cash, as it is money from the left pocket to the right regardless of how Diablo 3 has cannibalized World of Warcraft subscriptions.
For those who love statistics, listen to what Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has to say, “For the first six months [of 2012], we had the top three best-selling games in North America and Europe with Activision Publishing’s Skylanders Spyro’s Adventures and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and Blizzard Entertainment’s record setting Diablo III.”
It remains to be seen whether the introduction of Mists of Pandaria will see the sales of World of Warcraft getting a boost. What would your two cents be on the situation?
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: World of Warcraft annual pass promotion gives you Diablo 3 for free, Diablo 3 popularity in South Korea nosedive,
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