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My little warlock Hexnut got transformed into a Tauren then into a Chicken while i was playing World Of Warcraft the other day. I made a little video about it.

Received an email today from the folks behind the Unity multiplatform game development environment. Seems like iPhone is being added to the list of platforms.

I quote:

Unity is Coming to the iPhone

Unity Technologies, a 3D game development tool provider for creating console-quality games for the desktop and Web, today announced that the company will support game development for the popular iPhone platform. The Unity engine is the core technology that facilitates visually rich, engaging 3D game play, whether it’s on a traditional desktop, or on the Web at major gaming sites like shockwave.com, or now on the world’s leading mobile device – the iPhone.

iPhone Beta Program
We have created an iPhone beta program that will provide hands-on support to drive 3D content creation and deployment of mobile games. If you are interested in joining the iPhone pre-release program then please contact us at iphone@unity3d.com for more information.

I’ve begun deploying my own MMORPG server based on Mangos. Check back for progress updates. =D

From Wired.

SAN FRANCISCO — LEGO Universe, the upcoming LEGO-branded MMO, can best be described as “LEGO Star Wars multiplied by a million,” according to Mark Hansen, the Director of Business Development for the LEGO Group.
Tentatively set for release in 2009, LEGO Universe seeks to provide gamers with “a virtual extension of the real-world LEGO” gameplay, by allowing MMO fans a chance to virtually live among each of the thousands of LEGO sets that have been created over the years.

Most impressive in this quest is LEGO’s plan to integrate fabrication of objects directly into the title.

Any structure or vehicle you may construct out of the MMOs virtual blocks, you can also export to LEGO who will allow you to purchase traditional LEGO sets that are exact replicas of what you’ve created in-game.

The biggest hurdle to LEGO in creating LEGO Universe is the challenge of transitioning a toy designed to assist people in furthering their own creativity through multi-colored bricks.
To draw an analogue to the issue they face, it’s almost a plastic brick version of what Will Wright had to do to create every title since SimCity.

According to Hansen, though, the creation system is only half of the title’s design.
The game will also include a traditional MMO-style plot which reflects the barebones ideas presented in the firm’s real-world brick sets: LEGO Knights vs Dragons, LEGO Sailors vs Pirates, and so on.
The title’s release is roughly a year off, but Hansen did reveal the fact that the game’s key trailer should hit the ‘net near the end of 2008.

Certainly it is still too early to judge the game entirely, but as long as LEGO maintains their trademark attention to detail and appeases the rabid fanbase they’ve created in the preceding 70 years, LEGO Universe could be the Wii of MMOs; It certainly bucks trends, but it does so with such confidence that players may very well adore a fresh take on the stale, overcrowded genre.

A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.

“It picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer,” said Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv.

“It allows the user to manipulate a game or virtual environment naturally and intuitively,” she added.

The brain is made up of about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, which emit an electrical impulse when interacting. The headset implements a technology known as non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) to read the neural activity.

Read the article at bbc.co.uk.

Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce laid out a plan for what Blizzard is considering if they port World of Warcraft to mobile devices.

Read more at wowinsider.com