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Software
The Week In IPhone Apps: Augmented Everything
10:00AM John Herrman | In a very special late night edition of your weekly iPhone apptacular: Apps that make things that are already good—FM radio, video games, shopping, spouses, the city you live in—a little bit better. More »
Software
World of Warcraft Runs on iPhone… Mostly
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | We found a video showing an iPhone running World of Warcraft. It looks surprisingly full-featured, but this isn’t a standalone app— more of an evolution of what we’ve seen before. More »
Games
The WoW Pod Brings Porta-Potties to Azeroth
3:40AM Mark Wilson | The saddest part about the WoW Pod isn’t the guy eating, crapping and playing WoW inside. It’s that an MIT Council for the Arts grant made it happen. More »
Games
Beijing WoW-Themed Restaurant Replenishes Your Health in Real Life
5:00PM Elaine Chow | A Beijing man has opened a restaurant themed after his favourite MMORPG: World of Warcraft. After chomping down food, inspired by dishes from Azeroth, customers can log on at various terminals to play WoW. More »
Science
US Army to Push X-Files Tech Development, Invade World of Warcraft
5:00AM Jesus Diaz | The US Army is ramping up the development of technology that previously could have been classified as X-Files, “making science fiction into reality” as Dr. John Parmentola, Director of their Research and Laboratory Management. The list of things currently in the works is amazing: regenerating body parts on “nano-scaffolding”, telepathy through electronic impulses in the scalp, and self-aware virtual photorealistic soldiers that can be deployed in the battlefield through “quantum ghost imaging”. To test these they want to use them into a massively multi-player online games like World of Warcraft or Eve online: More »
Games
World of Warcraft Seems Like Kind of a Silly Hobby
9:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | World of Warcraft player/dorkmaster supreme Prepared has caved to his smack addiction-like dependence on WoW and created 36 separate accounts that he plays simultaneously on an epically ridiculous rig. He claims to spend over $US5700 per year just on the game, and plans to pick up 36 copies of the new expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King when it’s released. More »
Peripherals
SteelSeries World of Warcraft Mouse Destroys Orcs, Your Last Shreds of Dignity With 15 Buttons
1:10AM Matt Buchanan | SteelSeries’ World of Warcraft MMO mouse is officially the most ridiculous gaming mouse I have ever seen. Designed with Blizzard just for WoW gamers (just in time for Wrath of the Lich King), it has 15 programmable buttons. You don’t even have that many fingers. And it has flashing disco lights. In 16 million colours. Of course, this much nerd doesn’t come cheap—it’ll be $US90 when it drops next month, but SteelSeries gear is tank-like, so you’ll be stuck with it for a long time. Which is good, since you’re going to be very lonely if you buy one. More »
Games
The Pentagon Preps for World of Warcraft Invasion (No, Seriously)
4:20AM Mark Wilson | Terrorism. It could be all around you. It could be in the air you breathe, the food you eat, the loved one you kiss goodnight and even the MMO you play. Yes, friends, according to a recent presentation by Dr. Dwight Toavs, professor at the Pentagon’s National Defence University, virtual worlds could easily hide a real terrorist plot. And to illustrate his point, Toavs supplied this example screen from World of Warcraft. It looks innocent enough, just documenting a good old dragon fire spell on the south gates of the Keep. Unless…wait…what could they really be referring to? More »
Games
Treadmills Used to Play WoW (Result: Usain Bolt Couldn’t Cut It as a Blood Elf)
11:00AM John Herrman | Most avid World of Warcraft players don’t wonder too much about what it would be like to truly run as often and as far as their avatars, because a.) that sounds hard and b.) they’re too busy wondering would it would be like to run at all. Nonetheless, some crafty young WoWers managed to hook up a couple of treadmills and joysticks to their computers in such a way as to simulate actually running across Azeroth. Even when some handicaps were programmed into the system, the (sort of) reality was clear: WoW characters are FAST. More »
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