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All players of My Free Zoo will receive an extraordinary log-in bonus
Bamberg, December 19th 2013. German developer and publisher of free-to-play browser games Upjers is delighted about 8 million registered players in My Free Zoo. This highly positive number confirms the developer team’s efforts to implement new content into the game on a weekly basis. By way of thanks for their loyalty, all players of My Free Zoo (www.myfreezoo.com) will receive a unique log-in present.
My Free Zoo is celebrating its 8 millionth registered player. This success is due to enthusiastic zoo directors all the world over, and of course to the hardworking developers of My Free Zoo. Since its release not even two years ago, more than 100 animals have been added to the zoo simulator. Among these are several extraordinary specimen, such as the white lion or the Western Crowned Pigeon.
Almost weekly, new animals and new features are implemented into the game. Besides the possibility to breed animals, organizations have been introduced to the game. In these organizations, the players can help out their fellow organization members in their virtual zoos as veterinarians, mechanics, shippers and as environmental officers.
Upjers would like to say thanks to all 8 million players in My Free Zoo. That’s why all of them will receive a unique log-in present with their next log-in into the game. In accordance with this cold season, every player who logs into the game up until January 9th will receive an Ice Castle.
My Free Zoo can be played for free on https://en.upjers.com/my-free-zoo.
For those without a key to Hearthstone’s closed Beta are probably frantically waiting right now for the game’s open Beta stage to begin. At Blizzcon it was announced that it would probably begin sometime this month. If you’re one of these people, you’re probably going to be mildly disappointed by the latest update on the game’s open Beta…
“We hoped to get the game into a state where it’s ready for open beta this month, but we’re just not quite there yet” Jason Chayes says in his update to Blizzard’s Hearthstone news page. He states that the latest patch to the game (which made Freeze a little less powerful by bumping up the cost of many spells with the effect) involved some code changes which might yet break the game and that Blizzard would rather make sure the game is as bug-free as possible rather than rushing it out before year’s end to meet the expectation.
If you signed up with the opt-in on the site though, there is good news: Blizzard is now in the process of sending EVERYONE who opted-in keys for Closed Beta, at least if you signed up before the 16th of this month. The closing date for opting-in has been set now as the 7th of January with the company planning to make sure everyone who signs up by that date will get access to the closed Beta at some time before the gates are opened. People sent their keys who don’t claim them will also have their accounts flagged to get access during the first few weeks of January too.
So the game’s open stage has been pushed back, but if you opted-in… go check your e-mails now. And don’t forget the spam folder!
What would you do if you had access to more than half a million LEGO bricks? Build your own mini Legoland? Maybe an Indiana Jones-style LEGO boulder? Whatever you were thinking, I bet it’s nowhere near as insane as what a 20-year-old Romanian has just accomplished.
After 20 months of work and “tens of thousands” of dollars fund-raised by his brother from Australian backers, Raul Oaida has successfully turned over 500,000 LEGO bricks into a life-size car you can actually drive, thanks to four radial engines with 256 pistons that run on compressed air. It has a top speed of anywhere between 12-17mph, dependent on weight – though given the seats are also LEGO (mercifully designed to have smooth, flat surfaces to remain comfortable, but also making them slippery) and how fragile the bricks can get at high speeds, you probably wouldn’t want to go faster anyway.
That fragility, combined with a lack of safety devices means the car will never be road legal – not to mention a nightmare for any company who dared to offer to insure it – but hey, let’s give the guy some credit, huh? And the custom rims depicting faces and symbols in each wheel – made from mixes of black and yellow bricks – add a nice classy touch. But enough talk. Hit up the video below to see the car in action – and let us know in the comments what you think.
First remembers classic NES Titles… then screws with them.
With Nostalgia being the “in” thing this decade – seriously, how many retro-inspired remakes, new games, sequels or complete re-releases of 80/90’s-Era Games have there BEEN since 2010? – it’s no surprise many turn to the NES for new game ideas. It’s also a commonly held belief – rightly or wrongly – that old-skool games offered much tougher or more cerebral challenges than games of today. So chalk one up to Nintendo for announcing the NES Remix game collection, available on Wii U eShop right now.
As the title suggests, NES Remix is a new game collection from Nintendo for the Wii U that takes 16 classic Nintendo games — from Super Mario Bros. to The Legend of Zelda – to offer you fresh challenges from each. At the start, the games are the typical NES titles with appropriate challenges to match – get a hole in one on Golf, for example; or ten 1-Up’s in a row by jumping off a single Koopa in Super Mario Bros. However, the game also offers a series of “Altered” challenges, which is where the fun really begins. Imagine for example, rather than having Mario rescue the woman kidnapped by Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong, you played as Link instead? Or what about Excitebike in the dark? There’s even whole Super Mario Bros. levels to complete with their own twists – turning the worlds icy, flipping it right-to-left…
As you complete each challenge, you’ll get the option to brag about it on the MiiVerse. But beyond this, you can also share level clear times to compete with friends and the larger community of Wii U players, injecting a large dose of competitiveness into the mix. Challenges can come from original or altered versions of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, Excitebike, Super Mario Bros., Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Clu Clu Land, Wrecking Crew, Pinball, Urban Champion, Baseball, Tennis, Ice Climber, Golf and Balloon Fight, for a total of 16 classic NES titles to challenge through.
NES Remix is available now on the Wii U eShop for $15 plus tax, though it may just be in America for now – we’ll stay tuned for further details.
Redstone has always been one of the trickiest elements of the game of Minecraft, there’s a reason people who are good with it are known as ‘redstone wizards’ and there’s recently been a redstone handbook released physically. However there’s being good with redstone… and then there’s being insanely talented with the stuff.
Player ItsJustJumby has achieved the latter with his impressive build: an actual working 3D printer made in Vanilla Minecraft. No mods, no alterations, just the vanilla game. The device makes use of 846 repeaters, 1124 hoppers, 9181 comparators, 10,539 pieces of redstone dust, and 20,103 command blocks and uses your typical standard chest as a blueprint for each individual layer.
Once the button is pressed it takes around a minute and a decent amount of lag before the creeper model is finished. While not perfect it is never the less, bloody impressive. I admire Jumby’s patience!
