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Founders Program to provide players with early access to new map, Champion bundles, exclusive content and more for Turbine’s MOBA set in the DC Multiverse
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced the launch of the Founders Program for Infinite Crisis, a new game in development by Turbine, the award winning studio behind free-to-play online games including The Lord of the Rings Online™. This new free-to-play MOBA is scheduled for release later in 2013 for the PC. For more information about the Founders Program or to sign up to play in the free beta, please visit http://www.infinitecrisis.com.
The Infinite Crisis Founders Program lets players choose from three limited-edition packages which include access to their favorite Champions and other benefits, including early access to the all-new Coast City map, exclusive Costumes and Crisis Coins, the in-game currency that allows players to customize their gameplay experience. All Founders Program purchasers will receive immediate access to the Closed Beta that can be shared.
“Infinite Crisis brings the DC Multiverse to life like never before through explosively destructive arena combat featuring an ever-expanding roster of DC heroes and villains,” said Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer. “Continuing a long-standing tradition at Turbine, we’re offering unique pricing and benefits to early adopters for a limited time.”
Starting today, the following Infinite Crisis Founders packages are available for purchase for a limited time at http://www.infinitecrisis.com/founders:
Basic — £14.99
· Immediate access to the Closed Beta including both Gotham Heights and Coast City Maps
· One buddy key for a friend, granting access to both Closed Beta Maps
· Three Champions (Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern)
· Exclusive Founders Protector Icon (Founders only)
· 800 Crisis Coins ($10 value)
Standard — £37.49
· Immediate access to the Closed Beta including both Gotham Heights and Coast City Maps
· Two buddy keys for a friend, granting access to both Closed Beta Maps
· Six Champions (Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Gaslight Batman, Poison Ivy)
· Exclusive “Renaissance” Gaslight Batman Costume (Founders only)
· Exclusive Founders Protector Icon (Founders only)
· 3200 Crisis Coins ($35 value)
Elite — £74.99
· Guaranteed Early Access to the Next Map Release, Gotham Divided
· Immediate access to the Closed Beta including both Gotham Heights and Coast City Maps
· Four buddy keys for a friend, granting access to both Closed Beta Maps
· (enough to form your own team of five)
· 12 Champions (Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Gaslight Batman, Poison Ivy, Gaslight Catwoman, Gaslight Joker, Cyborg, Nightmare Batman, Shazam, Zatanna)
· Exclusive “Renaissance” Gaslight Batman Costume (Founders only)
· Exclusive “Arkham City” Batman Costume (Founders only)
· Exclusive Founders Protector Icon (Founders only)
· 8600 Crisis Coins ($80 value)
Steel River Games LLC is happy to announce its next project, Cosmic Predator. This side-scrolling shooter will be released late this summer and will be available for PC and Mac OS.
Players control the Cosmic Predator, one of the last surviving members of its species. Born in the depths of space, this monstrous squid-like creature is on a mission to recover the mysterious Life Stone to save its race from extinction. Since it’s still just a baby, the Cosmic Predator must feed continually to sustain itself. In order to replenish its ever dwindling health meter, it must drink the blood-clouds of its fallen prey.
Consuming blood also allows the player to power up his/her Cosmic Predator at the end of each stage. A defensive-minded player can focus on putting blood toward protective shields or a larger health meter, while a more aggressive player chooses abilities that increase the number of directions the Cosmic Predator can fire, or focus on obtaining a powerful charge shot. The style of the gameplay depends on the choices the player makes. And the wide variety of challenges (from squishy alien invertebrates to planet-stealing cosmic whales) ensures the player will need all the upgrades he/she can get.
The game also features a wide array of interstellar environments: galactic junkyards, floating asteroid gardens, and space-age cities. The Cosmic Predator must fight through these alien domains and more to recover the Life Stone and get revenge on the creatures who drove its species to near extinction.
Well, Kemosaabi and I were just sat on axon chatting about MMO’s and what we like and after chatting about Firefall (which we both love so far as you can read in Kemosaabi’s Firefall Open Beta – Initial Impressions article)
Well, the other new MMO that we’re excited for is from the ex-World of Warcraft crew, Carbine studios, WildStar
I am looking forward tot he new style of action and the humour aswell (some of which is very tongue in cheek)
Want to sign up for the beta? Head over to the Beta Sign up
New: Brand new tool to create bridges, overpasses, and tunnels when you draw your roads.
When building your road, pressing the , key or . key will lower or raise the road accordingly creating overpasses, bridges and tunnels.
Note: Existing road layouts cannot be raised or lowered
New: Improvements for Traffic behavior to make it smarter. This should reduce the number of lines formed by all available vehicles converging on a single spot. This affects all vehicles including Police, Fire Trucks, Moving Trucks, Garbage Trucks, Recycling Trucks, Resource Trucks, Buses, Ambulances, and Civilian vehicles going home, to work, or shopping.
New: Tree tools – Place individual trees around your city. These tools are located at the end of the Nature Parks palette.
Terrain: Fixes an issue some player’s see where terrain covers sections of roads while the camera is zoomed out.
Fixed an issue where the fire animation would sometimes continue when fire was extinguished.
Parks: Sports parks are now accepting Sims 24 hours a day.
Airship: The number of Airship passenger trips should now be correct over multiple days.
Vehicles: Vehicles now accelerate and decelerate faster, allowing them to leave buildings and go through intersections more efficiently.
Freight: Freight trucks now only leave factories if they have a valid delivery destination.
Gifting: Money gifting should be more reliable.
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Dammit Google. Every time I feel like you are taking the next big step in communications technology, you do something baffling like this.
A lot of people were very excited when Google initially announced that they would be laying infrastructure to provide free fiber optic internet connection in a number of U.S. Cities in the form of Google Fibre. This was especially exciting for consumers as Google spent years fighting for net neutrality policies to be put in place, keeping ISPs from restricting their customers’ internet use for financial gain.
On Monday however, Google responded to an informal complaint that was filed with the FCC claiming that net neutrality does not give citizens a right to run servers out of their homes, an act that violates Google Fibre’s terms of service. While many people picture servers as big expensive computers that only large companies use to move large amounts of data around, any personal computer can act as a server for any variety of common reasons. Running a mail server from home? That violates Google Fibre’s Terms Of Use.
Using SSH to access files on your home computer from work? Google Fibre doesn’t want that.
Monitoring your household remotely through a webcam?
Net neutrality states that “Fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.” Google claims that hosting a server from a residential location falls under the provisions for reasonable network management, but these provisions allow ISPs to take action should congestion occur, not to create policies that pro-actively prevent congestion. Furthermore, the majority of people who use their home computers as servers will not have any significant impact on congestion for a 1Gbps network.
Google’s support representatives have been hitting the forums to assure people that the policy is not meant to restrict use of reasonable uses of their service, such as those listed above, however forum posts are not legally binding. Terms Of Use are, and we can be sure that, as soon as a single user falls into the gray area of network use, Google’s black and white policies will take that user down.
To see Google’s response to the informal complaint that the FCC forwarded to them, go here: *Warning: PDF File*
To see the FCC’s policies regarding Open Internet and Broadband Industry practices go here: *Warning: PDF File*
The No Blocking rule is on page 2, in section ii of paragraph 1, and the Reasonable Network Management provisions are on page 47, in paragraph 80.
