Following the news of Leonard Nimoy’s death yesterday, players of the game Elite: Dangerous soon came up with a petition to ask that the station in New Yembo that was funded through a Community Goal be named after the actor, most famous for his role of Spock in the original Star Trek series.

Today both on the topic about said station on the E: D forums, and through the official Elite: Dangerous Twitter page, Frontier have confirmed that they are going to name a station in Nimoy’s honour but not the one in New Yembo. Instead a station in the LHS 3006 system will be named for him, where the game’s version of the planet Vulcan orbits. The station will be close to the planet in question.

Speaking on the forum Executive Producer Michael Brookes said: “Just a heads up that there’ll be a Nimoy Memorial station added in the Wings update (1.2), so the Yembo station is still open for other suggestions.”

The news has been fondly greeted by players both on the forum and through social medias across the net. Frontier said on their Twitter that right now they’re looking for the “most respectful way possible” to implement the in-game tribute.

.@ChrisUK27 @SciFiHour @katerussell that’s right. Working out how to do it in the most respectful way possible!

— Elite Dangerous (@EliteDangerous) February 28, 2015

The single purchase model of acquiring a game seems to be making a slight resurgence as of late. Guild Wars 2 used it in MMOs and recently The Elder Scrolls Online followed suit with it; Apple also made a point of giving such ‘pay once and play’ games a starring role on the front page of their App Store. It feels good to see it coming back.

Even games that aren’t fully released yet are beginning to adopt the system, with the latest being Nival who are making a little game called Blitzkreig 3. The game is still undergoing closed alpha testing and was previously announced to be going to have a premium account system, dropping all in-game currencies and microtransactions from the game. There will be additional campaigns for the game though, available through the form of DLC.

“The pendulum is swinging once again when it comes to how consumers want to pay for their games. The market is shifting back towards a cleaner, simpler and more transparent model of one-time payments. This trend inspired us to return to the classic distribution model of the series, thus honoring the series’ traditions.” said Nival CEO Sergey Orlovsky in a statement announcing the change.

The single payment model is not exactly innovation, after all those of us older than a certain age remember it fondly (sort of) as the way all games used to be priced when we were children. A return to it after the years of freemium scare stories has to be a positive for the industry though.

HiRez has dropped a new warrior into Season 2 of Smite. Bellona, Roman Goddess of War is here, and her kit is one to be reckoned with. I’ll show you her abilities and how to use them. As usual, I’m going against bots in Arena to ensure that I get ample opportunity to talk you through the ins and outs of this newest god.

The code of the latest Hearthstone has been unpicked by the people at Hearthpwn, and the findings have been quite interesting because they seem to hint at further expansions and what their content could be.

A string of code within the patch points towards what could be a Blackrock Mountain expansion and its presale. There’s very little to go on though, so it’s unsure if this is a final thing or if Blizzard are still going to make tweaks to have something else happen.

New cardbacks have also been determined from the datamine, although no images have been found. The information is as follows (with ‘brm’ believed to stand for Blackrock Mountain):

If you’ve been on the Internet at all in this last year, you’ve probably at least heard of the term “net neutrality”. It’s been an on-going issue for a while now, with people on one side demanding rules be introduced to stop ISPs in America from controlling net traffic as they see fit, while the ISPs have been trying to stop legislation by appealing to the side of the argument that the Internet is a free area and shouldn’t be regulated.

Today the issue was finally brought to a vote by the Federal Communications Commission and the vote was 3-2 in favour of the rules to be introduced to stop ISPs introducing a ‘fast lane’ to those sites that pay by throttling the download speeds of other sites. If you’re a content creator online, this is very good news and exactly what most people who spend a lot of time online for their entertainment were hoping for.

The Internet is now to be considered a utility in the same way as telephones, and so the ISPs are now to be regulated to be sure that they’re not unfairly favouring or cutting off anyone. The ISPs and the Republican Party were opposed to this saying that such a move would cause higher payment rates for Internet users as well as strangling innovation and investment, favouring a law instead that would forbid ISPs from deliberately blocking or slowing down specific content.

While it’s a victory today, there’s always a chance the ISPs could take the decision to court to attempt to get it thrown out. Celebrate but don’t think that it’s properly over, not until its confirmed that everyone will let this decision stand.