It's not quite 'on' it, and there are obvious control limitations, but think of the possibilities...Go on, THINK
OK, not quite “appears”, but using some “cloud” based technology, game designer Dave Perry, co-founder of future game streaming service Gakai, has put a photo up on his personal blog of World of Warcraft running on an iPad…well, streaming over their office’s Wi-Fi connection.
Put simply, Gakai is similar to On Live, allowing you to stream games from their network onto a variety of games onto a variety of devices. Whilst obviously, there may be some issues to overcome on actually controlling the game on touch screen based system, such as the iPad, they were impressed at how well it ran (what is essentially video) onto it from their servers.
It could perhaps offer a an alternative to the way apps are traditionally distributed through systems, especially if they are over a Wi-Fi connection and memory space on the device is an issue. Either way, it’s cool stuff, but we’ll have to speculate on what the possibilities for these live services are.
“Hey, let me, tell you, about this little game called World of Warcraft!”
Did you know that there is currently a big gathering of fans of all things Blizzard? Well there is, and I’m going to give you a quick round up of the news that is coming out for each of Blizzards big games, it’s enough to make a fan boy explode.
World Of Warcraft
Someone is really not happy with what has been going on in Azeroth
Couldn’t ignore this one, the 11 million behemoth is still going strong.
New Expansion pack: Cataclysm
There is a new expansion pack planned that aims to take you back to the land where you started the game, that being Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. Apparently, Deathwing, one of the Immortal Dragon aspects from Warcraft III decides to go on a bit of a rampage in these kingdoms, causing a “Cataclysm” as it erupts from the earth and causes all kinds of natural disasters to occur.
Some parts of the world will be split up and cut off
From volcanic trenches, tidal waves, constant storms and a lot more, the world will be ravanged and changed.
Here is the debut trailer for the new expansion, showing a before and after of some areas of the land as well as setting up some of the new conflicts, new horde race of Goblins and new alliance race of Worgons, as well as a bunch of new stuff, all described in the most dramatic way possible by the narrator.
Some more information to be gleaned from this is:
- New Level cap of 85, due to greater focus on content for new characters as well as endgame content.
- Flying mounts can no go anywhere
- New class combinations mean you can pretty much mix and pick what you want, from undead hunters to blood elf priests.
- Achivements are going to be added for guilds, which you can earn from doing a variety of different, everday things, from raids and questing.
You also will be getting new, higher level zones:
- Uldum: A hidden zone with an Egyptian theme and is rumoured to hide some sort of super weapon.
- Deepholm: The place where Deathwing originally had a home, will act as a portal to the other higher level areas
- Twighlight Highlands: Home to the cult of the Twilight’s Hamme, apparently will play a big part in the future of WoW
- Sunken City of Vashj’ir: Underwater, so it’s underwater mount time, and will be out in the middle of the ocean
- Mount Hyjal: Though technically in the game for some time, the scene of the climax from Warcraft III is going to be the scene of some big battles, with it being held under seige by Ragnaros.
The big thing from this is that Cataclysm will go out to all players through a patch. Well, the part of destroying the world will anyway. This is mainly to bring a fresh, if pretty chaotic feel to the world. This means that whilst all the features above will be the expansion, you will all, regardless of whether you have the pack or not, get to experience Azeroth as it falls towards the end of the world…Cue South Park joke here.
