Fifty million users registered to MapleStory worldwide

Registering over 50 million users within days, Nexon Europe released an updated client of MapleStory, a two dimension, side-scrolling, massively multiplayer online role-playing game where gamers can enjoy a multitude of different skills, spells and abilities, as well as numerous community features including detailed friends lists, and even communication through humorous character animations and the facility to form Guilds and adventure parties.

MapleStory was a game developed by the South Korean company Wizet. Several versions of the game are now available for specific countries or regions, and each is published by various companies such as Wizet and Nexon. Although playing the game is free, character appearances and gameplay enhancements can be purchased from the “Cash Shop” using real currency. As mentioned earlier, MapleStory has a combined total of over 50 million subscriber accounts in all of its versions. MapleStory North America (Global), for gamers mainly based in North America and outside of East Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe, has over three million players.

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Gamers to turn to their DVDs in 2010 for Halo Legends short films

Halo, one of the most popular first person shooter video games in the gaming community worldwide, is going to the silver screen with an anthology of seven short anime films titled “Halo Legends” that are expected to be released sometime in the year 2010.

Microsoft is collaborating with Japanese anime studios to make the seven short action films based on the Halo blockbuster videogame franchise.

According to Microsoft, the Halo Legends project is bringing together the science fiction videogame with “a renowned set of storytellers” from famous Japanese anime studios to take the franchise “to a new level.”

The game trilogy of Halo was created specifically for Microsoft’s Xbox videogame consoles was created by Bungie and owned and published by Microsoft Game Studios, first released in 2001. The videogames center on the adventures of a super soldier known as Master Chief who is defending mankind against an invading alien alliance referred to as The Covenant.
Since then there have been many sequels and spin-offs that have intrigued gamers around the world. It has been adapted into books, comics and now into anime.

The production team for the seven-part anime series has big names like Steven Spielberg, The BONES, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation anime studios working on the short films. The creative staff of Microsoft will be approving the visuals and storytelling.

If things go according to plan, Warner Brothers will release the anthology on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and digital distribution in early 2010. Trailer for the Halo panel at San Diego’s Comic-Con International (CCI) are already out, and Xbox 360 users can see a preview this fall on the Xbox Live service.

Three of the creative directors are Frank O’Connor of Microsoft’s 343 Industries, Shinji Aramaki, and Mamoru Oshii. J-Spec Pictures’ Joseph Chou is also in the production team. The short film by Aramaki will be covering the story of the history of the Spartan warrior class from the games. Studio 4°C will animate two 30-minute shorts about “the entire 100,000 year history of the Halo universe.” Toei’s short film on the other hand “is outside of the official canon and pokes fun at some of the game’s characters.”

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[Rom loading failed]

load rom errcode=-7

Please reset system

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21-year-old Michigan Pro Joe Cada at Final Table in Fifth Place for the WSOP November Nine Profile

During the WSOP 2009, all eyes were on the youngest main-event champion in history. With hardly a year past since he had edged past Phil Hellmuth to become the youngest player to ever win poker’s most prestigious title, Peter Eastgate was making an incredible run to contend for what could have been his second consecutive world championship.

With barely a hundred players remaining from an original field of 6,494 at the WSOP 2009, Eastgate was poised to finish his second run as champion. Interestingly enough, in his journey deep into the 2009 WSOP main event, the reigning world champ played several hours with another talented young pro, Joe Cada, who didn’t shy away from engaging in a little playful trash talk with the champ. Read the rest of this entry »

Notching the five star mark, the new and improved Wii Sports Resort promises gamers a virtually simulated experience

Bringing the zing back to its gaming experience, Nintendo has released the eagerly awaited Wii Sports Resort scoring five out of five stars almost instantly as gamers worldwide checked out the new product.

The all new Wii Sports Resort features an intense workout experience.

Priced at $49.99, the game includes a Wii MotionPlus attachment with jacket, sold separately for $19.99, needed to play the dozen games included in the package.

The Nintendo team’s expert finesse in designing games and related hardware is clearly reflected in Wii Sports Resort. It combines two sensors – an accelerometer and gyro – and the new Wii MotionPlus can detect rotation and twist movements as demonstrated in Frisbee and Sword Play games for instance. The graphics are bold and clear and the imported Mii has a more life-like body with very attractive outfits. Just like Wii Sports, the better a gamer gets at playing the games, the more intense the experience or gaming workout becomes, especially if attention is paid to the individual gamer’s form and technique. Another feature that makes it alike Wii Sports is the physical demands of the interactive sports games and the potential for injury.

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