The german servers for the FREE MMORPG Shaiya will open soon.

Its in closed beta at the moment, although there will be a wipe to open beta (as usual), you should still play it.

Why?

You can earn a lot of nice prices !
If you reach lvl 20 during the closed beta, you receive a coat for free!
If you reach lvl 30; you get a helmet
And If you even make it to lvl 40, you get a mount!

All you have to do is to post the pictures into the German Shayia Forum.


Where can I register?

Just go here: http://www.shaiya.aeriagames.de/register.php
 

 

Back in September Shacknews reported on the sighting of a rather suspicious-looking scientist at CERN, the site of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, which was then in preparation for its historic first test. In the test chamber.

 

Sensing imminent invasion, alarmed gamers at Reddit took the initiative, mailing CERN a wrecking bar, headcrab hat and Half-Life strategy guide.

 
Left, the scientist in question. Right, world saving.
The Freeman doppelganger recently found his pickups, and proceeded to defend the facility from alien forces, evidence of which (above, right) was passed along today.

 

We await the inevitable news that our Freeman has abandoned the world to alien rule after giving up halfway through the Xen level.

from: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56057

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Okay, so they're still not talking about it.

Blizzard is continuing to be tight-lipped about it's next MMO project. The only thing we know that it is going to be is an MMO made by Blizzard, and the list of things that we're pretty sure it won't be is pretty slim. We do at least know where production stands at the moment, thanks to Paul Sams at the London launch event for Wrath of the Lich King.

“We’re definitely at the beginning, in the first half of development,” said the exec, explaining that Blizzard tends to work to a two-half process when creating new games.

“When we’re building a new game from the ground up, what happens is that it’s slow going for the first bit, while the team goes round and round and round figuring out how it’s going to look and feel, what the player experience is and what the differentiators are, and then the speed at which we then bring in the contet and polish and actually get to the finish line… I think the second half of the process is always substantially faster than the first half of product development,” he said.

Sams said when we’re going to see first mention of the game.

So in other words

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That's right. Your tax dollars are going to the development of AI so sophisticated that you think it's a human being. And how are they going to test it? By throwing it into the proverbial online fire that is World of Warcraft. So next time you yell for a healbot you might actually get one! Oh, and they're also making some other leaps in technology that could possibly change the face of modern warfare as well.

 

Self-regenerating body parts. Intelligent "virtual soldiers." Mind-controlled weapons. Brain "wipes" to purge traumatic memories. "Quantum ghost imaging."

The U.S. Army's working on all of these concepts, according to a report on Military.com, a private military-oriented Web site.

"Making science fiction into reality" is the goal, says Dr. John Parmentola, the Army's director for research and laboratory management.

"You can imagine people who have horrifying memories, it would be great if we could eliminate them so this way they're not plagued by these memories uncontrollably," he says, explaining research into cleaning soldiers' minds of recollections that cause post-traumatic stress disorder.

Salamanders have lo

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