(Translated from a Chinese blog.)

The summer comes again, one of my friends remind me that its a season of graduation again.

Every graduation is always accompanied by couple of stories, deep rooted, and hard to forget. 

I still remember the things when I was graduated four years ago, when people began to leave the dormitory one by one,

and looking for job just like to catch a cold, when one' ve got, the others would soon be infected,

everyone was nervous, began to face the respective reality cautiously.

At that time, I was looking for job, at the same time preparing my graduation design, and have no time to sigh for the rush of the time.

until the commencement day, my college life was finally ended by a graduation photo with some classmates absent.

At the graduation dinner, a sentimental mood surrounded us, though we were encouraging each other for the respective future then,

some people fuddled, some was shouting, some was laughing, and some was crying,

some one pour out words that' ve been hold back in the past 4 years, some one decided to leave alone.

That day we sang songs one after another, for the future that we could not foreknow,

and then, that's it, we drifted apart.

4 ye

Taiwanese game developer iPlayer announced their MMORPG Courage Online' s latest revised with several new additions include a marriage system. This unique marriage system allows female players to marry same sexual, and there are two special features: every couple can chose either Chinese style or Western Style wedding dress; the married pair can get extra quests and items.

I‘ ve heard that some of my friends decided to leave away from the virtual world of games which thay used to indulge them in. I applaud their decision, everyone has their own opinion but I think everyone should live in a real life with real friends in most time, and play in game as pastime.

But till i see a press release, i began to doubt my opinion above.

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Strategy Analytics released a forecast of virtual world adoption. This study, titled "Market Forecasts for Virtual World Experiences," predicts that 22 percent of global broadband users will register for one or more virtual worlds over the next 10 years. This will expand the virtual world market to one billion registrants, with roughly an eight billion dollar services opportunity.

"Despite a multitude of challenges, virtual worlds present a unique marketing opportunity to target a highly sought demographic, and virtual worlds should be part of a company's marketing portfolio," according to Harvey Cohen, President of Strategy Analytics.

"Numerous activities and forces are at work to help validate virtual worlds' value propositi

Blizzard official site has announced the winner of  I <3 StarCraft contest, and released a super photo mosaic contains some of the submissions. It's fairly awesome!!!!

Here is the official announcement:

Click here to download the full size image

Winners:
We would like thank all the participants in our I <3 StarCraft contest. We received submissions from StarCraft fans all over the world and have compiled hundreds of them into a I <3 StarCraft photo mosaic.

Capcom announced that there will be three available system requirements to meet the computer specifications for a wide audience. The first is known as "Heavy mode" which is the best graphics, audio etc. settings, "Medium" which has average settings, and "Low" which has the minimum settings.

• New guild features.
• Hunter Rank increased.
• The game will have a new dedicated community.
• Regular updates / patches.
• AI of Monsters is improved.
• New town big enough to hold mass numbers of players.
• Players will now be able to customize their own home, by purchasing and making ornaments and furniture to display.
• New weapons/armors improvement paths.
• New monsters, including the Hypnoc, a bird-like wyvern exclusive to Monster Hunter Frontier and Volganos, a piscine-type wyvern familiar to the Plesioth, who is fought in the volcano, and Espinas a Plant-like wyvern who is the staple monster for the game.

Dynasty Warriors Online Dynasty Warriors BB (called Dynasty Warriors BB before) is an installment of the Dynasty Warriors video game series, based on the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was released in Japan in 2006. The "BB" in the game's title stands for broadband. It is an online PC game where you create your own character and choose a weapon from existing playable characters and more. Once you have created your character, you enter the world of Dynasty Warriors, where you go around defeating people to gain experience points. You can also see people of the online community that you can battle.

Are you sneaking away from work early to get your "Second Life" with it in the virtual space? Well, millions do that every day, so it seems strangely natural for someone or something to port the Second Life virtual environment to a mobile somehow. It's been done -- A 3G service provider had brought the game to mobile phone, and it seems that playing the other MMO games anywhere in anytime will be not a dream.

"You shrank my character' s boobs !!"

A thread was hot discussed recently on the Age of Conan official forum. Because of the latest model modification, players found that their female characters' breast were shrunk than their original setting, some malcontent player posted their discontents to the official forum, and most of them are male players.

Click HERE to view the thread

Here are 2 screenshots:

Before:

After:

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