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Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part eleven: win a 32GB Zune HD! {Engadget}
Nov 29th 2009 7:20AM I need me some OLED sweetness
Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part ten: win an HP Envy 15! {Engadget}
Nov 27th 2009 7:13PM good luck all
Lottery system in my.LOTRO updated {Massively}
Nov 27th 2009 7:05PM running the game into the ground? you make it sound like this is Warhammer or Age of Conan.
With Siege or Mirkwood many people came back to the game to take advantage of the multi-month deals or lifetime signups.
the developers are still looking at ways to improve the fundamental aspects of the game as time goes on. Nothing is broken or pointless, the community is great and so is the majority of the playerbase.
The story and lore factors into every aspect of the game well and isn't tacked on.
They are even going to improve the pace of combat with SoM and that is pretty much the only thing that was a consistent complaint from MMO players.
Personally I like the pacing as it is because it was easy to solo/explore or farm materials at the speed I wanted to and not feel like I was missing out by taking my time. On the contary, I enjoyed being able to sit and grind levels if I wanted or just explore.
I used to play FinalFanasy XI, and many many people left at the time WoW came out because of much of a time sink getting stuff done was in FFXI, that was years ago and that game was designed and optimized for the Playstation 2 but people still play and server populations are pretty good for a MMO. I don't see how you think the game is going away Age of Conan and Warhammer had much more hype around them and just keep shrinking versus Lotro playerbase.
I really just don't see why you would say they need to fade away and die as if the are languishing a slow death. Even Aion or Champions will probably implode before Lotro in the wake of SWtoR and future AAA titles in terms of a fast shrinking playerbase but neither them or Lotro as going away soon because they all have a captive playerbase that will pay each and every month.
CrunchPad is 'steamrolling along,' will cost between $300 and $400 {Engadget}
Nov 17th 2009 3:58AM I'm looking forward to this thing releasing so it can help start to better define the MID/ebook/slate market prior to Apple coming in and making the price range for the segment too high.
As long as it does proper full fledged Flash video (if hardware accelerated all the better via tegra or better) handles input well ( easy to use GUI that has things like copy/paste from the start) and is open enough that users or developers can make apps to handle Netflix, Hulu or future online streaming services that might pop up it will be a possible market leader.
I know those are somewhat lofty wants/needs but the idea of Apple just making a large screen iPod that relies on iTunes to get video isn't appealing to me at this point at all so since the rumors that Apple are going to bring out a similar device this would have to be more than a portable media center, color e-book or a slate style netbook.
This can be the device that geeks have lusted after for years that serves as a gateway to their content in a portable package that lends itself to surfing from the couch/toilet ( you know people already use their phones in there) and has the framework to allow you to pick how you want to access your content conveniently rather than booting up your laptop or having to deal with too small of a screen.
Personally, I hate having to use a laptop or netbook to surf while watching TV because fullscreen Flash is crap on most netbooks and unless you want to spend a good amount of money on a laptop it wont be light or quiet.
I kinda wish the CE companys would've already made something like this because computer companys don't get the usage model even though Intel has been pushing the MID concept for years.
Kinda seems like Sony or Samsung would have already brought something like this out rather than adding "net" functionality to their newer TV's cause this would also make just about the best remote possible too and buy making it a home orientated device it wouldn't cut into moblie device sales but instead help tie all one access to sources of media into a more centralized device.
Time to set your DVRs for the Fall season {Engadget HD}
Sep 23rd 2009 5:24PM Anybody else watch Supernatural on the CW. That and House are pretty much all I'm interested in seeing week in and out. The Mentalist is good but if i miss it I don't mind, same with Big Bang Theory
Massively's Star Trek Online beta key giveaway {Massively}
Sep 15th 2009 9:41PM The idea of space combat and away teams seems like a great way to stay entertained without getting burned out doing the same thing all of the time.
Engadget's back to school giveaway, part 3! {Engadget}
Sep 15th 2009 4:13AM good luck all. whomever wins is gonna get one heck of a setup.
Philips serves up two new Senseo brewmakers at IFA, still won't dethrone Starbucks {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2009 10:58PM I have the original Senseo, a Braun carafe drip coffee maker and a nice thermal carafe french press and while the Senseo makes a "ok" cup of coffee it is only as good as those little pods are fresh.
If the pods are even slightly old their taste is very bitter and for me that is the problem with the system because of the packaging the product goes bad very easy and for the amount of coffee each "pod" makes it isn't the value I once thought it was gonna be.
I think the "k-cup" system is better and it has much better variety ( at least in the states) of coffee and tea. But I do very much like the idea of easy cleanup these single serve coffee makers offer because cleaning the french press is a pain at times.
Engadget's back to school giveaway part 2: win an Xbox 360 prize pack! {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2009 10:40PM This would be a pretty good package. Good luck all.
Leica M9 and X1 leak out ahead of schedule {Engadget}
Sep 2nd 2009 1:44PM The Digilux3 wasn't micro 4/3 it was regular 4/3. So far the only micro4/3 cameras are the olympus digital pen, the panasonic g1 an gh1 and as of today the gf1.
Digilux3:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Leica/leica_digilux3.asp
the panasonic (or vice versa) equivalent was the DMC-L1:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmcl1.asp
I'm a bit suprised by the x-1 since in the past lecia has use a panasonic rebrand for some models I figured it would make a version of the micro 4/3 gf1 that panasonic is going to release instead of a aps-c fixed lens camera that seems to go up against the Sigma dp2.
Maybe it didn't want to do that since it would be too much alike the M9? Or maybe Lecia isn't going to be in on the micro4/3 designs?
