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Rumor: FarmVille 2 revealed by resume
A San Francisco copywriter's resume appears to hint that Zynga has given the green light to making a sequel to its popular flagship Farmville title. Writer Alex Harvey, while listing out his work for "communications agency" Isobar, says he participated in the "successful" pitch for Farmville 2. That tells us that Farmville 2 was at one point a suggested thing, and that Zynga has said yes to it becoming a real thing.For now, that's all we know. It's probably fair to say, however, that there will be cows, and you will click them.Update: We reached out to Zynga to ask if there was any news on this front, but the company declined to comment on "rumors and speculation." Fair enough.
Microboards Technology unveils Blu-ray duplicator towers
If you've got money just burning a hole in your pocket, or on the off chance you're starting an independent film company dealing solely in Blu-ray, Microboards Technology has a couple new duplicator towers aimed directly at you. While Primera's Bravo XR-Blu Disc Publisher can clone 50 discs in one sitting, you'll probably need to take a few weeks of vacation to let the single BDR-101A burner churn through all of those on its own. The CopyWriter Blu-Ray lineup features four and ten-bay flavors, handles both BD-R / BD-RE (Blu-ray's way of saying "rewriteable") and DVD±R / RW / DL, "one-touch" pirating duplication, PC passthrough via USB 2.0, automated "gold master" detection, and a two-line LCD for progress / error reporting. The ten-bay edition also rocks a built-in hard drive for 25GB of image archiving, and both units support "future upgrades" (dual-layer BD-R?) that will reportedly be installed via one of the many Blu-ray drives available. Currently, however, the towers are limited to the smallish 25GB Blu-ray discs, and the unnamed Pioneer Blu-ray burners top out at just 2x on the BD-R / BD-RE side. While toasting up to nine discs at once may come in handy every now and then, you might want to wait until the invidiual units become a bit less pricey before throwing down $8,995 for the little guy or $19,995 for the king-sized version.[Via Wired]
