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Ask Massively: Ruining the internet
Last week, Massively's Larry Everett finished off a miniseries of articles designed to help interested readers learn to livestream. Streaming has become a major part of Massively's purview; we stream about 20 hours a week. So why not use our expertise to help friends and potential future colleagues learn how to play for fun and profit? Not everyone shares our idealism, apparently. In fact, one commenter told us we are ruining the internet.
Monkey Island series on sale, Temple Run free for TLAP day
Yaarrrr maties! It be Talk Like a Pirate day here on these Internets, and folks from all over be talkin' like they were Davy Jones himself. But even if ye landlubbers can't abide the bad Blackbeard impressions, fear not -- Telltale Games be pouring ale in your mug, by puttin' all the iPad Monkey Island Tales series on sale for half price. Yes indeed, me lads: For today only, ye can pick up all six episodes of the series for only $2.99. That's the same as three gold doubloons, if all yer fortune happens to come from finding the treasure of an ancient Spanish freighter off the Black Isles of the Carribbean! And that's not all, ye scurvy swamprats! Imangi Studios' Temple Run is free for today, in order to celebrate a new update for the app that adds more characters, powerups, and achievements to earn. It's a solid update for a solid game, so if ye scallywags haven't gone on the run just yet, now's the time to do it. So there's two solid deals on this Talk Like a Pirate holiday for ye -- make sure to take advantage of 'em, or you'll be walkin' the plank before sunset!
WRUP: You don't need a phone line to operate WRUP?
Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW Insider staff and ask them, "What are you playing this week?" -- otherwise known as: WRUP. Join us to see what we're up to in and out of game, and catch us in the comments to let us know what you're playing, too! Welcome to the exciting world of internet! We're glad you wrote in to it today. It sure is exciting to be alive here in good ol' 2011. Sure, we may be in the middle of three wars, and our economy may stink. But we have internet, a giant computer network that brings us "LOLcats," "podcasts," "tweets," and all sorts of other stuff that will sound painfully outdated 15 years from now. Need proof of how powerful this internet thing (which you've probably been reading about in magazines) is? Well, this weekend, yours truly is heading in to Boston to catch a Chris Hardwick show. Some of you may recognize him as host of the second most popular basic cable television show on the subject of internet video clips. Hardwick does a podcast, too. Ironically, it gets more listeners than his TV channel gets viewers. Dude makes his living off nothing but internet. And I'm jealous. Anyway, while we're here on this computer bulletin board, we may as well check in with the rest of our staff and see what they're playing this weekend. And heck, because we care, let's check in with you and see what you're playing, too! Isn't technology just the best?
Internet fad inspires laughable "hands free" kit
The image on the left is a fairly typical example of the casual joke emails that I get from friends and clueless Engadget interns: a momentarily entertaining picture, in this case of a dude using an elastic band as a makeshift hands free kit (incidentally, it's also the third result on Google Images for "hands free kit"). With this in perspective, you'll understand the overwhelming compulsion I had to slap myself in the forehead when I saw that someone is trying to flog an elastic band hands free kit -- complete with an example shot identical to the joke image -- onto unsuspecting punters. I hope, nay, pray it's some sort of joke, although the amount of effort that appears to have gone into the design of the packaging forces me to suspect otherwise.[Via Slashphone]
