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One Shots: Drawing down
Due to its recent release, RIFT is definitely the overwhelming focus of screenshots in our One Shots mailbox of late. The nice thing about receiving so many images from a new game is the chance to see how the developers have handled different racial character models, such as the Dwarven girl in today's RIFT screenshot, which was sent into us by Melinda. So much for the "all Dwarves have beards and the ladies look the same as the men" concept! Melinda writes in: "I took this shot of my little Dwarf Rogue, Natia, in the Guardian beginning zone, to show some friends how great RIFT's Dwarf girls are. Nevermind the doom, gloom, and destruction of poor Mathosia hanging around in the background -- her sheer awesomeness will take care of all that. Well, that plus her giant boar, who kindly tanked a random Defiant construct so that I could take this action shot." From the newest titles to the oldest of old school, we love to see screenshots of all different MMO games. If you have some screenshots you've been saving, why not show them off? Just email them in to us here at oneshots@massively.com aong with your name, the name of the game, and a description of what we're seeing. We'll post those screenshots out here and give you the credit for sending them in. %Gallery-112285%
Sony Ericsson rumors aplenty
Member shaliron over at Esato appears to have done some serious homework compiling a list of all known Sony Ericsson handsets in the pipeline, complete with nifty color coding to indicate verified, debunked, and new intelligence. We encourage Sony Ericsson fans and non-fans alike to go check out the real deal, but in the meanwhile, we've put together a Reader's Digest peek here at some of the highlights. First up, the music-oriented Walkman series could be growing by a solid six devices in the coming months, topped off by a successor to the UIQ-based W950 codenamed "Maria," a (possibly UIQ-based) clamshell dubbed W910, and the oft-discussed Ai. The camera-focused (no pun inteded) Cyber-shot series will be enjoying a bumper crop itself: a successor to the K800 is allegedly already in the works, "Sofia," packing a 5 megapixel shooter, UMTS, and QVGA recording, while a possible Handycam-branded M600 variant would obviously reign supreme for its video capabilities. Other highlights include a promise that HSDPA will factor into the company's 2007 plans, a wide-scale migration of the FastPort connector to the sides of the handsets, and a shortening of the span from announcement to release of UIQ-based models (a move we applaud). As we said, there's plenty more juicy tidbits to digest over at Esato -- but even with what we've presented here, it's safe to say Sony Ericsson's shaping up for a killer '07. Any UIQ or 3G love for the US of A, folks?
