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SOE Live 2014: More on Landmark's islands and combat
I think there's a consensus that you can never get too much information about Landmark, and the devs at SOE Live certainly delivered more juicy details about the game's islands and its upcoming combat system. For instance, did you know that Franchise Director Dave Georgeson revealed this little fun fact for RP: All the player characters in Landmark are actually from somewhere else and were just placed on these islands. How or why, Georgeson didn't say! We've got a slew of other tidbits for you here, everything from island rulesets to the use of grappling hooks in PvP to more info on the game master system. And that's just the beginning!
TUG offers your own private island with your rules
In Nerd Kingdom's The Untitled Game (TUG), the focus is on complete freedom. One of those freedoms is the ability for anyone to make his or her own server in the form of a floating island with any rules. Official servers are broken into two categories: Survival, where your items are not safe, and Adventure, which follows more of a traditional RPG/MMO ruleset. But in the private servers, your floating islands will be yours to do with as you please. TUG is currently still in its Kickstarter campaign with 9 days and around $75,000 to go before the project is funded. Head on over to its Kickstarter update page to learn more about private islands and the other features found in this sandbox game.
Corian Z. Island: taking kitchens to the year 3000
Corian is known for producing all types of wacky materials for your countertop, but the company has dashed straight into the 23rd century with its new "Z" kitchen island (and assorted accessories). The Zaha Hadid designed centerpiece boasts LED touch panels embedded in the table's surface, a mounted Mac for multimedia functions, and three very bizarre looking aroma "devices" which protrude from the island, and can be tweaked to produce various scents. The unit also controls a wall of abstract lighting fixtures, allowing you to alter their color and intensity. Basically, it's the perfect thing to own if James T. Kirk stops by wants you to heat up his coffee and make the room smell like rose petals.[Via chipchick]
Rainbow Islands Revolution for $10
If you weren't "lucky" enough to have a glitched copy of Bubble Bobble Revolution and the free Rainbow Islands that came with the replacement, you can get Rainbow Islands now for a very reasonable price. Gamestop is offering Codemasters' sequel for $9.99 new, no broken Bobbles included. It's backordered on the website (which has happened since we started writing the story) but it may be available in a local store or following a restock online.$10 is just about the right price for a game with a Metascore of 54. The original Rainbow Islands is worth like 500 million imaginary Metascore points, and if playing this one even evokes the arcade game a little, it's worth it. Also, $10 is like 1/6 of a copy of Gundam: Crossfire. When you think of it that way, it's quite the bargain![Via CAG]
United States of Piracy? FreeNation Foundation wants sovereignty
"We pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of Piracy, and to the torrent files for which it stands, one Nation under grog, barely visible, with free movies and music for aarrrr." Sound crazy? Well this may be the very vow that children of a future island nation recite in unison every morning, if an organization called the FreeNation Foundation achieves its ultimate goal of statehood. Originally established as sort of a political wing for Swedish torrent tracker The Pirate Bay during its brief attempt to purchase the micronation of Sealand, the FNF has branched off to become an independent body bent on founding "a new society based on the ideals of freedom, equality and sustainable growth." Although the Sealand takeover plan quickly went south due to a lack of interest by its current owners and the fact that it is "too small and aesthetically displeasing to support such a goal," the FNF membership's taste for a country to call their own remained. It all sounds very romantic and American Revolution-esque, but what really seems to be going on here is that a group of disaffected netizens want to create their own socialist state wherein laws of intellectual property protection don't apply -- a digital utopia for some, a potential nightmare for others. According to the site Zeropaid, the most likely candidate for purchase at the moment is an island called Ile de Caille off the northern coast of Grenada, whose 400 tropical acres would presumably provide a safe haven for proponents of communal property. To their credit, the founding members of FNF do seem to be concerned with more than just the ability to download "Baby Geniuses 2" without repercussions; in fact, forums have been set up to discuss every aspect of building a real nation-state, from law to politics to economic policies. All well and good, and we're glad that these people have more on their minds than just watching Entourage day in and day out, but it seems that this whole effort is somewhat of a waste of time; after all -- as we saw earlier today -- there's already at least one pirate-friendly country in existence which is quite proud of the fact that its burgeoning IT industry was built on a foundation of bootleg floppies and Windows 95 CD's.Read- Zeropaid [Via Digg]Read- FNF website
