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Warcraft III's Orc appears on fireworks
What better way to celebrate the Fourth of July today than to sit outside with some good beer, some tasty BBQ, and a whole lot of cheaply made fireworks? Brom and Seku on the Llane server were kind enough to send us this picture they took of a firework they found at a store in Pittsburg, Kansas -- apparently the "Behemoth," made by the Consumer Fireworks company in China, not only "emits showers of sparks," it also blows copyright law completely out of the water. Very nice.One more gigantic pic of the Behemoth and its Warcraft III orc cover art after the jump. If you do use fireworks (or break copyright law) today, do it safely, and have a great holiday!%Gallery-26839%
Spacetime figures out how to get a game "Made in China"
Jake Rodgers, the Art Director at Spacetime Studios, which is working on an unnamed space MMO for NCsoft, has an intriguing dev blog up about his trip to China and the process of outsourcing MMO creation over there. The writeup starts out like a travelogue, with anecdotes about how much Shanghai looks like Blade Runner, and how his team couldn't even order food with just English, but later he gets into the nitty gritty of using Chinese artists and companies to help make a massively multiplayer online videogame.Definitely a great read, and some of the pictures he's got up look terrific as well. Unfortunately, it tells us nothing about the game they're working on itself (the concept art is called "[Lonestar]" so do with that what you will), but it's interesting to hear the perspective of someone coordinating high level game development in a global marketplace.[Via GSW]
