Youtube HD

Seems I’m late to the party but youtube enabled HD. So if the content was uploaded in High definition (HD) to youtube there is now a small link beneath the video which allows you to watch youtube videos in HD.
But HD is in this case not really HD, but a slightly better resolution than their standard youtube videos.
I like the higher quality videos that youtube hd enables! Well done youtube!

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The Space Game

There is a new game coming soon by the casual collective guys which is right up my alley! It’s called “The Space Game” and features mining of asteroid belts, building supply lines and defending against space pirates! So basically your typical towerdefense mechanics in space and with a few twists added. It looks pretty sweet and should be a lot of fun. I guess I will be all over this! ^^

Here is the blogpost about The Space Game and here is the video they created which shows you some gameplay footage:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPMUX_tNoE0&fmt=18]

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Battlestar Galactica returned

Finally! I’m so excited. Let’s see what will happen in this season :)

The easiest signup form

check this out:

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pretty neat huh?

thanks to christian for the heads up!

Games I play at the moment

Just got back into WoW a while ago, but now I also started to play some browsergames again. Basically both typical build & raid games.
First I started (for the first time ever) to play the famous OGame (by Gameforge) and boy you can really tell how old this is. I hope the new UI is coming soon to all the servers, because the old one is HELL! Javascripts not working and what have you. The new UI looks quite nice though. Can’t wait :)

The second one, which has a much better UI from a usability standpoint for now is space-pioneers. I played this game extensively before and I know its potential to eat up my sparetime, but it’s fun :)

All this playing and also watching some videos of last year’s Eve Fanfest got back to working on my own little browserbased game again. I really got quite far this time around, but there’s nothing to see just yet ;) If only I had more time on my hands and Photoshop on my mac *hint hint* ;)

The World of Warcraft has me, again

Yeah, what can I say … the hype won me back.

Got back and finally hit 40 with my warrior! :) Plate Armor at last!

They give you a mount with 35 now, so traveling is not that a big pain in the ass anymore.My trusty Kodo steed looks funny though riding the pavements in ogrimar. I just hope it doesn’t fall over.

The graphics got an overhaul as well and I am thinking of getting a new graphics card now ^^ Bumped the graphics up and my card almost died, haha. Looks nice though.

I also got back with my hunter. It’s still very low, but extremely easy and fun to play and I deal alot of damage with my pet. It’s much easier to level than my warrior :/ If I knew that earlier I would have had stuck to Wow longer altogether.

Also watched 10 Days of Knight on Project Lore. Man, this Death Knight quest chain looks like alot of fun. Unfortunately I need to have burning crusade and wrath of the lich king installed to roll a death knight. Well, take all my money blizzard and make Warcraft 4 an awesome game :)

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Dota in the Browser

Check out Minions if you like playing Dota (which is a very popular multiplayer WC3 Mod). The guys over at casualcollective did it again! Very addictive game :)
Ok, next round…

Update:

Here is the blogpost about Minions on the CasualCollective Blog and there is also a video available on youtube:

[youtube=http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhKgX1XwYw&fmt=18]

Have fun!

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The new Wordpress Dashboard

I like it. Especially the Quickpress. I can see me use this more often from now on.

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When is mediocre good enough?

That is the question.

Do you rush out and deliver product eventhough you know that it needs more polish? Do you use your customers / users as beta testers because you ran out of time polishing?

Blizzard, Ning, Apple delivered when the product was amazing. They earned their customers respect and are doing great. The famous Blizzard statement: “It’s ready when it’s ready.”

How about you? Do you want to lead the pack with amazing product or be a mediocre wannabe?

You decide.

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Wrath of the Lich King sells 2.8Mio copies in one day

making Blizzard Entertainment a cool $112mio over night. Nice uh? Too bad I will never see the cool new content. :( WoW is too much of a timesink.

Found via Are Video Games Recession Proof?

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