The Conduit - How's the online?

20th January 2009

Lets take some time out to discuss and speculate the upcoming game, The Conduit's online component.

This game is by far, the best chance of having a true hardcore gaming experience, and the online component will affect the game heavily. Hotheads with the Xbox 360, right now have the best Online system, with PS3 far behind and.. the Wii far behind the PS3.


Although the Conduit has stated it will be utilizing friend codes (sigh), BUT, on a recent IGN podcast, a quote stated, a popular 2009 Third Party game has bypassed the Nintendo Wi-Fi system without friend codes. So, what comes to your mind? ... Third party game, 2009, popular - The Conduit. This is what comes to everyones mind, as everyone is speculating this. For one, I hope this is true, and pray that this will be the first step to getting rid of Friend Codes...which will be unlikely. Have faith.

Gameplay. High Voltage Software, will most likely add some unique features into the Online modes, the most obvious "unique" feature to their FPS, would be their signature ASE (All Seeing Eye) which will be used in the campaign as a "puzzle solver", if it was to appear online, it might be used to activate certain rooms to lock up and explode, killing anyone in that specific room. That would be pretty damn sweet. Maybe even a spoofy mode, of a modified version of Hide And Seek, The Grudge must make it to a specific spot, while humans are equiped with the ASE while they scan through the AI crowds using the ASE attempting to find and gun down the enemies online.

Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the flag are already set down, but High Voltage Software has promised many more to come. But how will these modes flow? Maybe like Counter Strike, a slow paced tactical game, relying heavily on headshots or a fast paced flow like Unreal Tournament - everything is going 100miles per hour, in your face, jump and shoot style. Personally, I think the Unreal scheme suits The Conduit, and I'd much rather a fast run 'n gun gameplay.




Maps...incorporating open end maps for The Conduit online, may be a problem, as the controls and aiming, doesn't seem to work with long range shooting. But who wants a set of maps all being a small size. Variety would be nice, that said, I HATE maps being ported from the campaign, as one too many games do that, such as the Call Of Duty franchise. Hopefully, HVS are creating unique maps just for Online, and online only. I also love maps that takes days and days to get used to, such as Counter Strike. Maps that have specific hiding spots, routes and glitches to gain the upper hand on the enemy, that'll expand the replay value for sure.

The thing I "fantasise" about most, is a awesome online system, equipped with a lobby, for such purposes as chatting via the WiiMote or Wiichat, adding friends WITHOUT entering blasted 24million numbers, Ranking system, joining friends ingame, creating a server etc.
How will the Wiichat work tho? Will the mic be on 24/7, or must you press the + button to speak? The Conduit will also be the first game to actually test the Wiichat's capabilites, as Animal Crossing, had minimal game noise, how will the Wiichat cope with loud bang bang noises and such?


Well, all our questions will be answered in a month, as the hotly anticipated game releases next month.

Apple may track downloaded cracked apps

20 January 2009

There's a whole lot of you who crack apps meaning, download apps that may be priced at $10 for free by cracking them. Many more users will be able to crack apps very soon with the release of the 2G Jailbreak. Of course, naturally you would do this, who wouldn't...I admit I was planning to crack apps until I heard this "rumor" spreading about like ants in your pants.

This rumor states, that Apple some how geotags your location while you're obtaining these ipa files thus knowing who you are...thus billing your account. Now, some people would say
"But I didn't enter my credit card account onto iTunes, I only use iTune cards"
Then I would guess they use your address to send the nightmarish bill to you.

Various people, state that they've heard a story, about a man cracking apps till his heart content and then later finding out he was billed $1000+ from Apple, I guess he then complained to Apple, although I don't know the outcome. All these stories and rumors are not official, I did a bit of googling on this topic and didn't manage to find anything official. The rumors and stories I've heard were seen on forums.

Be really wary about this, and be careful with cracking applications with the release of redsn0w.
If anyone has any more information about this, please comment or drop me a message at
EverythingGizmo@gmail.com

Gamers in China must use their REAL name in-game.

19 January 2009

This is very interesting, and funny. As you may know, China has implemented a Anti-Addiction system, which restricts the amount of time you spend online, gaming. So basically, If you come back home from work, wanting to pull off a all-nighter leveling your Undead mage account over World Of Warcraft, after the 4th hour a message would pop up stating something like:

You may not play any longer, we are restricting you from your absurd addiction and shielding your health. You geeky bastard, get a life!

Now, to add to the restrictions, you must use your REAL name online. China didn't release any other details, so we don't know if they're trying to fight cyber crime or something like that. The thing I find really funny about all of this, is, how many people would be named - Xing Si Pow ?!
Now that means, usernames would be taken left, right and center! ...I Wonder how that would work.

Well, If I was in China, I would register as Phuoc Yu.
No disrespect to China tho, great country, great people.

Free Apps - Limited Time Only

19th January 2009

Okay, who doesn't want free apps? Who doesn't want PAID free apps? Okay that didn't make too much sense.

There are thousands of free apps out there, only a select few actually hold your interest. Finding apps that were once been paid for, now discounted to FREE, just rocks and not only that, but 99% of the time, they're addicting.

So a idea struck me, why not share these limited time only apps to everyone else over YouTube, so this is what I'm doing!
Whenever I find a App that has been lowered to a price tag of FREE, I'll post a video immediately so you guys are able to grab the app before the price raises up, as these types of apps are usually a 24-hour thing.

I posted a video today, the App is named "Tap Of War"



Subscribe to my channel so your able to receive these videos ASAP, the more Limited Time Apps you download, the more money you save!