Market Update: Games Workshop scraps online project

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Market leader EA to link up with
Microsoft for online games

Market leader EA to link up with
Microsoft for online games 05/31/2004 03:40 PM
News.nzcity.co.nz - Sun May 30, 09:46 am GMT

UK MoD scraps GBP120m computer project

UK MoD scraps GBP120m computer project 11/06/2003 05:04 PM
The Register Nov 6 2003 3:24PM ET

UK MoD scraps £120m computer project

UK MoD scraps £120m computer project 11/06/2003 03:56 PM
Obsolete before completion

BEA's Project Beehive to Open-Source
Workshop Framework

BEA's Project Beehive to Open-Source
Workshop Framework 05/19/2004 08:48 PM
Officials say the move will help make the company's tools framework a standard in the enterprise Java space, while also speeding the adoption of service-oriented architectures.

Microsoft Scraps Xbox Online Game

Microsoft Scraps Xbox Online Game 06/03/2004 06:44 AM
Forbes Jun 3 2004 10:47AM GMT

Microsoft scraps online game for Xbox

Microsoft scraps online game for Xbox 06/03/2004 08:25 PM
Newshub.com - Thu Jun 3, 03:43 pm GMT

Microsoft scraps eagerly awaited online
game

Microsoft scraps eagerly awaited online
game 06/03/2004 12:10 PM
Microsoft Corp (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) said on Thursday it has scrapped plans to roll out an online game that was supposed to help it revive the fortunes of its Xbox game console in Japan. "True Fantasy Live Online", a multi-player online role-playing game, was expected to be the Xbox's answer to Square Enix Co Ltd's <9684.T> immensely popular online version of Final Fantasy, only available for consoles on Sony Corp's <6758.T> PlayStation 2 (PS2).

Microsoft scraps eagerly awaited online
video game

Microsoft scraps eagerly awaited online
video game 06/06/2004 08:23 PM
Itmatters.com.ph - Sun Jun 6, 04:25 pm GMT

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ft scraps online game

/articleshow/718629.cms">Microso
ft scraps online game 06/04/2004 08:41 PM
Economictimes.indiatimes.com - Fri Jun 4, 12:32 pm GMT

Microsoft Scraps Eagerly Awaited Online
Game (Reuters)

Microsoft Scraps Eagerly Awaited Online
Game (Reuters) 06/03/2004 05:20 AM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday it has scrapped plans to roll out an online game that was supposed to help it revive the fortunes of its Xbox game console in Japan.

Online Games Of Skill vs. Online Games
Of Chance

Online Games Of Skill vs. Online Games
Of Chance 05/24/2004 04:40 AM
While the US has been notoriously tough on the idea of any online gambling in the US, there are a number of companies doing quite well in the somewhat "gray" area of online games of skill for money. These aren't games of chance, but still require players to put up money, and the winners go home with more than they put in. The difference, of course, is that the win is based (at least somewhat) on the skills of the players. However, this can be a very fine line. Most games involve a mix of skill and luck, and you can make the claim that classic gambling games like poker and blackjack require some amount of skill as well. Still, the online "games of skill" providers claim they're just like a typical sports association, like the US Tennis Association, that sets up tournaments and awards prizes to the winners - minus their own cut. Of course, they conveniently skip over the part about where the money comes from. With these online games, it is still a "pay to enter" sort of contest. Either way, it's not entirely clear how the legal issues will play out. Some states already bar such online games of skill, but many don't. Federal laws are still unclear, and the companies involved in this space are lobbying heavily to try to make the point that they should be allowed to continue where online gambling sites are forbidden.

New NCsoft games show the best, worst in
online games

New NCsoft games show the best, worst in
online games 06/01/2004 08:24 PM
Augustachronicle.com - Mon May 31, 07:30 am GMT

"Pew Internet & American Life Project:
America's Online Pursuits: The changing
picture of who's online and what they
do"

"Pew Internet & American Life Project:
America's Online Pursuits: The changing
picture of who's online and what they
do" 12/30/2003 09:40 AM

Mono Project Can Help The Mac In The
Enterprise Market

Mono Project Can Help The Mac In The
Enterprise Market 06/14/2004 09:57 AM
There's a large open source initiative under way to port Microsoft's .NET technology to Unix (including Mac OS X). By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum (via MyAppleMenu)

O2 first to bring Bluetooth games to the
mass market

O2 first to bring Bluetooth games to the
mass market 08/12/2004 08:12 AM
New Media Age Aug 12 2004 12:24PM GMT

Microsoft to aid lagging Japanese Mac
games market?

Microsoft to aid lagging Japanese Mac
games market? 09/21/2004 06:46 AM
In an article published today on Wired, Nobuyuki Hayashi takes a look at the Mac gaming slump in the Japanese market and reports that Microsoft may soon come to the rescue...

The Virtual Land Market in Project
Entropia

The Virtual Land Market in Project
Entropia 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land: At first, I thought this was the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game. [...]

The land exists within the game Project Entropia, an RPG which allows thousands of players to interact with each other.

But, then I read further:

[The gamer] will make money from his investment as he is able to tax other gamers who come to his virtual land to hunt or mine for gold.

He has also begun to sell plots to people who wish to build virtual homes.

Project Entropia is different from other MMORPGs in that it has a real money economy built into it, meaning that people can buy and sell things for actual money within the game. (A lot of games have ad hoc markets offline — you can buy or sell stuff on, say, eBay. However, I don't think there's any way to force the seller to deliver the actual goods in the game, but I could be wrong.)

So he buys this island, and he's started selling pieces of it to other people. If he develops it right, and nets more than he paid, then he has legitimately become a real estate developer of land that doesn't exist.

Stupid as we might think it is, things are worth what someone wants to pay. If people want to pay this guy more than he paid for the item in question, then it's a good investment, no matter how silly the notion of developing fake land seems to most people.

The downside is wrapped up in the law of supply and demand —

Demand in the "virtual economy" is fairly untested. In the real world, the value of land has held true for millions of years. Who knows if this trend of people wanting stuff in a fake universe is going to continue? The market could fall apart in an instant, whereas the real world land market is comparatively stable.

As for supply, this virtual land market is dependent on the "owners" of the game not destroying it by expanding the world. Land (or any other commodity) has value only because there's a finite amount of it. If the producers of this world just decided to flip a switch and double the size of the world, thus flooding the virtual land market with other islands like this one, then this guy's investment drops like a stone.

In the real world of land development, you have the protection of the simple fact that you can't just flip a switch and "create" new land. Thus, your investment has value. In the virtual world, this may or may not be true. Before I invested money, I'd want some contractual agreement with the game producers that they weren't going to flood the market I'm speculating in.

And then I'd want an opinion from my doctor as to whether I'm completely insane, or just partially...

IDC: Games, video to fuel Europe's
mobile market

IDC: Games, video to fuel Europe's
mobile market 05/21/2004 12:46 PM

GameBrink.com Expands U.S. Market for
Import Japanese Video Games

GameBrink.com Expands U.S. Market for
Import Japanese Video Games 06/17/2005 03:44 PM
For various reasons, many video games are never sold outside of Japan. But that isn't stopping U.S. gamers from playing them, thanks to GameBrink.com (http://www.gamebrink.com). The site, which officially launched this week, retails import Japanese video games for PSP(TM), Nintendo DS(TM), GameCube(TM), Game Boy(R) and PlayStation 2(TM) systems from within the U.S. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2005]

Casual Users are Vital to the Success of
the Mobile Games Market

Casual Users are Vital to the Success of
the Mobile Games Market 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
Casual users, not console gamers are the key to the ongoing success of the mobile entertainment market, according to mobile games publisher Mr Goodliving. [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

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Update: xTime Project 2.2

Update: xTime Project 2.2 06/21/2004 10:56 AM
The project manager adds import of Microsoft Project XML and MPX formats, PMX import, better web sharing, and other changes.

Update: xTime Project 3.0

Update: xTime Project 3.0 01/05/2005 02:00 PM
The project manager adds a new engine for better performance, a new interface, a new view to manage resource conflicts, and other improvements.

Update: Project Desktop 2.1

Update: Project Desktop 2.1 04/12/2004 10:04 AM
The cross-platform project management tool adds LDAP authentication, many new Number fields, and a variety of bug fixes.

Update: xTime Project 2.1

Update: xTime Project 2.1 06/11/2004 10:01 AM
The project manager adds PERT charts, Gantt charts with resources or tasks, improved support for Jaguar, interface and performance improvements, and other changes.

Update: Project Desktop 2.3

Update: Project Desktop 2.3 06/24/2004 11:24 AM
The project management tool adds system-wide date and time format settings, improved export, PERT chart and WBS chart views, and more.

Update: xTime Project 2.5

Update: xTime Project 2.5 08/23/2004 10:56 AM
The project management software adds export of projects to XML and iCal, export of actions to iCal, better management of daily events, an improved interface, and other changes.

Update: Project Desktop 2.4

Update: Project Desktop 2.4 07/28/2004 11:05 AM
The project management tool adds faster scheduling operations, improved keyboard navigation, reduced resource use, and other changes.

Update: ConceptDraw Project 1.1

Update: ConceptDraw Project 1.1 05/14/2004 10:37 AM
The cross-platform brainstorming, organizing, and project management program adds a customizable project calendar, task planning for weekends and holidays, a renovated Data Grid, and other changes.

Update: xTime Project 2.0.1

Update: xTime Project 2.0.1 05/25/2004 10:09 AM
Recent changes in the project manager include a new and faster engine, a redesigned interface, resources management, and more.

Blue Sphere Games Has Announced Its
Market Winning Range of Titles at E3
Trade Show

Blue Sphere Games Has Announced Its
Market Winning Range of Titles at E3
Trade Show 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
Blue Sphere Games has announced its licence agreement with Coca-Cola, Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels, Scott Adam's Dilbert Cartoon and the popular UK children's cartoon characters Dennis the Menace and Gnasher from the comic the Beano at the E3 Trade Show. [PRWEB May 20, 2005]

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire(TM) Author
Embraces Mobile Games Market by Forming
Sniderware

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire(TM) Author
Embraces Mobile Games Market by Forming
Sniderware 07/01/2004 02:18 AM
Eric Snider, best-known for his award-winning game "Eric's Ultimate Solitaire(TM)" for the Macintosh, has made the leap to the mobile games market with "Eric Snider's Solitaire(TM)" for Palm OS [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004]

Nepal Wireless project update

Nepal Wireless project update 07/07/2004 02:35 PM
BoingBoing reader Marc says:

After reading this previous BoingBoing post in May about the Nepal Wireless project, I decided to interview Mahabir Pun about his work. Some of the responses surprised me, and many of the decisions are in direct contrast to a project in Laos I covered two years ago: they're using Windows and Microsoft NetMeeting instead of open source; they're not localizing; and social mobility isn't necessarily one of the project goals. I think in many ways the Nepalese project is more successful because it's less ambitious. Mahabir also talks about working while living through the Maoist insurgency.

Link

The European Library (TEL) Project
Update

The European Library (TEL) Project
Update 02/13/2004 09:23 AM
The European Library (TEL) Project Update
http://www.ariadne. ac.uk/issue38/woldering/
http://www.europeanlibrary.org/

The European Library (TEL) project is a new pan-European service which ultimately will provide Internet access to the combined resources of the national libraries of Europe. Begun in January after 36 months of study, the project hopes to launch TEL by the end of this year. It will offer free searching for both digital and non-digital resources, and will deliver digital objects -- some free, some for a fee. There will be limited multilingual features at launch; although the partners are committed to multilingual interfaces with links to translation services, there will be no integrated multilingual search capability. TEL will integrate with Gabriel, the Web service for 43 European national libraries. Aimed at informed citizens worldwide who want a powerful, simple way of finding European cultural resources, TEL's vast virtual collection of material is also expected to attract researchers from around the world. The European Library will be a "collection of collections" and allow for cross-collection searching which would otherwise be impossible. TEL will contribute to new research by making resources from many disciplines widely available, and by enabling new connections through exploitation of a huge virtual library collection. The TEL team will be established this month and start to transfer the project results into an operational service.

Tsunami Reconnect Project: Update

Tsunami Reconnect Project: Update 12/31/2004 04:37 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing pal Mike Outmesguine gives us an update on the blog-driven project to provide free wireless communication services to areas cut off by the disaster:

Here's a rough update. Smartbridges located in Singapore has pledged 5 access points to begin with and more as specific needs arise. They can be used to connect remote locales over a distance or to create coverage in a local area.

Individuals have pledged spare antennas and radio bridges. Several people have volunteered their time and expertise, including volunteers from the US and Europe prepared to travel to the area to help set up the equipment.

I have been asked specifically to help rebuild communications from people in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and an island near the epicenter without any telecom connection to nearby Sumatra.

We are now working in coordination with the efforts of the Wireless Comm Association International, and I will be attending the Jan. 13th disaster relief meeting in san jose. Other wireless activists and group leaders have contacted me about working together, which I am thrilled to do. I am in touch with companies that want to help, but are working with us to determine what specific models we could put in use.

Bloggers without Borders has pledged 10% of current donations will go to socalwug for this effort.

Donations can be made to socalwug via paypal (through my account at mo@transstellar.com) or credit card. Equipment can be sent to me to redistribute or may ship directly from the manufacturer to the site if practical (as in SmartBridges case from Singapore.)

Link

"Online Games"

"Online Games" 06/03/2004 05:04 AM

What have online games done to us?

What have online games done to us? 06/07/2004 04:23 AM
Content.sina.com - Mon Jun 7, 08:50 am GMT

Project 2003 Security Update: KB838344

Project 2003 Security Update: KB838344 09/22/2004 12:14 AM
Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. For more information on this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (838344) Overview of the Project 2003 Security Update: KB838344.

REALbasic update improves VB Project
Converter

REALbasic update improves VB Project
Converter 03/22/2005 05:04 PM
REAL Software on Monday announced the release of REALbasic 5.5.5, an update to its development environment for Mac, PC and Linux operating systems. This release emphasizes a continuing effort REAL Software has made to reach out to Windows developers who are experienced with Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) environment; it includes improvements to REALbasic's VB Project Converter, which helps port existing VB applications to REALbasic, where they can be cross-compiled for Mac OS X and Linux.
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