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Online Gaming For The Win
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Online Gaming For The Win
Used to play a WoW paladin for years. Now looking at what will be the new trends in online gaming. Curated by Guillaume Decugis |
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Guillaume Decugis
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February 5, 2014 10:24 PM
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The New York Times Bits Blog is reporting that totally immersive three-dimensional environments, similar to the holodeck in Star Trek, could be a reality by the year 2024.
Via Gord Holden, Andrew Nathan
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Now that would be a gaming revolution!
Andrew Nathan's curator insight,
February 3, 2014 9:11 AM
Not sure if this is leadership, but so fricking cool! As a long time trekkie, I had to share.
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Guillaume Decugis
January 28, 2014 7:41 PM
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Since the release of the Oculus Rift development kit, many major game developers have been experimenting with virtual reality in their labs. Now, another one of them has come forward in support of the technology: Sony Online Entertainment, the company behindEverQuest.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
More than a rumor: something the President of Sony Online Entertainment confirmed.
Question is whether it will add to the gameplay or make it cumbersome?
I've tried a prototype game with those goggles and it's pretty cool but I can't say I would have stayed immersed forever. The thing that struck me is that we probably yet have to invent the games that would make Virtual Reality compelling: looking at VR goggles as another controller for existing games with the same gameplays doesn't seem to be enough to me at this stage.
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Guillaume Decugis
November 9, 2013 1:46 PM
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Across Draenor's savage jungles and battle-scarred plains, Azeroth's heroes will engage in a mythic conflict involving mystical draenei champions and ...
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
So the rumors about a new WoW extension were true and Blizzard just confirmed the warlords of draenors extension. Among the expected novelties I wonder if the ability to build your own garrison and enroll NPC's will be a radical change of the gameplay - bringing some RTS elements to the game. After nine years of WoW, this would be welcome.
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November 6, 2013 1:08 AM
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Blizzard could be gearing up to announce a new World of Warcraft expansion at BlizzCon next weekend. The company filed a trademark for the title Warlords of Draenor in New Zealand and Australia.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Can't blame Blizzard for not giving up. Will they take the opportunity to revamp the gameplay and come out with something more creative?
GamerPeer's curator insight,
November 6, 2013 1:35 PM
Blizzard is non stop with the addition of new Expansions. The only unfortunate aspect of them constantly coming out with new games is that communities and groups are already formed. WoW gamers have been with their communities for so long that they have almost become families.
Because of this- it is very unfortunate for GamerPeer.com because we want to take the idea of family/teamwork/friendships to every game, including console games. With that being said, if you are a WoWer and not in a tight group community to play with 24/7, try finding the right gamers using our free software. We will take the information you provide and match you with the right individuals and gamers that you can build a long term friendship with.
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November 2, 2013 3:35 PM
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“ With Tim Cook's blessing and $50 million in funding from backers like Andreessen Horowitz, robotics outfit Anki already has buzz other startups could only dream of. Hands-on with its first product.”
Via Thomas Faltin, Guillaume Decugis
Via Thomas Faltin, Guillaume Decugis
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Anki is not the first company to come out with a hybrid concept mixing real life and virtual gaming experience. But the investment they made in AI is very promising.
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October 17, 2013 3:02 AM
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After the announcement last week about the Star Wars: The Old Republic super-secret space project, I wanted to jump up and down
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
The new expansion to SWTOR will finally bring Star Wars players to the... Stars. But don't expect too much from it: this is pvp only and pretty constrained - at least according to that Hoystiq article.
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October 10, 2013 3:31 PM
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Playing World of Warcraft with GameWAVE Are you ready to take World of Warcraft to the next level? Today developer Uwyn released a custom gesture mapping file for playing WoW with their popular game...
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Not sure how practical this is but playing WoW with gestures looks definitely cool. Nice move by Leap Motion which confirms that one if the main applications for its device is gaming (only thing I've done with it so far).
Guillaume Decugis's curator insight,
October 10, 2013 3:35 PM
The Leap Motion controller looks more and more like a game controller. And it should. Cracking one application vertical before moving on to the next ones might be key to mainstream adoption.
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August 21, 2013 12:24 PM
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In the middle of E3 earlier this month, the creators of the new game Titanfall posed for a photo in front of a massive statue of one of the giant exo-...
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Is Titanfall going to reinvent the multiplayer FPS?
GamerPeer's curator insight,
November 3, 2013 10:35 PM
I am not sure about everyone else, but TitanFall could be absolutely huge for the FPS of eSports. Of course Call of Duty will always be at the forefront, but what if Ghosts doesn't live up to standards? With the competitive COD community already up in arms- maybe TitanFall will be the "killer."
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Guillaume Decugis
August 21, 2013 6:57 AM
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“A couple of commenters mentioned on the previous post that having paladins be Alliance-only would mean that the Horde would have fewer tanks.Has having more tank classes led to more tanks, though?Vanilla only had 2 tank classes: warriors and bears.”
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Because few players know how to be a good tank, that's why. Takes courage and abnegation, doesn't it?
Greg Mee's curator insight,
August 21, 2013 3:00 PM
I've done a pretty fair amount of dungeon tanking and I agree that tanks don't seem to be too popular to play. Based on the comments made about other tanks, it seems that some are clueless.
I always tried to listen and learn and make it fun (for me, anyway,) and got a few compliments. I need to get back into it, but time seems tight these days.
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July 26, 2013 9:07 AM
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700,000 players exit Azeroth over the last three months as Activision Blizzard announces that 7.7 million people remain subscribed to gargantuan MMO.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Still a huge number of players. The franchise will be slow to die.
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July 10, 2013 3:02 AM
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Blizzard is letting World of Warcraft (WoW) players pay real money for virtual world advantages.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Isn't that the very thing Blizzard fought against for years?
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June 21, 2013 4:15 PM
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Guillaume Decugis's insight:
If you missed Apple's WWDC keynote, you should watch this. A company called Anki is taking AI not only to the next level but also to the real world. Their first product due this fall is a car-racing game where you fight AI-controlled cars on a real track.
This is fascinating to me because the big recent trend in gaming has been to downplay the importance of AI by bringing human players to play with or against one another. We also talk a lot about real-life gaming (humans with humans in the street) but I don't know if this will be that massive (still waiting to see Ingress get big). Now this is the missing combination: after human + AI, human + human online, human + human real-life, real-life + AI.
Too early to tell but great to see the gaming industry has perspective beyond reinventing the nth iteration of a point and shoot.
GamerPeer's curator insight,
June 23, 2013 3:57 PM
Next gen gaming is reintroduced to the living room. My initial reaction is - when do the tournaments begin? The combination of gameing and real objects is #gamification at it's finest.
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Guillaume Decugis
June 7, 2013 4:53 PM
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The video-game industry would be better off if more companies were brave (and financially secure) enough to do what Blizzard did.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Yes, says Adam Biessener on GameInformer. Of course late and good is better than now and crap. But is Titan's delay the sign Blizzard made the right call (for quality) or is the sign the company became too big and is lacking the creativity it needs to reinvent itself?
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May 30, 2013 10:12 AM
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Publisher Activision Blizzard has to make a hit with Titan to replace the revenue generated by World of Warcraft.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Good summary of why it is so necessary - but also so difficult - for Activision / Blizzard to come out with a replacement for WoW.
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May 29, 2013 2:16 PM
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All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyber attack is ready to launch.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
This is both fascinating and scary. While it's been said before that gaming could change the world, I don't think that's what Jane McGonigal meant by making the world better through it. Darpa, the technology lab of the Pentagon, plans on using gaming interfaces and mechanics to make cyberwar much easier.
“Say you’re playing World of Warcraft, and you’ve got this type of sword, +5 or whatever. You don’t necessarily know what spells were used to create that sword, right? You just know it has these attributes and it helps you in this way. It’s the same type of concept. You don’t need the technical details,” said to Wired Dan Roelker - the man behind the idea for this Plan X project.
While this certainly makes sense from a pure military point of view, this raises many questions. While most military technology progress has been comlex to implement and costly, this is about making it easy and accessible to non-specialists. Not sure what happens next when the technology is leaked and everyone WoW player can become a cyber pirate...
Christopher Lambert's curator insight,
July 1, 2013 12:31 PM
When I read things like this I can't help but think that technology is actually starting to catch up to our imagination... we are essentially getting to a place where if you dream it, you can make it a reality.
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May 28, 2013 9:12 PM
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Blizzard has reportedly reset their next-gen MMO, Project Titan, which will probably only see a release in 2016 according to reports.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
And in the meantime WoW isn't getting better. Sad news for gamers.
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May 17, 2013 11:11 AM
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One of the easiest paths to profit in World of Warcraft is to have a mage visit the various cities in the game and pick up stock items from various vendors and resell them at obscenely high prices.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
I love it when marketers make observations from WoW. Short but good post by Chris Penn.
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May 11, 2013 2:25 PM
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World of Warcarft, gaming industry’s most popular franchise and one of Activision Blizzard's cash cow, is bleeding subscribers.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
This is the end... And Blizzard is now acknowledging it, seemingly not giving much hope to bring back momentum through new extensions.
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March 13, 2013 12:23 PM
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Many hardcore and old school World of Warcraft players will tell you that many adventurers in Azeroth today have it easy compared to back in the day of vanilla and The Burning Crusade.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
I agree: this is the expansion that made me quit WoW. Not so much because it was a total failure but because it didn't bring much novelty and probably focused too much on making it easy for newbies to onboard. Interesting community management / customer targeting lesson here.
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March 1, 2013 4:44 PM
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When I originally started playing World of Warcraft, things were different. Priests were still waiting on their first big class patch. Regular mounts required level 40; most players couldn't afford the 100ish gold fee without a loan from their guild. Epic mounts were so prohibitively expensive as to be considered rare. Raids required the dedication and skill of 40 players, and only a couple of guilds per realm actually even bothered to run high-end content. WoW was, as they say, srs bsns.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Like Mike Foster, I'm a retired wow-player who gave up somewhere in Cataclysm after having felt the thrills of challenging Arthas - first miserably and finally with some long-awaited success. His post is a nicely-written defense of Myst of Pandaria and made me want to play again.
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February 19, 2013 12:08 PM
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Microsoft's Surface Pro can easily run AAA video games like League of Legends, Diablo 3, and Portal 2. So why isn't Redmond going out of their way to evangelize this fact?
Picture: Valve's Portal 2 running on Surface Pro with near-maximum graphics settings
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Hadn't realize this myself. Probably won't make me switch from my iPad and Mac but interesting as it could open up a new market for Microsoft as I commented earlier here.
Enoch Onamusi's curator insight,
March 26, 2013 12:04 AM
I believe that with the marketing industry is moving towards thin, small and elegant systems with the ability to play high performance games, this could be a very intresting development.
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January 12, 2013 3:51 PM
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Blizzard has a history of using World of Warcraft as a fundraiser for disaster relief, and it broke its own recent records by raising $2.3 million for the American Red Cross to help victimes of Hurricane Sandy.
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
Impressive. Who said gamers were selfish nerds? ;-)
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January 9, 2013 2:07 PM
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According to reports, a man in China became so exasperated by the amount of time that his unemployed son was spending playing World of Warcraft that he decided to do something about it.Si he hired in-game assassins to disgust him of the game. But guess what? It probably made it even more fun...
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November 29, 2012 8:13 PM
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"There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Ingress, Google’s latest foray into online social networking. Instead of focusing on creating another facebook, Ingress is Google’s attempt at using that massive pile of data they’ve been collecting about us to use in a way that hasn’t really been done before, in an augmented reality game"
Via The Digital Rocking Chair, Matmi
Via The Digital Rocking Chair, Matmi
Guillaume Decugis's insight:
We could indeed ask whether online gaming isn't augmented reality's future. I'm not an expert with AR but it seems to me this promising technology is taking time to find massive scale applications. Not unlike voice recognition. Maybe gaming is the way to make it finally happen?
Nik Pregelj's curator insight,
March 20, 2013 9:59 PM
This article looks at the google glasses and the possiblity of creating an Augmented reality where you can turn ANY real life environment into a 'battlefield' for first person shooting games just by wearing the glasses.
I think the fun factor of being able to turn any environment you want into a 'map' to game on and then play a first person shooter in it could definetly make this extremely successful. This could definately be the future and next level of gaming.
Although this new way of gaming could be extremely fun it may not be appealing to all gamers and/or porffesional and competitive gamers who prefer to be inside in a relaxed position instead of having to be physically active for long periods of time while they game.
This could be an issue as to how succesfull and widespread this new form of gaming will be with a lot of people not wanting to have to be physically active while they game. This could hinder the success however there could still and probably will be a huge market for this type of gaming with how immersive and interactive it is.
Theres also huge possibilities with advertising with this sort of gaming aswell.
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Games are often when breakthrough innovations are happening. This time, the company behind the awesome Anki Drive toy cars says they have solved fundamental robotics issues.
Wonder what they're up to next.