Hands Up Who's Getting One?

Edge break the story that the UK release for PS3 will be March 23rd and the price will be £425. So you're looking at nearly £500 to play even one game.

So let's see 'em.. Who's in?

How Big Is Azeroth?

Last week we heard that World of Warcraft hit 8 million users.

How big a virtual world does it take to house all those Horde and Alliance guys and girls? Answer: Not very big, according to Tobold of Tobold's MMORPG blog.

Based on an average marathon runner's speed of 12mph Tobold runs corner to corner and with a bit of simple maths comes up with the answer: Kalimdor is 41 square miles and Azeroth (pre-Burning Crusade) is 80 square miles.

For an idea of how big (or small) that is - the island of Manhattan is 20 square miles and the Isle of Wight is 146 square miles.

I'm betting the inhabitants of Azeroth aren't as weird as the locals on the latter though.

At the Mall

Announcing the new Mii Mega-Mall v2.0... A downloadable app for the PC and Mac that allows you to browse the four main online Mii sites, download to your PC and transfer to your Wiimote. It also handles uploading.

Including a new handy preview function you can check out how the Mii's look before you download them.

Feature list:

• Mii Preview -New
• Image Uploading -New
• Rating System -New
• Community Policing -New
• Column Sorting -New
• Built-in RSS capabilities
• Download Mii from the Mega-Mall
• Multiple simultaneous downloads
• Transfer downloaded Mii to your wiimote (using Bluetooth)
• Copy Mii from your wiimote to your PC (using Bluetooth)
  
• Upload your own Mii to the Mii Mega-Mall to share with others

Bitbeltane at Ruut's Gaff

Borag Thungg,

Accordion to the ancient Sudo calendar, it is the Post of 'Fi, which means it's time to boot the old script droid and get another festival of video games -a- rokin.

As tantalising and sweet as the bountiful bleeding edge techno-fruits of Munchk Towers are, it's my go at the tiller so that means it's a wonderful rose tinted trip back in time to those heady days of Sixth Generation Era for you this 'Fi, Young Fellah-me-laddo. Chin up though, this isn't the bad old days of tiny round screens and tinfoil, all that's old is new again! Quick sharp, grab that trusty old DS Lite and delve into this here bucket of sparkly wonderment. Pick a game or two from The List and stick them onto a bit of USB or CDROM.

We'll fire them up in multi player conditions in a controlled experiment and see what will go into our Ruut's Gaff chart of 6G. The excitement! You'll be standing by these games though, and you'll gain points for originality -- what priceless gem can you find among all these nasty licences? Where is our new Multi Player Citizen Kabuto?

For inspiration, and to get the D12s of this adventure rolling, I offer Mario Hoops 3 on 3, a slick high fructose Mushroom Land B-Ball Tourney with coins, explosions, tantrums and fireballs that I'm tapping the heck out of at the moment. Ignore the scores, just drag it and boot it sometime this week and take a peak into the practise lessons. There's a book load of moves, taps, gestures and combos to learn, so it's worth having a look at this one, I predict long loud sessions.

Villagers need food, so F5 last episode's snacks.asp and head on over to the gaff, see another Bitbeltane in with friends.

Splundig vur Thrigg

The King is Dead!

Another post from the burgeoning Zelda-blog 5 Rupees (which I finally realised was meant as in 'my two-pennyworth', duh) this time taking a po-faced (poe-faced?), yet tongue-in-cheek look at the cyclic downfall of the Hyrulean monarchy, and offering up a couple of alternative scenarios.

Regarding Democracy:

This would allow everyone, including the Zoras, Gorons and Gerudo to be represented in a united government. This would allow issues such as the freezing of the Zoras homeland and the spread of the Twilight to be dealt with quickly and efficiently with a united government. It would also allow capitalists like Malo to spread their business and start franchises that aid the people, as well as work up a strong economy for the Republic of Hyrule.

WoW Hits 8 Million

Well, I don't play WoW, but this struck me as a pretty impressive and deserved a mention. To put it in context, 10.5 million xbox 360's sold last year, and 8 million people on a single game on the PC!

Further proof the PC platform is alive and kicking!!!Guardian Linky

Dudda Dah Dah Dah Dah

Kotaku and Joystiq are both running stories on a bunch of cool new vids that have appeared on YouTube that appear to be showcasing a new third person version of Ghostbusters.

Joystiq have links to all four videos and are quietly positive about it, carrying further links to AintItCool and supposed developers ZootFly.

Kotaku are slightly more downbeat, saying it's probably a Gears mod (sounds unlikely to me as there is no released editor for Gears. It's much more likely to be a Source mod or a base Unreal mod if it's an amateur job.)

I would simply love to play a free-roaming Ghostbusters game, especially given the environmental destruction visible in that video. Imagine multiplayer versions, imagine opposing franchises of Ghostbusters competing for business. This game has a lot of mileage in today's gaming environment... the only question is does the enthusiasm of the thirty-somethings who remember GB fondly have enough weight to carry it?