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I am thoroughly enjoying Windows 7 at the moment but do find this video quite funny. Wolves! Love it!

A closed beta testing period for Blizzard Entertainment’s highly-anticipated real-time strategy game StarCraft II is set to kick off later this month, CEO Mike Morhaime said in a recent Activision-Blizzard earnings call.

The PC title is slated for release in mid-2010, and Blizzard plans another expansion to the studio’s World of Warcraft franchised, titled Cataclysm, for later this year.

Morhaime says Blizzard expects a “tremendous response” to the beta, which will be available worldwide. Blizzard has details on joining the beta testing on their official website.

Source ~ USA Today

2K Games have released BioShock 2 worldwide for the Xbox 360 console, PlayStation 3 system and Games for Windows-LIVE. Building on the original game that sold over 3 million copies, BioShock 2 delivers an artistic and entertaining video game experience.

The single player mode’s storyline serves as a sequel to the original game. BioShock 2 gives users a magnificent visual design and provides them with the evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter gameplay. Taking place nearly a decade after a horrifying civil war consumed the once lustrous city of Rapture, evil is swarms through the halls and a impiety once thought to be destroyed returns to the Atlantic seaboard.

After a series of kidnappings from local communities by an unknown monster, Rapture is once again repopulated with Little Sisters. Players are put into the boots of one Rapture’s deadliest foes, Big Daddy, as they travel through the ruined utopia, fending off attacks from genetically altered Splicers, while in a search for escape and the key to survival.

Source ~ TransWorldNews

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.

• Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
• Live capture and offline analysis
• Standard three-pane packet browser
• Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
• Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
• The most powerful display filters in the industry
• Rich VoIP analysis
• Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
• Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
• Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
• Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
• Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
• Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

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Aion has had a rocky release, to say the least – bots, RMT, crashing, slow XP leveling, lack of quests at certain levels. NCSoft today implemented a 2nd wave of bannings for bots and appears to be taking this issue seriously. Also, earlier this week, NCSoft release its latest patch. Included, although unpublished, was a fix or a great step to fix the constant crashing during fortress sieges. The future is uncertain but these latest steps may stabilize the subscriptions somewhat and this latest video now may stave off additional defections and regenerate some of the earlier excitement with the game, if the changes come sooner rather than later.

The video shows high-quality graphics that are simply amazing, mounts (with combat?), swimming, underwater leveling areas, housing, killer casting animations, more active weather, city sieges?

Twilight : New Moon Trailer

A little Thursday evening lagniappe for all you Twilight fans. The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie is due in theaters on November 20th of this year. Here’s a little taste to wet your sanguine appetites.

G4 - Last night, Infinity Ward and Activision invited members of the press out to a sound stage in Hollywood to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer for the first time. The developers are adding so much to the game that it’s initially staggering, but after a few rounds, you realize that this is a totally different theater of war than Call of Duty 4 and it’s time to figure out the differences.

There are some major game changers in effect for MW2 and Infinity Ward seems to have taken player feedback to heart. Secondary weapons now include pistols, machine pistols, shotguns, and launchers. No longer will players have to give up their precious primary weapon slot to field a shotgun or lose a perk to grab a rocket launcher. The change also gives a lot of versatility to snipers giving them the option of grabbing a fully-automatic pistol or shotgun for close range conflict.

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Posting video of Ares DM1 5-segment booster test just because it’s really cool and something we will see in use in the future. If video doesn’t show up just refresh page.