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If you’re bored, have some free time, and enjoy coding programs then do we have the contest for you! The team over at Ryzom have put together a brand new API for their game, and they’re celebrating its launch with a contest for budding developers! Even better, the prizes are all monetary!

What the Ryzom team is looking for is people who can utilize their new API for whatever gadgets, tools, or websites they can dream up. The winning use of the API will be the one that displays innovation, usefulness, ease-of-use, multilingual support, validity and completeness, and optimized coding. Popularity, stability, and availability will be taken into consideration as well with all coding entries.

The winning entry will receive 3,000 euros (approximately 4,200 US dollars), second place will receive 1,000 euros (1,400 US dollars), and third place will be netting 500 euros (700 US dollars.)

So what are you waiting for? Get coding!

[Thanks, J3kyll!]

Filed under: Fantasy, Contests, Culture, Game mechanics, Launches, Ryzom

Code something for Ryzom’s new API, win cash! originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s commonplace for game companies to make gamers’ saved-game files oddly incompatible with things they seemingly should be compatible with. So the news Microsoft had for Kotaku today about…

The EVE Online developers have released the first solid bit of info regarding the game’s Winter expansion, which will include a social network called COSMOS. Unfortunately, the as-yet-unnamed Winter expansion won’t bring Walking in Stations (3D avatars), to the best of our knowledge. Any announcement of the next expansion’s features is still a long way off, but a dev blog from EVE developer CCP Caedmon focuses on COSMOS and what it will bring to the game.

COSMOS will debut with a limited feature set, with more added to the platform over time. However, if CCP Games can deliver on what Caedmon mentions, it should go down well with the playerbase since these features will be tied in with the game.

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Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Forums

EVE Online social network ‘COSMOS’ coming with Winter expansion originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In addition to a crystal clear look at the virtual crotch of guitarist Carlos Santana, Activision and Neversoft’s Guitar Hero 5 will be adding an extra layer of replayability for the hardcore gamer…

I don’t know David Martinous. And I’m not sure what a “video game technician is.” But the New York Times says that man with that job was challenged to a fight by one of the planet’s top sporstmen….

Confused as to why this isn’t in Anti-Aliased? Well, “The Daze of Darkfall” month long feature has moved to a new home as a standalone feature! Isn’t that grand? Now I can talk about my adventures in Darkfall while still unleashing my biased opinions upon you in Anti-Aliased. It’s a win/win situation, if you ask me.

So what’s in the picture above? Well that’s me AFKing my way to hardcore status in Darkfall. All you need is an old college textbook and a comb cleverly placed on your left arrow key and you too can get to max run skill with just a few nights of AFKing! Forget running into walls, this is the future! I like to call it “hardware macroing.”

But this isn’t all, dear readers! I have lots more fun inside of this week’s Darkfall report! Come, continue reading and enjoy the insanity of Agon, where AFKing is better than playing and naked is the new armored!

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Filed under: Fantasy, Darkfall, Culture, Exploits, PvP, Opinion, Hands-on, Humor

The Daze of Darkfall week 2: AFK your way to fame and fortune originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Raiden IV is coming to North American Xbox 360s, thanks to publisher UFO Interactive. The better news is that the top-down shooter won’t be unceremoniously released. It’s getting double the “limited…

[compare it to the Japanese cover]

Here is some unseen (not posted here anyway) box art for the following games: Phantasy Star Ø, Bleach: The 3rd Phantom, Wacky World of Sports, and The Hardy Boys: Treasure on the Tracks.

I guess we can always ignore The Hardy Boys games, I actually totally forgot about the game until I found the box art. Here is the Bleach: The 3rd Phantom Japanese box art, you know, so you can compare them.

[Source: Amazon]
[Thanks: Sanus]

The Comic-Con comic book news explosion continues, as Activision and Twistory announce plans for a graphic novel based on the upcoming time-twisting shooter Singularity.
The Singularity graphic…

Grumpy complaints about bad game endings are not news. But a podcast complaint that games don’t have what they called “falling action” and “denouements” in high school? That’s worth being grumpy…