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For lille less than a month ago (The Elder Scrolls, Quake, Rage's) Bethesda's lawyers informed (Minecraft's) Mojang that the title of their upcoming game: scrolls, interfered with Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series and that they where willing to go to court. Today Notch posted a challenge on his Tumblr. Comparing the situation to an episode of Game of thrones, Notch challenges Bethesda's three best players against Mojang's three best players in a game of Quake. The terms: If Mojang wins: Bethesda drops the lawsuit. If Mojang wins: the name of "Scrolls"will be changed to something they both agrees on. He ends off the post reassuring that he's got a piece of paper on which it says that Scrolls can be proven to not be interfering in "The Elder Scrolls" series. This is just badass! Something that only happens when indie developers with a sense of humor gets to play with the big boys. If Bethesda takes up the challenge they will be fightin...

After thousands of requests Riot finally releases a new map Not only does a new map get added to LOL also a new gamemode! A classic capture and hold in the best Arathi Basin (World of Warcraft) style, the two teams of 6 compete to hold 5 points on the map. Holding a point will decrease the enemy teams base's hitpoints. Riot says that the game will be a lot more competitive focusing on small 10-20min pvp battles, with higher gold outcome (it will be able to purchase expencive items such as infinity edge 12min into the game) Great Free2Play Games The map will be released Sep. 1. for free. I recommend checking it out, i know i will!

Ea are going nuts with Facebook games, and one of their biggest franchises just joined the fun With the many Facebook out there, the competition is hard. They all want you to log in every 30 minute, to water your flowers, harvest your crops, upgrade your barracks or what ever. So what does The Sims Social offer that is different and exciting. Well first of all it looks great and it runs even greater. Everything works just right. Secondly its probably the most social Facebook yet, it is for me the first I've seen where you can interact with your friends. Compared to a regular Sims game, like Sims 3 it lacks a bit of entertainment, keep in mind this is a free Facebook game so it doesn't really matter that much. It reminds me a lot of The Sims Bustin' Out, a console game released a few years back. So.. in The Sims Social, you are allowed to create one Sim, to represent your self. This Sim gets a house to live in, with a dirty backyard and an even messier pavement. When...

Really? Indeed! Partially.. Well let me explain: This morning i watched an episode of Mad Labs, a fun science program. Their theory is that if you take a bug like the grasshopper and compare it to a top gun , the response time of the grasshopper is much faster, this is needed for the grasshopper to fly in their huge formations (The largest grasshopper swarm (Locust) covered hundreds of square miles and contained billions of grasshoppers)  Funny enough the reason for this amazing response time is lack of intelligence: Say, we take a fighter pilot, and put him in a plane. As he is in the sky, we make a giant ball appear right in front of him, his brain is instantly going to process a whole lot of data: naturally it's going to send signals to avoid the ball, but also the pilot is going to think: "what the hell was that?, is that a ball?, where did it come from?" and so on. He's also gonna try to remember the special breathing technique that he's learned, to...

Blizzard is adding real money transactions to the Diablo III Auction House In World of Warcraft you can sell the rare items you find in the game, for virtual money on the games Auction House. Blizzards upcoming game Diablo III is going to feature the same kind of auction house, only, the transactions will be with real money. This is going to drastically increase the excitement of finding an extremely rare item drop. The auction house will be separated between regions, (for legal purposes) but the variety of items you can buy will still be massive. Blizzard said that they plan on making the auction house entirely player driven, allowing the marked to naturally grow. It's been predicted that the prices at first will be sky high due to the small amount competition but as more people quickly join the fun, it will balance out. When the "iPhone app store" first launched the prices were ridiculous, but over time the large number of products ...

Why is this series so awesome? Well first of all, it's got Zombies in it something that can only be matched by dragons and boobies. But what makes this series so much different from all the other zombie movies out there, isn't only the fact that it's a TV-Show something that isn't common for Zombie cinema. It's the way it's presented, usually when you watch a Zombie film it's filled with hordes of undead being slaughtered one by one by some dude with a machine gun. But in The Walking Dead  it's all about the setting, instead of the repeating violence they show you how these survivors are living and what horrors they are going through, don't get me wrong there is plenty of brain splattering action too. The show makes great for watching with a friend or two, when i saw episode one with my buddy, we were constantly commenting on the things happening in the episode, discussing what we would do in a situation like that, and how horrible it would be to ...

Notch knows a thing or two about horror With the adventure update, hopefully around the corner, yet another feature have been revealed. A few days ago notch posted this picture on his google + page The above photo with enhanced brightness So Notch was sitting doing some code for the NCP villages and got bored so he decided to create a new mob. These Endermen as they are called, are partly passive mobs, they will be walking around moving blocks, and acting creepy, but if you stare directly at them (crosshair on them) they will stare directly at you, and as soon as you look away they will charge at you with very high speed. If they are too far away they will teleport towards you. Very interesting idea i can't wait to try it out with all the other new features