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We’ve made some improvements to Microsoft Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop. Most importantly, Azure Virtual Desktop now supports audio and visual redirection for calls. Redirection improves latency by creating direct paths between users when they call using audio or video degenevieve.com. Less distance means fewer hops, which makes calls look and sound smoother.
Xfire and Turbine are teaming up to offer a Lord of the Rings “Play 2 Win” event. Gamers playing either the full game or its demo, and who’ve joined the Official Xfire Lord of the Rings Online Clan, are eligible to win prizes in the contest. The time you spend logged in determines your prize eligibility, if you’re selected: Gold Level Prizes (50 hours +): Ten winners each get a 6-month subscription, in-game Bree horse mount, and a LotRO t-shirt. Silver Level Prizes (15-49 hours): Ten winners each get a 3-month subscription, and a LotRO t-shirt. Bronze Level Prizes (under 15 hours): Ten winners each get a 30-day subscription. The contest runs from January 28th to February 11th. You can check out the rest of the details of The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Play 2 Win Event on the official Xfire site.
Earlier this year Bigpoint made headlines for its pragmatic approach to pay-to-win business models in free-to-play MMOs. Today, Gamesbrief has published a story illustrating just how successful such strategies can be. Bigpoint recently made a rare space drone available in its DarkOrbit MMO. While this isn’t newsworthy in and of itself, what caught our attention was the €1000 price tag. Our eyebrows arched a little higher as Bigpoint producer Simon Davis revealed that upwards of 2000 people bought one of the drones over a four-day period. If you’re counting at home, that’s over €2 million (nearly $2.7 million) in four days from a single virtual item.
Inventory update in a popular game
Once these slots are full, the player will simply drop other resources. This makes adventuring a planned experience as players will need to prepare their backpacks for the resources they are hoping to collect on their journey. Thankfully, players can create storage boxes to keep their resources, but there is no way to increase the space in the backpack.
Chris Livingston: Robin hit the highlights of Outward’s inventory, but I love it enough to keep hyping it. (Unlike Robin, I’m a big fan of the game.) What you can carry and how you can carry it plays such a big part in the fantasy survival game, to the point where buying a new backpack that let me carry just a few additional items was more exciting than finding a new sword or learning a new spell.
When players begin to run out of space in their inventory, they have likely already begun building a base that can be filled with all sorts of chests. These chests can hold even more than the player’s inventory can and give the player the freedom to sort their resources as they see fit.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was one of many titles to be inspired by System Shock 2. This included taking certain elements of the game such as how it handled inventory space. At the start of the game, players may feel quite limited as they can only hold a certain amount of weapons and other items, though upgrading themselves they will unlock even more spaces on the grid.
Dredge is another fascinating title with an appealing inventory management system. Like System Shock, it includes fitting all the important bits and pieces in a grid. This includes not only the fish and other resources a player is likely to catch during their boat ride, but also making space for their ship upgrades.
A selection of rare game items
Aztarac is something of a holy grail in the world of arcade gaming, though at the time of it’s release it wasn’t very successful. Created by the short-lived studio, Centuri, and released in 1983. It plays a game that is a mix of Asteroids and Space Duel.
Naturally, this means that for a list like this, we have a wealth of options to choose from. This list compiles our favorite hidden items; the ones left as a special thank-you by the developers to only the most diligent and keen-eyed of players. It has gotten harder and harder to surprise video game players these days, what with seemingly every major video game having some secret snuck into the background of every level. Whether a reference to another game, a powerful weapon, or just an elaborate way to challenge players, these items are always meant to give players something new to discover.
Produced in 1990 for a special gaming competition tour hosted in stores across America, exactly 116 custom NES cartridges were manufactured by Nintendo for the event. Grey in color and labeled Nintendo World Championships 1990, the cart contains playable time-trial demos for Super Mario Bros, Rad Racer, and Tetris. Auction sales for these 116 cartridges routinely break $100,000.
It takes a lot of work for someone to become a collector. You have to keep up with the current values, watch for bargains, and on top of that, worry about whether or not what you’re buying is genuine. Collectibles can be found literally anywhere, from the bins of Goodwill or in the garage sale that’s down the road.