An ETC Project turned commercial “Peacemaker” is going to be released in February.

It is a Strategy Game intendenting to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how to resolve it. Find out more here www.peacemakergame.com or watch the trailer here.

Also Skyrates V2 is up and going at www.skyrates.net. Skyrates is a sporatic gameplay MMO, in which you play the game as you have time for it. You don’t have to sit with it while you play it.

Check them out…

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The ESP Game and Peekaboom are games created by Luis von Ahn here at CMU, to help facilitate tagging of images online for better searches.

The then there is the Jukebox Gameplay Project this semester at the ETC, where the music you decide to play with the game determines how game play unfolds.

Check them out and enjoy folks.

Peace

Staque

OK guys, here is your chance to be a Beta-Tester for one of the projects here at the ETC-CMU.

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/skyrates/

It is an experimental keyhole game play project. By that, it is supposed to be a game, which you play all day, but you don’t pay attention to it all the time. Basically you set things up, and only check in on how you are doing in the game when you want to.

Sort of like Progress Quest [http://www.progressquest.com/], or 1D Tetris [http://www.tetris1d.org/] but with a little more interactivity.

For Sign Up– http://skyserver.etc.cmu.edu/skyrates/info/signup.php

You can also go to:

http://beta.skyrates.net - to play

http://info.skyrates.net - for instructions

http://stats.skyrates.net - for player stats

As always please email b e t a A@T s k y r a t e s . n e t with any bugs, questions, or suggestions:

So load up before the openings fill up.

Enjoy.

http://revolution.nintendo.com/

I was excited…

Now do I really want to say to people…

“Do want to come over and play with my Wii?”

It might just be a revolution.

Even though I like modding my Xbox (I’ve got the softmod ready to go, I just need a copy of the games), as long as the games don’t cost too much, I would forego that in lieu of getting a revolution at this point.

Especially with the rumors of a Kid Icarus for Revolution…

Ok, I have been meaning to write this for a while, but school is busy.

As some of you know, though most do not, I have decided to go back to school. Specifically, graduate school in the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie-Mellon. Basically I have gone back to school to learn how to make video games. The ETC actually covers several more areas than just games, but that’s the idea in ten words or less. So what is it like studying Entertainment Technology?

(Read on …)

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000577059060/

The new Nintendo Controller…