Ice Cream Sandwhich Demo’d at LeWeb 2011

Hugo Barra, who is basically in charge of all Andriod devices, gives a pretty great demo of ICS features at LeWeb 2011.  I’ve seen a lot of ICS video but this one was a pretty good run-down of the update for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.

LeWeb 2011 Eric Schmidt & Loic Le Meur

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I also want to touch on the theme of LeWeb 2011 which is SoLoMo – Social, Local, Mobile.  If you watch the video, you will hear Eric Schmidt (Google’s CEO) breifly explain why SoLoMo is so important in this day and age and how, frankly, it has been an intregal part of our existance since the beginning – we just never saw it the way we do now.  Barra tailors his ICS presentation to the concepts of SoLoMo and shows us how Andriod is really zero’ing in on trying to be Social, Local, and Mobile.

Pretty great video, pretty interesting mentality.

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ArcheAge Character Creation and Log-In Screen

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First off, two posts in as many days, I think this is a record for me here.

Anyone who has read me the last few years knows pretty well the MMO’s I am completely revved up for that are coming out.  TERA, The Secret World and ArcheAge.  Plenty of Western audiences should know a decent amount about the first two, their marketing campaign in North America has been in full swing for awhile and solid appearences at E3 and other major NA conventions have helped them get a LOT of media attention.  That being said, of the three, I am pretty firmly convinced that ArcheAge has the most to offer.  Check out this video of the character creation process and log-in screen for their upcoming CBT (CBT4)

ArcheAge - Character Creation and Log In Screen (CBT4)

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If that doesn’t get your MMO interests at least slightly peeked, I don’t want to know you!  Stay tuned – it looks like yours truely is going to be one of the selected few to get a coveted CBT4 beta key (through official means) and trust me, you will be seeing a LOT of coverage from me!

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The Scorched Desert

The Scorched Desert of The Secret World

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While still being extremely tuned up for The Secret World, I haven’t been overly impressed with a lot of their video’s up until now.  The hype machine that is Funcom’s TSW PR team has been putting out trailer after trailer for close to 3 years now.  In a large majority of them we get very little sense of game-play style, animations, landscape design – but a LOT of fancy cinematic rendering!

Finally today I saw something that peeks my interest just a touch – enough that I wanted to post it here for posterity purposes.  Enjoy!

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VOTW: Planetside 2 Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCp_rgAkfc


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