I am going to work on world hunger
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:22 pm
Public testing has begun, but Blizzard hasn't yet determined how long the testing process will be. The company also hasn't yet decided which aspects of the Real ID Party system will be premium-based, and promises an announcement on this towards the end of the testing period, whenever that will be.You can find out more about Blizzard's Real ID system here. Full details of the new party system can be found here. Additional Content May Be Coming for Limbo. Speaking with VG247, Playdead CEO Dino Patti made a curious statement regarding additional content in the PS3 and PC versions of LIMBO."This is something which you'll find out next week," he said. "I can't comment on this right now."Logic says that if there was nothing to reveal, he would have just said that there wasn't anything to reveal -- but then this is the cloak-and-dagger world of video FIFA games PR that we're talking about here.Limbo didn't get any additional content or DLC for its Xbox version, so if anything has been added to the PS3 and PC ports it will be completely new.Find out whether or not there's any new content in the PS3 and PC versions of Limbo next week, then, when the PS3 version launches. The PC version will hit Steam on August 2. Playdead, meanwhile, is working on an as-yet unannounced new IP which Patti says is unlikely to be revealed this year. Atari Founder Wants to 'Fix Education in the World'. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, pipesmoker and granddaddy of the FIFA games industry, has big plans."I want to fix education in the world," he said, speaking at this week's FIFA gamesBeat 2011 conference. "As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace."He was only half joking; his new startup Speed to Learn aims to get children learning quicker and better by integrating video game concepts and metrics into educational plans. He claims that his free FIFA Coins online Spanish vocabulary learning system Wordplay works five or six times faster than the popular Rosetta Stone software, and that his FIFA games feature adaptive challenges to tailor curricula for individual users."The public school system with its bureaucracy and unions and bullshit are stuck," he said. "The pressure is building. There will be an earthquake. That will happen with the bankruptcy of California in two years."Bushnell predicts that within two years, California will find itself faced with an economic crisis similar to that which Greece is currently facing, and that the federal government won't necessarily be able to help it out. Following the cuts in education that he believes are inevitable as a result of this crisis, Bushnell intends to be ready and waiting with his solution."Am I an ambulance chaser?" he said. "No. I will take advantage of an opportunity, called predicting the future. You may think I'm crazy.