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Brave Arms Social Shooter – 3D First Person Shooter Coming to Facebook

by Jay Garrett on February 5, 2010

Do you need more than Mafia, Vampire and Farming games?

If you have a Facebook account you may have noticed that these ‘casual games’ are becoming increasingly (annoyingly) popular.

Personally I welcome ‘Brave Arms’ with open….err… arms as it becomes Facebook’s first ever 3D first person shooter.

Some may stand-up and say that FPS games cannot be for the mass-market but 3G Studios’ Brave Arms certainly includes plenty of nods to the casual audience.

The makers call this a “social shooter” and the game will allow users to heavily customise their avatars and compete with others on their Facebook friends list.

Credits can be earned in-game and then spent in the game’s digital store.

“Our new title, Brave Arms, will bring First-Person Shooter games to the masses,” said 3G Studios boss, James Kosta. “It’s about fast-paced action and either competing against or forming teams with your friends. We want people to feel empowered and to share in a real video game experience.”

I’m willing to give it a go and have already signed up.

Sign up here for the Beta – my tag is Jay G ;)

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The Dead to get Special Memorialised Facebook Pages

by Jay Garrett on October 27, 2009

facebook-deathFacebook has just announced that it’s bringing in a new feature that will allow friends and family to ‘memorialise’ the profiles of their loved ones who have sadly shuffled loose this mortal coil.

As well as being able to memorialise the deceased Facebook will also ensure that the friends and family are not needlessly reminded of their loss. There has been incidents where users were sent updates of their recently deceased friends whilst on the social networking site and even cases of dead members being suggested as friends to those they might know!

These ‘memorialised’ accounts will be given new privacy settings which will only allow previously confirmed friends to access the profile and will ensure that the deceased person’s profile will not appear in any search results.

Contact information and status updates will also be removed from memorialised pages which will no longer appear in any friend suggestion areas of the site.

Before any wouldbe prankster decides to get busy – Facebook is demanding “proof” of the death in the form of an obituary or news article before they will memorialise any pages.

Writing in the official Facebook blog, head of security for Facebook, Max Kelly, said: “When someone leaves us, they don’t leave our memories or our social network.” He added: “To reflect that reality, we created the idea of “memorialised” profiles as a place where people can save and share the memories of those who’ve passed.”

What do you think?

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Steve Jobs Most Influential Person in Technology – Again

October 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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Steve Jobs has done it again.
The fruity CEO has been named the most influential person in the technology industry, topping the 2009 Agenda Setter’s list compiled by Silicon.com.
Jobsy is the only person in the award’s ten-year history to have topped the poll twice.

The expert panel praised Apple’s “IT desirability” and “continuous innovation”.

Other folk [...]

Left 4 Dead 2 – The Parish. More Zombies to Slay in The South!

June 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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As you’ve probably noticed; I don’t review games very often.
To be honest it’s rare I get the chance to play – but there is one FPS that keeps, quite literally, dragging me back – Valve’s award winning Left4Dead!
To my joy Left 4 Dead 2 has been announced at Microsoft’s E3 conference as an Xbox 360 [...]

NVIDIA 3D Vision Gamers Googles Released in UK

May 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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NVIDIA 3D Vision has just gone on sale in the UK – rejoice!!!
NVIDIA 3D Vision is a clever way to bring some fabby 3D tech to your PC gaming without having to buy a dedicated screen.
It’s all achieved by hooking up a pair of wireless 3D specs to an infrared transmitter, sprinkle in some software [...]

LEGO Mini Me Business Cards

March 2, 2009 Click to read more →

Ah, in the heady world of business networking there is soooooooo much room for humour.
LEGO thinks so and now the plastic brick company provides employees with little LEGO mini-fig business “cards”.
Each figure is modeled to represent the employee and takes into consideration gender, hair colour, glasses, etc.
The details are worn by the figure on a [...]

Zeno Clash First Person Melee Action!

January 30, 2009 Click to read more →

Rock, Paper, Shotgun have just had a chat with one of the founding members of the ACE Team, Edmundo Bordeu and a look at the new First Person beat-em up Zeno Clash.
Zeno Clash is a melee-focused first-person game that looks totally original in its surroundings and game characters.
It has been nominated in the 2009 IGF Awards, the [...]

Left 4 Dead Demo is Live – Game out 18th November

November 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Left 4 Dead – it’s almost here!
If you’re not familiar with the title let me tell you a little about it.
The ‘4′ in the name underlines that this is a 4 player First Person Shooter (FPS) (and not an homage to Prince’s whacky way of writing) and the ‘Dead’ bit is a nod to what [...]