![]() A biscuit is "any of various hard or crisp dry baked product" similar to the American English terms cracker or cookie, or "a small quick bread made from dough that has been rolled out and cut or dropped from a spoon". According to the American English dictionary Merriam-Webster, a cookie is a "small flat or slightly raised cake". Further confusion has been added by the adoption of the word biscuit for a small leavened bread popular in the United States. The words cookie or cracker became the words of choice to mean a hard, baked product. ![]() When continental Europeans began to emigrate to colonial North America, the two words and their "same but different" meanings began to clash. Another cognate Dutch form is beschuit, which is a circular and brittle grain product usually covered by savoury or sweet toppings and eaten at breakfast. The difference between the secondary Dutch word and that of Latin origin is that, whereas the koekje is a cake that rises during baking, the biscuit, which has no raising agent, in general does not (see gingerbread/ ginger biscuit), except for the expansion of heated air during baking. The Dutch language from around 1703 had adopted the word koekje ("little cake") to have a similar meaning for a similar hard, baked product. This term was then adapted into English in the 14th century during the Middle Ages, in the Middle English word bisquite, to represent a hard, twice-baked product (see the German Zwieback). This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven. The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". ![]() ĭutch speculaas biscuit in various shapes: ship, farmhouse, elephant, horse. "Tea biscuit" is also a standard Canadianism for the "North American" biscuit. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary describes each word in reference to the other "biscuit" can mean "Brit. In Canada, the term "biscuit" can simultaneously refer to what is commonly identified as a biscuit in either the United Kingdom or the United States.A Southern regional variation using the term " beaten biscuit" (or in New England "sea biscuit") is closer to hardtack than soft dough biscuits. baking powder which is a mixture of baking soda with an acidifier and buffer). Biscuits may be referred to as either "baking powder biscuits" or "buttermilk biscuits" if buttermilk is used rather than milk as a liquid, as buttermilk is not only flavorful but acidic (allowing use of baking soda vs. ![]() In the United States and some parts of Canada, a "biscuit" is a quick bread, somewhat similar to an unsweetened scone, but with a texture more 'fluffy and flaky' vs.The term "cookie" typically refers to only one type of biscuit (the sweeter baked dough typically containing chocolate chips or raisins) however, it may also locally refer to specific types of biscuits or breads. "Biscuits" in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and Ireland are usually hard and may be savoury or sweet, such as chocolate biscuits, digestives, hobnobs, ginger nuts, rich tea, shortbread, bourbons, and custard creams. In most of the English-speaking world, a "biscuit" is a small, hard baked product that would be called either a " cookie" or a " cracker" in the United States and sometimes in Canada.
0 Comments
![]() However, to get the last memory, you have to find five different pieces of a floppy backup disk and put them together. p. 123.Your main goal in Narita Boy is to find all of the Creator’s memories. ^ "Review: Narita Boy - Pay Homage To The '80s In This Marvellous Metroidvania".^ "Narita Boy : La nouvelle pépite pixel art ?".^ a b "Narita Boy for Xbox One Reviews".^ a b "Narita Boy for PlayStation 4 Reviews".^ a b "Narita Boy for Switch Reviews".^ "Nostalgic metroidvania Narita Boy is out now"."Neo-retro side-scroller Narita Boy re-emerges with stunning new trailer". ^ "Short Interview: Narita Boy's Eduardo Fornieles – ".^ New on Luna+: Narita Boy, retrieved 18 December 2022.^ "Narita Boy | STUDIO KOBA" (in Japanese).Mitchell Saltzman of IGN appreciated the visuals of the game, but strongly disliked Narita Boy 's gameplay, writing "Narita Boy is at best serviceable, with hollow exploration filled with constant backtracking, simple puzzles, and combat that never really evolves in ways that make tougher enemies any more fun to fight." Įdge enjoyed the game's music and its retro art style, but felt that the gameplay did not live up to the standards of Narita Boy 's audio and visuals. They also praised the segments where the player relives the Creator's memories saying, "These flashback moments are quietly reflective and act as a great counterbalance to all the satirical '80s macho power-fantasy present throughout the rest of the game." Ollie Reynolds, writing for Nintendo Life, enjoyed the game's combat and mentioned how each ability gave the combat more depth. Rachel Watts of PC Gamer praised the world building of the Digital Kingdom, noting how the game used spirituality in the world. Narita Boy received "mixed or average" reviews according to Metacritic, except for the PlayStation 4 version which received "generally favorable" reviews. ![]() When discussing the game's mix of technology and natural environments the director added, " I find beauty in the mix between organic and non-organic." The game was initially set to launch in December 2018, but was delayed to Spring 2021. Eduardo Fornieles, Narita Boy's director, states that his childhood experiences in Spain and his time spent living in Japan influenced the story and the aesthetic of the game. ![]() Narita Boy was funded through Kickstarter in 2017, raising €160,946. Each Wild Fire ability also allows the player to summon one of three NPC companions to fight by the player's side in combat. They come in three different colors, which allows the player to do increased damage to enemies of the same color, but also decreases the player's resistance to attacks. Throughout Narita Boy, the player gains access to various abilities such as the Wild Fire attacks. Alongside these moves, the Techno Sword can be used as a shotgun as a high-damage attack. In combat, the player can also dodge, which avoids enemy attacks, and allows the player to get behind enemies. The player can do a standard melee attack by pressing a button, or hold it down in order to do a stronger attack. There are also various story segments throughout the game, where the player relives the Creator's memories and learns about why he created the Digital Kingdom.Ĭombat revolves around using the game's Techno Sword in order to defeat enemies, called Stallions. In each level the player must find "Techno-Keys" which allow the player to access new areas. ![]() Narita Boy is a 2D platformer with Metroidvania elements, as the player explores the Digital Kingdom using their abilities to travel across the level. The game was released on Mafor Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and for Amazon Luna on April 29, 2021. The game is an action platformer and it follows Narita Boy as he tries to save the Digital Kingdom from the Stallions. Narita Boy is a 2021 action-adventure video game developed by Spanish team Studio Koba and published by Team17. ![]() The best option for those who have legacy PostScript fonts is to purchase modern OpenType licenses for those fonts. Once you have all your PostScript Type 1 fonts gathered together, you can create a PDF catalog of them using FontAgent’s Font Player, or you can export them to a folder on your computer’s file system. By clicking the column header in the table, you can sort all your fonts by file format, so all the Type 1 fonts appear together. In the FontAgent Table View shown below, Type 1 fonts are marked with a familiar red a icon. FontAgent Can Help You Move Forwardīecause the days for PostScript fonts are limited, FontAgent offers tools to allow you to quickly locate your PostScript fonts and begin to plan for their replacement. NET apps) – such as odd font menu behavior or display issues – they are most likely due to lack of Type 1 support in the app itself than a font management issue. If you see unexpected results in Windows applications (especially. NET app, it does not offer a WYSIWYG view of the typeface. To get around that display problem for now, you can drag the Type 1 fonts into the ~/Library/Fonts folder but that workaround could disappear in the near future as well.įonts imported and activated in FontAgent Windows appear in applications that support PostScript fonts. For example, in macOS 11 Big Sur, PostScript Type 1 fonts activated in FontAgent appear fine in most apps, but don’t in TextEdit and a few others. FontAgent Mac displays WYSIWYG previews and allows you to use them in applications that still support PostScript fonts, with some caveats. How FontAgent Handles Type 1 FontsįontAgent® continues to support import and activation of PostScript fonts. The flexibility offered by modern formats translates to fewer confusing variants of font files since there’s room to allow fonts to grow and mature as requirements and standards change over time. This allows expanded alphabets, special characters, glyph positioning, extended ligatures and special characters with room to expand for a long time to come. Modern formats such as OpenType and TrueType support Unicode, a standard that provide a unique number for every character available – up to almost 150,000 of them. ![]() In short, PostScript does not travel well in the modern, worldwide market. While this low character count might be adequate for western languages, Asian languages can require thousands of characters. Type 1 fonts limit active characters per font to 256, and many of these slots are occupied by characters that are non-typographical, such as delete and backspace. But leaving an old friend does not have to be all doom and gloom modern font formats offer significant advantages. Moving on from Type 1 can be troubling for graphics and prepress professionals who still depend on legacy fonts for old projects, or who have decades-old PostScript font collections. Modern Fonts Offer Significant Advantages Similarly, Type 1 fonts play no role in the ever-expanding world of mobile apps since neither iOS nor Android support the old format. Throughout the software world, many other applications have been quietly dropping their support for Type 1 fonts. And Adobe, the inventor of PostScript, has announced that it will no longer support Type 1 fonts starting with Photoshop in Creative Cloud 2021, and other Adobe applications will follow. NET applications doesn’t support Type 1 either. And its Windows Presentation Foundation application framework for building. ![]() Microsoft stopped supporting Type 1 fonts in Office 2013 for Windows and Office 2016 for Mac. ![]() Despite all these large-scale moves by industry giants, the ultimate fate of PostScript Type 1 was being determined by new versions of application software and frameworks. ![]() I downloaded one of my games, only for it to install a completely different game. It seems like a rushed process that doesn't respect our work. The wrapper, for the HTML5 you've used doesn't run the games in the best way, with apps not shutting down or crashing etc. Can you confirm or deny whether GameSalad earned any money from the agreement with Amazon? If you did, then thats no longer s become a financial transaction, and not the same as being given permission for promotional purposes.ģ) The Apps have been published in a shoddy way, with little to no quality control. this is misleading/confusing.Ģ) With regards to ok'ing apps on the Arcade for Promotional purposes. ![]() but its not a channel, its just mass publishing apps, in an Android compatible format. Any chance of someone from GS giving some input/response?ġ) References keep being made to the GameSalad/Arcade channel on Amazon. Let us know via support ticket when you have updated your game, and we will publish the update to you'll have seen my concerns over in the other thread, that have gone unanswered by GameSalad. As Amazon does not have an automated removal mechanism, it may take a little while to remove the games, though Amazon has agreed to help expedite the takedown process.Īs an alternative to removal, you can create a “demo” version of your game for Arcade that points to your full game on Amazon.Uncheck “Allow GameSalad to use my game for promotional purposes on third party sites and app stores.”.For the field “Enter the URL address of the page” please enter the page for your game.) ![]() (If you have removed the game from your publishing portfolio, please send in a Support Request ( ) and we will process the removal for you. Visit the publishing portfolio page for your game and go to the Arcade/HTML5 configuration section.In order to have your HTML5 apps removed from the Arcade channel on the Amazon store, please do the following: We’ll get this resolved as soon as possible and will be extra diligent in the future to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Please accept our sincere apologies if you’ve been negatively affected by this mistake. If you have a game that should not have been included in this promotion, please follow the instructions below to have your game removed. ![]() We’re working with Amazon to take down any games that should not have been part of the promotion and they’ve offered to help expedite the process. Yikes! It was never our intent to publish ineligible games and we’re sorry for anyone that was affected by this. Some games that shouldn’t have been published were accidentally included. It turns out that we made a mistake in how we flagged eligible games in our database when we sent over a batch of files to Amazon. It’s a great opportunity to get exposure for GameSalad devs and show off their great work to a larger audience. These games are free for Amazon users, and showcase what our community is doing with GameSalad. Many of the games on the GameSalad Arcade were also eligible. Any of the games submitted during our recent game jams were part of this promotion. Some of these promotional opportunities recently involved publishing eligible GameSalad games to a GameSalad Arcade promotional channel on the Amazon store. Our friends at Amazon have helped provide publishing incentives such as free PRO licenses, prizes and incentives for game jams while working with us to promote our developers and their games. As many of you know, GameSalad has an ongoing relationship with Amazon to support our developer community and provide exclusive promotional opportunities. ![]() The main control unit for your live video production running on your Mac. ▪ērd party software using Syphon Technology ▪Ēnd mimoLive Project using Syphon Technology ▪ Separate file recording of every audio and/or video input ▪ mimoCall™ (stream to a remote mimoLive) ▪ mimoLive Remote™ – Control switcher & graphics from your iPhone, iPad, or even from any browser. mimoLive Reporter adds advanced live stream video features to your mobile device This app allows you to bring up photos, videos, titles, and scrolling banner text - everything layered over the camera live feed. ▪ iOS Devices Cellular/WiFi (via App mimoLive Reporter™) ▪Ĝameras: Thunderbolt, USB, HDMI, SDI SD/HD, NDI ▪ Remote Video Call (mimoCall™) via any supported browser ▪ iOS device cameras via cellular or network (additional: iOS App mimoLive Reporter™) Combine live camera video, clips, photos, 3D graphics, lower thirds, audio, and more to create a stunning recording or live video stream. ▪ iOS Devices via USB (additional: iOS App mimoCam™) Simply from your Mac, you can switch live cameras, add graphics, lower-thirds and stream to multiple destinations.” “Video Live Streaming has never been so easy and accessible. MimoLive makes professional live stream tools accessible for everyone. MimoLive is the all-in-one solution for live streaming professionals, full supported for an NDI based workflow. Just imagine what you can do if you have video team, or several mimoLive instances running at the same time. MimoLive performs multiple actions simultaneously on single keystrokes, this live stream editor enables you to create great live streams as a one-person production. MimoLive – The better way to start your live stream. For a one-person live production that seems almost impossible, but we proved it’s not. The RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port supports encoded NDI output up to. Pro Convert SDI features one SDI input and one SDI loop-through output with eight channels of embedded audio, and it supports SDI input up to DCI 2K 2048 x 1080 video at 60 fps. Keeping an overview of many tasks like switching the active camera, replay prerecorded sequences and adding the correct lower third for your interview guest is essential. Convert SDI video to an NDI stream with the Pro Convert SDI Plus video signal converter from Magewell. Directing various cameras for your live show is challenging. The hero feature of mimoLive 5.8 is the mimoCall Output Destination which allows you to use mimoCall to connect mimoLive to mimoLive over the internet. MimoLive 5.8 – the next revolution in broadcasting This is the better way to start your live stream. ![]() It can stream and record simultaneously to various locations. It enables you to switch multiple cameras, insert presentations, add layered graphics like weather maps, lower-thirds, social media feeds, green screens, and much more. MimoLive is the all-in-one video encoder, switcher and streaming software for Mac. ğixed: Some video device sources showed vertical stripes.ğixed: Slideshow layer didn't turn off in manual mode.Ğnhancement: Added API parameters to more sources to be able to change their content remotely.New: Added Panorama 360 layer with interactive control. A fitness-oriented lock screen, for example, would show statistics such as calories burned and exercise goals alongside a music player. Glance's lock screen will appear in the form of what it calls "spaces," which are essentially curated lock screens designed to fit specific themes. While the company hasn't revealed its US launch timing or other details, it did provide a glimpse at its US lock screen offering on Monday. Glance, which offers entertainment and other digital content on the lock screens of certain Android devices in India and Southeast Asia, is in talks with wireless carriers to launch in the US over the next two months, according to TechCrunch. Like the Apple Watch, the new lock screen should make it easier to see crucial pieces of information without having to dig into apps or even unlock your phone.Ī screenshot from Glance's website showing what its lock screen platform looks like.Īndroid phone owners may have new lock screen options soon But as I've written before, it sounds like iOS 16's new widgets will make your iPhone feel more similar to the Apple Watch, which seems like an upgrade. It's impossible to know how useful this new lock screen will be without spending a significant amount of time with iOS 16. That means developers may soon have another way to reach iPhone owners and prevent their apps from getting buried deep within a user's app library. If you watch Apple's WWDC demo closely, you can even see an option for a Nike widget. Since you can add widgets from apps like Spotify, Google Maps and Outlook to the iPhone's Today View, I wouldn't be surprised to see widgets from third parties available for the new lock screen too. You can even create multiple lock screens and cycle through them, much like Apple Watch faces. Android phones have offered this type of functionality for years, and it's nice to see the iPhone follow suit. The iPhone already lets you place widgets on your lock screen's secondary Today View screen, which you can access by swiping to the right.īut iOS 16 adds widgets to the main lock screen for showing bits of information at a glance, like the temperature, Activity Rings from the Apple Watch and upcoming calendar appointments. You'll be able to customize font styles and colors for the date and time in addition to giving your background photo a magazine cover-like aesthetic.Īs I wrote previously, it's really the new widgets that will bring more utility to the iPhone's lock screen. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, called it "the biggest update ever" when he introduced the update at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. One of the biggest features coming in iOS 16 is the new lock screen. The iPhone's lock screen is getting a big revamp ![]() The widget gallery for the iPhone's lock screen in iOS 16. Taken together, changes like these suggest we might not want to swipe past our lock screens so quickly in the future. And Google is reportedly planning to incorporate more bits of information into its own lock screen widget for Pixel phones. Glance, a Google-backed subsidiary of mobile ad tech company InMobi, also reiterated its plans to bring its lock screen platform to the US. You'll be able to see more information quickly and apply stylistic effects to lock screen photos similar to the iPhone's Portrait Mode photography feature. But companies are increasingly looking to do more with that valuable real estate, as evidenced by Apple's iOS 16 update and other changes reportedly coming to Android phones.Īpple's iOS 16 update, which launched in public beta on Monday, will bring more customization options and new widgets to the iPhone's lock screen when it arrives this fall. The lock screen has long been considered an intimate space reserved for personal photos, important notifications and tools like the flashlight. ![]() Maybe that wallpaper is a photo of your pet, a picture of a beautiful sunset from a recent vacation or just a cool piece of artwork. What's the first thing you see on your phone each day? It's most likely your lock screen, filled with recent notifications and your lock screen wallpaper. Glance has not provided a timeline for its US debut. These updates suggest companies are trying to make better use of that space.Īpple's iOS 16 update officially launches in the fall and just arrived in public beta on Monday. ![]() The lock screen is the first thing most people see when they pick up their phones. Between the launch of iOS 16, lock screen content company Glance's upcoming expansion in the US and updates to Google's Pixel phone widgets, it's clear the lock screen is about to change. So, password is the only common and reliable way of performing authentication on smartphones, but there are problems associated with it. In this example the corresponding password will be something like 1-4-2-5-6-9-8 – the numbers defining the route you swipe as you follow the pattern. Therefore on smartphones, we’re pretty much left with passwords, passcodes and the pattern lock looks different from the passcode, but essentially there’s a numeric password. So essentially, there is no such thing from software developers’ perspective. Applications cannot use this secure piece of hardware to enhance the level of protection. But the problem is that application developers cannot talk directly to this co-processor – so the system can, the applications can’t. Technically speaking, most of the modern smartphones have some secure co-processor inside them, for example the iPhone. Well, here I would like to just give a short note about the Trusted Platform Module. So, pretty much the only means of authentication that is applicable on smartphones is PIN, password or passphrase. You don’t really have TPM or biometrics, or SmartCards on smartphones, because most of them are pretty restrictive in what you can do, what you can run, and what you can connect to them. Well, on smartphones the situation is very different. ![]() ![]() It’s used everywhere, and I’m not sure if I need to talk about this in more detail. Well, again, SmartCard readers are cheap there are products, solutions that can help you build a corporate environment for two-factor authentication, so it’s possible to do this on desktops.Īnd the last way – it’s probably still the most popular one and still the reason why our company has some business – is password and passphrase authentication. It is something you have and something you know, or, as one of my friends says, something you know and something you usually leave at home. The third way to perform authentication is SmartCard + PIN. We are not talking about the reliability of this authentication the point here is that it can be done on desktop computers with relative ease. Again, on computers it’s fairly easy to buy a fingerprint reader or something like that, and to integrate this into the authentication process. The second means of authentication is something more traditional, it is biometrics, which is something you are. So, if you just change the hardware and introduce some malicious part to it, it will not pass the authentication process. What it basically does is it authenticates the hardware before performing some sensitive operations such as decryption. First of all, this is the Trusted Platform Module which is a piece of secure hardware installed on computers, on some of them. On conventional computers like PC or desktop Macs, there are a number of options which are available for developers to use as a means of authentication. Smartphone Authentication on conventional computers And then we will present you some information to conclude, some summary information about our findings so that you can have an idea of the state of security in this field. After that we will proceed to actual analysis of BlackBerry password manager applications and iOS password managers. We will then proceed to establish the threat model under which our research was done, to see what the threats are and how we can exploit them. Today we will start with a short overview of authentication: how it’s done on computers and how it’s done on smartphones. And today we would like to present our research which will analyze the security of password keepers, password manager applications on modern smartphones. We mostly do software development for computer forensics, and password recovery tools. We work for the company called Elcomsoft which is based in Moscow, Russia. Today I’m here with my colleague Dmitry Sklyarov. We would like to welcome you on our talk at Black Hat Europe 2012. Ltd headquartered in Moscow, give a presentation at Black Hat Europe event to raise relevant issues of data protection on smartphones. Andrey Belenko and Dmitry Sklyarov, security researchers representing Elcomsoft Co. ![]() Download Tinkers’ Tool Leveling Mod for Minecraft 1.18.2/1.18/1.17. Note: If you are still having problems to download or install the file, do not hesitate to ask for help in the comments below, we will respond in less than 24 hours. Open your Minecraft launcher and make sure to use the profile the forge api created. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Navarro is expected to fly in from Miami to New York a few days a week for the show It’s terrifying.’ The political advisor (pictured in March 2020) also served as the Pentagon press secretary before coming back to the White House ABC has rotated the co-host seat vacated by columnist Megan McCain since her departure on August 6, 2021. Her father Joseph founded WorldNetDaily a website that promotes conspiracy theories. ‘Ana Navarro especially feels let down as they are hiring someone who was an essential part of the movement that destabilized this country. 'They feel she isn’t authentic and changes her opinions based on who her paymaster is. However insiders also revealed that Navarro felt 'especially' let down by Griffin's appointment, adding: 'Her soon to be co-hosts are very upset. ‘Ana has proven to be very popular with the other ladies and the audience. ‘We’ve allowed her to continue as a CNN analyst and live in Miami, so she won’t be on The View every day, but she will be a fixture on the show as a co-host for years to come. ‘She joined the show in 2013 and has been a guest co-host since 2018. Multiple production sources exclusively told : ‘We’ve signed Ana Navarro to a multi-year deal to remain with the show, and she’ll be officially named a co-host today. Three insiders with knowledge of the discussions with Griffin said that their 'jaw dropped' after discovering that she would be the pick alongside Navarro. Donald Trump's former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, 33, is set to be named the new co-host on The View alongside Navarro ![]() It comes after exclusively revealed last week that Farah Griffin was the latest addition to the ABC talk show. Sources say that she will appear a few days a week on the show, flying in from Miami to New York. Navarro will continue to rotate as a host alongside current co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin – but isn’t expected to be on the show every day. She is set to be named as a full-time co-host by the hit TV show imminently, alongside former Trump White House comms director Alyssa Farah Griffin, 33.ĪBC has rotated the co-host seat vacated by columnist Meghan McCain since her departure on August 6, 2021. ![]() That said, I couldn't bring myself to spend a bunch of time on the forums researching dropsuit loadouts or watching YouTube videos to figure everything out. To be fair to CCP, this is merely a launch-day impression piece based on six hours of gameplay, and it appears that the company has made a game that rivals EVE in complexity and is therefore well-positioned to match it in longevity. There are thousands upon thousands of names, and most of them sound really cool, but I have no idea why they matter or in many cases even what they do. DUST's skill system, though simplified in a recent patch, still reminds me of Tolkien's Silmarillion. I spent several hours queuing for random battles and acting as cannon fodder for players who are either much better than I am or have much better gear (probably both). And while the EVE player in me smiled at the Tranquility server name and the live player counter on the login screen, that was pretty much the highlight of my DUST 514 launch day experience. It's adequate in most respects, but there's nothing here that you haven't done in a thousand other shooters. The actual gameplay isn't particularly compelling, though. I'm betting that very few DUST players will ever experience this, though, just as very few EVE players lead alliances or pull off the legendary scams that periodically make the press go gaga for life in New Eden's scoundrel-driven sandbox.ĭon't get me wrong I love the idea of DUST just as I love the idea of EVE. Yes, technically you can make a corp, conquer districts, and over the long haul, set yourself up as the sultan of some backwater planet at the ass-end of space. ![]() It's quite another to play it for several hours on a couple of newbie accounts in the comfort of your own home. It's one thing to take notes during a conference call, watch a live Fanfest presentation, or play DUST on a demo machine while a producer offers you drinks and fibs about how much he enjoys your writing. You've probably read a lot of stuff in the gaming press about DUST's planetary conquest system and how awesome the connection to EVE Online is, but the vast majority of the game journos telling you these things are likely doing so after sitting in on presentations scripted to glossy perfection by CCP and its hired PR guns. The problem at launch is that this grand idea isn't very apparent. It is persistent, though, and there's territory control and of course the long-term plan to merge DUST into EVE's deliciously complex 10-year-old economy. DUST eschews the vast open world designs and thousand-player battles inherent in those three titles for small team instancing. I'd err on the side of no, not really because I've come to realize that games other than PlanetSide, PlanetSide 2, and World War II Online Battleground Europe have no business using the MMOFPS moniker. I'm not sure that DUST qualifies as an MMOFPS. Perhaps most importantly, it features EVE's server cluster, so the aforementioned pod jocks can share chat channels with ground-bound DUST bunnies and occasionally offer real-time assistance via one of CCP's much-hyped orbital strikes. It features EVE lore, EVE terminology, EVE's newbie unfriendly morass of skills, fittings, weapons, and equipment, and even EVE's corporations and their celestial pod pilot masters. DUST 514 - that's five-one-four and not five-fourteen - is a PlayStation 3-exclusive first-person shooter set in EVE's sprawling sci-fi future. |