Nintendo kicks off 'Crowdfarter' promo for Game & Wario
Narco Terror announced from Deep Silver
Call of Duty: Ghosts teaser gives tenuous look at next-gen COD
OZombie will be Spicy Horse's take on Oz
Deadpool listed for Wii U on Amazon Canada
CastleStorm assaulting XBLA next week
Leisure Suit Larry HD delayed until late June
Rhode Island looking to sell Amalur intellectual property
Resident Evil: Revelations DLC coming throughout June
Seeing Red: A History of the Xbox 360's Red Ring of Death
Evening Reading
by Brian Leahy, Nov 17, 2010 5:00pm PSTYesterday, I was up at Bungie checking out the new DLC maps, which will be released later this month. I can't talk about them right now, but look forward to some upcoming preview coverage for the three maps.
On the StarCraft II tip, GSL3 will kick off next week and the qualifiers have been played. The players that made it through are listed here and here.
Gaming News o'the Day
- BioWare announcing a new game at the VGAs.
- Homefront gets a release date: March 8, 2011.
- First Xbox 360 timed-exclusive Fallout: New Vegas DLC detailed/dated.
- Rage iOS game should be released shortly.
Links from Morning Discussion
This mostly pertains to UK internet users, but I think they are going to try and make a bigger thing of it. It comes down to how broadband speeds are advertised, as a lot of companies use "up to" and then can't achieve anywhere close to their "up to" speeds.
It's also particularly interesting from an advertising standpoint. Virgin wants to get all ISPs to fundamentally change how speeds are advertised. Obviously, they can actually fulfill on what they offer so this would benefit them more than any other ISP.
Of course all I care about is that they linked to my dumb website, but this will start showing up in the tech news world and it could impact what you actually pay for.
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As far as methodology goes, there is a group called SamKnows that is into broadband metrics like we are, except they put hardware behind lines using small sample groups. We find that method to be ineffective for getting a real understanding of how speed changes across actual internet traffic. MIT published a paper about this not long ago and also said that at this point, the ookla methodology (us) is the most accurate.
So in terms of just plain broadband testing, any competitors we have are not really competing. They are too small to get any traction. However, in the world of broadband metrics, we compete with SamKnows, Akamai, and a few other groups. We like to think our metrics and analytics are the most effective interpretation of Internet performance, but you know... of course we do.
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