You want to gamble already the next Command & Conquer? No problem, because now is the participation in the Open Beta possible. For a key you need to do is here to fill in the form and take the key counter. At present, however, only be given keys. The client will be able to suck later. But that you're here, you should ensure you have a key now! Since the game is released only after 16 years, is filling out the entry form only, unfortunately, from 22 clock (clock to 6) are possible. So be it, I'm already big!

I will definitely participate in the beta. Tiberian Twilight will probably be the last part of the saga. So I let myself miss out on the course Endkrieg over Tiberium.

[Via ThePain ]

Is this viral marketing or a system error? If you put the EA Store, Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe Edition in the shopping cart, you pay for the deal supposedly only 0,00 €. So nothing, niente!

The question is now how you can download the game. If there is a system error, EA may reclaim the money is, but in the terms and conditions:

"We reserve the right to change the price and all other matters related to our products and services information provided at any time. If the information provided on the website for a product or service listed price or other relevant information contained at the time of your order key errors, we will: (i) tell you the correct price or the correct information by e-mail and (ii) you ask to buy the product or service at the right price and with the corrected information to confirm. Where appropriate, we will inform you also about the period for which the offer or the price of their validity. If you are corrected with the corrected price or product information does not agree will refund all monies paid in full. "

[Via Park Rocker ]

Update: The error seems to have been fixed by now. The game is available again for a regular 59 €.

Here is a small, 5-minute presentation of the First Else from Israeli mobile developers Else. Good to see the fully animated interface in Minority Report style. Everything looks very futuristic but elegant:

Brent Wilkinson, Chief of Department Service and Production Planning for the game publisher Ubisoft sent us to a sort of little revolution now participate in the games sector. In the future we will complete at Ubisoft verzeichten the conventional copy protection mechanisms like StarForce or SecuRom and press the silver pieces without such protection can be. Even playing without an inserted medium is even possible. Everything sounds so great. What is not so great but is that devised alternative. Because without protection you want the games will not deliver it.

Ubisoft wants to use from now on the Internet. So you have to install the game to activate. Install the game but can be any number of times. But the scores are from now on no longer stored offline, but online. And while at Ubisoft's servers, which means in plain language: Do you have no internet, it looks (in the truest sense of the word) into the tube. An alternative is not expected to give. Do you live in the country, can you not play (of course, there are exceptions among the peasants).

At first when I read the news I thought, wow cool. Finally, once a dare. As I read through but the consequences of this, my mood changed again. Clearly, we need to talk about the activation does not really. Any protection to be there. And a mere activation works so quickly. You may succeed in the offline as well. But please, save games on the net?

The idea is simply simple: You have access from anywhere on the scores. But what is with the people without power? Ubisoft wants to exclude all these gamers? It is possible that the publisher had gone a little ahead of its time. It's not like that everywhere there is Internet. No, this is totally not true. Even I have (in town), only DSL 3000th Sure, that's enough. But there is no state of affairs.

To say it with Angie's words: We will see. But I hope that Ubisioft not so cut his own flesh.

[Via golem ]

Will you get along with the new Ribbon interface in Microsoft Office and not to Windows 7? No problem, because now there are thankfully Ribbon. "Playing to learn it best," Microsoft must have thought, and is now available for Microsoft Office This small game available .

When you get Ribbon always small tasks. In Word, for example, you have a table or text format, and adjust until it finally looks like as given in the task. For a task to get geschaffte course points and Achievements. His points and his points had been achieved and the results of the last challenge can be resolved with one click upload to Facebook.

Sorry to say but also to the fact that Microsoft does not hesitate before sounding out to you. For example, recorded what function is used in the office often. By using these data, Microsoft is making the operation of the program, only easier to use and improve its product.

I must confess that I find the idea of ​​a great game. It's just the way that certain functions easier to remember when it a "reward" receives. So stupid that sounds, but because we humans are just like primitives.

If you want to do the fun times and runs with Windows Vista or 7, which can Ribbon invite here .