Digital Penguins

Some 750,000 British children aged between 6 and 14 are estimated to inhabit Club Penguin, the brainchild of two Canadian entrepreneurs who as parents became frustrated with the lack of the options for kids who wanted to play computer games but also meet friends online.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3831738.ece

This game seems to prove that people are becoming more open minded when it comes to interaction online. These games encourage people to let their kids interact with other kids on games for children. This would most likely make kids have better social skills and be more open-minded since they can interact with a wide variety of other children from all over the world. After looking around, I saw that the market for children’s Massively Multiplayer Online games is actually booming. There are many games, and surprisingly on some games a good percentage of the gamers are female. This could mean that since these games are being introduced so early on in young people’s lives, there will be more girls that like video games. This could lead to gamers of the future no longer be the stereotyped nerdy kids that hole up in their basement and never have girlfriends.

Digital Candy

Digital Candy is a great new program to search for files on the bit torrent networks, giving you a better chance of finding what you require. It will search many sites at the same time, saving you time and it also has an updater, so the sites should always be up to date.

http://www.downloadroute.com/digital-candy-digital-candy.html

This seems like it would be a great downloader to have since it searches all the bit torrents to find what you’re looking for. It would save time for many people, but it also means there would probably be a lot more illegal downloading going on faster and more often. So the question comes up, is this a good thing legal-wise? If the law could get all the unlicensed music and video downloads off the bit torrents then it would be fine, but since they can’t it just means more law breaking for most people. I think it’s safe to say that no one can remove all the illegal downloads off of bit torrents, so it seems rather useless to make the argument that this will only speed up illegal activity on the web.

The hidden blade

A lot of thought can go into a game's weapons, but when you make a weapon, it usually has a specific purpose. The hidden blade in Assassin's Creed is a fantastic weapon in the fact of it fits the game perfectly. It's hidden, small, and can kill quickly which are all qualities an assassin looks for. In any other game, this weapon would probably be laughed at because of a comparison to a sword or something bigger (except by me because I am a big fan of stealth). I believe that without this weapon, Assassin's Creed wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful as it was. When I think about the fact that the game seems based around one major weapon, that could be a weakness since it's the only extremely cool thing, but I think people were to amused with secretly stabbing people to care.

Big Daddies

This is a Big Daddy from Bioshock. As far as things that try to kill you in video games, Big Daddies are definately my favorite. They have two types throughout the game, one with a drill arm (called a Bouncer) and one with a rivet gun (called Rosie). Almost everyone I know likes the one with the drill arm, as do I. You never really expect a thing in a diving suit to be able to attack you with a drill attached to it. You also don't expect a little girl to be leading it around calling it Mr. Bubbles, but Bioshock makes it seem commonplace down in the underwater city of Rapture. As far as the design goes, I can't think of many ways to make it better. It's size makes it an intimidating enemy, and lets you know that if you make it mad, there's a good chance you'll die. Although since you have to kill them to get at the Little Sisters leading them around to get better skills in the game, you have to deal with them. It makes them an extremely fun enemy because they're challenging, and after you defeat an enemy that has 300 pounds on you, you feel accomplished. That makes Big Daddy's an excellent enemy.