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Pi Story, a 2D MMORPG developed by NCONY Enterprise, is the newest addition to the fast-growing Outspark library.

Pi Story is a 2D side-scrolling game featuring elegant artwork and a strong story where players band together in search of quests, boss hunting, and collecting Pi to bring peace to the divided universe.

Pi Story - Shakia’s Throne (Click to enlarge)

Some features in Pi Story include: Classes, where you are either a Fighter or a Cleric; Crafting, where you can cook, make potions, and collect herbs (more things to come); a party (4 or 8-player teams) where you group up and do missions together and guild system (up to 100 members). There are also personal blogs and player-owned houses.

The game’s introductory story is as follows:

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On another note of this release, there’s so much content that the disc is dual-layer, and a tiny fraction of Wii consoles will be unable to read the disc at times. This is mainly due to failure of the laser reading lens to read all of the crammed data from the disc if there’s dirt, dust, or anything on the lens. If you have that problem, Nintendo will clean the laser reading head for free when you ship it to them.

To make up for this problem, Nintendo temporarily upgrading shipping to be much faster (both inbound and outbound), and the cost will be free for you. That way, you can get your console back in a short period of time.

The website for the form and announcement is right here.

And please - don’t go Rambo and try to clean the lens yourself, as you might further damage or break the console yourself.

The long-awaited Super Smash Bros: Brawl has finally arrived!

This is the most-anticipated game for the Wii won’t leave you disappointed at all. From a built-in map maker, to new, highly-detailed maps, to all the classic stuff, this game has it all. Some of the new features include Final Smashes, which are finishing moves that do heavy damage or benefit the group. Also, the story mode is even more complex than before!

Some new aspects to the game include the Smashville map. It’s a map with the Animal Crossing theme, and if you play a match on that map on Saturday at 8pm, you will see and hear a special treat from K.K. Slider as he does a live performance on stage!

Smashville

Smashville at the event every Saturday at 8pm!

Here are some snapshots of other new maps. (more…)

Yes, even the government gets to play video games and get paid for it.

The Cyber War Games is an extremely high-tech extremely complex cyber security setup developed by the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of omeland Security. They’ve been working on it for more than a year and costing more than USD $6 Million.

The world-wide simulation will be used to test the skills of entrants, including the Department of Defence, FBI, CIA, CISCO, Microsoft, and many countries from around the world in an extremely securely-connected environment. The participants join one of the two groups, Planners, who set up the exercises, or Players, who participate in the events by trying to break into the simulation networks and obtain information.

There will be many traps along the way that will throw the players off the trail. The designers will be active throughout the week-long event, injecting into the system in attempt to thwart the contestants with situations unknown to the players.

This project / event is to help benchmark how well cyberterrorism and security interact, as well as to learn how to develop more-secure networks.

The newest game to hit Outspark, Bread ‘n Butter, is now entering its second beta phase.

New features include:
* Lowered prices on mini games
* Additional mini games and decorations
* More free mini games and decorations (go to the store and buy it for free!)
* Guestbook implemented, so you can view other bakery owners’ info and post comments!

Also, you can view the top bakers, part of the dynamic project.

Visit Outspark.com for details!

Microsoft is giving away USD $100,000 of its pocket (plus other goodies) to beta testers of Microsoft’s upcoming Office Live Workspace.
Registration is free at the website.
However, this comes with a catch: the users must already own a genuine copy of office.

http://workspace.officelive.com

I don’t know about you, but I could use some of that dough.

It truly is a sad day for fans of role-playing games.

The man who co-created Dungeons & Dragons (the first Role-playing game ever made, created in 1974) is dead. Gary Gygax died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (not too far from Rockford, IL!). Apparently he had been having bad health issues for a few years.