Digg It

I feel compelled to throw out a call for Diggs. Lockheed has thrown a DMCA take down notice to TurboSquid over an artists sculpture of a WWII bomber posted on the site. TurboSquid, as you may know, is an outlet for artists to offer their work for sale. Needless to say, not only did our tax dollars fund the design and production of this aircraft but at heart this is a work of art for sale, no different than buying a calendar in the back of a warbird magazine. Lockheed has tried this copyright infringement crapola before. They tend to try and pick on the little guys.

Digg - DMCA abuse: 3D art is "trademark infringement."

Giga Gophur

It's all about exposure don't you know. I'll be on Giga TV this afternoon (night for you eoros) talking about BE or WWIIOL or whatever you wish to call this massively multi-player online first-person shooter strategy role playing game (MMO, MMOFPS, MMORPG ?) that we all so dearly love to live and breath.

I have no idea what they will ask me. I have no idea what the program format is like to be. I have no idea how to actually watch this from the office in Bedford...

What I do know is that for a small independent game developer and defacto publisher this is huge. I also know that Greni and Hofnarr will be on set to show off the game. Hope you cats can tune in.

BEGM: Battleground Europe Game Monitor

The latest version of BEGM is out. If you play WWIIOL (I still never think of it as Battleground Europe) then you owe it to yourself to take a look at this amazingly cool tool. Many hats off to Xiper for doing this. His map is SWEET.

BEGM: Battleground Europe Game Monitor

"Kbar" from CinC to Ink

Rob "Kbar" Kauder has been a long time member of the WWIIOL community. He came to the MMO as a day one player if I recall correctly. He was a CinC for the Allied High Command. He's a hell of a paintball player and I think he met his wife at a player convention. Well now it comes to my attention that he's just published an account of some of his time in Iraq titled The Highlanders: Charlie Company goes to the Iraq Training Center. I'm looking forward to reading his accounts of time spent away from the game and in the real deal. S! to you Kbar and all the men and women who have served along side of you.

Thanks to Onchas for the heads up on this one. Looking forward to seeing you at the next con K.

CTotD

I don't actually consider myself a "gun nut". Sure I like to go birding with my dad when I can and oogling that .50 cal rifle is always fun but today's post just grabbed the inner geek in me. I grew up on James Bond and SoF magazine like any red-blooded ninja loving kid and this thing is just the fix for those fond memories.

Today's cool thing of the day brought to you by Defense Tech.

CToTD

What do you get when you cross a Pz II with, well hell, I don't know what with. Apparently this is some oddball German tank thingy that can be found in a Russian tank museum. I think we should build it!

Thanks Coop via Boing Boing.

1.5 Million Concurrent Users!?!

I've never heard of ZT Online have you? Well, we don;t live in China, but still I watch this stuff like a hawk everyday. In conventional western wisdom that would mean they probably have around 15 million subscribers. Wow! And that's more wow than WoW. OK, well it isn't the west and Chinese games aren't conventional by our standards but I think this makes a pretty good case why we are releasing into China. I still can't believe we haven't gotten any press on that one...

Peak Concurrent Users for ZT Online Exceeds 1.5 Million | RedlineChina