BackgammonMasters.com as we all know is quite famous for multiplayer online games like backgammon, Poker, Perudo and BlackJack etc. The game software which was needed to play this game is now available with option of many languages. The languages available are Chinese, Portuguese, German, Arabic, French, Hebrew, Japanese, English, Greek, Turkish, Spanish or Danish. All these languages are included in single software so users don’t need to download several versions for different language and desired language can be selected anytime from the user interface. They are working on more languages like Italian and Russian are soon to be included.

The best thing about this game is that it’s played in a community like environment where users can chat live while they are playing. Every day more and more players from various parts of the world are joining this gaming community and playing games like backgammon, poker etc. Infact it has already become one of the largest gaming online communities who can chat live and play these games at the same time on a single multi-language platform. Looking at this, backgammonmasters.com will soon start live customer support chat for its players in many languages so that players can get help instantly if they are struck in the game due to any problem.

Good news for people who were planning to buy new HDD for their computer or upgrading their laptop HDD. Recent survey tells that Desktop hard drive prices fell to $51 in the third quarter of 2007, compared to $52.75 the previous year while notebook HDD fell to $53 from $86. the reason behind is the tough competition between all major HDD manufacturers like Seagate , Western Digital, Samsung, Hitachi etc. Also the flash memories are also to be blamed for any further drop in price of HDD as people have came to know the benefits of using SSD even if they have less storage space to offer at present.

Energizer “D” battery was exposed today at newstarget.com and as you can see in the picture above, the “D” size battery had a smaller battery inside. While some people think it’s an AA size battery packed inside “D” sized shell to make more money, but just by looking I can say it’s definitely bigger than AA battery. Energizer was tagged for ripping off its customers but what I feel is fitting a smaller battery with all those plastics casing inside “D” size battery shell (quite well arranged) will not be cheaper to manufacture so there is no intention of energizer to make more profit by doing this. There must be some technical reasons and battery was giving the same output 1.2v and had 2.5Ah capacity as mentioned on the battery case, so customer is getting nothing less than what he can expect from the battery.

China’s leading Linux mobile converged Smart Phone solution provider E28 may (or may not) be manufacture Google GPhone, insiders report. As usual, Google is not ready to comment on this report and hence its still not confirmed that E28 will be the one to get in GPhone business. Whoever it may be but these rumors are sure building a craze for GPhone and people are now eagerly waiting for a phone to come in market with colorful Google logo on it. It is confirmed that Google will use Linux OS in their phones so E28 quite fits their requirement.

Olympic Games’ computer system which was hosting the Olympic website crashed just after 30 minutes of working. The system, designed for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, was switched off for maintenance. Xinhua (Chinese news site) reported that there were eight million hits and 200,000 orders of tickets per second, now this is something that can easily take down even the more robust server system. Ticketmaster, which hosts the site, is working on ways to fix the problem.

‘Game&Game World Championship 2007′ the final of the U.S. region was held on L.A.

At U.S. final selection, more than 60,000 players participated from preliminary match of ‘Shot online (Sports)’, ‘War rock (Action)’, ‘Silkroad online (MMORPG)’ and US regional final event held successfully with 17 players who advanced from preliminary match and more than 200 supporters from all over the US.

This regional event was held successfully at the ‘Internet PC Café’ near LA area, and it began with press conference to help local presses understanding, and participants had great time through Korean online games with special events like professional DJ performances, and participants side shows.

Over 20 journalists from 14 local presses such as ‘MMOGD’, ‘WarCry’ visited to this event, and they showed off hot interests to Korean game companies and Korean online games.

US regional final had various episodes and special participants due to lot of games took part of it.

Especially, ‘Lunia (Allm)’ has hot-spotlight than any other events, because more than 50% of Lunia users are located in US area.

The winner of Lunia, Travis Verhagen who is student of AIU, and wish to be programmer to make games like Lunia said “It is great pleasure to win this event and I will try harder to get better result at Grand final at Seoul on Dec.”
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