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Submission + - Remote Controlled Tanks you can drive over the net (rctiger.com)

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bobby1234

on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @04:04AM

bobby1234 writes: "A new type of online game has launched at www.rctiger.com that connects up Real Remote Controlled Tanks (1/24 Scale) to the internet. You can drive them around in real time and battle it out, even firing at other tanks straight through your browser. Wicked fun driving these things around. Something positively surreal about driving real hardware around via your internet connection. They are European based so lag becomes a problem for some people. You have to pay to play but there is a complimentary (as in beer) weekend this weekend, were you can just log in and have a go. They aren't running 24x7 at the moment so you need to check out the front page for the session times. Looks like they are streaming the games live via Justin.tv on their front page and there is a YouTube video showing how the game looks when you play. Something quite unique and revolutionary!"

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Comment Pay per Play (Score 1) 230

by bobby1234 on Friday March 13, 2009 @02:10AM (#27177801) Attached to: Is Free Really the Future of Gaming?

I have some friends that have put together a online game that uses remote controlled tanks.

They cannot use ads as they only have a few tanks. Sponsors... maybe but again stuck with low volume. So they are trying pay per play.

have a look at it http://www.rctiger.com/

great idea... not sure if it is going to work though!!

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Comment Dark side of the Node (Score 2, Interesting) 98

by bobby1234 on Friday November 07, 2008 @09:11AM (#25674399) Attached to: Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan

I live in a new suburb in Melbourne and the infrastructure installed in the new suburb by Telstra (the local monopoly) is Fibre to the Node. Which is great. Except they go an put rubbish equipment at the nodes. So across the suburb about 40% of people can get ADSL1 and the rest get nothing (except a basic phone line).

I spent 4 months sending applications to the local ISP until eventually one of my neighbours sells up and disconnects from the node and luckily I get his spot.

This is not as uncommon.

494590 submission

Submission + - Inexpensive Graphene (abc.net.au)

Submitted by bobby1234 on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @03:16AM

bobby1234 writes: abc.net.au writes "Australian researchers have discovered a cheap and simple way to make sheets of carbon just one atom thick — a finding that has implications for a range of developments from solar cells to bionic ears." http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/30/2149996.htm

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2 Million Pirates Shanghai'd 45

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 27, 2006 @08:35PM from the that's-a-lot-of-booty dept.

The Escapist's news feed reports that 2 Million characters have been made in Puzzle Pirates since the launch of the game. From the article: "Three Rings' CEO Daniel James sees 2 million users as confirmation of the micro-currency model. 'We believe that this model represents the future for online entertainment. Our inspiration continues to be the Korean market, where 'free to play, pay for item' is the ubiquitous business model for online games. As the US market matures to meet Korea, we intend to keep leading the way.' In addition, the company recently released the beta version of a new game, Bang! Howdy, a multiplayer online tactical strategy game for the PC, which uses the same payment structure and online distribution model."

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