MPGH News (7/26/13)

**[MPGH]Psychotic** · 07-27-2013

35th Edition
7/27/13

BattleTale!
As BattleTale becomes more and more notorious within the world of MPGH, arunforce notes that it's heading closer and closer to Open Beta. BattleTale's big balance patch is planned to come on August 1st, and until then arunforce has enabled a DOUBLE EXP event! More and more details will come in as the summer gets closer to end on when Open Beta will open.

User News

- Donate to MPGH today! : https://www.mpgh.net/forum/2-general/...on-thread.html
- Applications for the Social Game Hacks & Trainers and the Battleon section have opened up!: https://www.mpgh.net/forum/209-social...-required.html
- Applications for the COD section have opened up!: https://www.mpgh.net/forum/190-call-d...-required.html
- Applications for the DayZ section have opened up!: https://www.mpgh.net/forum/624-dayz-m...-required.html
- Former GM @KING will be starting a MPGH Rap Battle 2013 event soon. Keep in touch with the General section!
- Check out this weeks Battletale album! : https://www.mpgh.net/forum/2-general/...um-7-23-a.html
- User News from the past 4 weeks have been added at the bottom of the User News in spoilers.

Postbans

Congratulations to @Color on 8,000 posts!
Congratulations to @Exotiic. on 2,000 posts!
Congratulations to @Temperrr on 10,000 posts!
Congratulations to @Paralyze on 4,000 posts!
Congratulations to @Approved. on 8,000 posts!
Congratulations to @Vice-Versa on 17,000 posts!
Congratulations to @C.C. on 1,337 posts!

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to @WalterWhite !

Demotions

@Joshcarr2006 is no longer a minion.
@master131 is no longer a GM.

Interview - [MPGH]chickeninabiskit

Six Flags investigating roller-coaster death.

On June 19, 2013 A women named Rosa Ayala-Goana had fallen off a roller coaster. This was at a Six Flags located in Arlington, Texas.

A witness told the local media that she saw Rosa Ayala-Goana giving a bad expression about the safety bar not locking all the way in. The

investigation on how Rosa Ayala-Goana fell is still ongoing. Investigators are trying to find out how Rosa Ayala-Goana exactly fell off the ride.

Plane in NYC accident is being removed from runway

The Southwest Airlines flight 345 arriving from Nashville, Tennessee. The front landing gear collapsed right after it touch the runway

officials said. Ten people who were on that plane were treated there at the scene, while six people were taken to a hospital with minor

injuries. Emergency crews were seen spraying foam toward the front end of the plane on the tarmac. The passengers from the plane were

exited by using chutes. The runways are expected to open today Tuesday.

Zimmerman helped 4 out of wrecked SUV

George Zimmerman from the case of Trayvon Martin came out of hiding to help four people from a flipped SVU in central Florida last

week. George Zimmerman and anther man help a couple and two children out of the overturned SVU near the Interstate 4 and none of the

passengers were hurt thanks to George Zimmerman and the random pedestrian. Robert Zimmerman, Jr. who is the brother of George

Zimmerman posted on his Twitter: "George saw a need, he acted. Our parents taught us to help, never to boast. Humility is George's finest

trait."

North Korea halts rocket launch-pad work

North Korea ended construction work at a site that was meant to lunch bigger and better long-range rockets.The sight of unfinished roads

and grass growing from the foundation of a large new rocket assembly building could be welcome news for Washington and others who see

Pyongyang's nuclear and missile work as a threat, but it's still unknown on what they plan to do with it.

6-year-old boy swallowed by sinkhole

A young child was swallowed up by an 11-foot-deep sand-dune sinkhole. It has been two weeks since this incident has happen and doctors

have been saying that Nathan Woessner who is six years old is making a great recovery. On Monday Nathan Woessner took his first few

steps since the incident. Dr. Diana Mitchell of the University of Chicago said “Nathan is listed as in good condition and continues to improve,”

to CBS News on Monday.

PS4's OS uses almost half of its RAM

Sony's next-gen console comes with 8GB of GDDR5 memory, leaving 4.5GB of RAM guaranteed to developers of PlayStation 4 titles.
However, sources speaking to Digital Foundry said an additional GB of RAM can be used as flexible memory--giving developers up to 5.5GB of total RAM--but only if the PlayStation 4 operating system can still function without the extra memory.
Additional sources add that this 3.5GB requirement could be reduced once the work on the PlayStation 4 OS is complete and potentially streamlined.
Much of the allocated RAM for the OS will allow for some of the PlayStation 4's new system features, like application switching, and being able to pause and resume games.
The PlayStation 4 will launch globally later in 2013 for $399/€399/£349.

Former eSports team manager to appear in court on hacking charges

Dmitry ‘ddd1ms’ Smilianets, the former leader of the pro team Moscow 5, has been officially charged with a computer hacking conspiracy and conspiracy to commit wire fraud along with three other Russians and a Ukrainian. According to the U.S. government, Smilianets and company stole and sold more than 160 million credit and debit card numbers. U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said the case was “the largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.”
Smilianets was actually arrested last July, but will supposedly appear in U.S. federal court sometime next week. The U.S. government said Smilianets’ job was to help sell the credit and debit card numbers the group had illicitly obtained. Smilianets’ lawyer, Bruce Provda, expects the case to be a long one.
“It’s a rather complex international charge of hacking,” Provda said. “If it goes to trial, it’s going to be a lengthy trial.” Moscow 5, which was best known for competing in League of Legends, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike, shut down following Smilianets’ arrest due to a severe lack of funding.
I doubt this case will shine a particularly negative light on eSports as a whole, considering Smilianets’ alleged role in the crime group doesn’t seem connected to his former job at Moscow 5, though that probably doesn't provide much consolation to the millions of people who had their credit card numbers stolen.

Summer Games Done Quick 2013

Like video games? Like speed runs? Like helping out a cause?
Well this is for you! The SpeedDemosArchive & SpeedRunsLive teamed up and are streaming speed run for 5 days consecutively with a huge game list to play.
They're raising $50,000 for Doctors Without Borders, more information on them is on there website.
If you can't donate, pass the message on about this event. Twitch TV is helping as well, for a set amount of people watching the stream they'll donate a sum of money. (Something like 10,000 people for $5000)
Enjoy the marathon!

Schedule:
SDA Charity Marathons

Stream:
SpeedDemosArchiveSDA or SDA Charity Marathons

Charity:
Doctors Without Borders

All XBOX One can be used to develop games

Microsoft has announced that they'll allow indie- game-developers to release their own games through the XBOX ONE, without any demands on having a publisher (Which was a requirement for the 360)

It appears that all consoles can be used as development consoles (meaning, you don't have to purchase any extra debug consoles to do so), so the ones that want to give it a shot or maybe just do it because they've always wanted, can now buy the console in the stores and get started.

It wont be available at the launch, it will later be made available via an update.

Amiga-Games coming to Google Play

Writers' Group Film Corp (the owners of Amiga Games) has announced that they have come to an agreement with Google about publishing Amiga-games via Google Play for Android.
It's something that will launch sometime around Q4-2013.

There are currently no information about which titles to expect, but there's probably some favorites you'd like to see on Android.

New video about Pokémon X & Y

There has been more material released for the the Japanese tv-show Pokémon Smash based on Pokémon X and Pokémon Y.
In this video different sequences of the game have been cut together to show more parts of the game-world

They have also said that the release date for Pokémon X and Pokémon Y will be the 12th October worldwide and it will be released to Nintendo 3DS.

MPGH News Team