Amazon has begun sending out a limited amount of early access invitations to customers for its upcoming cloud gaming service, Luna.
The company announced it had released a wave of invites to a small selection of US customers in a blog post.
The price for each hour of game play is $15-a-hour.
The company calls it a marketplace of usage data. Players spend game time in one of six urban locales – including San Francisco, New York City, and Washington D.C. – and their time is then equated to a "market rate" in each location.
However a free trial hasn't been recommended. A public beta isn't set up, but a version 1.1 beta has been released on the Amazon developers dashboard.
The company says the Luna beta is unsupported in its first week.
According to a new company blog post, Amazon wants to reduce game costs on average by 10% and get customers to start using its Amazon Crashlytics and schedule rules for their games.
It suggests locking in players for specific specific game hours, and enforcing "late locking" settings.
Amazon's services rival Gameloft's Purple Planet. Purple Planet is a Finnish-based cloud gaming service that offers many features that Amazon's Luna does not – including integration with the popular Twitter gaming service, Comet.
Amazon has also advertised a console of its own to customers, which is rumoured to launch some time this year. Early reports are saying it will be an Amazon Fire TV set-top box.
Amazon Luna seems to offer a very good selection – supporting most popular online games. Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series is definitely one of the top games currently available for their service.
Amazon also has another category of games called existing game collections – which are based on annual game releases (like Square Enix and Nintendo releases). Examples announced are the modern Renaissance Robin series, the Terra Mystica series, and the Caesar series.
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School Vandalized With Fake Paychecks (Again!)
Posted on by Warren Entrance
Mark Henkemeyer, the Baltimore Public Schools maintenance worker accused of defacing the city's schools with fake paychecks, was sentenced to four days in jail last week. The damage caused by Henkemeyer's scheme was merely an embarrassment, said his lawyer, Richard Kerr. His client simply absorbed the wrath of the non-paying public onto other employees and this resulted in some embarrassment of his own.
Mark Henkemeyer pled guilty in October to four counts relating to the damaging of seven schools in Baltimore city. The crimes:
1. Theft of over $5,800 in District of Columbia City funds,
The company announced it had released a wave of invites to a small selection of US customers in a blog post.
The price for each hour of game play is $15-a-hour.
The company calls it a marketplace of usage data. Players spend game time in one of six urban locales – including San Francisco, New York City, and Washington D.C. – and their time is then equated to a "market rate" in each location.
However a free trial hasn't been recommended. A public beta isn't set up, but a version 1.1 beta has been released on the Amazon developers dashboard.
The company says the Luna beta is unsupported in its first week.
According to a new company blog post, Amazon wants to reduce game costs on average by 10% and get customers to start using its Amazon Crashlytics and schedule rules for their games.
It suggests locking in players for specific specific game hours, and enforcing "late locking" settings.
Amazon's services rival Gameloft's Purple Planet. Purple Planet is a Finnish-based cloud gaming service that offers many features that Amazon's Luna does not – including integration with the popular Twitter gaming service, Comet.
Amazon has also advertised a console of its own to customers, which is rumoured to launch some time this year. Early reports are saying it will be an Amazon Fire TV set-top box.
Amazon Luna seems to offer a very good selection – supporting most popular online games. Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series is definitely one of the top games currently available for their service.
Amazon also has another category of games called existing game collections – which are based on annual game releases (like Square Enix and Nintendo releases). Examples announced are the modern Renaissance Robin series, the Terra Mystica series, and the Caesar series.
Skip to comments.
School Vandalized With Fake Paychecks (Again!)
Posted on by Warren Entrance
Mark Henkemeyer, the Baltimore Public Schools maintenance worker accused of defacing the city's schools with fake paychecks, was sentenced to four days in jail last week. The damage caused by Henkemeyer's scheme was merely an embarrassment, said his lawyer, Richard Kerr. His client simply absorbed the wrath of the non-paying public onto other employees and this resulted in some embarrassment of his own.
Mark Henkemeyer pled guilty in October to four counts relating to the damaging of seven schools in Baltimore city. The crimes:
1. Theft of over $5,800 in District of Columbia City funds,
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