Xbox 2021

After Xbox 720, the life-cycle of the Microsoft console dictates that the next Xbox will debut for the 2021 Christmas season. I'll call it the Xbox 2021 because there has not been a name announced for it yet:

Features of the Xbox 2021

Kinect 2021 Features:

• Clothing-detection and recording. Xbox will know all the clothes and accessories you have.
• UV, Infrared, and Imagining lasers that can triangulate and detect surface textures: i.e. plastics, wood, metal, human flesh, glass, water, etc.
• Voice-detection in all languages.
• OCR capabilities that allow Kinect to read QR codes and other text.
• Automatic detection of cell-phone use and lowering of volume of the game.
• Ability to see-through furniture by guessing where parts of the body (such as legs) should be based on the body posture.
• Eye-ball tracking based controls where players can control the entire experience using just their pupils and eyes.
• Air-typing: ability to detect typing on a virtual keyboard when players hold their hands in the air in front of them and pretend to type on an invisible keyboard.
• Infrared remote temperature sensor to detect body temperature of players (in case they are sick).
• Infrared breath sensor to detect player's tension levels.

Xbox 2021 features:

• 8K resolution support.
• 3D Holographic Room Projector system support. (and of course: 3D TV support). This will allow players to be fully immersed when the room they are in transforms into, for example, a battleground or a puzzle.
• Backwards compatibility with Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox 720, of course.
• 6G Mobile Broadband support allowing for speeds of 100 GBit/sec up and down.
• USB 4.1 support to connect ancient technology. Bluetooth support for headsets, etc.
• Cloud-based hard-drive of unlimited size.
• On-the-fly (cloud-based) game streaming without the need to download/install games.
• Ability to connect to multiple TVs in the house and stream many different 8K HD quality videos at the same time.
• Optical protein-disc drive (to play old Xbox 360 and Xbox 720 games).
• HD recording of all gameplay, all the time.
• Microsoft Windows 9 operating system.
• The entire console is actually a tablet that you can take anywhere with you by detaching it from the Xbox dock.

Wishlist for Kinect 2

The original Kinect camera has a resolution of 320 x 240 at 30fps. I think this can be increased to at least 8 megapixels at 30 fps. This means HD video-chatting.

Also the new Kinect has lips detection so it can process the voice-commands much better. I think the new Kinect can go a step further and integrate facial feature recognition such as eye-brows, eye-shape, mouth, nose, etc. so it can detect sighing, pouting, anger, smiling, etc. The new Kinect also has detection for voice tone, which I think is great. Hopefully the voice recognition will be more accurate because of this. Also perhaps they can use another keyword other than "Xbox" for the voice commands. Perhaps something like, "X-Command ... PLAY MOVIE".

Also I think it should record the room in 3D to understand the room a lot better - including bouncing sounds around the room which it does already.

Tip.it new skin

Tip.it has released a new theme that is modeled after their forum skin. It's good but comes a bit too late. Our site, RuneHQ, has already surpassed Tip.it and are years ahead of Tip.it. Also, RuneScape is pretty much a dead game. So, I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve.

RuneScape Not Accepting New Sign-ups

RuneScape has announced a closing date of March 22, 2014. That means, after this date, RuneScape will become inaccessible to all players. The reason for closing has been stated as there simply not being enough players to keep the game online. Over the last several years, RuneScape has been in sharp decline as younger game companies are able to entrench on RuneScape's userbase. RuneScape's failure has been said to be caused by Jagex's underhanded tactics and putting out low quality game updates repeatedly.

It's a sad day, mostly because it was preventable, but one that many players saw coming for a long time.

RuneScape Free Play Closes

RuneScape has gone all premium now and removed the Free-2-Play (F2P) part of the game. A demo exists but it is useless as the scores are not recorded on the hiscores. So, the demo cannot be classified as the real RuneScape.

It is a dim and dark day for RuneScape as the game spirals into obsolescence. It won't be long before the game is left barren and empty with players going to other games such as Farmville and Pacman.

Skyrim High Elf

The High Elf in Skyrim is a formidable foe and found to be rather hungry all the time for food and also for information. The High Elf lives in a hut or a cave and sometimes in a forest or some trees anywhere in Skyrim. Nobody bothers them, but the High Elf can fight back if needed. High Elves use daggers and bows and arrows (archery) to combat. The High Elf is not from Falmer and they don't know alchemy in Skyrim, but they are very adept at scaring away werewolf and any scaring looking dwarven armillary quest NPCs of Skyrim that approaches them.

Everplanes goes into Open Beta

Upcoming sandbox game, Everplanes, has gone into open beta which they are calling alpha. The game will be an open world where users can create shapes and 3D-tiles for use in the world. Later versions will allow more customization.