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Happy Holidays!

Remember the cryptic message on Konami’s website concerning the new Metal Gear Solid game?

Some people thought (even feared) that MGS4 would be ported to the XBOX360.
But now the mystery has been solved: Read more »

For those who don’t know, Ragnarok Online DS has been released in Japan this week. The game is inspired by the MMORPG itself. The game features new skills as well as new jobs to boot.

To play this game, you can order from playasia.com for about $60. The game is still in Japanese though so if you like the original MMORPG, and can understand Japanese, then this game might be for you!

Lets hope that this game gets enough attention to warrant an NA and EU release.

In the Recent Square-Enix press conference this December 10, 2008, SE has unveiled the release date for Dragon Quest IX for the DS. The game will be released on March 28, 2009 with a price of 5,980 Yen.

They have even released a special edition Slime model DSi:

But the most shocking part of the conference is that the next iteration of the DQ series, Dragon Quest X, will be coming for the Wii. Its not very surprising since Dragon Quest aren’t really too much about the graphics, but about the story.

You can read the source on gigazine here

Or a.k.a how every other advertising program will contribute to the downfall of the quality of the internet.

Its just another rambling of an uninformed person on how this game will end:

1. Almost all advertising programs earns you money whenever a user clicks on a banner ad.
2. For a user to click on a banner, the banner content must be more interesting to the user than the content on the website.
3. Websites owners usually have no control over the quality of content on these banner ads.
4. The banner ads are usually of low value to the users compared to the content of your website.
5. The only logical way to improve the gradient is to lower the quality of the content of your website.
6. Since lower quality content website will rank lower on search engines, the website will resort to dubious SEO.
7. Now that most of the top ranked search results are mostly low quality content wesbites, at one point the user gives in a clicks on the banner ad just to get the proper information. A typical user does not have the patience to check the first 20 search results. The good content websites would be found on a lower ranking instead.
8. Low quality websites are now earning a lot while those with good content operates at a loss. By natural selection, low quality websites proliferate.
9. Search engines will become basically useless since the majority of websites are now of low-quality content and of no use to users.

No wonder Google needs a lot of PhDs for their search algorithm. The only thing it can do is delay the inevitable, because low quality websites will eventually reach a threshold where it will be almost indistinguishable from good ones. Expect the signal to noise ratio to become even lower…