Looks like online gamers are set to benefit with Internap Network Services Corporation rolling out its intelligent routing and IP technology that will be used by GameRail to provide gamers with a superior online experience. It is said that Internap helps aggregate local broadband traffic and activity on to GameRail’s nationwide private network, which in turn connects users directly to game sites. For those who are not in the know, GameRail operates a nationwide private broadband network which was specifically designed for multiplayer gaming online, in which gamers experience superior performance options.
CES, as always, promises to be interesting with tons of news as well as new releases. Word on the street has it that Sony will be gaining more brownie points with gamers this CES thanks to a brand new feature for their handheld that allows users to “call friends, talk trash to fellow gamers or catch up with acquaintances via Skype for PSP system.” What do you think about this new development? Will it make you drop your DS Lite like a hot potato and rush out to get a PSP, if you haven’t yet picked one up already? Or do you, being a hardcore Nintendo fan, just grind your teeth in seething anger and hope somebody comes up with an equivalent on the DS Lite? Anyways, just look out for more news and developments from CES 2008.
You won’t see Bill Gates taking it easy despite being one of the richest men in the world for many years running already. This time, Mr. Gates himself will be making some announcements at CES this weekend, and some folks think that Bill will thrill the masses with an announcement that Microsoft will be working to prepare the 360 platform to selected consumer electronic companies. 
Most people take their World of Warcraft seriously, and as well all know, RPGs do require a healthy amount of imagination in order for it to work. Lately, computer-based RPGs have taken out a whole lot of that work from the players themselves since the machines are powerful enough to convey the message that the game developers wanted to – but that doesn’t detract from the fact that many people do sometimes wish that the characters the play in the virtual world could be fleshed out for real, in say, the form of an action figure. Ed Fries, former vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, has partnered with gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment to come up with FigurePrints – a premium service that allows World of Warcraft players to create 3D statues of the individual characters they play in the game. 
