245w ago - In a move that has stunned many people in the World of Warcraft community, Blizzard has reversed their earlier stance on no PvE to PvP server transfers.

Per Bornakk on the official World of Warcraft forums, Blizzard has decided to open up transfers from PvE servers to PvP servers because "World of Warcraft has matured significantly since the inception of Paid Character Transfers, [they] don't feel that PvE-to-PvP transfers will have the negative impact on the game that [they] initially wanted to avoid when [they] started the service in 2006.

This change will provide more mobility and freedom for players to experience the game with friends or play in the type of environment they're looking for."

Considering the furor that is now starting up on the official forums regarding this major change in dynamics, we can only wonder why after so many years Blizzard has reversed their decision. Previously, Blizz maintained that they wouldn't allow transfers from PvE to PvP because it would be unfair to players who leveled characters up in a PvP environment. They wanted to avoid PvPers having to deal with people who transferred into the harsher...

258w ago - Zx-81 issued an update today to PSPVE, an emulator for the old-school Vectrex console. The emulator itself is based on code from VecX, which was originally written by Valavan Manohararajah.

Version 1.0.2 brings several enhancements and bug fixes, notably including improved emulation speed, vector rending support, a completely rewritten sound driver, and faster save state processing.

Download: PSPVE v1.0.2 for PSP CFW 3.X / PSPVE v1.0.2 for PSP FW 1.5

Changelog:

- Major speed improvements:
+ 6809 emulation
+ vector rendering
+ remove vector cash (buggy and time consuming)
- Sound emulation completly rewritten and inspired
from 8910 driver of xmame.
- The rotate 90' view is now much faster and it is used
as default render mode.
- Save state modification, it is now faster to save state
(but previously saved games are not compatible with this
new version !)
- Add .vec and .gam file extention as valid rom extention
- Add option to change color between gray and blue

258w ago - Zx-81 has released PSPVE, an emulator for the old-school Vectrex console. The emulator itself is based on code from VecX, which was originally written by Valavan Manohararajah.

Download: PSPVE v1.0.1 for 3.X CFW / PSPVE v1.0.1 for FW 1.5

As this is the initial release, the author reminds users that the emulator is far from feature-complete and future releases are planned to improve emulation speed, render routines and sound quality.