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Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies 397

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @02:22PM from the cause-or-symptom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Develop has an excellent piece up profiling a bunch of average to awful titles that flopped so hard they harmed or sunk their studio or publisher. The list includes Haze, Enter The Matrix, Hellgate: London, Daikatana, Tabula Rasa, and — of course — Duke Nukem Forever. 'Daikatana was finally released in June 2000, over two and a half years late. Gamers weren't convinced the wait was worth it. A buggy game with sidekicks (touted as an innovation) who more often caused you hindrance than helped ... achieved an average rating of 53. By this time, Eidos is believed to have invested over $25 million in the studio. And they called it a day. Eidos closed the Dallas Ion Storm office in 2001.'"

Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project 687

Posted by samzenpus on Saturday January 16, 2010 @05:37PM from the duck-and-cover dept.

garg0yle writes "Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of 'a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics,' after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family 'get counseling.' Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?"

Psystar Activation Servers Down? 245

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 09, 2010 @06:49PM from the bad-news-bears dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I purchased Rebel EFI in support of Psystar's crusade back in October. Just 3 short months later, I have no support. I found this out when I upgraded my hard drive and installed Snow Leopard using Rebel EFI. The program can no longer 'phone home' to activate or download/install drivers. This is a direct contradiction to Psystar's promise posted on their website: 'Psystar will continue to support all of its existing customers of hardware and software through this transitional period. Warranties on hardware will continue to be honored as long the customer has a valid warranty. Rebel EFI support for existing customers, as always, will remain exclusively available through email and the built-in ticket interface.' Has anyone else run into this issue? It has been 9 days with no response from Psystar by e-mail or phone."

Submission + - Bus Pirate project v3 hardware hacking multi-tool

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 09, 2009 @07:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Bus Pirate project just released v3 of their open source hardware hacking multi-tool, a USB device that interacts with electronics through a terminal interface. Use the Bus Pirate to see how much of your private information is stored on smartcard SIM chips. Explore the Wii Nunchuck over the I2C bus like Johnny Lee, or read and write EEPROM chips at any voltage. Check out the existing chip demonstrations. BPv3 has lots of features a hardware hacker might need. There's currently a group purchase of assembled hardware for $30, including wordwide shipping.

Submission + - Fail in .NL (brokep.com)

Submitted by Elisanre on Friday October 09, 2009 @05:12AM

Elisanre writes: Brokep (Peter Sunde) formerly with Pirate Bay has discovered discrepancies in evidence filed by BREIN, the dutch equivelance to RIAA/MPAA.
would the mafiaa stoop to falsifying court evidence?

Submission + - Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize (nobelprize.org)

Submitted by druid_getafix on Friday October 09, 2009 @05:07AM

druid_getafix writes: Barack Obama wins the Nobel peace Prize.

Comment master gives you (Score 1) 834

by Elisanre on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:32AM (#27903767) Attached to: Go For a Masters, Or Not?

more money..

Comment Re:Is this test legal in the US...? (Score 1, Insightful) 547

by Elisanre on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @08:20AM (#27310145) Attached to: Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request?

Surely it is no suprise that years and years of being the other way is swinging back hard? And count on it getting a whole lot worse, look at the catholic church with child molestation on one side, the whole abortion view and last but not least their views on condoms.

Comment Re:Advice (Score 1) 547

by Elisanre on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @08:10AM (#27310069) Attached to: Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request?

EFF sounds like the best course of action at this point. In the future you could consider changing host to a bit more liberal country.. http://www.prq.se/ is run by the founder of The Piratebay and supposed to be pretty good.

Comment Looks pretty much like the TPB trial (Score 4, Insightful) 92

by Elisanre on Saturday March 14, 2009 @06:17PM (#27195915) Attached to: RIAA Argument About Streaming To Be Streamed

The Pirate Bay trial didnt get streamed but a bunch of dedicated live-bloggers can make a huge impact. Ridiculous arguments and outright lies get dissected, laughed at and commented to the old-style media. (who acctualy picked it up for once)

Comment Re:Prices Euro zone (Score 1) 159

by Elisanre on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @10:11AM (#27134089) Attached to: The Age of Steam

The local european currencies are pretty weak compared to the euro. But this still does not explain the prices charged over Steam since there is no manufacturing/storage of the boxed games. Meh to Steam

Comment Re:But ... they said.... (Score 1) 664

by Elisanre on Friday February 13, 2009 @08:28AM (#26841633) Attached to: Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday

As earlier stated in comments there is precedence and also the law can also be interpreted in such a way that hosting the torrent-file itself is not a crime. But we are talking lawyers and huge organisations with big wallets..

Comment Re:Wait another 4 years (Score 5, Insightful) 122

by Elisanre on Monday January 19, 2009 @11:41AM (#26516233) Attached to: Mars Desert Research Station Simulates Mars Base

as opposed to Bush who was a pure mercenate of pure science?

Comment Re:Another possibility (Score 0) 345

by Elisanre on Friday January 16, 2009 @07:28AM (#26480303) Attached to: Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong"

This has more the feeling of web sheriff, those clowns got a long history with pirate bay and have ddos'ed legit p2p services.

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