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Comment Re:Cheating (Score 1) 296

by kyrre (#30890138) Attached to: PS3 Hacked?

The reason cheating is a problem is because we are forced to play on the vendor's network,

There are quite a few Playstation 3 games that support LAN-play. You can also run the PS3 as a dedicated server in many games. Warhawk and Unreal 3 support both options. There are more games like this. Sony is not responsible for what publishers do regarding dedicated and LAN support. The PS3 allow it. I do not know about Xbox but I think you can do LAN there as well.

Comment Re:Two issues here (Score 3, Interesting) 248

by kyrre (#30832244) Attached to: Genre Wars — the Downside of the RPG Takeover
Off the top of my head:
  • LittleBigPlanet (level, content and character design)
  • Modnation Racers (in Beta, level and character design)
  • Unreal Tournament 3 (mods)
  • Gravity Crash (level design)
  • Uncharted 2 (Machima thingy)
  • Far Cry 2 (level design)

I am sure there are more. Sony actually encourage user generated content believing it to be the next big thing in gaming. They call it Game 2.0 or something silly like that.
Businesses

Former Exec Says Electronic Arts "Is In the Wrong Business" 180

Posted by Soulskill from the inspiring-internet-outrage-is-a-bad-business-model dept.
Mitch Lasky was the executive vice president of Mobile and Online at Electronic Arts until leaving the publisher to work at an investment firm. He now has some harsh things to say about how EA has been run over the past several years, in particular criticizing the decisions of CEO John Riccitiello. Quoting: "EA is in the wrong business, with the wrong cost structure and the wrong team, but somehow they seem to think that it is going to be a smooth, two-year transition from packaged goods to digital. Think again. ... by far the greatest failure of Riccitiello's strategy has been the EA Games division. JR bet his tenure on EA's ability to 'grow their way through the transition' to digital/online with hit packaged goods titles. They honestly believed that they had a decade to make this transition (I think it's more like 2-3 years). Since the recurring-revenue sports titles were already 'booked' (i.e., fully accounted for in the Wall Street estimates) it fell to EA Games to make hits that could move the needle. It's been a very ugly scene, indeed. From Spore, to Dead Space, to Mirror's Edge, to Need for Speed: Undercover, it's been one expensive commercial disappointment for EA Games after another. Not to mention the shut-down of Pandemic, half of the justification for EA's $850MM acquisition of Bioware-Pandemic. And don't think that Dante's Inferno, or Knights of the Old Republic, is going to make it all better. It's a bankrupt strategy."
Wii

Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon 325

Posted by Soulskill from the can't-show-ugly-mario-in-hd dept.
As high-definition graphics become more and more entrenched in this generation of game consoles, Nintendo has had to deal with constant speculation about a new version of the Wii that would increase its capabilities. Today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime bluntly denied that a hardware revision was imminent, saying, "We are confident the Wii home entertainment console has a very long life in front of it." He added, "In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."
XBox (Games)

What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro? 416

Posted by samzenpus from the donate-it-to-me dept.
OzPeter writes "Last week I won an Xbox 360 Pro. However, I am not a gamer, and after looking at the current MS offerings, I am not tempted to become one. But I am in the market for a Media Center PC that I can use for streaming TV shows off the 'net as well as general web browsing and displaying video through the HDMI port. With that in mind, I again looked at MS and saw they seemed to have positioned the Xbox as an adjunct to a separate Windows Media Center PC and not as a stand alone unit (which is not what I want). So, once again, I did some more research into the Xbox homebrew scene and discovered things like Xbox Linux. But after reading that site, it is apparent that MS is trying to beat down the homebrewers, and I am left wondering how much hassle it would be to go down that path. So my question is: how should I re-purpose my Xbox? Is it worthwhile doing the Homebrew/Linux option (and can anyone share any experiences)? Are there other ways of re-purposing the device that I haven't considered? Or should I just keep it boxed up as a Christmas present for a favorite nephew?"

Comment Re:Incremental "New" Machines (Score 1) 326

by kyrre (#28345853) Attached to: Ubisoft CEO Says Next Gen Consoles Closer Than We Think

Its is standardized. But some developers choose to do their own thing. Metal Gear Online made a terrible choice with 3 different accounts to play the game. Another one is Mercenaries 2 with non-standard multiplayer ports*. I have not come across anyone else. I think it is a good thing to give the publisher a choice in the matter. But some of them will obviously make stupid choices.

*) You can also blame NAT for this being an issue.

Comment Re:Microsoft is doing what it's best at - Marketin (Score 2, Interesting) 560

by kyrre (#28332847) Attached to: Does Bing Have Google Running Scared?

I agree with you. 99 times out of 100 when you enter a company's name, you get several hundred hits for web sites selling the company's product, but you won't find the link to the company you are looking for itself.

Care to come up with some examples? I just tried four company names and every one had the company as the first result. It might not be scientific but very far from 1 times out of 100 then? At this point you need 396 search queries that gives no match for the companys website within the first hundret results.

Google is fine when searching for companies it seems. Asus even had a link to their norwegian site as the first result (I sit in Norway).

Comment Re:Version 1 isn't even out yet (Score 1) 381

by kyrre (#28051425) Attached to: Google Releases Chrome V2.0

ketilkn@minipus:~$ apt-cache search chromium
chromium - fast paced, arcade-style, scrolling space shooter
chromium-data - data pack for chromium
chromium-browser - Chromium browser
chromium-browser-dbg - chromium-browser debug symbols
chromium-testsuite - Chromium test suite
chromium-testsuite-dbg - chromium-testsuite debug symbols
ketilkn@minipus:~$

Instructions for Ubuntu are here: https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
Media

Windows 7 Streams Media To the Xbox 360 and PS3 Seamlessly 121

Posted by Soulskill from the let's-see-this-on-the-big-screen dept.
HardcoreWare reports that the release candidate for Windows 7 contains improved video codecs, and does a much better job of streaming media to popular consoles out of the box. "No longer will you have to install special REG files to 'trick' Windows into streaming video to your PS3 or XBOX 360. And no longer will you have to use UPnP media servers like TVersity that transcode video, severely reducing quality and cause unnecessary CPU load on the server."

Comment Re:$0.16/GB is a pretty good price (Score 1) 127

by kyrre (#27280335) Attached to: Sony Charges Publishers For DLC Bandwidth Usage

There are some ways around it too - game downloads from PSN could contain only skeleton executable files which would download the rest of the data on first start from a publisher's own content servers

MGS Online does have a ingame update thing. It is very annoying. I this might be the reason. Konami is trying to save a buck. (The updater also feature a non working p2p option).

Comment Re:The XBOX 360 is Just as Expensive as the PS3 (Score 1) 232

by kyrre (#27254889) Attached to: Game Publishers Pressuring Sony For PS3 Price Cut

The restriction on the Playstation Store is that you can download purchased stuff to 5 different consoles*. These consoles may belong to you or anyone else. No password is required to use these things later. You can download to one particular console an unlimited number of times. Why are you making things up?

*Exception: Singstar songs. Grand Turismo 5:Prologe

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