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EA Launches 'Hostile' Bid for GTA Publisher 171

Posted by Zonk from the here-we-go dept.
Games news sites are reporting that EA has issued a new offering to Take-Two's shareholders in an attempt to purchase the company outright. Last month EA offered some $2 billion to Take-Two in an effort to accomplish the same goal. Take-Two declined, and EA took their offer public. Now, Electronic Arts is offering the price of some $26 per share to Take-Two's holders, a generous valuation. "Within ten business days Take-Two is required by law to publish, send or give to shareholders (and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission), a statement as to whether it recommends acceptance or rejection of the latest offer ... Since EA launched its February bid Take-Two said that other parties had approached it regarding a merger, but that it hadn't entered into negotiations with other companies about a deal."
Patents

Gibson Accuses Guitar Hero of Patent Violation 192

Posted by samzenpus from the karaoke-crack-down dept.
robipilot writes "Video game publisher Activision Inc. has asked a federal court to declare that its popular "Guitar Hero" game does not violate a patent held by real-guitar maker Gibson Guitar Corp. Gibson's 1999 patent covers a virtual-reality device that included a headset with speakers that simulated participating in a concert, according to a complaint filed on Tuesday by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles."
Graphics

Carmack Speaks On Ray Tracing, Future id Engines 256

Posted by Zonk from the how-can-you-not-listen-to-the-carmack dept.
Vigile writes "As a matter of principle, when legendary game programmer John Carmack speaks, the entire industry listens. In a recent interview he comments on a multitude of topics starting with information about Intel, their ray tracing research and upcoming Larrabee GPU. Carmack seems to think that Intel's direction using traditional ray tracing methods is not going to work and instead theorizes that using ray casting to traverse a new data structure he is developing is the best course of action. The 'sparse voxel octree' that Carmack discusses would allow for 'unique geometry down to the equivalent of the texel across everything.' He goes on to discuss other topics like the hardware necessary to efficiently process his new data structure, translation to consoles, multi-GPU PC gaming and even the world of hardware physics."
PC Games (Games)

Unreal Creator Proclaims PCs are Not For Gaming 705

Posted by CmdrTaco from the true-if-you-run-a-mac dept.
An anonymous reader writes "TG Daily is running an interesting interview with EPIC founder and Unreal creator Tim Sweeney. Sweeney is anyway very clear about his views on the gaming industry, but it is surprising how sharply he criticizes the PC industry for transforming the PC into a useless gaming machine. He's especially unhappy with Intel, which he says has integrated graphics chipsets that 'just don't work'."
Programming

Donkey Kong and Me 123

Posted by kdawson from the when-men-were-men-and-code-was-16k dept.
MBCook sends us to the blog of one Landon Dyer, who posted an entry the other day entitled Donkey Kong and Me. It describes how he was offered at job at Atari after writing a Centipede clone and ended up programming Donkey Kong for the Atari 800. It's full of detail that will be fascinating to anyone who ever programmed assembly language that had to fit into 16K, as well as portents of what was to come at Atari. "My first officemate didn't know how to set up his computer. He didn't know anything, it appeared. He'd been hired to work on Dig Dug, and he was completely at sea. I had to teach him a lot, including how to program in assembly, how the Atari hardware worked, how to download stuff, how to debug. It was pretty bad."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Main stories with personal comments/questions = BAD 1

Journal by mahdi13

I've been noticing more and more that a lot of the posts stories lately have either stunk of personal bias or the preview ends with a personal question from the submitter. Do we really need this?

I read Slashdot for the articles, the news stories and the peeks at future technology. NOT for some punk trying to be witty to hundreds of thousands of geeks. I read the feedback for that.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Software "Sharing" 1

Journal by mahdi13
Very often on Slashdot you see P2P stories and people arguing over the legitimacy of "sharing" software and music.
One of the biggest arguments is that it is a 'copy' of the original and it can not technically be called theft.

Theft: The wrongful taking of the property of another. It is a broad term and includes larceny, pilfering, hold-up, robbery and pick-pocketing.

Linux

Journal Journal: Linux is free as in freedom, not beer

Journal by mahdi13
Yes, Linux is a free operating system that you can download for free from literally hundreds of places. But there is a very common, and threatening, way people think about Linux. You can get, use and distribute Linux for free...so many people get the idea that the software should also be free.

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