Comment Re:Xiaonei censorship (Score 1) 84
So May 35 also gets blocked. Interestingly enough, 06041989 did get past the censors on Xiaonei.
Comment Re:Xiaonei censorship (Score 1) 84
Urk, looks like I can't get Chinese characters onto Slashdot. The first word says "Chinese Internet Maintenance Day" from the article, while I basically said what the second one said.
Comment Xiaonei censorship (Score 4, Informative) 84
So I was hoping to announce this to my Chinese friends, but looks like on Xiaonei, you're not allowed to write http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/chinese_websites_under_mainten.php, äå½ç½'ç(TM)çæS, tiananmen, or the link to the spreadsheet. If you do, it gives you the following error: "èäè¦å'åfæ"æææYå...å®ãèæf...å...å®ãåäsåå'Sæ-å...ä-äæå½"å...å®" (no politically sensitive stuff, porn, or ads, etc.)
Comment There's a boycott group already (Score 1) 231
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2boycott
I think a lot of the anger will subside if they give a BIG discount to L4D owners.
Left 4 Dead 2 Announced For November 231
hansamurai writes "Left 4 Dead 2 has been announced at E3, and a trailer for the game has surfaced. It will be released November 17, 2009, just a year after the first game. Gameplay changes include a new focus on melee weapons, especially the iconic anti-zombie weapon, the chainsaw. The cast of characters is brand new, but the plot appears to take place during the same zombie outbreak."
The game is being developed for the PC and Xbox 360, and Valve says it will make use of a new version of their AI engine, which has the ability to "procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance." Rock, Paper, Shotgun got the chance to do a hands-on preview, providing details about the gameplay and confirming that "it's a coherent new imagining of the game, this time bigger, smarter, and far more elaborate. Oh, and gloriously more gory."
Comment Re:The case for micropayments (Score 2, Insightful) 148
I remember the good old days when that was simply called a free demo.
Comment Good old days (Score 1) 148
I remember the good old days when there were no such things as DLC. They were simply called free patches.
Comment Mmm (Score 1) 252
Don't the Japanese in general already have better phones than the iPhones? I don't see the appeal of actually using the iPhone except as a tracking device to give to a friend.
Comment Damned if you do, damned if you don't (Score 1) 387
They actually got slammed twice for Heroes. First people complained that no comic book geek would look like that swimmer store employee. So then they did the stereotypical comic book geek and the people complained again.
Comment Simpler solution (Score 1) 286
The MPAA is required to furnish free DVDs to educators within a reasonable time frame (less than a week is good) on request.
Comment Kindom of Loathing (Score 2, Informative) 73
Sounds like a weapon right out of that game. And if not, I can imagine them adding it in after this.
Comment Well... (Score 3, Funny) 384
"When we investigated the sites manually it worked better," he added.
What he really meant to say was, there was a lot more motivation and job satisfaction when they investigated it manually.
Comment Re:Keep your crap! (Score 1) 232
I'd rather not deal with the region-locking inherent in most consoles.
Comment Re:The human mind is funny (Score 1) 243
I've read of a study where people are given two identical socks and asked to pick which they like better and why. People will often pick the right sock and then come up with all sorts of rationalization as to why it's better.
Comment Re:Sega had arcades? (Score 1) 66
They actually have a pretty neat CCG RTS arcade game based on the Three Kingdoms era. It's also on the Nintendo DS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLtTPvzTls
After each game you get a random card which you can use for future battles. I believe they are networked too so you can play with people around the country.
