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First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - MS claims FPS gaming on the PC is dead (destructoid.com) 2

MaxBooger writes: According to Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda, the success of Halo on the XBox360 has obliterated the PC as a viable platform for FPS'.

"Halo did an awesome job of building a first-person shooter exclusively for the console, and now hardly anyone plays first-person shooters on the PC anymore,” claims the executive. “If you think about the way that first-person shooters evolved, they started on the PC. People for the longest time tried to port shooters from the PC onto the console.

Methinks someone at Microsoft has been drinking too much kool~aid.

Comment Re:No, they need to die (Score 1) 157

Actually that achievement is probably there as a breadcrumb for people who know about the achievement system but not that there are barber shops, as IIRC they were added to WOW after the achievement system and players who don't go through the patch notes or visit WOW websites might not have known.Blizzard have said a few times that one of the aims of achievements was to encourage people to try other aspects of the game they might not have otherwise.

If they do have a darkside in WOW its being required to have the achievement for completing a raid in order to ever be invited into a group doing it. (But this led to an interface addon that lets players lie about the achievements they have....)

Comment Re:Ignorance abounds indeed (Score 1) 559

Nope, they can record the MAC of my access point and pin that to a location, but they can't access that MAC from the browser, so can't connect my web session and access point together. (unless they say, ooh write a web browser that contains a javascript function to get the access point's MAC from the OS).

Comment Re:The real question is- (Score 1) 157

Watch the youtube video, they have the software running on Vista work on widgets drawn in a OSX remote desktop, this can totally handle you moving windows around/changing screen resolution. I would be more worried if it can work on loads of different Gnome GTK themes, as the widgets will be less consistent.

Comment Re:Ok, really? (Score 2, Interesting) 109

Actually, if the patent is about the way one segment lights up to show which controller it is (and which bit of a splitscreen setup you are), thats something that is really useful and I have not seen in a controller before the 360 one. I wouldn't mind if they had a patent on that (though the Wii does something similar with the 4 blue leds at the bottom of each remote, so maybe not)

Comment Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score 1) 288

Ok, when I view the whole story its in arial, but if I click on the link to my comment, the page is in my default sans-serif font..

On the other point, I know there are myriad ways of adding your own CSS to a page, I just simply want to kill every occurrence of arial on the interwebs, some regex on every bit of incoming CSS should do it

Comment Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score 3, Interesting) 288

Right now for me it is:

font-family:arial,sans-serif;

Which is arial for me and anyone that has it installed, regardless of your browsers default choice (Calibri here) . If you are getting Helvetica you are probably using a mac.

Brings up a interesting point, is there an addon/other way to make Firefox not use arial even if its installed and the page explicitly requests it?

Comment Re:Technically, not installed... (Score 1) 158

Maybe, but we can only hope the user will use the menu to select import photos or invoke the phones bloated windows software package instead of autoplaying.

Anyway, even if the user runs the autoplay, it will still need to pop a UAC prompt to do anything nasty (well install itself as part of a botnet, oh for the old days when viruses just deleted your files and popped up a dialogue saying ha ha, no UAC needed there).

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