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Submission + - The many lies of cloud computing

Submitted by KingofGnG on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:11PM

KingofGnG writes: Cloud computing services promise a lot, keep very little and don’t give any guarantee on everything. Or to say it with the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, selling one’s own rights of ownership on software, data and products is the first stone of the road that leads to digital hell.

Submission + - Avira: security or marketing? (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @07:25PM

KingofGnG writes: Trust in your antivirus software is important, especially if you have willingly paid to purchase and install it on the PC. When the antivirus starts to sell some sort of advertising message shown after an automatic update as security, however, the aforementioned trust begins to leave place to delusion and you ask yourself who is dumber: you paying to be mocked or the genius that decided to turn a protection software into a carrier of cheap marketing.

Submission + - The good sides of gaming digital delivery (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Friday March 08, 2013 @06:54PM

KingofGnG writes: The incoming future of video games will not be streamed, in the cloud, or in social games available on-line for free. Conversely, there is a series of positive novelties that the success of digital delivery as a supplementary tool for releasing games has brought to the industry, the developers and to whom must purchase these games in the end. In that sense, the lack of a physical copy of the gaming software is widely repaid by a greater range of choices for everyone.

Submission + - The future of video games will not be streamed (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:55PM

KingofGnG writes: There is recurrent thinking going for a while, within the video games world, a thinking that sentences to death the “traditional” way of selling, playing and doing business while serving a completely changed audience. The future of gaming will be streamed, that thinking says, it will be “social”, “free-to-play”, purely and simply in digital delivery. So let’s try confronting what certain interested thinkers describe as clear trends with some factual data of the videogaming business.

Submission + - New proof-of-concept bootkit targets UEFI and Windows 8 (neowin.net)

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KingofGnG

on Friday September 21, 2012 @03:29PM

KingofGnG writes: "The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) platform is the “next-gen” technology designed to replace the ancient BIOS contained within the most basic layer of hardware logic in PCs, bringing not only a more flexible environment but strong security features as well. The fact is that the UEFI platform has been already “cracked” open by a new bootkit created by Italian security researchers."

Submission + - BitTorrent Inc. sez: the future of entertainment is RealPlayer (neowin.net)

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KingofGnG

on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:01PM

KingofGnG writes: "BitTorrent Inc., the USA company founded by the original creators of the BitTorrent protocol, is testing new ways to monetize on the content freely available on the file sharing network. The company wants to “rewrite the Future of the Entertainment Industry”, a feat that begins with the bundling of a well-known relic of the multimedia technology past."

Submission + - EU probing an alleged cartel among 13 optical drives makers (neowin.net)

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KingofGnG

on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @12:58PM

KingofGnG writes: "The European Union has announced the start of a new, thorough investigation against 13 different producers of optical disk drives (ODD), sending a “Statement of Objections” to what are considered “suspected participants in a cartel for the supply of computer CD and DVD drives” in the European Economic Area (EEA)."

Comment In the post-PC era... (Score 1) 878

by KingofGnG on Monday July 09, 2012 @09:13AM (#40590525) Attached to: Does Grammar Matter Anymore?

....Grammar does not matter anymore. Who the heck needs a good spelling knowledge when you own the best smartphone/tablet/mobile shit in the world? C'mon....

Submission + - Pioneer BDR-2207: 128 Gigabytes on a single Blu-ray disk (neowin.net)

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KingofGnG

on Friday May 04, 2012 @01:41PM

KingofGnG writes: "Pioneer is about to market BDR-2207, the company’s new, powerful optical disks burner that supports the latest Blu-ray class format known as BDXL. Thanks to the BDXL specifications, the new burner can write (and obviously read) hundreds of Gigabytes of data on a single 12-cm Blu-ray disk."

Submission + - Legend of Grimrock development costs recovered in three days of sales (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Sunday April 15, 2012 @06:44PM

KingofGnG writes: From the mist of the video gaming past a genre thought extinct returns, thanks to a title provided with “an oldschool heart but a modern execution“: the genre is the grid-based dungeon crawlers one, the game which brings it to the present is Legend of Grimrock made by Finnish developer Almost Human. LoG has been released starting from April 11 on the software house site, Steam and on GOG.com, and in this last case the release is particularly important because it matches the renewal of the gaming digital delivery “alternative” service for PC.

Submission + - New beta version for 4DO, the open source 3DO emulator (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @06:29PM

KingofGnG writes: Born from the ashes of the deceased FreeDO project, 4DO is an emulator of the historical 3DO console released under an open source license. 4DO aim is to improve on the already remarkable accuracy level of the FreeDO main core by adding new features, bringing bugfixes and making the software compatible with more games from the actually not so large library of titles published for the 3DO.

Submission + - PS Vita launch in the West: a huge success (neowin.net)

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KingofGnG

on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @01:51PM

KingofGnG writes: "Could the PlayStation Vita be Sony’s next, almost unexpected success story in the gaming industry? According to sales data announced by the Japanese company, the new handheld machine has been a huge success after last week's launch in North America, Europe, Latin America and other PAL markets."

Submission + - The Thief series and the horror games by Trilobyte land on GOG.com (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @08:48PM

KingofGnG writes: GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) continues to delight old and new gamers’ taste by releasing true gems of the past equipped with compatibility fixes for the latest Windows OSes. During the last days the digital store has practically ran wild in that regard delivering the first two chapters of the Thief series and announcing the coming of the historical Full Motion Video horrors made by Trilobyte.

Submission + - Xenon 2 and DRM, almost irreparable damages? (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Sunday February 05, 2012 @07:20PM

KingofGnG writes: Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies and their noxious inclination to spoil the day for PC gamers are steadily at the focus of the gaming debate, and almost everyone takes for granted the fact that it’s a contemporary issue not concerning games of the past at all. Nothing more wrong: maybe some years ago (or many years ago) they were more trivially called “copy protection”, but DRM restrictions continue to do harm even among people that engage in the noble art of retrogaming or are interested to digital contents preservation.

Submission + - "Get Perpendicular" amarcord (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by KingofGnG on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @05:10PM

KingofGnG writes: What happens when a big company dealing in hard disks decides to explain the benefits of a new technology to the mainstream public in an unconventional manner? In such a case what can happen is that the aforementioned company ends up with something like this animation, a lump of nerditude like few have been probably seen in the entire commercial history of consumer storage.

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