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Comment Open minded character stereotypes (Score 0) 504

by Spassoklabanias on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @06:07AM (#25283279) Attached to: Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter

To Leonard Boyarsky, lead world designer on Diablo III

I believe one of the most exciting features of Diablo III, which made the distinctive difference between D3 and WoW is that there are no character stereotypes. The same class can be developped in so many different ways. Although there are cookie-cutter builds, there are several more which are viable and fun. How do you cope with the balancing?

Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous 395

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 24, 2008 @05:36PM from the cryin'-shame-continues dept.

Dekortage writes "As today's lawsuit indicates, Hasbro has apparently had enough of Scrabulous, the online word game remarkably similar to Scrabble. Filed in New York, Hasbro's suit is against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, brothers from Kolkata, India, and asks the court to remove the Scrabulous application from Facebook, disable the Scrabulous.com web site, and grant damages and attorneys fees to Hasbro. Why did Hasbro tale so long to 'protect' its intellectual property rights in court? They waited 'in deference to the fans' until EA had launched the official Scrabble Facebook app earlier this month. EA's version has netted fewer than ten thousand players, versus Scrabulous' estimated 2.3 million. This was the next logical step for Hasbro after filing DMCA takedown notices against Scrabulous in January."

Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks 555

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 24, 2008 @03:03PM from the stick-it-in-your-ear dept.

RevWaldo contributes a link to an AP story carried by Google, according to which "The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don't find a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." RevWaldo continues: "One possible solution offered? 'Use a wireless headset.' No risk of EM exposure from one of them, no sirree!"

Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species 128

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @02:21PM from the does-not-count-the-hollow-earth-creatures dept.

GBC writes "AFP is reporting that, as of a week ago, the number of creatures in the "Spore" database exceeded the number of known species on Earth. They are created using 'Creature Creator,' which is available in a free (with limited parts) or paid download at the Spore website. Will Wright seems extremely happy with the progress so far: 'We hit 100K in 22 hours and a million by the end of the first week. The numbers are just blowing us away.'"

First Real Gameplay Video of New Prince of Persia Game 48

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @12:09PM from the slightly-better-than-dragon's-lair dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After all the screenshot leaks and poor screenshot videos, here's finally the first official game play video of Prince of Persia:Next Generation. It was released at E3 just some hours ago. Wow, I just love their new artistic direction, this game will be a killer!"

Submission + - 1,000 trillion operations per second

Submitted by Spassoklabanias on Monday June 09, 2008 @06:50PM

Spassoklabanias writes: IBM's supercomputer fastest supercomputer is nicknamed Roadrunner for a reason: it broke the limit of 1,000 operations per second (1 pentaflop). It is developed for the U.S. Department of Energys National Nuclear Security Administration at IBMs Poughkeepsie lab and will be delivered to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico this summer. Once installed, it will be devoted to safeguarding Americas national security, as well as for research into areas ranging from genomics, to astronomy, to climate change.

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