Comment ooo! (Score 1) 31
If they could make a timepiece, i'd wear one. who needs straps!
IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail
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aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."
Comment Re:Black Ops (Score 1) 397
What, am I the only one who remembers Daggerfall, or Outpost, or Darkfall? Game crushing bugs on PCs have been around for far longer than 10 years.
Comment Re:Missing dimension: number of players (Score 1) 164
yeah, and if you add in the glacial pace of gameplay plus the wolf/sheep problem of pvp games, this thing is going to be DOA if the three devs working on it don't get their head out of their asses.
Indian Police Using Facebook to Catch Scofflaw Drivers
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New Delhi police have a new weapon in the battle against bad drivers, Facebook. Two months ago the police created a Facebook page that allowed people to inform on others breaking traffic laws, and upload pictures of the violations. The page has more than 17,000 fans, and 3,000 pictures currently. From the article: "The online rap sheet was impressive. There are photos of people on motorcycles without helmets, cars stopped in crosswalks, drivers on cellphones, drivers in the middle of illegal turns and improperly parked vehicles.
Using the pictures, the Delhi Traffic Police have issued 665 tickets, using the license plate numbers shown in the photos to track vehicle owners, said the city’s joint commissioner of traffic, Satyendra Garg."
Submission + - Crytek thinks demos will soon be extinct (develop-online.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Pretty sure there won't be a Crysis 2 demo, unless it's an EA premium one.
News story:
"The CEO of indie studio Crytek has defended EA's divisive 'premium downloadable content' strategy, while also predicting the extinction of free game demos.
In an interview with Develop, Crytek's co-founder Cevat Yerli said he wasn't sure that a demo of Crysis 2 was going to be released. He also said demos are "a luxury" that becomes "prohibitively expensive" for game studios to make.
He said: "A free demo is a luxury we have in the game industry that we don't have in other industries such as film. Because we've had this free luxury for so long, now there are plans to change this people are complaining about it. The reality is that we might not see any free game demos in the long term."
Crysis 2 publisher EA was recently the subject of much controversy for plans to release premium demos "for $10 or $15" before a game's final release.
That strategy was coarsely criticised across message boards, forums and social networks, yet Yerli believes it has many benefits."
News story:
"The CEO of indie studio Crytek has defended EA's divisive 'premium downloadable content' strategy, while also predicting the extinction of free game demos.
In an interview with Develop, Crytek's co-founder Cevat Yerli said he wasn't sure that a demo of Crysis 2 was going to be released. He also said demos are "a luxury" that becomes "prohibitively expensive" for game studios to make.
He said: "A free demo is a luxury we have in the game industry that we don't have in other industries such as film. Because we've had this free luxury for so long, now there are plans to change this people are complaining about it. The reality is that we might not see any free game demos in the long term."
Crysis 2 publisher EA was recently the subject of much controversy for plans to release premium demos "for $10 or $15" before a game's final release.
That strategy was coarsely criticised across message boards, forums and social networks, yet Yerli believes it has many benefits."
Submission + - Why Blu-ray and DLC don’t see eye to eye in (mcvuk.com)
BanjoTed writes: Are you enjoying Dragon Age: Origins Awakening on PS3 in America? Well in Europe we're not. Sony has told MCV that the cost of producing Blu-ray SKUs is the reason behind why many of the boxed expansion packs that get released on Xbox 360 and PC only get a PSN release on PS3 on this side of the Atlantic. A number of games — including Dragon Age, Borderlands and Fallout 3 — have seen their post-release DLC get bundled onto disc and sold at retail on Microsoft's machines, but the exact reason behind their failure to do the same on PS3 has until now been a bit of a mystery. The truth? It all boils down to the cost of producing Blu-ray discs.
Submission + - In Search of the RPG of the Decade (rpgcodex.net)
An anonymous reader writes: RPG Codex takes a look back at the notable titles and trends of the last ten years, featuring commentary by a number of developers from the RPG and strategy worlds, including Tim Cain, Jeff Vogel, Soren Johnson, Brian Mitsoda, and more.
Comment Re:Congratulations (Score 1) 430
It's not terrorism if you have a letter of marque!
Comment Re:cnc4 too (Score 1) 279
Yeah, but thats command and conquer...its been stuck in its own death spiral for years now, and they are basically just copying everyone elses' game mechanics.
Comment Re:Copyright and Plagarism (Score 1) 94
Well that depends. Is this game going to have a demo? If I'm interested in the game and it does, the demo will give me a good idea whether or not I would enjoy more of the game. If not and I'm interested, I just might look for a pirate version to evaluate your game, then buy it if I find the game worth it.
I mean, its not like I can buy a game, find I dont like it, then return it for a refund, can I? Oh no! That would promote piracy!
I have many games that sit collecting dust because they weren't worth the CDs they were stamped on. I'm tired of being burned.
Submission + - Roleplayers Seek Removal Of Nerf Gun Ban (bgnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: LARP fans at Bowling Green State University may have to contend with a crippled game of Humans vs. Zombies after the University banned Nerf guns on campus. In the live-action game, players are either humans or zombies. The goal of the game is to change all the humans into zombies, or for the humans to evade capture by zombies for a certain amount of time. To defend themselves against zombies, humans may use Nerf guns. Players (most likely the human ones) are petitioning the University to lift the ban.
The game had troubles back in 2006, when participating students were arrested. That issue has since been cleared up.
The game had troubles back in 2006, when participating students were arrested. That issue has since been cleared up.
Comment Re:Bioshock and System Shock (Score 1) 97
If that is true, then you have further proven that you have very poor taste, sir.
Submission + - Arm wrestling machine recalled for breaking arms (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: "After three players broke their arms while wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages. Said game maker Atlus' spokeswoman: "The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it.""
Submission + - Bioshock PC is defective by design 4
ringbarer writes: Kotaku reports that the long-awaited spiritual successor to System Shock has a few shocks for any PC gamers who want to buy it. Customers are discovering that the 'SecuROM' anti-copying technology will only permit them to install the game twice, after which the DVD becomes nothing more than an expensive coaster. As PC Gamers are renowned for rebuilding and reinstalling their machines on a regular basis, it is clear that this will only hurt legitimate players.
