Comment Re: [subject removed] (Score 1) 379
They did target their audience. After all, they just got some free advice from geeks on how to better target their audience.
Comment Documentary..? (Score 1) 565
The linked article says that this is a drama 'based on real life events'. I'm not really sure this can be classified as a documentary. I'm sure we've all seen films supposedly based on real life events and know how believable they tend to be...
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8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision 265
An anonymous reader writes "Activision, after acquiring Vivendi, became the new copyright holder of the classic King's Quest series of adventure game. They have now issued a cease and desist order to a team which has worked for eight years on a fan-made project initially dubbed a sequel to the last official installment, King's Quest 8. This stands against the fact that Vivendi granted a non-commercial license to the team, subject to Vivendi's approval of the game after submission. After the acquisition, key team members had indicated on the game's forums (now stripped of their original content by order of Activision) that Activision had given the indication that it intended to keep its current fan-game licenses, but was not interested in issuing new ones."
Comment Re:so why can't i buy a !@##$% low powered compute (Score 1) 195
Well, that depends. If you handed Win95 a standard Atom based modern PC(assuming you could even boot it) you would get terrible results, as you note. No ACPI, no serious power management.
If, by some strange miracle, Intel decided that there was a market for modern-day PCs equivalent in performance to ~33MHz Pentiums with 16 megs of RAM, they could definitely fab something that fulfilled that performance objective while using next to no power, even if the OS did no power management at all.
If, by some strange miracle, Intel decided that there was a market for modern-day PCs equivalent in performance to ~33MHz Pentiums with 16 megs of RAM, they could definitely fab something that fulfilled that performance objective while using next to no power, even if the OS did no power management at all.
Comment Finally something new added to the old stuff! (Score 1) 189
It took about time, I was already growing roots waiting for this to come up.
Makes me feel old
Comment Re:Neat UI after Battle.Net changes (Score 1) 244
Assuming you're close enough to the exchange for ADSL to not suck, switch to O2. They've been the best ADSL provider I've had here in the UK.
No caps, no "peak-time" and the speeds are close to as advertised (I pay for a 20Mb line and get 18Mb, with BT it was down at 12Mb, on the same telephone line as well, so figure that one out)
Comment What could... (Score 1) 200
Where's the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag when you need it?
Comment As I've never been to US can someone explain to me (Score 1) 492
Apple removed them after getting complaints that they were degrading to women.
How exactly is this degrading to women?
Comment Re:That's very nice, but (Score 1) 216
If you do buy it direct from 2D Boy you can register your copy within Steam with the CD-Key and then get all the benefits of having the Steam version.
Rob
Comment Re:Teenagers? (Score 1) 380
I guess The Little Shop Of Horrors is out for you too.
Comment Play IF games in your browser with Parchment (Score 5, Interesting) 130
I'd urge everyone to give Parchment a try
Parchment is a project dedicated to running IF games in your browser, and it does so wonderfully. You can even SAVE your progress, and it gives you a bookmarkable URL you can use to resume your game at a later date. That page tells you how to get any Zcode game playable on Parchment, and the page below has links to loads of IF games that have already been made available.
I'd recommend giving Curses a go, although maybe not if you are completely new to IF.
Comment Re:Oh please. (Score 1) 287
Couple it with something like Allwaysync Portable to synchronise the USB stick when it is plugged in and it should work fine.
Comment Re:A Few Helpful Lists (Score 1) 287
If our backup provider is subpoenaed they can give all my data to whoever they want, it's just a meaningless binary blob.
Not if they give it to Morris O'Brian! He knows the secret back door codes into Blowfish and can decrypt in in a minute!
Comment Re:Are we still talking about Braid? (Score 1) 44
That might just be the demo. There isn't any exit sequence in the full game, or at least there isn't for me on the Steam version.
Greg Bear To Write Halo Trilogy 73
SailorSpork writes "Many gaming websites are reporting that Hugo and Nebula award winning sci-fi author Greg Bear will be writing a 100,000-year prequel trilogy to the Halo series, focusing on the Forerunners and presumably the construction of the Larry Niven knock-offs. Will he be able to balance the needs of his hard sci-fi fanbase with the Halo fans' need for a soft introduction to 'chapter books?' Despite my sarcasm, as someone who considers both of them guilty pleasures, I am actually really looking forward to seeing how he handles this."
