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New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board 277

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 05, 2009 @04:36AM from the gauntlet-thrown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australia refused to give Rebellion's new Aliens Vs. Predator game a rating, effectively banning it in the country. Rebellion says it won't be submitting an edited version for another round of classifications, however. (As Valve did with Left 4 Dead 2.) They said, 'We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices.'"

OnLive and Gaikai — How To Stop a Gaming Revolution 125

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 09, 2009 @04:36AM from the and-in-this-corner dept.

happierr writes "The gaming industry has been struggling in the last few months, and it is about to struggle even more when OnLive and Gaikai launch later this year. The new services are both a step in the right direction to counter piracy and provide easily-accessible gaming to people with low-end PCs. They might even do for PC gaming what the Wii did for casual gaming; greatly expand the market and draw interest from people who would not ordinarily play games. The services are a real threat for the Big Three video game companies (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo). How will they combat these revolutionary services? There are a few steps that the Big Three are taking to combat the New Two, such as an increased reliance on peripherals and vision cameras, exclusivity deals, and more online multiplayer features, which OnLive and Gaikai will have a hard time matching."

Submission + - KIno lead developer quits with 1.0 release

Submitted by exw on Monday March 12, 2007 @11:49AM

exw writes: Lead, and for the most part loan developer of the Kino linux digital video editor, Dan Dennedy releases version 1.0 and in the same breath announces that he is "done working on it"

So here we go again. Another one man show linux developer calls it quits on a great piece of software just when it is on the road of being comparable to it's commercial equivalents. And on top of that, the software is in a key area of linux that is lacking: "video editing".

First it was Michael Dominic K. abandoning the "Diva Project and now Dan Dennedy abandons Kino. I'm not trying to lay blame, or suggest these fine developers owe me anything. I'm just seeing this happen so often with interesting and useful linux software projects that it makes me a little sad. And I don't see a solution to keeping the projects going other than a commercial one.

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