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Games Workshop Goes After Fan Site 174

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:03AM from the don't-anger-your-base dept.

mark.leaman writes "BoingBoing has a recent post regarding Games Workshop's aggressive posturing against fan sites featuring derivative work of their game products. 'Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players' aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces — many of these created for long out of print, well-loved games...' As a lifelong hobby gamer of table, board, card and miniature games, I view this as pure heresy. It made me reject the idea of buying any Games Workshop (read Warhammer) products for my son this Christmas. Their fate was sealed, in terms of my wallet, after I Googled their shenanigans. In 2007 they forbid Warhammer fan films, this year they shut down Vassal Modules, and a while back they went after retailers as well. What ever happened to fair use?"

Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia 215

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 18, 2009 @12:31AM from the scary-zombies dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification, Left 4 Dead 2's content exceeds that allowable for an MA15+ rating. Any such game is rated as Refused Classification, effectively banning it. From the report: 'The game contains realistic, frenetic, and unrelenting violence which is inflicted upon "the Infected" who are living humans infected with a rabies-like virus that causes them to act violently. The player can choose from a variety of weapons including pistols, shotguns, machine guns, and sniper rifles. However, it is the use of the "melee" weapons such as the crowbar, axe, chainsaw and Samurai sword which inflict the most damage. These close-in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore.'"

Mixed Conclusions About Powerline Networking vs. Ham Radio 343

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 13, 2009 @06:52PM from the absolutely-nzzzzbzzzzbzzzzz- dept.

Barence writes "Since writing about the success he's had with powerline networking, a number of readers emailed PC Pro's Paul Ockendon to castigate him for recommending these products, such as HomePlug. They were all amateur radio enthusiasts, claiming the products affect their hobby in much the same way that urban lighting affects amateur astronomers, but rather than causing light pollution they claim powerline networking causes radio pollution in the HF band (otherwise known as shortwave). Paul's follow-up feature, 'Does powerline networking nuke radio hams?' documents his investigation into these claims, which found evidence to support both sides of an intriguing debate."

AMD Releases 2 Low-Power 64-bit Processors 121

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @10:07AM from the competition-is-grand dept.

rwiggers writes "AMD has released two new low power processors for embedded apps. With a power of 18W and a chipset with 3W of average consumption [PDF] it seems we may have some interesting competition with Intel's Atom."

No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners 198

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @09:48AM from the for-your-own-good dept.

Voyager529 writes "While virtually every Core 2 Duo processor supports the hardware virtualization technology that powers the Windows 7 XP Mode, The Register UK reports that the Core 2 Duo processors in the Sony Vaio Z series laptops had the virtualization features intentionally crippled in the BIOS. Senior manager for product marketing Xavier Lauwaert stated that the QA engineers did this to make the systems more resilient against malicious code. He also stated that while they are considering enabling VT in some laptop models due to the backlash, the Z series are not among those being retrofitted."

Submission + - lose 7 kg in a month (ramesti.info)

Submitted by

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on Monday July 02, 2007 @04:05AM

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Submission + - Huge Halo 3 Developer Interview (ign.com)

Submitted by

IGN AU

on Monday July 02, 2007 @03:12AM

IGN AU writes: "For your reading pleasure, IGN humbly offers you an extensive interview with two of the most influential figures in Halo 3's development — Jaime Griesemer, Sandbox Design Lead, and Tyson Green, Multiplayer Design Lead."

Submission + - Microsoft to sell PCs, starting in India (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by kripkenstein on Thursday June 28, 2007 @03:50AM

kripkenstein writes: According to an Ars Technica report, Microsoft will for the first time start selling complete PCs. The program takes place in India. Details include

Dubbed the IQ PC, the machines will cost RS21,000 (about $525), are manufactured in partnership with Zenith, and will sport AMD Athlon CPUs.
[...]
In some ways, the move to sell hardware is a natural extension of Microsoft's low-cost Windows initiative. [...] It may also be a response to projects like Intel's Classmate PC and the OLPC XO.

The Ars Technica summary is careful to state that they seriously doubt this will lead to Microsoft selling PCs in the US, yet the question must be asked: After Microsoft mice and keyboards, then the XBOX and Zune, Microsoft is increasingly becoming a hardware vendor. Is it only a question of time before Microsoft starts to compete directly with the likes of Dell and HP?

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