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PC Games (Games)

EA Editor Criticizes Command & Conquer 4 DRM 266

Posted by Soulskill from the preach-it-brother dept.
Command & Conquer 4's DRM hasn't garnered Electronic Arts as much bad press and fan outrage as Ubisoft's scheme, despite being very similar. Nevertheless, it's been causing problems and frustrations for some users, including EA.com's own editor-in-chief, Jeff Green. An anonymous reader points this out: "Green wrote on his Twitter account late last week: 'Booted twice — and progress lost — on my single-player C&C4 game because my DSL connection blinked. DRM fail. We need new solutions.' He continued later, 'Well. I've tried to be open-minded. But my 'net connection is finicky — and the constant disruption of my C&C4 SP game makes this unplayable. The story is fun, the gameplay is interesting and different at least — but if you suffer from shaky/unreliable DSL — you've been warned.'"
Games

NYT's "Games To Avoid" an Ironic, Perfect Gamer Wish List 189

Posted by Soulskill from the more-or-less dept.
MojoKid writes "From October to December, the advertising departments of a thousand companies exhort children to beg, cajole, and guilt-trip their parents for all manner of inappropriate digital entertainment. As supposedly informed gatekeepers, we sadly earthbound Santas are reduced to scouring the back pages of gaming review sites and magazines, trying to evaluate whether the tot at home is ready for Big Bird's Egg Hunt or Bayonetta. Luckily, The New York Times is here to help. In a recent article provokingly titled 'Ten Games to Cross off Your Child's Gift List,' the NYT names its list of big bads — the video games so foul, so gruesome, so perverse that we'd recommend you buy them immediately — for yourself. Alternatively, if you need gift ideas for the surly, pale teenager in your home whose body contains more plastic then your average d20, this is the newspaper clipping to stuff in your pocket. In other words, if you need a list like this to understand what games to not stuff little Johnny's stocking with this holiday season, you've got larger issues you should concern yourself with. We'd suggest picking up an auto-shotty and taking a few rounds against the horde — it's a wonderful stress relief and you're probably going to need it."
PC Games (Games)

Is Crowdsourcing the Next Big Thing In Game Design? 47

Posted by Soulskill from the everyone-make-a-zombie dept.
An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard about user-generated content for games that have fixed toolsets — but this interesting piece on Develop has got me thinking about the idea of games production being opened to a community before development finishes. A new iPhone game (Aztec Odyssey) did that with its soundtrack; could someone do it with the game's art assets? Or level design? A great comment under the story says that LittleBigPlanet would have been more interesting if it was just shipped as a toolset with no pre-built levels. I'm inclined to agree!"

Comment Re:o..k (Score 1) 87

by Sprinkels (#28305859) Attached to: New Exploit Uses JavaScript To Compromise Intranets, VPNs

I bet 90% of them have just changed the default route back anyway.

The Grandparent does not talk about changing the default route, but about forcing all trafic, including local traffic which does not use the default route, through the VPN. The VPN client forces this at lower level than IP.

Yes I, this is evil. A better solution is to use Remote Desktop Service through SSL or similar. This way the local webbrowser at home never connect to the business netwerk. However the exploit is stil posible if you use your laptop at home and at work. (Or visit the unsafe websites with your work computer.

Comment Re:Completely blank (Score 1) 432

by Sprinkels (#27386157) Attached to: I typically stick with the same desktop environment

My desktop is completely empty. All icons are removed by disabling the show desktop icons option in the desktop context menu. I believe putting icons on the desktop is useless when you have many windows open on top of it. Sure you can use the show desktop command, but after opening a new window using this command again does not restore the other windows.

I use folders in my email program for keeping track of things to do.

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