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Submission + - Starcraft Pro Hands-On of Starcraft II (starcraftpro.com)

Submitted by liquidmetalslime on Monday August 06, 2007 @04:41PM

liquidmetalslime writes: Here's a hands-on review of Starcraft II from the hardcore gamer's perspective at StarcraftPro.com. This article talks more about the hotkey inconsistencies and overpowered units, stuff real Starcraft players care more about rather than just "what's cool" that you can find on any other game review site. For those that weren't able to play Starcraft II at BlizzCon, this will give you the recap of what to expect.

Submission + - Nearly Entire id Back Catalog Now on Steam

Submitted by

Pluvius

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @03:36PM

Pluvius writes: "The constantly growing list of games available on Valve's online-gaming network Steam has become even more impressive with a contribution from id software. With the exception of the relatively new Quake IV and a few early games, every PC game released by id is now available, including the first five Commander Keen episodes, the Wolfenstein games, the Doom series, most of the Quake series, Heretic and HeXen, and all of the addons and expansions thereof. Better yet, all of these games can be bought together at the low price of $70, minus a 10% discount if you buy before August 10. Other packages are also available."

Submission + - YouTube video-fingerprinting due in September (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @12:48AM

Tech.Luver writes: "theRegister reports," a company lawyer told the presiding judge that its YouTube video-sharing site would unveil a long-delayed video recognition system this fall, "hopefully in September." According to the lawyer, Philip Beck, the system will be as sophisticated as fingerprinting technology used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Associated Press reports. Google's Philip Beck said the system would require help from copyright holders. Once a holder provides a particular piece of content, the system will generate a fingerprint capable of identifying it. Then, if anyone tries to upload the content to YouTube, the site will shutdown "within a minute or so" on the user's machine. ""

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