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EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely 341

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 06 2010, @07:42AM
from the sixty-dollar-yearly-fee dept.

Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"

Comment: Re:Here we go! (Score 4, Funny) 466

by GuineaPigMan on Monday May 04 2009, @06:22PM (#27822515) Attached to: Google Mows With Goats

They must have switched to goats after the GNU Hurd ran away...

Comment: Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut (Score 1) 1127

by GuineaPigMan on Monday February 16 2009, @11:43PM (#26882211) Attached to: Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

I had a teacher once to whom I mentioned the word "Linux." He said, "Oh, that's the new version of Windows, right?" That was 6 years ago, but we still might be able to fool people. Maybe it needs to be suggested more as a Windows *competitor* than a Windows *alternative.*

Comment: Chemical reactions - they're a blast! (Score 5, Interesting) 126

by GuineaPigMan on Sunday January 11 2009, @08:52PM (#26411721) Attached to: Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny

I'd credit Bill Nye with being one of the first to make science funny. Maybe he wasn't as good as this guy, but I always appreciated the dry humor as a kid.

Science rules!

Comment: Instead of scrolling... (Score 1) 268

by GuineaPigMan on Tuesday January 06 2009, @02:15PM (#26345569) Attached to: Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel"

What if there were a wheel with the alphabet laid out around it, so that you would pick the letter from around the wheel, instead of scrolling through letters? I realize this is a joke, but I didn't realize it at first, and thought "what could you do with such a thing?" The keyboard in fact is difficult and slow for some people (especially those not brought up in the computer age,) so could there be a faster way for them to type? I'm not saying a wheel is the answer, but considering other possibilities as well as a keyboard might not be a bad idea.