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Role Playing (Games)

Legend of Grimrock development costs recovered in three days of sales->

Submitted by KingofGnG
KingofGnG writes "From the mist of the video gaming past a genre thought extinct returns, thanks to a title provided with “an oldschool heart but a modern execution“: the genre is the grid-based dungeon crawlers one, the game which brings it to the present is Legend of Grimrock made by Finnish developer Almost Human. LoG has been released starting from April 11 on the software house site, Steam and on GOG.com, and in this last case the release is particularly important because it matches the renewal of the gaming digital delivery “alternative” service for PC."
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Emulation (Games)

New beta version for 4DO, the open source 3DO emulator->

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KingofGnG writes "Born from the ashes of the deceased FreeDO project, 4DO is an emulator of the historical 3DO console released under an open source license. 4DO aim is to improve on the already remarkable accuracy level of the FreeDO main core by adding new features, bringing bugfixes and making the software compatible with more games from the actually not so large library of titles published for the 3DO."
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Games

The Thief series and the horror games by Trilobyte land on GOG.com->

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KingofGnG writes "GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) continues to delight old and new gamers’ taste by releasing true gems of the past equipped with compatibility fixes for the latest Windows OSes. During the last days the digital store has practically ran wild in that regard delivering the first two chapters of the Thief series and announcing the coming of the historical Full Motion Video horrors made by Trilobyte."
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DRM

Xenon 2 and DRM, almost irreparable damages?->

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KingofGnG writes "Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies and their noxious inclination to spoil the day for PC gamers are steadily at the focus of the gaming debate, and almost everyone takes for granted the fact that it’s a contemporary issue not concerning games of the past at all. Nothing more wrong: maybe some years ago (or many years ago) they were more trivially called “copy protection”, but DRM restrictions continue to do harm even among people that engage in the noble art of retrogaming or are interested to digital contents preservation."
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Data Storage

"Get Perpendicular" amarcord->

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KingofGnG writes "What happens when a big company dealing in hard disks decides to explain the benefits of a new technology to the mainstream public in an unconventional manner? In such a case what can happen is that the aforementioned company ends up with something like this animation, a lump of nerditude like few have been probably seen in the entire commercial history of consumer storage."
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Games

GOG.com: numbers, controversy, outlooks and great ->

Submitted by KingofGnG
KingofGnG writes "The latest weeks have probably been among the most turbulent ones in the brief history of Good Old Games: the retrogaming store has caused controversy, released “new” classic titles of the PC gaming past and has preannounced an important novelty for the product type that will soon be available on its virtual shelves. The digital delivery service created by the Polish publisher CD Projekt is in a sense victim of its own success, and of the ample trust granted by its users as an alternative channel for on-line videogame purchases."
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Comment: Stone-like DVD, maybe? (Score 1) 499

by KingofGnG (#37558390) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage?
You should definitely check the DVD disks from Millenniata - they claim their disks can last centuries, if not millennia. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/2222208/start-up-claims-immortality-for-data-with-stone-like-disc There's a starter's kit on Amazon for just 285 $ http://www.amazon.com/Millenniata-Starter-Kit-M-WRITER-Printing/dp/B004I52204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317326110&sr=8-1

Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot?