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  Games: Electronic Arts Offers $2B For Take Two 2008-02-24 19:11

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 24, @07:11PM
from the something-in-the-air dept.
quanticle writes "The New York Times is reporting that EA has offered $2B for Take Two Entertainment. The effort appears to be a move to consolidate the two companies before Take Two releases the next iteration of its blockbuster franchise, Grand Theft Auto 4. Take Two has politely declined the offer."
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 [+] story, games, pcgames, ea, taketwo, business,

  Games: The Future of MMOs 2008-02-22 14:08

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 22, @02:08PM
from the time-to-level-up dept.
IGN has some interesting coverage of a panel at GDC 2008 that featured some of the top names in the MMO world who got together to discuss the future of the genre. "On hand were Jack Emmert of Cryptic Studios, Mark Miller of NCSoft, Min Kim of Nexon and Rob Pardo of Blizzard Entertainment. MMO newbie Ray Muzyka was also on hand to share his thoughts as BioWare moves into the MMO arena. [...] The conversation got a lot more heated when the subject of micro-transactions was introduced. This is a popular revenue model in Asia, where the games themselves are free to play but charge a premium for a variety of premium extras, from vanity items to additional content or abilities. It's a model that's working well for Korean developer Nexon but hasn't been adopted by many American developers."

  LittleBigPlanet in September [->] 2008-01-09 20:38 PhoenixOne

Submitted by PhoenixOne on Wednesday January 09 2008, @08:38PM
PhoenixOne writes "CVG claims that Sony told them LittleBigPlanet will be out in September."
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=178993
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 [+] submission, games, playstation

  Will Wright: Wii is the Only Next-Gen Console 2007-10-26 09:58 PhoenixOne

Submitted by PhoenixOne on Friday October 26 2007, @09:58AM
In an article that will probably piss off a lot of PS3 owners, Will Wright calls the PS3 and 360 "incremental improvement(s)".

As far as the death of PC gaming: "Every generation it's like 'the PC's dead! The PC's dead!'. But it carries on growing when consoles are flat for five years. At the moment I can get better graphics on my PC than I can on the PS3."
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 [+] , games, wii, interesting

  Wii-mote to come with condom. 2007-10-02 14:06 PhoenixOne

Submitted by PhoenixOne on Tuesday October 02 2007, @02:06PM
PhoenixOne writes "Due to "safety concerns", later this month all new Wii-motes will come with Safety Jackets to reduce the risk of unsafe Wii-play."
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 [+] submission, games, nintendo, slownewsday, stupid, funny

  Sony "Home" slips to 2008 2007-09-20 13:02 PhoenixOne

Submitted by PhoenixOne on Thursday September 20 2007, @01:02PM
PhoenixOne writes "Sony suffers another setback with the PS3, this time it hits 'Home'."
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 [+] submission, games, sony, slownewsday

  FASA Studio has closed its doors 2007-09-13 11:57 PhoenixOne

Submitted by PhoenixOne on Thursday September 13 2007, @11:57AM
In another chapter in its long (an often frustrating) history, FASA Studio has closed its doors.

It is my sad duty to announce that FASA Studio has officially closed its doors. Today was the official last day of employment for those of us who had not moved on to other positions within Microsoft Game Studios. While the rumors have been circulating forever, we chose to wait on an official announcement because we didn't want people's attention distracted from our last product, Shadowrun, a game we love.
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  Fear and Loathing In Carlsbad. 2007-05-17 14:33 Visceral Monkey

Submitted by Visceral Monkey on Thursday May 17 2007, @02:33PM
Visceral Monkey writes "A fascinating interview with Brad McQuaid, the man behind EverQuest and the recently launched Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. Nepotism, adultery, incompetence, corruption, and evasion.
Just another day at Sigil games."
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 [+] submission, games, rpg
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  Ask Slashdot: Handling Interviews After Being a Fall Guy? 2007-05-17 14:05

Posted by Cliff on Thursday May 17 2007, @02:05PM
from the unpoisoning-the-pill dept.
bheer asks: "Salon's Since You Asked column is carrying an interesting question right now — what do you say in interviews after getting fired as a fall guy at your last job? Cary Tennis, who writes the column, admits he may not be the best person for this sort of question. So I thought I'd ask others what they thought about this. Software developers are sometimes able to get away blaming the business requirements/analysis process, but anyone with any experience in this business probably has had nightmares about being the fall guy and may even have a strategy or two up their sleeve. How would deal with being in such a crummy position?"
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 [+] story, askslashdot, business,

  Science: Has Cosmology Been Solved? 2007-05-17 13:14

Posted by kdawson on Thursday May 17 2007, @01:14PM
from the more-concensus-than-debate dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In 1998, Dr. Michael Turner published a famous paper titled 'Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly!' where he outlined seven major issues cosmologists should address in the following ten years. Nine years later, he revisits the list in an interview with the Slackerpedia Galactica podcast. He summarizes progress on each issue, adds some new goals for the next ten years, and even suggests that cosmology is now more interesting than science fiction."
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 [+] story, science, space, no

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