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Submission + - Saints Row IV: Still banned in Australia (playerattack.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: The original version of Saints Row IV is still effectively banned in Australia after a three-member panel of the Classification Review Board unanimously determined that the game should be Refused Classification due to in-game drug use.

Submission + - Computer game that cleans up after other bloody games (playerattack.com)

Submitted by UgLyPuNk
UgLyPuNk writes: It's been a long, drawn-out battle involving a ridiculous amount of firepower, alien weaponry and explosions — and more than a little blood spilled (in varying colours). Now that the humans have won, a single question remains: Who's gonna clean up the mess?

Submission + - Saints Row IV banned from sale in Australia (playerattack.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: Ladies and gentlemen, those of you who thought the new R18+ rating for video games meant no more games would be Refused Classification in Australia, think again. The Classification Board has today announced that — even with the new rating — there is one game that is simply inappropriate for local audiences.

Submission + - Sony shares skyrocket following Xbox One reveal (playerattack.com)

Submitted by UgLyPuNk
UgLyPuNk writes: As gamers around the world salivated over the Xbox One reveal, it seems that Microsoft's major announcement didn't quite please everybody. Sony's share price skyrocketed from the moment the console was announced, jumping more than two points (nearly 10%) over the hour-long presentation.

Submission + - Exploit shatters Diablo III in-game economy (playerattack.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: In case you thought budget/economy issues only affected the real world, step into Diablo III for a moment. In-game finances are more than a little bit broken, following a newly-discovered exploit that sees gamers able to double their money — literally.

Submission + - L.A. Noire developer shuttered by parent company (playerattack.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: According to an unnamed source, Australian-based studio Team Bondi has been closed, in a move by parent company Kennedy Miller Mitchell. The studio was seemingly unable to find a backer for upcoming release Whore of the Orient, after rumoured publisher Warner Bros pulled the plug.
Games

Submission + - Blizzard announces Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft "Card Game" (playerattack.com)

Submitted by UgLyPuNk
UgLyPuNk writes: Blizzard has revealed its "something new" at PAX East 2013: Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft — a "charming collectible strategy game set in the Warcraft universe."We've been working on a little something, different from our other games, and we're pleased to invite you to be the first to see it. It's not a sequel, expansion or that rumored next-gen MMO, but it's something we're excited for you to get your hands on."

Comment Re:Why do ISPs even provide email? (Score 1) 96

by mibus (#43219013) Attached to: Telstra Bigpond To Use Outlook.com As Email Handler

Why do ISPs still provide email?

FWIW; I've seen inside a few large ISP mail deployments, but I speak for myself in my comments here and not my employer (etc etc etc).

Why do ISPs provide email? Because a huge percentage of customers use it, and want it.

I personally don't (I have my own domain, and use Google apps), and know very few people who do, but lots and lots of customers still use it. I can't get into numbers for obvious reasons, but it's seen as being incredibly important, up to and including in the CxO layer, and a lot of money gets spent on supplying it and improving it.
Nintendo

Submission + - Merry Christmas: 5yr old's 3DS gift full of porn (playerattack.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: One Colorado family received more than they'd bargained for when this Christmas when they gave five-year old Braydon Giles a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS that apparently still contained "graphic images" from a previous owner.

Comment Re:And that will also mark (Score 1) 378

by mibus (#41946955) Attached to: GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode

Oddly enough netbooks exist, or at the other extreme you've got 64 CPUs and 256GB of RAM but only crappy 2000era Matrox graphics. Neither of those, and a pile of other cases in between (eg. desktop with Intel graphics), are going to be able to do much or anything to accelerate the graphics in a window manager so there should be a fallback that doesn't need a GPU. If the fallback is handing over to something else like fluxbox, fine, that's better than the current situation.

Eh? I bought literally the cheapest netbook I could, and its GPU is more than capable of making GNOME3 perfectly smooth.

If you want a fallback for non-GPU, there's no reason it has to be part of the GNOME stack - LXDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, etc - all perfectly reasonable fallbacks that you can select during login.
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - World of Warcraft Tauren Druid reaches L90 without a kill (playerattack.com)

Submitted by UgLyPuNk
UgLyPuNk writes: We love seeing gamers doing things a little differently, and in a game like World of Warcraft, not killing anything is about as different as it gets. Today, we learn about Irenic, a Tauren Druid who's just dinged Level 90 in Mists of Pandaria, without registering a single kill.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - Cliff Bleszinski leaves Epic Games (playerattack.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: Cliff Bleszinski — Epic Games design director — has announced that he is leaving the company he's been working with for two decades, moving on to "chart the next stage of his career". The news has shocked gamers around the world — Cliff has has a significant impact on Epic's legacy, from Jazz Jackrabbit all the way up to recent titles in the Gears of War franchise.

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