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G.I. Joe Game On the Way 37

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 13, 2009 @07:02AM from the evidently-we-need-to-fight-the-other-half-of-the-battle dept.

Electronic Arts has revealed that they are developing a G.I. Joe video game that will be launched alongside the G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra movie later this year. According to the announcement, the game "picks up where the live-action movie leaves off, allowing players to re-create and re-live the greatest moments from the film, cartoon series and action figure toy line." The game is planned for the PS2, PS3, PSP, mobile devices, Xbox 360, Wii, and DS. EA confirmed that there would be a co-op mode, but it's unknown whether there will be an online component.

Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social Networking For Kids 189

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 20, 2008 @02:02PM from the seeing-the-writing-on-the-wall dept.

Blue's News pointed out a report about a study sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation which found that online gaming and social networking are beneficial to children, teaching them basic technical skills and how to communicate in the Information Age. The study was conducted over a period of three years, with researchers interviewing hundreds of children and monitoring thousands of hours of online time. The full white paper (PDF) is also available. "For a minority of children, the casual use of social media served as a springboard to them gaining technological expertise — labeled in the study as 'geeking out,' the researchers said. By asking friends or getting help from people met through online groups, some children learned to adjust the software code underpinning some of the video games they played, edit videos and fix computer hardware. Given that the use of social media serves as inspiration to learning, schools should abandon their hostility and support children when they want to learn some skills more sophisticated than simply designing their Facebook page, the study said."

Comment Aren't we losing the plot here... (Score 2) 345

by Eric the Cat on Sunday May 16, 1999 @09:26PM (#1889914) Attached to: Mindcraft Study Validated

These types of "studies", whether accurate or not, make me as livid as the next person, however, aren't we missing the point. For years, whenever any "newbie" ( and Microsoft really is a newbie in the Linux World - they have barely contributed anything to the Gnu/Linux/OSS/Free Software/*BSD (or whatever you wish to call it )Community) said anything about a "feature" they considered "missing", or that something was "not good enough", what was the answer? "Fix it yourself!" (I paraphrase here...) Why, now, have we changed our tune? Our answer, in one voice to Microsoft, and other's like them should be: If you don't like it, then fix it!
The next time one of these comes out, then how's about Everyone who posts on Slashdot, posts "Please, Microsoft, if you don't like it, then please contribute some resources to fixing it, otherwise, shut up!" or something like that.

Microsoft are still in the Business Mould... What do we care!!!!???? [idea for a poll - how many people's income depend on the market share of Linux against NT/Solaris/Netware etc. - OK, so the likes of Redhat/Suse/Caldera etc. do, and I wish them well, but your average kernel hacker is (as Microsoft themselves pointed out) just in it for the recognition/fun etc.
Therefore, Linux will still be around, as long as people still wish to develop it, and when they don't, then it will die, and there will be no one who cares, since we will be all hacking some other OS, or project or something! When NT dies, which I'm sure it will, there will be lots of MS shareholders who do care, and will be most unhappy... Justice!

Eric the Cat

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