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Comment Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Score 1) 401

I am waiting for Versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Versus_XIII to come out before judging single player Final Fantasy done. It has several elements that should produce a quality game: a setting that can only be described as the spiritual successor of FFVII, the standard features of Final Fantasy that were lacking from XXIII(towns, exploration) should be back in, some of the most gorgeous graphics available on the market and the fact that Square knows that it can't botch this one and get away with it again. I don't expect a miracle but I would be suprised at nothing less than strong title to bring the series back in line.

Comment Re:When I buy a game, I /buy the game/ (Score 1) 462

Arcades dying in North America is also caused by the convenience of gaming at home compared to going out to an arcade. Arcades are still popular in Japan and Korea has PC bangs, I would attribute some of that success on denser urban area making them more accessible. League of Legends revenue is fully fueled by microtransactions and the game is blooming. Most mmos are now based on microtransactions and you don't see a lot of them going bankrupt. The microtransaction model can work.
Input Devices

Research Lets You Type Words By Thought Alone 114

An anonymous reader writes "How about typing on a computer just by thinking about it? The downside is you have to wear a skull cap with electrodes that capture your brain waves like an EEG machine. According to this EE Times story, a team of researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands has presented Mind Speller, a thought-to-text device intended to help people with movement disabilities. The system does rely on a lot of processing on a remote computer, but it is a wireless system. And these thought-to-computer systems have wider applicability than medical support. One of the research groups involved in this development has already looked at wireless electroencephalography (EEG) to enable measures of emotion to be fed back into computer games."
GNU is Not Unix

Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan 238

An anonymous reader writes "Recently, the Oracle/Sun conglomerate has denied public download access to all service packs for Solaris unless you have a support contract. Now, paying a premium for gold-class service is nothing new in the industry, but withholding critical security updates smacks of extortion. While this pay-for-play model may be de rigueur for enterprise database systems, it is certainly not the norm for OS manufactures. What may be more interesting is how Oracle/Sun is able to sidestep GNU licensing requirements since several of the Solaris cluster packs contain patches to GNU utilities and applications."

Comment Re:Classic consoles? (Score 1) 185

Its an absolutely horrible concept when you use it in a game that heavily relies on the stick. Before I received a proper fight stick, I had to set the training dummy in Blazblue to "2nd controller", the default setting is to use the stick button to switch the training dummy into record and replay modes. In a game that doesn't use the stick much, moving the camera view is probably a good example, it makes sense to use it has an additional button.
Windows

London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows 438

BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"

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