I'm part of the team that works on ioquake3, the open source project that this ipad version is based on. This project (Beben III) has not contributed their changes back to ioquake3, or made them easily available for the public. It is extremely disappointing when bad players like this are given press and make money off of the backs of others.

Please do not spend your money on apps that are bad open-source contributors, and please do not give them press.

I founded the ioquake3 project with some friends in 2005.

The experience of working with the OpenArena project was similar to that described by HEMI_426. At this point they have cut off communication with us and I would be surprised, but happy, if that relationship ever improves.

So, now we are attempting to create our own freely distributable, creative commons licensed, game to distribute whenever anyone downloads ioquake3 that won't be "adults only" and won't have anything to do with OpenArena's direction. Until it is ready there are plenty of great games made with the ioquake3 engine and you can check them out here:

http://ioquake3.org/extras/derivative-games/

quite a few went to Treyarch to work on Spider-Man and then from there to other places within the game industry. You can keep track with the most public Loki developer on icculus.org, Ryan Gordon.

If anyone is interested I've created iodoom3 to follow on from the ioquake3 project my team put together.

Let me know what you'd like to see in a modernized Doom 3 Engine!

If you actually look at what was ACTUALLY said:

There have been 10 million cards used on PSN. They've continued to claim that this information was not only encrypted, but stored separately from the information that was compromised. They do not believe that even the encrypted data was accessed, but if they are wrong they will cover any costs people incur in correcting the problem.

This is what they said here, not necessarily what is true. Still, it seems to me that this particular story is misrepresenting Sony's claims, at least.

Bad special effects are like bad editing. It's distracting. Think of trying to read while somebody else is trying to talk to you. It prevents you from having a seamless experience, which prevents your imagination from getting very far. Of course, it's worth remembering that the definition of "bad special effects" changes both over time and with the age of the viewer.

I can think of lots of things that I would hate if I first saw them now, but because I liked them when I actually saw them, I'll like them forever.

Maybe I liked them because they were good in the context of the time, like a lot of stuff with special effects, animation, etc. that's bad enough by modern standards to be distracting. Maybe I only liked some things because I saw them as a kid. But as bad or simplistic or whatever these things might be by todays standards, and my own current standards, these things get an exception because I liked them once

I'm not saying classic Doctor Who necessarily fits into this kind of category for everybody, I'm just throwing it out there.

You're wrong. I know you're wrong because a nice and balanced person would not do what he does on his show, whether he's a character or not. Actually, if the show was all genuine, it would be better -- then he's just crazy. Crazy is forgivable. On the other hand, if it's an act, then he is willfully inciting hatred and paranoia. That's not so forgivable.

You might as well tell me that a serial killer is a nice and balanced person -- you just have to look past the whole "killing people" thing.

I'm pretty sure that's why the above poster specifically said "windows computers."

Money redistribution won't help a problem that we've shown that you can solve with money. You had it right at the beginning when you pointed out that our cultural priorities are wrong. Kids aren't interested in sports because that's where the money is, it's the other way around.

I think the reason we're falling behind is because parents in other countries and cultures still pay attention to their kids' education. Somewhere along the line, that stopped being important in the United States. It might be that they don't care, or it might be that their other obligations consume much more of their time than it used to, I don't really know, but I do know that it isn't a problem that can be solved with changes to education policy.

You're right that it won't affect pirates, but that's actually because (so far) PSN games aren't being pirated.

For a PSN game? No, I don't think so. These games aren't being pirated even without this additional DRM.

Nobody's claiming Bing is copying Google directly. The problem is that, generally, any form of copying is considered unethical, regardless of the mechanism.

Achievements are important to a lot of people. I don't know if it's so much about impressing people as much as it's about another layer of competition. In essence, it's not too much different from game-specific online leaderboards, or even speed records in running events.

Of course, if people could just claim they completed the 100-meter dash in whatever time they like, the records would become meaningless. If Microsoft failed to police the achievement system, the achievement points would become meaningless.

You could argue that the whole idea is stupid, meaningless and arbitrary, yes, but so are nearly all of the events in the Olympics. The point is the competition, which requires that everybody plays by the same rules.

I'm not saying everybody sees their Gamerscore that way (I don't, for example) but it's definitely a perspective that I can understand.