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Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:56AM from the be-careful-they-cheat dept.

Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.

FF XIII Timeframe Set, FF XIV Confirmed 140

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @06:30AM from the new-ip-is-still-for-sissies dept.

Square Enix announced at E3 that Final Fantasy XIII is planned for release this winter in Japan, and spring 2010 for North America. A new trailer was released as well. A separate announcement brought details about Final Fantasy XIV Online, an MMORPG due out in 2010 for Windows and the PS3. A teaser website was launched, with a trailer and some information about the developers working on the project. "Final Fantasy XIV Online is being developed with a simultaneous worldwide release in mind. The game will be initially released in English, Japanese, French, and German. The game will be produced by Hiromichi Tanaka (Final Fantasy I, II, III, and XI) and Nobuaki Komoto (Final Fantasy IX and XI) will serve as director. Longtime Final Fantasy fans will be happy to hear the Nobu Uematsu will return to provide the score."

Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:20PM from the just-no-more-muppets-please dept.

jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?

Google's PageRank Predicts Nobel Prize Winners 101

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @12:31PM from the that's-a-little-strange dept.

KentuckyFC writes "The pattern of citations between scientific papers forms a network that has remarkable similarities to the network formed by the web. So why not use Google's PageRank, the world's most effective search algorithm to rank these papers in the same way it ranks websites? That's exactly what a couple of US researchers have done for physics papers published by the American Physical Society since 1893 (abstract). The results make interesting reading because almost all of the top ten papers resulted in (or were linked to) Nobel Prizes for their authors. Which means that studying the up-and-coming entries on the list ought to be a good way of predicting future winners. Better get your bets in before the bookies get wind of this."

Comment Everquest has done this (Score 1) 361

by Sabol on Saturday December 14, 2002 @09:46AM (#4886687) Attached to: Star Wars Galaxies Only to Allow One Character Per Account

Everquest has so or so standard servers on each of which you can have 8 characters per account. However there is one server, launched a little over a year ago with a special ruleset. Firiona Vie is the roleplaying prefered server, and part of the ruleset is a one character limit.

Firiona Vie was my server since I started eq in January. I've just recently quit and canceled my FIVE accounts. Having been a hardcore player I wasn't satisfied by one character, and playing on any other server just wasn't an option to me since all my friends and efforts were local to Firiona Vie.

There is a huge potential for the same behavior by hardcore players of the new game. Believe me the game creators know this and I'm sure it's a factor in their decision.

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